Phone ballin'

Hi Maciekmax,
I'm really curious to follow this.

I actually rather dislike playing on my phone, this might encourage me to try again

Best of luck :gl:,
VS

I've also signed up for a bankroll challenge
I've deposited 1570, spent 70$ on vip card, so starting with 1500
Goal is set up at 10k$

Best of luck to you, ive looked in to KK poker i was quite keen on trying it but apparently it's not for UK players.

Hello,

So one week into the challenge, I am at~ 2109$. The score is fine, considering how bad my schedule / routine / mindset was. I struggled a lot with waking up at right time, I didn't meditate, most of the time I played B game. Just yesterday, after a session where I couldn't quit, trying to get even on a mediocre table, I realized that I am not sticking to any of my plans.

But today was different. I woke up at 9 am (first time since very long time), got my cold shower, went for a 40 minutes walk, meditated for 10 minutes, than sat to the session and told to myself that I am only gonna play for as long as I can be in a flow (or A game) state. I managed to play like that for ~4 hours + breaks, which was very exhausting (more exhausting than 10 hour live session :f_rolleyes:). I really have to remember, not to be consumed by thoughts about score/run/anything outside of playing my best. I hope, with time I am gonna be able to play like this for 6-7 hours a day. But I can't force that. I think it has to be some kind of attention span + awareness muscle, that can, hopefully, be trained.

Outside of mindset and routine topic, strategy wise I think I am doing really good when I play A game. I study with solvers but I do tons of exploits, cause obviously everyone is super unbalanced. For example I am at 18% x/r after 5k hands on flash tables (I play nl100 flash when regular tables are mediocre), cause I tend to x/r turns OOP when flop was checked with majority of my range, due to how unprotected x flop ranges players on this app have.

This post is just mainly a mindset note to myself, about how my B game differs from A game. The difference is huge. But it's pretty hard to stay in that flow state and not to drift away with the result thoughts when I play online poker. But its the only way.

Cheers

Just wanted to share some hands that I think are interesting:

This one I run in a solver and I was really happy to see that i recognized good bluffing/overbetting candidate, although there is almost no turn betting for less than a Pot! But tbh I don't like going too crazy on the turn when I am planning to boom the river. Also I choose this combo for kind of wrong reason, thinking AT, A9 would be his best bluffcatchers, but in equilibrium he should be folding these to 2x pot, and calling hands like for example A3 that unblocks my bluffs(in reality this kind of player is much more likely to call with AT than A3). Very interesting spot that occurs quite often.
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This hand I think I played pretty bad, there was some emotional element to win a hand and not much good analysis made during the hand if I am honest with myself. Starting from preflop, weaker player on btn and being deep I don't think is good enough reason to call this hand, it's just too weak.
Flop bet is fine, we have tons of equity, I like the sizing, but checking I think is fine too.
Turn bet is what I feel like is a big mistake, especially with big sizing. I am giving him opportunity to push me out of huge equity. Also I should be folding to this raise, I don't think J is my out too often, I also don't have enough direct nor implied odds. (Didn't check this one in pio, its too deep and my hand should not be in a range I think)
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And this one is just an extreme example of what I was writing about im my previous post

cause I tend to x/r turns OOP when flop was checked with majority of my range, due to how unprotected x flop ranges players on this app have.

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Lastly big bluff, not sure If I would have made this if I wasn't loosing that session if anyone is reading, let me know what u think of this:

Wake up early, did my routine, and it overpaid me

Not sure how to count my challenge now, that was aimed on cash games. Anyway for sure I am gonna continue playing nl100 with BM I planned, so I am gonna hopefully take a shot at nl200 soon anyway.

YOU SOUND LIKE YOU ARE CRUSHING IT , WHAT ROUTINE DO YOU DO BEFORE YOUR SESSION?

Originally posted by Maciekmax
Wake up early, did my routine, and it overpaid me

Spoiler

Not sure how to count my challenge now, that was aimed on cash games. Anyway for sure I am gonna continue playing nl100 with BM I planned, so I am gonna hopefully take a shot at nl200 soon anyway.

Boom, you almost accidently finished the whole challenge....
How long did the tourney last? Seems your only oponent on KKPoker is the battery of your phone..

YOU SOUND LIKE YOU ARE CRUSHING IT , WHAT ROUTINE DO YOU DO BEFORE YOUR SESSION?

Wake up early, taking cold shower, going for a walk for like 30 minutes, than meditate for 10 just before the 1st session

you sound like you have your life in order are you a pro?. I go for a run 3x a week just started the cold showers but I can only do about 10 seconds at the moment lol,. Have not tried meditation how do you meditate?

good bluff you have the nut blocker so all is :f_thumbsup::f_thumbsup:good

Hi

Half a month since I started the challenge, I am at ~8 577$

I am at something like 2320$ starting from 1500$, not counting the tourney 4th place.
Last 2 days were really tough, I lost half of the profit I've made since the beginning, which is like 7,5bi
I got seriously mad, running pretty bad, and beeing up "only" 8 bins, but when I sobered from this emotions, I talked myself that is really not a big deal.
I've played maybe something like 10k hands on the phone? So it's still a good score, like 8bb/100, and if I reach the place I want to be, which is nl1k, than 8bi per month is gonna be really good money. Also the run is for sure below average (not counting the tourney obviously).

Despite the run, I am pretty happy how I handled it. I mean I didn't play tilted, I tried to be in the zone all the time, and when I couldn't, I would just quit playing.
This is not optimal, cause it causes the volume to be low, but sometimes its not possible for me to get back into the "zone" or flow, or A game, whatever you call it. Just have to take a break and write a blog for example :f_p:. Hopefully with time it's gonna get easier and easier.

Have not tried meditation how do you meditate?

I am using free app called Medito, which I really recommend

How long did the tourney last?

I think something like 6 hours. It was so much more stressful than cash games tho!

Seems your only oponent on KKPoker is the battery of your phone..

This, and myselef unfortunately