For anyone else who was needed a reminder, this is the EPT Malta €10k report mentioned above:

YES!!! Love that exchange with Vogelsang

What is a good ev bb/100 for ONLY HS tournaments (b109 - weekly 1ks). Also what are your expected ev bb/100 by position?

I play a lot of cash and mostly study theory for 100b stuff and did some database work and was pretty shocked. My ev bb/100 is 6.75 for HS stuff but most of that comes when I'm deeper stacked or playing shorthanded poker (my ev bb/100 is ridic in the 320 6max for example) BUT when I filter out for BB level over 1K bb. My winrate drops to 2.3 bb/100

Granted, I have a lot less hands at those levels so could be a statistical error... I do find that I am much less comfortable playing shorter stacked poker though. Is it just inherent that our bb/100 drops the shorter stacked we are or am I just much worse at short stack poker than I am at deep stack play?

I find that over the past 1.5 years where I've been studying a ton of theory I do a lot less exploitable stuff and therefore when you get deep in tournaments I'm prob not picking enough spots to 3b light, 2/5 certain hands, etc.

Thanks

Also, love checking this thread from time to time and hearing your thoughts on different issues

I know you asked Pads and he is ofc more qualified to answer than me but fwiw

I think our winrate does drop the shorter stacked we are probably due to reduced edge. If you have played a lot of cash, it is not surprising that your winrate is higher when deeper stacked for obvious reasons.

I have done a bit of database analysis myself and all my winrates drop as I get less deep. I could be well off though, and you may be right, both our samples may be insignificant.

best of luck to you and Pads.

vamoooo all at the weekend

hey over decent sample (its never decent obv) i have

10-15 = 5bb
15-20 = 5bb
20-30bb = 7bb
30-40bb = 7bb
40-50bb = 8bb
50-75b = 11bb
75bb-100bb = 15bb
100-125bb = 7bb (weird)
125-150 bb = 16bb
150bb-200bb = 16b
250-300bb = 30bb (i guess this is just because when we get it in its usually vs fish and were real good but no idea)

the samples are relatively small, but as close to a sample as ill ever get in mtts (17-30k hands depending on which stat)

this is for 50$+ tournaments. bb/100 definitely drops the lower the stack size though and i guess its very simple.. you can't win as many bb's innit

logical stuff innit bruv

Absurd winrate gg

sun runner.

big changes happening with me so haven't blogged for a few days. big changes start on Tuesday. Will post about it on Monday night.

This was almost 1 year ago!

Speech sent out to horses for tomorrow. Every Sunday I send a war message out..

I don't know what to say really, 12 hours till the biggest battle of our professional lives, all comes down to today., an enormous Sunday that can make or break us. A Sunday where we will inevitably run beyond awful. We either heel as a team together or we will die as individuals. Hand by hand, tourney by tourney until we're finished. We're in hell right now - gentleman - believe me. And we can stay here, run bad, spew off or we can fight our way back into the light, we can climb out of hell - one hand at a time.

Now I can't do it for you.. I'm too old. I look around and I see these young faces.. I mean.. I made every wrong choice a middle age man can make. I pissed away all my money playing high rollers against Germans who can't lose 40-60s. I chased off anybody who ever wanted to back me and lately I can't stand watching my screen name making the plays I watch in PT4.

You know when you get old in life things get taken from you, thats, well thats part of life. BUT you only learn that when you start losing stuff.. you find out life is a game of inches.. So is poker. Because in either game, life or poker the margin of error is so small. I mean one unnecessary bluff and we don't make it, one bad river call when we know we're beat you don't quite do it. The inches we need are everywhere around us, they are in every phase of the tournament, every bluff, every call. On this team we fight for that inch, on this team we tear ourselves and everybody around us for that inch. We 3bet relentlessly for that inch because we know when we add up all those inches, thats going to make the ****ing difference between winning and losing.. between living and dying!

I tell you this, in any fight its the guy who's willing to die who is going to find that inch and I know if I'm going to have any life anymore its because I'm still willing to fight and die for that inch. Because thats what living is, the 6 inches in front of your face. Now I can't make you do it. You've got to look at the guy next to you in this chat and I think you're going to see a guy who will go that inch with you. You're going to see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team because he knows when it comes down to it, you're going to do the same for him. Now either we heel now as a team, or we will die as individuals. That's poker guys, thats all it is.

Now what are you going to do?

Choice words braah. love the relentless 3 betting line lol....im a nit that is yet to work out the proper way to implement this in my game. Keep up the good work

man this always makes my day

gl tomorrow sir

nice

keep it up!

+6

Hey pads great blog!

What do you think of the swedes that are taking over p5s rankings atm?

Sounds like the life of a prostitute.

can't stop rofl

+7.5 (including the tip)

P5's rankings are garbage. The only rankings that matter are these "$" rankings.

While we are at the bb/100 discussion, could you post the same winrates for 5-50$ mtts?
What ev bb/100 overall should i aim for? Currently at 12 overall and i have no idea if thats high/low for those stakes.

Hey, I don't really want to go into win rates etc too much.

Regarding bb/100 I wrote a post somewhere in the blog about it here with what I thought each amount meant, btu usually samples are too small/skewed etc. Focus on just reevaluating tournaments you play, review and mark tonnes and tonnes of hands and be self critical.

Cool to use those stats as a benchmark! Just checked mine over the last year since I started MTTs (ABI 70$ish):

100bb+ = 26bb
15-50bb = between 1.5bb and 5bb depending, which seems really bad.
overall winrate = 7bb

I used to be midstakes cash reg. I can't tell if it's because I'm not applying enough pressure, playing fit/fold too often when the pot is relatively big, not reshoving enough on 15-25, not 4bet shoving enough on 25-35..?? Or probably all of the above :P

edit: sry for thread derail!

So last few months have been pretty nice in my life. Businesses working well, have been reading a lot, studying a lot about economics, business strategy, entrepreneurship, exercising more, eating healthier, but there has been something missing from the last 6-7 months, I knew I wasn't complete, I knew that there was something missing. I missed poker.

Whenever I played my sessions weren't high quality ones, I checked my stable stuff too much, checked social media, tried to fix money transfers, staking, Skype, unregging sessions early, I started my last 2 Sunday sessions at 10pm!! blah blah, I didnt play much, usually 1-2x a week. I remember around 18 months ago and 1 year ago, I was a huge grinder, played tonnes, crushed, loved having lots of tables, getting up early to play, thinking non stop about poker.

For the next 2 months I'm going to go gunk ****ing ho. In my stable were doing a leaderboard, there is 4 teams of around 15 players and all players have points that become combined and there is biggish money for the winning team (freeroll obv)

This is the points system:


5 points Final tabling a tournament
10 points Top 3 of a tournament
25 points winning a tournament
50 points winning red mtt
10 points for every 200 games played
10 points for busting a coach from a tournament
5 points for bluffing coach on the river

I really want to be the top scorer in the competition, at the very least I want to put myself in a position to give it a go. Here are the goals I'm setting myself that I wrote to "Team Patricio" (my team for the month)


"Hey guys, I cannot wait for this month. I'm really pumped for it, I had a big session with Elliot Roe last week and I'm mentally prepared for 2 very tough months at the tables grinding a ****ing tonne.

Last few months I've only played 1-2 days a week and been busy with either stable stuff, meetings, coachings and other business stuff outside of the stable. My mindset is really great now and I will go back to the grinder I was 12-18 months ago that played tonnes and sent many souls to the graveyard, there is still a lot of space left in my graveyard for these ****.

Will devote the next 2 months to crushing at the tables and playing as much volume as possible. My plan is to grind 40 tournamnets a day on average, 12 tabling at most and regging from around 4-5pm cet to around midnight.

The biggest problems I had this year was distractions, checking discord, checking skype, checking social media etc, when I play I'm going to be just focusing exclusively on my games until im down to my last 4 tables of the night and not regging anything else.

My goals are

1- 40 games/day when I play
2- Play 5-6 days/week
3- All quality sessions that I'm happy with afterwards
4- This should be around 800 games/month
I've set no profit goals at all, I'm confident that if I do everything well then I will do just fine."


I played my first full session on Saturday, I think I played really well, I didnt open any social media, concentrated really well and played as good as I could. I won a tournament (55 6max) which was really interesting. I've went over it and really happy how I played, final table especially is extremely interesting. I'm going to sell the raw hh for $10 if anybody wants to go over it, can send me 5 hands from it and I'll reply about them. Will be doing this somewhat frequently moving forward, maybe one/two times a week and only picking very good hand histories that are interesting. hmu here or twitter. Also have recorded 5-6 hours of review from my WCOOP $700 6max win which is my best ever score and probably most interesting hh. Not sure exactly how/if I'll sell that but lets see.

Anyway, this month I'm looking forward to it so much. I really, really am happy to be grinding a lot and being productive and battling again at the tables. I have self pride, self motivation, self critique. I deleted my pocket fives this/last week and left all my ego there, I want to make myself happy, myself proud and myself satisfied. I wont post what I won here on a daily basis or anything like that, maybe a review on the leaderboard and how many points I currently have is/compared to others is a fun way to update this. What do you think is an achievable goal to go for? Reminder of the points here:

5 points Final tabling a tournament
10 points Top 3 of a tournament
25 points winning a tournament
50 points winning red mtt
10 points for every 200 games played
10 points for busting a coach from a tournament
5 points for bluffing coach on the river

Have a fun new avatar on Stars now too



See you all at the tables

Seems like fun, def following!

nice update. gl with the war

intradested in the HH btw ! can i send you 10 on stars?