$100.000 profit at 20nl

Hey ZKesic, sorry if you already answered this and I am just being repetitive, but is poker still your main source of income? If yes, will you still play for a living after reaching 100k? Finally, I just realized the title, and your goal, was to make 100k playing 20nl, and you're playing higher. That's cheating my friend 😃 😃

GLGL

Yes, poker is my main source of income. I also play on some untracked sites, which I'm not including in this challenge, and on the side I make money from coaching people. This together is more than enough to cover all of my expenses.

Even after reaching the 100k profit goal, I plan to keep playing. There's no reason to stop 😀

I made the first ~40k profit playing exclusively at 20nl. Eventually, as the speed games on iPoker died off, I transitioned to 50nl.
While it may feel like a slight "cheat," my hourly rate is better at 50nl, so it just makes sense to finish the challenge there.

vwp sir, and congratz on almost reaching your goal, not many people that I know keep updating their threads year in and year out til the challenge is complete, for the # of years you're doing it (I know I don't lol) so you have all my compliments for that.

wow, very great job so far. almost there.

Impressive journey.

I've been wondering about these spots:

Hold'em No Limit - €0.25/€0.50 - 5 players
Replay this hand on Pokeit

UTG (Hero): €41.44 (83 bb)
CO: €57.39 (115 bb)
BU: €17.43 (35 bb)
SB: €50.00 (100 bb)
BB: €45.00 (90 bb)

Pre-Flop: (€0.75) Hero is UTG with Q♥ J♥
Hero raises to €1.10, CO 3-bets to €3.70, 2 players fold, BB calls €3.20, Hero 4-bets to €41.44 (all-in), 2 players fold

Total pot: €11.35 (Rake: €0)
UTG (Hero) wins €11.35
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I've been completely improvising in them, but don't actually have a good strategy rn.

There were times when I got really burnt.

My logic for shoving hands like QJs are mainly:
Reg isn't gonna call with AQ, which is good for us as we have more equity vs AK.
If fish calls our shove he will mostly have low pocket pairs. This is why I think QJs > A5s / 66.

But then again, the best play might just be to call. It's really hard to decide at this stack depth.
You can apply the same question to 100bb stacks.

What do you guys think?

I'm not confident about any of the postflop decisions in this one:

But tbh, no matter which line I took, I'd probably end up in a gross river spot either way.

QJs jam is a thing vs SB 3bet esp if they use bigger size and I agree with this logic. In this spot in probably depends on a fish, they can show up with AJo/AQo/JJ/QQ making is probably bad imo, regs range is also tighter given its CO 3BET.

TJo I would just call vs 1/2 stab, its more polar so he dose not have that much pp trash Ax ect that make you want to raise. AP-Maybe tiny block otr, when you check he just bets better hands for value and some draws, putting you in close to 0ev spot.

November 2024:

Challenge progress: 81.3k/100k

Great month overall. Have been feeling pretty motivated lately and am happy with my play.

Towards the end of the month I've been playing 14-16 tables non stop.

I'll try to bring back the 3k+ profit months. Haven't had those in a while.

I agree with your points.

In my experience, when I 4b shove preflop, people (even fish) usually put me on AK. So the light calls are much more often hands like 99/88 than AQ/AJ. Meaning, QJs/JTs should be better candidates for those plays than low pockets or Axs.

Cheers

Itching for an update here

Yearly update coming?