derek58 - nl10 to nl100

derek58 - nl10 to nl100

Hello, I'm here again and I'm alive and ready for work! I’m a nl10 break even player in a decent sample till now. I’m creating this thread to set a plan for moving up stakes.
My previous thread is here http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/174/poker-goals-challenges/nl10-6max-100k-hands-goal-1488067.
I had set a goal to 100k hands hopping that I was able to move up after this. The results was poor so I will continue to play nl10 even if my bankroll is for nl25. I will post my bankroll everytime to see my progress. I have in my mind this rules:

Stakes: Begin from nl10 and make control shots for the next stake when I have confidence in my game and an appropriate bankroll. Mostly 6max because of bigger experience but I will also try 9max from time to time.

Preparation: Warm up before each session by analysing some hands, or read a book, article, or watch a video or even do a sweat session with a poker friend. But first of all ask myself if I’m motivated to play and if I am in good physical condition.

Stop loss: Have a stop loss limit 3 BIs from the peak of the session.

Session length: Begin with 1 hour sessions and steadily play bigger ones to train my stamina.

Table selection: At least one fish on my right or next to my right. It’s an easy job at nl10. I will use tablescan turbo.

Session review: Review my session after the end most of the times, take notes to regs with big history and sometimes post an interesting hand. Alone or with a poker friend.

Database review: Once a week make a database review every Saturday. Alone or with a poker friend.

Hours: I don’t want to set standard hours or hands for each day or each month because it’s depended from a lot of things in my real life but I want to play at least 50k a month. Also I want to play the specific hours each day to build a better history vs regs and get used that these hours are for poker. Also avoid to play late at night, to avoid play when I’m tired from the rest of the day and sleep well in general.

I have my poker bankroll to many poker sites at this moment. The summary of my bankroll at this moment is 1311$.
That’s my first thoughts. You are free to make any suggestions. The road is long.

25 January 2015 at 01:53 PM
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I felt so many times the need to update this thread. It was my first public challenge, and I remember I was enjoying the process, and the motivation that brings. Somehow I abandoned it for ages. My last post, reminds me why. The reason was live poker. I remember that I was so impressed about how soft live poker is. I still have this feeling to be honest.

As a quick recap, the pro covid years, 2017-2019 I was play at my local live games, 1/2 or below mostly. I felt safe with the variance and the bankroll I had back then, and continued grinding. Between 2018 and 2019 I was traveling abroad to play and I was really excited even for 1/2 games. Felt like I could make 2x the money abroad than playing in Greece. Actually I still believe a living from living poker is still achiavable from 1/2 games even in 2024.

During all this journey, I never lost the touch with online poker. Competition was always runing in my blood. I still believe it's the best teacher and I don't know if I'll ever quit playing online. The options, the flexibility to play whenever and from wherever you want is a massive advantage.

In late 2019, I managed to go to US for first time, with a staking deal. I gained a massive boost of experience playing 2/5, as I was not so experienced playing this stake till then, except from some succesful shots till then. Moving up in stakes is most of the times a struggle for most players. The guys I went together where great guys and much better players and I learned a lot from them.

In 2020 covid hit and I had to come back to online. The first months was the softest games I've seen in my life. Crazy results were achiavable, even around 15bb/100 in nl50. My results were not fantastic but I was happy and satisfied being a winner at nl50. games were feeling like another poker boom is happening. After the first months, my results was not great and I was feeling a bit stuck around nl50. I had break even and even losing months. I realised than many other players had the same results, which meant the impact of staying at home because of covid had impacted a lot how soft was the games. So I decided to join a CFP program. I improved my game and continued my journey mixing with live poker again around mid 2021.

I can recommend to anyone who want to improve faster, programs like that. The guys still offering coaching for those who might be interested, so I will give some more info here. The head coach is [COLOR="RoyalBlue"]metal_ouda[/COLOR] and it's called now [COLOR="royalblue"]Cash Game Crushers[/C....

Around 2022, live grind at 2/5 mainly started. Travelling the world last 2 years, being in US 2 extra times, UK, Austria, Spain, Czech Republic and some more poker destinations, visiting new places during events like EPT, or even going somewhere to grind off season. UK used to be my favourite place for many reasons and I was spending a lot of time there last years.

Counting around 100k winnings in live poker I can't be anything than satisfied.


Never giving up my relationship with online poker, I managed to have healthy winrate around 4bb/100 at nl100 at a reliable sample. So I felt like it was time to close this thread, many times last 2 years, as the name of the challenge was n10 to nl100, but I was too lazy and I was procrastinate it all the time.

At the moment my main grind stakes are nl100 online and 2/5 live, but I'm playing a bit of nl200 online, and 5/10 live when a good opportunity apears. Results are not great so far at these stakes but the sample is small so I'm fine with that. Also I'm not investing my time in poker full time nowdays as I used to do. It was a slow process so far all these years but I don't regret it. Poker is still alive, live and online. Put something in your mind, and you can achieve anything you want. And don't forget to never give up if you really want it.

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