10/05
From now on I'll start doing something that I should had started at the beggining before and I didn't, which is tracking my win-rate w/ filters to know where I'm losing or winning money. I was watching a video from smartpokerstudy where sky suggest a method to finding leaks on your game and correcting them on a weekly basis, I found everything pretty interesting so I decided to try.
I'll check these filters once or twice a month to see where I'm losing or making money.

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From 10/04 to 10/05. hand sample: 18.620

PREFLOP

2bet PF: + $34.14
2bet/call 3bet PF: - $2,59
3bet PF: + $16.21
Call PF 2bet: - $3.25

POSTFLOP

cbet flop: + $19.71
cbet turn: + $13.30
cbet river: + $14.10
river call: + $0.61

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this week I'll start focusing more on the 3bet call spots, I always felt that I was screwing up somehow here lol. I believe if I start calling smarter when 3betted this will also impact my postflop win-rates since I'll face less tricky spots in theory. I'll also stop calling from BU ad start adopting a 3bet/fold strategy.

do you guys know any other important win-rate filters that I can add on this? it looks too much simplistic. I'm 100% open to any suggestion.

Have you posted your stats in the stats analysis thread?

3bet call spots, just as calling from the BB, are spots you´re supposed to lose, just lose less than 1 bb in the case of the BB, and your raise size in the case of defending 3bets. If you already know that, sorry Just to point that if you find yourself winning in spots like these, you might actually be playing too nitty.

Same goes for river calls, defending vs cbets etc.

If I´m not mistaken, H2N calculates the actual EV of different lines.

I'd suggest adding to those filters groups of hands, for example, when you 3bet, separate value from bluffs, then separate your bluffs, like low Axs, suited connectors etc, and see how you´re doing in each of them. When calling 3bets, do the same e.g. pps, SCs etc. And also for the BB and any other spot you´re looking at.

no, I'm having a hard time to filter this stats for only this year on hand2note, the lifetime stats are pretty inaccurate

great, I'll check these filters you suggested on h2n later and see how I'm doing. thanks dude


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15/05

sorry about the lack of updates guys, I was a bit busy solving a lot of stuff. I have some great news, I'm now 100% out of military, so I don't have any of those preocupations that I had before. It's so good to be out of that sh**, you guys had no idea how much stressful it is.

I also finally sold my car, so I don't need to worry so much about getting a job to pay my expenses while waiting for my release payment, that makes things a lot easier bc now I can study and play without a ton of worries on my mind.

my stake deal already started, I'm planning to play between 700-1500 hands per day and study something like 5-10 hands. I'm practicing hand reading and pot odds everyday bc I believe I have some weak points in those areas. I also noticed that I playing bad on counterfeited pots, I was calling with a lot of weak stuff that I should had folded, but now I'm paying more attention when this type of stuff happen.

my results so far:


one things that is helping me a lot are this daily 1$ sports bet ticket that PS is giving me free everyday, I usually bet on the exact match score of some match that is close to end and sometimes I won some bucks, way easier to achieve than those chests that takes a life to open and just give you $1,5

31/05
It's been a lot better to play and study being at home without having to worry about my job or finances like before.
I bought a heavy bag and a pair of boxing gloves to do some cardio everyday at the morning before start the sessions or the study.
I also did some research about supplements to improve learning + concentration and bought some creatine, fish oil pills and magnesium to give me a help.

I think now I'm beating NL2 quite well, I'm catching people bluffing a lot in situations where I would just give up before. I believe the advice of only calling turn or river raises with the nuts on NL2 it's outdated considering what people are currently doing, and on PS at least people are bluff-raising and bluff-shoving a lot with crap, so if the story that villain is telling is too much weird, then you should call. now I have much more HUD info and notes about each player so this makes things easier also.

it's been hard to build a roll since I started the stake I'm being punished by variance a lot (net-won ev is almost 20 times greater than net won) but let's keep trying

2nl still full of wild recreationals I guess

If you´re confident in your ranging and board texture analysis, then you definitely should go for it and catch those random bs lines

2NL on PS is full of people who doesn't care about bluffing in situations where it doesn't make sense to bluff at all.

I think between 80% of my river calls where villain tries to pull off a weird bluff bet I end up being ahead of him most of the time. If the story villain is telling is too much weird to believe we should hero call the most of the time.

I deposited some bucks on bodog just to test if the pool is really that much soft as everyone said and so far it looks like it's true story. People fold a lot at NL5 on bodog, looks like everyone are only playing his two cards and nothing more. I only see people shoving postflop on bodog in situations where it makes sense to shove, quite different from Pokerstars.

26/06

at the end of this month I started to play a bit more on reg tables to see how I'm going there and it looks like I have improved a lot about taking notes and adjusting my game with what the other players are doing.
it feels like I'm beating NL2 reg on PS by a much greater win-rate than on Zoom tables, there's some whales that just play reg tables no matter what and you'll never find this guys on the zoom ones.
I think if I had played reg tables all this time I would already had beated NL2 with no worries

NL2 June graph so far:


I've heard some people talking about how much softer the player pool is on Bodog compared to PS, so I've decided to see for myself
I added just $25 to play nl2 however I've discovered that the lowest stake to start is NL5 so I just started with 5 buy-in as my total bankroll to see what happens lol

since the games were soft as hell compared to ps I easily grinded until $75, however I've just started to track my progress after that since I didn't knew yet how to use hand2note on bodog

now I'm taking a shot on NL10 reg tables, it's incredible how soft this is stake is. there's always at least 2 limpers or 4 players with an incomplete stack on the table, and it's also quite easy to recognize who is the bluffer, the nit, whale and so on. people here bluff really bad and overvalue weak stuff like TPWK and (non-nut) flush draw.

the stack off threshold here difers a lot from NL2 in my opinion, basically you can call almost any shove here with TPGK vs someone who have incomplete stack (the majority of the people there) and win the most of the time.



it's quite hard to put volume playing reg tables compared to zoom but I'm trying to put at least 1k hands everyday to see what win-rate I can have here on NL10.

depending on what results I got I will start grinding my bankroll until August when I'll receive my money from navy so I'll have enough for a good bankroll to start taking a shot at NL25 on bodog, which is the goal I'm trying to reach until the end of this year.

wish me luck people

Moving to reg tables and to a softer site will probably be the most beneficial thing you ever did for your bankroll, your move up prospects and, who knows, your long term sanity

GLGL

truth, and the rakeback system is also much better than on PS

the only annoying thing on Bodog's player poll is that this guys really overvalue flush-draw, even by betting full-pot they will call flop and turn until they end up hitting something randomly that beats you, like in this hand for example:

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iPoker, Hold'em No Limit - $0.05/$0.10 - 6 players
Replay this hand on CardsChat

UTG: $33.22 (332 bb)
MP: $10.00 (100 bb)
CO: $10.71 (107 bb)
BU (Hero): $10.00 (100 bb)
SB: $9.65 (97 bb)
BB: $10.22 (102 bb)

Pre-Flop: ($0.15) Hero is BTN with J♣ J♥
2 players fold, CO raises to $0.30, Hero 3-bets to $1.05, 2 players fold, CO calls $0.75

Flop: ($2.25) 5♥ 4♦ 8♦ (2 players)
CO checks, Hero bets $2.14, CO calls $2.14

Turn: ($6.53) 2♣ (2 players)
CO checks, Hero bets $6.81 (all-in), CO calls $6.81

River: ($20.15) 3♣ (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $20.15 (Rake: $1)

Showdown:
BU (Hero) shows J♣ J♥ (a pair of Jacks)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 68%, Flop: 53%, Turn: 66%, River: 0%)

CO shows A♦ 9♦ (a straight, Ace to Five)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 32%, Flop: 47%, Turn: 34%, River: 100%)

CO wins $19.15

Good to know Bodog has a rakeback system. How much are they giving you back in % of rake paid?

sorry man I didn't saw the message, about the rakeback system, bodog pays you in cryptocurrency (dogecoins) that you can exchange for money or tickets for some MTTs they have (I'm not a big fan). Idk exactly how much % I'm getting back but it looks like it's way more than what I was getting in PS with those $1,50 chests.

I'm playing there for a bit more than 1 month and I already did 100BRL (or $20) in rakeback and also reached my first deposit bonus on the second week playing, so I think they're good in this part.

Yeah, I asked bc I´m getting the 40% challenges on stars pretty much every month. But you should be at the 3rd (or 2nd, don´t remember) chest level before getting them, otherwise rb is really low indeed.

Gonna check Bodog tho, diversifying into softer pools is smth I really wanna do.

Tks

the bad thing about bodog is that you will need to buy a $40 hand catcher to be able to track your results, and the bodog software is a bit heavier than PS also so if you have an pre historic notebook like mine you'l feel some lags here and there.

if you are beating NL10 on PS I would strongly suggest you to take a shot at NL25 on bodog, I heard the players there are not much better than the ones on NL5 or NL10, It will be easy job for you imo.

good luck there.

01/07

I'm currently struggling with some issues regarding my hand catcher, since I'm not being able to track my hands for later study I stopped playing on bodog for now while I solve the issue with the guys from support.

for a while I'm enjoying a lot to play the reg tables on PS, if you table select properly and can play long sessions you can easily print money there. there's so many whales out there, so many bad bluffers also, it's a lot of fun to play against this guys.

10/07
bodog is really softer than PS, I have no doubt about that. what is been annoying is some bad beats that I'm taking because of people that call too much and with any size.

it's always the same pattern, I have TPGK or better, I bet flop he calls, turn he calls, I bet river and then he suddenly shove because of the set he hitted with his pocket pairs, or the bad-kicker flush draw that ended up hitting on river. I think I'll try to overbet turn more or even shoving with some hands to see how they'll react.

I was beating NL10 quite well until I reached $110 as roll (great for someone who deposited just $25 at the start), but after that I got a series of kicks on the balls and returned to 60$.

so now I think I'll be more responsible with my roll and just play NL5 until I reach $100 again or more than that, I know that It's still risky BRM but I really feel that I'm beating NL10 well enough to try that.
At the end of the day is my own money that I'm using, if I bust I'll get my **** together as before and prepare for another shot.
there's no reason for being so worried about busting a roll that it's not a big ammount anyway, the benefits overcompensate the risks.

I'm enjoying more to watch "play n' explain" videos now, before I had always to pause the video to think bc everything was too new to me, and even pausing to think I was clueless sometimes. now I feel that I'm really getting what the guy is talking, and is been really helpful for my game to know some spots that I'm overcalling or overfolding according to the opinion of someone who is already beating that stake.

I'm also taking some time off to watch NL200 play n explain videos. it's interesting to see how much the strategy vs regs change at this stake.
It's quite inspiring for me to see people beating a stake that is a distant dream for me at the moment, it must be awesome to be able to beat NL200 being a brazilian, even beating by just 3bb/100 you can make a great living here, I think even if it would necessarily take 5 years to get there it would still be worth it to try it, it's much more money than everyone is doing here anyway.

I already solved the tracker issue and everything is ok again, I'll post my last 20-30k hands here soon.

wish me luck

subd interesting thread tho im not tryina make a habit of reading about micros

thanks dude

28/07

NL10 RESULTS SO FAR:




I've been putting a lot less volume this month, mainly bc I'm focusing more on the reg tables instead of the zoom ones and also because I'm dedicating more time to study. I also took some shots at NL25 when I was running well with my roll, it seems that is pretty much the same thing that NL10 but with more money involved. really soft player pool imo. just got a bit unlucky and lost some buy ins, so now I'm grinding at NL10 again to build a roll great enough to take another shot at NL25.

but to be honest what I'm really hoping is that I get my payment from navy next month, that way I will be able to deposit enough money to try my luck at NL25 with no worries at all

today I'll dedicate the whole day just to play reg tables, I've been studying a lot this week and I think I have some cool stuff to put into practice

wish me luck

Playing at reg tables in the soft pool is the right way to quickly increase your bankroll and beat a few limits.
Just keep playing and working on the game.

Good luck!

+1

GLGL, nice progress!

thank you guys, much appreciated

Hey op!

Glad to see you're still working on your game

GL bro keep grinding