NEW Challenge: Watch how I turn $50 into $10.000 without using advanced strategies

Hey guys,

I didn't updated because I got lazy and escaped on my free day a couple of hours earlier. I planned from the begging on to updated for 2 days before I hit my free day(Thursday) and on Wednesday I finished just about in time to visit my dentist. Guess after that visit I wasn't really in the mood for sitting in front of the PC. But yeah, sometimes the updates will be daily and sometimes for two days depending on the amount of work and other commitments. Next updated will be after 2 Challenge days.

Anyway, NL10 shot failed and now I'm back to NL5. Feel after analyzing the hands with Gordon that I was somewhere in between of run bad and not sticking to what we agreed/following the book/mistakes. I think the system in general describes a lot of situation that micro stakes player find themselfs in very good and gives default lines how to handle them and so it's really gonna work as well extremely good for NL10. I agreed on sticking to it and thus I should punch myself for actually inventing some BS of mine. Anyway, what's done is done I will move down but before that here are the results:

So the cashier doesn't look that nice anymore:

@KK Hand
I think the spot can go both ways. I got flamed and praised for taking that line. Most likely given the name of the thread I should have probably sticked to it and have called it off. Anyway when I will finish my NL5 journey(moved up to NL10 successfully) I will make another vBlog entry explaining what is needed for me in order to call and so everyone can decide for himself. I will never find out if I folded correctly or not(because if they hypothesis/the exact range isn't correct so the results can't be mathematically) but having some basic math ideas about this spot will not hurt anyone.

TY at lessthanthreee for his wishes and I might really needed a bit :P. Cya guys ♦!

Hello fellow poker players,

I hope everyone is enjoying Sunday. For those of you who play the lotteries I wish GL and let the variance be on your side.

I just finished my Sunday/Weekend grind. I though I will pack all 3 days in one a little bit longer post then usual. ♦

Anyway, the results where extremely OK. But before I start to talk how I did let's take a look at the actual results:

So as you might see Saturdays second Part of the session was hard. I mean in general I was extremely pleased with how I played almost all session. I sticked to the book in all terms making some small adjustments when I think the gap between the EV's of different lines was so big that it was close to incorrect. What I also noticed that I became so disciplined that's like close to amazing. I think I was so proud on myself about Saturday Part 2 because I think I could have lost way more since people were consistently using the nuttish lines like X/C, X/mR T or mR OTR etc.
I was worried for a moment about tilt since I played higher and now some NL5 regs run me over but thanks to Tilt Free Today and in general my willingness to see this ''sticking to the book'' as challenge helped me overcome this vicious feelings :).
All in all, very pleased with my performances at the tables and so now the cashier looks like a new NL10 shot might happen soon:

So let's hope the next shot will be more successful then the first fail in this challenge. So guys enjoy your Sunday!

P.S. Anyone any recommendations for a cheap laptop for a budget approx. 400$?

Hey fellas,

Seem like the shot worked. I mean I didn't play that much hands but I have now comfortable BR for 2 tabling NL10. First 2 sessions were good then I decided open the book 1 table and resolve every scenario possible. Like having XY on X position and you wonder what the chart says. The postflop I said to myself I would CB here the book said no. Was in general checking my knowledge of the book. I think I mastered preflop but looks like I didn't postflop. Anyway will work on that more tomorrow. Here are the results for today:

Anyway cashier looks fairly healthy now and hopefully this will continue:

Anyway off to bed. Next updated will be on Wednesday.

So guys,

Sort of didn't held my word about updating yesterday but felt really bad about not updating yesterday as planned but felt pretty gross to leave the result of the sessions in the last 2 days in the red so I pushed the session until my GF started yelling on me that I should get ready for cinema because we already paid for the tickets. So yeah, had a nice evening and today enjoyed my free day in the sun with 15°C and once it gets dark it's time to work off the tables. Anyway I felt good at the tables but I feel my roll is a little bit too skinny for 4 tabling so I will stick to 3 tables max. Anyway I set myself a goal that by the end of this month I will shot take NL20 and I really hope I will be able to. Anyway here are the results for the last 2 days:

Croatia played on Tuesday so my session was a little shorter

So cashier looks now pretty healthy and I hope weekend will be more successful and I might hit the 400$ mark. Maybe I shouldn't expect anything ♦

Can't wait to play tomorrow again. Cya guys!

Keep up the good work! ♦

You have done well... keep going !

Hans... how can i have that book you keep talking about ? I searched on Gordon site and nothing , from where can i buy it ?

Hi people,

@g0suboy & RetireD2019
TY guys for the support!

@Naghini
Here you go! GL to ya!

OK my weekend grind is over. I think I currently like updating every 3 days because I anyway mostly have 6 working days a week and so 2 updates a week seem reasonable. Anyway had to come up with the schedule because football celebration from Tuesday created some left overs. On top of that on Friday afternoon I got a bad news regarding my mother but a couple of hours later I pulled myself together. Although not mentally really there that evening but thanks to the quality autopilot that I earned/got from the book I was able to still come up with a decent profit(of course on Friday there are as well more fishes). When I'm thinking about I didn't play a crusher/sick player but rather felt like a robot. I knew in 80-90% of the situations what I have to do(not talking about the most +EV line). It definitely feels good to able to rely on a good system when you have to keep on pushing but you are not mentally ready/absent.

I should probably stop talking and actually post results ♠_biggrin::

Cashier:

On Saturday evening, especially in the end I didn't play really good. I mean I grinded in my career +12h day after day (longest I think is over 24h) and it didn't effect my game that much but it's a while ago and guess my grinding muscles lost on quality. I was deviating way too much because I was close to 500$ and wanted to get there so I could already move up on Sunday and started to make mistakes(Jeeeez Hans, how often do you have to learn not to hunt or expect anything in poker ♠_mad: ).

However Sunday I got my last 4 stack and now I'm ready to shot take NL20 tomorrow. It's gonna be for 5BI and don't know if I will play 1 or 2 tables. I wanna play 1 and add another when I make like 2 BI but I wanna pass this month the 100k hands mark(missing 18k hands). Will see tomorrow. Anyway off to relax a bit before some off table work.

Cya guys!

So guys,

just for those of you who might be interested how I did on NL5 here are the results:

I will also get a nice RB(1st December) for playing this limits which is actually quite funny but it's definitely welcome since it might help to start an NL50 shot sooner as planned :).

Not super happy with my results but I also don't really care since it was just another small step on the scale to the top. In the end don't think this are my actually skill results since I was sticking to the book but I found the results for stick to a book quite OK-ish ;). I will actually take things more serious when I will get in a zone where I don't feel comfortable.

Anyway here is also my 2nd video blog entry(please leave feedback):

Anyway off to bed guys and ttya on Wednesday! ♦

Ola people,

Shot went somewhat OK. Guess this will be a new test for my improved discipline since games on NL20 become a little more aggressive so it becomes sometimes even more frustrating but that's the point. It should hurt ♦. It shouldn't be easy since that's the only way to grow for me currently. Will definitely keep you informed about this since first 2 days were extremely good on this topic but today it was meeh....not really proud of it. Anyway here are my results for the last 3 days:

And so the cashier looks now like this:

Anyway I also have video ready for those interested from a live play:

Off to bed and ttya people on Saturday! Cya!

Hey guys,

I so exhausted I can't even write. I grinded now for 20h(18 of play) and just finished. It simply had to be this way because otherwise I wouldn't reach my 48h weekly mark. Yesterday there was an Europa League match and in couple of hours I have to catch a bus so I can visit my family/go to the referendum. But yeah, I survived it and here are there results:

And here is the cashier:

I will get some RB on Sunday that will boost my BR so I expect maybe somewhere next week to shot NL50. Will see and I guess one step at a time.

Anyway for me November is in the books and this is are the results:

So I somewhat happy with the results. I put around 200h of play and this will be my benchmark for the future once. Volume was OK-ish. I was hoping 115-125k but yeah I will make sure next month will be better in terms of it. Definitely room for improvement.
I understand the purpose of me sticking to the book every day better and better. I think it's a good experience and for those who don't believe that I switch completely to it take a look at my pre book graph:

Anyway that's it from me related to poker play. No there is some off table work that has to be done. I guess sleeping will have to wait till tomorrow. GL guys for the weekend!

Seems like u have 2 haters:D

Anyway i gave you a 10 for this blog.It's impressive how fast u climb trough limits:P But for those who work hard the good results come no matter what.Keep up the good work man and def will keep checking your blog for new updates.

What's up people,

Originally posted by Andytzu24
Seems like u have 2 haters:D

Anyway i gave you a 10 for this blog.It's impressive how fast u climb trough limits:P But for those who work hard the good results come no matter what.Keep up the good work man and def will keep checking your blog for new updates.

What more can I say besides that I'm happy if someone actually respects the work that I put in. TX Andytzu24 :)!

So back from the weekend and due to some life issues looks like Monday had to be my free day. I put I decent amount of volume but with awful results. I'm somewhat happy that I also got finally a bit of bad run for period and I'm so angry at myself how I reacted. Arghhhh.....I was really looking forward to test again my discipline but I came up with a decent amount of BS instead. Hate myself for this moments. I guess currently the only thing that tilts me are iPoker software and me being undisciplined. But yeah, here are the results:

And since I got RB for last month my cashier looks somewhat ''NL50 ready'':

As soon as I got the last 5BI I will shot for NL50. Don't know if it's gonna be normal tables or Speed. Will see what will make my hourly look better.

Anyway GL to you guys and ttya on Sunday!

Hi guys,

So the last 5BI are here and from tomorrow I will start an NL50 shot. It will last 5BI and if they are over I will move down. Today there will be no grind since I put the hours in the last 2 days because I wanted to have 1 more free day for some off table work. In general I simply like it more 5days/48h. Really looking forward to the shot.

About the session I can just say that they were pretty frustrating. Especially on Friday it was pretty tough since I was at some point 8BI down but still recovered somehow. Anyway here are the results for the last 2 days:

WEEKLY

Off to enjoying my free day! Bye!

So everyone,

NL50 left me we mixed feelings. Yesterday and the day before I played very good/OK-ish poker but today it was just horrible. I mean I started the session in a very, very bad way and the bad quality of my game combined with a slightly worse run of cards culminated in me reaching the first stop loss in the challenge. I still feel good and OK with the limit and I hope that with volume things turn around. Anyway here is what I accomplished:

Not much to add besides that I it hurts looking at most of the hands since I can't recognize myself. But yeah, tomorrow is another day!

What do you think about the speed poker compared to the other fast fold games (rush, zoom)? I remember when I was playing it was infested with regs and with almost no fishes. Does the fact that you are not playing many tables (I guess from the number of the hands/hour you play that you are playing 2 tables) help you beat the games?

This blog is very inspiring. Keep up the good work! GL!

Originally posted by acetbfish
What do you think about the speed poker compared to the other fast fold games (rush, zoom)? I remember when I was playing it was infested with regs and with almost no fishes. Does the fact that you are not playing many tables (I guess from the number of the hands/hour you play that you are playing 2 tables) help you beat the games?

Well, I'm a big Rush fan and I believe that it's the softest fast poker format. And yeah, I believe as well that iPoker is more tough than ZOOM or Rush. Mostly because the reg/fish ratio is very bad and the core reason why the competition is quite tough is because of the behind the scene reason that attracts a very decent amount of regular player. Also I think that Speed plays much more aggressively(3B, XR, 3 barrel bluffs) then the other 2 formats.

Well I'm currently playing 3 tables but the amount of hands/h is a result of me currently taking a lot of notes because of the move up and playing in general way, way more SB. I think this notes give me much easier an idea who am I facing. As more notes I will have the more it will be likely that I will add a 4th table and maybe even try 5. Will see it's just that in this small fields I noticed that notes help me while trying to move up.

Originally posted by pelbonek
This blog is very inspiring. Keep up the good work! GL!

TY mate!

And in this spot at 20nl speed on ipoker?
Utg 19/16/5 utg open 12
Me 23/18/7
sb reg with small history- 19/17/5/ 4 bet 6 cold 4 bets for small.

Hero has KK and is in position. Jam, flat or fold? I flatted due to positions and dynamics, and because I ran KK into AA 13 times in 2 days and 10k hands at speed. This is the most blatant fold ever in terms of those other hands with less info and each spot except 1 or 2 was a get in pre. This is prob AA everytime unless he is tilting and trying to level me which might be the case with this particular reg. Thoughts? Hans love your blog as you know from 2plus2. Looking forward to more vids and updates.

sorry i 3 bet pre for value.