Road to 100k, a brand new start - Page 3

First week is over, and I am happy with my improvements. I feel like I'm proceding really fast and my game definitely got much better pre and post flop in the past 8 days.
That's exactly what I wanted and the reason I challenged myself, so I couldn't be more satisfied about it!

I have a long road ahead but I'm having so much fun learning and playing poker that I will forever remember this experience as one of the most epic of my life. I just need to prove myself I'm worth being the best, because in my head it's already happening, and it's just a matter of time.

Loved the coaching so far, I really needed some direction. I was studying GTO ranges before being able to beat NL25 and many of the concepts I learned before were way too advanced even for NL200. Now I'll just learn how to win the most against small stakes players, and when the time comes I'll grind all the GTO postflop ranges I need to know in my head as soon as I can.

The results are quite good judging that I expected doing slightly better than break even. Sample is little but still I like the numbers I was a big loser at NL25 just a month ago so I'm happy with how things are turning out. I will focus on improving my play rapidly so I will be able to say I can move on to NL50 by the end of the year!

Results & Graph:





That's it for this week guys, I'll update you about the progress of second week on thursday!

Update:
First half of week two is over, and it was a really important period for me. I faced a lot of tough spots, and I found out a serious leak I have calling rivers too lightly. I believe this comes from the fact I watched too many mid stakes videos, where players tend to have a higher bluff frequency on the river. I still have trouble folding 2pair+ when I absolutely need to.

I am happy about the hours played and the amount of study, and the not so good results of last 4 days truly stimulate me to get better to beat NL25. There's a lot of money to be won at this stake if played correctly, and I can become a lot better post flop before going to NL50. I still have 4 weeks to beat NL25, and I would like to enter NL50 already prepared to have a decent expected profit.

These are the reports and graphs for days 1-4 of week 2:

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Week 2 is over. Even though I had to hit stoploss twice I still managed to play 49 hours and I studied an awful lot. I'm happy with my work and I am definitely going towards the right direction. The coaching is helping immensely and I'm glad I didn't choose to do this alone, because sometimes this game gets really confusing

I do have problems trying to play against NL25 regs though. It doesn't seem like they make much sense, and when I study hands I think I don't give them the ranges they actually have in the hands. Sometimes I find them doing stuff I would never ever expect, and I wonder how I should really approach this without reaching wrong conclusions.

Anyway I'm really happy with everything. Results aren't good but I believe I just had a bad week in terms of variance and got lots of coolers from fish especially. It's fine though, losing makes me hungrier for success :D and I have a total profit of about ~1k€ in the past 2 weeks anyway, so I am doing ok roll-wise, and I could easily move to NL50 once I'm ready.

Here are stats and reports for week 2:





I will also release a video of me playing during this week. I will commentate in italian, but you can still watch a couple minutes and have a laugh at my funny language.
Next update will be on thursday of week 3. See you guys soon

Update:
I'm halfway through Week 3, and I have two thoughts at this point:
First, I am experiencing an incredible improvement in my level of play and understanding of NLHE 6 handed, but at the same time my results are going downhill. I believe this happens to every poker player multiple times during their career, and the ones who manage to keep their head high and keep going strong are the ones who get to be the best. I am taking a hit in the last days, but I do not really care so much because I know short term results do not matter at all, and even if they did I'm understanding poker better and better every day, so at some point I will be sure to be a big time winner anyway if I keep going at this pace

Secondly, I see this as a life challenge and I believe it's a small trial I have to pass to be optimistic and enthusiastic even when things don't go my way. It's key to have this mindset if the purpose is growing as a mature man, and I definitely want to be the best I can offer, especially in this regard
I do believe that success could be right beyond any obstacle a person can find, and if you slow down or stop you might stop just a step before reaching it, and without even knowing. In fact, even taking this out of the picture, I'm incredibly proud of myself for all the hard work I'm putting into this, and this matters way more to me than anything else. I don't care if I don't have the incredible results of a poker genius right away, but I do care about giving it all and putting all of myself in doing what I want to do.

The live play session will be postponed because my current pc is going nuts. I got a new one that is under maintenance atm, soon the first live play will be available for watching

Here are stats and reports of the last 4 days:





Next update will be when week 3 is over. Loving poker so far, having a blast and lots of fun! See you guys on monday with the blog update!

Update:
Third week is past by now, and it was really important for me. I feel something clicked inside me in the last days, and I believe my understanding of poker went up one notch in this short time.
I did sacrifice some of my sleep and my free time to be able to play these hours, given I also reached stoploss twice and had to spend a lot of time to fix my new pc. It was worth it though, and I am improving rapidly. One of my strenghts is that I can think a lot about complex stuff but I have a hard time being interested in simpler things. Now I believe I have enough tools to enter the realm of what's interesting to me, and I can imagine my potential expanding my game in the near future to a level people haven't seen yet. In fact I believe now more than ever that I will become one of the best poker players in the world. There's nothing I want more than that.
I think I will be able to move to NL50 soon. Results this week weren't great but I'm sure that, without getting too many coolers, skillwise I am already more than capable of beating NL25 right now and mindset-wise I believe I'm miles ahead my competition. Let's see how quickly I can move to NL50
Here are results and graph for week 3:




Next update will be on thursday!

Considering the suggestions given here, I will make a new thread for every update and at the same time post on this thread the same text so we have a recent update and an overall view of the progress from this one.