I use a lot of different software for poker. When it comes to studying, I've mainly used equilab + my own EV Calculate Excel Sheet to make my own ranges. The most important thing is to think about poker spots a lot during the day (in depth). I've also used solvers over the years (mainly to figure out the optimal flop sizings). The best one I'd say is PIO. You have to know how to use it correctly, though, or you might hurt your game more than help it. Most of the profit in poker comes from exploiting players afterall and you can't really learn that with solvers.
It was a low volume month. I noticed that in the last 6 months my win rate has actually been better from the BB (-13bb/100) than from the SB (-15bb/100). I'm not sure what exactly the reason for this is, but I did make some major changes to my BB strategy at around that time.
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I also spent some time coaching poker this month. It was pretty fun.
By the way... I never see anyone in these forums talk about timing tells. They are definitely very important at micros, I think. Especially vs fish.
I agree with you timing tells are slightly underated and can be very useful but you'll never convince me you found a tell so strong that hand 1 isn't a b/f everytime
Why are you playing the small stakes? Upping to 100bb play?
Hand 1: Dude must have been asleep.
I'll probably start moving up soon. I've been playing 100bb deep for around 50% of the challenge and my WR is almost the same either way, so I don't think it matters too much.
You mean he was a nit? Yup.
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I agree with you timing tells are slightly underated and can be very useful but you'll never convince me you found a tell so strong that hand 1 isn't a b/f everytime
Villain was the kind of player I'd expect to bet the turn with most Qx and always fold the river with Jx (standard micro nit). On top of that I had a turn timing tell on him that he was on a draw + he tanked the river, which made me believe he was thinking about donk betting (so a flush or a potential bluff). This together made me want to check it back. I'm not 100% sure if the read was strong enough to make this play, which is in part why I'm posting the hand here. I'm willing to discuss it. It's possible that I just got a bit lucky that he actually had it in the hand.
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What changes did you make in the BB?
I'd say that I'm exploiting different kinds of regs in my pool way better now, mainly by raising flops and turns way more than in the past, based on their tendencies. My flop and turn check-raise stats are 18% and 16% right now. Vs some regs I'm doing it even more and vs others way less, with different parts of my range. As examples you can look at the A5o and A9o hands I posted last month. Both were exploitative.
It was a low volume month. I noticed that in the last 6 months my win rate has actually been better from the BB (-13bb/100) than from the SB (-15bb/100). I'm not sure what exactly the reason for this is, but I did make some major changes to my BB strategy at around that time.
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That seems like a crazy low loss rate to have from the BB, must be at least in part a function of your short-stacking.
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GL ZKesic, I've followed this thread for a while and it's really cool to see how you've carved out your little niche.
Edit - Just seen Broken's post, clearly I'm doing something wrong!
This seems perfect for 100b deep vs competent regs. A lot of the regs in my pool, however, cbet and stab way too much. They also don't 3bet the flops enough, so it makes sense for my numbers to be a bit higher, I think.
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That seems like a crazy low loss rate to have from the BB, must be at least in part a function of your short-stacking.
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GL ZKesic, I've followed this thread for a while and it's really cool to see how you've carved out your little niche.
Edit - Just seen Broken's post, clearly I'm doing something wrong!
The short stacking probably has something to do with it for sure! Being deep is advantageous for the IP player after all.
Thanks for following
Not necessarily. You should be adjusting to your opponents. The EV of raising and calling is identical for most of your range in theory. For example, if our opponent is barreling the turn like 80% of the time for a big size, it doesn't make much sense for us to really raise the flop with anything, right? It also doesn't make sense for us to call the flop with a hand and then fold the turn. Therefore we should actually be overfolding the flop vs him and never raising.
Ah I was being an idiot, misread Broken's 10 and 15 as his SB and BB loss rates. Think those would be off-the-charts insane even if you are playing against a moronic Yanks a crusher.
I believe that it's partially because of my very constant win rate. People have disagreed with me about this in the past, but I believe that win rate and std dev aren't everything when it comes to variance:
A lot of people that make 3bb/100 after 1mil hands, for example, assume that this was their "true" win rate for every hand in that sample. However, in reality, there might have been periods of time when the games were super soft + they were playing their A game and were actually making ~8bb/100, while in other periods of time the pool changed + the regs started exploiting the guy + he tilted and his true EV was actually -3bb/100. He just considered that a "downswing" though.
I have never tilted in my life though. Never even felt the emotion. It must be because I don't truly enjoy the game and don't play it for fun. I play to make money. When I hit a downswing I make sure to reduce the number of tables I'm playing and focus on finding out how exactly I can optimally counter the opponents. Sometimes fish even accidentally use a strategy that happens to exploit you.
I also use a pretty passive strategy (a lot of limping and checking flops) at different stack depths, which probably reduces my variance too.
I think that my pool is tougher than 50nl cash actually, since these are the highest zoom stakes on the site and there are many good regs stuck here for the same reason as me. There's also no game selection.
If I played only 800 hands/hr, my win rate would obviously be quite a bit higher than it is. Though, what matters at the end of the day to me is the $/hr. I'd be surprised if you can find anyone that has a higher hourly than me at 20nl/25nl.
It would be hard to play more than 500 hands/hr at 100nl. At 5bb/100, that would be around $25 per hour, which is still less than what I'm making now.
You never tilted in your life? The first player in history never tilted in his life. Nice cap. Yes everyone else played poker cause its so fun and not for the money. That must be it haha.
I've actually never tilted in my life, believe it or not. Am not sure why. If I run bad I usually just start disliking poker and I take a break/go play some other games that I find more enjoyable. You could say that this is my form of a tilt. It has never happened to me that I'd want to start playing more aggressively because I lost money, though. I don't really understand that connection.
It's like if someone has a bad day on the stock market and loses money. He then "tilts" and starts buying many more bad stocks to "get the money back". Does this actually happen to people? I really don't know.
Imagine a game in which you have two buttons: The green one makes you money on average. The red one loses you money on average. Your job is to always figure out which one is green and then click it. That's pretty much what poker is. And even if you click the green button 5 times in a row and always get unlucky, there's still no reason for you to click the red button next time. There's objectively no reason for me to change my strategy bacause of some bad beats.
Ah I was being an idiot, misread Broken's 10 and 15 as his SB and BB loss rates. Think those would be off-the-charts insane even if you are playing against a moronic Yanks a crusher.
I'm -17evbb/100 in SB and -25evbb/100 in BB over my last 333k hands which includes hands at lower stakes (I did $100->$10k challenge last year).
Filtered for 100nl+ they are -19 and -21 (lol??), respectively. (190k hands).
Most people my age make around $5-10 per hour in my country, so I'm more than happy with how much I'm making right now.
I play poker for fun, mainly as a hobby and am definitely not prepared to risk too much money on it.
Also, once I reach 100k profit, it'll definitely be a world record for 20nl, right?
This gives me some extra motivation.
You are either the best troll of all time or bi polar. I just started going through your thread and you are contradicting yourself saying you play for fun, but u don't tilt cause u dont play for fun. Then you say you ran good hu and had this pretty graph going up to 400nl and you just magically crushed everyone without game selection. Yah ok bud. To have a graph like that you have to bum hunt on a hard core level hu. Then you just start at 20nl. You don't have prop bet with anyone or anything. I am not buying your graphs and I am still not sure if you play for fun or not. But everyone tilts. If you got up to 400nl hu and now playing 20nl. You had to tilt some of that money off at some point. Stop the cap dude.
The graph is in BB because I played a mix of 20nl and 50nl. I've been trying to maintain the 1000+ hands/hr volume in cash games but it's pretty hard. I've decided to cap it at ~800hands/hr from now on (10-12 tables). This way it's easier to focus and the sessions will be longer.
I've also started playing some HU sngs for fun. They won't count towards this challenge, though.
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Hopefully it goes better than the last time I tried, years back
Preflop: Hero is BTN with 6 6
MP folds, CO raises to $1.50, Hero raises to $4.50, 2 folds, CO raises to $12.50, Hero raises to $51.54 and is all-in, CO folds
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Results: $25.75 pot
Hero mucked 6 6 and won $25.75 ($13.25 net)
H3: Vs a nit. QTs would be way better obviously, but sometimes you just know they're capped af.
You are either the best troll of all time or bi polar. I just started going through your thread and you are contradicting yourself saying you play for fun, but u don't tilt cause u dont play for fun. Then you say you ran good hu and had this pretty graph going up to 400nl and you just magically crushed everyone without game selection. Yah ok bud. To have a graph like that you have to bum hunt on a hard core level hu. Then you just start at 20nl. You don't have prop bet with anyone or anything. I am not buying your graphs and I am still not sure if you play for fun or not. But everyone tilts. If you got up to 400nl hu and now playing 20nl. You had to tilt some of that money off at some point. Stop the cap dude.
^ Apparently you're misunderstanding a lot of what I said. I didn't contradict myself. I'm also probably as far from bipolar as you can get.
Perhaps the words I used in that quote were really a bit off. My main point was that I'm not willing to risk losing a big part of my net worth. I do find poker a bit fun, though, but not as fun as some other games. Therefore, the main reason I play it is to make money. I'm also not very emotionally invested into my results - it's just a ~$25/hr side job to me, which is probably also why I don't tilt. In other words: I do find poker fun, but I don't play it to have fun.
About the HU thing: I did actually play up to 600nl at that point, but only for around a month. I explained everything in the story. All of my hands were played vs regs, but I never claimed that I was actually that good. I was running like a god all the way to 400nl and then lost 1.5k in one session. After that I went back to cash games. You might want to reread the story, as I think you might've misunderstood some parts.
Also, the reason why every single hand was played vs a reg is because that's how HU works. The best 2-3 regs sit at every single table in the lobby 24/7, so you have no choice but to play vs one of them. The only way that you can ever play vs a fish is if you take a table from one of those regs (make them sit out vs you) and then play anyone that sits in. This was the main reason that I ended up moving to cash games (another reason was the really high rake at HU).
I've explained in the past why I avoid playing higher stakes. I might be able to beat them, bit it would be mathematically very difficult to make more than $25/hr, unless I play at least 200nl. If I do play that high, however, the variance would be way higher than it is right now. At the end of the day, I'm just happy with how much I'm making right now.
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Oh i see why your graphs look pretty its with rake back added into it and in bb. gg well done.
I've only posted like two graphs in BB for when I was mixing 50nl and 20nl. The rest are in $.
Having the rakeback line in the graphs also makes sense I think, since it's the actual amount of money I made. I don't really understand what the issue is.
Galfond is like jesus of poker and he even admits to tilting. So when this dude walks on water and turns water to wine I will be a believer.
idk man there's something about these eastern europeans, some of them are like robots. Just cold, emotionless poker playing machines. Maybe decades of living under communism has altered them genetically to be more emotionally resilient
Having a 1500bi+ roll playing in soft games probably also helps
^ Apparently you're misunderstanding a lot of what I said. I didn't contradict myself. I'm also probably as far from bipolar as you can get.
Perhaps the words I used in that quote were really a bit off. My main point was that I'm not willing to risk losing a big part of my net worth. I do find poker a bit fun, though, but not as fun as some other games. Therefore, the main reason I play it is to make money. I'm also not very emotionally invested into my results - it's just a ~$25/hr side job to me, which is probably also why I don't tilt. In other words: I do find poker fun, but I don't play it to have fun.
About the HU thing: I did actually play up to 600nl at that point, but only for around a month. I explained everything in the story. All of my hands were played vs regs, but I never claimed that I was actually that good. I was running like a god all the way to 400nl and then lost 1.5k in one session. After that I went back to cash games. You might want to reread the story, as I think you might've misunderstood some parts.
Also, the reason why every single hand was played vs a reg is because that's how HU works. The best 2-3 regs sit at every single table in the lobby 24/7, so you have no choice but to play vs one of them. The only way that you can ever play vs a fish is if you take a table from one of those regs (make them sit out vs you) and then play anyone that sits in. This was the main reason that I ended up moving to cash games (another reason was the really high rake at HU).
I've explained in the past why I avoid playing higher stakes. I might be able to beat them, bit it would be mathematically very difficult to make more than $25/hr, unless I play at least 200nl. If I do play that high, however, the variance would be way higher than it is right now. At the end of the day, I'm just happy with how much I'm making right now.
I've only posted like two graphs in BB for when I was mixing 50nl and 20nl. The rest are in $.
Having the rakeback line in the graphs also makes sense I think, since it's the actual amount of money I made. I don't really understand what the issue is.
Rakeback $ is still $ right? As far as I know both can buy the same things IRL.
Just seems like OP has an extremely healthy relationship with poker or generally is a very healthy individual mentally. I know it's hard to believe because most of this msg board consists of apes pretending to be cavemen (myself included).
Anyway, gl OP, keep crushing. Really admire your work!
Dam, OP saying he doesn't tilt, tilted iburydoscocaroaches HARD! no wonder this guy can;t believe its possible for someone to never tilt, when he tilts just at the idea being mentioned and then goes on to bombard OP with hate
Haven't been playing much in the last months. I've been mainly focusing on my diploma thesis on the topic of: "Comparative analysis of the European Union's and the Republic of Slovenia's personal data protection legal regulation". The plan is to finish it until July.
My poker win rate was really good this month and I feel confident in my gameplay.