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Summer is over, time to grind: from NL2 to NL50 as fast as possible.

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ettorek
Joined: 03.07.2011

Week 10

Tot hands played since start: 110104
Tot hands played last week: 8378
Profit for the week: +22,15$
Current bankroll: 243,53$

Last week:

Overall:

Last week was overall pretty good but I decided to play some zoom NL16 and lost a pair of pots.
So to expiate I decided to grind some NL2 and NL5 again, just to remeber how stupid to take shot where you should not :)

Hope this week to play finally some solid game at NL10.
Gl at the tables.


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following the blog. and starting mine soon. droped my first 50 this month but ready to reaload learn and post my blog good luck. hope to join u on the grind up


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ettorek
Joined: 03.07.2011

@CypherPrime1: wish you gl luck for your game and new blog. Unfortunately loss do happen and it's better to learn how to manage them asap. ;)


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ettorek
Joined: 03.07.2011

Tot hands played since start: 122440
Tot hands played last week: 12336
Profit for the week: +0,51$
Current bankroll: 244$

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Last week:

Breakeven week is the result of some experiment I did trying to heavy multitabling regular tables instead of zoom.
Probably playing like 16 tables is not the way to go until I will have all the standard play down perfectly.
Every single mistake you have in your game is amplified and also if you are ahead of the field you are not able to extract enough value.

This week I started to play between 8-10 tabling and looks like I've the things more under control.
Also started to implement the 3BI stop loss in a session and def is a great thing to avoid bigger downswing.

This week the goal is to take enough profit to start to play more NL10.
Also fixing stuff in 3bet pots that did create me some problems.

Gl all at the tables :)


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metalmonkey80
Joined: 15.08.2013

Hi ettorek,

Really enjoyed reading your blog and looking forward to reading future updates :f_thumbsup:
Defiantly a good idea to introduce a 3BI stop loss. I found this really helps over time. I have applied a 4BI profit stop too as I have found I could be making more rather than continuing to grind my profit away each session.

Regards

Matt


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ettorek
Joined: 03.07.2011

@Matt, thanks a lot man :)
If only I did applied the stop loss when I did my first level up to NL10: I avoided that -8BI in a single day .....


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ettorek
Joined: 03.07.2011

Week 12

Tot hands played since start: 129979
Tot hands played last week: 7539
Profit for the week: +75,11$ (45,11$ + 30$ VPP)
Current bankroll: 319,11$

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Last week:

I started last week playing just regular NL5 tables and achieved only 1bb/100.
This really was not what I did expected because in the reg games I should have more info about my oppo :(
Then I decided to switch back to the zoom tables and, on the same sample, I managed to make almost 7bb/100.
Probably is just a matter of run, but it's definitely surprising to me :)

So now I'm rolled to play more hands at NL10 and to definitely focusing on that levelup that means a lot to me.
Why? Because historically I NEVER beated this level while being in green in all the stakes up to NL25.
I feel like is because NL10 is a croassroad of player who move down from NL25 to recover some losses and
NL5 players who makes level up. This in my opinion means that is the first level where you find a stronger
competition.

When you are able to beat NL10 then this means that you have understood something about the game and are you
on the right path along your poker journey ;)

Gl at the tables :)


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ettorek
Joined: 03.07.2011

Week 13

Tot hands played since start: 138408
Tot hands played last week: 8429
Profit for the week: +103,06$
Starting bankroll: 47$
Current bankroll: 422,17$

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Last week:

Best week since the start of the challenge :)
Played good, runned good so def happy about it.

What's next? Well I must confess that I feel some paranoia about the next few days.
When it will all the good things turns it around?
I know that bad run, tilt and bad plays are always around the corner.
Also relaxing and not studying is another common mistake I made in the past A LOT.
But now I know I see it coming and there are not excuse: this time I must be able to manage this stuff!

Part of the good results are also achieved thanks to the support of a friend and a former coach of pokerstrategy.it: Baracchinghi :)
He is not a GTO guy, he is the italian GTO guy
A lot of his
videos can be found in the archive and definitely are worth watching, always if you grasp some italian ofc :P
He in the past gave me a lot of suggestions and concepts to foucus on but I never realized how to apply the stuff he did teach me.
Now all the pieces of the puzzle are going in the right place I started to realize what he did means.
Thanks bro!

Gl luck at the tables guys!


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SvenBe
Joined: 19.04.2006

nice giraffes!
Now add 2 more 0 at the end :-)


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ettorek
Joined: 03.07.2011

Thanks Sven :)
Def now it's the time to push the thing to the limit.


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ettorek
Joined: 03.07.2011

Week 17

Tot hands played since start: 183354
Tot hands played last week: 10503
Profit for the week: $97,53
Starting bankroll: 47$
Current bankroll: 593,06$

Last week

Overall:

Hi there! First update of the year and overall summary for the 2016.
After a kind of rollercaster in the NL10 I've ended the year mixing up NL10 and NL16.
While still crushing the NL16 I'm definitely not satisfied at NL10, but whatever :)

In december I did studied quite a lot and the results were pretty fine.
Now I feel like I have def down my preflop game and greatly improved the postflop.
Still a lot of job to be done to reach the excellence and crush the low stakes but definitely happy with what I managed to do in the challenge.

Now the bad news.
I live in Czech Republic and since the 1.1.2017 has started the new gambling regulation and .... nothing has been still regulated :(
All the company that applied for the license still not have received it (both national ones and the biggest from abroad).
This is pretty embarassing because it's something the gov had decided like 6 month ago and had a lot of time to work on it. But unfortunately seems like did let all at the last minute and still nothing has be done.
The result is that Pokerstars to avoid problems have temporary stopped the real money game over here.
Considering that I was playing zoom over there, this single thing will have a big impact in the challenge.
Waiting until ps will reopen the real money games or continuing somewere else with all the risks of the case?
Meh pretty frustrating, but whatever: life goes on and I, like all the czech players, will try to find a play to continue to play.
All the best for the new year and gl at the tables :)


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mjez1
Joined: 29.06.2015
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firefly91
Joined: 05.07.2010

And in 2018?


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