Thanks mate!

February 2021:



Bankroll is at 36.2k

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.


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.

Same goes for the small single raised pots. They are very common spots that affect one's win rate quite a bit, but no one ever talks about them.

From now on I'll try to mainly post hands like these. I actually find them more interesting. If someone wants to discuss them, feel free to comment.

The volume goal for the next month is 70k+ hands.

Why are you playing the small stakes? Upping to 100bb play?

Hand 1: Dude must have been asleep.

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

What changes did you make in the BB?

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.

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.

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.

mine is 15 and 10

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.

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.

have a math edge ss.

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.

^ That's an old post, 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.

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).

I actually believe OP has never tilted. It takes a very patient person to try to grind out 100k at micros

In all actuality though, much respect OP, it's inspiring in a way

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.

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.

Oh i see why your graphs look pretty its with rake back added into it and in bb. gg well done.

I don't know why you're bashing him? He seems pretty good based on his posts without even looking at his results.

Damn, my own hater. Always wanted to have one
JK
^ 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.

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

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

May 2021:





Bankroll is at 37.9k

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.

Some recent hands: