Mess with the bull and you get the horns ! NL10 winner... one day, soon !

Good luck, AgapieGheorghe! Nice picture! ♠_drink:

Hello George,

Wishing you all the best for success in your new challenge.
Looking forward to future updates. Subbed.

Regards

Matt

kidzoltan* Thank you man

metalmonkey80* Thank you, i will try to post updates every few days.

1-3 Days

I was very motivated in the first day but things didn´t go my way. I played 1500 hands and lost 2 BI.
Second day i was to tired to play any hand.
And today. Today I had a great day + 4 Bi in 581 hands.

I think I can climb faster if I manage to stay away from the zoom tables, but this was always my problem

Bankroll start : 30 euro
Bankroll update : 34.49 Euro

Good look Gheorghe.I will watch with interest this challenge

Originally posted by oviovi86
Good look Gheorghe.I will watch with interest this challenge

Thank you

I decided to join again Get Rich or Die Tryin' - The Bankroll Challenge I have nothing to lose

Update : Day 4-5

Nothing special happend yesterday, played almost 850 hands and got 3,69 E
Day 5 tho... I´ve started really bad my grind and lost 2Bi in less than 100 hands then I started to focus more and get back on the right track.

Almost when i wanted to finish my day two fishes goes all-in, both with trash hands...after that hand they both started to argue about who is better and they started a big fight playing almost every pot, raise every hand and go all in 50% of the time.
This fight lasted for 10 minutes...after 10 min I had like 12 Euro on this table and both fishes just run away with no money left

Bankroll start : 30 euro
Bankroll update : 52.40 Euro

Graph for the whole challenge :

Good luck on your grind.

I think I can climb faster if I manage to stay away from the zoom tables, but this was always my problem

Do you find it is better staying away from zoom? I think I would get too impatient unless playing more tables. But then I would be playing too many tables probably. Currently run 2 zoom tables.

Catonthemat I played a lot of zoom in the past on 4 tables and sometimes I added some normal tables on top of that.
I know that feeling when you sit on 4-6 normal tables and you get impatient and your first instinct is to open another zoom table

And yes I think that if I play only normal tables I will build my bankroll much faster and this is my goal with this challenge.

You can see here that you can have a good winrate at zoom also, but on the long run I always have some crazy swings and my bb/100 on zoom is always much lower than normal tables.

Cheers. Might look at playing some normals and see how it goes.

Best of luck.

Update : Day 6-8

Hello guys. The first week is over. I think I could have done much better but I was lazzy and I only played and haven't studied nothing all week long.

My biggest mistake I think it was the fact that I try to win hands vs the people who grind here for a long time on this limit.
Not everybody is bad at this limit !
My second mistake is that I dont fold enough vs fishes when is obvious I am behind.
The fish can get good hands also !

I played 8805 Hands : Profit 33.31 Euro

Bankroll start : 30 euro
Bankroll update : 65.10 Euro (my Tracker lost some hands I think. Pokerstars show 0.21Euro less than PT4 )

I used the first 100 CoinStars to buy 1 Euro tournament ticket and I played 1 Spin&Go ( I added the profit in my Bankroll update 2 Euro )

Graph for the whole challenge :

Good luck all !

Running hot !!!

Update : Day 9-10

Hello guys. Today I was reading Aleen86 blog Hit or Quit - Croatian BlogBuster and reading the last update and the IvicaIliev77 post I realized that i´m not even a fish compared with that kind of thinking he has and the atitude for the game.
10 days has passed since i started the challenge and I did 0 study ... Anyway I think now when i´m close to reach a Br for Nl5 I have to start to study the game, I dont think NL5 will be so soft like Nl2.

In the last 2 days I had a nice run: + 4BI yesterday and + 5Bi today. I´m geting close to 100 Euro, my target to start NL5, let´s hope the upswing will continue.

Bankroll start : 30 euro
Bankroll update : 83.78 Euro

Graph updated :

Good luck all !

Got home early from work today and decided to make a plan, what to study and i got this short list :

:club:HUD
Profiling Opponents

:spade:Basic stuff : Combinations, Probability, Equity, Expected Value, Fold Equity, Odds, Outs

Open raise ranges
:club:3bet ranges
:club:ColdCall ranges
:club:4bet ranges

:diamond:Iso raise
:diamond:Squeeze play
:diamond:Blinds battle

PostFlop play

I will post here every time when I finish something from this list. I will add more stuff if I feel I need them or if I forgot something important.

Update : Day 11

Another great day for me. When I started this challenge I didnt expected to run so good but I really think that things are going great just because I manged to stay away from Zoom tables.

Graph for today :

Bankroll start : 30 euro
Bankroll update : 95.39 Euro

If i get over 100 Euro I will start to add some NL5 tables soon. But I need to make good table selection to avoid the sharks

Good luck all !

nice picture with Learn how to play poker!
Making the plan to learn is easy - actually doing it, that is the challenge.
As you mentioned IvicaIliev77 , maybe you can do it as him - be accountable and post how you keep your promise to learn.
Because it takes motivation and strength to form a habit - once you are in a habbit, it works on its own.

Thank you Svenbe. I already started to study, I will post here some stuff about what I study and how it goes.

My first step when I started to study was to categorize my opponents into distinct player types based on their playing style.
I used this article for help and some others sources.

Good players :

NIT

Respect their preflop raise
Respect postflop aggression
Play implied odds hands Pocket pairs and suited conectors
Trap and slow play them
Exploit their tendency to play too tight
Steal their blind
Cbet a high percentage of the time
TAG

Avoid Tag in general
Dont overplay dominated hands
Respect Cbet
Minimize playing out of position
Steal their blinds
Play implied odds hands

LAG

Avoid lag!
Very dificult to play against
Widen your preflop 3bet range
Widen your pre flop cold call range
Dont respect cbet
Exploit their tendecies for bluffing by traping

Bad players :

Loose pasive

Respect agresion !
Play as many hands as you can
Isolate preflop to get heads up against the fish
Widen your pre flop range
Cbet a high percentage

Calling station

Dont bluff !!!
Similar strategy as loose pasive fish.
Maniac

Widen your preflop 3bet range
Widen your pre flop cold call range
Dont fold vs Cbet if u have anything semi-decent
Let them hang themselves - Slow play monster hands
Be willing to go all in with a decent hand

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I made a color coding system based on the player types:

And made a simple HUD for cash. I play on my notebook so I cant put to many stats because when i play more than 4 tables things get messy.
If i need some other stats i will look for them in my pop-up.

Hi guys. I think I am done grinding NL2 already. After 13 days of playing got a decent Bankroll for NL5, I will play Nl2 just in case I dont find good tables on the new limit.

I played 18.173 Hands and won 40 BI. My winrate 21.86bb/100.

I´ve coulda done a lot better but sometimes I open way to many tables and go on auto-pilot. I will try not to make the same mistake playing on NL5.

I also have to stay way from Zoom tables, I lost a couple of buy-ins on NL2 playing Zoom.

Good luck everyone !

You seem to be crushing it. Good luck at NL5, will keep following

Nice blog dude and impressive results! Keep on crushing:f_thumbsup: