Thoughts on zoom are that its pretty similar to reg tables, 10NL is just so soft and beatable for a really large WR given the free stacks flying around everywhere. Lots of very bad players, i think one thing i would say is when facing triple barrel jams or overbet jams on the river folding is generally never gonna be that bad given how unbalanced (towards value) peoples bluffing ranges are on the river.

One thing i notice is i think less carefully due to the pace of it when i'm 6 tabling, and sometimes make snap decisions (trying to work on eliminating that from my game) - overall i think its great to help build a polished game where you play thinking mainly about your range, villains range, board texture, equity and not much else.

Good training - especially in terms of not taking super exploitable lines but just playing solid with a bit of thought towards balance. I think one of my biggest leaks can be sometimes over attacking on tables where there's a player with a huge vpip and getting into stupid spots with lol preflop ranges. Its hugely important to not tilt while zooming, bc when your playing 1100 hnds/hr 200bb deep you can quickly lose 10 buyins in regular spots and if that snowballs into you losing more buyins then its gonna hurt you alot over the longrun. Mental game again very important, maybe most important thing imo.

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So today played a bit and made some mistakes but overall am improving and getting better at this zoom. Results from today:


Hand of the day, straight flushes no good


When i jammed this river i was totally ready to see a set given villains kinda nitty stats, zoom is just lol what people show up with:


Gonna try and get a big volume day tomo, thats all for now GL everyone

Goal for today is 10K hands 6 tabling zoom, gonna get that in around 9 hours i reckon. Time to get started will update progress ce soir

GL dude,prob will play zoom next month as well,nice job!

Hey man gl...What stakes do u play at zoom???

Gl subbd

Thx man, catch ya at the tables soon hopefully brah

TY - i play just micro's atm, 10NL and 25NL mainly for learning and the occassional cheese burger

Ya man, same to you :~)

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So today didn't get 10K hands but cleared 7K, didn't start too well, i made a few big mistakes and then ran pretty awful for first 4K hands, lots of setups / coolers. Was really happy with my mental game, despite some mistakes i dind't spew off any stacks which is a huge improvement and i just went through my routine, penciled down my goals (to play 1K hands solid, think stuff through). Anyway here's results from the day:



Some hands:

Greatest button clicking episode goin down here:


Some fun with rockets


TripleRangeMergements:



So half way to my 30K hands this week mini goal, gonna try and get another 5K hands tomo, that all for now GL everyone

Just noticed i cleared 100K hands since i started the thread, kinda a mini milestone for me as i feel i have improved a decent bit in terms of mental game since i began in late December (when i really sucked at that side of things) - hoping to not tilt donate a single stack in the next 100K hands



On a slightly negqative note, i did weigh myself today and have actually gained 3KG :/ Have been excercising daily so was kinda shocked by this, although i did quit smoking on new years which i am told can contribute to a little gain, but am just gonna continue my routine as planned - next weigh in will be March 30th so by then i hope to have gone the other way. GL at the tables everyone.

good results!
sick volume 10k hands/day for a microguy

thx - didnt get 10k hands in a day yet, got 7K yesterday so maybe i'll try and get 10K hands in a day sometime next week when its raining and no surf

You are doing great, keep your foot on the gas!

Sick results dude,also how the hell you played 10k hands if you play normal tables?How many tables/hours is that?

gl.Nice to see a uk PGC thread.The first step to killing off your inner steamer is to recognise your inner steamer.

May the gods grant you some of the run goot they squander on russian plo zoom donks whose bottom set (no redraws of course) hit quads on the river.

That was playing 6 tables of zoom for about 9 hours gets you 10K hands, i just learnt to use hotkeys for my preflop raises and fast folding - that helps a ton, also i use a HUD that allows me to make all my preflop decisions without clicking popups continously. That way i can mostly concentrate on postflop stuiff and not get bogged down.

TY man means alot, i am pretty hyped to crush 25NL this month and get up to 50NL.



Worst hand i have played in a while, just weak mental game otr here, gotta do better, villain is nit never shoving worse :/

Just seen this thread man, good read and the pics in post#18 blew my mind,

P.s are you Sw-kaizer? or do you guys just live like identical lives?

I also wouldn't get too disheartened by the last hand, giving the hands we can discount etc, if thats the worst hand you have played in awhile it shouldn't be long moving up

holy mother of god - that's some zoom volume,do you take regular breaks,stretches etc etc???

Yeah those storms have been crazy, just been surfing a moment ago an now the winds blowing about 60mph outside its nuts! Defo the worst winter weather i have seen in the UK.

Hmm thats funny but na i am not him, although have played him i think? ! will watch out for him and maybe use him as a stunt double though

That last hand was tilting bc before i raised i said to myself i would raise fold, also i accounted for the fact he had AK in his range, otf i expected to get 2 streets of value from worse on that texture. Also i discounted a lot of his twotone combo's bc he was really tight coldcall range in that spot preflop, pretty certain someone wth a wwsf of 40 over a large sample only rips back over the top otr with AK in that spot simply bc its exactly the kinda spot a nit would expect me to have AK in (even though i would barrel it bc i get so much value from his worse AX). Pfff more tilted i follow my own advice than anything else



I try to play 80-120min sessions, with tunes to keep me rolling. I also have a pretty sweet chair for grinding, a Humnascale Freedom chair, which is ergonomic and very good on your back / posture. After i finish i do a bunch of situps and pressups, and maybe take a cycle ride up the coast for 10mins before i play again (if its not raining which it always ****ing is atm ).

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So yesterday was kinda meh day, i felt burnt out by the end of the day. I played a bunch of zoom in the morning, then had a break, read someone PGC thread where they talked about deep ante, i quickly remembered how fun those games are, and have LAGGY people are so i busted out 8 tables of that for a few hours, here's the result from that:

Deep Ante yesterday

why you no like me deep ante?

Fun hand vs 70 vpip whale with 0% 3B over 300 hands:




So then went on amission to get back to even, didn't play my A-game as was kinda tired after playing 20K hands in 4 days but got kinda close:

Yesterday


This week


So overall am 9K hands way from my 30K hand week, whcih i should be able to get pretty easy. All that said i am not gonna be grinding when i feel drained (like i did yesterday)

More soon Gl everyone

nice thread sir .. glgl!

C.

Good luck mate, you are doing great!

Thx people much appreciated - hey brainfuker it was your thread i read that inspired me to hit the deep ante yesterday before getting murdered haha, you owe me some EV will be coming to collect it soon

Kinda done for the week poker wise now. Spent a couple hours studying equity with my Lativan partner in crime today, was really great to get some of his insight from a better player into some smaller spots that would normally just get swallowed up in the blackhole of my database, break them down to the core and see where i am making mistakes. Am looking to put in a lot of work in the next few months, still making a ton of theoretically unsound plays that need ironing out. Thats where the real money is, in the 5 thousand tiny mistakes people make every 50K hands !

Week done 23K hands played, tilt control was much better, the spews are becoming a rarity rather than a common occurance now, hopefully time to move up soon




Dads birthday tomorrow so cooking up a meal in the day then a friends murder mystery birthday party at a beach hotel in the evening, should be fun day and will certainly involve some drinks, hopefully won't be too hanging to play on monday. Anyway thats all people GL everyone.

So Sunday night was really messy, just about recovered now, there warm sunshine across my balcony and the waves look great, so am gonna bust out a surf before i play / study later today. Will get a pic / vid of my pad itt soon for sure. Iphones broken atm so waiting for a replacement. Have only played a short session this morning, have decided to play 50K hands of 25NL zoom and buy a database review with a good midstakes player, since this seems a great way of keeping my volume really high. Anyway, a few fun hands from today, please post opinions on them if you notice anything, cheers:

Well i wasn't expecting to see this hand at showdown!



Defo not expecting this hand either:


Thoughts on this river jam? Thought villain may well be slowplay KQ and AQ here, obv i discount TT from his range since that would jam aipf (although given what i am seeing these days people are so bad maybe it wouldn't hehe)


This hand is a bit spewy imo, esp since villain can have QQ otf, he nearly folded though, thoughts:

Try playing this as a pre-session G-up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekBANNBSblw#t=0m41s

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Haha not sure that will send me to my happy fold place

Managed a 2 hour high intensity weights session today at the gym today, broke me haha. Anyway month so far is like this:



Volume this month has been awful so far, way too low, need to be getting 100K hand months considering i wanna be moving up stakes, and also i will struggle to maintain platinum status at this rate. Have been studying cr ev and flopzilla with a friend a good bit though so thats a good thing. Ninja babe to motivate me:





GL everyone

I need 4723.31 VPP before March01 to maintain my platinum status. Apparently i am getting 0.09VPPs per hand, which mean i have to play 52,481 hands before March, or 8746 per day for the rest of Feburary (damn these shorted months hehe) ! which is a **** ton and as far as i am concerned pretty -EV for me. Really unsure if i am even gonna try and attempt it or just sack it off and just try and play my A-game for the rest of the month and win enough to not have to worry about rakeback stuff, kinda gutted after working so hard last month i have had such a slack time this month. Only managed 35K hands so far

The other day something happened that made me realise how bad at poker in general i was, i was being sweated by a really good low stakes player (a friend also who i do lots of HH review with) he was asking me questions that i literally could not answer, or hadn't thought about. It was kinda embarrassing, so from now on i will be working much harder on my concious thought proces during hands. Whats my range is the first question i want to answer in every spot. I guess i must be guessing my way through ok currently, but thats not gonna cut it at higher levels and is gonna hold me back. So thats one of my new updated goals for myself, to think more and autopilot less! Thanks for the wakeup call Vlad :~) Moment of clarity reviewing that 20 minute vid of myself playing was for me.

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OK minichallenge time, gotta try and keep my platinum so am gonna try and get 52K hands before 12pm EST on 28/02/14.

edit: CAn anyone tell me how many VPPs they are getting at 25NL cheers?? wanna check my calculations are correct.

My choosen games will be 25NL zoom, 6 tables mostly depending on how i am feeling. Will update progress itt daily, looking for 4x10 hour days then a few mellow chilled out in betweeners. GL everyone, posting my dream top of the league thread savers for some run good