Ride the spiral

Posted 9 years agoEdited 9 years ago

Hello.
I wanted to create journey/blog here since I joined but been lazy.

My poker experience so far. Learned TH rules like 5-6 months ago Laugh and started to play with some free bankroll offers. Small success with micro cash games, cashed in some freeroll tournaments, withdrew money then took a break from poker. Started again like 2 months ago. Been playing, reading articles and poker coaching videos.
I didn`t had much success at iPoker network after 50k hands ( had some bad beats that made me tilt hard ) so I moved to another network and decided to start my journey to track and share my progress.

So lets ride the spiral!


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Posted 9 years ago
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Posted 9 years ago*
Day 1 ( 19.12.2014 ) :

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Hands played : 1.329
Hands won : 372 ( 27.99 % )
BB/100 : 60.87 :woot:


Really good start. Was playing 2 tables 4euro buyin ( 0.02/0.04 blinds) and was mainly focused on reading people and creating notes, separating fish and regs. Found 2 very nitty players with 80%ish fold to Cbet stat.
I didn`t played really great ( maybe 7/10 ).

Had 3 bad beats that costed me 3 buyins, lost all in with AK against AQ vs a guy who 3betted me a lot. Lost all in AA against KK ( he hits K on flop ) and sets of 10 against set of J ( I raised him on flop he went all in and I called )..
But even with that - I`m 7,5 buyins up ( 8 with rakeback ), so really a good start.
Posted 9 years ago
Nice Day 1, What network are you on now? Keep it up Smile
Posted 9 years ago
Hey Alex,

Welcome to the site buddy!

You got any long term poker goals for this month and next year? Plans over xmas?
Posted 9 years ago
Hey Dream, on microgaming atm.
I really got sick of iPoker, tough regs, crazy shortstackers and fish going all in with gutshots and hitting those 3 outs on river. Happened so many times, I`ve lost 75 % of all ins with AA, run into a higher sets so many times etc, so time for a change.

Heya Harvie, thanks mate.
Well for this month not really since its close to the end and I might not be able to play all the time. I`m orthodox christian, so xmas is 7th jan for me, like usual I`ll spend 2 days with my parrents ( we don`t see each other often ).

General poker goal would be ofc profit and moving up as quickly as possible. Oh and also fun, I might stop if I don`t have fun playing poker.

Posted 9 years ago
Day 2 ( 20.12.2014 ) :

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Hands played : 657
The stats from graph are not correct since PT missed some hands ( most likely those that I played at anonymous tables ).
I am actually around 9e in profit ( not 16e ).

Haven`t played much hands since I had software issues and finding free tables. Poker client was freezing up and closing randomly, not sure why but it might be because of my PC. There wasn`t much players online at the time I played.
I played pretty crappy at start ( 5/10 ) but improved later. Found fishy player with 95% PFR who bluffs a lot and calls river bet with 3rd pair. Took me a while to figure out how to exploit him and when to call him ( hes exploit spot was bet sizing ).

Had 1 bad beat, lost all in with fish above with AKs against hes AQoff ( he hits trips ), but also had one "luck beat" when I missread the hand, raised guy hard on turn, I tought I had straight but instead I had straight draw lol, he went all in with 2 pairs and I hit the straight on river. Also run into AA against my AK all in at anonymous table, guy 3betted me 2nd time in 2 hands so.. Well not bad day, still +EV even I played crappy.

Later went out to drink with my friends and spent like 9 hours of drinking. Was mixing drinks, rakija ( something like russian vodka ), wine and later beer lol
Today having really hard hangover and headache and not doing well ( loss ) but will update tomorrow.
Posted 9 years ago
lol Not had a hangover for 8 weeks and I love it. Nothing worse than the following day and you feel like crap. From your volume I guess you play no more than 4 tables? Ever thought about hitting the speed/rush talbes? get in more hands, volume and RB.
Posted 9 years ago
Haha, well as I saw at your thread you love to party? But not drinking much?

I wrote in the post above, I was playing just 2 regular tables, thats only for start to check the field, notice how regulars play and make notes. I was adding 1 more a bit later. Now I`m playing blaze poker for blazing cannong promotion, not doing pretty good ( update will follow later ).
And I also said that I played 50k hands at iPoker speed tables and didn`t had success so decided to switch to microgaming.
Posted 9 years ago
I never understood how that cannon thing worked. I used to reach it after 30 mins, and I would shoot the cannon but it would always miss, I guess I was doing something wrong? A lot of people have said of late that iPoker is a bit reggy, def made the right choice moving to Micro, you not thought about heading to Unibet or Yatching?

I do like to party and drink, but I've calmed down a bit now. Cool
Posted 9 years ago
Hey Alex! Welcome to the forum and any question just ask right away!
I have not played much in ipoker, i have heard that omaha tables are soft, but nothing aside from that
Posted 9 years ago
Well, time to update this thread.
I actually did well during that BV cannon promo, managed to go up 300euros, maybe like 70-80e was from rakeback and cannon promo.
However, managed to donk that away at regular tables 3-4 after the promo because of tilt and took a few bad beats at higher limit tables.
Last month I played a bit at BV too and managed to win so I`m break even on that network :

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I wasn`t playing much during the summer since real life was keeping me busy. After war in my country I was living almost whole life as a refugee and under the rent, but thats finally over since couple months ago I`ve managed to make enough money and buy small nice piece of home for myself Smile Renewing and moving is why I was busy.

Last month I`ve mostly played at poker888 since I wanted to try that network, graph to follow in next post.

Posted 9 years ago
Most of my play at 888 was at NL$10 snap ( 888 version of zoom ), but I did played some regular $10nl and $20nl tables and few hands at $30NL snap as well.
I can easily say that I performed well and was winning up to 10BB/100 at some point until I didn`t tilted hard and that almost costed me whole months profit :

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Most of 1,143 hands this month where I won $170 was on 30nl snap where I managed to pay off nuts representing myself as a fish on the tables Smile
Posted 9 years ago*
In october I decided to move from 888 to PartyPoker. Main reason is low bonuses at 888. As you can see in picture above, I raked $654 at 888 last month and maybe I got like $60 from their reward points and other promos. I also want to give my bankroll small boost in this months PokerVIP's rake race :
https://www.pokervip.com/en/promotions/pokervip-top-200/50000-pokervip-top-500-october-2015

These are my stats at PartyPoker so far :
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I`m actually $57 in profit, but seems like HM2 missed some of the hands played. 99 % of hands are played at $10nl.
I play 1 fastforward table and 1 casual table at Party, but I plan to add at least 1 more fastforward table in future.
Posted 9 years ago
Great to have you back! Been gone far to long

So the main question is what about the Party Poker HUD situation? Does that affect you heavily or are you not that bothered?
Posted 9 years ago
Hey @Jon-PokerVIP , thanks man Smile

Regarding PartyPoker HUD situation, not sure what you mean by that mate? HUD works for me ok on causal, regular and fastforward $10NL tables.

HUD doesn`t work at poker888 snap tables btw, but for some reason, it works for me on ONLY one tables if I multi table at snap and it is showing stats from previous hand.
Posted 9 years ago
alexg89: Hey @Jon-PokerVIP , thanks man Smile

Regarding PartyPoker HUD situation, not sure what you mean by that mate? HUD works for me ok on causal, regular and fastforward $10NL tables.

HUD doesn`t work at poker888 snap tables btw, but for some reason, it works for me on ONLY one tables if I multi table at snap and it is showing stats from previous hand.


Oh you havn't heard the news....check this out.
Posted 9 years ago
Oh man, thanks for the update!

Thats bad news, HUD helps me a lot indeed, specially when playing against regs.
However, I might stay there at juicy casual games even if they remove the HUD.
Posted 9 years ago
Played a bit yesterday, very poorly... Should have better results since I donked almost 2 buyins trying to bluff the calling stations.

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Posted 9 years ago
Still looks like solid work buddy. Nice speaking with you on Skype btw!

Yeh the HUDs and tracking is going to go. So this changes your stance not at all? Happy to play without and continue there?