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New BR challenge - Back on track
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My goal is to turn £10 into £100 by the end of the month. to do this i will only be playing NL4 and the odd dym. To do this it works out at average of £4.70 profit per day. I know ill need to run good for the first couple to get a little breathing room to cope with the inevitable coolers and bad beats.
However at just over 1 buy in per day profit it is an achieveable target.
So closing Balance for today: £13.85
Falling slightly below target but going onto night-time grinds for the rest of the month as of tomorrow. Will get someplay in tonight but as i will be pretty tired will likley not get as much in as i would like. Little disappointed as without maybe 2 or 3 hands im well above target. However thats the way the cookie shall crumble. Good news is i didnt tilt once, so theres a positive in every negative.
Will be taking this far more disiplined and its the first time ive set an end goal for any BR challenge ive done.
Remember Einsteins 'Theory of Profitability'
Less Distractions = More Profit [LeD MoP] !! Ya got me ! lol
I did used to nighttime grind on a different site as was up like 15BIs in a week. Then had one terribad session. Wass just coolers should have stopped at 2BIs but ended up blowing 10. I havent played much at night since. But i had a set routine which worked.
11PM - 1.30/2AM then an hour break. Then right throo till 6/7AM depending on how i was running. Will be going back to this routine as this hour break was enough time to feed myself for the night as long as i ate before i started.
And with telle as boring at this time i cant complain TV too good, and the xbox is worthless past 1 unless you want to be playing on annoying american connections. So win win win.
Lost money so far to day. But seriously how the deuce you meant to beat this.
Total Balance: £10.92
that now means im well below target and actually need to nearly double my BR in a day to get back onto target. Not going to be easy expessially when your Kings can't beat 94 pre. People are open shoving consistantly, and slow playing Aces. Really not my day. Seriously feeling quite tilted right now. Think i may break for tea.
BR: £10.32
Thought this was possible, but these early stages really are a grind. Might just play NL4 till around 12AM then a mix of NL4 and dyms, if im lucky will get a load of drunker versions of dohhhh and wont need to play a hand. I though by sticking to £4.70 per day target would be simple. Clearly i need to get up to 10BIs and fast.
I think that comment says everything, its a mammoth challenege and the early stages never sunk in until i started. I think the nitty poker will work at getting me out of trouble but may take longer than i would like. Meaning the last few days will bea rush.
4 big winning hands. Wont post em all, but heres a couple
Bankroll: £16.03
New leash of life was injected to me by the help of a little run good. Gotta keep protecting the roll and start to open up a little more each time i earn a new buy in. With every pot im taking down i gain confidence. The amount im learning by doing this is unreal. Maybe everything will start to sink in. Poker isnt always about odds and percentages there is soo much more to it.
(i suspect i wont be forgiven for showing these)
Been suck a yo yo night. There was one point where i thought it was over. However the grit and determination pulled through. Ive realised i cant treat this as earning a minimum of £4.70 per day yet. But every profit will be good. Im finding it hard as it is to get anything going and the lack of buy ins really is effecting my game. However its improving the self disipline majorly. Although still bluffing dohhh when he has the nuts isnt clever, but who doesnt bluff dohhhhh.
Hopefully i can get a little run good in tomorrows session and start to get this up, i really need to get back onto 2 tables and more eventually. I think this will become a dash for the line at the end but i need to start gaining some more buy ins now!
also game selection is key for a small role mate last night you was in the most aggressive nl4 game ever! which isnt good and on the 10 seater you folded kings when we were doing a flip. you should have just got them in and the other hand because you didnt want take part didnt mean you should fold. your bankroll comes first mate dont matter if people get annoyed if it can boost your bankroll
thats my 2 pennies worth, if i were you i would get on DYM also dont play nl4 with solid(or better then nl4 players) untill you have at least 20 buy ins then your not playing with scared money
i find it confusing. sometimes i get the impression that you play poker for money, then i get the impression you play for fun, then it looks like its some kind of ego thing.
while you are so shallow rolled your only goal should be on the money.
what do you want from poker? do you want a nice side income or do you just want fun?
the 40bb idea isn't that bad actually FWIW.
young gun, another point about folding those kings. Theres already 3 players all in. I know theirs at least 2 going in behind me (actually turned out to be 3) im no longer any sort of favorite to win the hand.
Some winning hands.
There are other big losing hands, however they all are pretty basic errors (stacking off TPGK because ur notes say so when the play clearly stinks) ive spotted myself so wont post em up.
There are two other hands both posted in the clinic so wont re-post em here.
Total Balance: £24.52
I think i've learnt alot tonight. volume certainly does pay off. Scotty and Dohhh are two pretty clever guys and i fully recommend any one taking their advice. Its taken a while for it to sink into me, tonight was the first night ive not had a break. Right from the Mastercash game thing i failed at till now, bar 10 mins when i came off the HU to go onto NL4 ive not had a break. That 10 mins was only to take my mind away from my heads up game and back to my cash game. Despite not having a break and saying i would play right through to 6AM im stuggling to keep my eyes open now. Therefore i think it is best to stop playing 2 hours earlier than planned, although i did play through my break thats still and hour lost. Im disappointed for that be re-ajusting to this routine will take a few days and for a guy whos known not to sleep well i do value these times. However i did get lucky in a few situations, the QQ v QQ for example should always be a split, and in fairness i thought i was beat hense turning my hand into a bluff. Ive made a number of simple school boy errors in amougst all this pretty good poker aswell however that even i can't justify, although my notes stated they where likley to do the play with worse, its NL4 for christ sake.
One good thing with that though is i dont think i played like i was scared of losing tonight. I played every hand as if i was going to win something huge. I took pride in taking down a pot weather at showdown or not. I was please just to be playing again. And i think the passion that i was lacking that i felt played tournaments is now starting to show in cash. Its that passion that makes me want to play more and more. And reading Scottys comment from yesterday when he said he doesnt know if i played for money, fun or ego it got me thinking. Why am i playing poker? I started playing poker for fun and eventually i could beat my mates. This however created the will to have fun and win money. I read something the other day, "If your having fun playing poker, your playing it wrong" i don't know if that statement is true, but certainly it applies to me. Then came the Ego, ever since i could beat my mates i wanted to go out and beat the best. So Scotty in answer, you've stumped me, and im the one playing. In honesty it was a fun thing to start out with and then i won some money. And now alls i want to do is be profitable. By admitting this i think ive found yet another flaw in my game, i have no idea why i play.
Part of being a poker player is being able to relax/cool off by spewing off/showing massive bluffs vs mates. However when I do that, and when others do that, we do it in a game where the stakes don't matter. You'll see a lot of the high stakes regs/mid stakes grinders do that by flpping for stacks at No Limit Omaha 2p/4p...but they can do that because they probably have 500BI rolls @ 200nl so losing 10BIs there means nothing.
I don't know about your financial situation/work committments, so I don't know what your endgame is. What I do know is that with hard work and the ability to grind, you can make very decent tax free money at nl20 or so. And you def put more work into your game than 90pc of the regs at that level.
So you should be focusing on building your roll. Don't play in tough games, don't play in forum games until you have that roll in place. Then you can spend a session or 2 just outplaying Dohhhh constantly by snapping his all in river bluff with Q high and being good
Once you get to around 150£ or so you'll find it a lot more smoother. Until then its either being on a big ginrd or depositing to top your roll up.
I apprechate the comment youve made here. And you have some pretty awesome advice.
Biggest winning pots.
Biggest losing pots.
Now for this first one, this guy was shoving every other hand and i felt either K or 9 was possibly good against his range. Unfortunetly i was wrong.
Total Balance: £15.25
I think again positives to be taken from today. I ran bad, didnt play well and despite all of this kept the loss to £2. The JJ hand ive not featured here as it wasnt a huge loss (32p) where i had 2 limpers and a raised 8xBB from BB, get a caller and think woohoo maybe i might get value. AKQ flop. nh sir. That sort of somes my day up in one hand. Breif moments of hope but in reality i really wasnt earning them. The whole patience game was against me. Hopefully tomorrow i might get a little run of cards.