The Pursuit of Happyness

Hi All,

another weekly report is here:

Week: 13
Format: NL5 SH
Hands played: 3174
Profit: -$15.78

Overall statistics:
Hands played: 50042
Profit: $69.1
BR: $109.76

Another bad week. Lost all the profits in NL5. At least I made some serious progress in the study and improved my HUD. Regarding my play, it was quite bad. I had one good session followed by several bad ones. Made a ton of mistakes.
What is good, that my hand review process is much better (regards to the hand review forum and guys there doing the hard work). I understand concepts I was not understanding before. Hopefully, it will turn soon into some profit.
My BR is now still on the level where I can continue with my NL5 shot, but as soon as it will drop to 80$ I am going back to NL2.
I will need you guys then to pick up my ego

Have a great week!

Originally posted by Pokrovec
Hi All,

another weekly report is here:

Week: 13
Format: NL5 SH
Hands played: 3174
Profit: -$15.78

Overall statistics:
Hands played: 50042
Profit: $69.1
BR: $109.76

Another bad week. Lost all the profits in NL5. At least I made some serious progress in the study and improved my HUD. Regarding my play, it was quite bad. I had one good session followed by several bad ones. Made a ton of mistakes.
What is good, that my hand review process is much better (regards to the hand review forum and guys there doing the hard work). I understand concepts I was not understanding before. Hopefully, it will turn soon into some profit.
My BR is now still on the level where I can continue with my NL5 shot, but as soon as it will drop to 80$ I am going back to NL2.
I will need you guys then to pick up my ego

Have a great week!

Dude my bankroll was $450 before I played 5NL. To be fair, I played a ton of 2NL and lots of SNG to get it that way before taking shots at 5NL. This was all from the free $50 I got from PS about 10 or 11 years ago. I have always preferred to be over rolled than under. It helps with my tilt issues. But I've been staked where we would play with 25 buy ins per level. Sometimes less. The worst was playing 25NL with a $350.

Originally posted by jiffybag

Dude my bankroll was $450 before I played 5NL. To be fair, I played a ton of 2NL and lots of SNG to get it that way before taking shots at 5NL. This was all from the free $50 I got from PS about 10 or 11 years ago. I have always preferred to be over rolled than under. It helps with my tilt issues. But I've been staked where we would play with 25 buy ins per level. Sometimes less. The worst was playing 25NL with a $350.

I think you are right with the BR management. Losing 5 stacks is not a big deal when you have 100 in your BR, but it can be very hard to digest when you have only 25...
I will reconsider my approach. Thank you for your interest.

Hi All,

another weekly report is here:

Week: 14
Format: NL5 SH
Hands played: 1385
Profit: $12.10

Overall statistics:
Hands played: 51427
Profit: $81.26
BR: $121.86

Spent my poker time studying. I am thinking about going back to NL2 to feel more comfortable while preparing my own game plan. The more I am reading articles and discussing the game, the more I understand that poker should be played as a marathon. So it makes no sense to rush the start and then find yourself exhausted after a couple of miles...

Good luck at the tables and have fun playing!

Originally posted by Pokrovec
Spent my poker time studying. I am thinking about going back to NL2 to feel more comfortable while preparing my own game plan. The more I am reading articles and discussing the game, the more I understand that poker should be played as a marathon. So it makes no sense to rush the start and then find yourself exhausted after a couple of miles...

Good luck at the tables and have fun playing!

When you play, do you play several tables at once?
If so, maybe cut back on the number of tables, rather than dropping stakes.
If you do drop to NL 2, maybe allow yourself to play a hundred hands a day of NL 5 with the purpose of detecting differences in the playing culture at the different levels.

Although NL2 might be comfortable, it returns only 40% of the profit of NL5 -- assuming the same winrate.

A good idea could be to start playing a few hands on NL2 first before you open up some NL5 tables. It can help you to focus on the basics and get some confidence.

Regarding your bankroll management: As long as you have clear limits of when to switch from NL2 to NL5 and vica versa I don't see any problems in having a tight BRM. You just need to stick to them. If you don't stick to your plan, then the problems and mental game might kick in, so that's what you need to be careful with.

edit: I've recently switched from 4tabling full ring games to 2tabling SH games. (I'm talking about zoom though). I really feel it helps a lot to reconsider how many tables you've opened. kicking back a few might have a positive effect on how you deal with each hand.
My advice: try to play a session with 4 tables, one with 5, one with 6... compare your feeling, your result and look for the sweet spot.

Originally posted by Pokrovec

Originally posted by jiffybag

Dude my bankroll was $450 before I played 5NL. To be fair, I played a ton of 2NL and lots of SNG to get it that way before taking shots at 5NL. This was all from the free $50 I got from PS about 10 or 11 years ago. I have always preferred to be over rolled than under. It helps with my tilt issues. But I've been staked where we would play with 25 buy ins per level. Sometimes less. The worst was playing 25NL with a $350.

I think you are right with the BR management. Losing 5 stacks is not a big deal when you have 100 in your BR, but it can be very hard to digest when you have only 25...
I will reconsider my approach. Thank you for your interest.

If you feel confident you can always give a higher stake a shot.

I had the same with nl5 > nl10, I tried it with confident and I am holding my pants up
With the knowledge I know about you, don't worry to much mate

Thanks for all the positive vibes and advices!

Originally posted by VorpalF2F
When you play, do you play several tables at once?
If so, maybe cut back on the number of tables, rather than dropping stakes.
If you do drop to NL 2, maybe allow yourself to play a hundred hands a day of NL 5 with the purpose of detecting differences in the playing culture at the different levels.

Although NL2 might be comfortable, it returns only 40% of the profit of NL5 -- assuming the same winrate.

Yes, I am playing several tables but mostly only 2-3. I like the idea to play 100 hands on a higher limit to get a feeling about the difference between limits!

Originally posted by KoningAlbert
A good idea could be to start playing a few hands on NL2 first before you open up some NL5 tables. It can help you to focus on the basics and get some confidence.

Regarding your bankroll management: As long as you have clear limits of when to switch from NL2 to NL5 and vica versa I don't see any problems in having a tight BRM. You just need to stick to them. If you don't stick to your plan, then the problems and mental game might kick in, so that's what you need to be careful with.

edit: I've recently switched from 4tabling full ring games to 2tabling SH games. (I'm talking about zoom though). I really feel it helps a lot to reconsider how many tables you've opened. kicking back a few might have a positive effect on how you deal with each hand.
My advice: try to play a session with 4 tables, one with 5, one with 6... compare your feeling, your result and look for the sweet spot.

Also a great idea for a nice warm up!
Regarding my BRM I am quite strict about it so if i will ever bust my BR it will be on NL2 ♦

Originally posted by Zaratras

Originally posted by Pokrovec

Originally posted by jiffybag

Dude my bankroll was $450 before I played 5NL. To be fair, I played a ton of 2NL and lots of SNG to get it that way before taking shots at 5NL. This was all from the free $50 I got from PS about 10 or 11 years ago. I have always preferred to be over rolled than under. It helps with my tilt issues. But I've been staked where we would play with 25 buy ins per level. Sometimes less. The worst was playing 25NL with a $350.

I think you are right with the BR management. Losing 5 stacks is not a big deal when you have 100 in your BR, but it can be very hard to digest when you have only 25...
I will reconsider my approach. Thank you for your interest.

If you feel confident you can always give a higher stake a shot.

I had the same with nl5 > nl10, I tried it with confident and I am holding my pants up
With the knowledge I know about you, don't worry to much mate

Thx mate, with all this support I will bounce back in no time.
Have fun playing!

Hi All,

last week i did no played as I did not had a lot of time for poker, so I decided to use it for studying. There is not much I can say about it, only maybe that I am trying to come up with a "simple game plan" that I will stick to.
I am almost done with some stuff, so I think I will start slowly with practice this week. Of course I will start at NL2 to finish my whole game plan on that stake and fully practice it before moving to higher limits.

Have a great week!

I'm alsoo trying to stick to my plan more, sometimes easier said than done.

Good luck at the tables though!

Hi All,

I am back for the third time
Playing NL2 SH to take another shot at my challenge:

Starting BR: $50,87
Goal BR: $1000

I'll also join The Bankroll Challenge 2023 and will post here some progress.
See you at the tables

Hi All,

just finished the first 2k hands. Progress is great, I am mostly reading articles that I read before and playing around 300 hands on a daily basis.

As you can see I was blessed heavily by the goddess of variance

Hi All,

the tilt is killing my progress, Every session starts the same way where I am ahead a lot, and then one hand will come which will turn the world upside down and in a couple of hands, everything is gone.

Just needed to put it here I guess.
Good luck at the tables!

Originally posted by Pokrovec
Hi All,

the tilt is killing my progress, Every session starts the same way where I am ahead a lot, and then one hand will come which will turn the world upside down and in a couple of hands, everything is gone.

Just needed to put it here I guess.
Good luck at the tables!

Sorry for the late reply,
have you considered to not check your monetary results within the session, or even within the week?
As a pokerplayer your main objective is to make correct decisions. You can absolutely not enforce the outcome of every hand.
If you take 100 good decisions you can receive a bad beat in your 80/20 situations ... 40 times, so running way under EV. But on 10.000 such situations probability makes it super unlikely to loose 4.000 of those 80% chances.
The same goes for "when they just have it". You play against a range and naturally you will see the top of their range sometimes. You will try a bluff that works 90% of the time unless they rivered "the hand". And sometimes they do! Important to keep studying, reviewing - of course adequate to your goals.

Pursue your happiness! If wanting and needing to win money in Poker influences your happiness, there may be the need to reevaluate if you should set yourself financial goals at all right now.

Originally posted by Pokrovec
Hi All,

the tilt is killing my progress, Every session starts the same way where I am ahead a lot, and then one hand will come which will turn the world upside down and in a couple of hands, everything is gone.

Just needed to put it here I guess.
Good luck at the tables!

Hi Pokrovec,

I can tell you only what works for me....I use to tilt a lot a couple of years back, I still do but not that much...( we all do but it's part of becoming better ) I usually take some days off from playing (1-2 days ), but in the meantime I do review the games I play and most of the time I get to realize that I tilt because of the mistakes I made. So I try to study more and more and I managed to close the gap in the number of mistakes I used to make and how many I make now.

I see you play cash games, so in your situation when u feel that you tilt you can simply close the tables and take a break. Sometimes you need to realize that bad beats are part of this game, and if we like to admit or not we are also on the "good side" of a bad beat more often then we like to admit it.

The only major thing that you can do is to realize that we all tilt, ( even those who say they don't ), studying your game in order to minimize your mistakes will improve your chances to tilt less in the future, just because you will realize that you made the correct decision.

Take care and good luck ♠_thumbsup: