Hey,

After a 6month break where I've studied poker a lot while not playing, I'm back at the tables.

I've started in a new site, been playing 25k hands only so far but things haven't been going too great. I know the sample size means nothing but after beating 200z easily and beating 500z decently and on a full-time basis on 2015, I should be playing much better especially considering im playing 200NL now..

Reasons for not playing my best?

- I'd say run awful bad (unreal bad sometimes on this sample) -40%

- Not being humble enough at the tables while playing, thinking that because I played in higher and much tougher games I can win every hand -10%

- Not adapting on regular tables... too much addicted to zoom fast pace -50%

This last point i think is what is keeping my volume so low and not playing my A-game.
Zoom poker is so much better than regular tables, no table breaking, always action, not seeing action where we're not involved, less space on the screen, no table selection, random players etc etc

So what happens is I find myself playing tons of tables, being tilted because they often break and the screen is a mess, playing HU with everyone while multitabling, timebanking every where and so on, and especially FORCING action where it appears that I've to be all in every 5minutes (like i was in zoom) if not, i will force action and start 4bet calling QJo BTN vs EP just to get in a spot lol

On a good note, my preflop game is very good and according to what I studied. I think if i correct the factors i described and run a little better I'll crush this challenge.

Mental laziness and over cofidence of playing 200nl after 2years have to be corrected as well, and I should be greatful that I'm running/playing this bad while on lower stakes..

My commitment:
I will treat 200nl very seriously from now on, play less tables, deny HU action when i'm playing more than 6 tables, use this stake to put in practice what I've learned and within 2months play the 400 and 600 nl regular games.

gl me

sub and gl.

why have you not played for 6 months?

in gl

valee,
won't post here in the thread the reasons but I took the oportunity to study a lot.
challenge will start today

ty guys

GL with the challenge man will follow

Also try and get placemint if the tables are messy, things a life changer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abp-9bH3iHs

glgl

Why did you move from zoom tables to regular tables?

I can't play on stars atm. If i could i would only play zoom 500 as I can't seem to adapt to reg tables too slow/boring/always breaking.

On a side note, i've been playing better now, reduce tables, less HU and I'm winning again last 10k hands. But the graphs I've include will be only since this challenge started (today).

Also, red line seems back to normal (b/e or up) which is the effect of the above

I've played for 2 or 3hours and only manage to get 1.1k hands zoom is the nuts

GL subbed, looking forward to this one!

+1, huge life changer.

hey, thanks for suggestions guys.
playing better now, here is the graph



didnt quite get what the program is suposed to do, that the client doesnt already do like aligning tables and stuff.

Well, i like how im playing despite running under EV =) i ll play a bit more and then hopefully play exclusively 400 and hopefully get the EV back there.

glgl

ps: heres the link i dont know how to insert link

http://imgur.com/DmYM0qn

Best of luck man, thisll be interesting.

Starting this challenge was very good for me. Although I didn't post very often, I focus a lot and start to play super focus almost all sessions (should've quit some session earlier so not 100% satisfied).

Here is the graph so far:

http://imgur.com/AplTawl (again, can someone tell me how to put them showing on the thread?)


I've felt that I've run fairly bad in terms of all in preflops hand distribution, and also i think i've lost all of my 200/250bb pots despite doing the correct plays almost always.

I've regain motivation to play normal tables, but still sad that I can't find zoom midstakes on any site besides stars. Game should always be zoom, I don't understand how one could argue otherwise unless u are a bum hunter.

But yeah, I've played everyone HU until I got no action from regs - so I kinda failed that part of the challenge, but I managed to not play HU when I was 6 tabling

I'll resume the challenge on a different site because this rakeback deal I had was the nut low in the industry. I'm not a rakeback grinder, but I can't say no to a better deal on a site with more action. Kinda sad on leaving the site a bunch under EV (i was already under in the previous hands before i started the challenge) but it is what it is.

I'll upload soon
the plan is to keep things as they're keep focusing, and not autopiltoing. I chased loses a bit on this challenge, meaning that I was tired on the end of the session but I kept going because I was losing. This worked for me in zoom because it was faster to get hands, but on reg tables is ridiculous and led me to start to force some scenarios ( for ex super marginal cold 4b, to either hit or try to barrel of and win on NON SD).

glgl everyone

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/55...s-more-285800/
Here is how to post pictures and more.
Nice results so far! Gl.

here it is

Hey man, would love for you to take a minute to answer this:

What would you say is the most important concept to REALLY understand, to become a winning poker player these days?

Appreciate it. Best of luck

Be solid preflop is a good start, that is off table work.
Then, play simple,creative and each spot individual no matter what size the pot is. because poker has no rules there's plenty of room to be creative.

hint: there's a reason why most training sites coaches are breakeven or losing, so dont take everything u learn for granted

Really appreciate it man. Thank you

you're welcome to ask more questions if you like.
Ended up playing more on this site to try to reach 50k hands but I couldn't. Still im happy with volume and finished for the month. have a busy few days ahead where I won't play until monday probably

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It's easy to see where I pick up my game, around hand 5,7k.

Or from here..

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gl gl

Great results!
Still doing a lot of off table work? Working with solvers?
You quit stars cause of rakeback or other reasons? (If you want to answer).

I quit stars because my country is restricted from Stars now. But I'd never left stars if I could play there.

The site I play is almost all regs now, with ocasional fish appearing. I play there because software is good, and rakeback is similar to stars i think. Traffic is okay as well.

Off table work is mainly DB work, and watching some vids while browsing internet. So 95% playing now.. I've did couple of months only studying so I don't feel the need to study because I know what to do in most scenarios. Only if some situation comes up, I'll do a quick check on how I should proceed.

Ty

Thread update.. been playing really good especially the last sessions where I lost a bit, run under but played preety nice.

Graph:



Been berating the bad regs, and the sunrunners on the chat (especially those, there re some guys that I can't win an all in pre no matter how favourite i am lol).

I don't mind running under, if i keep my A-game. But let's hope I catch with my EV a little bit!

Bonus question: should I change site because this account seems to be doomed, or should I pursue the EV? maybe move up to try to get the EV there?

GL everyyone

Finished in this site. I'll take the 6 ev bb when i play usually line ups full of regs (the site i play is preety regish) and i start table with everyone that wants to play! So preety happy to say that this is with zero table selection and usually 4/5 regs on the tables.

Moving to a new site where my deal is better now



playing pretty good, just making correct plays and knowing what to do in every situation. My bb winrate is preety sick as well which is nice given the amount of work I've put in this position in particular but also the general gameplan is great and i'm much much better player than i was when i was winning both in 500z and 200z on a decent sample. So preety amped to return there in the near future

On this site, sources tell me its way way softer, so let's see! just be humble and play A-game, follow gameplan and ill crush; also planning on droping 200nl. I'd have drop it already if it wasn't for the fact that I don't like to play with short bankrolls, and i can't trust 100% on this sites. Maybe i've to get used to play with short rolls... also i can say that one of the thread's objective was achieved: after playing exclusively 500nl for a year, and 1kz, I could treat 200nl seriously and be motivated to play; and 2nd, don't get carried with too much tables and don't play HU if the screen is already too hectic

GL GL

update:



Playing really well, running good in distribution and being very very solid. Made few mistakes.. the major one that I took notice was versus a 50bb short stack that is awful and i could've easily saved those couple of bucks well, I guess if that's the bad play I remember for the last sessions (other than a few spews in MWay pots ) i'm fine with it!

I guess the purpose of this thread was achieved, i'm back on my A-game and playing 400-1k exclusively. yew!

btw, I ended up not moving sites i'm still playing the same one. guess i couldn't stand the other site software despite the deal being 10x better

nice results, good job.

Such a crusher. Glad to see ur doing well. GL