[100k hand Challenge Day 12 & 13]


Graph for Day 12 & 13 :



Hands of the Day:



Hands: 39,343/100,000
Winrate: 11.15bb/100

Nice work. I always said nits were underrated.

hahaha im only a nit preflop

so sick keep it up

is this all 200nl?

yeah all 200nl. I won't play 500nl till I complete the challenge.

[100k hand Challenge Day 14 & 15]


Graph for Day 14 & 15 :




Hands of the Day:



Hands: 47,658/100,000
Winrate: 10.24bb/100

Probably should give a quick overview of the days.

So day 14 was a fat grind. Had to grind my way out of a very very break even day.

Day 15 was interesting. Started the day really well then crashed and burned and then I decided to play the late night session and managed to recover. Overall think I am playing well but starting to get a little bit delusional from how good I was running - i.e. getting frustrated when I don't win 3+ buyins a session (I know, so delusional right now...) I am also starting to obsess too much on my winrate. I need to refocus on what is important, scoring highly on my mental review as opposed to my winrate.

Fortunately I have overcome my winning tilt that I previous had which would usually affect my volume. Despite positive results going my way I have still been hungry and smashing out volume. I usually get more volume when I am in breakeven or downswing periods.

Nearly at the halfway point for hands. I will post a 50k hand graph, hopefully tomorrow or the day after. I will also do a quick recap and review of the first half of the challenge.

Imo jamming the 88 on the 55764 is a huge torch, should just call. Enjoying the videos though, keep it up

What did villain end up having in the AQ triple barrel hand?

It may seem thin but vs villain's line, think its pretty standard.

Villain had Ah7h

KdQd

I keep forgetting to add villain's hand into the video. I will pin a comment on the youtube video

Last couple of days have been brutal so need some stream run good.

Streaming in 5 minutes.

Come give me some run good


https://www.twitch.tv/skuzos

glgl, subscribed

ty ty

sorry had to end the stream an hr and 15 in because I was playing really badly. Gives me a good opportunity now to chill and write up the 50k hand review, but first here are the results/ video for last couple of days.

[100k hand Challenge Day 16 & 17]


Graph for Day 16 & 17 :




Hands of the Day:



Hands: 54,410/100,000
Winrate: 6.34bb/100

50k hands Review for 100k hand challenge

Graph



Winrates by position



Review:

So the purpose of the challenge was to remotivate myself to grind large volume and give myself an excuse to go on a mini holiday upon completion. As well as having a goal to strive towards I wanted to measure any improvements that my study would make on positions.

For this challenge I worked specifically on improving my BB winrate. I have mentioned previously this was my major position leak. Across my entire 200nlz sample (400k hands) my bb winrate was sitting at -40bb/100 (which is really bad).

Since starting the challenge and the study on big blind, I have probably spent close to 30 hours just on non 3b pots for big blind. I have scripted close to 210 scripts for both GTO and population and tried to identify patterns and strategies. I then started to nodelock many spots based on population tendencies. Since doing this, I feel like my bb play has improved drastically.

So based on the above objectives of the challenge I am really happy to see my big blind winrate improve quite a bit. Obviously the sample size is small but its nice to see an improvement. It will be interesting to see how my BB winrate looks at the end of the challenge.

As seen on the graph, my first 50k hands were amazing but as soon as I entered September I started to get smashed. Last few days have been tough transitioning from really good results to really bad results. I.e. the polar swing has mentally been tough. I genuinely believe that I have been playing well in the last few days (except for today on stream - that was sub standard).

Another positive from the first 50k hands has been my volume. Prior to this challenge, whenever I went on a massive heater I would reduce my volume (probably because of winning tilt and a bit of complacency). However the positive results continued to motivate me to maintain the amount of hours and hands.

The only thing I am disappointed about the challenge so far is that I am spending so much time on poker (playing and studying) and it is taking away a lot of time from other parts of my life (e.g. studying russian, Gym and my business plans). I.e. I don't think there is good life balance right now.

That being said, after the challenge I can take a few days off poker and refocus on those aspects.

Lets see what September has in store for the challenge.

TLDR

- 100k hand challenge purpose: Volume motivation and measurement of BB winrate
- Lots of hours in playing
- Equal amount of studying hours (maybe more than playing)
- BB winrate improved (still small sample though)
- [Positive] Maintaining volume through heater
- [Negative] lack of life balance

Studied for 30 hrs? wtf

maybe you have mentioned before, but what's the business you are running ?

Man that last YT video was seriously painful to watch, just losing AA & KK over and over again lol, was more like a bad beat compilation. The graph at least for 50k hands still looking pretty nice though, however with that 11bb WR before in pales in comparison. Hopefully the next ~50k so hands will be just as kind. Good luck.

I want to see the all in EV graph. Your turn/river style is interesting.

EV is noted on the graph... about same

Sick Thread. Enjoyed reading this so far. Been lurking and just wanna say good luck, will be following.

Poker tracker doesn't track AIEV properly on ingition (at least for me)

ur not the first one to say that. Do you know what the error is? I guess I should look up how its calculated and figure it out...

Ur all in EV is on the graph I did not notice it....

Something like that. I mean over 2 and a half weeks it doesn't seem that insane?

Trying to start up an Esports management style business with my friend (for Australian market). I am also starting to learn some exporting stuff through a family friend.

Yeah it was an unfortunate couple of days. In fact the last 3 or 4 days have been like this but like I said, it was only a matter of time before these sessions happened. August was a pretty good month so I have to be objective about the situation.

What makes you say its interesting.

Yeah like others have said the AIEV is not calculated on ignition converted hands for some reason. It has an issue calculating it when you have the hole cards shown for the other players. Apparently if you turn this off then you can see your AIEV but it is much more important seeing what population does with hands. I have a secondary database for ignition card catcher (I use this so I can have a hud on the regular tables). This calculates the EV correctly however it occasionally misses hands. I think it misses like 10% of hands and if not started correctly it will miss certain tables. Therefore not that reliable.

Besides my sample for this year is quite large now (700k hands) so you would think (hope) the yellow and green lines have converged by this point. That being said, my overall sample is still relatively small. I think anything over 2m hands and you can really start to see consistency.

Thanks! appreciate the comment

I don't know why people get so hung up on EV. You can run bad but run above EV because of card distribution. Its honestly not a good thing to think about. Last few days I have been obsessing over how many buyins below EV I am. But this is unproductive and really bad for your mental game. Its just an excuse for us poker players to feel sorry for ourselves. I am guilty of it as well but sitting here writing this post whilst severely hungover I realised that I need to stop crying about it and move on and continue posting volume and continue studying. Imagine someone from an under developed country reading about people complaining about how poorly they run in a card game....

The only time I think EV is important is for people who are advertising coaching. It makes sense for people to ask to see the EV line to make sure that the coach is not running absurdly hot over a sample. However, personally, I wouldn't get coaching off someone who has less than 1m hands lifetime anyway so the EV line once again is not that relevant.

@skuzlad if you want to calculate your results for all the hands and track it correctly get Holdem manager as well. Poker tracker throws these random errors about action out of turn etc but it works fine with hm2.
I use pt4 for analysis with the whole cards and hm2 for tracking my results in real time.

u can get both hole cards and ev now with latest pt4 update:
- convert ur HH normally with hand converter and uncheck reveal hole cards. this gives u ev line
- import the unconverted HH files downloaded from ignition. this gives u hole cards

Oh really, good to hear. PT4 with the downloaded hands from Ignition have been working fine so I probably won't bother. But thanks for the heads up!