November Results

Made a comeback, finally had some decent volume, ran good too. But I could have played more, I really can do it, going to focus more on volume this month (sadly had played very few hands so far), I need to get more used to a work-heavy routine, study more too. My coach said that I could take a 5 BI shot at NL50, took it this month and it went badly, but it's ok, it happens. 80% reg tables with careful table selection, 20% zoom playing to finish the challenge. Made $1400 this month total with the RB (insane RB on stars btw, got lucky with the leaderboard).



I'm done with diablo 2, very good game, but then some friends told me about Morrowind (elder scrolls 3), insane game, really enjoying it, very complex game!


Some hands

H1: going thin OTR

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

BTN: 89.56 BB
Hero (SB): 108.16 BB
BB: 100.4 BB
UTG: 135.24 BB
MP: 96.96 BB
CO: 70 BB

Hero posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) 3 8 7
Hero bets 1.44 BB, BB calls 1.44 BB

Turn: (8.88 BB, 2 players) Q
Hero bets 6.36 BB, BB calls 6.36 BB

River: (21.6 BB, 2 players) T
Hero bets 15.48 BB, BB calls 15.48 BB




H2: these aggro regs on nl25 are somewhat "hard" to beat, but when you get them the winrate is very high, you just need to crack them a bit, find their weaknesses

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

BTN: 106.92 BB
SB: 113.88 BB
BB: 107.12 BB
UTG: 100.52 BB
MP: 206.88 BB
Hero (CO): 164.04 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.32 BB, BTN raises to 7.48 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 5.16 BB

Flop: (16.36 BB, 2 players) 8 2 5
Hero checks, BTN bets 22.68 BB, Hero calls 22.68 BB

Turn: (61.72 BB, 2 players) 6
Hero checks, BTN checks

River: (61.72 BB, 2 players) 8
Hero bets 14.76 BB, BTN raises to 76.76 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 62 BB




H3: Stacked this whale in a table full of nits, funny to see them using the animations on me lol, I wonder how crazy these guys think I am lol.

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

Hero (BTN): 110.4 BB
SB: 156.36 BB
BB: 188.4 BB
UTG: 100 BB
CO: 146.84 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.32 BB, SB raises to 10 BB, fold, Hero raises to 26 BB, SB raises to 63 BB, Hero raises to 100 BB, SB raises to 137 BB, Hero calls 10.4 BB and is all-in

Flop: (221.8 BB, 2 players) 5 3 2

Turn: (221.8 BB, 2 players) Q

River: (221.8 BB, 2 players) 9




H4: vs station reg

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

SB: 100.4 BB
Hero (BB): 100 BB
UTG: 74.12 BB
CO: 109.44 BB
BTN: 99.6 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, fold, SB raises to 3 BB, Hero raises to 9 BB, SB calls 6 BB

Flop: (18 BB, 2 players) 6 2 4
SB checks, Hero checks

Turn: (18 BB, 2 players) T
SB bets 9.48 BB, Hero calls 9.48 BB

River: (36.96 BB, 2 players) 4
SB bets 19.4 BB, Hero raises to 81.52 BB and is all-in, fold




H5: The punishment is real!

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

BB: 284.36 BB
UTG: 100 BB
MP: 84.16 BB
CO: 222 BB
BTN: 108.72 BB
Hero (SB): 150.04 BB

Hero posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

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

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) A T 9
Hero bets 1.44 BB, BB calls 1.44 BB

Turn: (8.88 BB, 2 players) J
Hero checks, BB bets 6.36 BB, Hero raises to 31.8 BB, BB calls 25.44 BB

River: (72.48 BB, 2 players) 4
Hero bets 83.04 BB, BB calls 83.04 BB



H6: Not sure if this is a good fold

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

SB: 100 BB
BB: 100 BB
Hero (UTG): 136.4 BB
MP: 180.12 BB
CO: 244.6 BB
BTN: 118.08 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has 2 2

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

Flop: (9.68 BB, 4 players) 4 3 2
BB checks, Hero checks, MP bets 9.24 BB, fold, BB raises to 23 BB, fold, MP raises to 177.8 BB and is all-in, BB calls 74.68 BB and is all-in

Turn: (205.04 BB, 2 players) J

River: (205.04 BB, 2 players) J




VAMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

not going to lie, didn't think you were going to follow through. nice results, good to see you still going

how is meta going?

Amazing, when I entered Metagame I had already very high expectations, they surpassed them by a lot. They're very technical and their strats/coaching is very very strong, it's even more interesting for someone like me, who has a lot of experience, because I make the most out of the coaching, understand the nuances in a lot of spots/advice the coaches give (and decide not to give to microstakes players), even though I'm at nl25, my coach plays nl500, so good to learn a lot.

But the most important thing is how professional they are. I'm studying with people putting 90k+ hands of reg tables per month! Some guys have full time jobs and still put good volume. The motivation I got by seeing that is insane, also there's a support team that is amazing, the coaches know the best sites to grind and have a ton of data to back it up.

I believe it was the most important event in my poker career, that's how confident I am on how good they are.

Playing very well this month, sadly I'm behind volume, but going to focus more from now until the end of the year, then I will have a 15 day vacation, will travel and relax, going to read some books and just chill. It's amazing how I'm playing, I'm getting AK vs AA, KK vs AA all day, but still I'm winning a lot, haha, running good in non-pre-flop spots, but making so many BI out of nowhere. I know people at this level don't adapt much, but when they try to do it, they end up butchering so much, so I believe my EV on stars is probably very close to my EV on bodog because of those random spews I'm seeing. Btw, saw this month 3 nit regs 5-bet-bluffing vs me, insane.

Loose pre, I was just trying to find a decent flop to ship it in, then he comes with this sizing giving me all the odds in the universe haha. Guy does that and manages to pay off when I hit, I have 0 clue on what goes into these regs' minds haha vamooooo


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

BTN: 136.04 BB
Hero (SB): 252.92 BB
BB: 100 BB
UTG: 100 BB
MP: 89.76 BB
CO: 100 BB

Hero posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has 7 9

fold, fold, fold, BTN raises to 2.4 BB, Hero raises to 10 BB, BB raises to 21.52 BB, fold, Hero calls 11.52 BB

Flop: (45.44 BB, 2 players) 6 9 8
Hero checks, BB bets 4 BB, Hero calls 4 BB

Turn: (53.44 BB, 2 players) 6
Hero checks, BB bets 15 BB, Hero calls 15 BB

River: (83.44 BB, 2 players) 5
Hero bets 212.4 BB and is all-in, BB calls 59.48 BB and is all-in

Where year report?

Villain played this hand fine, not really sure what you're talking about here. Flop sizing is potentially a bit small, but anywhere 10-25% is probably reasonable enough

If you know what's going on with this spot, then you should know you can donk jam a lot of rivers because you have much more straights and boats than villain - but you would also be jamming river with many bluffs as well. Super standard call with a bluffcatcher if you think your opponent might actually understand the spot

tbqh, if anything I would say that you arguably played it worse because of both preflop decisions. The odds are great, but if villain isn't 4betting enough (like many micro players), then it's going to torch any EV you would've otherwise had closer to equilibrium. Even at equilibrium the call might be -EV. Luckily you managed to find what I would imagine is one of the handful of regs in the pool who actually seems to have a clue, so it's prob not a more significant preflop error like it might be vs your avg micro nitreg. But overall the hand is likely pretty insignificant in terms of winrate either way

Glad you're doing well with metagame though, seems like they have a great program. Best of luck in 2024 OP

Old habits die hard

Did your coach teach you to call 4bets oop with 97s?

This was the worst year of my career in $ made since I started playing as a pro, but I feel fine, I've never played so well and improved sooooo much, my volume got better in the end of the year too, but still need more improvements in that area. Getting banned on bodog sucks, but all it means is that I will have to work harder to get to HS. I'm going to make it, I believe that my game is very sharp and I play explo so well, starting to learn how to adapt vs some regs and fish. My notes are so good, they finally work (and aren't like some crazy wall of text)!

I also pay very close attention to showdowns, specially from fish, that's an habit I've started to do: to watch other hands that people are playing, lots of free info out there, really good. I think showdowns for me show more about how a player plays than stats, they're so unreliable, it's way better to see how a player thinks in some spots, you can extrapolate to other spots some info that might be relevant.

But I still believe that theory is king in this game and the only true way to improve as a poker player is to get better in theory, because the more you know, more your exploits get better, you learn some new lines with hands you never thought before, I've studied very little theory this year, but I plan to get better with gto wizard, it's so fast! Pio is great and I enjoy it soooo much, it's still better (for me at least) than gtowizard to study explo in very deep spots, but to just study theory I believe gtowizard is insane, definitely will get into it next year.

Stake breakdown on bodog



Graph bodog



Stake breakdown on stars (wr on zoom is very low because I've played a lot of hands as a nit there just trying outnit the nits)



Graph stars



Some hands

H1: Sick spot

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

CO: 136.48 BB
BTN: 266.12 BB
SB: 130.92 BB
Hero (BB): 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has Q T

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

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) K J 7
SB checks, Hero bets 1.44 BB, SB raises to 6 BB, Hero calls 4.56 BB

Turn: (18 BB, 2 players) 5
SB checks, Hero bets 5 BB, SB raises to 20 BB, Hero calls 15 BB

River: (58 BB, 2 players) Q
SB checks, Hero bets 71 BB and is all-in, fold



H2: Vs nit reg

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

BTN: 110.8 BB
Hero (SB): 100 BB
BB: 167.28 BB
UTG: 109.64 BB
CO: 186.96 BB

Hero posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, fold, BTN raises to 2.52 BB, Hero raises to 10 BB, fold, BTN raises to 24 BB, Hero calls 14 BB

Flop: (49 BB, 2 players) 3 8 J
Hero checks, BTN bets 11.72 BB, Hero calls 11.72 BB

Turn: (72.44 BB, 2 players) 7
Hero checks, BTN checks

River: (72.44 BB, 2 players) 9
Hero checks, BTN bets 75.08 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 64.28 BB and is all-in




H3: How is this a NL25 hand lol

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

Hero (BTN): 206.08 BB
SB: 138.48 BB
BB: 107.76 BB
UTG: 88.72 BB
MP: 135.4 BB
CO: 139.56 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

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

fold, MP raises to 2.52 BB, fold, Hero raises to 7 BB, fold, fold, MP raises to 23 BB, Hero calls 16 BB

Flop: (47.4 BB, 2 players) K 8 2
MP bets 22.64 BB, Hero calls 22.64 BB

Turn: (92.68 BB, 2 players) K
MP bets 89.76 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 89.76 BB

River: (272.2 BB, 2 players) 7

Players agreed to run it twice.

River #2: (272.2 BB, 2 players) Q




H4: Ez lol

PokerStars - $0.50 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 355.2 BB
BTN: 99.5 BB
Hero (SB): 123.36 BB
BB: 100 BB

Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A T

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

Flop: (6 BB, 2 players) 8 6 7
Hero checks, BB bets 1.88 BB, Hero calls 1.88 BB

Turn: (9.76 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero checks, BB bets 6.98 BB, Hero calls 6.98 BB

River: (23.72 BB, 2 players) 4
Hero checks, BB bets 33.76 BB, Hero calls 33.76 BB



H5: Probably a sick exploit vs a massive whale, insane

PokerStars - $0.50 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (UTG): 113.26 BB
MP: 282.66 BB
CO: 184.62 BB
BTN: 355.6 BB
SB: 172.98 BB
BB: 87.5 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has 2 2

Hero raises to 2 BB, MP calls 2 BB, fold, fold, fold, BB calls 1 BB

Flop: (6.5 BB, 3 players) 7 K 2
BB checks, Hero checks, MP checks

Turn: (6.5 BB, 3 players) 7
BB checks, Hero checks, MP checks

River: (6.5 BB, 3 players) 9
BB checks, Hero checks, MP bets 20 BB, fold, Hero raises to 111.26 BB and is all-in, MP calls 91.26 BB




vamooooooooooooooooo

Forgot to set some goals for next year:

- Going to play only reg tables unless it's saturday (challenge)
- Exercise every day
- 35k+ reg tables/month

Gl people, happy new year! Going to take 15 days of vacation and will get back to the tables refreshed, going to spend some days in Brasilia and then going to Ilha Grande, close to Rio. I hope I come back from this trip with more motivation and ready to work hard!

75k hands at your main stake , playing zoom , in a year

you playing 5m per day ?

Hey Rapidesh, just took a couple of minutes to read some pages of your thread. You´re playing with a group I respect, you seem to put at least some effort, and you look like a nice person. You know what. Give me 50/50, hell, give me 10/90 for you getting to 2knl in this lifetime, and I'll still bet against you ever succeeding, ever reaching the highstakes. You know why? You´re sheep, you behave like sheep, you´re a beta, and people like you don´t have what is needed to accomplish big things in life. I mean, I can reach 80% of this conclusion just by reading what others post and how you respond You'll fail my brazilian friend. Sorry for the tough love.

i dont think you understand what tough love means lmao - this is just pure slander/insult

thanks for the update rapi and all the best in 2024. Don't listen to the haters, but do listen to those you have respect for, and keep working towards your goals. gl! <3

esp when he's posting fake graphs on his own thread

Rapidesh not taking the good advice out of the insult just proves how mentally weak he is. Oops, sorry, he didn´t even respond to my post, it was you, sorry Rapi

MartimC, when I start selling my coaching/courses, I will out my real name/sn. You will be surprised by who I am on stars haha.

Nothing more to add

im really bad with names.. also im pretty sure not

and a fake graph is a fake graph, so if you're offering coaching , you're scamming people from the point you post a 1.5m hhs graph winning on all lines at that rate, either you can see the other players hole cards , or you only play btns

prob the drug addict dude from montreal who assaulted an old lady a few years ago, he has always been obsessed with rapidesh

can't even smurf properly, ****in noob

Yeah, I´m Finland for sure. Why can´t I be Mirage? Or Mrzbourg (did I spell it correctly?). Or tobe4funas? Like if Finland was the only Rapidesh hater on earth.

you're so bad at this hahahaha

At least I try to help Rapidesh improve. What good did you ever do to help him?

hard to help someone thats already better than you at the game,

your troll is just not fun at all, nor worth anyones times , at least we had a couple of laughs with mirage and the others

Thanks for the support, people, it's funny how some are 100% sure I won't make it and when I see things from my perspective it's so obvious that I will reach nl200 this year. With the help from the team I will get very good and might have a good chance to get to HS. My technical game is definitely very strong, what makes me stagnate is my attitude outside of the tables, but I'm working on that, going to relax for 10 days and I hope I will make a new routine that's very productive.

No, you're just cursing me, xenoblade gave insane advice here for 6+ years, always on point with his strat advice.

Thanks bena! Definitely listening to those I respect, haters are everywhere, I remember in your thread people calling you a nit for playing with 24 vpip whole you were crushing 500z for a 5bb/100 winrate lol

not to sound negative but isn't 10 days overkill for someone in your position? it makes me think that you don't really want this enough, or are you ill or something?