Old timer giving another shot at the poker! micro start(nl2 and up) mtt(micro and up)
Hello everyone,
So basically after a long break i somehow started to play poker again, never would guess that this day will come. Two weeks ago i was cleaning my pc and found 8$ on pokerstars, thought "let's play few hands and lose everything so that i can uninstall this garbage" but nope somehow was running super well and decided to continue playing. A week later i added GGpoker and spanish pokerstars and in like a week or two i will also add Winamax and damn, i'm having so much fun playing it.
Already played 30k hands in total so far and doing quite well. At the moment i am playing nl2 cash only, fast tables. Later i will start adding normal tables and also will spend some weekends just playing MTTs.
Plans:
My plan is to get 100 buy-ins for nl2 and then when i will have 10 bi(50$) for nl5 i will take a shot and see how it will go. My game is quite aggressive but i am still learning so every week it feels my game changes a lot. Still struggling with 3bet pots, cbet pots and over bets. But been trying to go through hand history almost everyday and also having a coach to help me out should be enough for now. I will play on 4 softs at the moment(Pokerstars.eu, Pokerstars.es, GGpoker and Winamax) and will see which softs i will like the most and then might cut down or even add more softs, who knows... I don't have a specific plans or goals for poker because i have more important things in life to concentrate on but i still want to play this game as a hobby and see where it will lead me. Basically one hand at the time and see if i still can keep this poker spark within me.
Past poker experience:
I played a lot of poker before 2009, the so called golden age of poker and was doing quite well. Was playing 9max tables from nl2-25 and was grinding like crazy 12-16h everyday on 30+ tables, was a true degen back then. After 2009 i played PLO, SNG, MTT, Hyper HU, Spin&go and some more. I had dozens of coaches teaching me strategies and whatnot for basically everything, had some insane runs and had some insane downs, made challenge playing 1 million hands in 1 month, which was not smart haha and etc. So i learned a little bit from everything and everyone. But still eventually you will get burned out by just playing poker day in and day out so it also happened to me. Got burned out and just stopped playing poker for almost 10 years or so. And i was 100% sure that i will not come back to poker but somehow, maybe, i still had some love left for poker and maybe this time i will treat this hobby with more respect and will just concentrate on learning the game and enjoying the ride. We will see...
Present:
Right now i finished studying coding(Full Stack) so i have bunch of projects i need to do for my portfolio. Also been studying drawing and video editing, have some passion for it too. Also this year or next year i will have to go to Japan for JLPT, going for N3 so i'm spending a lot of time studying the language. And also decided to learn Spanish, dunno why but whatever, will see how it will go haha. And yeah last thing is poker for now. So welcome to my Blog and enjoy!
Starting Bankroll:
Pokerstars.eu - 0$
Pokerstars.es - 156.49$
GGpoker - 105.19$
Winamax - 0$
Welp still running bad on GGpoker, on Pokerstars is fine but damn GG really make you puke inside whenever you sit down at the tables haha. EV shows that i am beating the table with 12bb+ but it doesn't change much when you are losing 90%+ all ins and you are 10BI under EV. also i had this hand today, welp time to stop 3bet UTG with KQo:
GGPoker, Hold'em No Limit - $0.01/$0.02 - 6 players
Replay this hand on Pokeit
UTG: $2.87 (144 bb)
MP (Hero): $2.47 (124 bb)
CO: $2.06 (103 bb)
BU: $3.75 (188 bb)
SB: $3.56 (178 bb)
BB: $1.11 (56 bb)
Pre-Flop: ($0.03) Hero is MP with Q♠ K♣
UTG raises to $0.06, Hero 3-bets to $0.18, 4 players fold, UTG calls $0.12
Flop: ($0.39) 2♣ 7♠ 6♦ (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $0.13, UTG calls $0.13
Turn: ($0.65) 3♥ (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $0.49, UTG calls $0.49
River: ($1.63) 3♠ (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $1.67 (all-in), UTG calls $1.67
Total pot: $4.97 (Rake: $0.09)
Showdown:
MP (Hero) shows Q♠ K♣ (a pair of Threes)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 38%, Flop: 23%, Turn: 14%, River: 0%)
UTG shows A♥ T♥ (a pair of Threes - higher kicker)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 62%, Flop: 77%, Turn: 86%, River: 100%)
UTG wins $4.88
But my game is super good right now, red line is going to the skies and finally getting the feel of the game. At the moment i am destroying nl2 when it comes to EV so just need to wait for the days when i run good and will finally move to NL5.
Welp still running bad on GGpoker, on Pokerstars is fine but damn GG really make you puke inside whenever you sit down at the tables haha. EV shows that i am beating the table with 12bb+ but it doesn't change much when you are losing 90%+ all ins and you are 10BI under EV. also i had this hand today, welp time to stop 3bet UTG with KQo:
GGPoker, Hold'em No Limit - $0.01/$0.02 - 6 players
Replay this hand on Pokeit
UTG: $2.87 (144 bb)
MP (Hero): $2.47 (124 bb)
CO: $2.06 (103 bb)
BU: $3.75 (188 bb)
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What is this hand bro, villain is so bad haha
Yeap this been worst week so far. Just can't win anything. But when i win then few hands later i lose hands like these:
PokerStars Zoom, Hold'em No Limit - €0.01/€0.02 - 6 players
Replay this hand on Pokeit
UTG: €3.71 (186 bb)
MP: €2.15 (108 bb)
CO: €2.50 (125 bb)
BU: €2.03 (102 bb)
SB: €2.41 (121 bb)
BB (Hero): €3.37 (169 bb)
Pre-Flop: (€0.03) Hero is BB with A♦ 6♥
4 players fold, SB raises to €0.06, Hero calls €0.04
Flop: (€0.12) J♣ 6♠ A♠ (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets €0.04, SB raises to €0.18, Hero raises to €0.53, SB calls €0.35
Turn: (€1.18) 3♥ (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets €0.84, SB calls €0.84
River: (€2.86) 7♠ (2 players)
SB bets €0.68, Hero calls €0.68
Total pot: €4.22 (Rake: €0.21)
Showdown:
SB shows J♠ T♠ (a flush, Ace high)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 49%, Flop: 41%, Turn: 25%, River: 100%)
BB (Hero) mucks A♦ 6♥ (two pair, Aces and Sixes)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 51%, Flop: 59%, Turn: 75%, River: 0%)
SB wins €4.01
even the graph on spanish pokerstars looks drunk as hell:
Doesn't matter at which soft i play the outcome is always the same. So at the moment poker feels super heavy. yeah... just gonna continue studying and play and just hope for better days i guess...
Yeah just went through my hand history and i spewed basically 12BI so even with running bad i am only down 5BI. So yeah no need to be sad or whatnot but instead need to be happy for running bad because you can easily look at your game and your mental state and just fix what needs to be fixed and should be fine. Basically a lot of BI i spewed while being in 3bet pots so going to study those more but overall really happy with my game. So just need to continue studying and learn as much as i can when i am running bad because when good days will come i will not gonna be able to learn much haha.
Yeap this been worst week so far. Just can't win anything. But when i win then few hands later i lose hands like these:
PokerStars Zoom, Hold'em No Limit - €0.01/€0.02 - 6 players
Replay this hand on Pokeit
UTG: €3.71 (186 bb)
MP: €2.15 (108 bb)
CO: €2.50 (125 bb)
BU: €2.03 (102 bb)
SB: €2.41 (121 bb)
BB (Hero): €3.37 (169 bb)
Pre-Flop: (€0.03) Hero is BB with A♦ 6♥
4 players fold, SB raises to €0.06, Hero calls €0.04
Flop: (€0.12) J♣ 6♠ A♠ (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets €0.04, SB raises to €0.18,
Yeah probably fold river actually. Sucks. Can try to gii earlier off/ott tho imo
I wouldn’t get too bent out of shape over results especially short term. You’ll make zero $ at uNL even if you’re the sickest crusher ever so I would suggest using it purely to build strong healthy habits/foundation/etc and to help highlight your shortcomings for cheap as possible.
Yeah probably fold river actually. Sucks. Can try to gii earlier off/ott tho imo
I wouldn’t get too bent out of shape over results especially short term. You’ll make zero $ at uNL even if you’re the sickest crusher ever so I would suggest using it purely to build strong healthy habits/foundation/etc and to help highlight your shortcomings for cheap as possible.
Yeah im also experimenting and getting use to new play style and to everything i learned so no wonder the graph looks super drunk. Yeap not gonna care how much i win or lose and will use micro limits to just build strong foundation and just check for leaks and fix them. Eventually the money will start coming in. Also yeah at nl2 and nl5 is the cheapest place to go crazy and just build your knowledge about the game and everything else.
From one old timer to another, good luck! I'm kind of in a similar situation. Played sporadically over the past 17 years after I lost my bankroll chasing the poker dream in Atlantic City. The game has changed a lot since then and I'm starting from scratch trying retrain my brain.
From one old timer to another, good luck! I'm kind of in a similar situation. Played sporadically over the past 17 years after I lost my bankroll chasing the poker dream in Atlantic City. The game has changed a lot since then and I'm starting from scratch trying retrain my brain.
Oh nice happy to hear. Yeah games has changed a lot. like A LOT. All these solvers and gto's and what not has changed the game a lot. Yeah it will take some time to catch up with new age poker and how it is played. Oh nice what happened in Atlantic City ? played a lot of cash or tourneys ? And how is the online poker treating you so far ?
Ok winamax is finally done. So i withdraw from spanish pokerstars and deposited into winamax. So for now i will play on Pokerstars, GGpoker and Winamax. Still need to fix my holdem manager, for whatever reason the hud doesn't work, hem3 reads the hands and everything but hud is not working... Anyway on winamax i have 200$ deposit bonus, so gonna have to grind to clear it. Also got 5 free tickets for spin n go and won like 35$ and yeah it looks like i will start taking shots at NL5 on winamax. GGpoker is still bad, running really bad but i got some GGcare money so bankroll is still growing. And yeah pokerstars is pokerstars, slowly the roll is growing. I have to finish my last projects this week and then starting from next week i will grind poker for 1-2 weeks. So yeah looking forward to it.
Bankroll:
Pokerstars - 154$
GGpoker - 170$
Winamax - 235$
