That´s the sound of my summer.

Hopefully the downswing is coming to an end. Studied and grinded like crazy for the last couple of weeks.

Currently I´m on pace for 194k hands, but I´m aiming for 200k-230k hands this month.

If I don´t make $20k+, or at least getting close to this amount, by end of this year, I will quit anyways. So I´ll put my entire time and all the power I have into poker, to reach this goal.

No porn/fap counter: 17/100 days success // 2 days failed

10.05.2017



Was not sure which picture you prefer guys, so here are both and you can decide by your own.

There are still some non mainstream summer songs.

One day I will do the same ****.

Insane volume. GL.

Thx man.

When the volume hits the results, thats the point when it gets insane.

Would be like making $2k/month on NL10, never heard of it.

Someone knows, where I can find some good SB strat/content? Or maybe is available for something about 30 minutes to talk about most common spots and how to approach these?

My SB is lacking so hard this year (about -19bb EV) I tried everything, but cant find a proper solution for this.

Any specific reason for this? And how much have you made already?

Because at some point I have to realize it´s more of a waste of time and power than the outcome is worth it.

Nobody knows how long online poker will be alive in a way it still is today. So if there is no possibility to make some serious cash in the next years, for me it´s wasting time.

My plan was always to make some decent money ($100k-$200k or more obv). So I can at one point quit poker and concentrate on something else with 100% focus. Like daytrading or studying.

Play poker only to be free for 5 years and then have nothing left, no good job or a bachelor degree seems like a bad strategy for me.

I will not really waste my life for years grinding $1k every month by putting in a ****load of hours. I´m able and willing to put in the hours like I did for the last 5 years, but it has to be worth it.

And if I can´t beat zoom solid until end of this year, I don´t think something will change in 2 or 3 or 5 more years. After playing 2 million zoom hands with barely no real success, I have to face it as it is, that I´m just not made for this game.

Ah forgot it. Made -$0,58 EV this year, -$916,50 net won and $2,2k rakeback.

I would agree with your stance on the whole situation. Does that bet won include the or no? Have you see any length or girth gains since no fap? I've been seeing solid size gains I thought I'd point that out

EV and net won are not including the rakeback, so rakeback is extra.

Again, which gains do you mean? If I think what you are talking about, I would say I noticed no size change.

There is nothing better in a downswing than to win a 600bb pot.

Hell yeah, this pot was important.

Think Cameron couch has some decent SB range construction stuff on RIO. Can't remember tho. Definitely what you're looking for on RIO though.

Agreed. Essential has enough to give you a good base too.


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hey man,

why have you left the mt sng grind? With your experience and grind skills, i think it would be way better for you if stick to (turbo) sngs and mtts online. There are plenty of good games every day on different sites. Maybe you have a different approach to poker, but i like to play soft games where a blown stack is not crucial to your winrate etc.

Another alternative imo is getting a part-time job to set your bills and play without the financial pressure. Build a decent roll for the next months and re-evaluate.

You are missing 19k for your goal until the end of year, which is around 3k on a monthly basis from now on. obv i don't know your exact situation but since you are not crushing the cash games and amaya announced significant rb change, maybe you should overthink your goals.

If your goals are somehow being your own boss or financial independence, you could start by making smart steps. just my 2 cents

I think you would gain so much by cutting back on the volume and studying more. Ehat did you learn from your 8k hands played on 10/05? You'd learn so much more if you quartered that volume and spent the time not grinding in the lab studying. Just my two cents, but it would help you a lot IMO.

i would agree totally apart from its 10z you dont need to do lab work to win, just play solid, look how meale did nitting it up, id say ravious has some serious leaks.

Any NL50 Zoom regs here?

What are your opnions on top 3 players on nl50z pool?

my top 3 :

satanskate
takapillu44
koskosmo

exactly, so he needs to find them in the lab

My nitting it up was actually a function of hundreds of thousands of GTO lab work off table.

all whales

Thx guys for the comments, I will answer it soon.

No porn/fap counter: 17/100 days success // 3 days failed

11.05.2017

How many tables do you play?

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Thx guys, I talked to my dealer and will get all that stuff.

I already talked from time to time with Cameron and he gave me some good advice over the last year.

Same with Sir_DonaldRM, but sadly he told me his content is only in spanish or portuguese. Beside this he could give some good advice too.

Thx man for the comment.

I quit the SNG grind, because the rakechanges at the $3,50+R were that bad, that 180s were dying. If you look today there is at the best time 1/5th of the games running then 2 years ago.

And I wanted to learn something, which will last forever. So if cashgame dies, poker is dead. And I can play whenever I want for how long I want.

I really thought about a parttime job. But my lifeapproach is more like I have only plan a and never a plan b. Because when you have a plan b you will never put in all the effort you would if there is no backup plan.

So if I don´t make it this year I quit. There is no 50/50 poker/work or something else.

If poker doesn´t work out this year, I will find a job and study fulltime with 110% effort.

$19k is not that complicated to accomplish. When you grind my volume at NL25/50 with okish winrate only a few bb/100 it´s not that though.

RB changes are bad, but in todays era you grind for tablewinnings and not for RB. Obv do I lose some money when they cut 30% RB down to idk 20% RB. But the difference is not that dramatically.

And again, thx for your post, even if it looks like I don´t agree with your thoughts.

Would agree with you with different circumstances and big parts of last years grind. But since I went to Thailand in the middle of January I played and studied a ton. Had a lot of coachings, read 8 current poker books and made a lot of notes to it. Talked with a lot of guys who play NL100/200/500z and on and on.

Since I restarted with NL5 two months ago or so I grinded 100k-130k hands a month and worked every day for at least 2-3h on my game. Because I´m a fulltime player there is nothing wrong by grinding 5k-8k hands a day and make content for some hours.

In the past I played a lot of DOTA and I had two months playing WoW last year. But in 2017 I quit everything beside watching 1-2 episodes of a serie a day, while eating.

The rest of the day, I´m grinding, make content and sleep.

And you should not forget, that I was a winning player at NL50 over about 1million hands.

Only thing that holds me back is playing against bad players. I level myself to often in some spots. And in a downswing, these spots appear very often, so obv. in a downswing I make a lot more mistakes than in a upswing.

It´s getting way better, but I still have to work hard on it.

In the last 110k hands, were I´m even I found mistakes for at least 4bb-7bb EV. Most of it are river calls. All kind and size of rivercalls.

So pls don´t get me wrong, your advice would help a lot of people outside, but I guess not me. Reasons are listened above. It´s more of a mindsetleak rather than a theoretical leak.

Same I mentioned above. Serious leaks are mindset based so far.

Same above. And you can see it in my BB EV. My BB is over the last 235k hands or so at -30bb/100 EV with a tendency to get better. That´s a big statement, that it´s not really a theoretical issue, because in the BB we play aggressive, so there is not much space for bad river calls.

Great work, a lot of people underestimate the power of offtable work, especially working with programs like equilab/calculator or CREV/PIO to understand how situations should be played. But in the end it´s worthless, if you have no clue how to adapt in every situation as well.

I play 4 tables zoom. Get around 950 hands per hour. When I run close with my timebank I just reopen the table.