Good to see you doing well mate. =]

ty, I aim to take things further than 100NL, but I will see how my results go at 100 first then assess how the "Seat Me" table selection impacts the FR lobby.

Thanks for the support mate.



My last post I was upset at paying off a nitty Reg on Thursday night. Well fast forward Friday and I stacked dude twice in 5 minutes. First hand I 4bet AA and he then proceeds to 5bet jam and I already know he has KK before the cards are turned over.

Next hand I 3bet out of the SB. On the Turn I am pretty confused as this villain seems tight from what I have seen so I was bracing myself for him turning over AA.




Next up aggro Fish 41/11, Agg%57, Flop Raise 33%, Agg Factor 4.6 over 283 hands.

I have a note saved saying "4x Flop Raise on 456 with bottom pair 4 plus Flush Draw"



The guy was so aggro I fully expected him to put the rest of his money in on any River card so felt it was going in anyway. I tanked for ages on the Turn and was still undecided and ended up just putting it in and hoping he had some pair plus FD. But this feels like it may be a recurring mistake where I should have flatted then re-assessed the river given stack sizes.


Another Turn Raise from a different Fish this time 48/17

After the last hand I was starting to wonder if a Fish mentality involves the spazzy raises on the Flop and with the Turn raises they are going for value town, obvs every player can be different. I am hoping he has a worse Q but I cant help but fear he has the pocket pair 88 or 77.




When the cards got shown there I was hoping not to see the Pocket Pair, when I seen he had the PP I just put my head down and let out sigh for a split second. Then I was like: "Wait a minute.....99 wtf is that?", before double checking the board to make sure it wasent the boat.

It made me feel less bad about the AQ hand on the monotone flop where the fish raises the Turn. You feel like a total idiot when you get owned but these guys can be raising with anything sometimes.

Been a while since I updated this, been super busy so time has flown.

At 100NL I began to hit a downswing from being up like ~24 BIs. Felt I was getting a lot of run bad and tried to see it through and hope things would turn round. But graph was turning into bit of a train wreck and it went back down to BE then minus a few BIs.

Playing just 100NL it was getting difficult to get tables, sometimes I would be sitting for 20mins on waitlists and only have 2 tables going. So I have started playing 50NL again as well where it is much easier to get seats but most of my volume ends up being at 50 now cos there are so many more tables running.

Told you I would get that winrate in Unopened pots up to scratch Good to see my spreadsheet can predict things to come.


^Over the last 65k hands @50NL

15.1 EV bb/100

Nice to see that this challenge worked out for you man.

I'm at a similar challenge but still in the very beginning. Thanks for the inspiration.

Are you implying that 99.9% of these PG&C threads end in failure?

Thanks mate, I still see this as a work in progress. I've hit some goals and targets but dont really feel I have accomplished anything yet. At the same time I wouldnt be able to regard it as a failure either. I have probably done everything the long hard way with a lot of trial and error approach. The PG&C thread can be good to keep track of things and set goals. At other times it is extra pressure and can be painful/embarrassing to update when things arent going to well.

gl with your challenge

Haha +100000

Somebody good at this game needs to start a PG&C thread, titled:

Poker's 0.1%: The Number One Big Bo$$ Who Stays On Top

I am thinking OtB_RedBaron. If he wants to ship me 20% of whatever he makes in the thread I am cool for him to have the naming rights to use that title

Last 80k hands @ 50NL

BE for ages then bit of heat recently.



Got the "PokerStars Email" yday. Sounds as if rakeback on Stars is pretty much gone if you are a winning player. Hopefully Run It Once Poker can treat players a bit better if it ever gets established.

Id say moving up stakes and shot taking is gonna be more difficult under the new VIP system. Usually when I try to move up I am borderline BE/slight winning/slight losing. That doesnt feel too bad if you have some rakeback to cover a losing shot take but that saftey net is all but gone now it seems.

April 2017 Monthly Review

Well April was not my typically average month. To start with I took some time off and went to Tenerife for a week. I was still planning on playing some DFS while I was away entering lineups on my phone. I emailed the DK VIP manager before I left just to check I could still play from abroad and it turned out I actually couldnt play from Tenerfie cos they dont have license there. So I had to go 7 days with no Poker and no DFS was a definite shock to the system, a relaxing one.

I read a poker book by the pool and I had plenty of time to think over some DFS concepts, so the week wasent a complete write off. Apartments I stayed in were very good and the pool and complex was amazing, pic below.




I am pretty much playing DFS every day now. I toned down my DFS volume earlier in the year to focus on Poker more but with Stars latest fcuking about with the VIP system I think I have to keep my options open. The Giraffe below is my DFS results from April.




That is defo better than any of my monthly Poker results. I have no doubt that a lot of that is run good and variance being kind to me but I think I am improving at DFS as well. Football season will be over after May so I can focus more on Poker over the summer when I have more time.



PokerStars probably think they have me by the balls and I need to grind out a living there no matter how much they fcuk things up. I believe in myself to go to the top in whatever I apply myself to.



Here is one for some run good in May. On to tha next one..

Subbed man, I sat back and read this from the start! dude good work thus far, inspiration to me
Are you stilling 10 tabling? whats your stop lose for session/day?

Yo, solid effort if you read the whole thread.

Well currently I have been zero tabling cos I have been so busy with other things, mainly DFS. When I have been playing I had cut my table number down. I find it hard to stick to a specific number cos some sessions just feel faster or slower than others. If you play too few boredom kicks in and you get distracted easier. Plus if the lobby is dead it can take a while to get new tables going so that generally incentivizes me to play more. But if I play too many my computer tends to spazz the fcuk out and eats up my timebank.

Short answer I am probs playing 8 to 10 tables.

Stop Loss.
I remember using that program tiltbreaker once upon a time, which basically kicks you off after you loose a certain amount. No matter how well you try to play variance always decides to kick you in the nuts now and again so downswings are inevitable.

There was a few occasions were I would get on a table with a huge whale who is sun running everyone and has 8 BIs stacked up playing an 80 VPIP. You know over the next hour or two he is gonna spew them 8 BIs back and you want a piece. Then you loose a medium size pot and Tiltbreaker realises you have hit your stop loss for the day and shuts your tables down.

All that did was close down some great tables and prevent me from playing for the next few hours and ruined what was probably my most +EV spot for the month. After that I un-installed Tiltbreaker and have never quit a session since because of a stop loss. I dont check my results during a session and a lot of the time I dont check at the end either. Most of the time all you are viewing is variance, so I really only concern myself with 50k or 100k sample sizes. I dont care if I lose 6 or 7 BIs in a session cos I will have sessions where I win 6 or 7.

gl

Was reading this on my iphone last night in case anyone hasent seen it yet:

Partypoker rakeback changes - 40% rakeback in cash from May 22nd

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29...-22nd-1667204/

*Up to 40% Rakeback

Seems HUDs are banned on Party but all/most Regs use some workaround from what Ive read so far. I have been through this game of playing on different sites in the past and hated the software and whole experience really. But 40% rakeback seems hard to ignore and I legit dont understand how the new Stars VIP system works or what my equivalent rakeback % would be. Wp Party Poker for making some moves.

great news for the poker community. down with stars

Good to hear from you mate and to get an experienced opinion on it. Sounds good to me too.

I was having a catch up on your thread last night too, defo some Graph porn going down in there, that 500zoom giraffe was fire keep it up.

Think I read something about Tim picking you up from the airport in teh StoneMobile, get some pics if he is still rolling about in that Corvette.

I've gotta admit, I ****ing hated Party when I was on it. Good to see they're putting out something to hopefully rival Stars though

I was gonna ask you about Party cos I thought you had played there, then I remembered you were a Full Tilt guy so I wasent sure. Would be good if there was a StarsHelper type program for Party.

I think the first time I ever played internet pokers was on Party way back. Think we got a 30 day trial for dial up internet at my parents house. I can remember playing play money cash game on Party Poker. Never had internet at home after the trial finished though and couldnt play on the computers at Uni cos it was gambling. But I do remember ordering a Poker chip set online for like £5 and I used to host home games in my bedroom

Then years later when I started the self employment biz I needed the internet to run things. Which meant I could finally play some online Poker for real money. Think I used to get work done during the day and if I wasent going clubbing that night I would fire up Full Tilt Poker and play sit and gos 1 tabling lol. Until Black Friday hits and Full Tilt kept all my BR until Stars bought them over. Would be ironic if things go full circle and I am back playing there.

Ha, I played on Party way way back as well for a bit. It was possible it was SnG's for me as well but I can't really remember.

PartyCaption is the program you want if you intend to play there. It's allowed under their T&Cs

Is this only for reg tables? I'm getting a HUD on PT4 in Partys fastforward variant running latest party and PT4 versions.

Also +1 to husk, PartyCaption is really good actually if you decide to check out the site.

Yeah it's only reg tables.

Just looking over some things.

50NL:


First 50k hands very nice, next 50k hands BE.

Big Blind results from same periord:


Starts off very nice, then spirals down.

Also if I remember correctly I played 100NL start of the year which started very nice then went downhill and shows similar trends to the 50NL graphs.

So what happened?

I think I was reading up a lot at the time about GTO, balanced ranges bla bla all that bs. I then re-do all my Big Blind ranges to fit in with all this theory stuff. I absolute ruin my Big Blind game and send it downhill and this leak is significant enough to take me from +5 bb/100 to BE.

That is my thinking right now so I am documenting this so I can comeback and check dates as I am now resorting to my previous Big Blind ranges. Fcuk all that balance GTO bs I am making the ranges how I think they should be and how I think I can most profitably play each situation.

Next I want to be smashing 50NL at around 5bb/100 and then move back to 100NL and it will then be important that I play the same strategy that was successful at 50NL as I cant be fcuking about too much. Altering ranges at a higher stake is not the place to experiment unless I want to be burning $.

DFS Soccer season is just about over so I can concentrate on Poker a lot more until August. Probably play on Stars this week then try to get things setup to see what the Party Poker 40% RB grind is like. Lets goooo

I was reading over this thread last night:

Stars confirms new rewards program: Chests
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29...hests-1667675/

Some cliffs were that the Chest bs has rolled out in Denmark already and one person reported his rakeback equivalent from the chests as being around 1% others were reporting not much better. As I thought the Chests VIP system just looks like another way to hide rakeback cuts and is just a money grab really. Not sure I like the idea of variance in rakeback but I could have lived with it if the rakeback % was a guaranteed minimum for whatever your VIP level is. That clearly is not the case.

Party Poker
I am looking at the Party Poker lobby right now around 2pm on a Monday, obvs not peak hours, there is 3 tables of 50NL Full Ring running and 3 tables of 100NL FR. I also checked on Friday and there was about 7 tables of 50NL FR and 5 100NL FR running then. There is maybe twice as many tables running for 6max, only problem is I have practically zero experience of 6max.

I played on Party play money tables just now for maybe 10 to 15 mins to see the software. It seems you cant resize the tables any bigger than about 1/6 of the screen. I got disconnected 3 times in the short period I was on, ranging from about 3 secs to 10 secs before it reconnected, pretty sure there are no problems with my broadband.

You can set 4 colour deck in the settings and you can use F1 F2 F3 hotkeys for fold, call, raise and I could easily remap them to whatever keys using AHK I reckon. There is an option to edit screen name which I am guessing is to prevent bumhunting and to make HUDs less useful. What concerns me there is with so few tables running at FR there obvs arent many fish to get tables going. Then if you can change screen names how many hands are you going to have to play every table before working out that everyone is a 12/10 nit from Belarus with a new screen name and there are no fish in the game?

Timex was on Chicago Joeys podcast and hinted that Party have new software coming and maybe they will make a big push to take over from Stars and get more recs signed up in future.

Right now I am pretty confused about the way forward.

1) Stay on Stars and let them fcuk me over with their new VIP system and expect practically zero rakeback.

2) Play on Party Poker and make an attempt at 6max in order to get enough tables to be able to meet the # of hands required for the 40% rakeback. (I might end up breaking even doing this and not any better off than had I stayed on Stars with no rakeback.)

3) Maybe put more time into learning a new DFS sport like golf or baseball while football season is finished. Poker future is looking bleak and when I look at the Golf lobby there is a GPP coming up where 1st place is $1million.

4) Maybe try all of the above and keep my options open.

Im a fastforward reg on party. Get Partycaption and set everything up and you will like it. Played alot of hands and no disconnections at all for me. Btw rake is max 40%.. ull need to rake $1200 a week to get that. Might be hard on 50nl

Nits from Belarus?!!!









.....nits?

My experience with Belarus regs was that they always XR low connected flops, and turns as well. So not nitty imo.
But I play 6m tho.



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