The Sky's No Limit - Beginners 6-Max NL Blog and BR Challenge

1st nights short session to get back into the swing of things.
Good points: Tagged/Colour coded players well.
Mistakes/Improvements: A few mistakes preflop and with my beginners postflop standard lines. Need work on 3-Bet pot situations.

Week 1: 12/09/22-18-09/22
Hands: 285
Profit/Loss +$2.58
Current Bankroll: $163.29

Hi Rosscoe,

thank you for the signup to our BR challenge. Indeed, so many years without a post - let's see if those posts now mean a boost to your poker carreer!
I've been to Bristol a couple of years ago, despite all the rain it was very nice and green. In particular I loved the river side bars!

For going from NL2 to NL25 in such a short span, I'd consider this a bit of a very tough challenge...

Hi SvenBe and thanks for the reply.

I've enjoyed some good times in the bars on Bristol harbourside too, a lovely setting for a beer while watching the world go by.

On my main goal, I agree that NL25 might be pushing it, but I wanted to make it a bit of a challenge. Regardless of any money/limit reached, as long as I can look back in 4 months time and see that I have made progress in my understanding/ability and so on I'll be happy.

Cheers, Rosscoe.

Goals for October

To play 3,000+ hands by 1st November.

To study, take notes and implement strategies of:

Books:
Chapters 1 to 4 of The Grinder's Manual by Peter Clarke
Chapters 1 to 4 of How To Study Poker by Sky Matsuhashi

Videos:
Le Tour de Stakes - Prologue and Stage One (NL2-5) by LemOn36
The Evolution of a Micro Grinder - NL5 (1) by LemOn36
Vonki Goes Bankroll Challenge - NL2 by Vonki

Current Bankroll Management Rules:
Move up with 25 buy-ins for next limit.
Move down with 20 or less buy-ins for current limit.

Not much play over the last week or so due to a break away and work, but looking to be a lot more proactive this month.

Week 2/3: 19/09/22-01/10/22
Hands: 258
Profit/Loss +$0.87
Current Bankroll: $164.16

Cheers and good luck at the tables and life.

Howdy, nice video list!
Happy to announce that we also got something up to date for you: grinding to profit on NL10
https://www.pokerstrategy.com/video/53108/

Week 4: 02/10/22-09/10/22
Hands: 642
Profit/Loss +$12.59
Current Bankroll: $176.75

Improvements: Much better discipline vs turn/river raises.
Things to work on: Taking notes on hands that reached SD. Getting in more volume.

Goals Completed:

Studied, noted and implemented the action steps from Chapter 1 of How To Study Poker
Studied and noted Chapter 1 of The Grinder's Manual by Peter Clarke, implemented UTG, MP and CO strategies. BU and SB still to be worked on in game.

Watched and noted Le Tour de Stakes - Prologue and Stage One (NL2-5) by LemOn36
Watched and noted The Evolution of a Micro Grinder - NL5 (1) by LemOn36, really looking forward to watching/studying the rest of this series and improving my thinking as a poker player.

Thanks for the video recommendation SvenBe, added it to my planned video list for when I'm playing NL5 comfortably and looking towards moving to NL10.

Cheers everybody, and good luck at the tables and life.

No worries - also there is already 2 other videos out there, focussing on exploits and overbets.

Nice, I'm following

Got a bid waylaid from my blog due to wrapping up stuff with work ready for finishing in 2 more days and some other family matters, but looking to put more updates in over the weeks to follow.

Hi FriskyArt, thanks for the follow and I look forward to catching up on and following your blog later in the week.

Review of goals for October

To play 3000+ hands by 1st November - Played 2,494

To study, take notes and implement strategies of:

Books:
Chapters 1 to 4 of The Grinder's Manual by Peter Clarke - Completed 75%
Chapters 1 to 4 of How To Study Poker by Sky Matsuhashi - Completed 50%

Videos: 66.6% Completed
Le Tour de Stakes - Prologue and Stage One (NL2-5) by LemOn36 - Completed
The Evolution of a Micro Grinder - NL5 (1) by LemOn36 - Completed
Vonki Goes Bankroll Challenge - NL2 by Vonki - Not Completed

Goals for November:

To play 10,000+ hands by 1st December.

To study, take notes and implement strategies of:

Books:

Chapters 4 to 6 of The Grinder's Manual - C-Betting, Value Betting, and Calling Opens.
Chapters 3 to 5 of How To Study Poker

Videos:
Vonki Goes Bankroll Challenge - NL2 by Vonki
Vonki Goes Bankroll Challenge - NL5 by Vonki

Bankroll Challenge Update
Week 8/9: 01/11/22-14/11/22
Hands: 3589
Profit/Loss: +$35.96
Current Bankroll: $230.13

Cheers everybody, and good luck at the tables and life.

I've got completely waylaid again, watching too much football and trying to sort out Christmas presents and stuff over the Black Friday period.
Aiming to do something poker related every day for the rest of the month.

Review of goals for November:

To play 10,000+ hands by 1st December - Played 3,845

To study, take notes and implement strategies of:

Books:

Chapters 4 to 6 of The Grinder's Manual - C-Betting, Value Betting, and Calling Opens - Completed 33%
Chapters 3 to 5 of How To Study Poker - Completed 0%

Videos:
Vonki Goes Bankroll Challenge - NL2 by Vonki - Completed
Vonki Goes Bankroll Challenge - NL5 by Vonki - Completed

Goals for December:

To play 10,000+ hands by 1st January.

To study, take notes and implement strategies of:

Books:

Chapters 5 to 7 of The Grinder's Manual - Value Betting, Calling Opens, and Facing Bets - End Of Action Spots.
Chapters 3 to 5 of How To Study Poker

Bankroll Challenge Update:
Week 10/11/12: 15/11/22-04/12/22
Hands: 256
Profit/Loss: -$0.28
Current Bankroll: $229.95

Cheers everybody, and good luck at the tables and life.