Sweet track! Nice intro and nice realistic targets to begin with! A lot of people are thinking of 50NL and higher when still at the bottom and I think setting targets too high at the start can be demotivating so I think it's perfect to be where you are and knowing where you want to be!

I see you've been a member for a while but kudos for posting and starting to blog, not many female members here so always good to hear from more! Whereabouts are you based and what site/s do you play on??

Good luck and a Happy New Year!

Hell yeah! It's one of my favourite! Glad you like it!
Yes, I don't want to be demotivated again because of unrealistic longterm goals. It's better to take it step by step!


Thank you! Yes, I've been a member for some time but I thought blogging would be a waste of time. Now, after a while, I think it is actually a good idea to start one. It's almost like a diary about myself that I would like to read in the future and a good way to connect with new people also interested in poker
I'm from Poland.
My main poker room is PokerStars. I've tried many sites, 888, iPoker, Microgaming, but somehow it didn't click.
You're right. There aren't many female members and that was my next reason and incentive for starting this blog here and becoming more active
What a shame women are always minority in poker. I wish there were more of us


Thank you very much! You too!

Heyyyyyyy Kate

Love this blog and i think you are going to be one of the members to see it through until the end of the year!

Mad props for never busting your bankroll. I wish i could say the same. I probably did it 5-10 times over the year but i do believe it made me a smarter player as i learnt from it and fingers crossed it will never happen again.

Yeh we wish more females played the game but i do think more are. With things like ladies night on Poker Night In America, Selbst being such a beast and new TV shows with Liu, Lovgren and DMoonGirl seems to be really sparking interest.

You said the blog is not just poker...what else will we have forward to reading?

Anyways here is to a huge 2016. Lets make sh*t happen

Thanks Jon!! I will do my best!!


Whaat?! I would never say you have such experiences with busting bankrolls Of course, it's great that it affected you in a positive way! I hope it won't happen again!


Well, that's true, but sometimes I can't say whether some female poker players are in poker because of their looks and they tend to attract men rather than women. It's hard to say... Of course, such poker players as Selbst, Coren or Harman are very good!


I guess some daily stuff going on in my life, for example, my travels, some extraordinary things that sometimes happen, my thoughts on different issues - you just have to wait and see


Yeah!

Thank you guys for visiting my blog. I'm really glad that someone wants to read it and it sure motivates me to carry on.

I will soon post my progress in poker.

Got to put this one here

GL at tables Kate!

GL on your journey...

Good luck with the journey. You sound like me in terms of skill level and success. I'm net free of deposits as well and have never busted my roll either. I did lose almost all of it to hackers earlier this year though. I can't seem to beat NL10 consistently either.

Aww man, I'm sorry to hear that. I can't imagine having my money stolen from the account. I hope you're still playing and that one day we both going to beat nl10!

Thank you guys - pzeljko, manos413 and thetallpaul! I really appreciate it!!

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Poker-wise - I've played some hands last two days to get it started. I have a plan to jump to nl5 with 20BI/25BI. I know it is better to have more in spare so I wouldn't have to come back to nl2 too often. Sticking to your BRM is very important and it sure teaches patience.

Anyway, here's my graph so far. I will also be posting the most problematic hands, but right now on nl2 there aren't many of them.




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This song!

Nice graph!!! keep grinding

That graph is lifetime right not 2016? Or do we have a 6k a day hand monster on our hands here?

Thank you manos413!! I'm still trying to keep up the volume!

HAHA, Jon it's only 2016 I tend to play longer sessions now since I don't seem to lose energy as easily as I used to. It's not always 6k hands a day, but sometimes

Here's a continuation of the nl2 graph.




Music-wise - the song that's been in my mind for some time.

MY o MY 2016 only - CONFIRMED BEAST

Energy? What the hell are you drinking???? I need some of that in my life lol.

Sick graph and keep at it!

Holy shite. That is some crazy workrate right there. Looks good on results as well.

Blackrain junior.

Thank you guys!

What's the most funny is that I've never played such volume before I think the reason is that I had a long break from playing poker and now I'm very eager to play! The only thing I drink is water with lemon juice so nothing illegal

HAHA - "blackrain junior" really made my day, TY! I've actually read his theories on microstakes strategies and they are pretty interesting.

Lately, I've been thinking about streaming. The only problem is my laptop - I don't think it would handle the stream...

Being eager to play is basically what is needed and can turn a break even player into a winner and a winner into a beast. The game requires so much focus and discipline it is just a losing game if your mind is elsewhere.

Twitch sounds awesome - Could even hook you up on our channel!!!

Do you have a windows computer? It does require a decent bit of power and a very solid internet connection. Download OBS and see if that all downloads and installs properly but would be very keen on getting you on our channel if you are game for that?

Yes, of course. In the past my play didn't look like that - I used to look at the cashier during my session multiple times, when I had a profit I wanted to finish session as fast as I can so I didn't lose it. And many other typical mistakes. Right now, I look at my results after the session. I could even stop looking at it, but it's nl2 right now so it doesn't get to me.'

Maybe I would be interested in that but first I have to check if my computer have enough power. There's no problem with internet connection, it's excellent. What is more, I'm buying separate monitor this week. I'll see how it turns out and I'll get back to you

I'm still grinding nl2. It's going ok. I'm really proud of myself that I keep discipline and play regularly. Lately, I've focused on eliminating my leak of not extracting max value and I see a progress. Even though I still need practice I'm very happy I've managed to decrease this leak. Here's the graph after 10 days of playing:




And here are hands that I think I could play differently.

1.

MP: $2.00 - VPIP: 16, PFR: 16, 3B: 0, AF: 4.0, Hands: 37
CO: $3.20 - VPIP: 19, PFR: 14, 3B: 4, AF: 2.9, Hands: 533
Hero (BTN): $2.25
SB: $2.00 - VPIP: 21, PFR: 15, 3B: 0, AF: 2.3, Hands: 290
BB: $4.15 - VPIP: 75, PFR: 1, 3B: 0, AF: 2.1, Hands: 155
UTG: $1.22 - VPIP: 56, PFR: 16, 3B: 8, AF: 1.7, Hands: 55

Pre Flop: ($0.03) Hero is BTN with 2 :spade: 2 :diamond:
1 fold, [color=red]MP raises to $0.06[/color], 1 fold, Hero calls $0.06, 1 fold, BB calls $0.04

Flop: ($0.19) A :club: 2 :club: A :heart: (3 players)
BB checks, [color=red]MP bets $0.12[/color], Hero calls $0.12, BB calls $0.12

Turn: ($0.55) 8 :heart: (3 players)
BB checks, [color=red]MP bets $0.26[/color], Hero calls $0.26, BB calls $0.26

River: ($1.33) 4 :diamond: (3 players)
BB checks, MP checks, [color=red]Hero bets $0.82[/color], BB calls $0.82, MP folds

2.

UTG: $3.46 - VPIP: 91, PFR: 40, 3B: 36, AF: 0.9, Hands: 47
Hero (CO): $2.04
BTN: $3.39 - VPIP: 22, PFR: 13, 3B: 0, AF: 0.7, Hands: 83
SB: $2.65 - VPIP: 18, PFR: 13, 3B: 3, AF: 1.5, Hands: 198
BB: $2.62 - VPIP: 20, PFR: 12, 3B: 4, AF: 6.0, Hands: 65

Pre Flop: ($0.03) Hero is CO with J :club: K :club:
[color=red]UTG raises to $0.04[/color], Hero calls $0.04, 1 fold, SB calls $0.03, BB calls $0.02

Flop: ($0.16) J :diamond: T :spade: 9 :spade: (4 players)
SB checks, [color=red]BB bets $0.07[/color], UTG calls $0.07, Hero calls $0.07, SB folds

Turn: ($0.37) 2 :diamond: (3 players)
[color=red]BB bets $0.18[/color], UTG calls $0.18, Hero calls $0.18

River: ($0.91) 9 :club: (3 players)
[color=red]BB bets $0.44[/color], UTG calls $0.44, Hero folds

3.

Hero (SB): $2.00
BB: $2.03 - VPIP: 18, PFR: 12, 3B: 5, AF: 1.7, Hands: 1474
UTG: $2.18 - VPIP: 31, PFR: 26, 3B: 10, AF: 6.5, Hands: 70
CO: $1.72 - VPIP: 39, PFR: 20, 3B: 8, AF: 2.2, Hands: 94
BTN: $2.39 - VPIP: 42, PFR: 12, 3B: 0, AF: 1.4, Hands: 156

Pre Flop: ($0.03) Hero is SB with K :heart: J :spade:
1 fold, CO calls $0.02, BTN calls $0.02, [color=red]Hero raises to $0.11[/color], 2 folds, BTN calls $0.09

Flop: ($0.26) 8 :spade: K :diamond: 7 :spade: (2 players)
[color=red]Hero bets $0.17[/color], BTN calls $0.17

Turn: ($0.60) 4 :heart: (2 players)
[color=red]Hero bets $0.35[/color], BTN calls $0.35

River: ($1.30) 9 :club: (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN checks

Yeh very sick discipline as you look very ready to move up with a graph like that. Any idea where you rank in the biggest winners list for those stakes? I imagine you will be quite high?

1. Seems fine. We can check raise turn as villains won't fold an Ace though to make sure we get stacks. But not bad at all to take the line you did.

2. This is close to a 3b pre vs an UTG open. As played it's fine

3. Like this line. Post flop we can even take a check line to basically call any turn and river or to get turn and river value. As you can see its hard to get 3 streets and we build a very big pot.

Yes, I know I could go higher but I'm not sure if I want to go to nl5 - I don't like this limit. I completed it two times but it was always dreadful. After that, I tended to skip this limit and go on to nl10. I was at nl10 twice and I didn't make it, but I sure played differently back then, definitely worse, too scary, not extracting max value. I think I will stick to nl2 until the end of January, and then I'll see. But I want to try nl10. I know my play is better. When I looked through my old hands from nl10, I was shocked by my way of playing. I would play many hands differently. And, of course, I like to have at leat 30BI for this limit.

I have no idea where I am at. Does PokerStars have rankings?

1. Yes, I actually thought of x/r turn to extract more value from Ax

2. My biggest question was whether I should call or fold river...

3. Yes, the pot got big and the hand is not always the best, but I think I should bet the river like 30% of the pot. The line x/c also seems nice.

Thanks for your feedback