still impressive. great work. kudos.

But it's still probably erratic how they compose their 12 vpip: like 77? no way! But King-Jack-off? Yes please, monster hand!

fwiw I'd be surprised if valee wasn't top 3 regs at 100 zoom for that period, whereas I would be surprised if someone who posts a 100k sample in that manner is, and I'd also be surprised if valee hadn't run a little hot over that sample.

The thing which makes zoom tough is rake. I paid 7.5bb/100 lifetime (450k hands) at 100z (though I've been made aware this is significantly higher than average), and if you play ~25% of hands at reg-only tables, that's going to mean that every reg in the pool is losing at least 2bb/100 on those reg only hands and probably more for most, which instantly means that you need to, for instance, need to win at 4bb/100 in the rest of the hands to sustain a 2bb/100 actual winrate.

Party is awful, don't play there.

haha back since feb 15th, just wasn't inspired enought to post, pontylad did that to me with that second 3 months ban, the thrill is gone

ps: is that standard that you can't even read when you are ban here... there was now ay I could disconect to at least read without posting

btw i change my avatar evertime I'm not satisfied with how I run lol, so yeah every 2 days

welcome back

wb

have you made any mods to your expensif civic yet?

Very nice graph sir!

It might be the toughest field ever, but I started playing zoom on stars in november 2015. The first two month I break-even pre-rakeback z100, I had no stats on anyone. Before that I was playing z100 on ipoker (july to october), and before that was playing hyperturbo, mtt, and sometime HU on stars, so I don't really know about the field prior to 2015.

The reason why i break-even those 2 months (I think?) is because the game is much different from ipoker. On ipoker people are way more agressive postflop, cbet huge ammount, and there a tons of bots. Went I move to stars people we're cbetting 1/3 of pot, pot controlling a lot (nobody pot control on ipoker) and overall the game is tougher on stars, so I had to adapt (the fish are better on stars, but I think that the reg/bot on ipoker are equally as good as those on stars, they just play a totally different style).

So yeah, I was not comfortable at first, on the contrary, I was intimidated by the field, people we're playing so different then on ipoker, I was clueless most of the time, and had no stats on regs.

In January, something switch in my head, I start watching ERA7ER on RIO more closely, understand why he's such a nit and making so much money, and I try to develop a strategy similar to his. After that, I realize that some line work better, and I start looking in my dabatase to categorize regs so I can know which one never bluff, which one will spews if given the chance, and which one make mistake if you play hand in a non-std ways. Basically, I started to play reg dependant a lot, even making crazy play that make no sense just because I know this reg will do something stupid.

I started also nitting up pf, RFI % going down, playing 20/15 instead of 24/18, and I realize that it had not change the way regs play against me. I also start changing my 3 bet range from BB, and defending way more my BTN instead of 3 betting with hands I want to see a flop with vs fish or reg that tend to spew.

I don't know if january/february we're just lucky month, maybe, but I believed i've made some change that work well. I'm implementing a 40% cbet flop and 40% cbet turn strategy, done that all month, and it work well because people spew like crazy when you don't cbet, it's insane. I cbet 40% flop, fold if check like 50%, and people still bet with 55 on 369 board when I check, even tho on that texture i'm rarely checking with total air, it's insane. I don't understand why reg keep bet vs miss cbet that much, and then keep barreling, transforming their hand into a bluff, it make no sense vs my particular play.

You talk about tight fish, I agree that their PFR is tight, but not their vpip, I see a lot of 20-12 and 30-18 fish. Also, fish will always spew if you use the bet-check line, or bet-bet-check, or check-bet-check. If you give them a reason to bluff, they will carelessly make some random bet for no reason other that they miss or have nothing. It's funny how sometime I just cbet 1/4 of pot and fish then ramdomly raise big on flop for no reason and just suicide themself later on.

The tougher regs to win money against are probably the nit pot controller, but those are not the one ur gonna clash often in big pot, it's the reg spewer. So me I try to choose my battle, I don't mind loosing small pot vs nit-reg, waiting for the spewer reg to do some crazy thing.

Anyways, might just have been a lucky 2016 so far, we'll see how march goes.

I don´t get why you would give away all that info if you think it makes you such a huge winner... just makes no sense at all to give away part of your knowledge and give up so much winrate by letting people know.

I´m not saying it is that way, because I doubt thats the GTO-strategy to crush zoom100, but if it was, it would just be so stupid to give away all the info.

Poker is deff getting tougher and tougher but the sky isn't falling. It most likely will still be possible to make 100k+/year or smth by working hard for the next few years. We can live anywhere we want and make pretty good money, let's just be happy for that rather than whine about how tuff our life is when we are only making 100k instead of 150k.

I'll join the complaining mob on my next downswing probably though

I'm curious, who are the good regs at z100? All the name I come with nobody agree with, so who are they?

I play from 1-2am to 9-10am eastern time (1-2pm-9-10pm in Thailand), if you play during that period, who are the good regs?

^Shnizzel, xgiovannix.

Are there any left that you haven't unnecessarily bad-mouthed?

but he's 4bbs over 100k hands

Shnizzel is one of the worse reg out there, one of those spewy reg I was talking about. Always size too big, always play too fast, he think he's some bully but he's spewing all the time + very straight forward with his big hands.

xgiovannix is a player I haven't figure out yet, so you can be right about him. He rarely spew or make major mistake.

Lol

no regs online during that time, that's where the 4bb come from

Well I guess then if you guys play when all the regs play it's not very smart... no?

Forgot about kysus.

lol

shots fired

trolling in this thread is so subtle

4bb/100 over 100k hands. See you after when your next 100k hands you are 6bb/100 down...

Stars is down?

permanently hopefully

Stars has been down for 3 hours now, wtf is going on?