Rodric War's 200 to 2knl
Results for the month of April
Started off in a bit of a rut but made it a point to not let it make my volume suffer. being able to push through resistance is what separates this month from the some of the previous ones.
In many other iterations of my game I would let a 10k hand stretch like this put me in the hospital for a few days. I'd take a couple days to excessively study and rebuild confidence.
The idea that I have an edge and not playing is -ev for my winrate finally started to kick in.
The good:
- went to the gym 2-3x times a week.
-started running
-made minor improvements in my eating
-started reading more
-studying routine was very consistent
The bad:
- still eating to self-soothe too much
-think im smoking too much weed. Been smoking pretty consistently to wind down after sessions. This seems harmless but I end up staying up too late.
To be improved:
-go to gym most days
-improving eating.
-better sleep schedule. (this month I felt like it was more +ev to start playing sessions later in the evening bc of game quality). im still not sure what is best? the good thing was more fish, but the bad part was going to bed at like 6 am. I dont mind staying up all night but this tendency does make sticking to things like going to the gym harder.
After the 10k hand mark I started running really well. Then I felt like things were clicking more. Finished the month off with tons of volume and ended up getting over 30k hands this month. Felt like I trusted my instincts. I maintained a steady level of curiosity, manifesting in a good deal of intuitive plays. I made tons of mistakes and I learned a bunch.
Added a few cool tricks to my tool bag -
1. implemented donk on turn and river. We can call wider on turn bc we gain ev by having donk option on some rivers
2. Added a few good exploits vs common mistakes. ie- when ppl aren't raising to your block bet on river then its good to size up with your value a bit since we dont generate ev from bluffcatching in the bet/call line.
3. Refined my thought process on flop sizings- I've been able to divorce myself from the idea that some sizes are bad. running aggregate reports was making me miss fish ev in a lot of spots. I'm much more keen to play the incentive of my hand vs fish after this month.
4. My mental bag is growing. A lot of this comes down to trial and error with myself. My expectations are now more in sync with reality so I am more equipped to cope with what poker throws my way.
**** bro, looking back at some of this stuff has been pretty cool
totally forgot i posted most of this
i thought i posted on 2+2 for like 2 weeks but it was a bit longer than that
i logged in because ive been wanting to write lately
and ive been playing a lot of MTTs lately
thinking about opening a new thread? or should i just continue here
im live to go from 1m to 10m in hendon earnings in the next couple of years and documenting some of it would be cool
typical mtt pro things, ill have like 2m in net profits and prolly spend half of it in a few years if i accomplish the feat, but ppl will think im a billionaire xD
suddenly dave peters makes more sense kek
yeah dude keep posting in this thead. dont bother with a new one.
I dont check 2plus2 that much anymore either happened to see this. I think we did some group coaching before a while ago
ya i remember the sn
what's happened to ignition is sad
Broked
Update 26 - Haven't posted in a while. Since playing bigger, I questioned how much I should be sharing publicly. Prolly won't share much strategy things on this forum but I like the idea of checking in every couple of weeks/months just for records sake. It's really easy for me to take progress for granted and "forget" about the journey. Glossing over the last few updates was a
wsop starts this week. can't believe its been almost 3 years since i last posted here.
found it funny how i feel the exact same way about taking progress for granted.
it's only been 15 months since i started taking mtts seriously and every 3 months i've made big strides, yet i'm in so much go go go mode that i don't appreciate it as much as i should.
what does it feel like to be on the bad end of variance when games get big???
well it depends how you lose.
sometimes it doesn't feel like much because you try your best to drown it out.
you shut up, reflect, zoom out, and deal with it however you can.
the loss lingers, it lands on you at random times but you find ways to reframe in your head so it doesn't eat away at you.
it's pretty normal for me to go through a flurry of questioning every action and thought I had.
am i the stupidest person in the world? how could i do this. my neighbor wouldn't lose 300k on a military strike.
am i ******ed? is this the beginning of the end?
eventually you settle down, touch grass, figure out where you were right and where you were wrong. Through this, you rebuild self-belief, and when that kicks in, you get back on the horse. most of the times, you manage to make it back sooner than you could ever expect. not sure what % wisdom vs survivorship that is.
How much br you have?
about to reg first event of wsop.
going into this summer trying to be hyper aware of where im at.
theres a part of me that feels guilty i didnt get as much study prep in as id usually want before a big grind.
got back to LA a couple weeks ago and was just cooked from all the travel and grinding.
when i zoom out its silly, this is wsop, not some brutal field where precision matters. im here to kill fish and exploit heavy, theres room for forgiveness.
i grinded coin poker leaderboard every day and have tapped into a lot of live poker flow state this year, so im not as rusty as I feel...
the thing im tagging is that the same time last year i had 100% in the tank. fresh, hungry, trying to prove i could win in a new format.
i lost 34 consecutive bullets at one point and my resiliency felt fully intact, still showing up every day genuinely excited to battle.
this summer if i ran the same stretch im not sure id bounce back the same way.
so im marking it. gotta stay the course and listen to what i actually need to stay sane the next 6 weeks. if i feel good and want to push hard, push. but be real. right now the tank is at like 40%. it can fill back up any moment, but if its low i want to be in tune with that so i can pick spots more selectively and prioritize restoring intra-day.
writing this out because i can see myself letting it slip and overpushing when it gets hard.
battle starts now
in a weird zone rn
feel like im playing some of my best poker
a lot of it run good but also showing up w the right mentality and performing at a high standard.
that feels good
at the same time i feel my resiliency losing armor. i’m tired and life stuff has been weighing on me.
it’s hard to weigh those two feelings against each other. i think because your resiliency read is invisible, until it gets tested. sometimes you don’t know your tank is empty until it’s empty, so that’s part of why im doing this. some preventative care and awareness.
when i go into compartmentalization mode the poker tends to hold up but the life stuff unravels more. so my intention rn is staying keyed in on what actually matters and not checking out of the life part to protect the poker part
enough mental game **** now, time to cook irl
saw seth davies do this last year
thought it was cool because he was casually stuck like 1m after a few weeks iirc and then came back to win piles
like the sound of that playbook so going to run a version of that
will post my running P&L here every day of the series
was hesitant bc i think being so results oriented is kinda toxic
the fusion between identity and results is a tricky thing and this sort of thing is a maybe a liability any way u slice it
but im a big boy and ik 6 wk sample meaningless anyway, so will remind myself to think of it like imaginary scoreboard.
and not sweat it too much, hopefully. if i do i could reassess later idk
gonna try to sun <3
Day 1
🟡 1.3x in the 5k 8h
coming into this ive been playing a lot on coin so today felt particularly slow
maybe day 1 dealers has something to do with it lol
but that made me kinda bored
felt myself wanna be on phone a lot, which tbh on day like today is okaaaaaaay
but i wanna make sure im showing up in honorable way for the most part
summer totals:
🔫 : 1
buyins: $5000
Avg 🔫 : $5000
of 💵: 0
💵: 0
profit: -5000
Day 2
🔴 out of the 5k 8h. 86 pay and im out in 100th.
had some traction going, got up to 2x avg near reg close
unraveled after spanish guy powerjam KTcc into my AKo, tbh i like his play
but v unlucky for me bc he turn a straight and we are down to crumbs
then get preflop coolered and we are swiftly eliminated
not much to do
im not very happy with my presence the first event
i felt myself not rly care about being there, like it felt small and not engaging
i think ill snap back in soon just getting settled in
also when i zoom out the lack of engagement didnt rly punish me
like i quite like how i played a lot of spots
but thats just this time, surely the universe will punish showing up like that later
come to think of it, i think thats where im going to focus some non technical energy
how do i want to show up this summer? what does that look and feel like to me? rly wanna visualize what that means for me
summer totals:
🔫 : 1
buyins: $5,000
Avg 🔫 : $5,000
$ of 💵 : 0
💵 : 0
profit: -$5000
this is where my research has taken me
ive been trying to find inspiration about the "how to show up" question
sometimes you find stuff in random places you dont expect
i learned about a samurai named miyamoto musashi during recent travels. he lived a really interesting life as a wandering swordsmen. was an absolute legend. he was 60-0 in lifetime duels, won his first duel at 13, like straight up kills a grown man in his first match. his battles were so epic they're now basically Japanese myths. its pretty sick he was like a japanese renaissance man by the end of his life. when he retired he started doing random niche things at a high level, like he'd paint and do calligraphy all day.
during the last years of his life, he retreated to a cave and wrote a book named after elements like earth, water, fire, wind and void. each one had a different lens on strategy. in the earth part, there's an opening section where he lists what students of his strategy should do. in it, he says "perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye".
was thinking about the question and i started feeling like thats exactly the spirit of how i wanna show up this summer. last year my mantras were "keep moving forward" & "honor my edge". and this year I still wanna go in with those thoughts but i really wanna go into war believing in my sense of discerning energy and letting my body cook. ya it sounds white magic but i rly believe when you are dialed-in your intuition picks up on energy you can't reasonably articulate. and thats what the quote is about. which rly struck me because if a goated japanese samurai is moving like us then its easier to believe it's the right path and not just insanity. so this summer when you get some river spot and have a bunch of poker questions, make sure you ask, what were his vibes though bro????
this is the cave musashi wrote the book of five rings.
rings being a translation from japanese... it's more like elements
Day 3
off day today from poker
had loosely planned the 2.7k satellite into 25k hu, but i skipped it
its the last stretch of off time before really hunkering down so its good time to recover
gf gets to town tomorrow
happy ill have a couple days to rejuvenate and recharge before i need to be back
took the opportunity to rest and get some study in while i dont have irl poker responsibilities.
admin stuff, study call, therapy
no poker but a busy housekeeping day...
summer totals:
🔫 : 1
buyins: $5,000
Avg 🔫 : $5,000
$ of 💵 : 0
💵 : 0
profit: -$5000
this is what $431 gets you

Day 4
good quality rest day while the 25k hu still going on
it had been 8 days since i slept at least 7 hours, but today i got eleven!!
got a massage, ate good food, and did a lot of chilling w andrea
we were both gassed from out own grinds but now it feels like gas tank +10%
good recovery, back to action tomorrow
summer totals:
🔫 : 1
buyins: $5,000
Avg
🔫 : $5,000
$ of 💵 : 0
💵 : 0
profit: -$5000
day 5
another rest day
3 in a row lol
felt like i was low in the tank so was proactive about this
did like nothing today
watched the rafa doc and wembys gm 7
cooked some food w andrea
more relax and sleep
think i added another 10% to the tank
feel a bit fresher, excited for 10k tm
day 6
🟡 bagged 1.4x in the 10k GGmillions
looked like bad turnout for this one bc 500bb starting stack
which i dont really understand because i thought playing deep af with fish was supposed to be a good thing
but apparently sharp sentiment is it makes people only wanna show up for max late ? idrc i just show up and play
had a fun god seat for the first 6 hours. he was replaced by another fish who was still fun but less of a whale. had ghosts on my left so it was v good distro for me. felt more engaged and present at the table today. even though numbers are down the fish ratio seemed juiced to me so im not upset. had fun today which left me excited to come back
off day tomorrow because the 1.5k 6m is in conflict with day 2
summer totals:
🔫 : 2
buyins: $15,000
avg 🔫: $7,500
$ of 💵: 0
💵:0
profit: -$15,000
day 7
🔴 out of the GGmillions 10k
felt v satisfied w overall performance and execution
this is extreme comparison bc the adversity has been minimal thus far lol but its sentiment reminded me of this nadal quote.
good timing bc i just watched the docuseries.
had a good thing brewing and feel like i capitalized on my good seats.
down the stretch didnt hold in the 70-30s and i was outta there.
then i max late regged the 1.7k circuit championship and lost my 10bb first hand.
so bad outcomes but felt like a good day of grinding A-B game.
ended the day excited to come back tm 😀
summer totals:
🔫 : 4
buyins: $16,700
avg 🔫 : $5,567
$ of 💵 : 0
💵 : 0
profit: -$16,700
some interesting hands were played on stream of the 10k gg millions today
eugene the old school guy from ukraine has a cool 3b on turn after xx flop vs sizing read
jesse lonis kinda savaged in big stack v big stack 119 left 95 pay spot
and andrew moreno bluffed young reg repeatedly in some nice bluff spots, like the boards and runouts outs were splendid and he max pounced on them, its a sick form of run good, its so sneaky how lucky he was to get those runouts haha but once he got them he sure did make the most of them
idk bro it depends on the day and the price of equities or how my gambles are going
thats personal and i dont wanna get robbed
u ask like 3 times chill xD
