All sizes here are intentional. PF i don't want to bloat the pot vs an utg 3x open when other opponents can still chime in. I'm not worried about getting raised. I had reads V was calling flop/turns with ATC vs basically any sizes, I want to try to abuse that.





Sorry, but that's quite a lot of what-if statements strung together.

Villain was not playing aggressively postflop and was not going to SD w/worse hand. This was pretty out of character and I had been sitting with V for somewhere around 1-2 hours. I personally didn't think he was finding basically ANY bluffs but I can go back and look later at the full HHs when I download them.

folding KK is okay, better off calling hands like QJ and QT than KK there probably

99 sizing scheme is bad in theory but if we're facing a whale who isn't folding anything then obviously fine

Scheme is very player dependent

Results from KK hand




EDIT FOR OTHER HAND WITH SAME VILLAIN

Small session today results. Still losing flips. Giving myself an 7/10 today for tilt. Had a short couple seconds that I felt entitled but I let myself feel it, recognize and accept it, and move on. Need volume but every time I start prioritizing volume, my game suffers. Slow and steady.

Maybe didn't fight for enough pots today, maybe overfolding a bit too much.



Hand of the night


Ignition - $0.10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 3 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BTN): 100 BB
SB: 110.6 BB
BB: 97 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 6 Q

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) BB has 9 6

Hero raises to 2.5 BB, fold, BB raises to 6 BB, Hero calls 3.5 BB

Flop: (12.5 BB, 2 players) 6 Q 3
BB checks, Hero bets 9.2 BB, BB calls 9.2 BB

Turn: (30.9 BB, 2 players) 5
BB checks, Hero bets 22.1 BB, BB raises to 44.2 BB, Hero raises to 84.8 BB and is all-in, BB calls 37.6 BB and is all-in

River: (194.5 BB, 2 players) T

Hero shows 6 Q (Two Pair, Queens and Sixes)
(Pre 69%, Flop 99.7%, Turn 100%)
BB shows 9 6 (One Pair, Sixes)
(Pre 31%, Flop 0.3%, Turn 0%)
Hero wins 184.8 BB

Oh yeah. Pokerstars self ban ends soon.

Another small session. Think I played better today, ignoring results. Have been doing a better job of keeping pt4 closed while playing so I am not looking at results every few minutes/sometimes seconds and reminding myself to focus on hands. For tilt, gotta give myself a 5/10 today and it is mostly because I tilted for about 1 minute after losing an all in (I'll post below) and I know better than to get frustrated over the results. I just said on another thread I don't like ripping in stacks when im flushed on paired boards and here I am. Goes to show, I struggle with doing the things I think I believe are right or wrong and I'm not in anyway perfect or as good as I may think I am.

Thinking about applying to Metagame too to see what they say. Still on the fence if I would actually follow through if I could get into a CFP but I think it's going to come down to whether or not I can find a study group or mentor. I do like to do a lot of things and work on my own but I don't think there is any argument that having someone look over your shoulder and have multiple eyes/minds on the same things is incredibly valuable.


Edit: add graph, forgot to even look at it lol


I'm aware volume is looking like an all time low...

Not dwelling on short-term results is generally a wise approach.

Particularly, if you have a robust bankroll, it's advisable to refrain from fixating on results over shorter durations like a week or a month.

These brief periods can be highly volatile, and our results are often influenced by variance.

To maintain a positive mindset, it's better to concentrate on what we can control: making the best possible decisions during our poker sessions.

Every time I put on TMGoP to listen to on my drive or while working I am reminded quickly how much of a mental fish I am. I should really sit down and take notes while I listen. Or listen on the car ride to work and take notes afterwards on the material covered as a daily mental workout.

I’m having issues with geo locked PA sites to play on. I have reason to believe my IP address is correct but the geolocation associated with it is not correct and is in fact reporting several states away.

Can anyone point me in the direction of who might know how to fix this? Talked with the casino sites and ISO and no one knows anything.
I just woke up but I’ll hop on my pc and see if I can link some images showing what I’m talking about

Bruh you need coaching...

4.5k hand update.

This ended up being the week, sunday to sunday.

So last update was some play from ACR. I got about 5k more hands there and happily ran hot vs this pool. After this I took my BR off the site and I'm going to move back to Global and Ignition. Also had a nice chunk in RB.

^results for ACR



Back on Ignition feels pretty great. (obviously compared to ACR) And the results were not disappointing. (see below)


Currently aiming to put most volume into Ignition. I'm reevaluating my BRM and am going to be looking to establish at 25nl as soon as possible. I'm considering playing global as well, probably just split roll between the two. Looking forward to putting in more table time.

I have been doing more study over playing time recently and am happy with it, Hopefully these results are consequence of increased focus.

Global feeling just as good as Ignition. Had a bonus to deposit $3 to get 33sc, then unlock another bonus the next day. The next bonus was $10 for 20sc so I managed to snag 53sc for $3. They also have a boosted daily bonus grab

Should be able to get about 70sc for $13 total deposited if i don't miss the daily. I'm already sitting over 10 buyins on Global on that microdeposit, BR for the site basically built out of thin air.

Nice graphs, only way is up!

Global update for the week going into the weekend. (Was trying to volume on Iggy but I ended up getting sucked into Global with great looking tables)

Hours played - 9

Hands played - 2,900

BB won - 833

BB in RB - 200

Wasn't able to play much in my own "free time," been a little busy remodeling basement and finishing up some other checklist stuff at home. But was able to get some time in during work which was nice. Hopefully can keep the steam rolling through the weekend into next week. If all goes well, I should be back in the 25nl streets.

Suppose can tally end of month up

Pokerstars10nl- 8k hands = -500bbs

Global Poker10nl- 5k hands = +1500bbs (including rb&bonuses)

Ignition10nl- 6k hands = +700bbs


Total profit for November = +1700bbs

EDIT: unless we include ACR i totally forgot about, I think about +700bbs there with rb as well.

Graphs were uneventful and low volume so I'm going to wait to post them with a larger sample. Don't worry, I'm still a fish. Was happy to put up 20k hands this month and I know I can find the motivation to do more but I am still trying to pound out study.

Working on improving study also with a more intentional approach rather than pick and choose through randomness. I need to know where I can be honestly confident and honest about being wrong/needing improvement. Keep saying this but back to the basics and drilling those spots. Incorporating more GTOw drills with trainer in my study time. Trying to take my time thinking about each hand and answering with the frequency slider bar between bet/check/fold instead of simply select a bet/check/fold option. I think this is going to help me better see places that I can clean up and should make the places I am completely wrong really pop out. In those spots that I make big blunders, I open the charts and spend a few minutes poking around curious forcing myself to face mistakes.

I am also working on goal setting and that is an area of my life that really suffers. I think I may be finding small improvements there. A goal I would like to set for this forum is to post more HHs for discussion and feedback. It can be a small goal maybe something like, 1-2 hands per session/day or just 3-4 hands posted per week. That would already be much more than I am doing.

There's improvement to make everywhere.

DECEMBER GOALS


[0] 20 hh posts on 2p2
[400] 2k trainer hands BBvsBTN facing range bet
[chapter6] finish audio play through of TMGoP
[ ] Finish URI’s Redline rocket ship course


Site @ 20 buy ins
[x] Global Poker
[ ] Ignition
[ ] Pokerstars

-Here's the plan. Get each site to 20 buy ins for 10nl by 2024. Full shot 25nl with a stop loss. This doesn't mean I have to open up 4 tables of 25nl, but I need to keep up 2 minimum. I can load 10nl tables to fill after finding 25nl tables I want to stay at.
-Hit a downswing on each site, Global fell to 13bi but yesterday and today we got it past the mark so we can knock it off the list. Going to tackle Ignition or Pokerstars next, haven't decided. It's only a few bi for each site.
-Always feels good to set a goal and start ticking off the list.

Been on a bit of a downswing lately, trying to remain confident in my decisions though but stay humble enough to stay open minded and learn, it's tough.

Updating goals because trainer going fast. Instead of 2k, let's leave it at 10k and if I overshoot I will adjust it for January.

DECEMBER GOALS


[0] 20 hh posts on 2p2
[1900] 10k trainer hands BBvsBTN facing range bet (must look at all red/yellow answers)
[chapter7] finish audio play through of TMGoP
[ ] Finish URI’s Redline rocket ship course


Site @ 20 buy ins
[x] Global Poker
[ ] Ignition
[ ] Pokerstars

-Here's the plan. Get each site to 20 buy ins for 10nl by 2024. Full shot 25nl with a stop loss. This doesn't mean I have to open up 4 tables of 25nl, but I need to keep up 2 minimum. I can load 10nl tables to fill after finding 25nl tables I want to stay at.
-Hit a downswing on each site, Global fell to 13bi but yesterday and today we got it past the mark so we can knock it off the list. Going to tackle Ignition or Pokerstars next, haven't decided. It's only a few bi for each site.
-Always feels good to set a goal and start ticking off the list.

Been on a bit of a downswing lately, trying to remain confident in my decisions though but stay humble enough to stay open minded and learn, it's tough.



I was going to shoot for minimum 95% GTOW% score consistently before moving on to another spot. What do you guys think is a good target GTOW% to reach with consistency before you would move on?

Now that global is checked off...

Pokerstars is next on the list. Here are results this month so far there. Had a not so good November for PS so this is just bringing me out of the neg (running a few bi under EV though for the whole sample). I haven't been playing my A game consistently but study is still going well I think. Also still working with the GTOw trainer and feeling really good about it. I'm not sure the exact amount left needed to check off PS but with rb it's something around 2-3 bi left. So not much. I think it's looking good for being positioned to full shot 25nl with a stop loss by the end of the month. 18 days or so I think I can do it.

Wiz scoring is a bad metric, because it gives you a bad score for mixing errors, which is stupid. Let’s say something is 60/40 call and raise, it gives you a lower score for picking raise, when the EV is the same.

It’s more important to not make blunders, like folding a combo that never folds, and to develop heuristics. If you have access to it, the wizard AI is much better for combo selection, because it has more pure strategies that make sense intuitively. You can’t use the trainer with it, yet.

It's not stupid at all. Say you fold 100% with all hands that are mixed, you would be HUGELY exploitable and it would be tantamount to a blunder, even if GTO says "no EV loss".
Learning reasonable frequencies is good.

Also, you can use the trainer with the AI.

It’s very hard to exploit a mixing error, and it is mostly a waste of time , because the accuracy of the solve isn’t that great. You can compare the AI solver to the Wiz presolves and there are many more pure actions with combos in the AI solver, and apparently, it crushes piosolver (their claim, not mine). I agree that having a general idea of mixes is ok, but knowing the bigger picture is more important. The wiz score isn’t a great metric to track your progress or knowledge of a spot.

So what might you suggest to have a decent idea when to move on to another spot?

Are these drills just for the flop or do they continue the whole hand? I wouldn't use the metrics other than EV loss, which will show huge blunders. You shouldn't be making a 4bb error in this spot, so that means you have blundered and made a fundamental mistake. There are two types of errors you can make: Frequency errors and fundamental errors. If we eliminate the fundamental errors, like folding a combo that never folds, we are going to boost our winrate in the spot quite a bit.

My priority for studying defensive spots is this:

1. Get a rough idea of the mechanics of the spot. For this, I would look at the aggregated reports and see what the rough call/fold/raise percentages should be, so I have a baseline.
2. Understand thresholds. What is the worst hand I call here? What is the worst hand I raise for value? etc.
3. Develop heuristics for the spot. For example, I know on a lot of boards, random Ax with a suit is going to be a good XR candidate on two tone boards, because we have future blockers for flush runouts.
4. Drill so that I don't make any big blunders. I wouldn't worry about mixing errors if you have a rough idea of how the spot works but doing the above first.

Most people hop right into drilling, but if you don't understand what's going on, it is equivalent to just studying for a test by rote memorizing flash cards. You want to constantly be going back between step 3 and 4, because step 4 might enlighten you to something you are missing, so you can go back to step 3 and add that heuristic. Sorry I didn't answer your question directly. It depends.