Staking Challenge Day 8

Result -$5

BR $1835.15

Yesterday woke up and immediately went on runitonce to watch my daily video. Todays Video was "Bet Sizing .25/.50 6 Max Zoom Live Session" by Ian

what i learned:

1. Small bets require us to defend more of our range, where as big bets require us to defend less of our range.

2. You can have a high small bet % on the flop because the avg pool doesn't defend as often as they should, people overfold way to often.

3. After betting the flop, your turn bet should be polarised when betting larger. checking back turns with weaker top pairs and marginal hands to protect your checking range to the river.

4.Hero opens Ad6d btn, Bb calls, Flop:Th3cKh, Hero bets .33%, bb calls, Turn 5s, Hero over bets 155% because not blocking the bdfd clubs is a good thing, this flop is good for our range and the 5s shouldn't change much.

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Weekly Total

7,070/100,000 Hands

Result +$1235.00

Graphs...

How do you get a graph/keep track of play on ignition?

I pay $10 a month for a Software called Pokeit. It allows me to download Ignition hand histories and it automatically enters it in Pokeit Database. Which essientally does most but not all things PokerTracker does. Sucks I don’t have a windows laptop so I could use PokerTracker, but this will have to do.

Nice work man. Keep studying, putting in those hours/hands, and building that BR. Cool to see someone so excited about poker from someone who has been at it a long time.

H2 the logic is sound, the hand selection is bad though

Nice first week Rub.

Thanks bro. Gotta love the process!

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Staking Challenge Day 9

Result -$30

BR $1805

Hands 800

Missed my hand goal by 200 hands since yesterday was a pretty hectic day for me I terms of other commitments.

I spent most of my morning and afternoon helping my mom with her house, they have a bunch of construction going on and she needed someone to help her clean out the garage, so that took most of the day. I didn’t start playing poker till around 8pm

So I decided that I would 4table I usually play two tables, but I felt like since I have been studying a lot my decision making process could be a little faster to allow me to smoothly play 4tables.

I definitely would feel the heat when you get stacked by a whales 18%er on the turn , but I’m trying to just brush those off and keep playing till I reach my volume goal l, which I did not do so I need to make up for that.

Video and what I learned

$0.50/$1 6 Max Session Review by Dekkers

1. Hero opens QQ on BTN and B.B. calls, Flop: T98 we should be checking this flop with 100% of our range since it is a great flop for Villian range, we do block the 2combos of QJs which is nice.

2. Hero raises in CO with KJo , BTn 3bets and , Dekkers decides to 4bet his KJo here with some frequency and because it has decent blockers. I need to get better at my 4 bets so glad to see hand selection here.

3. Hero UTG As4s raises , BTN 3bets, Dekkers folds but says you need to call w/ some Axs at some frequency or you will be overfolding.

Ok guys about to go freshen up and watch another video and mediate before I start this Day 10

Good luck at the tables!

How are these "coaches" getting hired? I gotta get you into upswing, I'll text you about it.

1. You shouldn't check 100% of range IP on this flop (or really any flop). It's a good flop for villians range, but you still have a range advantage (you can have TT - he shouldn't ever, you can have all the overpairs which he can't have, and you can both have every combo of QJ) On this flop bet your overpairs and check back hands like JT/T6s/QT for balance. Don't check this board 100% IP, that's just burning EV

OOP I can understand a check 100% range on this board texture - say you open UTG and button flats, checking 100% as a simpler way to construct your range would be fine and not sacrifice much ev. But IP with wider ranges you should pretty much never be checking a board 100%

2. Never 4bet KJo. like ever. please. If you wanna get frisky against light 3bettors do it with A5s, KQo or even K9s, and do it at a very low frequency (almost never) I know it seems trivial but hand selection matters

3. Wow he got one right. But it's fine to overfold a little utg vs button 3bet, people way under 3bet bluff

Get me that upswing asap. I got a month of it left so lets keep diving in for now lol

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Staking Challenge Day 10

Result +230

Hands 1118

Bankroll $2030


Here is an updated graph about 8k hands with all other good stuff. I'm guilty for my Ev within the first 5k hands lol (not really tho) but i feel like i have made some adjustments to my game to fit nicely in the pool. only day 10 so just excited to even be here. Day by day trying to improve.

So since i don't own PIO i am starting to watch videos on runitonce that are dedicated to running hands thru pio etc.

Breaking out PIO: Basic Study Tips + Live Nl Zoom Action

What i learned...

1. Video starts off by studying 3bet pots from the Bb perspective vs Btn. On the Tc9h5h Bb has and equity advatange and thus should be cbetting this board at a high frequecy.
2. In PIO its good to look at he EV for specific hands in your range as the 3bettor and which hands yield a higher EV, on this flop Overpairs and Sets have the highest ev
3. The 3bettor has less combos of sets with 7.5combos to BTNs 9.0 but whats important is the proportion of their range that is sets is higher for the bb which is more important
4. Same example 3bet pot BB vs BTN Flop: Tc9h5h Turn: 3d if the action went bb 3bet, bets 35% on flop, 65% on turn what hands should the BTN be raising with? in PIO for this example hands like KTss, KTdd, and ATss and ATdd would shove to protect their equity where as all our 9x we have and KThh should just be calls
5. Also the btn should not do much raising on this board since the bb has an equity advantage , sets are just being called 55 is being raised at some frequency

Nice graph, keep it up. Doesn't seem helpful to put so much effort into studying Tc9h5h boards and what hands to play and how without knowing our opponent. Poker is a game of people. Running sims without the single most important piece of information is pointless imo. Talking about real hands with tgiggity is going to improve your game at a much faster pace than PIO. Trust your gut, not what PIO tells you.

Hey rick I also talk hands with Tigigity all the time. Me posting what I learned from a PIO video is helpful for me to remember what I learned. It’s also keeps me in the right mindset before playing a session. Just thinking about poker at a higher level and listening to knowledge I never heard before is fascinating to me. I watch these videos for enjoyment tbh. The postives I gain from watching a 45min theory video makes it worth it to me.

Hey RUB good luck.

So you have a 50/50 deal with make up. What does "make up" mean?

Thank you.

Hey man yeah so 50/50 for any profits. Makeup is to pay back any losses with my profits. for example , I was started off with $600 if I lost the -$600 then that would mean In order for me to take out money for myself I would have to pay back that $600 lost.

If you clear make up or never even lose in the beginning then you can just split the profits 50/50 anything over the $600.

So BR is $2030 and I was started off with $600 so Profit of $1430 so we split the 1430 because I have no make up to pay. Hope that clears it up for you

Hi everyone so I made an IG and I will be posting on there as well as here. I would like to build a following so I can take all of you with me on this crazy poker journey. I’m sure I’ll be at this for the next 10-15years so why not follow and come along for the ride.

Follow : https://www.instagram.com/rub_rub12/. Tell your friends

Thank you guys

This is mostly bad advice. Keep doing what you're doing.

Yeah it's kinda tough to grasp what your opponents are doing wrong (and how you can exploit their deviations) w/o knowing what "right" is. That's why working w pio/monker can only help turn on some light bulbs.

No Home Jerome aka Phil Ivey, used to go broke all the time and work a random customer service job when he did, so that he could get back into action playing Stud hi in AC. Grit, natural talent, and belief in himself got Phil to the top. While he's no longer on top, he prob does ok for himself.

Just dont spend too much time on your Stud hi game; it's not exactly the game of the future

So basically it's always +EV for the person who stakes you isn't it?
I mean, he can't lose money in any circumstances...
Do you have a minimum number of hands to play monthly?

I ask this because last year i was interested in a staking project and asked that to a school, and they had the same deal...with all the rakeback going to the school also, so I thought was -EV for me.

Followed!

sick thread dude. Followed.

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Staking Challenge Day 11

Result +$9.60

Bankroll $2,039.60

Hands 600

Very low volume yesterday kinda guilty about that. I just was feeling pretty fatigue so i decided to take it easy and watch more RIO videos and play two tables and keep it low-key.

Today ill try to up the volume

Make sure to do me a favour and follow my IG and tell your friends!

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/rub_rub12/

The staker can lose money if the player loses money. Rubrub doesn't owe money if he loses and tgiggity decides to cancel the stake, he's freerolling 50% of his winnings and tgiggity absorbs any overall loss(I'm assuming). If rubrub is low on funds taking 50% of his winnings at 100nl with no risk is a lot more than 100% of himself at penny stakes. Depending on his situation, this stake could be a very good deal. Especially when you throw in tgiggity's (I'm assuming free) coaching.

Seems like a beneficial deal (for now) to both parties from my point of view.

A bad deal that I see on this site is coaching for profits. That's always +EV for the coaches and borderline scummy imo.

Why don't you play live dude? So much easier and more money to be made that playing low stakes online.

Maybe I misunderstood, but if RUB loses money won't he enter in the "make-up zone" and has to pay the staker for the amount of money he lost?
So basically will the staker never lose money?

No, you are misunderstanding. If rubrub loses the 600 he doesn't owe tgiggity anything. He is in "make-up" meaning he has to get out of makeup before he can receive his share of the profits. Rubrub splits any overall profits and tgiggity eats any overall loss. If rubrub blew up the 600 like an idiot or did some shady dumping or something tgiggity can reasses and decide to cancel the stake at that point having lost 600. Or if rubrub lost in a reasonable manner he can reinvest more into the stake. However if rubrub loses he can't then just cancel the deal being down money and play poker on his own dime. He'd have to make up the stake before doing that unless tgiggity cancelled the stake. If rubrub wins like he has been then they agree to split the profits at a certain point. At that point he'd be back to even and if he lost he'd immediately be in makeup.

I have no ideas to the particulars of their actual deal I'm just speaking out of my ass.

Thank you, now it's clear for me