Old timer giving another shot at the poker! micro start(nl2 and up) mtt(micro and up)

Welp still running bad on GGpoker, on Pokerstars is fine but damn GG really make you puke inside whenever you sit down at the tables haha. EV shows that i am beating the table with 12bb+ but it doesn't change much when you are losing 90%+ all ins and you are 10BI under EV. also i had this hand today, welp time to stop 3bet UTG with KQo:

GGPoker, Hold'em No Limit - $0.01/$0.02 - 6 players
Replay this hand on Pokeit

UTG: $2.87 (144 bb)
MP (Hero): $2.47 (124 bb)
CO: $2.06 (103 bb)
BU: $3.75 (188 bb)
SB: $3.56 (178 bb)
BB: $1.11 (56 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($0.03) Hero is MP with Q♠ K♣
UTG raises to $0.06, Hero 3-bets to $0.18, 4 players fold, UTG calls $0.12

Flop: ($0.39) 2♣ 7♠ 6♦ (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $0.13, UTG calls $0.13

Turn: ($0.65) 3♥ (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $0.49, UTG calls $0.49

River: ($1.63) 3♠ (2 players)
UTG checks, Hero bets $1.67 (all-in), UTG calls $1.67

Total pot: $4.97 (Rake: $0.09)

Showdown:
MP (Hero) shows Q♠ K♣ (a pair of Threes)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 38%, Flop: 23%, Turn: 14%, River: 0%)

UTG shows A♥ T♥ (a pair of Threes - higher kicker)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 62%, Flop: 77%, Turn: 86%, River: 100%)

UTG wins $4.88

But my game is super good right now, red line is going to the skies and finally getting the feel of the game. At the moment i am destroying nl2 when it comes to EV so just need to wait for the days when i run good and will finally move to NL5.

What is this hand bro, villain is so bad haha

nah against me he had god reading abilities. When it comes vs other players that guy is gonna stack them x100 so yeah 😃

Yeap this been worst week so far. Just can't win anything. But when i win then few hands later i lose hands like these:

PokerStars Zoom, Hold'em No Limit - €0.01/€0.02 - 6 players
Replay this hand on Pokeit

UTG: €3.71 (186 bb)
MP: €2.15 (108 bb)
CO: €2.50 (125 bb)
BU: €2.03 (102 bb)
SB: €2.41 (121 bb)
BB (Hero): €3.37 (169 bb)

Pre-Flop: (€0.03) Hero is BB with A♦ 6♥
4 players fold, SB raises to €0.06, Hero calls €0.04

Flop: (€0.12) J♣ 6♠ A♠ (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets €0.04, SB raises to €0.18, Hero raises to €0.53, SB calls €0.35

Turn: (€1.18) 3♥ (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets €0.84, SB calls €0.84

River: (€2.86) 7♠ (2 players)
SB bets €0.68, Hero calls €0.68

Total pot: €4.22 (Rake: €0.21)

Showdown:
SB shows J♠ T♠ (a flush, Ace high)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 49%, Flop: 41%, Turn: 25%, River: 100%)

BB (Hero) mucks A♦ 6♥ (two pair, Aces and Sixes)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 51%, Flop: 59%, Turn: 75%, River: 0%)

SB wins €4.01

even the graph on spanish pokerstars looks drunk as hell:

Doesn't matter at which soft i play the outcome is always the same. So at the moment poker feels super heavy. yeah... just gonna continue studying and play and just hope for better days i guess...

Yeah just went through my hand history and i spewed basically 12BI so even with running bad i am only down 5BI. So yeah no need to be sad or whatnot but instead need to be happy for running bad because you can easily look at your game and your mental state and just fix what needs to be fixed and should be fine. Basically a lot of BI i spewed while being in 3bet pots so going to study those more but overall really happy with my game. So just need to continue studying and learn as much as i can when i am running bad because when good days will come i will not gonna be able to learn much haha.

Yeah probably fold river actually. Sucks. Can try to gii earlier off/ott tho imo

I wouldn’t get too bent out of shape over results especially short term. You’ll make zero $ at uNL even if you’re the sickest crusher ever so I would suggest using it purely to build strong healthy habits/foundation/etc and to help highlight your shortcomings for cheap as possible.

Yeah im also experimenting and getting use to new play style and to everything i learned so no wonder the graph looks super drunk. Yeap not gonna care how much i win or lose and will use micro limits to just build strong foundation and just check for leaks and fix them. Eventually the money will start coming in. Also yeah at nl2 and nl5 is the cheapest place to go crazy and just build your knowledge about the game and everything else.

From one old timer to another, good luck! I'm kind of in a similar situation. Played sporadically over the past 17 years after I lost my bankroll chasing the poker dream in Atlantic City. The game has changed a lot since then and I'm starting from scratch trying retrain my brain.

Oh nice happy to hear. Yeah games has changed a lot. like A LOT. All these solvers and gto's and what not has changed the game a lot. Yeah it will take some time to catch up with new age poker and how it is played. Oh nice what happened in Atlantic City ? played a lot of cash or tourneys ? And how is the online poker treating you so far ?

Ok winamax is finally done. So i withdraw from spanish pokerstars and deposited into winamax. So for now i will play on Pokerstars, GGpoker and Winamax. Still need to fix my holdem manager, for whatever reason the hud doesn't work, hem3 reads the hands and everything but hud is not working... Anyway on winamax i have 200$ deposit bonus, so gonna have to grind to clear it. Also got 5 free tickets for spin n go and won like 35$ and yeah it looks like i will start taking shots at NL5 on winamax. GGpoker is still bad, running really bad but i got some GGcare money so bankroll is still growing. And yeah pokerstars is pokerstars, slowly the roll is growing. I have to finish my last projects this week and then starting from next week i will grind poker for 1-2 weeks. So yeah looking forward to it.

Bankroll:
Pokerstars - 154$
GGpoker - 170$
Winamax - 235$

I was grinding 10-20 and 20-40 limit hold 'em, mostly at the Borgata back in 2006. I did okay because those games are extremely loose-passive but my bankroll was way too small to sustain me through downturns while at the same time paying my living expenses. I lasted about 15 months before i had to throw in the towel.

Right now online, mostly playing a lot of low stakes MTTs and micro cash on coinpoker, global poker and ACR. just trying to work through stuff from my studying. so sounds like we're pretty much on the same line.

Oh damn that is nice. Well even if it didn't work out, you still learned a lot. So this time you can approach poker with having a decent BR and maybe can try again later this year or next year and who knows... If bankroll was the only thing then just need to play online for like a year or two and should go out and play some live cash. Yeah we are quite the game haha. So yeah good luck with poker, build BR online and if everything will work out fine then maybe next year can take some shots at live poker.

Ok did something stupid while my winamax account got fully validated. Got tilted a little bit because it took two days for them to validate some weird promotion thingie so didn't get any points for the first two days so i decided to bet my whole bankroll on Real madrid vs Man. City and damn i got lucky haha. So yeah done with sports betting for another year. While i have decent BR on winamax the only way how to clear all the bonuses and everything is to play NL10. So yeah the thing is i only played nl2 and a little bit of nl5 so far so jumping to nl10 is kinda crazy for me but still decided to do it. And to be honest it isnt as hard as i thought. I thought that at nl10 people are playing some crazy games and 3betting, 4betting and doing some crazy plays but overall(at least on Winamax) the games are kinda chill. Of course if i would play nl10 on GGpoker then all these chinese sweats would **** on me like there is no tomorrow haha.

Here is the nl10 graph so far:

Been running quite bad but whatever. Red line is going up, still need to fix my blue line and even if i spewed few buyings while getting use to winamax soft and the players, i might even get decent rakeback in the end, with all the bonuses + levels + whatever else is there, rakeback should be 20-25% which isn't bad. But damn the rake at nl10 is insane, right now i am raking almost 20bb/100!!!!! which is crazy, so yeah dunno if that limit is beaten with such a high rake but for now EV shows me that i am beating with almost +8bb, so we will see.
Also i think i only have left 13-14k for the first 100k hands played, which is nice. Oh and if you are a cash player that wants to play NL25 and higher don't use winamax. The games are kinda dead, some regular tables are running but overall i feel that winamax is only for tourney players and spins. Cash, except NL2 and NL10, is kinda dead there, unfortunately...

WAAAAAHH what a disgusting session i had. Lost 3 all ins set vs set and flush vs flush, surprised i didnt get tilted haha. My god GGpoker makes me wanna puke every SINGLE TIME!!! so damn annoying, anyway, only 700 hands left for my first 100k played, so later today i will post all the graphs and everything.

My game feels super good, like i am surprised how comfortable i feel at the tables right now. Still have issues with barreling and river, hate rivers so much because i barely can win rivers, everyone, every time have better hands, doesn't matter what bet size they use, so going to have to study river plays.

Preflop is super good, postflop till river is good(i think), 3bet is good, started also using 4bets OOP. IP play is solid, OOP play is solid. Red line is going to the heaven while blue line is going to hell haha. Have tried NL2, NL5 and NL10 and can say that there are barely any difference, so don't need to be afraid go to higher and play for more money.

So super happy for how much i have improved in the last month or so and also can't thank enough my couches for teaching me so much so far. Really never expected that i would come back to poker and be able to beat 6max tables. I was slight losing/BE player many years ago at 6max and right now(except the spewing while i was learning the new play style) i am able to beat micro limits, really happy for it.

Ok done playing another 50k hands so in total i have played 100k hands YEY!! Been running quite bad and also spewing and doing dumb stuff while learning how to play poker and yeah these 50k hands were quite hard.
At GGpoker i spewed more than 10bi just experimenting and even tilting while i was trying out new play style, so i am basically break even there but thanks to GGcare and rakeback my BR was still going up, which is nice. Yeah still haven't got a good run but it was also because i was being dumb and spewing like crazy in 3bet pots haha but yeah like i said, i feel super comfortable right now at the tables and feel that i finally found my rhythm and just going to play solid and see what the next 100k hands will bring to the table. Basically like i said, i was experimenting, doing dumb stuff and learning new play style and kinda trying to understand what is what. I will also add the last 30k-ish hand graphs. You guys will see how drunk the graphs look 😃.

GGpoker - 39 452 hands, NL2:
0.79bb/100, EV - 1,71bb/100, Profit:6,14$
GGpoker - 2782 hands, NL5:
26,36bb/100, EV - 9,94/100, Profit:36,66$

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Pokerstars.es - 30189 hands, NL2:
5,77bb/100, EV - 5,37bb/100, Profit:37,33$

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Pokerstars.eu - 19085 hands, NL2:
9,29bb/100, EV - 9,66bb/100, Profit:35,45$

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Winamax - 8525 hands, NL10:
0.53bb/100, EV - 3,08bb/100, Profit:4,63$

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TOTAL HANDS - 100,033/1,000,000
TOTAL PROFIT: 110,95$ +14$(Unrecorded) = 124,95$ + Rakeback + Bonuses
Average bb/100: ~8,33bb/100
Average EV bb/100: ~5,95bb/100

Bankroll:
Pokerstars.eu - 158.84$
GGpoker - 199.15$
Winamax - 405$

Last 30k-ish hands(Drunk version):

GGpoker:

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Pokerstars.eu:

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Pokerstars.es:

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Ok thought the red line will look better in the overall graph but yeah need to barrel more and learn how to play rivers. But yeah really happy with everything, sure the winnings and everything looks super bad but these first 100k hands were basically like a warm up after taking such a long break from poker. So yeah, looking forward for the next 100k hands and hopefully everything will look more solid!

Yeah i think i should stop doing this on micro limits, people love calling down with whatever they have...
GGPoker, Hold'em No Limit - $0.01/$0.02 - 6 players
Replay this hand on CardsChat

UTG: $2.08 (104 bb)
MP: $2.13 (107 bb)
CO (Hero): $3.21 (161 bb)
BU: $4.83 (242 bb)
SB: $3.45 (173 bb)
BB: $4.85 (243 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($0.03) Hero is CO with 5♥ A♥
1 fold, MP raises to $0.05, Hero 3-bets to $0.18, 2 players fold, BB calls $0.16, 1 fold

Flop: ($0.42) 8♣ 6♦ 9♦ (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $0.32, BB calls $0.32

Turn: ($1.06) 3♥ (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $0.80, BB calls $0.80

River: ($2.66) J♣ (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $1.91 (all-in), BB calls $1.91

Total pot: $6.48 (Rake: $0.09)

Showdown:
CO (Hero) shows 5♥ A♥ (high card, Ace)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 56%, Flop: 38%, Turn: 59%, River: 0%)

BB shows J♦ Q♦ (a pair of Jacks)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 44%, Flop: 62%, Turn: 41%, River: 100%)

BB wins $6.39

Yeah really need to stop doing this haha. People will call with whatever they have and there are not bets or whatever to scare them off.
GGPoker, Hold'em No Limit - $0.01/$0.02 - 6 players
Replay this hand on CardsChat

UTG: $2.00 (100 bb)
MP: $2.48 (124 bb)
CO (Hero): $2.16 (108 bb)
BU: $2.00 (100 bb)
SB: $3.73 (187 bb)
BB: $2.37 (119 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($0.03) Hero is CO with T♥ K♣
2 players fold, Hero raises to $0.04, 2 players fold, BB calls $0.02

Flop: ($0.09) 2♦ 9♦ 6♥ (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $0.03, BB calls $0.03

Turn: ($0.15) 7♣ (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $0.23, BB calls $0.23

River: ($0.61) 5♣ (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $0.92, BB calls $0.92

Total pot: $2.45 (Rake: $0.09)

Showdown:
CO (Hero) shows T♥ K♣ (high card, King)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 64%, Flop: 22%, Turn: 9%, River: 0%)

BB shows 7♦ 9♠ (two pair, Nines and Sevens)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 36%, Flop: 78%, Turn: 91%, River: 100%)

BB wins $2.36

I think i just had to decide to go all in on turn or fold. The pot odds were super good to call here but yeah, have no idea what is better.
PokerStars Zoom, Hold'em No Limit - $0.01/$0.02 - 6 players
Replay this hand on CardsChat

UTG: $6.63 (332 bb)
MP: $2.25 (113 bb)
CO: $3.06 (153 bb)
BU: $2.00 (100 bb)
SB (Hero): $2.01 (101 bb)
BB: $2.78 (139 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($0.03) Hero is SB with K♣ Q♣
2 players fold, CO raises to $0.06, 1 fold, Hero 3-bets to $0.24, BB calls $0.22, CO calls $0.18

Flop: ($0.72) T♦ 3♠ J♣ (3 players)
Hero checks, BB bets $0.37, CO calls $0.37, Hero calls $0.37

Turn: ($1.83) 7♠ (3 players)
Hero checks, BB checks, CO bets $0.62, Hero calls $0.62, BB folds

River: ($3.07) 2♦ (2 players)
Hero checks, CO bets $0.76, SB (Hero) folds

Total pot: $3.07 (Rake: $0.11)
CO wins $2.96

What are you expecting there someone to fold flush draw on first hand? Or top pair which improved to two pair on second hand? Seems like you double and triple barrel without right frequencies and strategy behind it, imo aim for quality redline, breakeven redline can be better, no need to go extreme

To achieve success you have really hard and long way to go to the destination where very few will land, you have many demons to defeat in yourself along the way, chances are very slim but i hope you will make it bro, gl

Yeah by now i don't expect anything from them, just gonna have to play more basic haha. Yeah need to pay more attention to boards and just give up on rivers, going to save a lot of money. Yeap have a looooong way to go and even then there are small percentage that i will be able to beat anything. Thanks same to you too, road will be hard and annoying but hopefully something good will come out of all of this 😀.

Ok almost done with my projects, took 3 weeks longer than i thought heh. When it comes to poker then i am still struggling with 3bet pots and just need to be extra careful and respect other people pushes. But im also running like ****, people catching their 4 outs on turn and always having better kickers and also been losing KK vs AA quite A LOT this month. But i am kinda happy that it is so hard right now. It makes me to sit down every day and just go through hands and just use solver or other stuff and just learn how to play properly. Of course it is annoying because i want to move to nl5 faster but i think all this struggle now will pay off later on. Also started reading mental game of poker and slowly also fixing my mental game.
So basically February's been super tough and challenging month when it comes to poker. Relearning poker and changing my game multiple times and failing and fixing leaks and everything else, yeah kinda exhausting too but doesn't matter because i feel that my game is slowly getting better and when it will click i will move through limits quite fast. Also coach told me to take a 1-2 weeks break from poker so that i can digest all the info and everything and come back later fresh. So i will play a little bit more and when i will have a certain bankroll on pokerstars and GGpoker i will take a small break. I might still play a little bit on winamax because i want to clear deposit bonus but yeah need to take a small break from playing poker and just go through everything and kinda prepare for the next limit. Also have 109$ ticket on pokerstars that i won from satellites, so going to play sunday million too, so it will be fun.

Finally February ended, my god this month was painful haha. Also yesterday finished all my current projects so going to have some free time for poker. to summarize February - re-learning whole poker, spewing and donating money like there was no tomorrow, then trying to win everything back hand by hand. Preflop is good, postflop is finally decent, 3bet pots(except some brainfart momemnts) are quite good and i feel quite comfortable at the tables.
Also almost done with nl2 in general, so soon will move to nl5 and will play only there. Also starting from next week i will start learning mtt's, so looking forward to it. So yeah so far have played almost 30k hands, so hopefully in twp weeks or three i will be able to show 200k hands graphs. Also started to write down winnings and losing and my thoughts and struggles in the excel so that later i can show to my coach and we can start working on things that i am struggling.
But overall there is nothing more to say, just going to finish building my bankroll for nl5, take few days off from poker and then come back, continue playing till i have 200k hands played. Then will post all the graphs. Also play some mtt's this month(100-300). Then continue working with my coach and yeah hopefully i am also going to run much better this month then in February. Like i was playing bad but damn i was also running like ****. Also no jackpot on GGpoker heh, so hope to get one too .

Ok been playing a little bit of cash and feeling super comfortable. Barely doing anything dumb and just playing my game and slowly printing money. Of course still running kinda **** but overall really happy with my game, so this month should be quite decent. Still at nl2 need win 15BI and will finally be done with that limit and will start playing nl5.
Also started learning MTT's and damn this will take some time. I am not joking, have close to 100 different charts to learn from and yeah haha it will take few months to get use it. Also started learning Japanese so it will get quite busy.
At the moment, i have programming, video editing, drawing, Japanese and poker(cash and mtt) and of course working out(gym and swimming), i think i took too much on me but i will see until June if i should drop something or not. But overall for cash i still need to play 60k hands and just play and get use to the new mtt's strategies. At the moment i am playing only 1 table and will do that for whole march and when i will feel comfortable preflop will add 1-2 more tables in mtt. So yeah busy and hopefully everything will work out!