Starting the grind with $20

You're probably right 😃

It's been more than a month since my last update.

I took things very slowly for the better part of a month, but I'm definitely back on track now.

I've been playing 5nl regular tabels on GG. I think I dipped below 20$ initally, but I've finally passed the $100 mark once again.

Hopefully this time I won't go on a 14BI downswing in a day
(looking back at how I played that day, I'm definitely embarrassed. Calling it just bad luck is far from the truth...)

I'll keep grinding 5nl. I'll be back here with graphs after I pass $200-$250. Cheers.

For the first time ever, I'm actually putting in decent volume.

Currently playing 6 tables and around 4000 hands/day. That's usually enough to get about $3-$5 of rb from the leaderboards on GG which is a nice bonus.

https://gg.gl/0qxop

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I'm certainly not studied in these post-flop situations so don't mind my probably horrible plays.

Nonetheless it's safe to say I was loving my hand on the turn, and by the end of it, I wanted to end it all for a brief moment.

JK I'm handling tilt much better now than I used to. Still sucks.

I'm getting tired. They just have it every time I guess ¯\_(ツ😉_/¯

oops that's not the right image 😃

I tend to have it preflop

post-flop on the other hand is a different ball game... clearly

I'm ****ing loving life. These hands are back to back

current mindset = If I don't have it, they have it. If I have it, they either have it better or they'll get there on the river.

literally the next hand. I'm not kidding this is a bit insane...

He's labeld as a punter hence the snap call with AQo

With that being said. Tilt is something I'll certainly still have to work on.

Variance is a huge part of the game and sooner or later I'll need to learn to accept that.

Something I've gotten better at is taking a step back when I sense myself thinking and regrouping before starting another session.

I've played about 3500 hands today, was up around 2 buy-ins pre rake and now I'm down about 2 buy-ins in the last 500 hands. It happens, I'll analyze my hands a little bit and we shall see if I can get in the right mindset for another two or so hours. I'm still up around $90 pre rake in the last 25 000 hands so all in all I'm not too mad.

You can't eliminate variance. I'll just focus on studying, playing and getting better everyday to minimaze variance and maximize profits.

Happy grinding to everyone who still bother to read my thread!

I've been playing regular cash game tables only for the past 40 000 or so hands.

I'm enjoying my time, but I've certainly improved since last playing zoom, so I think I'll be giving GG R&C another go for probably another 50k hands or so.

We'll see which suits me better.

Have the tides turned?

Just went ahead and played 1300 hands of zoom in about 15 minutes.

And OMG I forgot how insane the volume is in zoom.

Also the pace of playing four zoom tables seems ideal. (I used to only be able to play two)

300* not 1300 lol.

Should be about 1200 hands an hour I guess.

Much nicer than the 650 hands / hour playing 6 reg tables.

welp

after getting quads twice against a full house in about 3 hours, I can no longer cry about bad luck

Most of my hand posts here are heat of the moment tilt posts so don't take them too seriously btw

I played 30k hands of R&C in the past like 5 days.

I ran prety bad yesterday and I'm not really feeling the zoom tables. Atleast not the 5nl pool on GG

I reverted back to reg tables. I find them a lot more enjoyable. I have more time per decision, I can react to players playstyles better (and take notes) etc.

It just feels more like actual poker and not just everyone waiting for the nuts and being passive stations with anything less than trips.

4 tables of zoom feel like a grind for rakeback/lb. 6 reg tables feel like playing actual poker.

If I was in this to make quick money, I'd probably grind leaderboards everyday. But I play with the intent of acutally improving and getting better at poker. On regular tables my quality of game and time per decision is much greater., which is why I'll be sticking to regular tables for atleast the next couple of months.

Just a quick update of what I'm doing at the moment :3

I just succesfully value bet A high vs lower A high

What a time to be alive eh?

I have a presisting problem in my life where I start something new, but never stick to it.

Currently I've been switching between high vs low volume, trying to figure out what's best.

I might do a day or two of lower volume (4 tables) and a day or two of higher volume (8-9 tables). I'm tired of switching back and forth all the time.

I believem that for my overall improvement, It's majorly +EV to play lower volume with better focus on improvement and not making mistakes.

It's time I commit to trying this out for a longer time.

For the next 30 days I'll only allow myself to play 4 tables at a time, with full focus on making good decisions.

At the end of the 30 days, I'll analyzen whether I feel like this sort of style is good for me. If I'm unsatisfied, I'll probably do a similar trial period playing tons of volume. We'll see.

I've been reading a ton latelty.

Here's a quote by Marcus Aurelius that I feel is extremely important to keep in mind as a poker player.

Especially when "running bad" :

"You take things you don't control and define them as "good" or "bad".
And so of course when the "bad" things happen, or the "good" one's don't,
you blame the gods and feel hatred for the people responsible - or those you
decide to make responsible. Much of our bad behavior stems from trying to apply
those criteria. If we limited "good" and "bad" to our own actions,
we'd have no call to challenge god, or to treat other people as enemies."

Do you actually think I'm not studying?

I'm studying every day. I just don't find it very interesting to post about it.

Anything in particular you want to know about my study routine?

This thread is pretty dead.

I'll probably leave this thread fully idle for now and just focus on improving for a while.

I'll keep grinding hard and will either return to this thread, or most likely start a new one at some point later this year.

Still feeling great about playing poker and improving. And I don't see myself stopping any time soon :3

Or maybe I'll just shitpost here and start a more interesting thread one day when I have more impressive results to show and more to contribute to poker discussions.

Currently I'm just so focused on finding my way and learning.