2024 Poker Journey: Another attempt at getting good at poker.
I have been playing poker for a few years now though haven't played much in the last 4 years. I did open a few threads
I am tightening up my preflop play and to that regard I found this website called FreeBetRange which allows us to create our own ranges preflop. I have created a basic range for myself based on the various charts I have found on the internet, and its tighter than recommended but with most pots being multiway at NL2/NL5 I am trying to keep things simple.
👍 👍 👍
Been a couple of months since my last post, at the beginning of February I had to travel and with Online Poker banned there my habit of poker got broken and I hardly played any hands in February and March. I have been studying a bit though.
This weekend I played live for the first time in ages. Last I played was before the Covid 19 days, so it was a very exciting experience. I played about 16 hours across 3 days and managed to make INR 6800 on the INR 5k buyin tables. It was the lowest stakes cash tables I could find.
It is a massive confidence booster, and while I don't have the bankroll to keep playing live games at these stakes, I would love to play live once in a while.
My drivehud trial has ended so that also needs to be bought if I want to play online. Or I might stick to the sites where Hand2Note works.
End of April Update:
Online play has been fairly minimal in the last 3 months. I played about 5400 hands for a profit of about 1200 INR so nothing much to write home about.
I have continued to play live this past month playing over 60 hours and making about 6bb/hr. This has been mostly me running good and the live tables being soft.
I have invested in DriveHud today and ordered Peter Clarke's From The Ground Up. Lets hit the online felts in May
May Update:
Interesting month of May for me, this month I played 6 sessions with an average of 500+ hands each session. Volume is less for sure, however I am playing when I am feeling like playing and not because I need to play. This has definitely been great for my mental health. In this 6 sessions I have dabbled in NL5, NL10 and NL25 and I am yet to find my comfort zone.
In order to play NL25 I did deposit 20000 INR into one of the sites. It is a significant financial commitment but to think of it as just 8 buyins at those stakes has been humbling. As a result I dropped down to NL10 after playing just 1 session at NL25. 20 buyins feels a lot more comfortable than 8. On the flip side, I am now adequately rolled for NL5. Ofcourse these are via deposits and not winnings but we got to walk before we can run.
Total Investments in 2024 - 42k INR.
Study
I have watched the first 3 episodes of From the ground up last month. Its a very dense course, 15 minute episodes have lot of information. I will target to finish the next 10 episodes this month.
Results
Nothing much to write home about here, the results are all over the place.
Was profitable in NL5 but lost in NL10 and NL25. The 20k deposit had a 5k locked bonus which I have been able to unlock 50%. This has meant I have managed to keep the month's losses low. I might have to keep using reload bonuses to keep losses low.
Hands Played = 3422
PNL = INR - 491
June Plans
This month the target is to play 5000 hands in 10 sessions. Main game will be NL10 unless I continue to get hammered there. In May, I lost at -85bb/100 at NL10 and my immediate target will be to cut down that rate to below -30bb/100.
Almost a year later
Since May,2024 I had kind of forgotten about this blog and I played intermittently as life took an unexpected turn with me changing cities for work. A few sessions here and there every month and I averaged about 1000-1200 hands per month. Overall results have been poor, I have made multiple small deposits over the year. I need to find a better way to do this and having saved up a bit over the last few months I have managed to put in a 20k INR deposit, giving me 20 buyins to play with in this financial year which runs April to March in India.
Results since last update:
Hands Played - 12056
PNL - INR -11457
So I lost at -8.4BB/100, I dont know if I have gotten any better in the last 10 months or so, but I have hardly studied. I have started to make some steps in this regard.
