Result of first real grind-week!

Yoyo! First real week is almost done. Had some HM2-problems that for the first time made it totally unusable but luckily I have both a HM1-license and second computer that should be ready for grinding. Pokerplayers are always lazy and like excuses like "I cant play since my harddrive crashed etc" but obviously it is important to always be able to get the grind on. Buy a cheap second computer for 400$ if you have to.
Anyways, the first week have been a total success expect that I will likely fall behind the schedule of 8hours grind but just slightly. I did however fail on the plo-commitment (been playing more FLSH) but I think it is fine, if you really feel like playing one particular game and then play another instead then you are probably less focused in general.

I should probably talk some about marked hands which I do too infrequently. Went through 3 I had marked but hehe, I didnt find them to interesting. Next time, ill do better :D.

So Ive registered 25,1h this week, gonna do 5-6 more this weekend and won s+988$ at 1/2 and 2/4 which is nice and well above expectation. Kinda nice though to ease into the hard grind, I thought I would had more difficulty going from like 20-30h/month to 30-40h/week but I thought I mostly played fine, very well at times.

Been watching some videos on the tv. Good thing with "new" tv's with the ease of connecting computers etc.

Also regarding the connection then I think I have solved it and I also think that I have been slighly over-cautious about reaching the 10gb-limit. Uploading a video or two shouldnt be a problem so ill try to actually do that. Did one that I consider pretty decent for FLSH and then another one which was pretty low strat-wise in PLO but I was kinda restless so talked a lot. Gonna upload these two and post.

Gonna buy a runitonce-subscription and look at shitloads of PLO-videos this week and take notes. Really motivated to become more serious with PLO this week, especially after hearing the result of a friend that recently made the switch. We come from totally different games and the situation is kinda different overall but still find that motivating so maybe I shouldnt ask myself if it should be motivating :).

A thing I like to do now except taking notes is to paus before the coach explains their reasoning  and try to think for myself first. It kinda breaks the passiveness of watching videos and fooling yourself that you actually learn (often you do but not optimally) which was a phenomena which became very obvious when I did some math+physics via videos. By watching you often feel that you get everything in and that you are on par with the coach but then when you try to do it yourself, without the aid, you find yourself lost at times and beeing like "daaamn, what was that he mentioned again?".

Good result given the very low stakes!

Also got to a new VIP-level and therefore could cash out some FPPs so just got a boost of BR and I plan to expand on further sites later on when I reach 1k$ rake at one site for a promotion. Will be playing at 2 different networks that use the same software which kinda sucks and I am not quite sure what I think about all these new networks that you can play on.

Nice start!

Yo!

Yesterdays score

Back home! Suffered an injury and have difficulty to move which is kinda nice for a grinding-standpoint. Actually perhaps not, I find exercising to be the perfect remedy to long hours in front of the computer and that is right now impossible. Was about to format the stationary computer and upgrade to a SSD but it appears that my windows DVD must be scratched and I do have a usb but its not here but will arrive in a few days together with a bunch of stuff since its in a bag that is being transported.

Logitech wireless backlit keyboard

Am a bit tempted btw to buy a logitech wireless backlit keyboard since it is nice + it uses a logitech unifying reciever which I lost for my favorite mouse. Well well.

Played a session last night, ran really good headsup vs a fish and won 450ish $ which is kinda nice at 2/4 and 1/2 and played two sessions today and was up 100$ for the first but then lost more or less every big hand HU vs a very agressive opponent and HM says -300$ for the day. Kinda big swings for the stakes but doesnt really matter in the long run, does it?

Gonna play tomorrow as well but then on monday I plan to do the real schedule with mixing in PLO into the mix, I am kinda tired right now and just want to enjoy a few days back home.

Wrote down some rules so yeah, only one table of 2/4$ is allowed and no HU even vs a superfish for the first week.

Btw, the connection has been worse and for some reason, the phone started to behave less stable then normal for the 3g-router-function, ended this session 40 min early since it lost connection, stuff that is very expensive, hope it is just because Robbie Williams is in town close to my house and the 3g-network is clogged. Or maybe not, that would probably mean that every big event nearby will fuck up internet and being here for the summer when all the events are, then that would suck.

Have had some swings up and down but yesterday was the craziest, I just ran like crazy. At 3 occassions I was up over 1k$, this being at 2/4$ which is just insane, at least top 5 results in terms of BBs in my life, I think the record was like +320 BBs, just checked this one out and it was +179 BBs. Ran worse and maybe was a bit too loose in the end and ended up +690$, still a very nice score and with rakeback thats another 140$ or so.

Also done 3 videos already but the dealio is the upload-part being injured and having 10 gb max for the month. I can probably ask friend to upload shit but I really dont feel like being a burden even for a small thing. Might find some internet café to hang out in since its kinda nice to leave the house too.

Well, so great start, just gonna keep focused and not move up, 690$ is nice but can easily be lost running bad for 2 days.

Summer-setup; Goals and schedule

Hi! On wednesday the last exam is done and on thursday Ill go back to Sweden again. After that the "intellectual focus" is fully on poker. God I am hungry for getting on with the grinding. Feeling more disciplined in life and have learned something about scheduling etc so I did a version that I can stick with all summer and that will provide both freedom but also volume. It will also deviate from playing every day which I have done more or less every summer. This will allow other projects.

Grind = 5 days per week @ 8 hours per day. 4 hours of FLSH and 4 hours of PLO (this involves studying + playing).

I have divided the day in (2hour)sessions, primarily in early, midday and evening/night and at the start of every week I choose the grinding sessions. The idea is to take mondays + thursdays/sundays off but this can change depending on other life activity. Also if I want to go out on friday then I might do a half day there (4 hours) and a half day on say sunday.

I also added quite liberal  breaks in order to act as a buffer since I realized with experience that strict schedules tend to get ignored and you end up 2 hours behind etc. The schedule has a very long lunch and a very long dinner as well.

Another thing is that I want to schedule in video-making as well but I thought to keep it at about 30 min instead of longer since 1) if i want to hide my nicks then its less table-rearranges to consider=less time editing) and 2) It is easier to keep focused commentary for shorter time and thus less recording attempts will "fluke". 3) Quicker rendering + uploading.

The idea for the first week is just to grind very low 1/2$ and only play 4 tables to get a nice start. Trying to reconfigure the HUD and get some more fresh stats on all the networks again. Then every week I choose new strict limits and number of tables and evalute at the end of each week.

OBS: Not my pic but same setup!

Next weekend I plan to put in a SSD on my large desktop computer (use laptops otherwise), format windows and reinstall all software and then I plan to keep that computer as a sort of grinding computer and hopefully dont need to format it in a few years (I am only going to use it during summers). This will allow me to get the full 2560x1600 res on the 30"incher (HDMI only supports 1920x1200 and my laptop doesnt have dual-DVI) + a 23"incher. Its going to be sweet. All set for heavy grinding.

I hope get a decent winrate at nano-stakes PLO (PLO10€) and if I get like 25k hands with say 4 BB/100 or more ill move up given that FLSH doesnt fail atrociously. Even 100k hands at those stakes with 7 BB/100 or so will not give very much cash and I only have 2-3 months to grind before what looks to be the US in october and grinding there is, as you all know, dangerous.

June - Yet another bland and time-wasteing month

Another bland month at the lowstakes....

June is over! It was another bland month. Started out fine but then I ran bad but also could have played more focused. I felt I played decently but ran really really bad, the wtsd%/wtsd of 46,6 and 47,6 is just crazy. I would be worried about these high wtsd but the thing is that there are more family pots and multiway till sd which means all regs have very high wtsd-numbers in comparison to the otherwise normal figures of 40-41%. There are like 3-4 winning regs at my stakes and they all have around 45/52 which tells me I am definetly running pretty bad. I am, however, looking forward to grinding and focusing fulltime on poker very soon.

Resultwise I actually ended up marginally up on FLSH but also running 250$ish under EV at PLO at PLO10€ but perhaps I did not play exceptionally there. What is a normal wtsd% on plo btw?

So I more or less broke even. But the rake-thing is really getting to me and I think more and more the community needs to do something. So I played 45 hours of lowlimit mostly 2/4€ FLSH. You know how much I payed for that pleasure? Fucking 25 397 SEK. That is 564 SEK/hour which would be 85$/hour. I find that just sick. Isnt that more expensive then fucking getting a lapdance or something? I cant figure out something that I ever have done that pays a higher hourly then playing lowstakes fixed limit online holdem. It pisses me off. It once was fine when I was making a decent buck but when I am struggling with the lowstakes which goes for 90% of all poker players this factor grows increasingly frustrating. It definetly tempts me more to learn PLO, also a well-raked game but not to the same extent, at least there are a bunch that continue to have great winrates at nano-stakes games, different from FLSH.

Okay, enough about my rant. I played 18k hands, 15,3k FLSH, 2,4k PLO and 2,4k zoom NLHE (actually ended up winning, surprise surprise).

In the last 1/3 I also had the chance to play euro-sites again which was nice. This will allow me to do the 8hours per day which I plan after july 20 since waiting for action at spanish sites etc feels shitty and a waste of time. As I mentioned, I am now more disciplined in general and mentally accepting to play very very low stakes (0.5/1 and 1/2$) so with that range (0.5/1 to 2/4) I should be able to find 4 tables constantly. Also, I find it very nice to be able to play zoom/probe/blaze PLO while waiting for action with nice rakeback. Actually, now when I am writing it I am not really sure which networks actually do offer that but ill guess ill find out soon.

Do you guys like the new logo I made for them?

Also want to direct a big fuck-you to PartyPoker which takes us loyal players, offer us a shitty but still acceptable VIP-club of up to 50% cashback and then after years of playing with just barely reaching palladium, they change the system to give us 30% max as a PLAYTHROUGH-BONUS and this being at the highest vip-level. The second highest cashbonus would freaking give you about 10% which is extremly shitty, especially given the fact that their general rake-scheme already rakes TONS more then ipoker, pokerstars etc etc in terms of BB/100 at most stakes. Thanks for screwing loyal customers, at least the pokerstars semi-scam-vipprogramme is straightforward and honest and you can predict when the changes are going to occur (also, they wouldnt be expected to screw you retroactively).

Ive raked over 20k+$ there more or less without ever using a bonus and I will never step foot on their site again.

Had a great start to july though, +200€ first day.

Soon the summermega-grind begins!

Hello!
How are things? I have some extra exams in mid-juli and even though I can increase play a little, I will no go full on until 17th of july. I can though decide a schedule and I think I have learned a lot about disciplin and realistic planning this last year so I am pretty excited to start the grind actually.

I plan on spend 4 hours per day doing FLSH and 4 hours doing PLO (videos+playing+reading) and do that 5 days per week. Gonna shift the regular week slightly so gonna be free most sundays (possible hangovers) and mondays since fridays+saturdays feature the most action.

The difference this year is that the minimum stakes that I am willing to play is even lower and thus if I run bad, I will not take large breaks but just go down playing low, it feels more motivating. I go down to 0.5/1€ FLSH if I have to.

Checked my stats btw and this year and it has been bad in the sense that I wasted time, not money. But if I had my normal rakeback of 50-60% then I would have made more significant amount and that rakeback is gonna be nice too, allowing me to play lower if needed.

Found some sweet books too and found out how to crop and edit them so I can read them on my kindle and if I go to the states next school year I read about the casinos etc and perhaps I will become a live NL-grinder due to the availability of games etc.  That could actually be pretty fun, if I find a nice casino with drinks and loose games and shit with my kindle then I am totally fine with playing NL1/2 too.

Btw, I could perhaps start to play higher, my plan is to cash out shitloads of FPPS+PPs etc this summer that I have stored up. So the value I have is like 6 times my current bankroll so I hope I can grind enough etc but we will see.

Good start after break! Up 754$ in play in a week!

Yoyo! How are things? As I mentioned, I took the longest pokerbreak ever for 3-4 weeks and just started playing a little in the end of may. Then played a little in june and yesterday I had a great day where I hit boards like a mofo but the suckouts+setups were actually insane, won 505$ yesterday at 1/2€ and 2/4€. Been playing mostly FLSH and up 754$ in play for june which is very nice considering the stakes. Just finished up a round of playing PLO and cashed in 30$ish dollars. Much more fun to play when u are winning :D.

Been playing some zoom NLHE which I wouldnt do if it werent loose enough and it appears that the spanish NL-players are not that great. Maybe I will continue that. Just did a test of playing exactly 10 minutes of 4table zoom and I got 183 hands. That means about 1100 hands/hour, pretty neat but we will see! Actually, that would be quite cool just to see. Baah maybe later, until then i will just "zoom" until I get my correct amount of tables during waitinglist etc.

Checked out a propsite as well that I used to play with. I was freaking up like 2500€ at NL there +120% RB and I used to get this emails "please come back, u are winning at our site" and it states the amount u are up. The thing is that I saw these emails time and time again and with me playing there, I noticed that the amount decreased and now I am only up on RB there. Anyways, I checked it out and they have made some nice software-improvements and it was a full 10/20€ NL-game (!!!) going on the day I checked and I was playing a 0.5/1€ which was just insanely good, even I was a winner in that game. Got called with 17BB-3bet with KK (I thought I perhaps made it too big) with A8s and Q7o by the steal and the SB and saw some ridicolous play. Probably gonna play that site since the deal is so good, just wish that they started with PLO which would be a lot nicer for me.

So happy times! Got the last physics exam on tuesday though so perhaps ill play a little poker to relax this weekend but not a lot until then. Then though I believe I will have some time. This exam is kinda important and not only do I need to pass, I need to do it with a pretty good grade since the grading works as I need to have an average of 50% for 2 tests and got a shitty score on the first one. This subject is challening and it kinda made me depressed since I felt unusually stupid (normally not the case :D) and thought I would fail this but after seeing the exam and now having exercises and solutions + I found out a good way to practice it then this negative feeling been changed with enthusiasm and hope :). But I better get on it now, hehe.

Have a great weekend guys!

Played a little, soon a lot!

Heyaaah!
Played poker the last days of may, had a superlong session the other day playing from like 2 till 6 and was down 260$ish dollars on FLSH+PLO and turned it around to +50$  and then yesterday a very quick session where I played very unfocused, lost 30$ish. Been thinking about how I should tackle poker in the future. An aquintance that I was studying that is/was a succesful pokerplayer scheduled it so that he played 0 hands of poker while studying (9 months of the year) and just basically grinded the summer. That summer I studied with him he got very high grades and he didnt really say anything but according to PTR, he won like 60 000$ that summer. Thats more then enough for me :D. In my current state, I would be totally happy with 15 000$ :D. Its just that I have this idea about volume etc but I dunno. I think I will continue with my current style, play 15-40 hours per months when I feel like it an grind the summer, I hope this one to go up in PLO which I have mentioned b4.

Btw, I did a video that I am gonna upload. I realized that I am a bit retarded though, it didnt appear to me that rendering a 60-min long video with full HD-res would take some time, I believe its on the 6th hour right now and its freaking frustrating since im afraid its gonna lag. Actually, just realized that that is no problem, I have two computer, woho!! Btw, I believe I have mentioned this but the current setup I have with a 24"+2 laptops with 4port USB-hub is such an amazing thing. Just change the USB-hub to the other computer and connect the HDMI and boom, I have 1 tb extra storage, a seperate keyboard+mouse, a printer and an extra port for whatever. No need for a second set of mouses etc. Btw, im kinda drooling over this screen which is just amazing and very price--worthy IMO.

Ohh after this I played some FLSH and got a decent start for june. Was up 400$ but finished +300$ instead, still nice! Video comes up very soon, probably gonna upload it in school on monday due to our poor connection.