Small steps to succesful poker player(SnG mtt grinding)

Hi Mui2Byr - glad you finally decided to introduce yourself and start a blog.

Looks like you are going to be looking at lots of books, articles and videos. I would recommend not trying to learn too much too quickly. Focus on learning and improving just one area of your game for a couple of weeks. Then move on to the next thing. If you try to learn and work on too much all at once, you are less likely to really get solid in any one area.

Good luck with your goals!

Thanks for greetings Ramble I was registered here few years ago for free money,when I didnt knew that forums for poker is not only to just talk and now decided to be a part of that

I have one question for everyone.I tried to put photo in my first post,but it's only shows letter of url,how to do it properly?I tried straight from pc and also tried from web both doesnt worked?

Im looking now for session in early time of the day,didnt slept like always at weekends- till noon.Allready played 3 days this week and results are good,but about them on monday.Now I have about 3-4 hours for good poker.Hope traffic is good at this time.

Im waiting for your answers about uploading photos.Thank You!

I have fixed your graph sir:f_cool:
Further I wish you all the best with playing poker and your new blog

Cheers,
SDK1987

Thanks for wishes and moderate my graph SDK1987 !

So its always need moderators confirm to post a photo,or how it works?

Nope. You most likely forgot to filled up .jpg. Otherwise you don’t get a nice screenshot on the forum.
You did
I fixed it with

The easiest way to make a picture visible on the forum is to drag your screenshot file to your post and your screenshot will automatic uploaded here. Further you can always use the ‘preview’ button to check your picture worked well.

Cheers,
SDK1987

Thanks mate,appreciate that

Hello guys It's time for my first weekly update
Week was really good feeling little by little getting there.Still making lots of mistakes,but looking at them after sessions and learning so graph is:

and total stats of week:

Monday was bad day-first after 3 weeks on holidays,8 games 0$.
Tuesday very good day,I was concentrated from first to last hand and was total winnings nearly 30$
Wednesday few bad luck shoves/all-in calls but finished slightly in money
Saturday I had time in a morning,so had 3.5 hours session 11am-2.30pm uk time,traffic was not really good,few times have to wait 5-7 minutes for tourney,but still finished in money,

All in all was good week,I played 49 tournamnets and had 34$ in profit with 46% roi.
One thing to improve this week is playing time.Last week was only 11 hrs,because I had training on friday evening and two games both saturday and sunday.On this week looks I will have more time so I hope to do at least 15 hrs.

Looking forward for comments,
Thanks for reading

Hey fellow lithuanian!:)

You are playing the same format as I, so it will be nice to follow your blog
Gl with your poker goals and dont forget Lithuania

Hey Vainis,nice to see that people interested what Im doing

I saw U today on one table u push with 55 I was on D with 22 ready to push,but folded after yours shove,unlucky flop man! U saved my life P.S. I finished that one in 4th ♦

And of course I always thinking about Lithuania and poker is a long term plan to comeback home See U on tables

I saw u too From now marked as red :)) it was my first try in thys 1,5$. Played 0,25, then 0,5, 1 and know its time to own 1,5 ♦

Hello everyone,

This week Im running bad,have lost quit a lot.Today I stopped my session after one hour,because I feeling overloaded.It looks like Im doing too much at once.Today I printed some starting hand graphs(3 different ones) trying to check all of them while playing.Of course it become a very hard to do everything and my head just saying-its too much...I know its wrong to overload myself,but Im one of those people who trying to know everything and always know what Im doing.I want to know which cards to play in EP,BTN,BB against agg,against vpip >10,against everybody in any situation-but physically I think I cant learn that so quick.It's easy to decide how to play premium draws,but I want easier actions for other profitable hands or marginals.
So guys how U working on your starting hands(I know which ones ABC starting hands,but I want just bit more to have a bigger edge.Are U using any softwares,or just need to play play play to gain experience and everything gonna come in a reasonable time?And also who know a good odd calculations program in real time(like pot odds,equities and etc.) which give a free trial.I want at least drop few things for automatic actions
Thanks

Hi Mui2byr - I tried to warn you about learning too much too quickly!

I would recommend for starting hands - to keep it simple for now. In early stages just open something like 77+, AQ+ from EP and MP and fold everything else. Just concentrate on learning what to open from CO, BTN, and SB for now. Don't worry about anything else except learning these default opening ranges by heart. Take your time and learn one small part of the game really well, then move on to the next part. If you can learn 2-3 parts really well - you will be way ahead of the field.

As for real-time software - I think those would be against most poker-rooms terms and conditions and could get your account blocked. Be careful on that one.

Hello everyone,time for weekly update.Week was really bad.Played only 4:30 hrs and had big downswing.Was busy week outside poker,stressful days at work,trainings and other stuff,so playing time was very limited and when I was playing I havent done a good poker.So a graph for last week:

and stats:

Bad play,not beeing at tables 100% ready and this is a results of that!Hope this week Im gonna improve playing time and trying to play my A game.

Thanks for reading!

It is normal to face downswings and I hope u ll be doing great this week. Good luck mate!:)

Hello everyone.Last week ended almost the same like month,so straight away Im giving you monthly update,and small conclusion of what happened.last month I had full 3 weeks:
First week was really good everything was going well,but second and third was huge downswing(comparing with time I played).After every session I was checking what i did wrong where i did mistakes,but it lookss like I played like in first week,but I was loosing,so hopefully it was just bad luck of variance,but it was painful,so the graph ant stats of January:

Nothing to be happy for...Playing time is way behind of my minimum target,most important thing to improve,also I will need to drop down a limit because I dont have my minimum buyins number,so now Im gonna play 1$ BI,but dropping down will give me oppurtunity to mix it up between 45 and 180s so I would be able to check which one I love more.
All in all I hope next month gonna be better than this one,I will try to improve where I need to and of course even if I have bad run-Im will not give up and trying bit harder to reach what I want.
Thanks for reading and see U soon.

Hello everyone.Time for weekly update

This week was a lot of changes in my poker:I dropped limits from 1.5$ to 0.5$,also started to play 6 tables insted of 4 and also started to mix up 45mans with 180s.First of all my graphs and stats:

So,how you can see week again havent been good.There is a several reasons for that:
1.I started 6 tables instead of 4 ,so it takes time to get used,its a way more action and time now on tables going very fast.
2.I did few changes in my play and trying to do them all the time
3.Beeing so unlucky on all-in showdowns

More about all-in showdowns:I did some counts on my preflop all-ins,because I just literally not winning money but feeling like playing good poker,so:Last week(without todays results) I played 2800 hands in total and in pre flop I pushed and get called or just called all-in and go for showdown in 157 hands (not counting hands when pot won or folded pre flop).In these 157 hands I was favourite(anything better than coinflip) in 88 hands,36 was coinflips and in 33 I was underdog.In total I won 62.Now everything by percents: from 157 hands I was favourite in 56% I was about equal 23%(everything between 48-52% preflop ex:33vsAK AJ vs 77 and so on) and I was underdog in 21% =total won 39.7% hands.So if i put that 36 coinflip hands in favourite and underdog(18 to in front pre flop and 18 in underdog-somenthing about 50/50) I get 157 hands with 106 fav and 51 underdog then I get that in front I was in 68% all-ins and behind in 32% all-ins and in total I won only 40% of a time.
I did these counts because Im not winning feeling that I playing good poker using good spots,but cant win.So I was worried about that.By these counts I think I was on bad variation and getting unlucky by a luck.Can anyone say that I did a good counting on my stats and are they means was I think they means.And also about HM2 stats graph which called a $EV.I read a lot about that but still not getting it right.My $EV in all time I have a HM2(its about 2+ months show every week positive but results still going down).For example this week:

Its my January stats it was posted before.That month I had -33$,but $EV shows +145$.Its ahuge difference.I know that this stats is all-in counts,but is that means that Im winning less money that I average should win?I also think its somenthing the same by my numbers which I mentioned before-just my ones in a % and these in $.

Im looking forward for your answers.Thanks

Hello everyone!Time for weekly update.In overall all week was really good,not only in poker:
First of all my basketball team won a nomination in Sports team of year in our county,what is in UK a big sucess(to beat football and cricket teams,because Bball in UK is not very popular)
Second,I keep good results in gym and in my healty eating,crushing my goals more than expected.
And finally keeping good at poker tables.This is my last week graph and stats:

Week was really good even sometimes I was feeling that Im not playing my best game.This graph and stats is mixed 45man and 180 man 0.50$,playing now 6 tables 3 on 3 mostly,only today I didn't have a good volume for 180's so I played more 45's.
I did some changes in my game and it looks give a good comeback:started to play more loose now my Vpip is 25 for this week-last week was 19.Seeing more cheap flops,reading board better and main thing playing without fear,because I always thought that 1.5$ with my 120$ bankrool was allright,but when I dropped to 0.5$ I started to play way better,because I really dont care about money,only care about poker and that gives me profit(95% roi sounds good even its micro stakes)
I played just over 13 hrs and had 91 tourney and the moment its best volume so far.For next week my goal is 15 hrs and 100 tourneys.
Thanks for reading!
Good luck on tables!

Hello everyone,It's time for weekly update:

Thiis week I didnt spent enough time on poker,It was few reasons:On monday after the gym a had terrible headache so I go to bed very early,tuesday is my normally shopping day and laundry,so I always coming back about 7pm and it was champion league night-Im a huge Chelsea fan so I cant miss CL game,normally if its league game Im taking my best time for poker and watching replay later,but not on CL.I played all my games on wendesday and friday,and spent all thursday day on scrolling job offers because Im looking to change job,I get pissed recently in there.Saturday and Sunday I was at work (Im doing every third weekend till 12pm) ,also on Saturday I have basketball training and on evening I have night out with my mates to watch Wedding ringer-awesome comedy I really offering to watch this one.On suday after the work I decided to take a shot in qualifiers for weekly tourneys:I qualified in Sunday storm,The hot 11$,Hotter 16.50$,but didnt make it to Sunday millions.Only in Hot 11$ I made it bit deeper,but anyway outside money-in otker two I dropped very early-one was very bad luck and other my own mistake on bad read.In total i lost in these about 20$.

So now is my graph and stats for my regular games 45s and 180s 0.5$

Nothing fancy,but like for two days playing Im happy on average time spent.Im really feel Im getting in these-even on friday I played really bad but kept in profit.This week I hope I really will have more time to play:my plan at least to play today,tomorrow,wednesday and sunday-so 12 hours as minimum.

Thank you for reading,good luck on tables!

Hello everyone Its time for weekly and montly update :

First of all weekly:I made my minimum goal this week played mon-thur,today I had things to do in the morning,and on 4pm Chelsea-Totte league final so I will skip todays poker.Week was breakeven so I will not gonna talk a lot about it.This is a graph for this week:

Up and down all week,and result is resonable.

Now about all month:From beggining of February I dropped my limits from 1.5$ to 0.5$ and started to mix up 45mans and 180mans in these limits.Dropping down was very good decision:Im playing now without fear,trying to use all spots,added two more tables(now 6 total,playing 3 on 3 45s-180s),so in overall many good changes happened in my poker.So there is a graph and stats of February:

Im feeling to get in my best poker step by step,trying po play as much as I resonable can.My winning is almost on 50/50 split by 45s and 180s and I really like to play them both:45man keeping me away from big swings and 180s let me to have bigger jumps in my winnings.

i have realistic goals for next month: I will have busy weekends next month so I hope at least to spendt the same time like I spended last month,maybe a bit more:I played 318 tourneys-I want to make it to 400 in March.My BR at the moment about 60$(I have a good lesson last Sunday when I lost 20+$ on mtt,what was over my BR),so no more mtt's till I will have proper br.My next step to raise limits is 150$-to do 45 man in 1.5$,so if I will have good run this month maybe I can reach it.

Good luck on tables!