Grinding in Malaysia

Posted 8 years agoEdited 8 years ago

Hi everyone, I am Lun from Malaysia.26 This year and work as a cook.It is a family business and i can earn 1500usd a month which is above average in my country. However i love playing poker but its hard to find a legal poker game in my country. And many of them sees poker as gambling even my parents.
I was inspired my Jon's video about how he beat those micro level.I been struggling for a year since i made my first deposit to 888 poker. After a year now i think its time for me to blog about my poker story and set target for myself. When everyones is watching me i might make lesser those stupid mistake.
due to my job i can only play after 4pm-10pm, will try to make more quality play.Currently playing at N8

Long term goal : turn into pro and playing NL1000 is my dream
short term goal : grew my bankroll to usd 20000 and get married with my lovely girlfriend and move to thailand to pursue my poker dream because i cant play pokerstars in here.

Target
start with usd150 bankroll and make it grow to 500 usd by mid 15th of october.

Day 1 - usd170
Day 2 - usd196
Day 3 - usd 233
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Posted 8 years ago
Conclusion of Day 4
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Went for some running just now to keep myself healthy. Should set a target for myself about running as well.
However i feel that there are getting more multi table regs in N8 after pokervip promote them,china fish are getting lesser.LoL
Posted 8 years ago
Day5 - $279

Cash a tournament hunting sunday at N8. I played too nitty durring bubble stage end up cashing the min and didnt hunt any bounty. =(
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after the tournament i jump into cash game and basically donk off my tournament winnings. was too tired after work and play abc poker. Guess i deserve that.I been telling myself so many times not to jump on the table when i am not ready.

i hate my call here at the river about the KJ. would have folded if i am playing my A game
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JJ here i dont know. 50/50 for me.might be a pure bluff or a very strong hand villian's holding. I just dont know how he bet the river with so many draws gets there and i went and call.oh man....Attached Image
Posted 8 years ago
Day 6 - continue to run good today however lose $25 on the bounty tournament. Getting more notes on the players and differentiate regs and recs. Hopefully get enough notes on the player and able to run 6 tables at the same time.

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Posted 8 years ago
Hi Lun,

Great start to your journey! More than doubling your starting bankroll in less than a week is pretty sick!

Did you start at 25NL or 10NL?

You're using aggressive bankroll management, which is obviously working at the minute but I would be a bit wary, especially playing $25 comps where the variance is higher as well.

What are the online poker regulations like in Malaysia? Is it pretty relaxed?
Posted 8 years ago
hi killjoy1987, i am using aggressive bankroll management. $150 i will mix 1 table nl25 and 3 nl10. when i hit 250 i will go for 4 25nl.
we are an islamic country so we cant play live poker at all but online poker the government just doesn't care. However we cant play at pokerstars and what we left here is zero rakeback 888 and other small network.
Posted 7 years ago
After i failed my grinds in N8 i stopped and study for 2 months before i came back to my beloved poker. I went back to 888 because i think that since i am multitabling i rely heavily on HUD. I know the VIP systems sucks in 888 but what to do since they have the most traffic.
i been grinding for around 2 weeks there and so far so good?
i logon to my 888 and found out that they gave me usd15 and i have balance 4usd inside, jumped straight into 3000 guaranteed touirnament with usd 5 buy in + 1 add on and i managed to came to 11th place and cashed usd49. I deposited usd 100+ 9usd bonus and started from there.
I will stick to the BRM this time with 30 buy ins and increasing when i move up in stake.

Goal
1. to move up to NL before 2017 with BRM 30 buy ins
2.must have minimum 20k hand for 5NL
3.Join BPC course when i'm able to beat 10NL
4.Update this blog every Sunday on my progress
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i think my VPIP is slightly higher, any thought guys?
Posted 7 years ago
Subbed! Keep up the good work!
Posted 7 years ago
AK-Flush94: Subbed! Keep up the good work!
Thanks buddy for reading my blog.

Ended todays sessions on 1003 hands played.I lose 3 KK 2 JJ and a QQ today, kinda happy with myself for not tilting. Losing all those big pots but manage to picked up quite a numbers of small pots.But most of it its my problem for not letting go after seeing the flop structure, part of it is because i kept losing with Kings and i belive it time for me to win some hand with Kings. Profit for today $2.14

***** Hand History for Game 1111111111 ***** (Pacific)
$5.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, December 11, 10:41:53 ET 2016
Table Bridgeport (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 1: Player1 ( $7.59 USD ) -
Seat 2: Player2 ( $5.00 USD ) -
Seat 4: Player4 ( $5.14 USD ) -
Seat 6: Hero ( $5.00 USD ) -
Seat 7: Player7 ( $3.45 USD ) -
Seat 9: Player9 ( $5.00 USD ) - VPIP: 45, PFR: 33, 3B: 0, AF: 2.6, Hands: 60
Player7 posts small blind [$0.02 USD].
Player9 posts big blind [$0.05 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ Kh Kd ]
Player1 raises [$0.20 USD]
Player2 folds
Player4 folds
Hero raises [$0.60 USD]
Player7 folds
Player9 calls [$0.55 USD]
Player1 calls [$0.40 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7h, Ts, 8h ]
Player9 checks
Player1 checks
Hero bets [$1.82 USD]
Player9 raises [$3.64 USD]
Player1 folds
Hero raises [$2.58 USD]
Player9 calls [$0.76 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2s ]
** Dealing River ** [ 5h ]
Hero shows [Kh, Kd ]
Player9 shows [Jd, 9d ]
Player9 wins $10.09 USD from main pot

Its very hard for me to find the fold button on the draw heavy flop plus villians stats, he might has JT,T9 or flush draw and god knows he flop a straight.

Bankroll -$233.73
Posted 7 years ago
Played about 1 hour today. cant really put in the volume because i worked 12 hours today and have to deal with some family issues after work. Anyway i am happy with my result for today.

https://www.weaktight.com/h/584ec288d39043d6508b4831
anyone would have played it differently? i wonder if i put blocking bet on the river would i lose lesser?

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Current bankroll $249.71
Posted 7 years ago
Since i have a day off today i pumped in about 5k hand since yesterday night. Cant believe i'm able to play that much in regular 6max table.
Feeling pretty comfortable with 5NL maybe i have a proper BRM that i doesnt in the past.Hopefully i'm able to move up the 10NL by January. =)

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my graph is so swingy!

$0.02/$0.05 No Limit Holdem / 6 PLAYERS / 888
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***** Hand History for Game 1111111111 ***** (Pacific)
$5.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, December 14, 11:15:40 ET 2016
Table Ivanovo (Real Money)
Seat 9 is the button
Seat 1: Player1 ( $1.98 USD ) - VPIP: 22, PFR: 20, 3B: 9, AF: 11.9, Hands: 1203
Seat 2: Player2 ( $5.00 USD ) - VPIP: 27, PFR: 16, 3B: 6, AF: 1.8, Hands: 150
Seat 4: Player4 ( $6.30 USD ) - VPIP: 33, PFR: 21, 3B: 9, AF: 5.7, Hands: 210
Seat 6: Player6 ( $7.15 USD ) - VPIP: 18, PFR: 14, 3B: 17, AF: 0.5, Hands: 28
Seat 7: Player7 ( $5.00 USD ) - VPIP: 0, PFR: 0, 3B: 0, AF: 0.0, Hands: 1
Seat 9: Hero ( $5.77 USD ) -
Player1 posts small blind [$0.02 USD].
Player2 posts big blind [$0.05 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ Jd Jh ]
Player4 raises [$0.16 USD]
Player6 folds
Player7 folds
Hero raises [$0.60 USD]
Player1 folds
Player2 folds
Player4 raises [$1.16 USD]
Hero calls [$0.72 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2c, 5d, 3c ]
Player4 bets [$1.10 USD]
Hero raises [$4.45 USD]
Player4 calls [$3.35 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6d ]
** Dealing River ** [ As ]
Player4 shows [9s, Ah ]
Hero shows [Jd, Jh ]
Player4 wins $11.08 USD from main pot

this hand tilted me!i cant understand why he dont let go his ace high. but on the other hand thats a good thing, we need more people like him in online poker =)

Bankroll $262.93
Posted 7 years ago
Hey mate, do many people player poker in Malaysia?

As for the JJ hand, I think I'm calling pre-flop, if we get 4bet I'm not loving life and they can very well have QQ+ or AQ+ which we're flipping with even against a 31vpip. Any reason why you called the 4bet instead of shoving?

Posted 7 years ago
Harvie: Hey mate, do many people player poker in Malaysia?

As for the JJ hand, I think I'm calling pre-flop, if we get 4bet I'm not loving life and they can very well have QQ+ or AQ+ which we're flipping with even against a 31vpip. Any reason why you called the 4bet instead of shoving?



There are a lot poker player in Malaysia but we don't have a legal place to play. Our only casino here does not offer poker.
I've seen this guy shove with Ax before so I was afraid if I shove he might call with those hands. So when I see a safe flop like this and I expect him to fold all his Ax and unfortunately he tanks a while and he make the call.

I moved up to 10NL btw with 30BIs and I lose 11BIs. So I decided to join bpc ytd.Just started and don't know how will it turn out to be 🙄🙄
Posted 7 years ago
Yo! Sorry I have not seen this before! Looks like a great work ethic you have and sorry to see N8 did not work out for you!

What do you think your 5 main trouble areas with N8 were? I know @MilfGrinder is playing in these same games and has so far turned $100 into almost $3000!
Posted 7 years ago
Hi Jon, N8 i great and the game is soft. The main problem of mine is i tend to get bored with 4 tables, but when i play at 6 tables without HUD thats another problem. Yea i am reading his thread and think he is crushing at N8! I might give N8 1 more try sooner or later. I am working morning and night shift now and i signed up for bpc. I cant squeeze any extra minute out in a day. Might quit my night shift job if i;m able to finish my bpc micro program. But its a family business i'm doing now, the biggest problem is to deal with my dad.LoL
Posted 7 years ago*
Hey Lun, PM me.. I am interested in live games in poker rooms, and am an estute student of the game. Looking for a stake as well, talk to me, we might enjoy mutual benefits
Posted 7 years ago
@BentleyMe, that looks like a phone number to me. May I suggest you use the messaging app instead.

Just go to your 'dashboard' then find the 'Messages' tab at the top. Smile

Gl. Yes