My results of grinding 2NL 5NL 10NL 25NL 50NL 100NL

44 hand: Never calling vs this big bet OTF, sometimes calling vs small bet. I dont think it's close vs big size.

15 December.....Not sure where you came up with this crypto prediction of yours and convinced yourself about it, but the sky hasn't fallen yet!

I’m still holding with my cryptos waiting for 15-25% increase but it might be too late and anytime cryptos can go down again but still hoping it’s delayed at least few days or a week

For example look at VIC coin where i sold it and where i bought it back in and it went up again, i might missed sell opportunity, longer i hold on it to sell more riskier it gets

Anyway my belief is based on past experiences, i feel like crypto whales will start dumping again like they do it every year but maybe im wrong and Trump factor can be a game changer because as soon as Trump got elected cryptos started moving up

But crypto crash happens frequently past years, it's nothing that serious just whales will make money and we will get stuck, my own experience of last years when crypto crashed i never sold anything, yeah i got stuck and my cryptos hit bottom point but i long waited, after every crash it will take several months or a year to recover but at least im never losing anything because im never selling if it goes down no matter what, just this time i don't want to get stuck, i want to use my crypto money for live poker bankroll and i hope i can make it

BTW I wasn't playing on my normal stakes which is NL10+, i was just testing my new strategy on NL2 so i think there is no point to show graphs yet just redline seems fine but not sure if it's NL2 thingy or my strategy... i can't tell until i play higher limits but as for now i still feel i need little more adjustments to make with my strat, im trying to figure out whats missing, i feel like there is a cherry missing on the top.

Here is another hand

Falling for the old flop check-raise and then induced to put your stack in on the turn.

I don't know what you thought villain had which you were beating. At these stakes the big flop check-raise is so strong. You're lucky that villain only had a gutshot straight draw / nut flush draw in this spot.

Even 56 gets there on the turn. I guess you hoped to see KK - JJ or complete bluffs?

JJ+ or draws yeah but i shouldn't be stacking off with this SPR and at these stakes if i blindly just fold to any raise will be a +EV move imo, like basically if i fold to any raise i can't go wrong lol but when i play i always imagine playing vs tough opponents

I would probably fold vs turn bigger sizing but since he went small it made no sense because if he has a set or two pair he wants to bet bigger on that wet board

Hello ! Good luck in your journey 🙏.
Can you please tell me how long it took you to get from 2NL to 50NL and how many hours roughly used to play per day ?

So once he bets small on turn, you click back and he jams for an extra 64bb. Was folding a consideration?

With that strong line on turn you have to be pretty crushed?

Hello, thanks mate, gl you too.

When i started playing on GG i was playing 9max ante games, it’s considerably easier than 6max so there is no way player who beats 9max NL50 can beat zoom50, so i don’t take that as an big achievement

Mainly what helped me was that i was playing really a lot 9tabling and through leaderboards and stuff i reached NL100 in few months but as soon as players got better i got crushed and i started panicking

Started to change strategies too often and totally forgot the first strategy that got me there, this unsure behavior lead me to move down to the bottom again

I believe after NL25 online field gets extremely tough, if you’re not sure with your strategy better to not move up, table selection can help a lot tho and good bankroll management is one of the fundamentals which is the key when moving up.

After he jammed i knew i was beat but pot was already too big that’s why i called

Care to run me through that calculation?

If you knew you were beat, were you putting them on a set and could win with an A or 5? Or were you putting them on a straight (56)? In which case, you were drawing dead.

How much equity did you estimate you had in this spot and were you getting the right price on the call?

It's not entirely about calculations, lets say if a tough opponent notices you just raise like that and fold after to a shove you will open doors to exploitations right? we need to call here sometimes imo, pot is like 185BB and we need to call 64BB so odds are like 1 to 3, if there is a chance that villain has JJ+ or a draw we still win right?

Yeah but im not playing exploitative poker right now, my aim to play NL2 isn’t to win, my aim is to cement my strategy and memorize and i just want to see how far balanced play will get me in the future.

that's very impressive ..thank you for your answer and good luck !

micro zoom pools are massive and worrying about balance against people who barely know the rules and just play their hand for what it is will stagnate your progress.

You need a large sample of a particular villain in order to start figuring out how their strategy is constructed.

A channel that really opened my eyes: https://www.youtube.com/@playitsmartpoke... . Dude is crushing fast fold pools with massive rake and isnt obsessing over balance and instead just focuses on finding the most +ev plays.

Latest video on that channel i saw is how to max exploit fish and regs, i may catch something useful which ill use for my strategy mainly against fish, good stuff, thanks mate.

The cherry on the top that is missing on my strategy:

1. When my aggression faces aggression, defense mechanisms not working properly, i was overcalling while pool was underbluffing

2. Strategy lacks bluff catching lines, i need to shift some value hands to set up scenarios where i check with intention to induce bluffing

Gonna do off table work a day or two

I’m starting to regret that i didn’t follow my plan to withdraw crypto till 15 December, now it’s dropping -1k$+ already and im not sure what to do, prolly will wait and as soon as it moves back up will withdraw at first chance.

Hasn't everyone told you that micro players in these fast forward pools are nits who generally don't bluff? Play an ABC strategy. Bet with value and don't bother bluffing / crazy hero call = winning at these stakes.

Yes but the realization of importance is different thing, how crucial it is to profile players and apply defense lines only vs the overly aggro ones who bluff often and go totally no call mode vs the abc ones

I’ve come to the realization defense strategy is not any less important than the general strategy itself while moving up

These abc players still survive only because they’re getting paid with their unbalanced value heavy lines/raises, this explains why top HS reg Daniil Vasilev not doing great at NL50, he’s just hitting the wall i guess every time he tries to play the same way as he would play on his normal stakes

HS reg Daniil Vasilev I've watched 2 of his streams. He doesn't have much exploits against good players. Plays too scared and has too few tools to get anything out of better players. He loses too many small pots and at the same time he never gets money in the middle when he has good ones.

I think this statement is far from true, lately he plays cash world championship along with toughest opponents like linus etc and he's doing better then most HS regs, also his statname stats show he's in top 11 with 200k volume

I guess he was just having a bad day and wasn't playing his Agame when I watched. I was quite surprised myself.

I'm not sure my jam was correct here but i think V should be folding