the start of my journey to the high stakes - $200 - $100,000 by the end of 2019!

Tournament #17 - 5.13pm start - 19/2/19 NZT

$4.40 PL 5 Card Draw $150 GTD

tournament highlights:
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won a massive pot with quads! now have the chip lead

been losing a few chips in small pots

just got back a few of my chips winning a small pot with a made 2 pair

just knocked someone out with a made straight. maybe i could of limped to trap others

at the first break i am 3rd out of 29 remaining. late reg still open

won a good sized pot with made 2 pair vs my opponent with a lower 2 pair

won a big pot with trips vs 2 pair. currently 6th with 31 remaining. late reg still open

won a good sizeable pot with a made flush now 5th place with 31 remaining

won a pot with a flush. maybe i should of raised 3x rather than 10x

won a good sized pot with made trips. did the right thing by raising 3x

won a good sized pot with a made full house. now 4th with 33 remaining. late reg still open

got unlucky with a failed bluff attempt. i had nothing but my oppoent draw 3 cards and picked up 2 pair

won a good sized pot with made 2 pair. now 3rd with 35 remaining. late reg still open. looking good so far

won a good sized pot with made trips.

successfully bluffed with missed flush. drawing 1 card can rep a 2 pair, so if you are in position, try to bluff even if you miss your draw

lost a big pot with smaller trips. should of folded since i realised my opponent was drawing 2.

got my lost chips back when i draw 2 pair. knocked someone else out, collecting their $1 bounty

lost a few chips but got them back with made 2 pair. currently 7th with 26 remaining. late reg has now closed

called with a lower 2 pair vs a tight opponent. he is dangerous so should watch it if he bets.

been losing a few chips but got them back after drawing 2 pair. i'm 12th out 20 remaining.

got knocked out with set over set. just short of the money. overall, this is the 2nd tournament in a row that i've played well in. let's make the money next time

got 2 bounties totaling $2, so at least i didn't leave with nothing.

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my poker playing schedule for the next 2-3 weeks. goal is to get a $350 account balance and then I will play the $55 Sunday Marathon again

#LetsDoThis

Tournament #18 - 6.13am start - 20/2/19 NZT

$7.50 8 Game $500 GTD

tournament highlights:
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Limit Omaha 8: won 3/4 of the pot with a A2 low and 2 pair. good start by me.

razz: lost a pot with a 9 low

razz: lost a big pot with nothing. silly play

stud8: lost a pot trying to chase a low. next time don't chase!

been leaking chips. now a short stack

2-7 Triple Draw: hit a 7 low on the final draw, but got beaten by a better 7 low. rebuyed

limit holdem: bluffed flop and told my opponent i had top pair. he folded

Limit Omaha 8: chopped a pot

razz: got lucky by winning a pot with a Q low

stud: won a sizeable pot with 2 pair

stud8: won a massive pot with a full house. back in the game!

Pot Limit Omaha: won a massive pot with trips! currently 16th with 45 remaining. late reg still open.

stud: won a sizeable pot with 2 pair on 7th street. currently 18th with 29 remaining. late reg has now closed.

Stud8: talked my opponent into folding, claiming I had the straight, along with the low

Pot Limit Omaha: lost a big pot trying to bluff on a dangerous board

2-7 Triple Draw: won a big pot with a 7 low. currently 15th with 22 remaining.

2-7 triple draw: won a big pot with a 9 low. currently 11th with 21 remaining. having position is key

limit Omaha 8: only won 1/4 of the pot with the low. remember if you are going for only the low, you can lose money if you chop the low

stud: lost a big pot bluffing

stud: won a big pot with kings

stud: lost a big pot with kings. unlucky. now 17th out of 18 remaining.

stud8: lucky to survive with a pair of queens

NLHE: shoved all in a few times and was not called to pick up the blinds and chip up

Pot Limit Omaha: doubled up with KK

Pot Limit Omaha: folded JJ after I raised preflop and after a good player put me all in

2-7 Triple Draw: went all in and was unable to improve to a low. got knocked out in 12th place. first cash for a few days, so i'm happy. did not play too badly.

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Tournament #19 - 9.43am start - 20/2/19 NZT

$4.40 PL Badugi $300 GTD

tournament highlights:
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folded a Q low badugi to the initial raiser who also stood pat on the first draw.

lost a big pot with a K low badugi. gotta try and get lower badugis 8 or lower

won my first pot with a 8 low badugi

won a massive pot with a 6 low badugi vs a 8 low badugi

let a 3 card 8 low go after an aggressive opponent 3bet me before the 1st betting round. happy to survive for another day.

been leaking a few chips lately with trying to get a low badugi.

won my lost chips back with a 7 low badugi. maybe i should of checked to trap to try and get more chips

won a massive pot with a Q low badugi. currently 14th with 38 remaining. late reg still open

been leaking a few chips lately with trying to get a low badugi.

lost a big hand with a Q low badugi when my opponent stood pat before hand. i should of not bet out

won a massive pot with a King high badugi

won the minimum with a 8 low badugi. probably should of just called to trap against LAG who drew 2 cards

got lucky and won a huge pot with a King low badugi

lost a massive pot with a 10 low badugi. should of folded after i was raised vs a better badugi

doubled up with a A24 3 card low

went all in with a A25 3 card low and my opponent folded. got some chips back. currently 20th out of 25 remaining. we are approaching the bubble.

bluffed all in with nothing but a pair. talked my opponent into folding.

chipping up nicely on the bubble. picked up a made badugi and raised and everyone folded.

we are now in the money. i'm 14th out of 15 remaining.

doubled up with a 238 3 card low. i'm now 12th out of 15 remaining.

won a massive pot with a 7 low. now 7th with 13 remaining.

moved all in with a high badugi. unlucky to lose against a lower one on the final draw. out in 10th place, the 4th tournament in a row i've done well in and 2nd cash in a row.

Tournament #20 - 2.43pm start - 20/2/19 NZT

$7.50 Stud 8 $200 GTD

tournament highlights:
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won my first pot with a pair of eights, knocking out someone else

won 2 pots where i had the low locked up but, but was luckily enough to scoop the whole pot when my opponents folded on 7th street! currently 4th with 17 remaining.

late reg still open

lost a big pot with 2 pair, where i should of folded after sensing trips

lost another big pot with 2 pair vs a higher two pair

went out with 2 pair. rebuyed

chopped 2 pots. 12th with 19 remaining. late reg still open

lost a small pot when i sensed my opponent had a stronger hand, which he did

lost a big pot with aces vs trips

won a massive pot with trips. back in the game. i'm 13th out of 19 remaining.

haven't been playing that well so far. need to tighten up on my reads and act on them! ie. maybe fold when your opponent bets without hesitation

won a big pot with 2 pair. now im 7th with 20 remaining. late reg still open

unlucky to chop a pot where my opponent hit a better 2 pair on 7th street. i had the low locked up.

lost another big pot in a marginal situation. silly silly me. i will be better off for this. lessons learnt from today!

can i keep my streak going to get 3 cashes in a row today? let's see!

lost another massive pot again in a marginal situation! when will i ever learn?

got knocked out and rebuyed for the 3rd time total.

1st hand back and got knocked out again...buyed for 4th time total.

bluffed repping a 4 card low. currently 15th with 23 remaining. late reg still open.

won a small pot with 2 pair to stay alive.

went all in with the low draw x2 and caught it to stay alive. i'm 14th with 15 remaining.

went all in with another low draw and i missed. so just like that i am out. this is probably one of the worst performances i have ever had. will not play stud 8 for the next 6 months, until I am profitable in other games.

also i will NEVER rebuy back into any tournament! a true bankroll killer!

Updated schedule. "dont change anything that aint broke". I'm determined to make a profit in ALL of these games. 4/5 I am profitable in currently

#LetsDoThis

Starting up a Twitch streaming channel guys. Feel free to follow my journey to $100K.

https://www.twitch.tv/richierichnz1

https://www.twitch.tv/richierichnz

URL has changed.

I will be streaming daily, playing HORSE, 8 game, badugi and 5 card draw for anyone wanting to learn how to play the mixed games

#LetsDoThis

GL with yr stream and yr quest

Cheers buddy. 30 minutes until live stream starts

Tournament #21 - 6.13am start - 23/2/19 NZT

$7.50 8 Game $500 GTD

tournament highlights:
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stud - 1st rotation - won a small pot with a pair of Aces. 7 min

NLHE - 1st rotation - won a pot with 2 pair, after exercising pot control on the flop and betting on the turn to take it down - 19 min

2-7 Triple Draw - 24.00 min - 2nd rotation - took down a pot by semi bluffing with the 10 low after i discarded only 1 card and my opponents discard 2-3 cards

limit holdem: raise with A10 in SB. missed and bet on flop, opponent called. we will have the best hand alot of the time with low cards and a paired board. checked it

down and won with ace high 37 min

razz: 46 min - exercised pot control by checking it down with a marginal low, so if we lost the pot, we wouldn't lose too many chips

PLO missed flush draw 1 hr 4 min. tried to bluff, lost a few chips

2-7 Triple Draw: we double up with hitting a 8 low on the final draw 1 hr 10 min

knock out hand razz: went all in on 4th street with a 3 card low, did not hit it. so just like that im out 1 hr 30 min

Feel free to watch the highlights on my Twitch Channel at https://www.twitch.tv/richierichnz/

Also feel free to join my PokerStars Home Games Club. Suggest to me what stakes / games you guys want to play and I will put them in the club!

Click the 'Join a Poker Club' button.
Enter my Club ID number: 2176551
Enter my Invitation Code: becomeapokerprotoday

That's it! Once I've approved your membership request, we'll be ready to start playing Home Games online together. If you want to find out more, visit

https://www.pokerstars.com/poker/home-games/

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Today i'm playing 8 game, Badugi, HORSE and 5 Card Draw.

Feel free to follow my progress..

https://www.twitch.tv/richierichnz/ <

No more poker tournaments for me today. I'm spent.

Will be playing NLHE 1c/2c cash games though on Stars.

I will record it in full and put the highlights on twitch!

Cheers

Guys I am going to take a backward step and play 60 hours a week of cash games at the 1c/2c NLHE stakes. Goal is to make $55 a week. That will be enough to enter the $55 Sunday Marathon to take my shot yet again at taking it down.

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I will be streaming online for 10 hours a day. So feel free to drop by when you have a chance https://www.twitch.tv/richierichnz

Daily highlights will be posted on twitch by 9.30pm NZT. I am guessing the highlights package will be 2 hours long, so buckle in and let's enjoy the ride together!

#LetsDoThis

Sorry guys for no streaming today. I slept in lol.

I will be playing 6 hours of cash games today though.

1 - 4pm and 5 - 8pm NZT on PokerStars.

I will be uploading the highlights for the first 2 sessions on twitch by 9.30pm NZT. They will also appear on my you tube, twitter and facebook accounts.

https://twitter.com/richierichnz1

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxMKE_AKCIbpHi5wEKuX3dg/featured?disable_polymer=1

Feel free to follow me online. https://www.twitch.tv/richierichnz/ <

I will be playing the Sunday Million in 10 hours time and I will be streaming it LIVE.

Edited highlights will be on twitch later in the day, depending when and if i get knocked out

If I have time, I will be playing 25c/50c NLHE cash games.

Feel free to follow me on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/richierichnz/

In the meantime, if you have the time, feel free to watch my 1 hour cash game vid. Made $93.06 in that hour at the 25c/50c limits.'

#LetsDoThis

online playing the Sunday Million now. feel free to follow

https://www.twitch.tv/richierichnz/ <

** New goals as of 26th February 2019 **

I crunched the numbers. Won't be playing the Sunday Million again until I have a $2,500 account balance at the end of July 2019. Also, I won't play cash games until I get a $5,000 account balance. Then I will play 25c/50c NLHE cashies.

I will be sticking to stud, the draw games and HORSE / 8 Game for the time being.

Yes I lost $170 today in poker. Silly silly silly me. That's why I wrote up a plan to fix these issues.

Will be playing 8 Game, Horse, Badugi, 2-7 Single Draw and Stud at the $4.40 or under limits each day. This will take place between 8.43am and 10.43am NZT. I will be streaming live on twitch.

Made the final table of the Badugi today and got 3rd. So i'm proud of that.

This is my goals and current state of play. I decided to start my accounting from scratch again.

Your feedback on the below links is greatly appreciated!

Good luck at the tables!

#LetsDoThis

Hi everyone, I will be posting the highlights of the 5 hours spent at the tables yesterday on twitch. It should only be an hour long if you want to look. I'd recommend looking at it especially if you are interested in getting better at NL 2-7 Single Draw and PL Badugi. I cashed in both yesterday.

The 1 hour highlights package should be up on my twitch page in the next 21 hours.

Just a reminder, this is my twitch page URL: https://www.twitch.tv/richierichnz/

#LetsDoThis

hey guys, long time no chat. I decided to take a step back from poker for a week and look at myself hard in the mirror. to become a pro, i have to be more disciplined.

going to start streaming again in a few days time on twitch.

#LetsDoThis