Ty for the feedback sir.

agreed

Results:
H1: Hero calls and loses to 88.
H2: Hero calls and holds vs 96.

best laptops for solvers/online pokerz?

how about desktops?

what do you guys use?

no budget but not looking for anything too crazy

Okay, thought I would touch on this!

I’m looking to spend a significant amount of time this quarter (April-June) on my mental game. It’s a constant process that will go well beyond these 3 months or year etc, of course.

I think I’m doing fairly well actually (you can be the judge), especially compared to anyone who isn’t or hasn’t been a pro, successfully- but that’s not enough. Not even close.

I’m not just referring to on the felt if that isn’t clear, I’ll be doing an abundance of off the table work on my mental game.

I think I have some great people around me that would like to see me thrive. Not sure why..... . Hopefully, I can provide more value to them than vice versa. If not now, eventually.

Okay, so back to the pre session stuff. It’s really anywhere from 45-90 minutes, but the warmup part of it is small currently depending on what counts.

15+ minutes journaling

15+ minutes chess to get the brain warmed up

15+ minutes breathing/visualization etc


just doing what I need to do most days now to be considered an “overnight success” down the road. it’s the little things

thanks for reading

I like that warm up. I already do the meditation before sessions but I'm going to add the chess and instead of journaling play against gto trainer. I like the idea of warming up with chess to get into the analytical mindset.

Nice, you have a very strong work ethic and are very disciplined for such a young lad

Poker is seemingly at the of your life right now and an activity that you approach as the most important one of your day (hence the pre-game stuff) which is great, but I would recommend to also have some post-game mental exercises in order to equally step back with a balance mind into the real world. Something along the lines of 15-15-15 minutes of journaling, chess (as mentioned above) and exercises before your session, followed by the 15 minutes of meditation after your grind (or 15 minutes before (instead of exercises) and after) in order shake away some of that accumulated stress.

If you decide to do so, you will notice that meditation after poker is MUCH more difficult then when you engage it beforehand with a clear mind, which speaks of the anxiety induced by da game of pokerz much more so than anything regarding the efficiency of meditation (but it gets easier with practice).

Anyhow, as always, all the best friend. And oh, one last note on the practice meditation pertaining to my previous post (that I will spoil in order to not make this post of mine even more dense) :

RTP - I have lived my life with warm up routines. In the sports I do I have to have my shyt together from the gitgo. I cant go from zero to jumping off a cliff face or whatever with no prep. I have to be in the zone. I have always felt the same about getting my gambool on. Whether its in the live setting or online I do a prep and I am ready to eat my opponents faces (while being as pleasant as possible and smiling).

Dont let anyone tell u having a pregame prep/ritual is a waste or silly. I owe a huge slug of my success in the gomboolin biz to mental prep and mental toughness.

Must say I am most impressed with your direction so far! Keep kickin ass mang

Fwiw, 15 mins breathing/meditaiton may well become a chore if you haven't worked up to it. As ridiculous as it sounds, starting with 5 minutes would be my acvice. I say this from past experience and others i know! That is, unless you have already been meditating for a while, in which case, absolutely go for 15!

awesome gl sir

the chess is certainly the best part. I would do it anyways, so it fits in well

I would do puzzles and bullet (1 min chess), for anyone looking to start adding chess in to elevate performance levels.

gto trainers are fun


thank you sir. This does in fact seem to be the truly important stuff. I didn’t understand why you were saying that when I started the thread.

Don’t hesitate to share your thoughts about the mental side of the game whenever you see fit.

I will start looking to build some positive habits post session as well over time.


thank you sir. yeah that makes a lot of sense.

I would imagine that you were doing plenty of things that others would not have guessed you were before and after the lights were on to achieve that success.

The way I look at it personally is I’m making so many decisions across so many tables that can affect my hourly by quite a substantial amount so the opportunity cost of the time, energy etc spent on the warmup is very well worthwhile.

When you look at how ridiculously high the rake +bbj is and the amount of $$ taken out of the ecosystem by bots, rta, collusion etc (at least in the environment I play in) among other things it can be disastrous to not be playing A game imho.

Anyone can run hot and bink things but EV wise I now see why you were saying sustained success over a long period of time is so difficult. All it takes a few bad decisions to destroy years of hard work in gamboolin.

I guess I haven’t been looking at it as a routine, however it seems to be one.

Also, it appears that the vast majority do not engage in these practices, and I’m always looking for things that the brightest minds in the game are doing differently as that seems like a good way for me to set myself up to achieve results that most people don’t.

I appreciate most people’s comments, but it means more coming from you sir!

I also like that my posts don’t wear you out and you can see past the intensity and cringiness.

Ty for sharing man.

I can’t lie, I hate it half the time lol. But it’s so worthwhile as you know.

I just started recently, but yeah went straight to 15 mins ish. It is crazy how gamboolin can actually be a great outlet for improving one’s self.

I can promise you I wouldn’t be sitting there and breathing for 15 minutes if I wasn’t doing this .

Don’t hesitate to share your thoughts on this kind of stuff whenever sir . I have no idea what I’m doing

H1

1/2 online. 6m

LJ is a whale. SB is unknown, but probably is too. Everyone else is a reg.

$200E with Main V. $100E with SB.

OTTH

Pre-flop: LJ limps. Folds to SB who overlimps. Hero iso BB $14 with A J. Both V’s call.

Flop ($42): J 8 5. SB open jams $85. Hero? There’s a player behind with $185E.


H2

1/2 online. 9m

Both V’s are unknown.

$205E.

OTTH

Pre-flop: Hero RFI UTG $6 with A K. HJ calls. BTN overalls.

Flop ($21): K Q 10. Hero checks. HJ checks. BTN bets $21. Hero calls. HJ folds.

Turn ($63): K Q 10 K. Hero checks. V checks back quickly.

Turn ($63): K Q 10 K 7.
Hero bets $28. V raises to $80.

Hero?

Checked flop because OOP to two unknown villains with 10 SPR.

I had a plan vs raise here when I bet.

Let me know what you think. There’s no right/wrong answers

H1: Call

H2: Call but I think you will be beat a lot of the time

ty for the feedback sir. pleasantly surprised you haven’t needled me recently

Results:
1. Hero rejams. SB has 96s. LJ jams as well with a weaker Jx. We hold and scoop
2. Hero folds, but V shows KQo

Well 2+2 sadly got boring after 6betme stopped updating his thread and seems to have disappeared for good + Paisting's thread has died.

PGC will get better this summer when some more live updates start coming in hopefully, but yeah. Maybe OP can buy his mom a nice handbag or some canned crab meat or something to spice things up here? Paisting's thread sucks it was just the same thing over and over. 6betme however was somehow always innovating some new degenerate way to entertain. This guy named Rich Checkmaker used to have a pretty entertaining thread but then he got banned and that thread went drastically downhill. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’m more of a save all my money kinda guy

I’d like to be around and thriving in a decade tyvm

Also want to be a millionaire in my twenties without doing anything too degen to get there

I owe my mom a lot though!

Cmon man, a premium tin of crab meat won't set your financial goals back too much

Hand 2

You have to be betting this flop as the pfr because you have a pretty big range advantage. Not sure if we should be betting the river or not. River we need to be calling 55% and hard to see us having enough better combo's to call but not sure what range we should be taking this x/c flop bet river line with

ty for the feedback.

HU I agree but I’m not sure given that it’s multi-way and we’re OOP. Hard to develop a strategy for our range that doesn’t involve checking

not sure about the river

Lol bravo

I miss Pure Aggression

Doing a series of volume bets with a mid stakes online pro.

Going into April, I had never played 35K hands in a month

I’ll need to play more than that in the next two weeks to have a chance.

I’ll need to put the 25+ hours a week of off the felt work on hold

Wish me luck! Let’s get it

Cool thread chess man, thought we'd lost you around the time of the Vegas trip but the redemption arc has been super strong.

You seem infinitely more composed, mature and just overall in a better place now compared to earlier in the thread, glad things are going well.

You've mentioned RIO elite a few times, and I'm a member and huge fan myself, who are your favourite coaches and do you have any specific videos that have helped you?

Gl with volume goals and the rest

Thanks for the kind words man, I really appreciate it.

Yeah, so I know the RIO elite NLHE cash game videos are a small % of the overall content, but only talking about that. Can’t touch on the rest really.

Lots of specific videos have had a impression on me, but nothing too magical and its usually just bits and pieces of each that really end up helping me a lot I find. And I’ve watched all of Sauce and Phil’s content.

But here are some other coaches who had the most videos I enjoyed (random order):

Patrick Cronin, Nick Howard, Gary Chappell, ERA7ER, Paul Atwal, Qing Yang, tenuss, Patrick Sekinger.

Probably forgot some people...

I think I find training videos especially helpful (compared to most) as I don’t learn best working with others and can think for myself quite well imo by now as I have mostly approached life this way- not dependent on working with others to come to essential conclusions. So I prefer to self study when possible. However, I still have have a small study group etc. YMMV

cutting back on study to meet an arbitrary volume goal post?

Cutting back, yeah. Overall productive hours on poker (if you include this thread) should go up and exceed 70 per week though.

It looks like we’ll actually be starting sometime in May though (lol poker pros ) so another post on this later I guess

I want to work my way up to over 50k hands a month while maintaining the off the felt stuff

Two hands from a 3 handed battle (at the time).

The main V is a reg, who has gotten stacked several times at that table and could be steaming. Typically aggressive and capable of bluffing/spewing off stacks. Tough to play against, but is mostly just clicking buttons.

The other V is recreational.

I bought in for 100bb and trying to be responsible about that even if I find myself on a fantastic table/run it up. I think it’s a good guideline for myself in general.

I didn’t think it made sense to leave here though after winning a couple buyins because we’re deeper and 3 handed with a recreational player and a reg who’s likely tilting quite hard. This is rare in the online poker streets, at least in 2021.

otth

H1

1/2 online. 3 handed.

$495E with both Villains.

OTTH

Pre-flop: BTN RFI $8. Hero 3b SB $30 with A Q. V calls.

Flop ($62): K 9 3. Hero bets $19. V raises to $57. Hero calls.

Turn ($176): K 9 3 A. Hero checks. V bets $88. Hero calls.

River ($352): K 9 3 A K. Hero checks. V jams $320. Hero calls.

Thoughts?

Preflop is way too small imo vs a guy like this in this spot at this stack depth.

I was thinking we’re ahead here on the flop a lot vs this guy even vs the raise. Not loving it though OOP and 250bb deep to start the hand. He’ll make it hard for us to get to showdown cheaply.

He had just 2x river a few hands back w 4 high a few hands back and was caught. Not sure if that made a bluff more or less likely here as it’s a different spot and V’s react differently.

H2

1/2 online. 3 handed.

Few hands later. Similar context. Same V.

$400E

OTTH

Pre-flop: V RFI $8 SB. Hero 3b BB $32 with A A. V calls.

Flop ($64): K 4 3. V checks. Hero checks back.

Turn ($64): K 4 3 2. V bets $64. Hero calls.

Turn ($192): K 4 3 2 10.
V jams $305.

Hero?

I think I’ll be checking back almost everything here otf. Let him blast off into a range that has the nuts (regardless of card mostly) ott.

On the river several things are going through my head, but interested to see what you guys think first.

thanks for reading