My journey as hard working poker player and how it's changed my life as a mentally disabled person

Hi craigcu,
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If you're going to be playing regularly, be sure to check out the Bankroll challenge!
All the details are in this post: https://forums.pokerstrategy.com/forum/thread.php?postid=3255945#post3255945

Best of luck :gl:,
VS

This year is my first year of grinding full time and as a full time grinder let's see how good a grinder I really am

Starting bankroll 3.7K
goal 18K

Most of my volume is on stars, gg and 888. Any think I win from Ipoker or live poker does not count and I keep those bankrolls separate since I rarely play live poker and would like to keep myself a safe poker bankroll incase the worse were to happen and I lost all of this

I'm gonna try hard to get as much volume in as can and aim to play 5 days per week, I need to get atleast 300 MTTs played per month.
I know U can do this for sure just need to play the right MTTS

Originally posted by craigcu
I'm gonna try hard to get as much volume in as can and aim to play 5 days per week, I need to get at least 300 MTTs played per month.
I know U can do this for sure just need to play the right MTTS

Yikes! That's 10 a day!
How many will you play at once.
I can effectively 3-Table, but that's it, so I admire anyone that can handle more than that.

Originally posted by VorpalF2F

Originally posted by craigcu
I'm gonna try hard to get as much volume in as can and aim to play 5 days per week, I need to get at least 300 MTTs played per month.
I know U can do this for sure just need to play the right MTTS

Yikes! That's 10 a day!
How many will you play at once.
I can effectively 3-Table, but that's it, so I admire anyone that can handle more than that.

Anyone that can play more than 6 tables profitably is good imo, I used to be comfortable with 6 tables years ago but now its 3-4 for me. GL with your challenge.

I usually play an average of 6 tables at once, yesterday I managed to play MTTs in total
Once I move back up to low stakes things will get tougher but for now I should have no issue with lots of tables because I'm playing micro stakes whilst I work on the late stages of my game.

Yesterday's grind kinda summerised my overall performance and biggest leaks clearly. I was crushing the tournaments left right and centre for the majority of it but I showed high emotion in one bubble spot and also when on the final two tables of this other MTT. I was crushing the $3 daily marathon on GG and it looked highly likely as though I was gonna make the final table of it but then came a really aggressive villian and the stack sizes were less than 30bb. The issue I have with these spots is that your preflop game is fairly passive as you flat or shove in chip EV, however in ICM it's a totally different game play because their is very little flatting at all and if it does flat it's an extremely narrow range. One of my main forms of study over the next few weeks is to get a decent understanding of CO, BTN and SB responses vs RFI in ICM and start running some sims with the ICM 3bet range.

My first day of the bankroll challenge was a small winning one but part of me believes it could have been better but with this study I should make those great runs become tournament takedowns in no time for sure, I made $18 in profit for that day so you could say it was close to breakeven. All it's gonna take is for me to sort out my 30bb play in the late stages of a tournament and boom I should be crushing MTTS

Originally posted by craigcu
I usually play an average of 6 tables at once, yesterday I managed to play MTTs in total

Impressive. Ten years ago, I would play 8-tables of micro SNGs, but that was pretty much auto-pilot, and I had a script to bring tables in focus to the top of the stack.
Just a few seconds to look at the hole cards, then raise or fold. Rarely flat-called. In those days it worked.

It is not possible to mass-multi-table Stud or Razz — either cash or tournament, since you need to be aware of everyone's up-card, and they're only visible for a short time. Similar for other non-hold'em games.

Best of luck :gl:,
VS

Day 2 of the bankroll challenge was looking sickening but then came a royal flush, my first royal flush on stream. Was that the signs things were changing it certainly seemed that was as I went from looking to be over $100 down into finishing the day $49 up, I also binked a free ticket into the $11 storm plus a $5 tournament ticket.

My bankroll is now 3.7K.
Note just realized I incorrectly put 3.7K in original message rather than 3.6K but I am happy to start it at 3.7K rather than 3.6K, my goal is still the same to reach 18K

My first Sunday since starting bankroll challenge has proved nice, I made a decent profit of $211 plus $9.80 in rake, I can't deny I did make a really stupid blunder really deeply in the $100 grand MTT ($15 buy in) which may have cost me a number of extra pay jumps but still it was a great day overall and my bankroll itself is continously building nicely

My bankroll has now broke the $4K and given how things are going it shouldn't take long for it to break the 5K

I can't deny I did make a really stupid blunder really deeply in the $100 grand MTT ($15 buy in) which may have cost me a number of extra pay jumps

I was 2nd in chips last night and then 2 hands later I was out, 7 hands from the money, I made mistakes in both the last hands, funny how it can change so quickly
GL at the tables

yeh true, unlucky.
when it comes to mistakes I doubt I X/RAI AK high or B/CAI J6 high on monotone boards and give up to aggressive people. I did this in two recent deep ones the Jr came on an 888 FT.
All it'll take is for me to sort out my 20bb-30BB non all in 3bet and post flop aggression.
This is certainly gonna be my number 1 and 2 goals over the course of the next month.
GL yourself at the tables

I've had a couple of days break to help get myself some sleep
day 5 of this bankroll challenge has been completed and boy was it a tough day, I was quite a disorganized state at the beginning having made last minute discovery that a micro millions marathon series had begun on stars, two internet disconnections in less than 10 minutes then caused a bit of panic because the second one was for a number of minutes and I questioned if I'd be able to get back on in time to unregister all the MTTs I'd registered. Thankfully I had no more issues with disconnection so I did a session.
The session itself was a very tough one and I feel their was too many tables going in too many different formats which made concentration an absolute nightmare. The issue with playing so many tables was that I had a mixture of PKOs and non PKOS in various different gaming formats as a result it was so tough trying to keep up with all the different tables. Had they been mostly the same type of MTT and poker game then I'd have no issue with playing 7-9 tables but when you have different tournament formats, different poker games and different table sizes then it's really tough to keep up to speed with things.

I lost $37 in total today but still I am $163.30 up from what I was when my bankroll challenge begun.

Apologies for late reply.
The 2nd week of my bankroll challenge was a mixed result, on Friday I had some great results including a deep run in $11 big where I came 7th out of 900 and won $200. On Sunday I had a great run in $5.50 where I came 6th of 2265 and won $423, I also came 4th in a $16.50 short field MTT on 888. Unfortunately Both Saturday and Monday's sessions went quite badly and part of me believes I was acting too smart on both of these days where I was just clicking buttons to try and pull smart moves or get cheeky with weak opponents. Thankfully I saved what could have been a very costly loss on Monday by coming 5th in $3.30 hot hyper to reduce what looked to be a day where I'd lose over $200.

The poker on Saturday and Monday might have been poor but even so my bankroll itself has still grown nicely. It currently stands at $4151 in total across GG stars and 888.

My poker bankroll is not the only thing growing well. My poker stream is growing bigger each week, I have now got 600 followers and I got a massive shock on monday when I got a raid by non other than Pokerstars. I might have been streaming for a few years but It's only recently that I have really started to stream on a regular basis, What I've liked best about streaming poker is that I am taking about my actions on a regular basis and put far more thought into each and every decision.

Nice results, did you post your channel link?

Hi craigcu,
Welcome to PokerStrategy.com

Nice results you have, good luck in your challenge. List your channel in this thread or you can add them on your signature, so people can follow your streams

Originally posted by craigcu
I do also have a poker stream on twitch and tend to stream most of my poker grinds

Have a nice day.

I tried to do that but it won't allow me to post external links due to my current user status, I'll have to ask support sometime.

My twitch name is also craigcu

I've had another decent grind today and made a decent run in $25 GG masters classic, I was crushing the table most the way but then might have made a few screw-ups at the end which might have cost my the chance to take it down. Even so a 6th place finish in the GG masters classic is an excellent result and binked me a decent prize but one thing I should mention is I've only got 50% of the cash prize myself because I do sell 50% of that MTT for zero mark-up purely so that I can play these bigger buy-ins more often for a reduced price.

My bankroll itself is certainly growing nicely, I have made almost $800 in cash since starting this bankroll challenge whilst my month as a whole is 1.5K up.

The bankroll itself is now standing at 4.5K and at this rate should continue to grow quickly

with scoop starting shortly, I have opted to have this week off and just do study work.
My intention this month is to play every holdem vanilla scoop event costing up to $33 and every holdem PKO scoop event costing up to $11 because I do feel stronger in vanilla MTTs than PKO MTTs.

I will be back on the grind again next Monday.

Let's all prey the poker gods are nice to me and I see a trophy by the end.

I do feel stronger in vanilla MTTs than scoop MTTs

What's the difference? The fields are bigger with more players taking shots? Or is it just because its scoop and only happens once a year as compared to a regular mtt that runs everyday or week and you are putting extra pressure on yourself?

Let's all prey the poker gods are nice to me

No prayers, just hard work. Leave the praying to your opponents.

apologies, I was meant to say I feel stronger in vanilla mTTs than PKO MTT. I understand PKOS are softer but I'm poor at hunting bounties therefore I'm only really playing for 50% of prize pool.

Now that I've took down a sky poker tour which is a UK event, My next aim is to take down a scoop or wcoop event because my sky poker tour trophy is feeling all lonely and I do believe it will come.