Hi guys, another week is over and once again I ended it with a good session.
This time I did a small session, which resulted in a + 3.5 bi.

I'm really proud with my postflop aggression evolution and this is another session that shows that. This is also something I help my students a lot with.

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I also leave this hand here. I folded preflop but the other 3 players got a flush on the river. How likely is this to happen?



Have a nice weekend guys and good luck on the tables!!

Hi guys, today I bring you something different.
My student Osvaldo from Mexico contacted me 1 month ago when he was playing NL2. Within 1 month, he crushed NL5 (40 buy-ins) in only 15k hands and now he is crushing NL10.

NL5 Graph:


NL10 Graph:


This is the answer to the people who have doubts about whether my coaching is effective for you. What did we work on this month?

- 1st class: I gave him a lot of tips on how he could start making more money without changing his strategy too much and making it too confusing. (table type, sites, table selection and softwares). We also talked about preflop strategy.

- 2nd class: We did a leakfinder. We only looked at basic stats as Osvaldo is still playing microstakes. We saw what he was doing good and bad. As a goal for next 30 days we chose 2-3 stats that he had to focus on trying to improve and I gave him homework on how to improve those stats.

Congrats Osvaldo!!

Funny session today. Because I'm sick I wasn't able to play more hands, but I still ended up +6.6 buy-ins.

Welcome back I see you're continuing a good run. Hope things continue to go well!

I struggle heavily at NL 2-5-10-25 when I have time to play/energy... I think a Discord Server aimed toward this group a great idea!

Hey man do you know how to filter reg cash game tables in GG, e.g. select specific stakes then order by vpip? Been browsing the client for ages...

When you open the " Holdem " tab, you will see the " Group View " that is basically the stakes and the players that are playing those stakes. To see the tables you have to click on " Table View ", then you will see the every table with the avg pot, VPIP and H/hr of every stake. You can't filter more than that. For example, you can't choose to see only tables of NL50, you will get the list of every table of every stake, but they will be organized per stake and per players on the table.

Hope I helped, glgl!!

I second this. I've did a similar challenge last year (10$ -- 2500$) at zoom NL2-NL25 and played around 400,000 hands playing a exploitative style and I definitely recommend using an exploitative approach at these limits. Matter of fact, I wouldn't even recommend people to play a GTO style until they reach at least NL50. NL25 is absolutely beatable without relying on GTO.

The problem is not GTO itself but more the fact that you're playing against a players pool that are generally not aware of GTO and you'll end up in spots that will make you bleed money against people that aren't as knowledgable as you are regarding ranges, balancing, bluff catching, etc..

Btw, congrats OP! I'm guessing these are regular 6max tables and not zoom?

EDIT: Nevermind just found the answer :-)

Thanks mate, will deposit as soon as KYC clears. Might see you at nl50! (don't know your username, but you know mine :P)

Thanks @GreenSalad. I think people in poker especially at microstakes [NL2 - NL25] really like to imitate what they see high stakes regs do. Yet they do not realize that they are playing a completely different "game". The best strategy for NL1000+ will VERY LIKELY not be the best strategy for NL25 - .

All the money is in the game vs fish and this is what regs have to improve to have a better winrate, and a solver isn't the solution to improve that part of your game.
The game vs reg when the rake is over 8bb/100 is not very important, at least that is my opinion, and I think that I already said too much

I'm not playing on GG right now but best of luck to you @liketurtles!!

Hey guys, sorry for not posting in the last two weeks but I've been sick which has really harmed October volume.
Despite everything the results turned out to be quite good. Because I couldn't play a lot I preferred to focus on NL25 and ended the month with +36buy-ins (~+900$).



I'm not 100% yet but I hope to be able to make at least 15k - 20k hands in November!!

Good luck at the tables guys!!

Another great session!!
Lately I feel pretty confident in my gameplan. As I'm still a little sick I'm trying to do short sessions where I'm 100% focused. The red line has been stable and that's what I want right now. I think that my game since September has taken a good qualitative leap and I also think that this is due to studying a lot and giving classes, which makes me review the same concepts all the time.
If you are interested in my coaching contact me.

I agree 100%. But regs still have many leaks even on Mid to Highstakes. If you also do great vs them it is the diifference between slightly winning and crushing up to 10evbb.

The interval in possible EVs between someone competent in exploiting fish, vs someone who is not and play too standard, gto vs them, should be way bigger than the differences in playing great vs playing well vs regs. You don´t want to play bad, but I believe optimization in how we play vs regs should come only after we´re really perpetrating massacres vs the fish, or when there's not enough of them anymore. Just a "getting more from the resources we´re investing when studying" type of analysis. My 2c btw

Recommended reading on someone who seemed to play as far from GTO as possible btw, and did well:

https://www.runitonce.com/chatter/onklebs-2020/
The link for his first threads are in the OP.

@Pokajack55 @FazendeiroBH

And that's why I said especially at microstakes [NL2 - NL25]. From NL50 onwards, there are 2 specific things that make us want to improve our game vs regs:
- The amount of fish will progressively decrease from stake to stake;
- And the rake will progressively decrease.

So when the rake goes from (8-11)bb/100 to (3-6)bb/100, this small gain (between 3 to 6bb/100) that we get from improving our game vs regs will have a huge impact on our win rate.

Another factor not brought up is Bluffing Odds:

People call down more often in 2(ESPECIALLY)/5/10/25 NL no matter what they have. Higher Stakes I see people make bluffs that get through and so have mine. (especially 200 and 500 NL but I'm sure that bluffing odds are slightly improved in 50-100 NL?)

Buying Blinds may or may not work in Extreme Micros?

The importance of being aggressive in poker

One of my biggest leaks since starting in NL2 was the lack of postflop aggression. Despite being more aggressive than many regs in my stakes I wasn't at the level of the NL50 and NL100 regs.
Most people who play poker are naturally passive and in my opinion that's the biggest battle of regs, it's what separates the regs that become professionals from the regs that end up giving up on poker because they can't get a good winrate in NL10 or are breakeven/losing on NL25+.

This is just my opinion and I'm talking about this today because this journey isn't all fairy tales and despite the good results there's always something to improve. In these last 2 months my study has always been on how to become more aggressive. The results are coming, especially this month and I feel I've learned that being aggressive takes more than just studying. You have to be 100% focused and have a clean mind. I notice right away that I'm less aggressive if I'm a little distracted or have a lot on my mind.

This is also an important issue in my coaching. Most of my students came to me very passive and at the moment they are already quite aggressive.

What matters is the redline? In my opinion the redline is a bit overrated. The redline is just a positive consequence of having a good postflop strategy. And it is a positive consequence based on one of the main exploratory pillars of poker: people, especially regs, overfold. So we have to overbluff.

To end, here's my session of today:

Very good text and great session

The best way to end the week

looks like a fine giraffe!

WOW still waiting for a > 5 BIs day myself. Though I rarely play much further than 1k hands/day so that´s the most likely culprit.

Keep crushing sir

Well done

Won't let me PM due to new account.

Before Black Friday I was a fairly decent SnG reg, getting back into the game now, wanting to play 6max cash. Starting at 10NL, goal is 100NL. I saw you do coaching, would be interested in talking about that, if you wanna PM me here, or on discord: Chris(t) #3240

Thanks for the support guys!!
Fortunately everything is going so well, I hope that in the next 2/3 months I can move up definitely to NL50.

I'm sure that will be achievable bro

Goodluck man