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Originally Posted by ElmaoK
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I have been doing quite a bit of study as of recent, and have been feeling more confident in preflop spots. The volume has been fairly mediocre, averaging about 250 tournaments/day, I'd like to get this closer to 400, but this will take some time. The results have been mixed, I am up about 65 buyins at .25 spins, but down 13 buyins at 1 spins. Total I am about breakeven pre rakeback. I will post bankroll updates every 10k tournaments, which may be a while but I want to not be results oriented in the short-term in a game format with so much variance.
I would love some insight on what a good ROI/ChipEV is for Spin & Golds. These Spins are hypers, so I wouldn't imagine the ChipEV could be much higher than 45 but I am unsure.
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Congrats on the quick success at $.25's, almost certainly a decent winner in the field w that result w run good or not. I must say I know almost nothing about hyper's as I only played and studied normal spins so this may not be as relevant, I don't know. But one thing I think micro players focus too much on is volume. Doug Polk talked about this, Wakko has talked about this, my coaches used to tell me this and I have since come around and feel the same way. No matter the format, micros players tend to focus too much on volume, when in my opinion, learning theory, exploits, mental game and genuine discipline outside of simply playing a lot serves as a far higher long-run hourly roi than grinding more games does. If you go to the poker ambition site, you'll see examples of this where year 1 and 2 micro/low stakes players who obsess over volume do make more on avg, but they are also the ones who get left in the dust after that and the out-earning element is fairly marginal anyway. Typically I think micro players and high stakes players have the opposite problems, where w HS poker players, many have a study to play ratio of lile 80:20, whereas micro players who aspire to be HS players often have a 20:80 study
lay ratio, if even that. I believe that each of them would do better by getting closer to the opposing's ratio, as right now, the fruit you gain from building a better and stronger foundation faster far exceeds the extra hourly in cents or dollars you get early on from extra volume, if you are even getting that, which in all likelihood you are probably not.
Maybe try doing like 60-90min sessions, reviewing hands and studying for a little, taking a break for a bit, then coming back and doing that again. See how that feels for a few weeks. Not many players can grind for 5+ hours and make as good decisions on hour 4.5 then hour 1.5, and even if you somehow can, this won't likely scale as the games will be so much tougher down the line that you almost certainly won't be able to continue to do it then. The volume grind here also almost always leads to burnout at some point, no matter how motivated and inspired you are by the game. So starting off just by getting the habits and mindset as clean as possible is a very underrated priority in these sorts of journeys, and the aggressive volume I think you can do without.
Goodluck!