FG_SpaceLord

2nd session at Party Poker

actually the session went exactly like yesterday.

I played 1 casual NL10 table in order to get used to the higher stake and an NL5ff table.

1 hour, 400 hands and +3€

NL10 again did not work. not because I did something terribly wrong... just because nothing happened and i had to fold alot.
NL5ff was probably the best poker I played so far. I was agressive, extracted value and could lay down some hands.

now i am off to the musical... afterwards i will do some sit&gos to clear my missions...

FG_SpaceLord: Review of 2017

I started exactly one year ago with poker. I invested 20€ into my bwin account and started playing. In the end of the year my br is at 400€. When I joined PokerVIP in August my br was a bit over 100€.

Over the whole year I played about 220k Hands of NL4 and NL2 and had a winrate of about 2bb/100 I know i complain alot about my luck but my all in EV shows that i should be 40€ stronger... which is comforting on the one hand because it shows me that I play decent poker but frustrating on the other hand because I really would like to win some money.

for the last 1.5 months I feel stuck. I realised that I cannot climb the ladder up without some coaching so I applied to some cfp programms. I hope they can help me realize my goal to become a decent poker semi pro.

On the long run I want to make about 1.5k € per month. I know that this is a very high goal coming from somebody that cant even crush the micros but thats where I want to go.
I want to get there by playing cash games only. I find all the other formats way too luck-dependent.

Goals for 2018:
move up to NL25
stable winrate an NL25
30K hands per month
find a good CFP program

2bb at nl2/4 is low, not sure you will do well at nl10, though it plays different then nl2

Night session
1 hour, 500 hands and a nice nice profit

unfortunatly I do not get my NL10 game going... again nothing bad here just no good spots... maybe slightly to passive, but fold equity seems to be quite low so I see no point in bluffing more

NL5ff runs perfectly

lots of nice spots, good agression... I really like it there

Talks regarding cfp also starting

tomorrow i want to increase the volume drasticly and I want to go to the fitness center!

What musical did you go and see?

Also, be interesting to see if you've increased this volume!

Hey everybody

again some quiet days here, but as you know "life is what happens while you keep planning"

did not play online in the lost couple of days

But for the first time in years I played at a private homegame. We played NL5 cashgame. This couple of hours showed me how much I have learned in the last year. I know that I played lots of those games and there were nearly no winners and losers... just the cardluck of the evening.
I really tried to focus on the game yesterday. Handreading was very good. I quickly developed reads on my opponents. Fold-Equity: non existend... just make a good hand and get the money in... In the end i was up 3 bi

But the good feeling was not that i won something. It was because I knew why I won it and that I can do it again and again and again. I was at such an advantage. So I finally had some confirmation that I learned alot in the last 12 months and I am on the right track.

@AshVIP: As I live in Vienna we have a strong local musical industry so you might not know the play: "I am from Austria" it is something like "We will rock you" but the artist is an Austrian hero

Short Sunday Session
45 minutes, 75 NL10 -63bb/100; 229 NL5ff +67,4bb/100 over all +2€

I think I am on a good way at the moment. Agression is good, I create good spots and get paied at NL5ff. NL10 is not how i want it to be, but the sample is so small that i do not mind. Additionally I think that the NL5ff tables have a way stronger playerpool than NL10casual... so nothing to worry about.

I hope that i can start my coaching program soon and will keep you updated.

From tomorrow on I will do my hand review publicly. I try to upload 2 hands every day and go through them with Flopzilla. I am courious about your suggestions regarding my reviews because I do not want to learn something that I have to unlearn later on because my handreviews were all wrong.

If you upload a couple of flopzilla reviews and give your thoughts I'd be happy to take a look

Afternoon session at partypoker

nearly 2 hours,
200 hands NL10casual -65,75bb/100... actually I did not play too bad, but I came into a set over set situation.
700 hands NL5ff +18,75bb/100... result could even be better. Some close spots in the last 3rd of the session. but at least I have now some hands that I can analyze.

Afternoon session

140 min
205 hands at NL10c -11,41bb/100
915 hands at NL 5ff +13,77bb/100

slowly but steadily I start appreciating the advantages of fastforward (or zoom) poker. you play tons of hands but contrary to multytabling you have to focus on one hand at a time. so no stressfull situations, missclics or wrong decisions. I am strongly thinking about moving up in zoom-stakes as well, but i will wait untill i played 10k hands with a decent winrate. (3k so far with +40bb/100)

As always the casual-table is not very nice to me. I am surrounded by nonfolding superfish, but I cannot create a spot where they pay me. As my blue is really bad here, I still put it under variance and wait till i get paid

night session of NL5ff

70 minutes, 400 hands and +22,63bb/100

lucky in one spot, unlucky in another spot.... made a nice nice fold with AA on a KJT board against KK and TT (unfortunatly this hand was not imported)

I might change towards fastforward completly. I really like it here.

Today I took my first grind session.

I played 2 tables NL5 fastforward.

3hours --> 2202 Hands --> -6bb/100

I got into soooo many disgusting spots that I cannot count them. on the other hand I also got paid quite well in one or two spots. After 600 hands I was down 2.5bi. At about 1900 hands I was break even unfortunatly I lost some pots in the end.

I played OK. i could not keep the agression high so this was the first session of NL5ff were the red line was negativ. between hand nr1600 and 2000 i lost 8€. I dont know why.

regarding the grinding factor: I can manage this sessions. Maybe I should split them in half and play 1.5 hours in the morning and 1.5 hours in the afternoon, but playing 2 tables fastforward is way more comfortable than playing 6 casual tables.

additionally I played 5 sit and goes and shipped 2 of them for a profit of 5€

I am setting up a routine to play about 2500 hands per day.

Afternoonsession
100 minutes 1250 hands and +13,97bb/100

I started off sensationally and was up 1.6bi after about 400 hands. Over the next 500 hands I lost everything again only to get back to +1,2 bi in the end.

biggest pot was an PF AI with AK against AJ. 1 calldown was very bad, but nobody is perfect.

Something that I really think to grasp slowly is agression. Again a session where red is stable and blue nice. As seen with my FD hand in the review-session, agression can cost you lots of money when done wrong, but over all this is right now the most important topic for me: C/R from OP; good double and trippel barrel spots (I start to think that there are quite many

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1 interesting pot in the review-section.

plan for the review-section: I pick one or two hands after every day that i post there without results... I let you guys give it a go. After a couple of days I will make a detailed flopzilla analyzis for this hand and give you the results.

well well well

Today i got a bit too confident and got the bill presented....

3hours, 2k hands and -23,8bb/100

I punted away my stacks in 2 spots... actually I still think that there was some merrit in bluffing but not the way I did it... I could save alot of money there. besides these two spots I was again a rather tiring session.

I got into soooo many bad spots... well this happens...

due to my partypoker missions I had to dab into tourneys. I do not like tourneys as (from my perspective) they are soooo luck-dependent and I have the feeling that I am not the luckiest under the sun. But for the bonus I took a dive.
1st tourney was 250 freezeout and I was out very fast. AA vs KK vs AQ... and AQ won with flopped trips.. nothing I can do... As i planed a 3 hour cash session I started another one. 250 bounty builder. I found myself very fast in the " omg I only have 6 bb left" spot, so I waited for the right shoving hand and focussed on the cash games... result was:

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This was the first tourney ever I shipped... once 2nd and had a bigger cash once after I finished a sattelite, but this is my first win!!

so after a devastating cash session still a very very very nice boost for my roll today

Nice job!

atm cash runs horribly...
3.5 hours, 2388 hands -7,27bb/100

way below EV... so many disgusting spots... played badly... everything comes together...

have to refocus again otherwise i will lose all my tourney winnings...

atm its not fun
44 minutes, 500 hands -33bb/100...

after a bad start i recovered and it went quite well... then varance kicked in:
lost 2 hands within a minute. They cost me 3 bi.... KK lost against AQo ... I got it in with trip kings... he turned the straight... and my AQo lost against 99 after i hit the A on the flop against a 4bet aggro maniac and he had runner runner flush w.

I stopped because the last 5k hands brought a minus of 8bi.... not a happy camper at the moment

Cash games suck, but tournament wins feel amazing! Deep runs, final tables, nice payouts, I much prefer it!

Hey

@FG_SpaceLord. Great journey thread. When it comes to the tournaments vs. cash games dilemma it's true that tourneys have soul-crushing variance but ultimately they attract the softest fields and in the changing poker landscape, where every year it becomes tougher and tougher to beat the games, regs tend to follow the recreational players wherever they can. Same goes for the jackpot SNG's. Beating cash games if of course still possible, especially at micro stakes, but it's just something to think about. Good luck sir! I'm looking forward to future updates.

come on now...

after 400 hands i was 3 bi up and i thought my runbad was over...

in the end
90min, 1000 hands and -3bb/100...

had my first coaching session at bluff the spot. hugh.. so much to learn... unfortunatly frustration is already building up...

Nice thread dude! It looks like you should read (or listen to) The Poker Mindset.

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