It's time to walk with my own feet - A journey about small improvements, by theicebergslim.

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It's time to walk with my own feet - A journey about small improvements, by theicebergslim.

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41 posts · member since Apr 2021
2yr ago

Hi guys, some of you might already know me from some time before. Today is my birthday, so I decided that this would be

20 October 2023 at 11:45 AM
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41 posts · member since Apr 2021
2yr ago

Update:

Well, a lot of stuff happened since my last post, I will try to summarize everything to not make a really long and boring post for you guys.

1. My team left bodog for good (thank god) and now we are playing on a poker app.
This new poker site that we are playing now is a lot better than bodog, great rakeback deal, less time bank, unlimited number of tables to play simultaneously, in-built hud, the app doesn't crash when you have AA like on bodog, etc...

2. I finally moved up.
After making some adjustments on my game that the coach told me to do on my last db review, my redline finally became upward and my check-raise stat also improved, so today he sent me a message telling me that now I am good to move up and wished me good luck.
It's just NL10 and I will definitely make no money here, so I will spend a lot of time studying the new strat they will send me and try to align my game to this new stake as soon as possible.

Even though that's not a realistic goal, I will try to move up in this first month that I'm starting, if I don't make it for any reason, at least I will get close enough to move up on next month, which is not that bad also. I don't believe this new strat will be much more complex than my current one, so I don't think it's something impossible to happen.

My graph from last month:


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589 posts · member since Oct 2022
2yr ago

Nice work jumping to 10nl. Keep it up and don’t get complacent

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theicebergslim avatartheicebergslim
2yr ago
by slyless

Once again I am convinced that quitting poker is very difficult. 😀

GL mate!

by swerbs22

Good luck

by MDAmicros

Sounds good man, good luck 😀

Thank you, it's good to see you guys again btw 🙂

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STUDY PLAN

I think I'm playing fairly well as the PFR most of the time and I'm doing a decent job extracting as much money as possible when I have a strong hand (which is not hard considering the player pool that I'm playing against), but on the other hand I believe what is holding me back from moving up are the hands where I'm defending instead of being the aggressor.

Sometimes I call too much, other spots I overfold, and I'm also not raising enough in a lot of situations. The team strat that I'm following is pretty simple to understand and I think I'm applying everything well most of the time, but there's some spots that I know that I'm playing really bad and I will do my best to fix them before feburary ends (I think one month might be enough to improve in those areas), they are the following:

1. SRP OOP PFR - line xb33 and xb75

vs xb33: I know that the population overbluff a lot using this size and I noticed that I'm not calling or raising enough in this spot in certain board textures

vs xb75: that's a underbluffed bet size and I'm calling too much with certain classes of hands while overfolding with others (ex. board K53tt I'm calling with K9s without BDFD while folding JJ that has BDFD)

2. SRP IP PFC (BB x SB) - line b33, line b75 and line b33c-b75

vs b33: I think I'm overfolding a bit with some K-high on low-disconnect board and I'm also not raising enough vs this bet size in boards where I can do it.

vs b75: I never trained much vs this size or pot and I believe I'm overfolding sometimes

vs b33c-b75: another spot that I feel that I'm overfolding, I might be calling with a frequency similar to what I would do on BB vs BTN.

Method of studying: I will practice this spots for 30min before each grinding session (which takes 2 hours mostly), I think studying that way is better to memorize rather than just studying in the morning and playing at afternoon/night like I was doing.

First I will start practicing SRP OOP PFR for 5 days or more, than I will switch to SRP IP PFC and train for another 5 days and keep doing that until the end of february, I think it will be enough to fixate the main concepts in my mind (I hope so).

After that I think I will retrain myself on BB x BTN or CO river calls, which I also believe that I'm not playing well currently....

theicebergslim avatartheicebergslim
2yr ago

Hi guys, it's me again. After some time off trying to create another account, I eventually managed to create another one without problems after a lot of try and error, so now I'm active on my team again, and I'll do my best to make things work this time.

Although I have been inactive on my team for 2-3 months, I devoted myself to playing and applying the team strategy playing on GGpoker with my own money, that bankroll I built from scratch playing as many freerools as I could, after raising $15 playing freerolls I grinded on NL2 until reaching $60.

I know the amount in cash is quite insignificant, but I think it was good to preserve my mental health while practicing the team strategy for when I was going back. To be honest with you guys, the blocking of my account was really bad for me, and I was in a very self-destructive moment after that happened, so I believe that occupying my mind with something useful as building a new bankroll was definitely positive.

Well, now I have a study plan to remove the main leaks in my game that I currently have, which I believe are preventing me from moving up, and I will share this study plan with you guys in my next post for those who might be interested.

Anyway, wish me luck guys. ...