Week 2 report of my 10.000$ in 75days challenge

Fitness update: Still same weight 75kg.... I went 5 days to the gym and continued to eat healphy.

Poker results update: Horible week...I am happy with how I played but I ran extremely poor. I hit 4 major downswings. Today I was so depressed about everything that I quit playing after 4 hours.... Basicly I am just losing every medium or big pot at showdown no matter how I play the hand or how much of a favorite I am preflop.... Hopefully things will eventually turn around....

Here are the graphs and winrate/volume stats (this week I also won 50$ in sng's/mtt's):

And overall challenge reults:

I see something like this once a year

Today I played some 25NL with a incredible player... He would pay all ins preflop with any 2 cards over and over again.... He did not fold once, lol... But he was also bulletproof.... He managed to "grind" his 25$ stack all the way to 250$ and at that point we left the table and joined a 100NL 6max table. There the crazy preflop all ins stopped and where replaced by 100VPIP "small ball" preflop poker and combined with overbetting every hand postflop. I managed to lose 100$ vs him at the 25NL table and an addittional 200$ at the 100NL table. I am going to post a few of the hands below.So probably after this session, this week my challenge will not go as planed.

Week 1 report of my 10.000$ in 75days challenge

Fitness update: I dropped 2kilos; from 77kg to 75kg... I am really pleased with this.... I eat only chicken, tuna, beans, vegetables, 100g of protein shakes/day and 2 apples or 1 banana before and after I go to the gym. Very little carbohidrates. I went to the gym 5 days. I think most the fat was burned from my legs. At the arms and torso I am working on building muscles.

Poker results update: So I have 10 weeks for the challenge. I need to win 1000$ in each week to complete it.... The first week I started off really well crushed the games and in the 4th day I made a cashout and after that I couldn't win anymore at showdown.... I allways have this problem for like 50k hands after each cashout. I am pleased with my play in the first 6 days and really don't like my play in the last day(I made a couple of bad calls and at the end joined a 200NL table and spewed there about 100$).... So from now on no more cashouts and no more 200+NL tables.... I just need to play a lot of Agame at 25-100NL... Here are my graph and results:

Good luck to everybody at the tables...

10.000$ in 75 days challenge

I am going to try to do a challenge in the last 75 days of 2013 and try to make 10.000$ at the tables (without rakeback - just cash and tournament profits). Its going to be pretty hard and I am not sure that I can make, but I will do everything I can. Hopefully this challenge will motivate me to play more and also improve my game.

I don't plan to move up in stakes(I actually want to ban myself from 400-600NL to avoid any losing any huge pots there). 95% of my volume will be 25-50NL like I play now. I will probably need to play 200+ hours/month and 600k+ hands during the challenge, and will also have to avoid a major downswing and also I relly on the games beeing a little softer in december.

Here is my graph so far for 2013(for the challenge I will need to double my volume or my profits):

I will make weekly updates on my blog about my progress and I will not check results in mid/sessions.

During this challenge I also plan to lose 5kg of body fat. I will go to the gym 5 times/week.

I wish everybody good luck at the tables.

Shortstacking song

Sick hand

Villain was 20 VPIP over 10 hands. I was expecting a much stronger hand here. I think he might have confused A4 with AA because they look simillar...
Poker Stars, $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 7 Players

MP1: $30.13 (120.5 bb)
Hero (MP2): $25 (100 bb)
MP3: $24.75 (99 bb)
CO: $7.75 (31 bb)
BTN: $32 (128 bb)
SB: $2.66 (10.6 bb)
BB: $26.21 (104.8 bb)

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with A A
MP1 folds, Hero raises to $0.75, MP3 raises to $1.25, 4 folds, Hero raises to $4.10, MP3 calls $2.85

Flop: ($8.55) 2 K 8 (2 players)
Hero checks, MP3 bets $1, Hero raises to $5.59, MP3 calls $4.59

Turn: ($19.73) 4 (2 players)
Hero bets $15.31 and is all-in, MP3 calls $15.06 and is all-in

River: ($49.85) 4 (2 players, 2 are all-in)

Results: $49.85 pot ($2 rake)
Final Board: 2 K 8 4 4
Hero showed A A and lost (-$24.75 net)
MP3 showed A 4 and won $47.85 ($23.10 net)

2 to 7 triple spew

I completly forgot about about the 27s promotion, and I overslept the first day and woke up with 1 hour left of the first day... So I imidiatly started opening tables and facing those nasty 10+ player waitinglists and waited and waited for a 72s, but it didn't come...:( in the last minute at 23:59 I finally get dealt a 72s... Villain is a super loose ref that folds 40% to 3bet's... Not really a great spot, but I decided to take it... When I get 4bet, that really does not represent too much strenght cause players like this have no ideea where the fold button is and I realise that I have: a lot of fold equity + 20% hand equity(more vs AK) + 9bb equity from the 27s promotion..... I have seconds left...... So I panic and just shove(I heard one in a poker video that whenever you get in a tought spot and don't know what you should do its best to just raise)... The funny thing is that I am not even sure that if I won the hand I would have gotton the 9bb, because the hand was in the last minute of the day(and in the next day I expeted to win more than 3buyins with 72s)....

Ok...If I am playing so laggy, lets have 1 more try, this time with more equity(UTG is LAG that is probably salivating and everybody else is a nit):

Didn't work.... 1 more try:

This time it worked... Cool... By the way its so hard to play 72s when 24tabling and sometimes autopiloting.... Instint is just to snap fold it....

Later in the day I unfortunetly, got reverse bumhunted by a 100VPIP in full ring, who turned out to be a betfair poker sponsored professional player that for some reason decided to play the micro's on stars.... I lost 200$to him after I followed him at 50-100NL HU(Pls let me know in the comments if you would have guessed that this player is a professional poker player) ... Good game sir! SO the conclusion is that today was not one my best days....

September 2013 review

I wanted to stop checking results until the end of the year but after a couple of days ,I just couldn't handle myself and started taking some peaks at the results. However I am still never checking results in midsessions, which is is really helping my tilt control. I managed to have my best month ever, in september and it was the only month in which I made more than 5.000$ profit. I ran pretty good the entire month, did not tilt a lot and teakwed a little bit some parts of my game. I am also going to the gym 5 days a week and this is definetly helping and motivating me. I really hope I am able to play as well from now on and hopefully have a simillar month in the near future.

 September 2013 poker results:

187,674 Hands Played  --- 13,885 VPP's

+$4,339 (cash game profits) 

+$777 (FPP value)

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+$5,116 (Total profits)

 And I lost the city battle promotion (timisoara=3rd place and 0 rakeback for us):