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Really looking forward to all future posts Chris!!!

Man oh man. My last couple of sessions have been doozies. I have taken a massive bankroll beating. I am rolled for 100NL and was inching towards the upper tier of where I needed to be for 200NL so I was shot taking a couple of tables (2 of the 8 that I play) of 200NL and just got blasted from all angles. There were spots where we should always be getting in and there would be coolers, close spots where we get it in and run it twice and lose both, and lots of spots of getting in way ahead and getting sucked out on. I am trying to keep my head up and keep moving but it gets hard. Gotta get through A-Game to make it easier but also trying to do Game Plan and watching play videos too. Hoping to get through this tough time soon.

My redline is atrocious and needs work and I am running $2.6k below EV but I am trying to stay hopeful to turn this around and have a good year.

Well.....it's been an interesting start to the year. I was playing terribly at the start and barely at a break even through February. March is off to a feverish start. I have started playing way more exploitative, thinking through ranges more, and attacking fish and trying not to mess too much with regs. I am playing in MI so I have StarsMI, BetMGMMI, WSOP, Global, and have started to move away from Ignition and ACR. StarsMI has some very competent regs and the games can be very tough, but they usually have the most games running.

My plan was to take these first few months to get 100k hands and see what kind of winrate I could get and see if I feel like I could realistically play full time and leave my job. It is tough as I have family who counts on me and my income. I wanted to leave my job as they are moving us to 12 hour shifts and I lose time with my kids in the process. New plan is to keep going with poker through the year during the change, get new house projects paid off, maybe a vacation, while building a roll and hopefully start 2024 as a strictly poker player, maybe web developer also.

Here is my graph so far for the year, I know it is a small amount of hands but I have changed my game in the last two weeks and am headed in the right direction. Could be variance, could be better play, could be a bit of both. I am running WELL below EV.

Still got to work on getting that redline up. It is tough when I am attacking a lot of stations and also when I feel like there is a lot of money to be made with betting an amount on the river with nutted hands that will get fish to call.

Plan is to continue to watch play and explain videos and trying to dive more into mental game stuff while also trying to incorporate some database work. I know that I also eventually need to learn more about and get more comfortable with some more intricate math work.

Hope everyone's year has started off on the right path!

It's been a while. Forgot I started this and wanted to check back in. I had stopped my membership for a while planning on going through the courses that I had purchased and watching content on YT and through other avenues. I have been playing a ton and also trying to get through a Udemy course. I actually was trying to do RedChip's core stuff but it is really basic and it is boring to sit through. I am back now to just being a member here (elite to access all videos) and ready to get moving back in a positive direction.

Will be trying to do at least one video a day and trying to find the right path for what I need to learn. That is the hardest part here for me. Will keep checking in more frequently now. Trying to get to a point of being pro next year.

It's very refreshing to hear that you should know GTO for study purposes but should play "street poker" in real life. I am constantly having players tell me they are shocked by what hands I show up with because I should have played them a certain way when exploitatively I played differently than they would. Where do I sign up or getting beaten up by you in a review session? Hahaha

I just downloaded Anki and I am looking forward to adding this to my study routine. Or I guess start a good study routine. How are you deciding which spots to study? I don't know too much about solvers yet, could I do the same types of things with Flopzilla or GTO Wizard?

Thank you for the great video. I realize after watching with a lot of confusion that I need to learn and study some solver stuff. I have done none of that and a lot of what you are discussing during this session is too far over my head. Guess I have a lot of work ahead of me.

Great video. Does GG have a way to see redline stats? I feel like I try to play pretty similar to this style but sometimes feel like I lack aggression. That shows as well in my PT4 graph where my redline is always trending down. Would love to know if your style of play does well with non-showdown stats. Do you think that even needs to be worried about much or is overall winrate far more important?

Should we raise bigger pre here? This is a very tough spot and I am probably losing max on that turn. Stinks against two players but if we are behind we at least have redraws to rake the whole pot.

NM, you answered yourself later in the video!

Are you checking stats in play to see opponents tendencies or just trying to play super GTO? I think the 56hh hand especially would be nice to know villain's propensity to call turns/rivers when continuing your triple barrel. I know you can't always be super exploitative with players that are close to GTO but I play with a lot of guys that I have a lot of hands on and they lean way too far one way or the other on if they will call/fold and that can sway what I need to do a little bit when I roll.

Can you call the 55 from the SB at the 12 min mark vs pretty aggro raiser? I dont know from Hero's HUD here what number is FCBet but if V is Cbetting flop and turn at a pretty aggressive frequency seems like you can still call to set mine.

So, I have done FTGU and I am now trying to go through the getting started learning path. This seems awfully complex to be in the getting started section. What does anyone think is really the best stuff to take from this in the learning path?