I had 1M hand with sets being almost in the most left point of curve, and both str8 and flushes in very unlucky part of tail.. nothing you can do with that. I guess you know normal distribution and what those values means. Actually it does not say anything about how your hit hands got paid and so on.. so pretty meaningless info.

I hope you can keep this thread alive even when the variance shows the ugly part to you nowadays!

GL and keep going!
I wish you all the best!

Thx vrbik!

October 2020 Review

October was a **** month in every aspect. Quality of play was good until mid month but then my game was defo far from what I can deliver. Mental game was even worse than the month before. Close to the end of month I took few days off and after I came back it was a bit better.

In november I will try as much as I can to not check my results. This means I will skip the weekly updates and just do an end of month update. If anybody has something like a script to hide results in PT4 for a certain time period, let me know. Will pay some $ for it ofc.

Monthly results

Impressive results, nevertheless. Do you think you lose EV when you check your results?
Does your game change when you are up big or down big?

The only time when you should not check your results is during the session. In rest, if you try and play optimal (close to your A game) as much as possible, I don't see a problem.

This month I defo have lost EV due to it. The months before not really on the tables, but outside it would have some impact on me (frustration mostly).

Also when I am winning I don´t have any issues to not check results. I could basically go for a year without checking the graph when running hot. But when I am running bad (losing for weeks or having -10BI sessions) it becomes impossible for me to avoid to check them. Until this month it was a problem but not a huge one. In general, I think decoupling my mind from results enables me to play more often my A-game and also not have any negative emotions outside the tables.

Anybody knows if there is any possibilty to visualize ranges and see which hands at which frequency are played and if they are +EV in PT4? Would be best in form of a hand matrix.

I know PT4 has the holdem range visualizer but for some reason when I filter for a certain situation like hero BTN 3b vs CO the hand matrix shows all the hands that I have used as a 3bet at 100% frequency. Not sure if I have messed something up.

Is there any other software which can be used for this purpose? Should allow to import heros HH´s/database.

November 2020 Review

Finally caught some heat which was really nice. Played ok-ish for most part, but had also some sessions where I clicked just randomly buttons. Was very lazy when it comes to studying (probably ~5 hours). Got a guilty conscience because of that and purchased the BTS lab. Went thru some content and attended the webinar. Probably waste of money.

There is a big influx of brasilian regs at 100z. All coming to 100z at same time and playing an identical style (very aggro & solid). Before this month I haven´t seen one of them playing 100z. Kinda weird, but probaly some kind of CFP.

Outside of tables not much going on. Life pretty boring with all the lockdown restrictions. So not much to report here.


Monthly Graph



Hope the games pick up in december. Let´s finish the year strong!

Heat!

What are your thoughts on the 50z pool? Currently shotting it.

I haven´t played 50z in a long time now. So can´t really say how tough it is nowadays. But I assume it is still very profitable despite the high rake.

Regs are tight af on 50z so just make sure to adjust properly.

GL with your shot!

Impressive november! I am glad that you continue to post. GL!

Thx my friend. Hope you are doing fine and the party grind treats you well.

Sick month mate! Nice one.

I've heard about these brazilian regs too at PS 100z. Heard about them a few months ago already. Possible it's a CFP for sure if they play somewhat similar.

Where do you feel you stand at 100z overall? What would you guess your winrate is right now? Where do you think most leaks are in the pool?

GL mate

When it comes to the brazilian guys, these guys are completely new at 100z. But probably a CFP since they play closer to "GTO" than the pool (4bing depolarized ranges from early positions, overbetting postflop a lot, etc). They are for sure tougher to play than the average 100z reg.

Below you can see my WR for 100z this year. WR could be slightly higher I guess, but tbh I don´t think that even this sample size is enough to know your "true" winrate. Variance is crazy and I could probably be a 1-5bb winner in the long run. I think my theoretical understanding of the game is above the average 100z reg, but then on the other side I strugge a lot with mental game issues which often leads that I can´t transfer my knowledge to the tables. Having a full time job and working 40h/week doesn´t really help.

I think over reliable samples sizes (probably 500k+ hands, but could be off here) a decent 100z WR is 3bb+ imo. 5-6bb is possible but very difficult to achive and I think over reliable samples very rare at 100z.

Most common mistakes:

1) underbluffing immensely (I would have way more money if I could forget about "Ah I am top of my range, if I don´t call this I don´t call anything"). Overfolding is the best advice that I can give you. I know a lot of people are sceptical about this one, but that´s just my experience. When 98% of the player pool is playing something like 21/18/8 you will not get surprised very often .

2) Overcalling in big pots. I know sounds weird when you mention point 1.

3) In general playing very faced up. A good example would be checking ranges. Turn probes print money.



GL with your next shot. Pretty sure you will crush 100z!

Impressive results, sir!
I see that you had a breakeven stretch of 150k hands, I think it demoralizing and made you question your game? Did this breakeven period made you study more and play less, or was the other way around?

I'm having something similar and before I'm starting a session I'm already thinking I'm going to lose yet another one.. Do you ever have this?

I can relate to a lot of the stuff which you mentioned. I didn't question my game during the BE stretch, but I got quite demoralized at the end of the stretch which led to playing badly. I think the first 100k hands of the BE stretch is the time where I played best and studied the most.

A part of me is still demoralized and after few bad beats I often think here we go again. Focussing myself on the things which I can control and not on the results is for some reason very difficult for me. Outside of the tables I am very rational/logical but struggle to have the same mentality on the tables.

I think if I continue to pursue poker seiously as a hobby at some point having a mental game coach would be the best imvestment for me.

I for sure underestimated variance (and still do), but at this point I need to understand that with a volume of a part time player, a big % of my yearly voulme could be in
a downswing or BE stretch. If I can't do this and enjoy poker, maybe it is time for something different.

Subbed, gl OP.

I think it’s great that you’re so transparent with your thoughts and also you write well mate!

Cool reply. Thanks for that. Sick results, really impressive.

2) I find this to be true aswell atleast up to 50nl. There really are spots where you just have to fold postflop, especially in 3b pots where positions are tight. Some people just autoclick call with secord pair type hands in spots where they have so many TP and better combos that they can just fold vs villains uberstrong range.

3) Right now I try not to deviate too much from GTO probing (basically never done with complete air, especially on cards that are not our gin card). But exploitatively I probably should probe more.

Thanks man. I think I have an edge on 100z aswell, just waiting for that successful shot :-)

No December results?

2020 Review & Results

The last few months I really struggled to keep this thread alive so I will keep the EOY update short. When I opened this thread my main poker goals were to improve my study habits and move up in stakes on which a nice side income would be possible (in my case 200NL).

Looking back, I can say that I have partially achieved this. I really put a lot of effort into study and can honestly say that I improved my game tremendously. My efforts resulted that I have moved up from 50z to 100z where I played most of my volume with a solid winrate. I had two failed shots at 200z and especially the one in December hurts because I played very well and the games were amazing. But like in the last 6 months variance wasn’t on my side.

Going forward I will try to practice a way more aggressive BRM and continue to work on my game as hard as hard in 2020. A big focus for the upcoming year will be to regain a bit of the lost enjoyment for poker by working and improving my mental game as well.


2020 Graph in BB


2020 Graph in $


2020 Stakes Breakdown



I think this thread served more or less his purpose and for now I will close it. With corona there is not much worth outside of poker to update and just posting results isn’t something which I enjoy anymore nor I think it is really interesting to anyone.

Big thank you to all u guys contributing to this thread. I tried to be as consistent as possible even in difficult times with this thread and I hope you enjoyed it. I promise you to go way harder on poker in 2021 than this year.

Wish you all a great 2021 and best of luck on & off felt

I've just read through the first and last few pages of this thread and found it enjoyable and interesting.

GL in the future, and if you want to provide the occasional poker updates I'm sure I'm not the only person who will read them!

Enjoyed the thread. Would be great to see a once per month update or something in the future.

Pity to see my most favorite thread to end. Wish you all the best Kockar and thank you for all the tips and hints that you provided to the community! GL! I hope you will post from time to time!

Ty guys. Maybe I make few random updates in future but for sure nothing on regular basis.

Thanks my friend. Nice to see you made progress on and off the tables in 2020. Wish u all the best for 2021. Gl!

Nice results, GGWP! Sad to see you go man. Thanks for starting the thread and keeping it alive during the year. Really liked it and I know you will do well going forward.

GL buddy!

Thx my friend