The 10k challenge with 3nduranc3 [9-max ante on…

3nduranc3 · 2022-03-26T20:26:17Z

Hi there! Pokerstrategy was the first forum I ever registered to, but since that more then 14 years passed. I am a hungarian player, streaming in english, living in Germany. Also meaning, I am happy to answer all question on these 3 languages. I had long years with and without poker, also tried to stream once, but things did not work out as expected that time. I have moved to Germany, and became a father meanwhile, these can easily redifine your life, I am sure you all can imagine. I started to get deep into GTO, and this completely changed my play. I play off stream NL50+, but the challenge is a great tool of learning for me, I am explaining all hands I can. I am streaming the challenge here, and you can review all previous sessions so far: Twitch - 3nduranc3 NL2 Progression 31%: Last update: 02.04.2022 If you are interested how I ended up starting this, read below: My way to redefine Poker for myself. First of all, this challenge is a journey for me, and also the framework of my newly defined Poker Framework. I did originally play pretty much mindless grinding on various limits for a long time, and altough I did make some money, I was never ever deeply satisfied with my knowledge, why and what I was doing. Leaderboard grinds, constant stress about need for winning, tilting, etc. I have a friend, with whom we always share our experiences in poker, and we do talk about it a lot, and watch streams together. And in one the streams of Ceegee87 we were running for some giveaway for 1 hour coaching. My friend won it, but eventually gave it to me, since his PC was rather weak and couldn't record and comment his play properly. This was an awsome gift, I am forever grateful. I really look up to Ceegee and think he is a really good expert in poker theory, and I really learned a lot from him. I did basically prepare 1 week for our session, recorded a play on 4 tables of rush NL50, and we dived into it really, it was at the end rather 2 hours. Also gave me a lot of advice of stream heads-up, which inspired me a lot and helped me get some thing about poker in their place. So I decided I will study al lot more, and I will also start streaming. I have seen a lot of challenges being streamed, but I never ever thought that people were really beating the limits, just having good runs. I think its non-sense to say you are doing a 1k to 50k challange, win 2 bad beat jackpots and you say youre done. Its like winning a tournament and then you say you completed a cash game challenge. My vision was always, that someone should be able to beat the limits with real winnings, meaning only counting net EV profit, since that is the real deal, when you can say, you truely a winner on the given stakes. So all in all, I came up with an idea, that I start this challenge, take back the number of tables, and will use the time always to become a better streamer/content creator + will really explain what I am doing at the tables, so I am always having a learning process. Off stream I still play my higher limits, where I already enjoy every minute that I learned so far during and off the stream. I don’t really care if my challenges takes 2 years to get to NL200 or so. If I am able to do it, I can say finally that I am beating these limits. And the most important thing is that I can say this to myself. I am listening to many different books nowadays, and had a lot of thought about what poker means to me. Poker and me. I was never a quitter type, and if I do love something, I will not be able to quit it before I reached a level in it with what I am happy with. And this goes for poker big time. I have never ever played Poker just for fun online, I always wanted to make some money from it. I did not have high expectations from it, like turning pro etc., but still some nice reward for the work I put in it. Altough I was totally looking on the wrong side of it. I thought if you play many many hands these rewards would come. But it’s not like that, this is only true if you already mastered the skills, than you can up the amount of tables etc. I do tend to do stuff backwards, but not likely to run away from them if I can’t complete it. I’m not a professional poker player and hardly can think that I would ever be one. I have a very steady and good job in the field of IT and this helps me solve a lot of problems, especially fear concerning losing money. However, I almost experienced all other forms of tilt, like despair, frustration, disappointment, entitlement etc. These are always there, just because I put a lot of time into poker and then you get nothing in reward, if you lose or are break even. Combine this with variance and running bad, and you are one emotional wreck in no time. So I decided to play only 2 tables until I can feel the limit lets more (Sti rictly watching showdown winnings and GTO %), I already read 2 books, and I have a list of another 10 to come up. I started a healthy diet, organized my days, so I can also be with my wife and...

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Originally posted by VorpalF2F
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Do you mean the PokerStrategy.com discord group?

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