Originally posted by seacat22
good to see things going well and you moving back up good luck
Thank you! 
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Here is the report for Get Rich or Die Tryin' - The Bankroll Challenge:
Starting bankroll: 1.061,04 USD
Targeting bankroll: 5.305,20 USD
Last week bankroll: 811,24 USD
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Week 13
Hands (NL5/NL10): 5.483
Profit: 55,36 USD
Rakeback: 5,49 USD
Exchange rate difference: -0,20 USD
Week 13 profit: 60,65 USD
Week 13 progress: +7,48%
Current bankroll: 871,89 USD
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Overall profit: -189,15 USD
Overall progress: -4,46%
The upswing continues, which is great. 
I managed to cover this year's losses. Too bad I started the challenge when the bankroll was at the top, so still 189,15 USD down in the challenge, but I hope I will be in blue soon. Switched to NL10 almost entirely, playing NL5 only at iPoker to collect strategy points because have minority of bankroll there. Shame I still can't play 1k hands a day in average, but it's good to have the job with regular income, I guess. 
Here is the report for Get Rich or Die Tryin' - The Bankroll Challenge:
Starting bankroll: 1.061,04 USD
Targeting bankroll: 5.305,20 USD
Last week bankroll: 871,89 USD
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Week 14
Hands (NL5/NL10): 7.709
Profit: -5,10 USD
Rakeback: 15,44 USD
Exchange rate difference: +0,28 USD
Week 14 profit: 10,62 USD
Week 14 progress: +1,22%
Current bankroll: 882,51 USD
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Overall profit: -178,53 USD
Overall progress: -4,21%
3rd positive week in a row, which is great. Still, I had a week where many things didn't go my way. Had a couple of coolers and bad beats, but also some tough spots where I made wrong decisions. But it's the part of the game so nothing to complain about. I'm trying to fix my cold calling leak and expand my cold calling ranges, especially on the BB, but I found it very hard. So, the goal for the next week is to keep working on that along with postflop play after a cold call. I think that w34z3l's video "Flop Fighter" will help me alot with it and it's the next video in the "Red Line Rampage" series I have to (re)watch a couple of times + make notes and other stuff. Looking forward to it!
Here is the report for Get Rich or Die Tryin' - The Bankroll Challenge:
Starting bankroll: 1.061,04 USD
Targeting bankroll: 5.305,20 USD
Last week bankroll: 882,51 USD
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Week 15
Hands (NL10/NL5): 6.223
Profit: 2,08 USD
Rakeback: 10 USD
Exchange rate difference: -0,09 USD
Week 15 profit: 11,99 USD
Week 15 progress: +1,36%
Current bankroll: 894,50 USD
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Overall profit: -166,54 USD
Overall progress: -3,92%
The progress is slow, but steady! 4th positive week in a row, must be that I'm on heater or something! 
The most important thing this week was that I created new ranges against open raises, which are now much wider than they used to be and what I'm currently do is testing them. I allready see some benefits. I was quite too tight before and this should be one more step to creating optimal ranges and reach optimal values of different stats (I'm relying here on w34z3ls videos). For example, my cold calling % from BB was 19 and it should be 25-26. Will have another coaching session next month so I hope the coach will fix some mistakes I probably made in the process. Who knows, maybe I'll share them once they will be finished, like the other stuff I've shared. 
I don't write much here latelly, but that's because I decided for less talking and more walking, especially I don't want to complain about bad beats and bad results. I'm trying to end with it. But I'm still active in the forums more than I've ever been and posting/reading/commenting hands at Hand discussions for No Limit. I hope for some status upgrade this month because I believe that am in 2nd place regarding the number of posts there this month. That would be cool.
At this point I don't see myself ever giving up from my goal, which is at least NL50 and average monthly profit of ~$500. I know what I have to do and how to do it, so there is no way back. The cool thing is that summer holydays are very close and I will have much more time for poker during July and August. I hope that will stabilise at NL25 untill then and try to reach NL50 by the end of the year.
Good luck at the tables! 
Overview of April 2015
Finally, after two losing months, April 2015 was quite succesfull. I was mainly trying to play at least 1k hands a day, which took almost all of my poker time, along with analysing hands on Hand discussions forum. I was also working on expanding my cold calling ranges, 3betting ranges and defending ranges vs 3bets. Didn't manage to watch alot of videos, though, which is shame.
Here are some graphs and stats for April 2015:
#1 Total net earnings (NL5, NL10, NL16): 108,93 USD
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#2 Total earnings (including rakeback): 169,86 USD
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#3 Average time spent on playing per day: 1h 49 min
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#4 Average earnings per hour: 3,01 USD
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Current BR: 902,53 USD
Here are the stats and grades:
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Generally, I'm still too tight. I've made some changes a week ago with adjusting the ranges, so I hope the May stats will look a bit different. The main issues with my play are still the same:
Being too tight on the blinds
Folding to 3bets too much
Folding to flop cbets too much (specifically, raising flop cbets too less)
Small issues (but still issues) are:
3betting a bit too less from all positions
4betting a bit too less
Cold calling a bit too less
Cbetting flop a bit too less
Folding to turn cbets a bit too much
Calling river cbets a bit too much (probably related with folding on flop and turn too much)
Going to showdown too less (also related to folding flop and turn too much)
Overall, I think I need to be satisfied with how the thing are going, but with a bit more effort on fixing above leaks, I think I will be ready for NL25 very soon and NL50 is not too far, also. As I said: I know what I need to do and how to do it, so I will do it! There is no way back!
Here is the report for Get Rich or Die Tryin' - The Bankroll Challenge:
Starting bankroll: 1.061,04 USD
Targeting bankroll: 5.305,20 USD
Last week bankroll: 894,50 USD
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Week 16
Hands (NL16/NL10): 9.023
Profit: 28,12 USD
Rakeback: 30,00 USD
Exchange rate difference: +0,30 USD
Week 16 profit: 58,42 USD
Week 16 progress: +6,53%
Current bankroll: 952,92 USD
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Overall profit: -108,12 USD
Overall progress: -2,55%
The heater continues, which is cool. Moved to PokerStars NL16 and it's going very well for now. NL10 speed at iPoker totally disappeared, so I will probably have to play NL5 there to keep the status here. Still waitting for the cash and status upgrade for the Level Up promotion.
Here is the report for Get Rich or Die Tryin' - The Bankroll Challenge:
Starting bankroll: 1.061,04 USD
Targeting bankroll: 5.305,20 USD
Last week bankroll: 952,92 USD
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Week 17
Hands (NL16/NL20/NL10): 7.484
Profit: 149,93 USD
Rakeback: 40,00 USD
Exchange rate difference: +0,01 USD
Week 17 profit: 189,94 USD
Week 17 progress: +19,93%
Current bankroll: 1.142,86 USD
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Overall profit: 81,82 USD
Overall progress: +1,93%
I'm in blue again! Afer the bankroll was like $700 at some point, it's nice to see that I have a profit again. The week 17 was awesome! Many things go to my way, so nothing to complain about. If the things will stay the same untill the end of the month, the plan is to continue with NL16 and switch to NL25 in June if the bankroll will be bigger than $1250.
Here is the report for Get Rich or Die Tryin' - The Bankroll Challenge:
Starting bankroll: 1.061,04 USD
Targeting bankroll: 5.305,20 USD
Last week bankroll: 1.142,86 USD
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Week 18
Hands (NL16/NL10/NL5): 6.702
Profit: 17,30 USD
Rakeback: 30,00 USD
Exchange rate difference: +0,08 USD
Week 18 profit: 47,38 USD
Week 18 progress: +4,15%
Current bankroll: 1.190,24 USD
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Overall profit: 129,20 USD
Overall progress: +3,04%
The good results continue, which is great! The week was not super great because was kinda trying to find my A-game and had a bunch of bad luck, but it's cool I've still managed to make a profit. I feel that the majority of improvement is coming from the better mindset because I trully started to think about poker like I think about any other work - you have to do your best and accept the difficulties and bad things as a part of the working proccess. As a teacher, I have to do exams evaluation and give grades although it's not a pleasant thing to do. It's just a part of being a teacher, and I like to be a teacher. Bad beats, bad days, C-game and other stuff are all parts of being a poker player and all those things are not pleasant at all, but you have to accept them. They are just a part of being a poker player, and I like to be a (part-time) poker player. Another cool thing is that my average hourly earnings in poker this month are twice as big as my hourly earnings in school. It would be even more cool if they stay that way in the next months. 
Originally posted by bonecore
Do you do table selection for fishes or your plan is to crush regs too?
I can't do table selection because I play zoom, so my plan is to crush regs, too. If I would play normal tables, I would probably try to do a bit of table selection, but learning to play vs regs is also important, imo, especially if we want to go higher in limits.
i dont play zooom. Dont see how i can make a profit if i dont know the players.
Probably you can float all day long B vs CO , or SB ,BB vs B
Is the main issue of the game to play solid tight game, and just wait for opp to mistake?
When u isolate a limper you got 2 options:
vs players that dont fold often postflop: raise wider and small size,just so that you get it heads up
vs players that are fit or fold: raise larger and take larger pots
So if you dont know about your opp what do you do?
lol i did have a session at zoom
Ran great... Float didnt work so much. I think people are over aggressive double barrel.
check raised some missed flops and it worked, ( i think people just like to bet)
check called with made hands and they always bet
I was wondering why so little fish at NL5 . I mean really NL10 has more fish than NL5.. alot of them moved to zoom?
However for me, zoom it's not the way to learn to crush because i can't play villain dependent on zoom.
Would be intresting today's lesson with w34z3l about oponents!
I wouldn't say the opponents are unknown. After few sessions you spot who are the regulars, at least. I didn't play much normal tables, but it seems to me that there is not such a huge difference between them and zoom tables, except you can table select more, thus gain a better winrate in terms of bb/100. But since you can play alot more hands at zoom, your hourly earnings are higher, which is more important to me.
In zoom you are forced to learn how to play vs various types of players because you can't choose who will you play against, which is better for your game improvement than always playing against worse players, imo. I believe there is the same percentage of fish at zoom tables and at regular tables. Probably in one session you can get an impression that there is a difference, but I wouldn't say so (I don't play regular tables, though).
In the end, it comes to your preferences, I would imagine. I have a regular job, so zoom is the only way to get some decent volume. As the improvement is concerned, I don't think you will learn more by playing normal tables. I believe that crushig zoom tables is as hard/easy as crushing regular tables. I don't crush anyone, btw, at least not yet. 
good luck with your goals Alleen. What limit are you playing now? sorry if you mentioned previously but i could not find it.
Originally posted by antLrace
good luck with your goals Alleen. What limit are you playing now? sorry if you mentioned previously but i could not find it.
Thank you!
My main limit is NL16 atm, but I hope to attack NL25 again (for the 4th of 5th time) very soon. ♦
Funny day yesterday:
Poker Stars, $0.08/$0.16 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 6 Players
Preflop: Hero is BTN with K
K
3 folds, Hero raises to $0.33, SB folds, BB raises to $1.12, Hero raises to $2.56, BB calls $1.44
Flop: ($5.20) A 2
T (2 players)
Poker Stars, $0.08/$0.16 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 6 Players
Preflop: Hero is MP with K K
UTG folds, Hero raises to $0.48, 3 folds, BB calls $0.32
Flop: ($1.04) T A 7 (2 players)
Poker Stars, $0.08/$0.16 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 6 Players
Preflop: Hero is UTG with K K
Hero raises to $0.48, 3 folds, SB calls $0.40, BB folds
Flop: ($1.12) T A 4 (2 players)
Poker Stars, $0.08/$0.16 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 6 Players
Preflop: Hero is BTN with K K
3 folds, Hero raises to $0.33, SB folds, BB calls $0.17
Flop: ($0.74) 4 A 2 (2 players)
Poker Stars, $0.08/$0.16 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 6 Players
Preflop: Hero is CO with K K
2 folds, Hero raises to $0.40, 2 folds, BB calls $0.24
Flop: ($0.88) A J 5 (2 players)
Originally posted by bonecore
Originally posted by Alleen86
Funny day yesterday:Nice hands ♠_ugly:
Thanks!
Here is the report for Get Rich or Die Tryin' - The Bankroll Challenge:
Starting bankroll: 1.061,04 USD
Targeting bankroll: 5.305,20 USD
Last week bankroll: 1.190,24 USD
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Week 19
Hands (NL16): 5.421
Profit: -30,36 USD
Rakeback: 20,00 USD
Exchange rate difference: -0,13 USD
Week 19 profit: -10,49 USD
Week 19 progress: -0,88%
Current bankroll: 1.179,75 USD
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Overall profit: 118,71 USD
Overall progress: +2,80%
Running like a shit latelly, but guess I can't avoid that. Still on my way, though. Nobody said it would be easy.