I'm more impressed by his resolve. That huge downswing has to be demoralizing.

Watched the whole stream. That was ****ing brutal.

God that EV lulz.
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GL this year in poker and in your life's endeavors.

Went to a party to celebrate new years. Woke up so hungover it was ridiculous, so obviously had a blast. Did a bunch of beer pong and just chilled with some people.

2017 recap with bullets because I cbf to type a paragraph out

- +~13k in poker
- +more than that in crpyto
- +$$$$ with stocks
- First 6 figure year and I'm 24.
- GF graduated and got her masters
- Made it through the year alive
- Did some coaching
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2018 goals
- 250k hands poker
- 50 coaching sessions (counting ones I get and ones I give)
- monetary goals are dumb, but 25k+ in poker
- do some more pio work
- do some pop analysis work
- stream a couple times a month
- find a new job that I enjoy (this is #1)
- lose some weight
- take a legitimate vacation with the gf
- enjoy life

Do you have any areas on the country you're looking at for a move?

Take gf to destin, fl. You're welcome.

Yeah I think I did good this month too, thanks!

"huge"? Just 10bi I think

Yes, december was ****.

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Thanks Jon.

I put in 65 hrs of game play. Did a few coaching sessions for students and had PIOsolver run a ton of flops (1755 unique flops of btn vs bb) which I've compiled for aggregation analysis that I'll be going over in jan. I ran terribly in Dec like way worse than the EV graph shows in my opinion. Didn't effect me too much which is good. Gameplay could be a lot better, but atm I'm focusing more on consistency and specific game play atm. Trying to be very consistent so that when I make changes to my game I understand what/why and on what flop textures/spots. Time to get in dece volume in 2018 with a primary focus on 200z.

Happy new years all, and good luck at the tables.

Mid west preferably. I don't really want to move to the coast, but might end up doing that.

Exactly

Small samples VS awful players= out of this world winrates.

My last year in FL I was at 79bb/100 on about 600 hours of play.(Disclaimer: My lifetime is only about 40bb/100) Online playing NL 100-600 I hover around 5-10 depending on stakes/sites. Live plays very deep and is filled with people who couldn't beat microstakes Stars or WPN as high as you could imagine, any good online reg who can adjust crushes it. Some can't wrap their head around the adjustments needed, though. I started out a live player and then started online, so I already knew what was needed live before I ever got good at poker from playing online.

But, back to OP crushing 2018, gl!!!!

At least for poker, the midwest is awful. The games are so withered it's pretty sad.

I don't play live so its ok

How'd you do for the year?

+13k for poker

Starting the year off decent. Got in some good volume and up around 70bb.

Always interested in this kinda thing. Were you basically inputting standard BTN open and BB defence ranges so that you can work on your play in both spots?

Nice Year Broken GL in 2018

subbed for 2018. gl Brokenstars

The pio stuff is neat but I think you do a really good job of understanding pop tendencies and would like to see more of that in 2018. For example, there is a guy in the $10 zone pool that opens 10x and absolutely crushes. I thought this was really ******ed but after playing a few weeks with him and sitting and thinking about it, I understand what he's doing.

Also forgot to mention but at least your chat was active lol.

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I use the scripting feature in PIO to solve > 1 flops at a time. What I use for ranges is a 45% "standard" btn opening range and a solved BB defense strat vs that RFI and 2.5x open. Once I solve all of the flops I import into excel using aggregation analysis and look for overall trends. I have a strategy in which I've grouped different flop textures into subsets and I study the flop subsets that occur more frequently, so after I've identified overall trends basically just with c-betting freq then I look more closely at each subset and start nodelocking and looking at my HEM2 pop stats while I do it. This process takes a long time, but is very structured and allows me to study a specific spot with a specific approach which I'm getting better at.

I spend about 90% of my time studying flops, 9% on turns and 1% on rivers.

Thank you!

Yessssssssss

Sounds pretty bad actually

Damn straight, gl in 2018 dr.

Thanks, that's most helpful.

Dont want to get into the strategy of 10x opening lol but when his stats are 10/8 and he 10x and gets nothing but cc (at a high feq no less) followed by 1/5 cbets and x/folds, it does make you go



Exploitative open sizing in high vpip, ~4% 3bet games with near zero f2cb villains is a very underappreciated area of study imo.

10x is silly of course, but he regularly has 15 buy in stacks, and plays well post (plays as if its a 3bet pot really). I almost think its some sort of weird bot.

If he is 10/8 sure, but then he's just leaving money on the table.

Possibly Probably. Remember effective rake is huge at that level (why i get tilted at the twitch chat convos comparing iggy to stars) and nsd pots are rare, and bloating pots with premiums vs guaranteed vpips is not a bad thing.

Using a live 2/5 anecdote, when the old man coffee who none of us realized was even playing wakes up UTG, starts trembling, asks the dealer who its on, calmly takes a sip of his coffee, then says "make it $50", I always giggle like a school girl on the inside.

Then it goes

Call
Call
Call
Call
Call

and I ask myself why I study anything at all.

I've asked this question to many people, and I think I've asked you in the past.

just finished reading the latest discussion

8 hours of poker being easier than 8 hours of desk job, wait what.. are we talking live or online.

online poker is def not easier to do 8h per day than normal job. In normal job you need to actually think hard for maybe few hours if even that, when grinding online you are actually using ur brainsss alot which is exhausting. I've settled on playing 4-5h per day, anything over that and im just a potato for rest of the day and is not sustainable.

+1. I'm also incapable of playing strong after 5 hours, I usually take a break every 2-2.5 hours just to give my brain a rest as well