Hello there!

If interested, 3rd week update:

Stats:

Hands played this week: 9442
Current Stake: NL5 RnC
BR start: 2155 $
BR last week: 2277 $
BR now: 2283 $
Difference: +11 $

Goal: 10.000 $

Yo!

4th week done. Stats:

Hands played this week: 19277
Current Stake: NL5 RnC (80%)
BR start: 2155 $
BR last week: 2283 $
BR now: 2340 $
Difference: +57 $



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Last week awsome, since we started NL10 finally!

Hello All!

If you are interested in my 5th study video, where I share my thoughts on Solvers, you can watch it here! Please feel free to leave feedback:

Hello!

I posted the 6th video! Let's get down to starting hands! Also had a fun week on NL10 so far.

Cheers!

No idea, why this was not posted last week. Also, posting 11 also right away.

Hi,

When you're streaming on Twitch is there any chance you could update the title with your bankroll? It currently says you have $241 but believe you have made more progress than this.

Hello there!

That is the session number and not the bankroll. S241 is session nr. 241. The bankroll is always visible with !br command in chat.

This is my first session analisys, where I show my GTO% and also talk about basics. The video will be only 30 mins, in the upcoming ones I will be talking more about hands and siutations of course.

Ah ok, makes sense.

GL!

New analisys is out!

Gonna try to win NL10 R&C leaderboard today:

https://www.twitch.tv/3nduranc3

3rd place and quite far off from getting 1st. How are they managing it? More hours / tables?

Was it worth it?

Hey there!

Well yeah, it was an interesting experience for sure. I did win the leaderboard once on NL5 already, needed 23 hours for that. This limit was something else though... After streaming like 16 hours straight, I noticed there is no way even to close up to 2nd place, totally unhuman what the first two Russians did. It is amazing that GG does nothing about this. I stopped at 45k points straight, only leaving the computer to take bio breaks and eat once for 5 minutes. The first once at that time had an amazing 61k at this point, so he kind of made an extra 4 hours advantage in 17 hours.

There was someone saying in chat that why am I considering this even hard? He could make 65k point in 22 hours easily. Focusing 22 hours straight is already a pain in the ass, got to love these trolls. I mean, just try to do it. I think I have exceptional stamina to do these, never got bothered to play videogames whole day. Of course reacting to chat, reading it, clicking song requests was distracting, so let's say I could make 50k points then instead of 45k. Still nowhere even close to first.

Both were Russians, had VPIP of 18-19, PFR 15-16. But first place had 55% 3bet instead of 9%.

Obviously, if you have preflop rake, and your 3bet is this high will mean your rake is going to be like 10 BB/100 or even more, instead of 8,5, like for GTO game.

I guess both players try, and maybe even can exploit the system itself, but just for points. Playing -EV game will never be rewarding though, just for a pure 13$ or 30$ extra money. Definitely not in 20k+ hands.

But let's assume they are at a very bear minimum account sharing, if not just pure botting. I have played real people before, won more leaderboards on R&C, and I know that most of them act instantly if they make such a high volume. These guys always took some time to react, which is also unnatural.

Question is only: Why would GG ever do anything against them, right? They produce rake, and nothing is more important for them, I guess.

The results you can see below.

Seems like it was good winning day for you and a bunch of rakeback too.

A quick scan of previous leaderboards and it seems that you were lucky to get 3rd because on other days you would have probably ended up in 5th place or so. The 2 Russians don't play every day so maybe they just play marathon sessions a few times in the week. Unlikely to be a bot if they're not on the tables every day putting in huge volume.

55% 3bet is insanely high. It's going to be hard to show a profit playing such a high frequency. They may not be doing anything wrong though.

I almost forgot, an honest weekly review dropped for that last couple of weeks. Variance may try to break you sometimes. The aim is to never let your endurance break!

Also did a Hand review session, and more coming up! I switched back to 2 tabling, so I try to focus more on quality now. Let's see how it goes!

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Have a great day!

The leaderboard winners tend to not be profitable players... They usually have some exploit which wins against most of the population but they have a ton of variance and also leaks... I always watch the ones who try get first on leaderboard at NL50 and they always end up dropping down stakes eventually... Its not really sustainable and you get big swings especially if you go on tilt.

45k points is huge and I say that if you want to win at rush and cash just aim for 20-30k points max per day... I tried so many different ways and chasing leaderboard isnt the way to make the most profits.

I was not really doing updates to my blog as I am lazy, and was mostly grinding offline. I will be streaming from today again actively and there is still room for 14 people to bet against me on my Bankroll Challenge starting today at 19:00 CET, so in around 8 hours. Place your bets! Also giving away a GTO starter today!

I will start a bit handicapped, since I got a bit drunk yesterday, but hey... a bet is a bet. Let us have a great stream today!

https://www.twitch.tv/3nduranc3

You have to look after this one to bet:

https://ibb.co/TgY3SmF

On Sunday evening, I'm inviting everyone to a rare experience ! I'll be streaming the WSOP Online $5,000 Main Event!

I hope many of you will join, since this is definitely a new experience for most of us, and I hope I can show you what it feels like to be part of such a big tournament!

Not long ago, I started playing MTTs. Honestly, I've always hated them my whole life, but since I've been playing regular tables, 9-max, and using various stack strategies because of my opponents, I've started to like the idea of them. Of course, it's was just a supplement to cash games, but it's been going well so far. And after getting 3 final tables and a win in a month, it's become a regular thing for me to play. This time, I didn't win money, but rather an entry ticket, and not just to any event. I mean.. It is the biggest online tournament there is! It is a bracelet event!

How did I get here?

No, I didn't deposit any money, nor did I receive it as a gift. I fought for it in a two steps satellite. I started with from the $15 first step, but really only because there were 9 cash tables running and 1 MTT in the session, and I wanted to make it 12. I thought I was satellite-ing into the mini main event (which is only $500), because if I had known that my odds were less than 1 in 300, I wouldn't have even tried. But it turned out well, and I advanced to step 2 for $125. There were serious MTT players there, but there were always few of us playing in the middle of the night, with a maximum of 9 people in competition, and it ended up with an overlay of around $1,500, I believe. The cards came, the bluffs worked, and in the end, I had to sweat it out with 3 players because I pushed A6o against A9o with 13 BBs, and I won. Then it was heads-up against AllinPAV, but with double stack, I was more comfortable to put pressure on him, and after a successful bluff, I managed to knock him out with a standard K9s all-in, winning myself a ticket. I actually streamed the whole thing, and in the end, PAV even raided me; he was a really great gentleman. I hope he manages to qualify later on. You can watch the video here:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1914289790

What's my goal in the tournament?

I'm focusing all my energy and preparation on surviving the first day because everyone who advances is already in the money. And even the smallest payout here will be around $15,000. If I can achieve this, I will have exceeded all my expectations. Ultimately, it's 1 in 8 chances... because the top 12 % advances. If this were to happen, the 10k challenge would be completed right away. That's why I didn't play all week; instead, I spent my time studying and working.

And although this is a super big tournament, I think mental preparation is the key. I've looked into ICM strategies a bit, and I don't know yet what the stream will be like tomorrow, but I might prepare with a review and some studying.

So, save the date: Sunday at 18:30 CET time for the Hungarian stream (Pokerakédémia), and at 20:30 CET, we switch to English because the big tournament begins!

Come on, let's make ITM together!