What's the best way to get an affiliate RB deal? And is it only for new accounts on GG?

find an agent

Played a fair amount of 500 past couple days, lost ~3 buy ins but feeling decent about my place in the pool



Interesting hand, think this is a really good combo to do this with and he will lack flushes in this line

Another one I'm not sure about



Think it's possible to overbluff here, but I think this is a good combo to do it with. A lot of my Flush draws will check turn I think so they don't get jammed on, so I feel in this node AJ ATs are nut bluffs, can have KQs, 77, JTs, QQ for value

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I may or may not have won a BBJ for 11.5k yesterday

Not gonna dox my SC although I guess people can figure it out, but I separated my liferoll and bankroll and have ~ 80 buy ins for 500nl, so going to try to put a lot of volume there this month with a 15bi stoploss, ideally will play 60-70k hands this month and try to see how I'm doing. Really want to focus on poker and see if I can make it to higher and higher stakes, crushing 500nl would be really sick as that's a big goal of mine but will have to see how it goes.

Here's the total graph @ 500nl



Basically -1EVBB/100 which at that point it's barely worth playing over 200nl, but if I study hard and grind I think I can make 2-3bb/100 pre rakeback which is a really high hourly and would allow me to grow my bankroll pretty quick. I have like 40k now and would shot 1knl @ like 60k assuming I'm beating 500 so that's the end of summer goal, be shottaking 1knl. Need to take studying more seriously and mindset more seriously, develop some sort of routine for playing longer sessions without tilt, as I go monkey sometimes when I'm losing especially when shotting, calling random hands or making crazy bluffs just to prove that I'm good enough basically. Really excited for the summer and will be 100% focused on poker

You probably don't want to have Ax river bluffs because they block hands that might fold at some frequency like AK,AA. A weak pair like 87s would be a nice bluff

I would jam AK here for value myself, AA and AK are definitely not folding from IP. I ended up simming it and my hand pure calls flop, barrels turn most of the time and pure bluffs river, giving up any random 7x and Ax of hearts.

AK for me is jamming most of the time

This month very tilting so far but good volume





Down 5 stacks which is basically breakeven or slightly winning with rakeback, but running bad at 500 and good at 200 makes it tough. My goal is to play 5 hours per day or about 35hrs/wk which should allow me to play ~15k hands per week and get a lot of volume in. Mixing 200 and 500 atm just trying to play good games at 500.



Side note, almost got mugged waiting for the bus in a shady part of town (Hatillo), I went to meet a girl from tinder for some dinner, walk her back, but then waiting for the bus these two dudes come up to me and start talking in spanish (I barely speak it) but I basically say to them I have no money and to go away. Luckily I'm a bigger guy for the country (~6ft) and the average guy is like 5'7, but they are scary looking and keep pushing me. This goes on for like 5 minutes and then my bus comes, luckily it's pretty full and they just leave. I imagine they were just some drunk dickhbeads but was pretty scary as I heard there is some gang activity in san jose.

TLDR: no more meeting girls on tinder unless they are rich, ****'s not worth it and I didn't even hit

Posted a yt video

Appreciate the vid. Thank you.
On the next one, please have on headphone’s as the GG table alert sound was tough on the ears.
Looking forward to next vid.

Thanks for the feedback, really appreciate it. Bought a mic and will fix some of the sound issues and should have another one out soon, but yeah some of the alerts, mouseclicking etc. is really annoying.

Goodluck op!

Thanks

I'm enjoying making these YT videos, even if there's no real financial incentive, good to do the solver hands and interesting to talk abt my thoughts out loud.

Made another one at 200z



Not sure if zoom or reg tables is the best, I feel like zoom is a much better format for play and explains but reg tables have better players and more interesting spots.

Results in June.

Made bb/100 but just ran well at 200 and dumped at 500/1k, so ended up losing money pre rakeback. After rakeback I scrape maybe 2-2.5k profit this month depending on affiliate.

I'm considering just grinding RNC and focusing on studying super hard. Having bankroll ~40k, think the best thing to do is try and put mass volume at 200, study hard, then start shotting 500/1k games occasionally but still play 200z as main game.

redline going down way too quickly, its like -14bb/100 at non showdown, almost impossible to overcome unless you play vs super massive whales

I agree.

What is your WWSF, W$SD, WTSD% and River call efficiency

The rake is 10bb/100, therefore you must play tables with lots of fish, lots of multiway pots, very rare to win on redline.

My overall winrate on GG is 2evbb/100 pre rakeback over 200k hands, which is 5-6 bb/100 post rake back.

The way GG is almost no one has winning red line. I always get negative comments on my redline from everyone except from high stakes players, who understand the environments. My overall results on GG are quite good, much better than the average reg, and I play average 6-9 tables.

Sorry if this came off as very defensive, of course I can improve my game in some spots, but just looking at graph doesn't tell me how to improve and it's not really a good indicator of anything.

I mean I wasn't implying you needed to have a winning redline, just a red line not as steep as this, like anywhere between -3 and -9bb is probably fine, -14bb is probably leaking money, either not squeezing or 4betting enough or 3betting enough, folding too much on the river too, not value betting thin enough, anyway you probably know about that already sort of, maybe get the GTO stats checker thingy from patrick howard, plug your database in and it's going to show you exactly where you deviate too much

Gto was designed to make you breakeven and give you the skills to deviate when necessary. It seems you are “autopiloting” and likely not value betting thinly enough, in spots where you think to yourself this could be too thin to value bet, put it in the 33% bet size and close your eyes and bet. For bluffs aswell as value.

Value betting thinly is better than not value betting or bluffing at all .

I agree with this again.

I have 14% 4b, 8.5% 3b, WWSF 48, WTSD 32

My main leak is missing turn barrels with air, not going to buy anything from patrick/nick howard but I have a coach and I'm working on it.

I agree, just not getting raised enough OTR in these games, I always like to play trappy trappy with some checkraises and protect my different bet ranges but I think I can play a lot more unbalanced in spots.



Idk, I realize that I am defensive, think I am self conscious about not having a sexy graph because playing on GG is all about rakeback, but there are definitely things I can work on.

I talked with a couple guys, basically they think playing 200rnc is going to have much higher hourly than 200nl reg tables, I kind of agree. I was making 8 bb postrb on reg tables but only ~400 hands per hour, can make 3-4bb postrb on zoom playing 1000 hands per hour.

Basically going to play mass volume 200z and play 500/1knl tables on GG when zoom pool is ****. Testing some apps for 1k games as well but a bit hesitant

Edit: and taking studying more seriously, doing 1 hour of study a day, either running a spot in the solver and really analyzing it, or making a video for youtube, coaching session, etc. but minimum 1 hr real studying of poker per day no excuses. And have to stop playing donkaments

You are not gonna buy anything from nick/patrick howard because you think their products are bad? Or is it because you already have a coach who can teach you, so the products wont be as useful as to you?

Glgl, keep crushing!

It’s hard not to notice how dismissive you are of comments that are trying to help…I’d like to weigh in but am worried it will be taken the wrong way

maybe not fair to say, but I thought their whole shtick was based off MDA and stats, not a huge fan of that. Thanks for the kind words.

In what way? I admit 100x in this blog there are big flaws in my game and I say I am working in many ways on plugigng them. I just don't think its really possible to ascertain what they are from a graph.

This blog is public anyway, it's not a leakfinder. Other pros at 200/500/1k have told me they read it so I can't post everything I might want to. I have a private coach and private study groups I work with for that.

Ok, I understand if you’re doing work off the tables and don’t want to make all that public. But, I don’t understand what work you are doing off the tables? Because posting a YT video (which I enjoyed both of them, btw) doesn’t count as “studying.” In general I find your post about mandating studying 1hr a day concerning given your stated goal of reaching high stakes. To succeed at that, you have to LOVE the off tables grind. It’s fine if you want to make a solid living at 200nl/soft mistakes games with good table selection and chill/travel in CR, you’re definitely talented enough for that, I just think you need to be honest with yourself about your goals and expectations.

Nick/Patrick Howard’s stuff is mostly centered around MDA, yes. I believe it’s mostly for the ignition player pool and maybe stars. But what Xenoblade is referring to is a program that takes your stats from your DB and compares them to what those stats *should be* if you’re playing GTO. So it’s just giving a global look at where your frequencies may be too high or too low in all lines. It’s kind of just a starting point to identifying leaks.

yeah like he said, you don't need to do any MDA work, you can if you want to see where your pool is deviating from GTO in general but it's also to see where you yourself are deviating without knowing it, maybe you're raising river much less than GTO, maybe you're folding 5% more than GTO etc.