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its nice to see such a sick graph over so many hands to see what is possible. Thanks for sharing bro.
im so in
Thanks! Keep in mind, it's still a small sample, running quite well, and the pool was very decent in December.
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as someone who hopes to one day climb to 200 blitz, and as someone who is also worried about botting / collusion
For now, I try not to worry about collusion, botting, or RTA because there's nothing I can change about it and Pool is certainly beatable. I'm hopeful that sites will eventually improve their security systems.
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Originally Posted by 10najkrajsi
Wow, great results. What is your nickname?
Currently, I prefer not to share my screen name because I'm doing extreme adjustments against most of the top volume players.
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Originally Posted by 10najkrajsi
Also please give me some ideas what you would like me to write about:
- Should I write a proper introduction? Yes
- Do you want insights into how or what I study? YES
- HHs? Yes
- Should i also blog about my vacations, because I travel alot? YES
- How often should I post? (Perhaps results once a month?) YES
I'll start with a better introduction:
I am from germany and I started playing poker in 2020 on GG playing NL2 for the first few months beeing more or less breakeven even after RB. I managed to move up to NL25 until 2021, after starting to watch more theory based videos and working with solvers instead of watching countless of hours Play&Explains by alot of different people.
In 2021 germany introduced a new gambling law, which caused higher rake on most poker sites for german citizens. I thought poker was not an option anymore, cashed out all of my ~1300$ profit and quit the game for half a year.
With the start of 2022 I finally started to play again and moved to ACR with a new roll of 500$. I was more or less what u call a "breakeven rakebackgrinder" trying to imitate a solver. Playing with a winrate of 0-1bb/100 before rakeback and managed to get 50$ from the beast leaderboard on most weeks. When i was comfortable enough with my roll i started the same process with moving up to 50Blitz (25Blitz pool never run) and played around 600k hands with a sensational winrate of 0 bb/100 winrate.
In September of 2022 i finished university degree with a Msc in Physics and started my fulltime Job as software-dev in November. I was giving myself a shot of 5 buy-ins at 200Blitz in October 2022 and got crushed in a few hundred hands. I decided to move to BOL and start playing there more NL100 and NL200 as i heard it was a lot softer. This was also the time I tried to understand more about population tendencies and finding/fixing my own leaks (which where all over the gametree). I drilled alot of Flop and Turn defences and Cbetting. I read alot of blogs and watched videos on Youtube and RIO about simplifying strategies. I started with writing a "Playbook" for the most common situations. I tried to capture most heuristics for many spots and improved them over time to be always a bit more complex but still manageable to execute.
This is what it looks like nowadays:
And for example Overview of 3BP OOP Aggressor in SBvsBTN:
At this time I also won a freeroll of Pokercode which earned me a month of their Membership! I binge-watched their cash libary and learned alot about poker listening to go0se.core explaining how to think about ranges and strategies.
I had decent success on BOL and won around 6bb/100 on a 108k hand sample over the next few months:
Then I decided I wanted to move back to ACR due to lower Rake, having more Rakeback and most importantly more traffic. I took a month break from playing and only focused on studying what exploiting really means and invested in a month of Deepsolver. I developed a big passion to understand and form strategies and exploits on all the most common spots. Furthermore i saw the usefullness of drilling with Anki-Flashcards and made a bunch of them theory-/exploitative-/actual hands-based. Over the month, I probably averaged about 8 hours study after working for 8 hours in my job.
Fast forward to now u see my Blitz200 Graph in my initial post and my current bankroll is about 31k$. I don't have a monetary goal in mind and will try to move up in stakes that i will feel more comfortable playing bigger.
Currently my Playing to Study ratio is about 1:1 (Pool never runs when i finish work) and I purchased a month of GTOWizard AI just before they increased their price.
My study consists of Strategy development, exploit-understanding, reviewing myself, pool and top volume regs.
In terms of vacations, I managed in 2023 to visit Spain, Italy, UK, South-Korea, Oman, Chile, Bolivia and Peru and hope 2024 will continue just as well!
Took me way to long to write this post down and I probably forgot to mention half of my journey up to now...