WinterHedge 2019 Poker and Goalz
Hello 2+2, new year, new attempt at me to start a thread, first off i don't really understand the reason people start threads so who knows how long this will last but i felt by doing one myself i may find a love for such a thing so here goes.

The current situation here is i am a 100s spin and go reg within the X stable.

Plan of action for the thread is to hopefully get a following and produce something interesting or helpful to those railing.

So new year i should probably set some goals, i try not to set anything too ambitious because you can't make tons of snap changes to yourself just because the year on your watch has changed, you have to build habits and this takes time, but i'm also a dedicated mofo who likes to push himself So here are some ambitious goals for 2019 in order of preference:

-Lose 3 stone currently i am overweight by quite a bit, and one thing i truly believe is your health is the most important thing in life and way more important than money so i am looking to dedicate myself to this aim this year even if it means less grinding

-Reach 500s by 2020

-make $100k

-Meditate everyday

- **** up sleep pattern less regularly

-Smoke less weed

Now that i have made the thread and the hangover of 2018 has worn off i will set to work on these tasks and how i will achieve them from the 04/01/2019

Hope to update regularly, Peace out and happy 2019 everyone!

Had to repost thread because originally was in wrong section...

So far, signed up to gym, bought a sit stand desk, and a treadmill to go underneath it...dare i say GTO

sicko i remember when we both started back then in december 2016 and cog dis was bashing you for spewing every coaching session but you still managed to make 70k your first year too bad i had to drop out because of rl stuff

good luck to you in the future

hahaha cogdis coaching sessions were so much fun even if i was getting ripped a new A*hole for most of the session. i particularly remember one session before my birthday where i he said i was playing like a clown, and then went on to ridicule me asking if there were going to be clowns at my bday party, and possible some sort of clown fiesta. Showed that video to a bunch of my friends who don't play poker and they found it hilarious seeing me get ripped into. Actually bumped into the legend when i was in thailand the other day, so 2 years after giving up my job to play poker professionally i bumped into the guy who made it all happen, was sick to meet him and grab some dinner irl.

Anyway thought id post some results heres my last month of 2018. Games were juicy, hopefully same pattern follows in 2019!

finally, at least one blog of decent spin and go crusher.

subscribed!

Hehe a small part of the reason i started this blog was also because i saw on your forum that you had said there were no current spin and go blogs from non russian players.

So far 2019 i have been running like S***,will post a graph of 2019 so far sometime soon but i don't like to look at my graph when i know i'm running bad because it can then become detrimental to my game. So when the time comes i want to check my graph i will post

Today was a toughy, i glimpsed the results graph a bunch of times and it just kept going down, so i glimpsed some more untill it reached -5k and then i swore to myself i wasn't quitting untill i got it all back. Wacked out the 6 tables grind, and played through it and got most of it back. Now going to smoked some weed, i deserve it, and first time smoking this week. Still haven't checked entire results, mainly because half is on laptop and half on computer. Maybe will just post 2 weekly or monthly graph, will see how i feel. Below is todays graph. Also when i switched to the new stable i decided to play on my own money whereas before i was staked, so that was probably part the reason i grinded so hard...... not sure if its good that on my own money im grinding more to chase losses...or thats just a -EV way to live. time will tell


Still waiting for my treadmill and standing desk to arrive. but a new back support thing i bought arrived today which connects to your knees and holds you up right. Deffo +ev investment allowed me to focus way more than my normal leaning back feet on the desk grind style.

So couple people at the tables asked me to update my thread, turns out i do have some followers and fans

Sadly i have no good news, the current 100s pool is absolute ****, probably something to do with being January and the current stars promotion allowing recs to try and win a milly for 25$, and therefore i am suffering terribly this month, managed to make like 4k ev so far i think but thats only because ive been playing so much volume and tables. I started off 6 tabling but gave that up after a dowswing and have since just been playing 5. The downswing is evident in the graph.

In terms of my goals i have been failing at those too, only one ive stuck semi regularly too is meditating, i blame my failure partly on the commitment ive been showing to giving stars lots and lots of rake so far this month. My outside life is quite negatively affected by poker if i go on a long downswing, im usually able to keep the two seperate but when games are so **** and your grinding hours a day to make nothing battling regs it can have a big affect on your motivation to do things outside of poker. having said that i am going to a rave tomorrow night with some friends and spending the day away so that will maybe give my mind sometime to reset, and also be one less reg in the pool. Don't all jump at once!

POA: Starting Monday, get my **** together, build a proper schedule, and start achieving goals. Probably best way to do this is to limit myself to x amount of poker a day. Otherwise i can spend all day playing and studying because i have alot of passion and obsession for the game. One thing i have realized this month is there are a lot better ways i can spend my time when games suck, so maybe i will get more studying done this month and hopefully more time in the gym!

Below is month graph so far...... its actually missing like 100 games at the beginning i played on my laptop which i will add at end of month, they were like 100 games BE.

In for spins PGC, you're certainly annoying to play against so I'm not surprised to see you crushing it. gl with 2019 and I hope the games get better soon.

Damn, if such crusher as you (winter) have 31 chipev, so game is totally died.
Of course too many of the regulars and maybe new bots
By the way I ended up with 100s, I think games will be better
At least for a 1 chipev

In, keep the updates coming and gl!

hehe you didn't need to tell me Freeq i know you're here at 100s, you're on all my tables :P

Just busted a 200x!!!! vs 2 fish aswellll, heartbreaking ****, got the guy down to 6bb then Q3ss into his A7ss and rest was pretty much push fold. Sad stuff, am like 10k below EV this month and winning 20k would of been very nice. Nevermindddddd onwards and upwards... now someone pass me a joint please

Winter, great to see u started a thread. I will be interested in following this. I have a few questions/remarks though:

1. What is X stable?
2. You joined a stable but you play with your own money. What the hell is that? What is the point of joining a stable if u don't use their bankroll? I am totally against stables who do EV staking btw. It is destroying the games and incentivises cheating.
3 My trashtalking on the tables aside, GL with your thread. I like reading this kind of stuff.

Hello all!

Firstly Stable X is the GOAT stable formed by monkeybauss and nicetomeet
2. for coaching, these are two of the best spin and go players around at the moment so while i don't need a bankroll im always keen to learn

3. ty



https://i.imgur.com/DyGj9ER.jpg treadmill finally arrived today #GTO! excited to start working while using this, had another ****ty downswing probably a little my own fault playing 6 tables, i think 5 is my sweet spot atm. Hopefully will be able to have a little RUN good now on my treadmill

1. Does this stable have a website?

2. So basically you give a % of ur winnings away for coaching? In my opinion this is just a waste of your money. they can't be significantly better to be worth giving crazy amounts of money to. I hope for u ur deal is 99/1. Any other amount u are getting scammed.

3. I played with monkeybauss. Isn't he an mtt reg gone spins? He is not specialy better than any other reg i played against, tbh I labelled him as the weaker ones on 100s.

1. Not yet

2. Well yeah thats the main flaw of most poker players, you think you know it all, but really theres so much to spins and so much to poker. Every month i look back on myself from the month before and i think how **** i was then, and imo if your not doing that youself your falling behind the curve.

3. Well i think he made over 100k in ev at 5s in one month id say that puts him ahead of any other 100s reg.... he used to be an MTT reg too and pretty dam good one at that i believe, so yeah i think he is much better than most regs, maybe not in all areas, but at multitabling and exploits he is

2. It is the biggest hoax in the online poker world to get people to give away big parts of their winnings. Don't get me wrong, poker schools have big value for beginning players. When I joined a pokerschool (I never took EVDEAL btw), I learned massively the first 2 months, after that the learning curve flattens out but they want u to believe u have still so much to learn because u are money for them, a lot of money and probably more than they can make by playing poker. Spins aren't that difficult tbh, there is only so much to learn.

3. Words and even if so, 1 month says nothing. After the smartspin maffia got banned and that russian highstakes husng crusher (forgot his name) quit, games were very soft for awhile on 500s I believe. So I'm sure if he was crushing fish on 500s, he can easily make 100kev in one month. It is not so difficult.
Finally MTTs are the EASIEST and SOFTEST format in poker BY FAR. My grandma can crush those games. And yea, if u run above EV in mtts, everyone thinks u are a boss.

Finally, I'm not trying to prove monkey isn't a good player, he surely is and he surely plays +EV. I'm only trying to make it clear that there are no reg poker gods that crush way harder than any other reg. The regs that crush, are the ones that find the best bum in the poker economy these days. That's probably the biggest lesson I learnt during 2018.

Cheers!

2. i disagree with that entirely, the pool is always getting better like i said before; every month i look back on month before and think i was a terrible poker player then, and if i don't do this i know im soon falling behind. This is my third stable i have been in and yes you are correct they provide more value to beginning players if you have the right coaches they can provide a lot for advanced players, i left my last two stables because the learning curve had stagnated and i too thought the only way for me to learn more now is by working in pio/skier and on my own leaks. but now in X i am learning a ton very quickly and there is alot of progress being made on the curve. if i feel i have learnt everything then i will leave at end of contract but i know that there is always something to learn and if you are being coached by better players it is much easier to learn these things.

3. Sure but its still a sick achievement and hes probably only guy to hold it.

And yes i agree with that too, too have the biggest CEV you have to be the biggest bumhhunter but those guys aren't making the most money, if your happy to live off 4k a month then small volume and high cev is way forward, but im not i like to aim for 10k every month so being a bumhunter isnt for me.


Just checked my graph and it is the worst ive ever had at 100s, something like 25 cev over 5k games, i have a few days left to save it before month is over though. i feel like ive played fine, CEV is definitly not representive of how i;ve played, but games have been bad for volume grinders this month. Hopefully next month will be something different. I played a hand just now i thought summed up my month perfectly.

https://i.imgur.com/9dOjVUY.png

I too was thinking that way for some time but there came a point where I realised spin and gos are fairly easily solved and it is not hard to play unexploitable vs other regs, just gotta have a good balanced range. you are being naive in my opinion. But I will stop arguing about this now.

Not a surprise that high volume grinders won't be able to survive in the current poker climat. I said it before but with 5% rake bumhunting is a must and if you are not doing it, you won't survive. Bumhunt is the essence of being a pro. You don't make money off of other regs. Freeq is the best example of a high volume player who had to give up.

Also, at 25cev 5K games, u just gave stars 25K while grinding ur ass of at a negative hourly. Well played PS I must say. Don't wanna spoil the fun but it is just sad to see where it is going. Crushers not being able to crush anymore, rake through the roof, no rewards. Give me something to be positive about please.

"Give me something to be positive about please." im getting at least 2% of that back

updates coming after weekendddddd

inb4 upswong to infinity

January Summary:



So somehow i managed to save the month and get a very disappointing 32cev but considering how bad i felt i run and how bad the games were i will take it!

Been studying more lately, watching nicetomeets videos and learning to use insta GTO (RIP SKIER ;( ;( ) feel i have improved a little and hoping to see the results during Feburary

In terms of life stuff i still smoke a ton of weed, **** up my sleep pattern alot, and am overweight lol

Been doing a good two hours minimum everyday grinding/studying while on my treadmill, went to doctors for some joint pain and apparently i got vitamin D deficiency and possibly a thyroid problem. Guess i'll have to open the blinds while i grind considering i just spent 4 months in thailand in the sun not sure how i got a vitamin D deficiency but oh well.

February 11th and onwards plans:
-Gym 3 times a week WITHOUT FAIL on top of walking on treadmill
-meditate everyday
-play 150 hours
-Smoke weed just ONCE a week (alot of my mates who i regularly smoke with have gone back to UNI and not living nearby atm so i feel i can actually stick to this one now)

aha, look who's not actually beating the games

gl w/ your goals

-Taroxus