WEED AND POKER - MTT LOW STAKES GRIND
Hello, at the beggining than you for joining my journey looking for motivation and connections.
I have been playing poker since 2019 but with many massive breaks, I would say in total I have played regularly for 2 years, recreationally but with success. Many times started from scratch from lowest mtts or even freerolls due to withdrawals to fund weed. Every tournament I played was under the influence as it was my baseline sobriety, believing its allowing me to activate myself to even start playing or to stay calm during the game. Tournament break? be sure I used it well every time. Later in time started using vaporizer so I could inhale for hours while playing, real game changer. Doing it to this day, the grip of my left hand resembles the shape of vaporizer. In the last 6 years I was permamently under the influence, had two short detoxes during that time.
I could become a national hero if huge cloud of thc were heading toward my country
Its easier to show it on one image how it looked, im proud of the fact that these results are from months, not years of playing. Return to the game in 2021 and 2023 was about 2 months long each.
All time BI - around 6$ - started many times from 0 so even after moving stakes I had to go back to lowest mtts.
Current BI - 3-25$ with some shots at the biggest 30-55$
Bankroll is at 4555$ but regularly withdrawing and will update results through graph
I have good grasph on how the population play in these stakes, im already exploiting it but could be so much more efficient knowing gto strategies and then adjusting to the population. Right now after so many tourmanemts my decisions in so many spots should be automatic but its not and I constantly analyse and think what would be good, even trival spots like 3bet sizing. Sometimes its time-difficult playing 9+ tables, I believe could play much more if I develop autopilot gameplay in many spots.
I want to be consistent and update the blog almost every session. I will post my results, thoughts and struggles. This thread will be also a place for me to brag about my winnings without feeling bad about it and also to whine about soulbreaking scores.
My goals:
- Times changed and I dont feel need of using weed anymore but still doing it. Looking to drop this part of myself, I believe it drops my motivation, volume and consistency, also huge leak in my bankroll. I blame her for failed study attempts.
- Continue meditation. I picked it up recently and cant believe but love it, doing it every day atleast once. I was shocked when two days ago during meditation I felt tears dropping on my cheek. I was completly calm and from nowhere my eyes started crying.
- Study every day - not doing **** right now. Contempleting between joining stable or buying courses and learning on my own.
- Health related stuff - time to repair years of neglect. Already eating better and moving, my dogs are big motivation here.
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In last 7 days had many good opportunities with the biggest:
23 out of 2591 in 8.88$, 22 out of 3812 in 10$, 6 out of 3822 in 5.40$, 16 out of 7627 in 5.40$, 37 out of 3712 in 5.40$
76 out of 9649 in 55$, 53 out of 9008 in 21.60$
Can only imagine how many of these would be huge scores if im better player.
Looking to find group of players to discuss some spots, hands or even study together.
Did I inhale too much? When now I look at it, it seems he could value jam his A spade, he had fairly active stats but no reads. On the other side jamming A spade for me is bad so maybe its call depending on read if the player is fish or good regular. I have no idea if I should raise or re-raise flop, I dont have gto answer
Yesterday played a lot of bigger buyin mtts, best opportunity was 80 out of 5100 in 25$, results of the session is -62$.
Last two weeks was heavily considering joining staking, hoping for clear path and guidance in process of learning the game from the scratch, bankroll itself for playing was not attractive for me, as I dont believe in variation in micro/low stake games, to some extend. Reached to reputable stable and due to my lack consistency and some other red flags I was offered to play only mtts under 5$, I needed some time to give the answer as Im right now playing everything up to 25$ and taking shots at higher biggest mtts. I decided to go with it even if its meant much lower profits on top of splitting it in half, im knowledge hungry. Anyway when rolling with it, they had to assure me multiple times that I can leave anytime I want and im not locked in in contract, but anyway they presented me agreement with almost 2 year commitment and crazy profit goal to be possible to leave earlier. I understand you send it to everyone but it have right to confuse me and at the end of the day they have my written word on agreement and I have nothing that could prove they assured me otherwise. I decided to trust them, but after receiving every google sheet and instructions and went to explore their discord staking channel and found out pdf file about what tournament field size can I play (Thankgod I did it before sending them my id and receiving their money). Basically they forcing horse to play vast majority of 200avg runners when im playing exclusively the biggest fields on ggpoker and have all results here, my gg sharkscope shows avg runners of 1700 people in 3k mtt sample and its much lowered due to late hypers, turbo, speedracers, wsoop racers. I was hoping to discuss this as in the pfd file was cleary stating every case should be discussed with managment but they was visibly annoyed with me, insisted that this was explained in interview - which I clarify that it wasnt, another member insited back that it was and I was free to leave channel. Interview ended very shortly after discussing only my application as I immedietly turned off the offer playing up to 5$ mtt games so there was absolutly no additional, new information, field size was never mentioned. Left with unpleasant feeling and zero trust to any stable as this reputable stable lost composure so quickly on their own neglect.
Everything was happening in last two days so I run only small session with lower buyins, found some good opportunities:
Tuesday - 80th out of 11100 in 5.40$, 79th out of 6900 in 3$
Wednesday - 269 out of 4100 in 5.40$, 8 out of 1920 in 5.50$ for 200$.
Busting hand from final table :
Im little hard on myself here, it seems like cooler and I think it is... but my edge was massive, final table full of very weak players and only one regular. I could win that tournament without risking my tournament life as most of them was very passive. Player that busted me was chipleader whole tournament, super active and weak, no understanding of icm and played bounty mtt ranges on regular final table, very active preflop, made a lot of shoves 30bb eff preflop but postflop fairly weak, not worth agressive label. Taking into consideretion my edge, no real hands that make sense to jam and huge risk regarding my position and stack it was a blunder.
Im fine with preflop and with the flop, but at turn I should atleast take time to consider this and hopefully find godmode, I felt like im slowrolling and just flicked it in.
Bankroll: 4674$
Won 100C$ in lowest mtt leaderboard placing around top300. This is not going to be included in bankroll but eventually will turn into some profit that will be added, along with 63C$ from other promotion.
Im curious of your perspective about this hand!
