so here's my blog
ive been a poker player for a while, professional "gambler" for just over 4 years. i spend most of the first two years bonus hunting blackjack bonuses and then got into sports betting where I bonus hunted a ton as well. I started playing poker online Dec 04 but didn't really know what I was doing (tried to play tight, play top 3% of hands plus set mining) so I made a tiny profit over time plus a lot of crypto bonuses/rakeback.

about 1.5 years ago I hit rock bottom, looked for work (i'm an engineer) but got absolutely nowhere after a month. Went to Hawaii had an amazing time, came back and started to work hard at poker, learning, watching videos etc. Played 25c/50c for 3 months, moved up to 50c/1$ for 5 months and 1/2 since.

My biggest asset was always table selection, earning money from fish.

This is my career so now I've decided this isn't good enough. Either I do something else or I try to get as good at poker as I possibly can. I'm moving down to 100nl and will spend as long as it takes until I feel that I can actually crush these stakes. I will be 4 tabling and experimenting a lot.

I'm also reading ed miller's book (SSNLHE) and I'm really enjoying it.

Today I tried to focus on two things: stealing blinds and using steal equity with drawing hands (suited connectors etc)

The session was bad, lost 4 1/2 buyins, however I feel positive about some things. The blind stealing went very well (i opened near 100% of buttons when SB & BB were 80% or higher fold to steal)
and it's the first session where my redline was in fact positive.

Some bluffs went bad because I hit the very top of their range multiple times, every time I had 33% + equity I missed, and I ran QQ into KK twice plus lost QQ vs AKo pre.

It was fun though and I really enjoyed trying some stuff that I would normally be much more passive about.

I was playing roughly 26/22/3.9 and 3bet 8.6% which is high for me but it's an experiment. Almost all of my opponents were very passive against me and I think this is a big part of what the book focuses on: if we maintain control of the pots and apply pressure, we can put ourselves in many spots where our opponents will make mistakes.

I just have to really learn which opponents have the tendencies to keep calling or not, and how thin I can make vale bets etc.

will try and post on a weekly basis. cheers!