HI guys, I am Hang and I play 9man stt primarily on stars.
This is my first PG&C thread. I start this thread mainly for motivating myself to work harder and keep on improving as a poker player.

A little background about myself :

I am 22, from Hong Kong and recently move to Guangzhou in China to live in a poker house with two other grinders.
I started playing poker about 3 years ago but never play and study seriously for the first 1-1.5 yrs or so.
I played DON as my main game when I first started playing and I shifted my main game to 9man stt about two years ago.

With the help of some of my biggest winnings ever in MTT, I finally move up to play the $15s at the beginning of this year.

Below are my results of $15 stts played this year (All are turbo KOs and around 10 or so are the normal speed.)



As you can see I am running about 220 buyins below EV, it really makes me frustrated sometimes especially when I am on a downswing/breakeven stretch.
But I guess nothing I can do except keeping on working hard to improve my game.

Long Term Goals :

I think one of my biggest leak is lack of motivation.
Often times, I will have many excuses for not playing and I rarely manage to put in some long sessions each day for 3 or more days continuously.
Usually, I will just play one day and take rest for 2-3 days.
So one of my long- term goal will be to get rid of my laziness and start having a more routine schedule for playing.

I have several other goals as well but as I am going to start my session very soon, I will just leave that for now and go back for updating later.

Goals for This moth :

As I am busy at preparation for moving out recently, I haven't played any for about 3 weeks.
In fact I just move in yesterday,
so I hope I can play as much volume as I can for the rest of the month in order to maintain my platinum star level on stars.

PS : My English isn't very good so hope you all understand what I am saying and please dun mind my grammar and spelling mistakes or whatever language mistakes.
But feel free to correct them for me at any time.

Hong kong grinder here. Glglgl on ur STT grind. Put in some Mtts / 180s in ur schedule if u feel bored. Crush da stts like a boss bro

Thanks dudue. Hope you crush the MTT like a boss as well

So I play a 8.5 hour session last night.
Haven't played any long hour session for almost a month, I feel somewhat rusty about my game and that leaded to constant timeout during my last night's session.

At some point, I just feel like myself just clicking the buttons and not thinking at all and it's definitely far away from my A game.

Result wise, it is not so good but luckily I was still able to secure some profit.
Anyway, hopefully I can find back my A game and the feeling of grinding as soons as possible.

Here is yesterday's graph (Had to mix in some 7s due to the bad traffic of 15s.)

i assume HM doesnt include KOs into ev calculations, correct?
and does it track them properly ?

(and holy sh*t noticed that rake is lower, close to old 16$ % wise.)

redline almost certainly isn't calculated correctly in this format. sorry.

i also have issues with motivation, especially when up a solid amount. hope you find a way to kick the problem and talk about it here so i can learn

yea HEM doesn't include bounties into ev calculations ,it just add up the whole bounties u receive when you knockout someone
and it also doesn't consider that you can get the bounties if you could have knocked someone out when you lose the flip.

I heard a good reg say that HEM probably underestimates your true ROI of KO STT but I am not a maths genius so I can't verify that.

Luckily, it does track all the bounties after the update early this year. Before that, I had to manually input all the bounties collected at the end of each session.

Well, I think the rake of KO should be the same as the normal one, shouldn't you exclude the bounties when you calculate the rake of a KO sng?

I heard some great player said that in order to get rid of the motivation problem, we have to treat playing poker as a real job. But it sounds very difficult for me as one of the big reason why I play poker is that i don't want to have a real job.

Also, I have bought "The Mental Game of Poker" , but I only have read some part of it, hopefully I can find some useful advice after I finish reading it.

Was going to grind the whole night yesterday but I was a bit of sick and didn't feel very well, so I had to quit playing after I only played for 3-4 hours or so.
End up losing like $60 but it's okay and hopefully I can continue my grinding tonight.

Why you dont mix normal turbos with kos in order to have more volume?
How many tables do you play per time?sets or continuous?

I think you are a great player but i saw you many times joining a table with 4-5 heavy winning regs.This is why your variance is bigger than it should but yeah i know how it feels to run 220 bis bellow ev.It is really demotivating but if i havent a same downswing i wouldnt improve my game so much

I guess one of the big reason is that back to about 1 year ago when I was grinding the $6.5 9man turbo, I had very poor results and couldn't beat the game.
So I am very biased that I will do badly in the normal turbo one.

Another reason is that it will take me for quite a while to recognize all the regs of normal turbo and figure out their tendencies.

So I just stay away from the normal turbo one.
But because of the traffic of turbo KOs suck a lot lately, I guess I will have to mix in some normal turbo one and in fact I did mix some of them during my yesterday's session.

I play 16-20 tables continuously for a 6-8 hours session but lately the traffic of $15 turbo KOs suck a lot. So most time I will only have 10-13 tables going if I don't mix the $7 turbo KOs.

Thanks but I know I still have a far way to become a great player.

Since I play stacked on a 15 inch laptop so there is no space on my screen that I can place the lobby.
Often times I am so busy at playing, so I just click "Ctrl+S" to register another one when I bust out one and don't bother pulling out the lobby to game select.
But I know I should pay more attention to that especially if I want to mix the normal turbos in the future.

So finally had a running good session yesterday night, didn't start out well as you can see form the graph
but end up running very good and in fact this is my biggest ever winning STT session.

really how good can you run lol

I guess it's just a little compensation for my running bad before but I certainly don't mind more of them coming

So things didn't go well tonight played for a short session and
end up losing like $80.

I was intend to grind for whole night again,
but I had to abort my session because I couldn't sit in the same game with another Hong Kong regular.


I was able to sit in the same game with him before dun know
why that's suddenly such a restriction.

Even I email stars to tell them they can always check our history of playing against each other, I only get some copy and paste response.

That's such a real joke and once I stop playing, I lost the mood of grinding again so I went to grind some FIFA12 insted.

Hopefully everything will go well tomorrow.