SkilfulPoker

Hey guys quick update I played a 1 euro game since I last posted and didn’t cash so challenge bankroll Is €1.30. Elsewhere with poker, the weekend has gone nicely for my live game, I played live cash 200NL on Friday and Saturday , and Friday left with £500 profit, and yesterday with £350 profit. So am £850 up for the weekend for poker 😍 I am going to have another session today so will let you know how that goes after the session 💪🙏 Hope you’re all having a good weekend!

Hey guys, Just starting this blog to track my results in a fun challenge. Played for first time in ages a few weeks back. Lost and had 90cents left in the account when I logged in today. So have just started at smallest stake 20cent MTT and came 4th and cashed for €1.60 Looking forward to getting involved with the community again 🙂

thanks HardGain mate. _______ What is up people, hope your weekend has started well. Today I went to play but was feeling a bit unwell, bit of a sore throat. I got over a really bad sore throat just a few weeks back so this is kind of annoying. Tonight I felt a bit tired and wasn’t 100% focussed. I lost one stack , after bluff shoving when I got raised on QQ6 as the PF aggressor. I don’t like the play I shouldn’t be running large bluffs. But I’m pleased with my play overall, that’s because I took it on the chin, and despite it being Friday - prime time for playing, I got up and left. If you’re not on your game just don’t play there will be plenty more opportunities when you are! So am on my way home now. -£200 today. I am thinking of getting away for a couple of days to a travelodge just to chill for rest of weekend. Between work , poker and hospital/doctor visits lately, I think I should just give my brain a rest 🙂 You need to be able to lose without feeling bad in this game, it was one stack I mean c’mon son! Lol. I’m not too annoyed just a little deflated, which shouldn’t be so! But maybe it’s just down to being a bit unwell. Wil be ordering a Chinese tonight I think ! Thanks for listening 🙂 and good luck if you’re playing and have an awesome weekend!

Hey all just another quick update , I played my last session today until Friday (if I feel like playing again then which I’m sure I will!) The run good continues and I won 2 stacks in 6 hours. For another £400 profit. Which brings profit from Friday-Monday to : £1700 + £400 = £2100 - (10.5 stacks!)🤩 Poker can be insane I felt so dejected with poker the previous 3 sessions before Friday, the losing was relentless now I seem to be printing money! Tomorrow I’m going back to trying to start a business and will be working on that at least until Friday 🎓 Thanks for reading, have a great week 👊

Hey guys so really having a great weekend at the tables here. But before I tell you about yesterdays session let me tell you about getting there… I was literally just about to leave my home to get to the casino, and a torrential downpour started. Thunder and lightning and buckets and buckets of rain ☔️ Not to be put off from the session of course… I called a cab to take me to train station so I didn’t get drenched. When I got to the station I tried to find the shallow parts of the lake that had formed across the entire station entrance, but that didn’t work out too well and I ended up with drenched all over the bottoms of my trousers, shoes and socks. Not the best of starts! Then I cross the platform for my train but it says delayed… after 30 minutes waiting, the driver from another train tells us there will be no more trains as a tree has fallen down over the line forward on in the journey on the tracks… Soaking wet I leave to find an alternate route via buses and more trains. On my way I see this beautiful sight. I found myself thinking all the hassle so far was worth it to have seen it 🙂 How beautiful is that! All those little branches against that amazing sky, like all the different ways our day can travel in any one day. When I got to the casino 💦soaking wet, i thought I’m not sitting in these soaking shoes, socks and trouser bottoms all night… so I went to the toilet… took my socks and shoes off and dried them on the air dryer 😂 I then took my trousers off and dried them 😊 I did feel a little odd doing this and wondered if security would see a guy stripping in the toilets and think wtf, but pleased to say all was well, so I didn’t have to sit soaking wet for the session! I then played for eight hours, continuing my tighter style of play and really trying to extract some value when I hit decent hands. I had aces twice (and they held) and also managed to get it in with AK vs AQ 🙏 which also held. I also got paid off with a 100bb value bet on the river in another hand, against a player who I knew was on tilt. I’m pleased with how I played and at end of the session cashed out £1600 !! So profited by £1400 which added to yesterdays profit makes for a profit of £1700 for the weekend after deducting expenses. I was getting bashed about so much in these sessions in this thread before this weekend I’m so happy I’ve managed to turn it around. My sleep is really messed up at the moment (I’m seeing a doctor at hospital about it on Thursday), so I need to get my sleep back to regular night hours, so I just had a two hour nap this morning and am staying up until tonight when I can hopefully get some sleep! On way back to casino now , will let you know how this session goes!

Hey just wanted to say hi and let you know I enjoyed catching up with your blog. You make fun adventures out of the unibet betting landscape and its cool to read! Nice save on the roulette challenge!

Ha, don't visit Albania! I love the capital of the country, but omg the air quality. Tbh I don't think it matters if it's your sensitivity or really is that bad - the great thing is you went to live in the forest 😄 I love it!

Hey mate just caught up with last couple pages of your blog. Poker can be really difficult when we're not doing as well as we think we should be, but one thing is for certain if you keep playing your A game things will turn around. Have a good Sunday mate,

Hey fellas , and ladies. Well pleased to say at laaaaaast I booked a winning session. +2 stacks so £400 profit. Nearly 6am and just celebrating with a McDonald’s breakfast before I get the train home 😀 I signed up for a poker training site membership on Saturday morning and it’s already helping a bit, I also really tightened my ranges up. So after splashing out 50 usd for a site membership im pleased I profited to reimburse it straight away. Thanks for following guys, about -£600 now since I started the thread, so the rebuild is in progress 🙌

First hand I messed up the suits , there was no flush possible on river though 😕

Hey guys so I can’t post as they occur as there isn’t enough time I realised. But here are two big pots so far: Blinds 1/2 HAND 1 ___________ pf: I have 9Td pf I open raise to 10 from MP Co and blind calls flop: 876mono I bet 20 into 33 with flopped straight, get called turn: pairs the 6 I bet 35 into 73 and get called 9 river No flush possible , I bet 25 .. villian raises to 75 I’m losing to full house and TJ , I call the 50 ——— HAND 2 _________ I have QQ pf MP Raise to 10 I make it 30 in Co Bb aggressive fish calls MP folds Flop: 82J two tone I bet 35 BB aggressive Fish shoves for 180 (effective I have him covered) haven’t seen him shove before but he’s repeatedly pot pot flop turn or pot pot pot in earlier hands showing down middle pair or something I call flop —— currently 75 up and have £275 in front of me will update again tomorrow ✌️

So here we go Saturday session coming up - I’m going to post details of any big pots here for accountability and to see what you guys think of how I played the hand, so will just post the hands as and when they occur 😀

Well seemed my dog wanted to say 👋 So here’s another photo with him looking at the camera 🐶🐾

Haha I think that for sure is the GTO coffee solution , yes the cup was too hot lol I got inside a shop costa machine so I used the second one to be more comfortable holding it. My sleep has been terrible lately so I started a new rule today no coffee 12 hours before bed. So I’m just having a couple in morning now. did you know the maximum half life of coffee is 12 hours!! Which means it can take upto 12 hours just for half the caffeine to leave your system. meaning if you have had six cups of coffee in the day … it could be like you have just had 3 before going to bed! I’ll let you know if this improves my sleep!

What’s up guys talk about bit of a delay updating. personally I think 4k for 200nl live is overkill a healthy starting bankroll would be about 2.5k imo. Also I am playing a continuous bankroll don’t forget for example I’m 1k down , but topped up 1k today, so it’s not as if I’m bust for long if I don’t win (as I have other source of income than poker). Having said that I do need to make money about 15 stacks would be nice. Obviously can’t go into the game with a results orientated mindset but just saying that’s a key motivation for playing (when I’m away from the tables). poker has been rough! I’m down about £1,000 since I started this. i think I’ve been playing ok, I do have much to improve though. For example I adjusted to bad players today by 3betting stacking off a bit wider, when really what I should have done with hindsight is open up tighter on the looser table and just been more patient. Especially if I’m looking to reduce the variance which I am after already losing 5 stacks, last 3 sessions have been losing! I’ve played live poker on and off for ten years , so it’s not as if I’m clueless. today I was gettting frustrated so ended my session early - played 7pm -1.30am instead of 7pm - 8am 🙂 Ended up breakeven (despite being 2 stacks up at one point). Anyway I’m going back to basics because my confidence has taken a whack lately so I’m going to study some ABC post flop strategy and just look to play well and not take needless risks next session which will be in about 12 hours time. It’s 3am now so I’ll be heading to bed in about 2 hours. In other life stuff I’m 1 month alcohol free pleased about that. So that’s 8 months, 5 months and now another 1 month no alcohol in last 2 years. I think I’m just going to stay off alcohol now. I also started some therapy and it went really well if there’s anything bothering you in your life I highly reccomend it! Got another session booked for next week. i really need to clean this room up lol. I’ll leave you with a photo of my dog. He has a bed (in about every room in the house 😂 )but has decided to sleep on the washing that has collapsed from the pile I was forming (when I opened the door)… So I know what I’ll be doing tomorrow ! Have a good weekend guys!

Well the whooping continues getting a bit sick of this to be honest! hand 1) One of the hands in first hour recreational player sits down with 100bbs , open limps, 3 limpers I make it 16 from blinds with JJ. He calls everyone else folds. flop 552 i cbet 20 he calls , turn 8 i cbet 50 he calls , river he has like 30 behind I put him all in, and he had turned the 88s… hand 2) player sits down reg , first hand raises late position I call A7s from BB —- flop flush he bets retardley small - 6 into 23 I raise to 20 he calls. turn is another spade I still have nuts I bet 40 he calls. River pairs the board , I bet 100 he puts me all in for another 40… he rivered a full house GG! im taking tomorrow off and going into office. Then will try again from Tuesday provided I’m paid the £600 I’m owed. 👍 im pleased with my emotional control it doesn’t feel nice losing session after session especially when your playing because you want to earn money. But I think I played as good as I could have and have just been pretty unlucky!

Hello all, so given my habit of starting and stopping things here, I decided to just create a session blog, where I can share details of sessions I'm playing so mindset and maybe anything else that seems worth sharing. I'm on my way to the casino now, and this month has been really pretty nasty playing live. Live has lower variance than online so losing a number of stacks repeatedly is not that usual, but so far i've lost five stacks over the last two sessions I played, so -1K ! This is kind of annoying as I don't have a job amymore after 4 years (my employer's company went bankrupt) - so my plan was to make some money playing live poker. My main income eventually will be self employed IT copany web and app design, but I still need to start business development for that to attract some clients. As I just have one client at the moment who I already knew for very ad-hoc work. Any way so this is the first session of the blog it's sunday and i'm off to play 200nl. I'm just playing with 2 stacks today, so if I lose both of those it'll be a sad journey home and i'll have to restart next week One thing I've started to do is distract myself when it's getting boring, (dry spells) by watching content on my phone and that really helps. Anyway here we go - I'm going to play as well as I can and hopefully things will turn around today. Just having a coffee to finish waking up as I had out: good luck if you're playing. have a good sunday guys!

Hours played tonight 8.5 Profit: £477 (minus £10 travel) = £466 ————— total hours played : 19.5/160 total profit: £1086 ————— Session started off pretty poorly with me dropping a stack within 10 minutes! I reloaded and lost that stack later on then had to reload again so at one point I was in for £650 during the session with just £230ish in front of me. I’m pleased with my discipline not to buy in deep and I just kept rebuying for 100bbs, ploughed onwards and recovered and also went into profit 🙂 I ran quite a big bluff towards the end vs a deep stack about 250 in the middle on the river and I bet £300 , pleased to say the guy folded. I put him on a weakish hand and he seemed like a nit. I’ve also reset my sleep to align it with casino time so am sleeping at about 9am and waking at 4pm! Hoping to get to sleep a bit earlier tonight as I’d like to get to the casino a bit earlier tomorrow but will see how we get on, once I’m at home. Really pleased with over 5 stacks profit across last two sessions though, because now my job is ending I didn’t really have the cash to weather a bad start to this month (well end of this month). had the pleasure of a nice girl sitting to my left for a few hours tonight and we were laughing and joking which was nice, I was tempted to ask for a picture for the blog but thought that might sound a little creepy 😂 hope you’re all doing good 😊 have a good Saturday guys !

Hey guys played yesterday 5pm until 4am so 11 hours, +£590 so +£620 total profit loss Hours played 11/160 I just sat down to play again so will update how we get on tomorrow morning!

hey guys just updating here, i'm currently +£20 net with poker due to a couple foolish decisions. I bought in deep for 1k after losing £200 to a bad beat vs bad player who stacked me for £800, then lost my 1k buyin, I also bought in for £500 another time and lost it. So a break even month so far but ive learned a couple of things. Don't buy in deep at least not uness you intended to pre session (i was defnitely playing my c game after that beat). May play again over next few nights if not ill rebuild next month. Interesting thing i got talking to a player who is a reg ive seen him a number of times and he seems pretty tag, anyway we only really chatted once away from the tables, and he randomly called me asking to loan £500 it left me a bit short mysef at the time but he sounded desperate and promised to pay it back in a few days. So i lent him it via bank trnsfer, and he did pay me back as promised which was good. I just made a gut instinct decision. But later than night i bumped into him again in the casino and he text me while i was playing and asked to borrow it back again until tomorrow. This seemed not such a great idea as it was about 9pm so i guess he just wanted to play poker with it, and why couldnt he wait until tomorrow? Also i thought if i repeatedly keep lending it back to him i never really own the original £500 so i said i couldnt afford to which was true anyway it would have left me kind of short, but just thought id share as a little live poker anecdote. Plan for next 5 weeks (so up until end of August) are: - log 160 hours of live poker. - don't drink any alcohol ( i drank a few times this month, and despite the highs, life all around is much better without alcohol i think) I do have one thing to show for poker grind so far, i bought myself a kindle paperwhite when i hit £1800 profit which cost £130 in prime day sale. I think that's a great thing to do as you feel like you have something to show for your hard work even if you end up break even because of mistakes. Hope you're all doing great!

Forgot to say my hand lol it was 99

Hey guys just finished 5th session of the challenge to make money and progress playing live poker. tonight was first losing session of the five I’ve played personally I think I just got unlucky but see what you think. I have £680 and make it £6 from late position small blind calls with a £440 stack and big blind who had shown himself to be a bit of a terrible player shoves his £100. everyone folds back to me so it’s me the small blind and big blind left. I didn’t want to call and end up putting in 25% of small blinds stack because if he then shoved or calls I’m I. A terrible position I’d say. So I shoved to force the small blind to fold, and end up all in with the big blind bad player for 50bbs. turned out small blind called my shove and had flat called kings…. In small blind. So won 220 big blinds from me as he held up. this was fist time bb had shoved like this so it’s no really as if he could have called with intent of big blind ripping it in for 50bbs. what do you think of above? I had already lost a stack before that hand, and 8 hands later they broke the table to send us to different tables. At that point I decided to leave and head home which is what I’m doing now at 2:43am so a slightly earlier finish tonight! I cashed out what I had left which was £244 so overal I ended up minus £156 for the session. which means have played 5 sessions: won 4 lost 1 Current profit : £1644 I’ll say one thing I’m really really pleased with my mental game it really hardly phased me which is insanely different to how I’d usually have felt having lost £440 of a £684 stack! But of course this is poker. Of course can’t win every session. I think I’ll play again tomorrow see how I feel hope your Saturday nights went well!

Another winning session despite a huge mistake! Starting to think I might actually have half a chance of making something happen with live poker. oh yeah no heart attach re: above too which was nice 😛 4.30am just on way home played for 9 hours. profited 1.5 stacks so £300 brining profit so far to £1810 (as deducted £10 again for travel today). The mistake The mistake was completely ignoring board texture and opponent range when I hit a set of 10s after calling an EP open. Flop ATx two tone , opponent cbets (with a massive stack behind so my stack was smaller and relative stack size was about 400bb) I raise his cbet he calls turn is a King… completing possible straight also now sets of AA and KK out there (he was playing tight), he check calls my turn bet. river completes flush and he donks into me for £125 and I call. Terrible really. The main issue was I’d waited so long for a decent hand I didn’t want to let it go but of course it’s only as good as the board texture and players holding. So it wasn’t a decent hand at all by river but I was stuck in a freeze frame of its strength on the flop! he had a flush GG. I sound like an advert for Elliot roe primed mind in this blog lol but the sessions are really helping me , there’s one about mistakes in the app, I recognised the mistake for what it was a chance to improve my game and am not negative about it. Fact I can still profit 150bb in spite of that is very cool. That kinda of thing used to tilt hell out of me lol. So the journey continues ! Next update tomorrow! 😎

Ha this is awesome the gods are shining on you, best of luck for the first few sessions, just play your regular game, you got this 😎

Sup guys , weekend is upon us! Feeling a bit tired but going to push through I got whole weekend free and intend to play lots of poker! My new tablet arrived! So now I can take notes and watch Daniels masterclass in wetherspooons (uk pub chain 😂) getting a quick hour in with the coach then will head down to the casino for about 6pm and play until about 5am I hope it goes well , will let you know how it goes! Have a good one people! Side note I just got this pain in my chest slight tightness and pain it’s happened before last time about a year ago, every time I called doctor they tell me go to AnE and send ambulance! Each time it’s been fine and suspected muscular. My Apple Watch ECG says it’s ok my heart rate is ok , and although Apple Watch says call emergency services because I told it I had pain in chest , screw that! I don’t fancy spending all day and night in AnE I’m sure it’s fine. Sometimes we just got to make a judgement call I think! Anyway on with the study, gl at the table if you’re playing this weekend!