Cheers m8! Good news! Successfully managed to freeroll a freelancer/hybrid girl! So it was a fairly cheap night in the end. We just went to a few different bars and played pool/drank. The bad news was that we ended up sleeping in to 6PM today!! Totally didn't have to stay in bed all day but it's w/e. That basically meant my Tuesday was GG - I did manage to get to the gym and put something of a workout in, and I've just played now for 100 mins or so. Was supposed to do 4 hours but not feeling it at all ATM.

Again, I just got coolered over and over in the 1.5 hours I played for tonight... QQ < AA twice but also this one which annoyed tf outta me...

Hero isos AK, go 5 to a flop
AK5tt
Whale donks for pot, we're IP and decide just to call since pot is already very big despite being 200bb deep with this whale. everyone else folds.
Turn 5o
x, I bet bigish to size for river jam, he calls
River 2o
V donk jams for a bit under pot, we snap, v just has A5o.

I don't usually get bothered by whales hitting 2 outers when 200bb deep but ffs, this past few weeks has been absolutely ridiculous wrt distribution, RNG is rigged to put the literal worst turn/river in the deck out every fkn time it seems.

Anyway, ended up only losing 1 buyin despite the rottenness of tonight. I'm still pretty hungover and it's almost 2am now... Going to head to bed so I can griiiiiiind tomorrow.

We're gonna head up a pub crawl on Saturday night (PS anyone else in Pattaya who is keen HMU!!), so this means I'm going to shoot for the following...

Wedesday: 9 hours volume
Thursday: 8 hours volume
Friday: 8 hours volume
Sat: 4 hours volume/day off (depends on how many errands need to be ran)
Sunday: 6 hours volume (hangover dependent)
Monday: 8 hours volume

That should tie us over nicely til next week.

thought I subbed a long time ago, gl

You're young & in Thailand mate, don't be too hard on yourself on write off days.

Cheers m8, how's everything with you? I've not had a chance to check other PGCs in a while :/

Yeah thanks man. But I feel like I really need to be harder on myself. Today for instance, I slept in til like 3pm (as opposed to 10am)... and I have no good excuse. They say will power is a finite resource and this morning it was certainly very depleted. I think maybe some of that has to do with waking up/getting out of bed at 6pm the night before, but still.

Was supposed to play 9 hours today but ended up playing only 7 because I woke up so late...



It's 3am now and my eyes are killing me... I find these late sessions really tough on the eyes. I turn f.lux onto "reduce eyestrain" mode and feel like it only makes it worse? Anyway, more incentive for me to get my A into G and finish my volume for the day as early as possible.

Plan now is to read a book in the bathtub to give my eyes a bit of a break before bed. No idea what time I'll up tomorrow, but I want it to be earlier than I did today.

Why don’t you get some Gunnar glasses?

Gl


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I would be nailing those Thai girls 3 @ a time 5- 7 days a week if I were you.
GL

Has anyone ever confirmed the legitimacy of this site anyways? Just curious

the legend has uploaded a hand review find this so helpful will you do more ?

what content would you recommend to crush micro to £1 £2 so much content on the internet should i just go by good poker books and learn the game through volume grinding ? then vod reviews

I think it’s very imprtant to have a stable waking-up time. When you wake up every day in different times your body gets confused and doesn’t know what time of the day it should be ready to do stuff and when it should prepared to go to bed.
For the first few weeks, it’s gonna be hard but eventually you’ll get used to it and have much more energy and focus throughout all day. And your body will thank you. Evenmore, when you’re used to have identical sleep routine everyday, you won’t have absolutely no problems falling asleep (unless caffeinated, hungover or etc.).

The only hint we have is that PM has an official licence for a passed RNG test from gaminglabs, all major sites in the world use those certificates for proof, and you can have a look at each licence on their own website so it cant be faked. If there are still other ways for it to be rigged or not is up to your own judgement... they are making an effort though.

Here is PM's licence:
http://www.gaminglabs.com/extranetGL...lash.asp?i=219

There where other sites/apps that were only online for a few months before players realized rather quickly they are rigged for action A LOT. it was ******ed, you saw set over set like 15x per day, AA vs. KK 3-4 times per session. like out of this world obvious, and those apps dried out rather quickly. With PM nobody really knows but the consensus seems to be that it is legit, RNG wise. Theres enough other shady stuff going on though, behind the scenes, talking bots, collusion, that kinda stuff.

I get it, and deep work is the whole point of this thread so I hate to be the one to unmotivate you but these should be some of the best years of your life, young & in Pattaya... priceless memories (or lack of them on some nights ) Meet new people and hang out, bang as many girls as possible & travel to other parts of Thailand it's a beautiful country. I feel your schedule is too strict which could be counter productive and you're missing out. I think the key is finding a good balance, but it's easier said than done as it's so easy to go off the rails so if you're an all or nothing person it's better to continue as you are. Just my opinion bud so if you're happy as are then feel free to ignore. I always questioned Pattaya as a choice for a hardcore grind tbh, you've done well to resist the temptations... somewhere like Chiang Mai would probably be more suitable I think.

Also one more thing, checked out your hand analysis vid, some decent stuff but it'd be cool to get a player say better than yourself to run over the hands with you and discuss them, would be more beneficial for you & viewers.

Spot on ^

It's great man, just got moved into my place in Mexico last week. Good to see you doing well in Thailand - the fact that you're annoyed at only putting in 7 hours is very motivating. Couple days ago I played 7 hours and I was pretty happy with myself haha. How long you planning on staying in Thailand for?

Never even knew about them! I might actually look into it.

Yeah man the temptation is real. I'd never get anything done if I was doing that though. :/

Fk knows, I'm not too worried though. Have made a lot of money on there previously. And also know good players who also have.

Yes! Should be doing these each week. Hopefully get one done on Saturday.

Fk the books off, just look at free information on YouTube, flick in Runitonce as well.

Yeah you're absolutely right again m8. During the week my schedule is pretty consistent but the issue is that if I go out on a Monday night, don't come home til some absurd hour in the morning, when I sleep in the next day, it throws things pretty out of whack. The other day when we slept in til 6pm was obviously gg for the next 2-3 days. But really I think just being more disciplined on that first day, pulling myself out of bed and feeling ****ty will be way +EV for setting the tone for the rest of the week.

Cheers for that.

Yeah I mean what I'm doing isn't in any sense toooo difficult. Like 40 hours a week reeeeeally shouldn't be that tough and I'm still allowing myself to have a good time once a week. Every time I go out in this city it's a fkn amazing night lol.

Re the hand review, yes, having better players would always be beneficial. The issue I find is that there isn't a ton of guys I know who are regular PM players who are familiar with the metagame - and I think that's super important for this limit. It wouldn't be useful at all for me to just grab someone who only plays 500z on Stars and try get their opinion. Like obv it'd be good but my main purpose with these vids is to hone in on the super exploitative meta stuff.



Awesome to hear m8. How you finding it? Thailand is the ***** nuts m8, if you get bored of Mexico, gtf over here n I'll sort you out with some prime ladyboys

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Daily Review - Thurs 18/10




Yet another borrrinnng day. It was actually a good day til the last 5 minutes.. Then I just get AK < AA at 80bb and a couple more setups to finish the day.

STILL getting absolutely flogged around with coolers in the dumbest ***** spots... **** like KK < 77 on 373 flop in a 4bet pot... And then I open AA CO, SB CC, STR squeezes WITH POCKET 5s, I call because we're only 80 effective and the spr is like 1.5... 53Qr flop.

I feel like I'm playing decent enough but it's like whenever I win a pot, I just get smacked in the face with 1-2 setups and it's one step forward, two steps back.

Another annoying hand vs a LAG thing...

EP limps, we iso KQo in SB 6 handed, BB small 3bet, I call.
Flop Q34dd
I x, he bets 1/3, I call.
Turn 5o
xx
River 4o
I bet 1/3, he jams like 4-5x my bet. Hero???

His line kind of reps nothing but it's sooooooo infrequent that you see river aggression being bluffs in this game. I'm torn between those two trains of thought.

It's beautiful here, but the nightlife is fairly dry near me. Though I haven't taken a trip up to Rosarito/Tijuana yet so we'll see.

legit might take you up on this in a few months haha, always looking for a good time and a change of scenery

I am ****ing late, IN, best of luck boyo

Boom, I'll be waiting!

<3 <3 <3

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So I'm torn between playing and doing a review session today. I really should play but I'm itching to spend some time reviewing hands as well. One thing I did notice that was interesting... In my latest H2N database I have 30k hands at 2/4/8 and now I have 30k hands at 2/4/8 in HEM... Here's the comparison...



vs.



It's been about 3 months between samples I think and although I think the games have gotten a bit tougher/more LAGs on average, I can't work out why things are so vastly different. The 2/4/8 I played in my earlier H2N database was pretty much identical to the first graph too.

One positive is that the blue line is at 45k now whereas it was at 67k in the first graph. I think that is largely to do with variance/getting coolered a lot more in recent sample. The concerning thing is the red line currently, feel like I'm possibly getting bluffed a lot more nowadays and having to fold a ton generally.

Anyways, enough of that stuff for today. I'm going to play now/tonight, prob hit 5 hours or so and then go to bed on time so I can wake up on time and I'll do up a review video tomorrow.

30k hand samples

Can you make the screen bigger for the review video?
It was difficult to make out the bet sizes in the last one.


Red line tanking could be a result of many things:
1) Variance
2) Playing vs colluders who force you out of the pot
3) Playing vs aggressive bots that make you fold more often
4) Playing too many tables and not fighting for pots

How many tables do you play at a time?

Yeah, I'd say 'this' as well but it really does feeeeel like night and day.

Yeah mate, review vid will be fixed this time - i ****ed up with the capture in last recording.

I play 8 tables, did so in both samples though.

I'd make filters and figure out exactly where the red line losses come from. If it's from a few select positional setups and lines it should be fairly straight forward to assess whether it's variance or you're creating a bunch of smaller pots that you're never winning.

is a declining red line really an issue in a fishy field tho

Yep, and during my review session tomorrow I'm going to run a bunch of filters and look at as much of this stuff as possible.

Nope, not an issue at all. Check this out...



The issue is the rate at which it declines.

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Daily Update - Fri 19/10



~10BI day on EV or thereabouts. Notice the red line? I made a concerted effort to up my aggression in a number of spots today. This lead to a couple pretty disgusting punts on my behalf - but for the most part it worked really well. I will continue with the increased aggression but try to dial back the FPS on later streets. Definitely some button clicking today but pleased with the improvement I noticed already.

Things like isoing more pre - historically I've avoided iso'ing a lot from SB/BB because you always seem to go post flop OOP and I found I was checkfolding a lot of flops after doing this vs 40/3 type guys. A couple adjustments I made today was to iso more but also BIGGER, like just mashing the 1.5x pot button a ton. And on top of that, cbetting way more flops and barreling turn to apply pressure to weak ranges.

We are officially in profit as well! I have a 1.22bb/100 winrate now over the past 39k hands :') Obviously that's nothing - my priority is to continue tweaking my overall strategy and find out what's going to work in the games TODAY (not 3 months ago), if that's more aggression, then that's that.

Gameplan now is to go chill out for next 30 mins, bed at 1am, up at 10am. Going to hit legs in the gym, spot of shopping, then I'll be back here to record a review video. Throughout the day I'll also answer all your PMs and Skype messages, emails etc.

My mate's arriving in Pattaya around 5-6pm tomorrow night. Me him and another 2+2er going to hit the town for a pub crawl! Anyone else in Pattaya, I know there's a few of you, hit me up and come along!

Who is this??
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/c...%2FkhDr7wb.jpg

Another question. PM have a lot of bots at higher level?