Story of lazy-ass NL100 grinder ( $15k in 2 months challange )

_Anonymous_ · 2012-06-19T21:58:18Z

Hi, so i decided to start my own english blog, i've been pretty active in our CZE community, but here i am unknown so short introduction follows.... SpoilerI am 21 years old student who got pissed off his own laziness. I am currently grinding NL50 SH, switching between Bwin, Poker Heaven and Stars and most likely in near future i'll be moving to WPT because of tracking here on PokerStrategy. I play poker for some time now, but only something about 1 year i am taking it seriously, i was a poker dealer, well since my 18 till half year ago i guess. Now i live only out of poker income + some small amounts from writing news and live reports for our CZE community so i guess you could say i am something like a pokerpro. As i mentioned i am taking poker seriously for 1 year now i guess, before i was just a fish loosing money online wherever i looked. You all probably know that, young kid who saw all those poker shows with Tom Dwan in them so i obviously i started playing something like 99/99 with 99wtsd.... well as you may guess i didnt succeed and as i already mentioned i was just loosing money.... About a year ago i went into tank and just thought how come i can beat live games ( well at that time i played something like 5/10CZK which is like $0,25/0,50... ) but i was loosing money online... well i realized that live i play like a nit so i started playing like a nit online too which was good for beating NL10 at bwin but then i needed some help so i came here on pokerstrategy...i moved up pretty quickly to NL50 and almost started shooting NL100 but a huge swing came and i was not prepared for it so i was tilting etc. ...i almost lost my whole bankroll... i stoped playing for 3 months or so.... When i came back i moved my roll to PokerHeaven where i started rebuilding my roll and my confidence. Well... another bad thing happened to me, i discovered 5-handed sng's there which were really really soft and i started printing money there... the main issue was that there were no room for improvement i got really lazy and i had no motivation for studing or something like that because 10e sng's ( speed ) are the max stakes where is traffic and i was already crushing that.... so i got really lazy and for like 2 months i was not working on my game at all, in the end even the volume went down and i finally got pissed off my own laziness, that i decided to come back into cash game world and make a name for myself :f_biggrin: So as i mentioned above i am currently grinding NL50 and i hope i will try shooting NL100 in 2 months at top ( summer will be full of live poker, parties etc. so i won't have a huge online volume ... ) I am also grinding live from time to time, mostly 1/2 euro games and tourneys up to something like $200... i dont have any huge tournament hits as online as live ( something like 1k most ) but i am winning player + live tourneys are for me something like social event, i mostly play with some guys from our CZE community etc. this is me, just for some idea of who's even writing these words.... and yeah i am a ginger and i don't have a soul so dont worry you can try to insult me as much as you want :f_biggrin: Spoiler well and the only thing i will bring from the past to this blog are some hands just for u to get some image of my play and i also think that talk some strategy in this blog could be useful for u guys and for me too.... well first hand is from NL25, PH is a small site and in the morning there is pretty much no traffic at all at NL50 so i played from time to time NL25 Spoiler No-Limit Hold'em, $0.25 BB (5 handed) - Hold'em Manager Hand Converter from HandHistoryConverter.com BB ($28.92) UTG ($67.35) MP ($25) Button ($125.89) Hero (SB) ($31.72) Preflop: Hero is SB with 8:heart:, 10:heart: 1 fold, MP bets $0.56, 1 fold, Hero calls $0.44, 1 fold Flop: ($1.37) K:club:, K:diamond:, 9:spade: (2 players) Hero checks, MP checks Turn: ($1.37) 2:spade: (2 players) Hero checks, MP bets $0.68, Hero raises $2.36, MP raises $4.72, Hero raises $10.83, 1 fold Total pot: $12.17 Results: Hero had 8:heart:, 10:heart: (one pair, Kings). Outcome: Hero won $19.36 the thinking process behind this hand is pretty simple... on this kind of boards regs like to use delayed c-bet ( i really dont know why but they do :f_biggrin: ) his range here is something like mid pairs, 9x, maybe some FD's but mostly air which is trying to represent those hands.... he is going to use delayed c-bet here like 99% of times so that's why i check and i don't stab the pot also with ch/r i will put more preasure on his weak range.... well and after this that hand is pretty simple, his 3bet is pretty much air heavy because his range which he tried to represent before that 3bet had some showdown value that could call ch/r but wont 3bet, i am pretty certain he wont 3bet here with FD's that much also so i can pretty easily 4bet because he just doesnt rep anything.... One hand from yesterd...