Road from NL10 to NL50

Cleared my mind for a bit - not a terrible day to be honest. Tried out somethings that seemed to be working, aggression is great WWSF 53%. The bigger pots I lost were mainly due to my misapplication of MDA (in short, shoving is still strong). I was tilting in the morning because I thought how the **** am i making the same mistakes again and again. But not really, it just turned out to be that I misapplied MDA. So I learned quite a lot - making this a valuable day.

Aight no more tilt!

Month 2, Day 2:

Just an extremely quick session today - so tired from yesterday becasue I was playing until 3 A.M. Ran pretty good again. Just variance man, variance.

BR: 1150

Time to shot take again for 2BIs?

Month 2, Day 3:

Super busy day. Quick session. Definitely shot taking next time I play for 2BI

BR: 1166

Month 2, Day 4. End of Week 5.

Played 30mins of nl25 today, huge up and downs haha. Got shoved on (left himself with 0.2bb and folded to my shove..) after I check back my flush draw and river flush hit by a crazy villian, up 1ish BI, and then preflop AK vs KK then bvb triple barrel bluff shoved into JJ that didn't 4bet me pre and hit a top set. And then just played some good poker and got good flops, ended up 1 BI.

Week 5:

That concludes the week very solidly, and love to see how my WWSF this week is at 54! (sacrificing W@SD, of course, but I like it).

Goals:
[x] 16k/10k hands (the volume always hit lol I just keep playing)

Goals for next week:
[] 10k hands (next week i think i will be truly busy)
- [] WWSF 52%

BR: 1195

Quite discouraging and scaring to be fair, that the one time I go for a triple barrel bluff, villain has that top of the range (which doesn't even exist in theory. def taking notes on his pre action and post timing.)

I think I need to attack more snap call timing instead of normal, even a bit long tank call timing.

Proud to be solver approved btw

Month 2, Day 5:

Today I ran like an ice cube early on. And at this point I sort of figured out what it feels like to run cold and run hot and what it feels like in between.

**** like this snatched my soul. I think I should fold this tbh. I knew villian was never bluffing and I'm only calling for a chop. Plus I could totally have KT so villian's mere Tx would probably not shove. And they would not shove mere T because they want to get called, and shoving would isolate them against KT. So I should be able to fold this. And I can. I saw villian's 4% 3bet at that point (only 120hands) and thought he would never have KT 3b from BB. Ugh

What do we think about this hand? TUrn villian tanks super long before overbetting. River snap overbet shove.

We ended the session super lucky with bomb pot villian goes crazy when I hit a full house, and 66 decides to hero call against my triple barrell when river comes K and I shove. I had AA.

Anyways we'll try again tmr. Glad that I sticked around for a bit more and didn't exit down $85 haha. Money feels like real money a bit now.

BR: 1200 (+ mincash from LB)

Month 2, day 6:

Didn't play today. Not sure if I will play tomorrow. Been resting quite badly.

Bought a leak plugger to use in accompany with H2N and found out some MASSIVE MASSIVE leak. Super pumped to get those fixed!!!

Month 2, Day 7

Playing in my NL10 playground because I'm sick today and don't want to play nl25 while I'm sick. Trying out some new stuff as well.

Ran 3 BI below EV. Hopefully we are saving my fortune for nl25~

BR: 1215 (LB + flip)

Great job mate! But why are you thinking about your session by session WWSF that much? Getting fixated to a single stat like that in a vacuum seems kind of counter productive to me, and I'm a pretty significant redliner myself. Even GTO vs GTO WWSF is lower than 50 due to not all spots being heads up post flop, and as far as I know, the vast majority of significant winners are losing red liners at most stakes. Also there are many ways to increase your WWSF if you think that's necessary. One of them is to reduce your VPIP and therefore on average see flops with a stronger range, not really that much need to sabre rattle more post flop. Not saying it's not good to fight for even the smallest pots more, but I think doing that to chase some stat goals can quickly become kinda dicey.

Thanks for the support and the comment! Also your own challenge is so sick and you are doing such an insane job.

Yea you are making perfect sense. I am a naturally more timid player and afraid to pull big bluffs. I am paying attention to WWSF to keep my aggression at a decent level, and I do think that fighting fore many many small pots and keeping that WWSF high is the key to crushing microstakes. It's like a baseline that tells me whether I'm playing really **** or fine, and it's just a remindar for me to be aggressive at least in those smaller pots.

I have a tendency to underbluff river so much in 3bp though. Guess that's why my redline keeps tanking despite decent WWSF

You just gave me a throwback to when I first started to play nl10. I posted here fore the first time because I was a sad -5bb/100 player. Here is also when I found the beauty of the community as I received some fantastic advice. The most notable one was to increase the aggression in small pots.

My current WWSF is exactly at 51% hahah

He does also echo your point by reminding me not to focus too much on stats alone.

Well if that helps you improve then for sure why not. Which ever way makes you play better, I personally just listen to death metal when I play 😃, and I don't really even like metal that much.

My WWSF has been a bit less than 50 for quite some time, and don't think it's a problem and honestly don't really care anymore. There are people who obliterate any stake bw 5NL and 200NL with a WWSF lower than 45.

But yeah we might come from different mindsets. For me, controlling my I guess natural over aggression better was the key, for some others the aggression might be the thing that needs to be learned. 😀

Hhahaha i listen to house music when I grind and likewise, those would usually not appear in my playlist.

And you are totally right.

Month 2, Day 8

I am having a fever today, and my fever dream yesterday night and this morning has been grinding nl25. I felt like I played for the entire night straight. And looking at poker makes me sort of nauseous today.

I played for like 20 minutes today and ended up breakeven cause my stupid ass is not locked in.

However..

We got a share of BBJ! Ive never been a part of it for my >400k hands, and it seems pretty sick hahaha. Don't what whether im running above or below ev on this one, but always nice to get free money. 2 free BI for Nl25!!

BR: 1280

Skipped Month 2, Day 9 due to fever. I was like a vampire for the past two days.

Month 2, Day 10

Extremely short session. Just won a flip and hit flushes. Stopped because it was 3 P.M and there's less fish and my ass is too scared to play nl25 regs lol.

BR: 1328

Skipped Month 2, Day 11 due to fatigue.

End of a eventless week 6 apart from the BBJ sidepot

Obviously didn't hit the hands target cause i skipped 4 days.

Ok i will actually be incredibly busy next week so lets hope i can get some hands in.

Will skip the goals this week.

Month 2, Day 12:

Not very eventful. Ran a bit below ev but not a very great day overall. Fine though.

BR: 1328 (some RB)

Are you playing on GG 6max reg tables? Gl mate

I'm mainly playing GG RNC. Thanks!

Month 2, Day 17:

Sat out a couple days due to school stuff.

I deposited 520 for coinpoker as they are about to have rakeless march. I will separate GG BR and Coin BR from now.

GG BR: 1347
Coin BR: 571

Coinpoker doesn't have hand history it seems. Seems like I need to send them a text to receive my HHs. Haha hope they will get better with the March update.

Month 2, Day 18

Huge day up 5 BI on coin 😀) People shoving 45o is definitely something that you don't see on RNC 😀))

GG BR: 1347
Coin BR: 697

Month 2, Day 23:

I played a couple days, where I ran super hot in the first couple and played awful the next couple. I'm flatting hella due to 100% rb, resulting in my VPIP being 35. I think because this, I get marked as whale, and my super polarized bluff in 3bp when villian is capped just gets called down so lightly. I punted many BI due to this in the last two sessions. Also having trouble playing OOP against IP flatter, which is super frequent now. Also delay line doesn't work well at all for the same reason. Also I tried 9 tables and I miss sooooo many things including not seeing villian open already -> minclick pre, or donk bet because forgetting I flatted.

100% rakeback be saving my ass rn. Aleady gained like 10bi in RB already. Without that I'm literally breakeven the past couple days lol.

GG BR: 1347
Coin BR: 997

Also I was able to get away from 3bp caller from GG constantly because the high rake structure encourages 4b/fold in a lot of scenarios, combined with normal sizing + under 3bettors, I get to overfold a lot preflop. So i don't have much experience in 3bp being the caller

On Coin, the average 3 bet frequency of regs is actually close to GTO (10.5, 11.5 ish), but they tend to use a smaller sizing (in ante games, gto suggests 9bb from IP (which is like 4- 4.5 x)where people mostly use 3x. And the fact that it is 100 rb makes me call so much pre. But because I have so little experience, I just feel extremely uncomfortable. So I need to work on that.