With that said, I doubt that was the reason for Rapi's ban. Still sounds like some flag due to the way he got his stake.

I mean, how many metagame folks do you guys think are playing on bodog? If the problem is the strategy, all of them should have been banned.

I would guess what happened is the fact that Rapi plays almost 100% GTO he got flagged by the site and they decided he was cheating? Pretty unlucky but I've assumed for a long time that he has GTOWizard open while playing since he is now playing normal tables where you have enough time to do it. Not insulting you Rapi we are all doing it you were just unlucky to get caught.

Lol, this is a troll, right?

Yeah, fazendeiro, MDA shouldn't be the reason for a ban. I believe the verification team got annoyed by me because they've had to verify my account twice, then they banned me with no reason because of that?

So far bodog didn't send a response or my money to my team. I got a 4 bi on stars, playing with a broken stack because the team won't reload until bodog sends the money back...

If he’s using MDA, he’s making GTO punts nearly every hand. It seems ridiculous to give away half your profit for strategy, then start using Wiz to cheat. Unfortunately, we’ll probably never know, because Iggy had the worse support in the industry.

Why did you need to get verified twice? you had been grinding on that site for years. Strange. I guess you should go crush the weak nits on stars now at least since you are so good.

I had to change my currency from real to usd, then they asked for the ID again. When I verified the first time I sent them my ID, in the second I sent them my driver's license... Not sure if they would think this is suspicious...

Anyway, will create a thread on nvg soon and see what happens, it seems their support is very comfortable not giving any reason for the ban and not even returning my team's money

Stars will be an experience, I'm afraid of the rake in there because people are decent there, on bodog I paid 10+bb/100 in rake but I've played with 2+ fish per table a lot.

I will mostly table select and be disciplined, maybe later I might try to 4-table zoom and do the challenge, but it seems like a waste of time, since on higher stakes it's all about table section, zoom goes up to 200z and 500z rarely runs.

Do you have a passport Rapi? Would strongly suggest using it next time if a poker site asks you for id. And yeah, using different documents on each verification is suspicious.

Did you share your login info so your CFP could access your account? Download HHs, control funds, etc?

I got a passport, yeah, good idea, more practical


Nope, never done any of that, I have only my HH here, never used any HH other than the ones I've generated by playing.

Hey Rapi, looks like Bodog Latin America is licensed in Curaçao, so worst case scenario if you don´t get your coaches money back, I would definitely try to file a complaint with the gaming comission of that country. Not sure how trustworthy they are but looks like your best shot.

Did the cfp deposit money in to your account for you to play with?

Yes, they are staking me too.

It is very possible that there is your problem.

I mean BRpC must of done this hundreds of times. Shoddy customer service is a plight on the community. More time don't even know where you stand w/these things

October Results

As you might think, volume was garbage, lost around 15 days dealing with the ban on bodog and the team can't refill my bankroll on stars until bodog gives the money back, they have this policy, so this has hurt my volume a lot. At least played 20k hands (10k on bodog), made a miracle, 1-tabled with 2 BI for a long time and managed to get to $350 on stars, played very badly on bodog and very well on stars. Here it's the stars graph so far:



I got a lot better in the last 2 years and specially last month, cfp is insanely good and they fixed my game in so many ways I can't describe, they basically covered almost all my most obvious leaks and tendencies, sent me into a very good direction (and will keep helping me improve). I've got a lot better in the explo game in the last years, specially in the short term metagame, so I believe I will outplay most regs on nl25 by a lot, but I have to be careful with that. I gotta be very conscious that most of my money will come from fish, but some of my money will have to come from regs from now on, not sure if I can crush the insane 8bb rake on stars playing vs 1 fish with 28 vpip and some semi-competent regs that follow preflop charts and don't punt that much postflop.

Times are tough, but I have no other option, never going to the corporate work, not going to study to pass in a government job (it's my last viable option tbh), all I have for work is poker and that's it. My EV was halved with this ban on bodog and it sucks, but I will work even more to cover that, I might not have the highest EV tables, but I will study and play a lot. My goal is to hit HS in less than 2 years, but I will keep focusing a lot and if I have to fight against the very best of the small stakes to get there, so be it.


Making money vs owning people

As many pointed out before, I really enjoy owning people at the poker tables, really enjoy making sick plays and overplaying people (maybe as much or even more than I like making money), going as close to the edge as possible and force some thin valuebets, crazy bluffs, sick calls and also sick folds too. But there's a line that if crossed, you end up trying to own people too much and forget about the money, it can be very -EV. Don't get me wrong, I've crossed that line countless times in my career and today I'm very careful with every crazy play I do, I do my best to always make +EV plays because my goal is to make money.

The thing is that there was so much free money on bodog and I didn't have the need to own people (specially regs) too much to have a +5bb/100 winrate. Now on stars there are way less fish, I can't even imagine playing on a table with 5 fish (like I've played on nl50 and nl100 countless times) and I feel this urge to own people as much as I can. I think I will have to be very careful from now on, because it's easy to get caught into this mentality "rake is too high, fish aren't donating much, so I have to own regs a lot", it can be even worse because I'm on a sn site now, people will have dynamics with me again and tbh I don't feel very confident in playing the adaptation game yet. I will have to study the games of the regs who play more with me so I can come up with some adaptations vs them, definitely will get into the lab when I have a decent sample.

I will play only on reg tables and table select very well to have the biggest winrate possible, zoom is a waste of time (maybe on 100z-200z it gets better? There's GG poker too, it seems decent in there), so many nits in there, fish die there easily, I also can make half of pokerstars challenge per week reg tabling, so it's fine.


Some hands

H1:



PokerStars - $0.25 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 286.12 BB
BB: 163.52 BB
UTG: 100 BB
MP: 90.6 BB
CO: 128 BB
Hero (BTN): 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has 5 7

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.32 BB, fold, BB calls 1.32 BB

Flop: (5.04 BB, 2 players) 6 A 8
BB checks, Hero bets 1.2 BB, BB calls 1.2 BB

Turn: (7.44 BB, 2 players) K
BB checks, Hero bets 5.36 BB, BB raises to 20 BB, Hero calls 14.64 BB

River: (47.44 BB, 2 players) A
BB bets 28 BB, Hero raises to 76.48 BB and is all-in, fold




H2: This guy bluffed me in the last hand in a sick spot and said "I know you folded AK in there" LOL, so bad



PokerStars - $0.25 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 132.12 BB
Hero (MP): 100 BB
CO: 213 BB
BTN: 62.88 BB
SB: 115.2 BB
BB: 234.56 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has 6 6

fold, Hero raises to 2.32 BB, fold, fold, fold, BB calls 1.32 BB

Flop: (5.04 BB, 2 players) 2 4 5
BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: (5.04 BB, 2 players) K
BB checks, Hero bets 3.6 BB, BB raises to 14.8 BB, Hero calls 11.2 BB

River: (34.64 BB, 2 players) 2
BB bets 33 BB, Hero calls 33 BB




H3: It has begun! The BS calls have started

PokerStars - $0.25 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 111.32 BB
Hero (SB): 113 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 49.76 BB
MP: 100 BB
CO: 89.04 BB

Hero posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has 9 K

fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 3 BB, BB calls 2 BB

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) 6 8 Q
Hero bets 1.44 BB, BB raises to 5 BB, Hero raises to 16.8 BB, BB calls 11.8 BB

Turn: (39.6 BB, 2 players) 4
Hero checks, BB checks

River: (39.6 BB, 2 players) K
Hero bets 28.36 BB, BB calls 28.36 BB

I Have a really hard time believing the average fish is 28vpip. That's worse than 1knl stars??

The majority of fish is spewy with 45+ vpip, but there are many 25-30 vpip nitfish playing, it's so hard to find good tables that I have to play vs one of those if they're on the jesus seat.

On bodog every table had at least 1 big fish and you eventually found some surprises later lol.

Lol, i'm amazed at how crazy are people calling vs me, look at these hands haha

H1: vs reg with 0 history lol, wtf is going on

PokerStars - $0.25 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 103.32 BB
SB: 101.6 BB
Hero (BB): 175.12 BB
CO: 145.88 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has 9 A

fold, fold, SB raises to 3 BB, Hero calls 2 BB

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) 7 T 8
SB checks, Hero bets 1.44 BB, SB calls 1.44 BB

Turn: (8.88 BB, 2 players) 4
SB checks, Hero bets 6.36 BB, SB calls 6.36 BB

River: (21.6 BB, 2 players) A
SB checks, Hero bets 15.48 BB, SB calls 15.48 BB




H2: this one makes sense by him, but I think betting AJ OTT is very bad, obv ez fold vs raise OTT vs a competent player, river is good imo

PokerStars - $0.25 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 140.2 BB
Hero (BB): 100 BB
UTG: 160.24 BB
MP: 211.52 BB
CO: 79.68 BB
BTN: 129.56 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has 6 9

fold, fold, fold, fold, SB raises to 3 BB, Hero calls 2 BB

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) 7 8 5
SB checks, Hero checks

Turn: (6 BB, 2 players) Q
SB bets 4.28 BB, Hero raises to 15 BB, SB calls 10.72 BB

River: (36 BB, 2 players) 8
SB checks, Hero bets 25.8 BB, SB calls 25.8 BB

Good luck with getting unbanned on bodog. Updates? Very scary how they can just do that without any explanation cause if someone is relying solely on online poker for a living they might get fked and not even know what for.

both hands make 0 sense from villain, these are not regs

Nice call in the 66 hand. I'm in Metagame as well (Metagame World).

I had Murilo look up the frequencies on the X-XR-B line and it is in fact over bluffed

Yeah, tbh I called vs the guy because he was looking quite tricky

Yeah lol, they are regs of the game, but tilted, so they turn into fish for a small period of hands. Btw, it's common for people to quit on stars, one guy kept quitting the jesus seat vs me, yesterday one guy snap called vs me and snap quit the table looool. I enjoy these little things so much haha.

Btw, how do I get more animations on stars? I got only the 4 that you start with.

I've asked them again, they've paid the money but haven't given a reason so far. Tbh if I'm an underpaid worker, stressed and with too much on my hands I would overlook stuff like that too, I believe their support team thought my case was looking strange (and tbh it looks, taking out money and redepositting again, ID and driver's license), and just banned and didn't care about it, it sucks. I will keep emailing them for the answer hoping they see there's nothing wrong and unban me.

Stars isn't bad right now,tbh I'm facing a lot of regfish in there and I have the tools to outplay them, so I believe I'm making just a slightly lower EV because tables are faster on stars too. I believe that in an sn site vs worse regs I definitely have the upper hand in the long run, specially since the player pool is small and I'm making notes and willing to study some regs' games too.

Also most regs play so bizarre and make so many big adaptations that hurt their EV so much vs counter-exploits (like 3-betting Q6o SB vs CO vs me)

But when I face stronger opposition at nl100-nl200 I believe bodog will be way better because of the massive amount of fish in those stakes in there, the EV from regs will be close to 0 if not negative, I remember people at 100z play well, there are 2 or 3 guys that I marked in there as elite players, saw kiljusieppo grinding there wtf (and 200z pool looks like 500z 4 years ago btw, but with higher rake, so sick). So my EV was badly hurt later.

At least there's GG, maybe I can manage to put some volume to get their RB, not sure when it will be viable to make the transition from stars to GG

Be careful w/GG - seems there's bots clogging up LBs

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Amazing how much I'm playing, so far I've put more than 30k hands this month, 4-tabling reg tables! It's so good to play on stars, I feel alive again, sure, I lose way more than on bodog (I believe my winrate is probably 3-5bb/100 on stars before rakeback), it hurts to see some 50/50s when on bodog most of the time I got it in villains were almost always dead lol. But it's fine, I'm going this week for 2x the pokerstars challenge, going to make a 2x challenge week followed by a 1x challenge week, so I can rest and study. I believe I have to play more than 8h reg tabling to achieve that on average in a week. Loving the game again, I've also joined a study group, going to study with people from the team!

H1: I call this one Flying Raijin Level 2



PokerStars - $0.25 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 5 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 100 BB
CO: 138.24 BB
Hero (BTN): 106.32 BB
SB: 104.44 BB
BB: 183.36 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has 7 7

fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.32 BB, SB raises to 9.64 BB, fold, Hero calls 7.32 BB

Flop: (20.28 BB, 2 players) T 6 4
SB bets 6.4 BB, Hero calls 6.4 BB

Turn: (33.08 BB, 2 players) T
SB checks, Hero checks

River: (33.08 BB, 2 players) 3
SB checks, Hero bets 47.4 BB, SB calls 47.4 BB

Yes, weekly challenges are much more convenient than the 4-week ones that Stars offered before.

GL!