BlankyLion
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Things that happened in July 2
I was getting very tired of myself because I spent a very long time sitting in front of the computer playing online poker and not doing anything other than going into lab after session. I always wanted to go on a trip somewhere, but I couldn't afford it because I wanted to go up as soon as possible in the poker scene.
In the meantime, I had a live tour schedule in Japan, which is very close to Korea, and a few days ago, I went to live tour + trip for the purpose of refreshing
I exchanged quite a lot of yen for the 3 most expensive tournaments, but I failed ITM for every event LOL. 4.5K dollar blowed up , but I still had fun memories
July 18, 2024 | 5:57 a.m.
Things that happened july
I upgraded grinding enviornment 
After installing the monitor arm, I have almost 0 physical strength to do anything else that day
July 18, 2024 | 5:31 a.m.
My goal for july
It's a lot late to set a goal for July, but basically it's to exercise consistently and play high-quality games.
To set a goal to become a better person in August, I will aim to read a book for at least an hour a week, even if I don't finish a book during the remaining 12 days
- Read a book
1hours for a week.
July 18, 2024 | 5:26 a.m.
June recap
It's a little late to do a June recap. I'll try to do the July recap as soon as possible.
- Do some exercise
Okay at least , I completed " Do some" cause I entered and started!
2 Do profitable game consistently.
made 100k roll first and then do any thing next.
I'm on it, made 35k during 2024-06-06 ~ 2024-07-10.
July 18, 2024 | 5:22 a.m.
hey dd!
I'm glad to hear your advice and thoughts :D
I haven't been able to update in real time because I don't come in often RIO
Well first , I entered gym 1~2 weeks ago!
I paid for personal training and I work out with my exercise coach. It's always very annoying to go out of the house to exercise, but when I arrive at the gym and exercise, I feel very good
So if your database WR says 3bb/100, well maybe you are winning at
4/5bb/100 for the first four hours of your session and 1-2bb/100 for
the last four, or perhaps you aren't even winning on the last hour of
your session.
I think this is so true.
As I go toward the second half of the session, even with a small bad beat, I sometimes get annoyed by myself, maybe because of the lack of physical strength in the session compared to the beginning.
So I'm actually focusing on quality rather than volume these days and I think this is good in many ways.
I wouldn't say either of these are a bad habit, I would say neglecting
your social life and health are much bigger issues than listening to
music while you grind or checking your results. Fwiw I do both, but I
make sure to listen to music that doesn't have lyrics (or if they do,
then they have to be very relaxing playlists). I check my graph
throughout the session too.
Yes, I also enjoy listening to music without lyrics. Especially, I like guitar music, so I enjoy it. Sometimes when I running bad, even guitar music without lyrics gets in my way, which makes me annoyed. So these days, when I'm about to feel bad, I turn off the music altogether. For graphs, I check them every 1 hour and 30 minutes. I think each pro has different opinions on "checking the graph," but like you, I check the graph to check and carry out my own condition. I'm a little relieved to hear that you have the same habit
This is the gym how it looks
July 18, 2024 | 5:16 a.m.
My new grinding enviorment (home) from may
I'm satisfied on my lifestyle except I don't exercise so only thing left is exercise these days.
I should start
June 16, 2024 | 1:27 a.m.
My goal for june
Do some exercise
money problem is solved so now time to develop my lifestyle.Do profitable game consistently.
made 100k roll first and then do any thing next
June 16, 2024 | 1:14 a.m.
May recap
make a money on other poker sites instead play stars.
- done. made $18k usd on may
Do some stars session
- I've done 0 session on stars. It's been 50 days since I played stars
Deprived of selectrb system.
- Stars relentlessly deprived me of select after 1 month when I didn't play on their site lol
- I don't think I'm going back to stars for a while.
- Let's make a lot of money and think about it later.
June 16, 2024 | 1:11 a.m.
yo thanks for the kind words! gl at the tables!
June 16, 2024 | 1:09 a.m.
My Goal for may
- Make a money on other poker sites instead play stars
- Do some stars session once a week to maintain feels (I'm not sure I can do this)
May 2, 2024 | 10:54 a.m.
April recap
Results
100z
my C Won : $ 501.63
all in EV : $ 237.07
(so break even )Past Monthly goal on Volume : 120K
Actual Voluime : 79K
I endup 79K hands even if I do only poker thing on whole month.Get permanent select rakeback system on April 23th.
*What I felt over the past month*
what I realized is, if you play more than 100,000 hands a month, you'll be able to do almost nothing other than related to the poker.
Because I usually play the poker for about 8 hours a day and then after 2 to 3 hours to review the session, 24 hours disappear when I take a shower, eat, rest, and sleep.
Sometimes I want to meet a friend and refresh on a day when I don't play poker, but there are moments when I just want to relax quietly doing nothing, so grinding with a goal of 100k per month in stars has a very tight month schedule.
So like 120~150k month would be insane really.
I don't prefer to play 4tabling now because 4tabling zooms makes it pretty easy to play hands over 100k a month but I get to play very bad quality often.
btw , Is there anybody who makes 5bb/100 + on 100z or 200z with large samples these days?
I always trying to reach 3bb/100 + winrate , but It's so hard tbh. never get there on Long term period. Please let me know any advices.
I mean I really work hard. I really do.
But despite your hard work, it's pretty depressing if you don't like the results. I know poker isn't a game where I get the same results for my efforts for a certain period of time, but still wanting to see a prettier shaped graph is always my first priority.
Money
Make $2~3k a month and trying to cover living expenses and poker BR both is no make sense in my country.
So I decided to make some money on other minor sites , and will get back on stars after few months later.
Getting rid of bad habits
I didn't post it on my blog, but I decided to get rid of two bad habits myself during April.
Listening music during the session
check the graph frequently during the session
-1-
I've been absolutely successful at getting rid of my first bad habit. I've been playing music with lyrics and it's so disruptive to the game that I've been listening to music without lyrics for the past few months, but I decided not to listen to it at all because I thought even that would interfere with the game.
You may not create unnecessary emotional fluctuations by simply not listening to music during a session
-2-
This is so hard for me personally , But I will keep try it. I failed this tbh.
When a session goes in a bad direction, I pause or turn it off for a while, so when I feel like I've lost too much bi even if I'm not looking at the graph, it's hard to put up with the desire to check the graph.
May 2, 2024 | 10:52 a.m.
My goal for April
Play poker for 25 out of 30 days in April and take 5 days off.
If you play 4800 hands a day and do it for 25 days, you can play 120k hands during April.
April 1, 2024 | 2:09 a.m.
Hey guys. I'm south korean and 25 years old.
Recently I've been hit with pretty painful downswing, and I've even come to the point where I don't want to play poker. But I have to play poker in the end and get over this sloth. I thought writing a blog to might help break this situation.
I have enjoyed playing strategy games (such as hearthstone chess league of legends etc ) since I was younger, and I first encountered poker at the age of 18.
Ever since I turned 20, I've enjoyed poker as a hobby and mostly played SNG on stars.
Then I joined the military in 2019 (99% of older than 20years old men must go to the military in south Korea ) and after depositing $200 for gg poker in the military, whenever I had free time, I studied by watching several videos and started grinding from R&C cash nl2.
In 2021, I was discharged from the military and played 100k hands for each limit from nl2 to nl25 and won with a pretty good win rate. (I have a win rate of 5~7bb in NL2~NL5)
In 2022, I entered college and while I was in college, I couldn't concentrate on my schoolwork, and I kept playing poker, drinking, and hanging out. At this time, I was playing gg50~100nl, and I spent a lot of money on Poker Bankroll.
In 2023, I continued to play GG 100~200NL R&C. I thought I needed to make a big decision for life at some point after living such a indecisive life, and I didn't like my major and I liked the poker better. So I decided to drop out of college in June 2023 and become a full time poker player.
so yeah . From June 2023, I left the house and started living on my own, and from then on, the only thing disturbing my poker was laziness, except for downswing.
I played Stars as I started hating GG network in 2023.
Here is the result of my entire 2023
50z
Won + RB : $5470.19
(Card hunt , leaderboard is not included)
100z
Won + RB : $ 11,106.53
(Card hunt , leaderboard is not included)
I made $16,576.72 on stars.
and also made additional $4k on live poker.
Here is the entire of 2024.
yet I played only stars and very small volume of KR live poker games in 2024.
I played a little more 100z at the beginning of the year, then immediately started playing 200z. I had quite a hard time getting used to the pool in January, got a little bit better in February, and then in mid-March I completely rekt.
200z nightmare (March 8 ~ March 14 )
after this I movedown to 100z again. I think I've been on primedope a lot in this week.
but still it was so much painful.
Okay now I will set my goal.
[Small goal]
1. back to the 200z.
recover some BR on 100z and give a try to get back 200z.
2. back to the tables.
After nightmare I'm constantly having downswing, so it's painful to play poker, but I have to go back after a little break
3. post results on blog per 1month.
The biggest reason I decided to write a blog. To keep making myself play poker, whether the results are good or bad
Idk 1month is proper posting cycle. lmk
4. play at least 5days per week in april.
If i running good, I can play 6days a week. In April, even if i running bad, I should try to play at least 5 days a week.
[Goal of the year].
1. develop skills and BR for 500z
This is one of the biggest goals I set when I decided to play poker full time. Achieving this is my most important goal. I really want to achieve this before the end of the year
2.Creating a habit of exercising consistently.
jesus this is so hard. but I have to.
Cheers.
March 30, 2024 | 10 a.m.
Reading you and dd's blog always so much inspiring for me. keep it up! thanks!
March 6, 2024 | 5:23 p.m.
fkn site lmao
Feb. 1, 2024 | 2:19 a.m.
Do you want to make a community where you have to be wary of writing welcome to RIO comments? That's so ridiculous and breathtaking. So you want to say that every time everyone competing in the leaderboard should writes down super long or detailed comments, If not , they don't deserve a free elite course?
Jan. 2, 2024 | 3:25 a.m.
I didn't always rank 5th every month. And if all the comments I post were always like this it would be against terms, but it's kind of annoying that you snipe at only these comments while ignoring other detailed comments.
Jan. 2, 2024 | 3:10 a.m.
Way better visability than iginition live session lol.
And late Merry christmas plus early happy new year tyler!
Dec. 29, 2023 | 7:01 a.m.
What a move!! welcome to RIO <3
Dec. 25, 2023 | 5:42 a.m.
What will you do in 2024 to build more stable, more wholistic selfesteem?
-Do some consistent exercises
What are the unsuccessful coping mechanism you want to unlearn?
- all of the 1) self-exaltation
thanks for the nice video <3
Dec. 22, 2023 | 9:06 p.m.
I don't play GG so It would be wonderful
Dec. 21, 2023 | 10:51 p.m.
This is off topic.
I saw Luke Johnson came out on Wakko's podcast and say you've increased redline tremendously while studying poker with Wakko, so could you consider uploading a video of a lecture about increasing redline? It's a topic I'm very interested in.
I want you to review it positively Thanks!!
Dec. 20, 2023 | 4:19 a.m.
Teunuss video. classic comfortable warmup video for me <3
6:13
OBing Qs5s OTT by joeyps seems a bit insane. I agree
hisspecific bluff candidate OTT seems bad, but I think OTR it seems good to pull the trigger in his shoes. cuz he blocks nuts. (75s) and with Qs he doesn't block your folding range.
bluffing with diamonds would be bad OTR. how do you think?
11:49
lmao. I think this spot is a spot where regs who play GG always suffer from leveling perspective. Some players told me that when they think about it from BB's perspective, BTN will fold, so they will cut it small bet with JJ~KK or check. But I don't think I can fold even if I was in your position. I am so disgusted by this clever trick by GG.
Thanks for da nice video btw
Dec. 20, 2023 | 4:15 a.m.
Thanks for the Nice contents!
Dec. 17, 2023 | 8:04 p.m.
Niceeee videoooo
Dec. 15, 2023 | 6:43 p.m.
https://www.runitonce.com/poker-training/videos/luke-johnson-ring-postreview-3/
This is another topic.
Can you share some how to use this Starscaption fold equity stuff in this video? It looks cool b
Thanks!
Dec. 9, 2023 | 1:25 p.m.
Thanks for the great video always Luke!
33:06
Here with TT on 200bb deep ,
As far as I know, in theory we have to use a bigger cold 4b sizing here than 100bb depth (at least on gto wiz), the good professionals you and I know prefer small 4b sizing regardless of stack depth. Will there not be much loss of EV if we play this way? If I use smaller 4b sizing in the table then villain gets too good Odds in IP and it's uncomfortable for me to play 4bp of high spr on OOP, so I often do 4b big OOP. (which GTO wiz prefers.) The problem is that we have to do various hands 4b so that our range doesn't cap to around QQ-AA, AKo, KQs, A5s. But then sometimes we play very big pot on oop with relatively bad hands, and it's too hard unless we fit the board well. I don't know how to solve this dilemma.
Shove JJ 20bb eff BTNvBB villain calls with A5s
Tourney beginz
Takoyaki and udon It was insane
Ramen (stunning)
I hooked up two Japanese girls here with my friend but nothing happened except to exchange instagram id haha
entertaining bar in kabukicho
sushi omakase
The sushi -
Back to the home
July 18, 2024 | 6:18 a.m.