The adventures of a poker novice – Fresh start

Catonthemat · 2016-08-31T07:38:44Z

Day 1 01/09/2016 - A fresh start My previous adventure into poker was a bit of a car crash with the previous blog being more of a blog interspersed with ranting. So I have decided to start a clean slate with a new blog and a new plan. This time I plan to stay more focused by having short/medium/long targets. I shall also be following a much stricter bank roll management plan. I am also going to try to be less results orientated, so I am not going to be actively doing the GToDT challenge. I shall be posting overall graphs as I go, but will try and put a lot more into how I am playing. I want really to be more of an MTT player but I think that will be pretty tough in the initial periods with no "wins" so the other game types cash/stt/spinngo might be better getting smaller "wins" to keep me motivated. With that in mind I am going to be starting with NL2 cash games. To stop it being one large text wall each section is spoiler'd. Starting out Spoiler For starting ranges and strategy most of it is going to come from w34z4l's initial walkthrough. I am going to be having equilab open with the ranges available and slowly try and rely less and less on checking each hand. W34z3l's Walkthroguh I shall then be moving onto W34z3l's gold member content. Poker room Spoiler I am going to be playing at partypoker.com. This is for 2 reasons; a)It is linked to my pokerstratergy account so gets me my gold status for the articles I want to read. b)I still have £225 to unlock before mid december for the welcome bonus. Along with unlocking the welcome bonus I plan to always have one of their missions going to try and pick the extra reward. Currently working on “Final hands” So am still waiting on the allusive straight flush for a $25 reward. Bank roll management Spoiler I am going to be starting by depositing £40 roughly $50. NL2 move up $125 NL4 move down $75 move up $250. NL10 move down $175 move up $650. NL25 move down $500 move up $1400. NL50 move down $1000. Daily stop loss 3x Max buy-ins. "Daily" playing plan Spoiler I say "daily" but I mean the days that I play rather than playing each day, as I will have to fit it around working full time. This is also only for the playing side as the reading & research can be done on a more flexible basis around other day to day bits. But I shall aim for at least the 20% of my "poker time" spent learning rather than playing. -1 table. I dived into multi tabling too early last time, so going to try and walk before I run this time. -200 hands -Mark difficult hands for review -After 200 hands go through a good selection of hands I played to work out pot odds, equity, implied odds etc to get better at the maths. -Post any hands that I am unsure for hand discussion on the forum. Mental game and composure Spoiler So far my previous big losses have come one after the other as I start to tilt more and more. I am now reading The mental game of poker, and one of the suggestions is to write down what makes you tilt and then have "logical injections" when it starts to happen. These logical injections are to snap you out of what is tilting. So with that in mind I am going to make a list of all the thoughts that made me tilt and come up with some logical injections which I shall write on post it notes and stick to my laptop when playing. An example is; Losing to a bad player - To be profitable you need bad players to win every now and then so they keep playing. Other than that I am going to make sure I don't play when tired or not in the right mood for playing. This is meant to be a fun hobby after all &diams; Poker reality check Spoiler I was watching a youtube video by Daniel Negreanu and he said something that I knew but had let affect how i play. After feedback from hand discussions I have been playing a lot of situations weak, and this is because I have been watching too much TV broadcast poker where they edit the play. This has left me with much higher expectation of people hitting their hand or their hands strength resulting in me folding when I am likely to be in the best position. So to combat this I am thinking of watching more streamers as usually they show all the hands so I’ll start to get a more realistic idea of how common certain hands come up. This should hopefully give me more confidence when playing post flop. Hold’em manager and HUD Spoiler Some of my research so far has said how useful HUD stats can be when helping to make a decision. However ever time I have loaded it up I have felt overwhelmed with remembering what each number meant. I am currently running a blank HUD which just has name and hands played, this is mainly for the pop up after the end of a hand showing money lost and mucked hands. This time I am going to do things differently. Using my blank HUD as a starting point I am going to slowly add stats and when I get comfortable with that I will add more that I understand and feel wil...

Ka0s

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25.09.2016, 14:32 0

Good luck!

Depositit all of your money if it is the last time i'd say. You should probably deposit your wife too If you are married!

But you can't quit if you go broke. You know you can't. You're one of us now. You're a player man ... player's don't quit. :f_tongue:
No one ever made it out here.

Hope you find some winnings and enjoyment!

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Catonthemat

Joined: 01.08.2016

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25.09.2016, 18:42 +1

Originally posted by Ka0s
Good luck!

Depositit all of your money if it is the last time i'd say. You should probably deposit your wife too If you are married!

But you can't quit if you go broke. You know you can't. You're one of us now. You're a player man ... player's don't quit.
No one ever made it out here.

Hope you find some winnings and enjoyment!

Seems I might not need to deposit as much as I thought. Decided to check my ipoker account for some reason, and found a 20eur ticket. Bought into a SNG:

Boom! Guess all my bitching about no luck finally paid off.

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Looking for cash game group

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Ka0s

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30.09.2016, 17:54 0

You played already or is tomorrow the big day?

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Catonthemat

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01.10.2016, 21:11 0

Managed to play 3 SNG yesterday between work and going out. got 1st in one of them which was nice. Then went out :f_drink: and now spent all of today dieing :f_cry: So not played. Hopefully get quiet a few of them played tomorrow.