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My name is Usurer and this is my firs post on DC! I'm not sure that i post in the right section so excuse me if not. I'm playing poker for 2 years, but not as a professional. I wasn't able to collect a huge bankroll because of necessary cashouts. This time i can separete pokermoney from "life" money and i would like to learn poker and to be as good as i can. I bought HM2 and i become a real member of DC to support my efforts to be as good as i can. I would like to be an active member of DC and i will choose coach from here later on.

Please take a look at my stats. Im playing NL2. Obviously im playing with leaks please point them. If any other stats are necessary please tell me.

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Happy to be here!

Thanks a lot!

Play tighter from early position. Rest looks OK for NL2. There are some more specific things in the stats but they require better understanding of the game to change so I'm not gonna tell you what stats they're related to as you'll likely fall in the traphole of starting to make certain actions just to change the stats

Check out the microstakes basics videos on here, they should be much more helpful in changing your game.

Im so happy that you have answered me Grindcore. My redline was falling like meteorit but i have wached your series and now its looks like flat. You are a kind of "idol" for me. Of course i dont understand everything but thin red line/grinde changed so many things. First post + Grindcore replays good beginning!

Thanks a lot!

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It also seems that you are calling 3bets a lot (over 40%!), but it might just be that everyone min-3bets at NL2 so you're priced in. Avoid calling normal sized 3b (9-11bb), especially OOP. When you call make sure you will know what to do post-flop against each opponent.

You call way too many 3bets.

Grindcore's thin red line series isnt the greatest to watch at 2NL just because you're not trying to grind out a red line... you're just trying to have better hands at show down. Your red line should be below 0 (i.e. losing money) and your green line should be above 0. This is because you're playing vs people who are never folding any kind of hand they have so you're trying to get to show down with better hands like top pair hands.

A big leak is calling 3 bets. At 2NL I suggest 4 betting with QQ+ and AK and folding everything else to a 3 bet just because players don't have super aggressive 3 betting bluff ranges and also you just don't need to get involved in 3 bet pots at 2NL to absolutely crush the games. That will solve a lot of your problems I think. You're also not folding to many flop raises and you probably should be since 2NL players arn't aggressive enough to raise flops on a bluff. If you get a specific read that a player is raising a lot of flops then you can start playing back but right now you're calling over 40% of the time when you're raised on the flop at 2NL. At this stake this is a leak.

Your most HUGE HUGE HUGE HUGE leak is the fact that you don't fully appreciate the role position plays. You should watch the series from the ground up from episode one onwards. You really need to understand WHY you are tighter in earlier position and looser in late position. I know it may seem like you understand it but it is actually a hard concept to fully appreciate.

You call way too many 3bets.

Yeah, though at NL2 a lot of fish do things like min3betting so the fold to 3bet is "artificially" lowered.

Yeah, though at NL2 a lot of fish do things like min3betting so the fold to 3bet is "artificially" lowered.

This is true, but I still think op's is calling way to many 3 bets. I've faced the same sort of thing at 4nl and 10nl (I assume those games play similar enough to 2nl) and my call 3 bet% is only 28%.

1) Tighten up in early position.
2) Open more hands in late position, especially the button.
3) 4 bet range seems really high
4) Cbet more often.
5) Postflop aggression is really low and WTSD% is really high. You aren't aggressive enough postflop, and seem content to just get to showdown with a lot of hands. You probably aren't value betting thin enough.

urb Improva: Advise is taken i will focus not to call so many 3 bet.

Ravzar: QQ+ 4bet /all in?/ pre i agree (except supernits who min3bet AA ). Calling flopbets became from tons of leads from fishes. I mean I have AQo i raise on the button fish call on SB Flop J62 rainbow he lead pot. Should i fold or bet in these situations? Is call bad here? Thanks for the advises!


1) Tighten up in early position. OK
2) Open more hands in late position, especially the button. OK
3) 4 bet range seems really high OK
4) Cbet more often. OK videos will give the answer when

5) Postflop aggression is really low and WTSD% is really high. You aren't aggressive enough postflop, and seem content to just get to showdown with a lot of hands. You probably aren't value betting thin enough.

Do you mean bet more strong when i have a hand? Or check/raise more? Low agg become from uneffective bluffs. I mean i dont want to burn money on blank turn when fish has called my cbet or lead out on K82 rainbow flop and i have AQo so many times they called me down with J8o. From thin red line was soo useful to see how stats related on honest dishonest players. I made different color shapes for HUD so its shining out from the HUD if someone honest on the turn or donk when hit the flop etc. But i agree 100% to start hiking not mount Everest is the best So basic MS videos.



Thanks for the helpful discussion about my stats and taking time to answer me. I'm going to watch From the ground up very focusing.

By the way, if you listen to Grindcore's advice in his TRL and TRG series, you should basically ignore your redline altogether at these stakes. That is not to say that there aren't spots to pick up pots at non-showdown but that your focus on 2nl should be almost strictly value-based. In fact, the vast majority of your non-showdown winnings at this level should come from thin value bets and not bluffs.

By the way, if you listen to Grindcore's advice in his TRL and TRG series, you should basically ignore your redline altogether at these stakes. That is not to say that there aren't spots to pick up pots at non-showdown but that your focus on 2nl should be almost strictly value-based. In fact, the vast majority of your non-showdown winnings at this level should come from thin value bets and not bluffs.

I actually think at 2NL almost all profits from from THICK value bets i.e. if you get top pair top kicker you will stack someone a lot of the time. Going for very thin value at 2NL is dangerous since you don't really know where you're at with a calling station. You may just end up value towning yourself. When in doubt I always just folded at 2NL and went for major value with my strong hands i.e. pretty much always getting it in with TPTK. My win rate was 30bb/100 hands (and spiked to 40bb/100 overall but I went on a massive heater over 500 hands and was stacking people left and right so I don't want to include that overall). This was just playing essnetially a fit or fold style. If I got something marginal I would check it down or call very small bets and if I got something good like TPGK+ I would just do pot/close to pot for 3 streets and get it in on the river.

what I want to know is where he lives that he can survive on cashouts from NL2

what I want to know is where he lives that he can survive on cashouts from NL2

He didn't say he survived off it alone but rather just needed it. If you played 4 hours a day at 2NL with a good win rate you would make 60 - 70 bucks per week. If you don't have a lot of money even cashing out 30 bucks in a week may help you. It is also likely he just cashed out his initial bankroll. He also never said he was playing 2NL. He might have been playing like 1/2 in a casino somewhere where the games were just super soft and he was able to grind out a profit.