The Tottenham game must’ve given you a heart attack haha.

I got the same offer with the vids. Lemme know if it’s worth it!!

Gl in March mate

How much time do you spend on the crypto thing each month? Also, SSD makes a helluva difference speed wise. I just switchedon my old non SSD laptop for the first time in ages this week and I'd forgotten how slow the startup etc are in comparison.

Seems like everyone with a pg&c got the video offer. I'll take a look at them as well

Yeah I am all for VAR in football to get the correct decisions however a lot of incidents are still highly controversial and these decisions can cause swings for me of a few $k in either direction. In the long run it should balance out like normal variance so I'll try not to get too tilted from it all.

I've finished watching the 1st video so ill post short review below.

I probably spent more time on Crypto when I was first getting more interested in it back in October as there is a lot to learn at first. I follow a lot of the Crypto people on twitter so I see some updates that way and I'll listen to some YouTube videos while Im playing poker.

One thing I have learned is that most people in Crypto are paid shills. There are advertising networks for Crypto that reach out to people with big social media followings on Twitter and YouTube. These people are then paid to promote specific coins and will then receive payment for it, often in the same Coin they are promoting. They get their followers to buy into the coin and then dump the coin on their followers when it reaches a high, classic pump and dump.

When I have played poker for a few hours and I have put a YouTube video on in the background and when the video finishes it rolls on to the next video/channel. I noticed that 3 or 4 videos would come on and they all seem to be talking about the same 2 or 3 coins. Using the "wisdom of the crowd" logic you might begin to think that these must be good investments when all the Pros are talking about them. However, I can see now that they have all been offered $ to promote the coins to hype them all at the same time to create a buzz. Its a dirty ball game.

Yeah mate with this SSD it takes only about 10 secs to boot up windows or shut it down. I always give things a restart now before I grind Stars.


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Vitaly "Inferno" - Crushing NL Mid Stakes Today

Video 1 (1h 39mins)

Training 1: Optimal strategy as Preflop Raiser, analysis of optimal lines with PioSolver/ SimplePostflop.

The video starts with Vitaly giving an introduction during what looks like a live webinar that has been recorded. We are working with Flopzilla and SimplePostflop to illustate the examples. If you have seen any Matt Janda stuff you will be familiar with Flopzilla. Next Vitali uses a plug-in type software for Flopzilla called HoldEq which looks a little like PokerStove. Vitaly begins to discuss preflop ranges and uses an equity graph and an equity matrix to show visual representation of how certain ranges hit the flop. Discussion about cbet frequencies and defending our checking range is the next topic.

Overbetting and Range Construction

Next up we have a hand example from HEM replayer of Vitaly opening JJ in the CO at 1K NL which proceeds into an example of overbetting the Turn. The discussion then goes into analysing range vs range in this spot and Vitaly uses Flopzilla to show his estimates of Hero and Villains ranges. We then begin to evalaute Villains defending range vs an overbet and then some talk on our bluff to value %s on the turn overbet.


Button vs The Blinds

Again Flopzilla is used to show Hero and Villains ranges in this spot and we take a look at each ranges equity on an example flop. We then start to analyse what hands will go into our betting and checking ranges on this flop and consideration is given to how much equity the hands have vs the villains range. There is some talk on why betting with certain hands is necessary to deny the villain out-drawing us on the Turn. At the same time we consider checking with some higher equity hands that arent as vulnerable to be out drawn on the Turn. Continuing with Button play Vitaly gives some advice on how to increase our winrate in this position and states that this is our main source for making money on the Button.


Small Blind vs Big Blind

In this section we consider why open limping may be a viable strategy and what advantages it has. This is followed by some discussion on Exploitative play vs GTO play and we question if we should switch to an exploitative strategy if we notice leaks in the villains game or if we would be able to better punish the villain by sticking with our constructed GTO ranges.


The Video ends with a section going over some hands that were posted on a forum and some strategy advice is given for each hand. There are some words of wisdom from Vitaly during the video however the main take-away here is learning how to study and think about spots using the software shown.

Finaly checked my Poker results so its Giraffe time.



Now you know why I didnt want to look, that is all my 2018 FR hands. Volume is Pathetic. Obviously had some techinical problems that halted things. That graph is for the great game of Full Ring, I did play some 6max but dont want that staining my FR graph.

Played a session there and setup was handling 10 tables fine with no lag so I will be tempted to play that amount of tables to try get some volume in. Then soon as I hit a downswing I will be posting that it is becuase I am playing too many tables and revert back.

On on to next one..

Seems about right for a quick Saturday night session after Match Of The Day

Not been paying much attention to my poker results/winrate the last while but looks like it might be time to move back to 100NL. I am running over 5bb/100 in EV for well over 100k hands @ Fiddy NL.

Vitaly "Inferno" - Crushing NL Mid Stakes Today

Training 2: Video Hand analysis of a session of one of Inferno’s students playing up to NL1.000

(1h 42m)


In video 2 we are watching Vitaly give advice on one of his students 6max play from a recorded session. We are viewing 6 tables of 6max that are tiled. The HUD stats are far too small for us to be able to see and it is quite hard to follow the action.

When there isnt much happening Vitaly answers some questions, open sizing is a topic discussed for a few minutes. We move back to HEM replayer where Vitaly gives some examples of what he is talking about. Things get more interesting here and some of the play does make you stop and think about things.

There is more study done using Flopzilla and we get to see some ranges that have been saved as .png files. It would have been helpful if these had been included in the zip with the videos so we can get a closer look but I dont see them anywhere. While answering user questions from the forum Vitaly gives his opinions on the differences between various Poker rooms and also his thoughts on the differences between Zoom and regular win rates and how many hands per hour he likes to play to maintain a solid winrate.

$999 !!!??!!

Booooom won most of my big DFS Soccer H2Hs over the Champions League and Europa League. Dont even usually get this much action at these stakes. I lost a $1k h2h earlier in the month so pleased I won this lot:



Decided to take out some profits and splash the cash so I shelled out £20 and bought a new cooling station on Amazon so I dont melt anymore Hard drives or laptops






Got one with a screen that shows the temperature and you can bump it on Auto and it adjusts itself and turns the fan speed up if it gets hot. Should be a good addition to the setup.


Here is one I played earlier.

Vitaly "Inferno" - Crushing NL Mid Stakes Today

Training 3: How to play as a cold-caller, analysis of optimal lines in PioSolver.

(1h 24m)

We are discussing cold call and 3bet strat in this video with the focus being on playing against Fish. Vitaly gives his reccomendations on what SPR ratio we need to play certain hands vs the fish.

(22mins)
"It makes almost no sense today to calculate SPR with Pocket Pairs for set value as we almost never win entire stacks with sets"

I cant agree with that statement, I am sure I stack plenty of fish with a set.

Next we review cold calling spots by going over a number of hands in HEM replayer and Vitaly gives his advice on what details we should be paying attention to when we decide to 3bet or flat. This is followed by commentary on how he played the hands post flop. Several videos have had "Pio-Solver" in the title but I havent seen Pio at all yet. I think that should really say "Simple-Postflop" as the software being demonstrated. I think Pio-Solver has been put in the title for marketing as it is more of a buzz word in Poker right now. There is good content in the videos so I would say there is no need to be deceptive with the titles.


Vitaly "Inferno" - Crushing NL Mid Stakes Today

Training 4: New tendencies in small blind and big blind play demonstrated on hands played by the coach at NL1.000/NL2.000.

I found this video quite interesting as I am always looking to improve my play from the blinds. Again we go through a variety of different ranges as played from the blinds and Vitaly shows these ranges in Flopzilla. 3bet and cold call ranges are discussed as well as squeezing ranges.

A few times during the videos Vitaly has given advice on modern trends on how high stakes players are playing in certain spots. He has given some advice on how he and other high stakes pros are approaching some situations in 4bet and 5bet spots. I can understand this approach in theory and it will be interesting to see if this kind of strat trickles down and becomes more common at Small stakes or even micros.

When you see the amount of ranges Vitaly has saved in Flopzilla it is clear that this is a guy that likes to pay attention to detail and has studied the game a great deal. He seems to play quite a loose aggressive strat that will take a lot of knowledge and skill to execute well postflop. I am convinced I still do a ton of stuff wrong preflop and from the blinds, simply because I dont know any better. I would be cautious about changing my preflop game drastically right away but I would definitely take on board some of the advice here to tinker with my ranges and alter things where I think I am doing it wrong.

Some casual h2h action for Sunday FA Cup.

Some mofo tried to hack my Cryptopia account earlier. Nice try, I use 2 factor authentication on every Crypto exchange and 99% of my coins are on my Trezor or other official wallets anyway. A reminder to always use 2fa on exchanges and a digital hardware wallet to store any Crypto investments.

Well at least i tried ....

So you are my mystery hacker, I thought I recognised that IP address. I have a way of dealing with people like you. You will get a 1k head to head invite for the next DFS Soccer contests, gl

The Crypto Seminar is on again tonight at Strathclyde Business School so gonna head along to that. Not checked my Crypto portfolio for about 2 months so not sure if I've been getting rekt or not.

DFS Soccer was on for some of the International Friendlies, so I went full degen and played them. Always heart breaking when half your lineup gets subbed off at HT. What is more heart breaking is when OPTA get the lineup completely wrong for Albania and they say that people are playing who are not even in the squad. 5 mins after kickoff OPTA correct the lineup by which time the slate has been locked and you cant change your team. Goodbye $1k.

Been playing 1 or 2k hands of internet poker in between searching twitter for the Albania lineup. Will maybe take some notes in my phone during the crypto seminar so I pay attention.

"D-Soc is committed to raise awareness and drive forwards the adoption of decentralised technologies such as cryptocurrencies and token ecosystems that many of the D-Soc team study on the new M.Sc. Financial Technology programme at the University of Strathclyde. We host a series of events and work on projects raising awareness and facilitating interesting use cases.

Next event: Wednesday 28th March 6-8pm, Crypto-Asset Portfolios Seminar

A seminar exploring the construction of crypto-asset portfolios. Though the principles of risk and return are consistent with legacy finance, as an immature asset class cryptographic tokens do not yet possess an ecosystem of financial products designed for exposure to a weighted basket of assets for retail and institutional investors. A handful of informal indices exist but without consensus on network valuation metrics the decision on which tokens to include and in what weighting is not straightforward. We apply existing and novel approaches to portfolio construction and discuss the latest results from our intramural virtual portfolio contest."

So I was checking the lobby on DK for this wk end and I noticed that the big season finale for Soccer: King Of The Pitch was almost full. Its a qualifier only event and 90 of the 100 seats had already gone.

Id hardly played any of the qualifiers cos I thought there were still tons of seats left to be won, but not so. Id already won super satellites to the satelites so I had tkts in my account to be used for the qualifiers so got my arse in gear and spent a few of my tkts on todays EPL. I had a feeling I would win a tkt then make this post and sure enough I won seat #94 of 100.





Had to go a wee bit contrarian in there ftw but Arnautovic and Ashley Barnes did the damage and the chalky Alexis Sanchez also helped out. Was sitting top and just had to sweat the Man City game and was hoping for low goals. Yep City were like 3-0 up after 15 mins it almost screwed me but I held on for the tkt. The final is actually next week April 7th, must be earlier this year cos of the World Cup. Tkt is worth $1500 and 1st place in the final gets $25k so looking forward to that.

March Goals:
[X] Get some decent volume going at Full Ring

[] Catch up on YouTube videos for Crypto

Um nope. Lost faith in YT Crypto videos right now, too much shilling. Went to the Strath Crypto seminar anyway that is more +EV than YT bs

[X] Watch and review: "Crushing NL Mid Stakes Today" Poker training course

Watched the last remaining videos, they follow the same format. Not really much more I can say without giving away strat.

[X] Check Poker Results at some point

Yup was winning at 5bb at 50NL

[X] One of the soccer DFS guys has put out an ebook. Buy and read that

Done. Was a quick read. There are more ebooks on this topic just released not sure I will bother as not reading anything I dont know already.

[/] Add some team stats to DFS spreadsheet

Half done, not critically important so will finish during April.

[X] Update my DFS notebook regarding FA Cup DFS Soccer slates

Done.


April Goals
[] #1 WIN the "King Of The Pitch" DFS Soccer final and get the $25k.
[] Update DFS notebook about losing sessions and how to improve cash game
[] Review some preflop spots in HEM and alter some preflop ranges Ive been thinking about
[] Do some work in Pio and get a better understanding of how to play ranges on the flop
[] Watch some Poker Videos
[] Increase bench press weight, do more ab work

Booooom played another $100 satelite and won another ticket for the King Of The Pitch Final on Saturday.

The 100th and very last qualifier for this years KOTP final was tonight..





You are not allowed to have any more than 3 entries in the final so job done. Put myself under more pressure to win this by listing it in my April PGC goals, hopefully I have saved some heat for Saturdays final.

Won 3x $1500 KOTP final tickets in 5 days. Difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week..

Meanwhile in poker it has been a struggle to get enough FR tables open to keep a session going lately. Ended up closing down the trickle of tables I had open and looked at some hands in Pio instead.

Glllllll

Good luck in the final mate ...

Ty gentlemen.

Finished:

24th: $1k
28th: $1k
min cash: $500

Got back $2,500 from $4,500 worth of tickets, so pretty dissapointing but I knew in advance that you needed a near nutted lineup for a good return. I would estimate that I spent about $1200 to win my 3 tickets so on a positive note I still made a small profit. You needed Christian Eriksen (2 goals v Stoke) to win it. I had an Eriksen lineup but it also had Harry Kane and opta judged that he never touched the ball for 2nd goal which was given to Eriksen so you needed to have Eriksen but not wasted the high salary on Kane.

I actually made a couple of sneaky good plays by taking Chris Smalling in one lineup and Vincent Kompany in another. City v United so most people avoided that game and Centre Backs are ultra sh*t on DK DFS so they are really cheap and nobody takes them cos they are useless unless they luckbox a goal. Both Smalling and Kompany did in fact luckbox goals but they were in seperate lineups and also not in my Eriksen LU. So ran out of luck in the end but no regrets as I believe I prepared well enough for it.

I am not sure how +EV that competition is anyway, cos you effectively weed out all the weaker players and whales by making it a qualifier only event. So most of the Fish cant qualifiy and the final tournament is just a Shark tank where all the top Pros have 3 lineups and you are effectively playing a high stakes, high variance, once a year punt with $4,500. I am sure I will be back for more next time round regardless though.

Wanted to catch up on some Poker volume today cos most of my wk end was DFS, logs on to Stars and there are 2 tables of 100NL FR running. Think I will look at some stuff in Pio instead.

How much have you made from DFS? It's something I've never looked at but I wouldn't have the time to devote to it anyway. Just curious though

My first year in Soccer DFS was a bit up and down. Think I was up $10k then down $2k then back up and down, real rollercoaster. One of the reasons I dont really like checking results is because I am entering $1k per day and sometimes 3 or 4 at the wk ends. You can go on a run of losing $10k in a week and it does happen which blows a lot of profit away. Sometimes it is from play bad and sometimes you can loose $2k when Charlie Adam gets red carded and Simon Francis goes off injured all in the first 20 mins.

2017 think I made around $25 to $30k on DraftKings
Started playing Yahoo in August and Im up about £3,500 there I think.

I am told cash game Soccer DFS is the most difficult there is. There really isnt any error for margin. Rake is high, Pro's are very sharp and there is little to no fish at times in the larger buy in games. If you follow the football for EPL and Champions League its defo worth sticking a lineup in to the large GPPs where you can enter for $0.25, $3 or $5 or whatever and if you luckbox the nut lineup you can get a few grand for the top prize. GPPs are the DFS equivalent of MTTs in Poker, plenty of fish and dead money floating around. Where as you cant afford to make mistakes in Cash games in GPPs you can basically justify playing anyone cos you often need a low % ownership player that luckboxes hard if you want to win.

The first wk end DK launched in the UK I signed up on the Sat morning but could only play the freeroll cos I couldnt get deposit in on time. Mid week there was Champions League on, I usually follow football but at this time I had been playing so much Poker I hadnt watched any Champions League that season. I downloaded football manager on my iphone and started reaserching Wolfsburg players etc. Played my first slate for real money and luckboxed 1st place for like $3k and I did similar next UCL slate. I had no clue about anything Soccer DFS at that point in time and in fact my lack of knowledge probably led me to make some contrarian plays that nobody with any experience would have took which luckboxed me the win. So you dont necessarily have to be good or experienced to win the top prize on any given day.

Yeah .. i made between $25 and $30k too but in poker in February.

But Charlie Adam being sent off in the first 20 minutes had no effect on my results thankfully.

Its a miracle i did not have him in my FF though.

And no .... ive not played any poker since our last chat .... so im still hopeless.