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greatpk
Joined: 04.05.2016

Hi and welcome to my journey to NL 50 starting at NL 2. In this blog I will try to share my progress from NL2 all the way up to NL 50. I don't really want to make any commitments or promises, but I will do my best to keep this blog updated. I have tried to make a blog before, but after a couple of weeks I just felt too lazy to post anything here and at the end I also took a long break from poker it self. However, I feel very excited to get back on poker tables and I would like to share my progress, well at least I hope it will be a progress, on micro stakes poker tables.
About me: My name is Tom and I am from Eastern Europe a small country called Latvia. I am currently working full time as a travel agent for one of the largest travel agencies in United States. I truly like my job as it is very exciting and fun. Also the salary is way above the average salary in our country, so I am very happy with what I am doing. Regarding the poker, I started to play around 4-5 years ago online for real money. Well It didn't went well at all on first few deposits as I busted my bankroll pretty fast. However, now I have done some research and the knowledge I have about the game is slightly higher than it was before. I am confident that I can beat the NL2 is no time, well at least that's what i hope, but we will see.
As the title says, my end goal of the blog is to reach NL 50. I don't have a time frame on it, so it might be in few months, maybe few years, but lets hope for the first one. I will be playing on Pokerstars starting at NL 2 Zoom, but might mix it up with some regular tables as well.
My Starting bankroll is 20$
Last week results:
Last week I played a total of 5388 hands
Profit was: 36.35$
I think it was quite a nice profit for the low volume I managed to squeeze out, so I am pretty much happy with the results so far.
Goals for this week:
Play a total of 7500 hands
Study some poker theory for 2 hours
Analyze my played hands and find the main leaks.

Since it is already Tuesday when I am making this blog, I already have some hands played, so here is the results of the week so far.
Total hands played: 1248
Profit so far: 29.20$
I had to make a withdraw last night, so my bankroll for now is 29,80$.
BRM strategy:
0-100$ - NL2 Zoom
100-250$ NL5 Zoom
250$-650$ - NL 10 Zoom
650$-1250$ - NL 25 Zoom.
1250$ - ? NL 50 Zoom
Once I will reach bankroll that will let me move up the stakes I will take 4 buy in shot and if I will loose the 4 buy-ins I will move down the stakes again. This way I should be able to not go broke :D
So here is the graph of this month so far:

So far I have made 65.55$ in July, and lets hope the rest of the month will be even better. I will also post some hands here in future as well and I will try to find only interesting hands or very huge pots.
I will appreciate any kind of a feedback or comments about my blog and hopefully you guys can give me a motivation to update my blog on weekly basis.
Good luck and maybe see you at the tables :f_drink:


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Roachor
Joined: 03.01.2010

Hey, Welcome! :) You are really crushing it wow ! Thats awesome.

Playing NL2 zoom myself also, so kinda curious what ranges you are using ? Getting destroyed myself this week. Got any tips? you seem to know your stuff!


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greatpk
Joined: 04.05.2016

Hey Roachor,

Well I wouldn't say I am crushing the stakes yet. That is a small sample in my opinion, but I hope I can keep up the good progress.
I don't think I will be the best player to ask for ranges. I think one of my leaks are incorrect opening and 3beting ranges.
The main tip I would give you, is to play your hand based on opponents ranges. So far I think most of the players are folding too light on cbets and they fold to 3bets often as well. How ever you should respect when they are 3betting you and when they are barreling for 2 streets or more. I think at NL 2 they are not capable of barreling all 3 streets with a bluff. Also when people are calling you, they most likely have connected to the board enough to call you down and beat your bluff, so don't get too excited with bluffing for more than 2 streets.
Feel free to pm me if you are interested more in my opinion about NL 2 zoom players, but like I said, I don't think I am the best player at NL2 and I still have to work hard on my game. It might be that everything I just said, doesn't even make sense


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Roachor
Joined: 03.01.2010

Heya, send you a friend request, can only pm Friends :- ) Bit curious why your red line is going up and mine is flying down.. Hope your grind is going good. (hopefully better then mine :- ))


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greatpk
Joined: 04.05.2016

Dear Readers,

Sorry for the delay of updating my blog. During the weekend I was visiting my family and was just enjoying my free time with my loved ones. Had an amazing weekend. This week I am on vacation from work, so also I am not spending much of the time playing poker. Trying to enjoy the summer with friends and relatives :)
Poker wise, last week wasn't as good as I wanted it to be. First of all I failed to put in the volume and the results weren't as good as I wished for.
So lets recap how was the week for me in poker. My goals for last week were:
Play a total of 7500 hands - Failed
Study some poker theory for 2 hours - Achieved
Analyze my played hands and find the main leaks - Failed
So Like I said, I was pretty busy over the weekend where I usually put the most volume in, so I will forgive my self this time. Also Didn't had much of a time to analyze my played hands, but I did find some leaks where to improve at. But will have to take it more serious.
Last week's results:
Hands played: 3403
Profit: 19,71$
BB/100: 18,85/100

I won't be setting any goals for this week, as I will not have as much spare time to play poker, since I will be relaxing and just enjoying my vacation. I want to be fully rested before I have to go back to work. I will study a bit of poker theory and might play some sessions at night, but probably won't grind more than 3000-4000 hands at maximum for this week.
Thank you all for reading this blog, I hope people will jump in some discussions as well. :f_wink:
If you guys have any suggestions regarding what you would like to see in future posts, please let me know as I want to make this blog as entertaining as possible.
Other than that, Best of luck and see you at the tables! :f_drink:


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Orochimaro
Joined: 09.05.2008

Any update?


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