Ain't no party like a DKB party
Greetings Everyone,
Plan is simple but hard to achieve 10k€ in the bank+bankroll and ~+2k$ income/monthly from poker.
After unexpected success in my first blog, where I succeed in making 1k$ profit in a month playing 25nl.
Wanted to continue keep myself accountable and have a good place for reflection.
In this blog I will be posting:
-Weekly updates (Result Graph,Sessions,RB,Interesting HH)
-Weekly goals and plans (upfront)
-Monthly updates
-Monthly goals and plans (upfront)
About me, I'm 26 year old male from Latvian and currently working full-time job(15days a month, 12h shifts). For now I'm playing 25nl PartyPoker Regular/Zoom tables and have a rakeback ~25%. In future might look into other options but for now I'm satisfied with 25nl pool of PartyPoker. Will be using aggressive bankroll management 20bi up with 2bi shots.
P.S. Will not end this blog until I achieve my goal, for how ever long it takes.
Thanks for reading.
Any feedback about how I played or thinks I could do better is much appreciated.
103 Replies
GL bro
Thanks, mate!
Thanks, G!
See you in Triton 25k$ in ~2028.
GL
Thanks, appreciate it!
Week 27 Recap
Greetings,
Nice Results in first week as Pro, don't feel like I played the best I could but at the same time felt ill during mid week.
Monday/Tuesday had my last two shifts and then on Wednesday morning gave all my work stuff to be officially done with my job. Wednesday played very little as I felt sick. Thursday is my day off so went on a date with GF, then played live 60€ where I ended being 4/36 for nice profit of 166€. Friday, Saturday, Sunday played more but still wasn't at 100%.
Overall a lot of things to improve for following week like discipline, more structure and less distraction.
Cash: +748,4
MTT: +166€ (from 60€ live mtt)
RB: +62,5$
Total: +976,9$ (Yes I know $ & € is not the same)
Cash Graph:
Sessions:
Rakeback:
Some interesting hands:
Goals for next week
- +10k hands
- HH reviews in grind day mornings
- Study atleast 15min a day (HH review no including)
- 3x gym
- No Youtube
- No phone before getting out of bed
- Sleep before 23:00 (unless live mtt/cash)
- Keep track of my spendings
- Plan my days ahead
Thanks for reading.
Any feedback about how I played or things I could do better is much appreciated.
Week 28 Recap
Greetings,
Nice Results in 2nd week as Pro, still settling in the new lifestyle and grateful for freedom that I have now.
Monday/Thursday where my free days from poker(only study a bit), these kinda days feels mandatory. Mon/Thu/Sat went to the gym, going to gym 3x a week is my PR in like last 5 years.
Tuesday Wednesday where solid quite days for poker. Friday Saturday Sunday where kinda wild days with good action and lucky outcomes. Something I have implemented and I see instant positive results is playing 5min-15min of 25nl zoom before first session and trying to be very precise with my preflop ranges
A little off my volume goals but original goal of 4 session of 90min per grind day seems a bit too large esp when game only really get good after 5pm. To reach higher tier rakeback (25% to 30%) need to increase my weekly volume by ~20% and if I play 3 session of 90min (5 days a week) it would surpass last weeks 19h of play time.
Also watched 0 Youtube last week, which is probably biggest achievement of the week, because in the first day I tried opening Youtube like 10-20 times.
Overall improved from last week and want to keep improving moving forward... No Youtube/ 3x Gym/ HH review daily/ Study daily. Will play live mtt on Tuesday for fun.
Cash: +990,5$
MTT: +60,62$ (used only free tickets)
RB: +125$
Total: +1126,12$
Cash Graph:
Sessions:
Rakeback:
Some interesting hands:
Goals for last week:
- +10k hands
Almost will improve next week
- HH reviews in grind day mornings
Done
- Study atleast 15min a day (HH review no including)
Done
- 3x gym
Done
- No Youtube
Done
- No phone before getting out of bed
80% done,still a bit but much better then before
- Sleep before 23:00 (unless live mtt/cash)
Failed, most day was 23:00-00:00
- Keep track of my spending's
Done
- Plan my days ahead
Done
Goals for upcoming week:
- +12k hands
- HH reviews in grind day mornings
- Study at least 15min a day (HH review no including)
- 3x gym
- No Youtube
- No phone before getting out of bed
- Sleep before 23:00 (unless live mtt/cash)
- Keep track of my spendings
- Plan my days ahead
- Meditate before first session
- 25nl zoom warm up before first session
Thanks for reading.
Any feedback about how I played or things I could do better is much appreciated.
Glad to see first couple of weeks have went well
HH1: I like your line. Can also just 33% turn jam river
KK strong enough to play for everything on that flop/turn I think. Small SPR, QJs probs low freq pre for SB and although you lose to 99 TT sometimes they also have JJ-QQ, Tx
Interesting thing I was thinking about is what line will SB put in most money against. People are kinda passive and nitty in 4b pots relative to solver in general imo, so probably need to just put in money yourself
HH2: I've seen solvers flat AKo there as well. Dominating SB Kx draws and Ax draws post and having showdown value in lot of lines is part of it and why they get to river there imo
Agree with what you said and your QTs line looks good, only worry if they show up with the 0EV theory calldowns like Jx or 77-88. On turn there's lot of bluff options for u like KT KQ and weaker Ax, but when they keep folding just keep blasting lol. Check raise QTs on turn to own their floats and stabs or realise eq and bluff river is nice option too
HH3: like it, fish don't seem to fold much to raise after donking and can overplay
HH4: Agree snapcall unlikely to be top range. Q is really good river too since lot of your bluffs improve. Unblocking flushdraw is nice for uoir hand too and I'd defo jam if got there. Solvers usually giveup your hand on turn since it blocks backdoor flushdraw folds, but I think it's fine. Would only worry if they show up the 0EV turn and river stuff like 77-TT
HH5: looks fine esp vs profile
HH6: Pretty nice call. Not in love with spot since BTN bluff combos should be quite filtered after flop, but maybe easy for BTN to overdo river especially if some sets bet turn
HH7-HH8 nice early christmas presents from fish
HH9: their chat was pretty honest lol. Hindsight is 2020, but I'd guess most people are less likely to put stuff in chat when weak since scared of giving it away
I'd bet the river bigger (50% or jam) as well expecting them to be pretty capped. Bet small would be to induce or get hero'd, but heros probs call b50. Their bluffs probably bet river themselves so after they raise this has to be pair or air turning into bluff, or just trap. I'd need special read to call that, bit too fancy a play for fish bluff I think. Fish check raise turn or river is alarm bells for me
Thanks for reply @taggsy505 much appreciate it!
I wish my blog would be as advance as your reply editing.
As always agree with your analyses completely.
HH2 was one of those hands that is hard to get out of your mind as session continues, because I start to question my understanding of the spot and then what could be his reasoning for playing that hand in that way... Maybe he just RNG this spot and doesn't know what his doing and I'm overthinking.
HH9 Yea pure fu** up, chat got me too curious... If you ever want me to call just type some dumb sh** and I won't be able to help myself.
H2 I know what you mean. They maybe like the deception aspect of flatting or assume sb will put in too much money on A/K hi boards. But no one plays vs 4b perfect so it’s not clear how flat>4b imo, which is why I think they just RNG and played well post. Or maybe it’s clear to them and they’re a 100nl crusher idk
Hahah can relate to the curious call so bad lol, when I cant make sense of fish play I just call
Graph porn in the thread!
You are crushing mate!
Thanks, appreciate the support!
Nice results mate! Your worst nightmares about going pro are not realized, so that's a plus 😀
What site(s) are you playing on btw?
Thanks!
I play on site that used to be the biggest at one time, but its always a good place to have a Party. For now only play there, can legally also play on GGpoker/Ipoker (have accounts). CoinPoker is 4th option (grey area).
hmm I almost overlooked them. That was the first site I ever played on around 20 years ago lol.. I'm guessin gthe games are decent enough? On pokerstars I'm limiting most my volume to evenings now cos such little traffic/fun players at this stake but that's less than ideal for me I'm always sleepy after dinner 😃
Well I'm kinda doing the same, the games get more active around 5pm(GMT +2). But I think at 5nl/10nl games should be good all day. 25nl is diffrent story.
Week 29 Recap
Greetings,
Good Results which I'm very happy about, ran good played solid. Also played one orbit of 200nl #200nlReg.
Monday grinded online, was not to stocked about playing online as it was my 4th day in a row but last session of the day turned out very profitable so I can't complain.
Tuesday had free day which I decided to finish playing live mtt, in future will only play turbos or hyper mtt live when next day is suppose to be online grind.
Wednesday was ruined by terrible sleep from losing live mtt at 2am and for that reason took the day off.
Thursday online grind, solid slow grind.
Friday free day, did play one session as I felt good and had free time (w/ warm up session ofc)
Saturday/Sunday nice action packed weekend to close profitable week.
For the following week will make little adjustments regarding better sleep. Monday free, Tue/Wen/Sat/Sun online grind and Thursday/Friday will be semi-grind/semi-free days as I want to try to play live 1/3€ on Thursday and maybe play one online session at Friday evening.
Cash: +1461$
MTT: 0 (-70 euro live mtt, +75$ online & STNG w/boys)
RB: +100$
Total: +1561$
Cash Graph:
Sessions:
Rakeback:
Some interesting hands:
Chat game:
HH8 Reg
Other Reg, Obv took it out of context but I love trolling other Regs (he referred to me not remembering how I got 400b stack)
Goals for upcoming week:
- +12k hands
Failed
- HH reviews in grind day mornings
Done
- Study at least 15min a day (HH review no including)
Done
- 3x gym
Failed (2x only)
- No Youtube
Done
- No phone before getting out of bed
50% failed
- Sleep before 23:00 (unless live mtt/cash)
Failed
- Keep track of my spendings
Done
- Plan my days ahead
Done
- Meditate before first session
Done
- 25nl zoom warm up before first session
Done
Goals for upcoming week:
- +12k hands
- HH reviews in grind day mornings
- Study at least 15min a day (HH review no including)
- 3x gym
- No Youtube
- No phone before getting out of bed
- Sleep before 23:00 (unless live mtt/cash)
- Keep track of my spendings
- Plan my days ahead
- Meditate before first session
- 25nl zoom warm up before first session
Thanks for reading.
Any feedback about how I played or things I could do better is much appreciated.
update?
Woke up one hour ago lol.
Breakfast and Update.
I do appreciate your enthusiasm or troll, wont make you wait long.
part of the Monday morning ritual is reading this blog. it's like the 9 o'clock news being off air
Week 30 Recap
Greetings,
Good week and feels surreal to keep going in this trajectory. Ran good in many spots and imo for the 95% of time played well.
Monday had a free day(Study/Gym/Chill).
Tuesday had a bad start to the day after terrible sleep duo to cat walking me up 4 times in a night and having alarm clock. After that went to the park with GF and had much better performance mindset at evening session.
Wednesday studied in the morning and when to gym. Had a plan to play longer hour to be more ready for live cash next day.
Thursday play one nice profitable session. Arrived at casino to play live cash 1/3€ with back up plan to play 80€ turbo if cash game would not run. Unfortunately for me (and dumb because I knew of that festival) neighboring country was hosting Kings of Vilnius. So there was no cash running but had this tiny 30 people max mtt running in which I punted/put 3 bullets in (last being max late reg having 14bb lol).
Friday started late, nice first session but terrible 2nd session as I decide to stream for some friends which resulted in me disconnecting 2 times and not being able to perform to my best.
Saturday solid online grind and solid gym session.
Sunday wanted to go for set RB goal, but after seeing only 4 tables running in the morning (100nl & 50nl) and similar situation at evening only went for next tier and missed 100$ Rake paid to get 30% RB from 25% RB.
For this following week adjustment will be no alarm clock and not to think/go to casino, work on my sleep. Mon/Thu free, Tue/Wen/Fri/Sat/Sun grind days. Will try harder to reach my volume goals this week.
Cash: +1706$
MTT: -240$ (-240 euro live mtt (3bulltes in same mtt)
RB: +125$
Total: +1591$
Cash Graph:
Sessions:
Rakeback:
Some interesting hands:
Chat game:
From HH1: I do mean it when I said I would not take advantage of misclick, but I'm not folding my stack off range (would fold AQs, 99)
From HH8: lol.
Last weeks Goals:
- +12k hands
Failed
- HH reviews in grind day mornings
Done
- Study at least 15min a day (HH review no including)
Done
- 3x gym
Done
- No Youtube
Done (F1 highlights don't count)
- No phone before getting out of bed
Failed
- Sleep before 23:00 (unless live mtt/cash)
Failed most nights
- Keep track of my spendings
Done
- Plan my days ahead
Done
- Meditate before first session
50% Done (need/want to get better at this)
- 25nl zoom warm up before first session
Done
Goals for upcoming week:
- +10k hands
- HH reviews in grind day mornings
- Study at least 15min a day (HH review no including)
- 3x gym
- No Youtube
- No phone before getting out of bed
- Sleep before 23:00
- Keep track of my spendings
- Plan my days ahead
- Meditate before first session
- 25nl zoom warm up before first session
- Don't go to casino (mtt/cash)
- No alarm clock
Thanks for reading.
Any feedback about how I played or things I could do better is much appreciated.
Sorry, no morning news only afternoon news 🙄as I have Barber appointment. But was an intresting week.
Week 31 Recap
Greetings,
"surreal to keep going in this trajectory" lol, played very bad first half of the week. Made some expensive mistakes mid week and my decisions became increasingly bad duo to losing confidence in my game. So much so that I start subconsciously sabotage my decisions in big spots, I guess I'm calling all of them hoping to regain my confidence and also going for every bluff spot equally as often. For future low confidence moments plan is to, take a day free and then regain confidence by playing a bit lower or less tables or table select more... At the same time get used to losing more (Had won every single day in November until this week so was flying a bit too high).
Monday had a free day(Study/Gym/Chill).
Tuesday small loss overall fine day.
Wednesday weird day don't feel like I played too bad just didn't win any pots and lost few large/medium ones to be down -400$.
Thursday day off started playing new game that I enjoyed and just chilled all day in bed.
Friday was bad and felt terrible with decision like in HH2 and many other confidence was at all time low. Feel like emotions from first two losing days carried over and I went into a mentality of feeling incapable of winning, so I forced action in bad way. Did re-think all my emotions and low confidence that night and came to some conclusions, maybe if I did that on Thursday instead of ignoring it and would be much better week overall.
Saturday still not at my best and confidence in my game not ideal, booked a small loss after few expensive mistake, but was much more aware of my emotions/confidence... So overall positive day given Fridays terrible grind.
Sunday Proud of this day as played solid and even later on decide to reach my weekly RB goal (something that I have missed every other week in November). Ended the day +3$ lol, but was 400$ under EV so I take this as a win and confidence boost.
For this following week adjustment will 1.get back to more structured approach. 2.Not to hold bad/good emotions after sessions (write them down, re-think them). 3. Re-view last day session + HH as objectively as I can. 4. Be more ok with losing.
Mon/Thu free, Tue/Wen/Fri/Sat/Sun grind days. Will try harder to good solid poker (less hero calls/less crazy bluffs)this week.
Cash: -1251$
MTT: 0
RB: +180$
Total: -1071$
Cash Graph:
Sessions:
Rakeback:
Some interesting hands:
Chat game:
Last weeks goals:
- +10k hands
Almost
- HH reviews in grind day mornings
Failed
- Study at least 15min a day (HH review no including)
Done
- 3x gym
Done
- No Youtube
Done
- No phone before getting out of bed
Failed
- Sleep before 23:00
Failed
- Keep track of my spendings
Done
- Plan my days ahead
Done
- Meditate before first session
Failed
- 25nl zoom warm up before first session
Failed
- Don't go to casino (mtt/cash)
Done
- No alarm clock
Done
Goals for upcoming week:
- Reach 30% RV (600$ rake paid ~10k hands)
- HH reviews in grind day mornings
- Study at least 15min a day (HH review no including)
- 3x gym
- No Youtube
- No phone before getting out of bed
- Sleep before 23:00
- Keep track of my spendings
- Plan my days ahead
- Meditate before first session
- Don't go to casino (mtt/cash)
- No alarm clock
Thanks for reading.
Any feedback about how I played or things I could do better is much appreciated.
Rough week! but respect for the consistency 😀 hopefully this week you run better
Thanks, kinda brought it upon myself.