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AgapieGheorghe
AgapieGheorghe
Joined: 10.07.2011
Posts: 990
12.04.2020, 12:04 +9

Welcome to my micro stakes blog !

Over the years I've started quite a few blogs here on Pokerstrategy so I'm not new to blogging but I hope this one will be the last blog and the most successful.

My name is George, I've turned 34 a few days ago, from Romania.
I live and work in Spain so I have to play on the spanish platforms. Winamax.ES is where I will play poker... for now atleast.

I started to play poker in 2011 and after I lost the 50$ that I got from Pokerstrategy I decided to build a bankroll playing freerolls on Pokerstars and PartyPoker starting from nothing. I managed to get a nice BR over 60$ again.

With those money I played poker ( Cash, SNG, Spin´s ) at microstakes for almost 6 years and never lost my Br again. Never played higher than NL10.
In 2016 was "my best" year I've started to grind from 30 Euro on Nl2 up to 388E on NL10.
In the start of 2017 I stopped to play poker I cashed out all the money ( almost 400 Euro ) and I didn't played again that year.

In 2018 I started a blog, deposited 50 Euro and I played until I reached 150 euro. I cashed out and I stopped playing again.

In 2019 ? You are right I started again to grind from a few euros to 60€ in. Then I started to play World of Warcraft for the rest of the year and I didn't played poker again for the rest of the year. I used almost all the money to buy game time for WoW.


What are my thoughts in 2020

Even when I dont play poker for a long time I always check Pokerstrategy forums and the blogs from the english and the spanish community. So I know almost every blog started in the last Decade here.

I've seen many people succeed and a lot more failing. But a lot of their stories motivated me over the years to play poker.



It happend the same like a month ago when I was reading a blog and I decided to start to play again. So I wanted to start a blog right away but... in 2019 I didn't finished my blog didn't beat the lowest limit so I decided to grind NL2 until I get enough money to start grinding NL5.

After 32 days of grinding 30,000 Hands I got a decent Bankroll 101.60 Euro to start playing NL5.

The goals of the blog are :

-to keep a record of my results, including postings graphs, hand reviews, etc..
-development of discipline, tempering, motivation and self-confidence!
-conclusions and other things from what I study.


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AgapieGheorghe
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12.04.2020, 12:07 +1

I will make this first post for the people who opened the blog to see the 400,000 hands on NL2.

Here is all the hands and graphs that I still have from the blogs. Over the years I changed more than 5 notebooks and I don't have the hands from my first years when I started to play.

If I had those I'm sure I will have way more than 500.000 hands on Nl2.

But if you dont have a picture it is like it doesn't matter :f_biggrin:

NL2 Total Hands = 406.332
NL2 Total Profit = 458 Euro *** That's like 5,6 bb/100

You can open the spoiler to see all the graphs.

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2015 to early 2016


Early Spring of 2016

Later on 2016

Year of 2018

Year of 2019

Last week of the challenge in 2019

2020



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Tarciziu
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Joined: 17.10.2012
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12.04.2020, 14:09

Nice to see you back at the tables, Agapie!
Also, I remember your blogs. You had a blog on the romanian community also?

Good luck at the tables. Many fishes right now :f_biggrin::f_biggrin::f_biggrin:


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AgapieGheorghe
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12.04.2020, 17:38

Hey Tarciziu :f_drink: I'm happy to see you around !

Yeah I had one blog in the romanian community, I was really sad when Pokerstrategy stoped to work with us. I had so many friends there and we had some really good coaches for Cash, SNG and MTT :f_cry: :f_frown: :f_frown:

I had one session today on Nl5, doesn't seems I can find a lot of fishes. I will try later tonight again.

How is Nl16 ? You got a lot of money for candy ? :f_biggrin:


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AgapieGheorghe
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12.04.2020, 21:33 +1
Day 1

Not the best start, winamax got today for me tons of coolers.
I had 9 times AA and KK 13 times and I got no profits with this hands. :f_confused:

The player pool is a lot different from the one on NL2. I see a lot more TAG players and the fishes find the Fold button more often.

But I've just started I just have to play my best, have patience and study more.

Things to focus on next week :
- Ranges
- Create a better HUD with more stats.


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13.04.2020, 00:59

Wow -- coolers sure can suck!

Originally posted by AgapieGheorghe
The player pool is a lot different from the one on NL2. I see a lot more TAG players and the fishes find the Fold button more often.

You can exploit this by stealing wider perhaps.
I think that this article covers it:
https://www.pokerstrategy.com/strategy/bss/exploits-auto-profit/

Stats I would recommend adding to your HUD:
:diamond:  Fold to Steal%
:diamond:  Steal %

They'll help with the auto-profit

All the best,
VS


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AgapieGheorghe
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13.04.2020, 21:40

Day 2 results


# Hey VorpalF2F thank you for the advice :f_drink:

For sure I will add those 2 stats. Tomorrow after I will get home from work the first thing will be to finish the Hud. :f_thumbsup:


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AgapieGheorghe
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14.04.2020, 17:48

Hello guys ! Here is the HUD that I will use for now, it has almost anything I want.
Tomorrow I will work a bit more on it to add some nice pop-ups.

Line 1
Hands / VPIP / PFR / WTSD / W$SD / WWSF / Total AF

Line 2
3bet/Fold to 3bet/4Bet/Fold to 4bet/Squeeze/Fold to Squeeze as raiser/Fold to Squeeze as caller

Line 3
BB fold to SB steal/BB 3bet vs SB/BB folt to steal/SB fold to steal/Steal/Resteal

Line 4
Cbet/Fold to cbet/Cbet Turn/Fold to cbet Turn/Cbet(3b pot)/Fold to cbet(3b pot)/Cbet Turn(3b pot)/Fold to cbet Turn(3b pot)

Line 5
Skip flop cbet&check-fold / Skip flop cbet&Fold to Turn bet IP / Bet vs miss cbet IP / Bet vs miss cbet OOP / Donk / Raise Cbet


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VorpalF2F
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14.04.2020, 18:29

How many tables do you play at once?
I went the opposite route -- I pared my HUD down to the essentials -- and kept the rest in pop-ups.


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Pokamon
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14.04.2020, 19:34

haha, for most peoples it takes 4k hands to move up. despite all the warnings.

so good job, i guess and do not wait 800k hands until you will move up next time.


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AgapieGheorghe
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14.04.2020, 19:47

Originally posted by VorpalF2F
How many tables do you play at once?
I went the opposite route -- I pared my HUD down to the essentials -- and kept the rest in pop-ups.

On NL2 I was grinding from 6 to 12 tables, on Nl5 tho under ten usualy eight.
I used to play a lot of tables in the past, I used to play around 20 tables and had enough time :f_biggrin: ofc not the best game when you multitable like that.

For the Hud I guess if I want it I coulda had only 4 lines or less but I dont like to use the pop-ups that much. I will test this one all week to see how it feels.

Cheers :f_drink:


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yaxkukmian
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14.04.2020, 20:53

I'm just one of many that will think "WOW":pokerface:. On one hand I can only say respect for all the grinding. On the other hand play less tables and think about your lines, your opponents, this is the only way to progress. I know you're not asking for advice but start playing max 4 tables and work on your game. Fact is that NL5 players won't punish you for your ABC game, but already NL10 regs will give you rough times.

Why do you use HUD? I'm asking you seriously. Take 30 seconds and answer it, please.
To have as many stats as possible or to take advantage of your opponents?
You need less than 50% of this stats to beat NL10. With your volume of multitabling your eyes will be grateful for creating smaller HUD. You have 34 different stats for every player?!

Will follow your progress and wish you all the best!:f_thumbsup:


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AgapieGheorghe
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14.04.2020, 22:24
Day 3 results

# Yaxkukmian thank you for your visit and I appreciate your advices. Today I started with 2 tables and added 4 more later, I will keep the maximum to 6 from now on and try to play my best.


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AgapieGheorghe
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15.04.2020, 22:51 +1
Day 4 results

I didn't had to much free time today. No time for study or anything, just managed to play some hands, great results tho.


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CheesyEagle
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16.04.2020, 20:52

Heh, was looking for your blog to check your progress but your new avatar tricked me for a moment :f_biggrin: Either way, with your experience and ridiculous work ethic, you have all the tools to be as succesfull at NL5 as you've been at NL2. Even these days, micros are not that "impossible to beat" like many people say :f_cool: I just hope that you'll move up to NL10 a little bit sooner than after 400k hands :f_biggrin:


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AgapieGheorghe
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18.04.2020, 20:07

Day 5, 6 and 7

Hello guys ! I didnt had to much free time in the last few days, I woked over time so I can stay home tomorrow.

In day 5 i started really bad the session with QQ vs a fish who got AKo, all in preflop on Turn he got his K and tilted me so hard. I've lost almost 23 euros that session.
The good thing is between yesterday and today managed to get back on the plus side.

# CheesyEagle thank you so much for your visit :f_drink: in time I'm sure I will find the right formula to beat Nl5. And yeah I agree micros are not impossible to beat this days but is not that easy as some say.

Some people will just say play Abc and you will beat the microstakes, use no Hud or just play for value but those are just words.
Ofcourse it's easy for somebody who plays Nl50+ with enough knowledge to go to Nl5 or Nl10 and win easy there, but for people who never played past micros or never beaten that path on micros before is not that easy.

Tomorrow I will try to get to 10k hands in total and post a full graph. Also I will make plan for next week, goals for study, play time and other stuff. :sfishg:


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Pokamon
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18.04.2020, 23:11

Originally posted by AgapieGheorghe

Line 5
Skip flop cbet&check-fold /

your stats? if so, XF as PFR is a good spot to start the learning experience.


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AgapieGheorghe
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19.04.2020, 23:30
Week 1 Results

Just finished the 10k hands mark. I had a decent day with almost +6 BI in 2k hands. I'm happy I got some profit on my first week at Nl5.

I will go to sleep, I have to wake up in 5 hours to be ready for work. I will post tomorrow the plan for next week.

# Pokamon thank you for your advice, I have a lot of things to fix on my game :)

Good luck everyone :f_drink:


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Dandiiik
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20.04.2020, 00:17

Originally posted by AgapieGheorghe

Some people will just say play Abc and you will beat the microstakes, use no Hud or just play for value but those are just words.
Ofcourse it's easy for somebody who plays Nl50+ with enough knowledge to go to Nl5 or Nl10 and win easy there, but for people who never played past micros or never beaten that path on micros before is not that easy.

I get your point and its totally truth. The bright side is that the field on micros is so soft now, that you can just stick to basics according to the articles here on PSGY, play tight and aggressive and you should crush it anyway. But you never know when your friend downswing comes. Maybe the first few thousand hands were just unlucky :f_drink:

Originally posted by AgapieGheorghe

Also I would suggest playing with smaller HUD. I play literally with just VPIP and PFR, just to be able to divide players into categories and I am totally fine. So many figures will just draw too much of your attention instead of focusing on basic +EV lines. I plan on adding more figures in my HUD at NL25 where you start to play more against regs.


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AgapieGheorghe
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20.04.2020, 20:40

Uff I'm so lazy today. After I got home from work I decided to watch some Netflix... for 3 hours ( good use of my time :f_biggrin: )

Week 2 Goals

Play every day 1:30 h ( 2 sessions of 45 min ) = 10.5 Hours
Study every day 1 h.
Choose 1 coach and get the Open Ranges that he suggest.
Update the blog atleast 3 times this week.

Nothing to fancy, plain and simple.
For the study part I have some videos that I want to watch and take notes.
For the open ranges.. well here I dont know what to choose I have like 10 different ranges from 10 different coaches..

:gl: :sfishg:


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