meh, definitely fold river tho

zzzzz neba

try subohm vaping, thank me later

yawn
cheers bro
oh we most fkn certainly were mad
winamax software buggy, didnt hef buttan
see above
FFS RAGEEEE
try that indeed


ha cheers
hey man, dont be shy i dont bite always feel free to post anything thats on ur mind, these threads def are better when there s some interaction happening
hi!
hahaha i love the introduction! theres no hate off the tables with me really (unless u re a brown tag then i hate your guts, you know who you are )

i mean i m def no expert on quitting i just basically had in the back of my mind this knowledge that i really really really need to quit and eventually that got so strong that i kept it up after a number of failed attempts. i will say that i did switch to vaping in 2015 and hated every bit of that so u just need to try out if quitting cold turkey or switching ot nicorette or hypnosis or whatever else is going to work for you. i d say the most important thing is to have the WILL to quit. if u halfass it it will never work fully imo. good luck
i use sports tape to fix my index finger, a high end gaming mouse with hotkeys on it of which i legit only use one and hotkeys on stars and wina on my keyboard. thats about it
sigh man sorry you couldnt make it all the way through form a 3$ satty thatd have been amazing

i d say dont focus on increasing volume while u re still improving on your basics and building a bankroll. 40-50 per session is more than solid while eaving room to utilize at least some brain function. i d say work on the important things first then up the volume. i m just at the stage of my carreeer where i just wanna grind it out, theres not much that requires deep thought anymore so i just add a bucnh of tables and click away, to get to that pioint takes a while tho (brags i know)

what i will say tho is prioritize high value mtts over turbos and only then fill up turbos first then latereg the slower okay value ones later, thats how to increase volume the best way withot overkilling on tables.

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wadup my month is over. here s some numbers:

hands played: 146173
ev winrate 4.32
real winrate: 5,64 mbn fkn sunrunner yadayada
mtts played: 1690
average buyin: $47
total buyins: $80k
total cashes $92k

pretty solid effort this month. made some in sales, action of others and rakeback. all gud m7

holla see you on sunday where i ll play for a sponsorship deal by partypoker

isn't that fun and exciting

gg on the month broski, take some well deserved days off

jfc dat volume

tiich me how to volume plz

that's insane volume.

im atm checking out a lot of players strategy regarding mtts ( volume/schedules/ROIs ) and somehow found your playergroup graph on ss since im railing this thread.

anyway, i ll quote myself first

so the question is why are u playing buyins higher than 55 at all with that insane volume, since u would be able to print pbb more with much much much higher ROI/less variance and swings ?

i also believe that when u re playing 16 tables with such a mixture of buyins might make u miss some spots on higher buyin tournies where it's really bad if u miss some not standard spots when they can make such a difference. not saying u are, im just wondering about these things. why playing 55+ hypers at all when u cant get more than 5 6 7 roi there and it can go both sides obv. i know u from tables and i think u are really good,pbb better than guys up quoted, so i was wondering is that 109,215+ thing related with ego, or u wanna get that sunrun in sm/whatever ?

anyway,great thread,great work ethics,u re standing on the ground all the way so i have utmost respect for all that. gl in future and cheers

I think u overestimate how much highstakes mtts I actually play. This month I ve played exactly zero 109 hypers, less than three times the big 109, close to no 109s on 888. I game select everything above 55$ super hard so when u see me in one trust that it's as soft as the big22 or I misclick registered it.

To be fair tho I only switched to the Marko style grind around early August or late July and was playing substantially higher before that for a while. I don't rly plan on changing up this grind of mine so check back in around April and see if u find much high stakes in there

While I guess that it's way less stressful sacrificing EV to reduce the variance a lot, don't you think you're sacrificing a lot of future EV as well by having a shallower learning curve?

Not really, I don't have any desire to compete with the best or to be the best I m very happy having found my niche and to pound away at that for as long as I can.

Also just to exemplify some math behind my approach:

I d expect to play 1650 games per month at 38 abi and 22% roi on average. That's an ev of 14k

A high staker that plays okay volume will likely play 500 games a month at 85abi and a 35% roi unless they are some kind of uber crusher reg which let's be honest nobody but very few are. That's an ev of 15k.
And I get more rakeback.

So the advantage of high stakes is more time for netflix

ftfy

I don't really think so. For a guy to get in 500-600 games a month at an 85 abi it takes almost as much time as myself because he won't be 16-20 tabling like me but most likely 8-12 tabling tops to both maintain high abi and high roi. This ain't 2006, poker really is not easy anymore

I can confirm, I am one of those that is tryharding to move his way up to a 160abi and most people that play abi 60+ are sticking to 6-8tables max (myself included) and yea, really hard to get more than 600t/month if you take at least 1 day off (and I believe most people take 2-3off)

So while we're at it, I can see that variance decreases tremendously with your approach, but that is mostly due to higher volume, not the game themselves having less variance built in.. so my question is, what is the worst downswing in terms of abis lost you had in the 1-33 range? (or 1-44)

Wo0o0w 1690 games!!!
Congratulations to you for your results* wp**

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Hey my biggest downer at 1$-60$ is 14k$ (abi around 24$) that s happened once in 44k games. Twice I ve gone on 10k downers in that same sample. Filter for 1-44 and they all become 10k$ or less.


Rawr

Haha thanks bro

How are you with the actual grind itself, do you often find yourself stressed and wishing the sessions will end or are you able to just click away in good spirits all these hours?

Impressive either way

Hey man,

firstly, i rly enjoy reading ur journey

solid work ethic!

from what i looked on sharkscope and some aliases on ss i did not find the b22 being so good value. think u get a max 30% roi in it during weekdays and with some decent effort clicking out for the win, comparing for example with a 20e on wina. B109 is still a god tourney but also u have to sweat a bit to get that roi, so if bankroll and mental affords it we should play them. So basically they are good games but they require extra effort in comparison with other games.
Do u think monsoon and cpunch are better tourneys than b22 and b109? I didnt find regs doing well in those. Kinda made myself some global aliases with all regs that i see them playing and it seems like cpunch and monsoon during weekdays are bowlfests that noone wins in them. Just like breeze&co.

Agree on 109s @888. Hurricane should be better than croco/tornado.
It seems like DS swordfish and challenges are the single ones that are good value on their site.
Party seems to attract better fields lately in those brawls tho.


came to the exact same conclusion myself during this year but ur volume is insane. i was thinking calculating the EV for like 800-1k games tops per month, and the abi on the draft was similar, 40 to 50 max, depending on bottom side of the games ( 10fos and stuff wich give u like 7-10$ game )


will post for example and discussion s sake re lower abi vs bigger abi my mtd graph for games up to 70$ and over 70$ to show how ego or the attraction to play higher can be a pain in the ass ( and in the wallet obv ) IF i learn how to post image on 2p2. Obviously variance has it s part in the results, like booking some decent amounts in FTs in 109-215s instead of having multiple 12-18ths finishes can skew the calcs, but mostly they eat up a big portion of profits from softer/lower games.

siick volume

keep it up!






Ok, so finally did manage to upload the pic, month to date stats, filtered for 0-70$, and 70$+.
Biggest score in 0-70$ is like 5-6k tops. And this weird thing of losing money in higher stuff and printing in lower is happening for quite a while now so is quite dissapointing.

So yea, basically can relate to what u experienced this year and last year trying to play higher too and similar to what lipo experienced and conclusion being that HS is too stressful and there can be some other ways to print some decent $$.

but fek is kinda hard to stick to a plan and not wish to try play a bit bigger
but i guess in the end is all about the benjamins that u saved in the bank rather than the glory

gl gl and keep it up!

Holy fk your graph tilted me unlucky bro.

I think the big 109 is actually an absolutely garbage tournament. The others u mentioned are really good tho especially monsoon and b22. Yes I m lifetime losing player in 22$ freezeouts that's bc they come with a 2000 average field size but ev is ev and it's 100000% more than only a 30% roi in the b22


Na generally speaking I stick it out and don't want my sessions to end especially if it's not a series going on ie I play lowish 35-40$ avg buyin. If i m playing higger and things go bad it's a different story tho.


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Played a 150 games session yesterday and broke about even.

4th $55 deepstack monsoon
4th $55 early monsoon
18th $55 big brawl pko

The last one was annoying bc I barralled 55 on Qc5c3d Td 4d ep vs mp and bb where mp called and bb folded and mp found kjdd for a 90bb pot.

Still had a winning experience tho bc I got a delayed shipment of sports bets tickets on winamax two weeks ago so had a total of 40 €10 bets to place over two weekends. Last week went a bit meh but yesterday I binked all of the 20 bets I made including some pretty ridic combo bets for a nice 430€ net profit

Currently undecided as to weather I ll play today or tomorrow, we shall see

OP confirmed in the wrong gambling business

vey much so

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played the extreme offpeak session today starting at 10am. really enjoyed that grind surprisingly, i recall playing a somewhat similar grind at the start of this year and not liking it much but i guess playing more tables and more buyins gets the trick done. made a bazillion final tables and decent profit, highlight being the clean sweep of htis bad boy:



with my chip giraffe being this:



legit think on the final table overall my vpip was 75% or so

came 4th in a 27$ hyper and 2nd in a $55 on 888 and a bunch of others i dont remember. back latest thursday maybe tomorrow


off topic i went to the gym yday for the first time in ages and consciously made sure to do a lowish intensity full body workout leaving isolation exerises to a later date bc last time i started out with a split i died so trying to ease my body into trainign slowly this time around. gonna go again tomorrow which is why i m not sure about whether or not i ll be able to play a sesh after. would love to, but brain issues might cause me to say no. or i go after my session, we shall see, training get priority tomorrow tho

holla

You sure know how to make those final tables.

I have so many results between places 10-50 this year but very few final tables (I'm a very low volume player 2500 games over nearly 10 years on stars). I don't know if its bad luck or whether I'm not taking all the edges I should be. I suspect the latter