Buffyslayer1's GTO life grind
02-05-2016
, 06:17 PM
All I can say is I am trying to hit 10 this year and 8+ post ante.
It's also important that your winrates are good deep in tournaments. Keep in mind they are not the be all and end all. ICM is really really important for your roi.
I am not sure what is considered good though. From guys who I have done DB analysis with they tend to be between 3-6.
Some guys who are big winners have been at about 3 so likely ran good.
My poker schedule I don't want to type it out. Somewhere in this thread I gave an idea. Basically reg anything in my buy in range that looks good (reds on stars and daily specials on other sites).
Mixed in with freeze outs, rebuys cubed tornaments with smaller fields but prob reggy to keep down fields size.
Not many turbos maybe 10% or something and just added at end of sessions
02-05-2016
, 08:31 PM
Ok Buffy. My winrates are different for each poker site. For example , on pokerstars i have 2.46 EV bb/100, but on Winamax ive got 12.56 ev bb/100 but my overall winrates are:
*8.76 EV bb/100
*Pre ante: 15.07
*Ante: 6.58
Hands: 573938
What do you think about these lines ?
Thank you for your reply. Its a pleasure
*8.76 EV bb/100
*Pre ante: 15.07
*Ante: 6.58
Hands: 573938
What do you think about these lines ?
Thank you for your reply. Its a pleasure
02-05-2016
, 09:02 PM
Quote:
Ok Buffy. My winrates are different for each poker site. For example , on pokerstars i have 2.46 EV bb/100, but on Winamax ive got 12.56 ev bb/100 but my overall winrates are:
*8.76 EV bb/100
*Pre ante: 15.07
*Ante: 6.58
Hands: 573938
What do you think about these lines ?
Thank you for your reply. Its a pleasure
*8.76 EV bb/100
*Pre ante: 15.07
*Ante: 6.58
Hands: 573938
What do you think about these lines ?
Thank you for your reply. Its a pleasure
No suprise stars is the lowest and not because it's the toughest site (it's not the toughest by far imo). Structures tend to be worse there (though have got way better).
Winamax if I recall has great structures and pretty soft fields so that probably shows in your winrates.
02-05-2016
, 10:42 PM
Hey sir , congrats on b82 and the other recent results 
We are fellow coaches and I usually don't really spend time on forums but just saw this thread , read the last 2 pages and popped in to say hello
I belive Ev bb should be just to give perspective to ppl , obv a 3bb/100 player that has won like the best regs at his stake over a year , just ran very good ( happened to me when I gave a stake to someone based on SS stats only and started running bad with me
) . But with variance so high in mtts I think the Evbb/100 is the perfect stat that can let u know how you are doing ( anyway over 150k hands are necesarry ) and the stat would depend alot on how many turbos / satelites / one plays since it will be alot lower with these games overall; also playing alot of deep stacked structures matters .
I think it's more important to focus on the ROI to make more money at the final tables ( play better ICM , win more HUs ) than focusing on the bbs . What I mean with all of these is that I prefer to focus on all the other meaningfull stuff and if the ev BB gets higher then that's a bonus , but I am not exactly looking to improve that stat .
Anyway all of the above is just my opinion , my 2 cents , not an advice of any kind :P
Keep crushing sir !
We are fellow coaches and I usually don't really spend time on forums but just saw this thread , read the last 2 pages and popped in to say hello
I belive Ev bb should be just to give perspective to ppl , obv a 3bb/100 player that has won like the best regs at his stake over a year , just ran very good ( happened to me when I gave a stake to someone based on SS stats only and started running bad with me
) . But with variance so high in mtts I think the Evbb/100 is the perfect stat that can let u know how you are doing ( anyway over 150k hands are necesarry ) and the stat would depend alot on how many turbos / satelites / one plays since it will be alot lower with these games overall; also playing alot of deep stacked structures matters . I think it's more important to focus on the ROI to make more money at the final tables ( play better ICM , win more HUs ) than focusing on the bbs . What I mean with all of these is that I prefer to focus on all the other meaningfull stuff and if the ev BB gets higher then that's a bonus , but I am not exactly looking to improve that stat .
Anyway all of the above is just my opinion , my 2 cents , not an advice of any kind :P
Keep crushing sir !
02-06-2016
, 04:57 AM
Quote:
Hey sir , congrats on b82 and the other recent results
We are fellow coaches and I usually don't really spend time on forums but just saw this thread , read the last 2 pages and popped in to say hello
I belive Ev bb should be just to give perspective to ppl , obv a 3bb/100 player that has won like the best regs at his stake over a year , just ran very good ( happened to me when I gave a stake to someone based on SS stats only and started running bad with me ) . But with variance so high in mtts I think the Evbb/100 is the perfect stat that can let u know how you are doing ( anyway over 150k hands are necesarry ) and the stat would depend alot on how many turbos / satelites / one plays since it will be alot lower with these games overall; also playing alot of deep stacked structures matters .
I think it's more important to focus on the ROI to make more money at the final tables ( play better ICM , win more HUs ) than focusing on the bbs . What I mean with all of these is that I prefer to focus on all the other meaningfull stuff and if the ev BB gets higher then that's a bonus , but I am not exactly looking to improve that stat .
Anyway all of the above is just my opinion , my 2 cents , not an advice of any kind :P
Keep crushing sir !
We are fellow coaches and I usually don't really spend time on forums but just saw this thread , read the last 2 pages and popped in to say hello
I belive Ev bb should be just to give perspective to ppl , obv a 3bb/100 player that has won like the best regs at his stake over a year , just ran very good ( happened to me when I gave a stake to someone based on SS stats only and started running bad with me
) . But with variance so high in mtts I think the Evbb/100 is the perfect stat that can let u know how you are doing ( anyway over 150k hands are necesarry ) and the stat would depend alot on how many turbos / satelites / one plays since it will be alot lower with these games overall; also playing alot of deep stacked structures matters . I think it's more important to focus on the ROI to make more money at the final tables ( play better ICM , win more HUs ) than focusing on the bbs . What I mean with all of these is that I prefer to focus on all the other meaningfull stuff and if the ev BB gets higher then that's a bonus , but I am not exactly looking to improve that stat .
Anyway all of the above is just my opinion , my 2 cents , not an advice of any kind :P
Keep crushing sir !
Hey man
Thanks for popping in we used to play alot on .fr when I could play there.
I think we kind of agree sort of! I do have a tendency to get obessed with it but I also seem to get lots of questions about it!
Like I said I don't think it's the be all and end all and you need to focus on other things also.
I coached a guy a while back who was a huge winner but had a super low evbb/100. It was basically some extreme heater he had over 6 months and really was not a great player.
So I think its the only way to reall tell if you are improving your game. Increasing roi etc should also follow as well as a result.
Focusing in roi alone etc is obv a issue with all the variance involved as you pointed out.
Not sure if you saw some of the things I said but yes structures etc matter alot which is why I am looking at pre ante post ante and also post bb/500 also which is the most important part and it's sometimes hard to compare across players due to this.
I tend to look at how a player is doing year on year versus himself and also specifically from the blinds as well.
Not be too bothered about how others compare to each other.
Funny you mentioned HU also as I think this is really neglected by people since it happens relatively rarely but it's where we make a ton of the money! Hence my own personal focus on HU this year as well.
Gl to you also
02-24-2016
, 11:02 AM
So not much in the way of updates for a few weeks
I took a little time off went to Harry Potter studio's which was one of my Birthday presents from the wife. It was really very good actually and even if you are not a 'fan' of the books/films it's well worth going to.
The scale of custom built props, costumes, hair pieces, set's is astounding. I assumed lots of it was CGI when watching the films. Turns out they built a huge number of sets on an almost industrial scale, sometimes for them to only be used for a couple of days filming to then be demolished/taken down. Of course some of the main buildings/sets were built to last through a multitude of films.
Here are some of the pic's I took with my phone, not the best since I was running out of battery badly so only have a couple that are shareable
Hogwart's castle, the pic doesn't do it justice, its massive way bigger than my house and took them about 40 days to build I think. Every sweeping shot of the castle they have was done using this. I think there were around 3/4 stages in the design process, taking it from paper drawing, to scale model and then onto the full thing.
One of the heads of 'merpeople','dobby' and some other props, literally hundreds of model heads of all different creatures knocking about
The potions room, the glass jars behind are actually filled with stuff. I think they said there were around 4,000 of them with hand made labels. The set director's even went to local butchers and got bits of bone and sinew to throw into a lot of the jars to add authenticity to them!
It was really way way better than I expected, though I like the films/books a tour of the 'studio's didn't seem that appealing. If you are in the UK anywhere near London it's worth checking out.
In other news put in quite a lot of extra work into finishing off the Game Theory course I was taking since I was taking an age to finish it. Completed it last week, with a decent score of 89.9% overall. It should have been higher but, I got a bit lazy/hasty answering some of the questions towards the end.
Haven't played much at all, in part though due to a nasty accident I had last week. While putting dinner in the oven, the ceramic oven dish the food was in literally just broke in my hands.
My left thumb got slashed pretty badly and a large ceramic fragment wedged in the resulting cut.
It was a little bit of a nightmare to be honest, as the wife was away and I was home alone and I am rubbish with this kind of stuff. So with blood pouring everywhere I managed to clean it up in the sink and then to my horror I could not find anything to bind it up and stop the bleeding.
Ended up using some ankle strapping which is sticky to bind it up, which was a bit of a disaster but had to stop it bleeding. Cleaned up the huge mess in the kitchen, and went hunting round the house for the 1st aid kit which I thought was in the car (wife had the car) but on the off chance it wasn't.
Could not find it anywhere, even though it was in the house in one of the place I looked! So ended pulling off the ankle binding which hurt like hell and ripped open the cut (which was pretty big) even more) padding it with kitchen roll and then re-strapping it.
After about half and hour, it occurred to me like a dolt that perhaps this cut was too big to just heal and maybe i should go to the hospital to get it checked out. After a bit of back and forth in my head, rang the wife and my mother to get advice. Mum knows best after all gave me a right rollicking for being a dolt, told me to go straight to hospital to get it checked out.
I really didn't want to sit in the accident and emergency room on a Saturday night to be quite honest but, off I went though. Actually didn't take that long to get seen, my wife broke her finger a few month ago playing netball and she was there for about 3 hours before getting seen.
As soon as the doctor saw the damage he was like, yeah your going need quite a few stitches in that. Anaesthetic injections also hurt like hell straight into the actual cut and 5 stitches later all done. Doctor essentially told me I was an idiot for considering not coming to the hospital and there was no chance it would ever have stopped bleeding or heeled since it was basically a huge flap of skin!
So after that little adventure my left thumb is all strapped up and even the slightest touch kills. I have woken myself up last 3 night in a row clenching my fists (think subconsciously the need to flex a thumb that's been straight for a few days) and then been in agony for the next 25 minutes or so. I can't play poker since I am left handed and cant hold the mouse properly using it, and doing much of anything is a pain in the ass!
Stitches come out at the end of the week and I'm looking forward to getting back on the grind again
I took a little time off went to Harry Potter studio's which was one of my Birthday presents from the wife. It was really very good actually and even if you are not a 'fan' of the books/films it's well worth going to.
The scale of custom built props, costumes, hair pieces, set's is astounding. I assumed lots of it was CGI when watching the films. Turns out they built a huge number of sets on an almost industrial scale, sometimes for them to only be used for a couple of days filming to then be demolished/taken down. Of course some of the main buildings/sets were built to last through a multitude of films.
Here are some of the pic's I took with my phone, not the best since I was running out of battery badly so only have a couple that are shareable
Hogwart's castle, the pic doesn't do it justice, its massive way bigger than my house and took them about 40 days to build I think. Every sweeping shot of the castle they have was done using this. I think there were around 3/4 stages in the design process, taking it from paper drawing, to scale model and then onto the full thing.
One of the heads of 'merpeople','dobby' and some other props, literally hundreds of model heads of all different creatures knocking about
The potions room, the glass jars behind are actually filled with stuff. I think they said there were around 4,000 of them with hand made labels. The set director's even went to local butchers and got bits of bone and sinew to throw into a lot of the jars to add authenticity to them!
It was really way way better than I expected, though I like the films/books a tour of the 'studio's didn't seem that appealing. If you are in the UK anywhere near London it's worth checking out.
In other news put in quite a lot of extra work into finishing off the Game Theory course I was taking since I was taking an age to finish it. Completed it last week, with a decent score of 89.9% overall. It should have been higher but, I got a bit lazy/hasty answering some of the questions towards the end.
Haven't played much at all, in part though due to a nasty accident I had last week. While putting dinner in the oven, the ceramic oven dish the food was in literally just broke in my hands.
My left thumb got slashed pretty badly and a large ceramic fragment wedged in the resulting cut.
It was a little bit of a nightmare to be honest, as the wife was away and I was home alone and I am rubbish with this kind of stuff. So with blood pouring everywhere I managed to clean it up in the sink and then to my horror I could not find anything to bind it up and stop the bleeding.
Ended up using some ankle strapping which is sticky to bind it up, which was a bit of a disaster but had to stop it bleeding. Cleaned up the huge mess in the kitchen, and went hunting round the house for the 1st aid kit which I thought was in the car (wife had the car) but on the off chance it wasn't.
Could not find it anywhere, even though it was in the house in one of the place I looked! So ended pulling off the ankle binding which hurt like hell and ripped open the cut (which was pretty big) even more) padding it with kitchen roll and then re-strapping it.
After about half and hour, it occurred to me like a dolt that perhaps this cut was too big to just heal and maybe i should go to the hospital to get it checked out. After a bit of back and forth in my head, rang the wife and my mother to get advice. Mum knows best after all gave me a right rollicking for being a dolt, told me to go straight to hospital to get it checked out.
I really didn't want to sit in the accident and emergency room on a Saturday night to be quite honest but, off I went though. Actually didn't take that long to get seen, my wife broke her finger a few month ago playing netball and she was there for about 3 hours before getting seen.
As soon as the doctor saw the damage he was like, yeah your going need quite a few stitches in that. Anaesthetic injections also hurt like hell straight into the actual cut and 5 stitches later all done. Doctor essentially told me I was an idiot for considering not coming to the hospital and there was no chance it would ever have stopped bleeding or heeled since it was basically a huge flap of skin!
So after that little adventure my left thumb is all strapped up and even the slightest touch kills. I have woken myself up last 3 night in a row clenching my fists (think subconsciously the need to flex a thumb that's been straight for a few days) and then been in agony for the next 25 minutes or so. I can't play poker since I am left handed and cant hold the mouse properly using it, and doing much of anything is a pain in the ass!
Stitches come out at the end of the week and I'm looking forward to getting back on the grind again
02-24-2016
, 11:18 AM
02-24-2016
, 11:44 AM
02-26-2016
, 07:03 AM
02-26-2016
, 07:52 AM
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So after a frustrating Jan, Feb started pretty well
Played decently on Wednesday but didn't really get any joy. Tinkered with some of the IP c betting stuff I have been doing and think I made some slightly too dramatic changes in sizing's.
Essentially this meant I was getting to turns with ranges I am not really used to, and therefore making some mistakes. Slowly this has been improving as I get more experience with it. However, I am not still not totally sold on some of my implementation.
So made some small changes to this on Wednesday and felt a lot more comfortable. BB play is going really well also and I think post ante this year I am -30bb/100 so far about 7k hands.
Thursdays session was also shaping up to be a touch frustrating kept getting in silly spots like losing 200bb pot on 444 flop with AA to A4s after my open a 3bet, cold call then my 4 bet and they both flat (cold caller to the original 3b had A4s) was literally a wtf spot.
However kept it together and ended up going deep in the Big 82. I think right around the money bubble I was down to about 5bb but managed to pick up Aces UTG and shove get called double to 12bb. Next hand AA in the BB and SB jams on us with Kxs and we double again.
From there we managed to spin it up into a decent result
The final table might be the tightest I have ever been at a FT, sdott (G' zee) was playing well and super aggro and there were a couple of other good regs at the table which made it tricky. Not surprising as Thursdays and Tuesdays are by far the toughest days of the week due to the 1ks that run.
The eventual winner basically had huge chips most of the FT and was busting people left and right. Ended up getting HU with a 5-1 chip lead over me, so we would always have had to run very good to actually ship it.
Was pretty happy with how I played at the FT, made some good ICM decisions I think, picked good disciplined spots to pick up chips which was tricky with the G zee show going on.
So a nice cash and back on track again, would have been nice to ship another big but you can't have it all!
Played decently on Wednesday but didn't really get any joy. Tinkered with some of the IP c betting stuff I have been doing and think I made some slightly too dramatic changes in sizing's.
Essentially this meant I was getting to turns with ranges I am not really used to, and therefore making some mistakes. Slowly this has been improving as I get more experience with it. However, I am not still not totally sold on some of my implementation.
So made some small changes to this on Wednesday and felt a lot more comfortable. BB play is going really well also and I think post ante this year I am -30bb/100 so far about 7k hands.
Thursdays session was also shaping up to be a touch frustrating kept getting in silly spots like losing 200bb pot on 444 flop with AA to A4s after my open a 3bet, cold call then my 4 bet and they both flat (cold caller to the original 3b had A4s) was literally a wtf spot.
However kept it together and ended up going deep in the Big 82. I think right around the money bubble I was down to about 5bb but managed to pick up Aces UTG and shove get called double to 12bb. Next hand AA in the BB and SB jams on us with Kxs and we double again.
From there we managed to spin it up into a decent result
The final table might be the tightest I have ever been at a FT, sdott (G' zee) was playing well and super aggro and there were a couple of other good regs at the table which made it tricky. Not surprising as Thursdays and Tuesdays are by far the toughest days of the week due to the 1ks that run.
The eventual winner basically had huge chips most of the FT and was busting people left and right. Ended up getting HU with a 5-1 chip lead over me, so we would always have had to run very good to actually ship it.
Was pretty happy with how I played at the FT, made some good ICM decisions I think, picked good disciplined spots to pick up chips which was tricky with the G zee show going on.
So a nice cash and back on track again, would have been nice to ship another big but you can't have it all!
02-26-2016
, 08:13 AM
03-07-2016
, 12:48 PM
03-20-2016
, 06:21 AM
11-27-2017
, 09:31 AM
hey buddy update us please
11-27-2017
, 03:52 PM
ha sick bump. I might post some updated graphs or something tomorrow and a brief update of where we are. Results have been slightly better than average I would guess.
Idk might forget or something though
thx for the bump buddy hope you are getting back into the mtt grind.
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Idk might forget or something though
thx for the bump buddy hope you are getting back into the mtt grind.
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11-28-2017
, 11:38 AM
11-30-2017
, 11:20 AM
So I am not really sure if I will revive this blog or not. Since I am one tabling atm, kind of bored and plus a couple of people ask me to do so. Going to do a small update on where we are at currently.
Results wise things have been a little above average I think. Incoming lifetime graph below
Since I last updated this blog results
As always volume is pretty low and a little embarrassing.
This year has been ok and was going really well until wcoop. Since that point I think I have been playing terribly to be honest but running and playing well at FT's I make. We had good results in the pacific rim, sunday starter, big 82/162 and early super Tuesday on a few occasions which has made it a ok year so far.
Pretty disappointed at the moment though despite this, and not really sure why this is. I have not changed anything drastically in terms of strategy. The only real change I have had life wise is taking over managing/coaching for bitB dev stable. Though this is taking up a good chunk of my time I was doing this pre wcoop as well and playing well at that point.
Maybe the games have got tougher in the last 6 months or so, I don't feel that though really. Sure in some spots I think regs have improved but daily I see huge errors, even really basic ones even from 'winning' regs. Maybe its variance and I am not really used to experiencing it. Or maybe the level of work I put in away from playing is not what I want it to be.
Who knows I am sure I will figure it out and be more consistent.
Away from poker life is pretty good, I paid off my mortgage this year and have a decent sum put aside into investments. Going forward I thinking of dabbling in the world of crypto like every other poker player out there. I don't know a ton about if actually at the moment and have only really just started looking into it and researching it. If anyone has any good resources please let me know.
In addition to this I have been looking at investing in property as well and have done quite a lot of research/study into it over the last 6 months. At present the climate is not great for it though with lots of uncertainty of the economy here, plus the government made some quite harsh changes in regards to buying and renting out property. In some misguided attempt to try and fix the housing crisis we have in the UK.
There is a fear/misconception that people owning 2nd/3rd properties as investments is driving up the costs of housing for people who want to get on the property ladder. It certainly does have an impact but the main issue is we just don't have enough houses as successive governments didn't invest in it and the related infrastructure. So for the short term these plans are on hold.
Guess that's all I got at the moment, if anyone has anything of interest they want to know about I will try to get to the thread at some point.
Results wise things have been a little above average I think. Incoming lifetime graph below
Since I last updated this blog results
As always volume is pretty low and a little embarrassing.
This year has been ok and was going really well until wcoop. Since that point I think I have been playing terribly to be honest but running and playing well at FT's I make. We had good results in the pacific rim, sunday starter, big 82/162 and early super Tuesday on a few occasions which has made it a ok year so far.
Pretty disappointed at the moment though despite this, and not really sure why this is. I have not changed anything drastically in terms of strategy. The only real change I have had life wise is taking over managing/coaching for bitB dev stable. Though this is taking up a good chunk of my time I was doing this pre wcoop as well and playing well at that point.
Maybe the games have got tougher in the last 6 months or so, I don't feel that though really. Sure in some spots I think regs have improved but daily I see huge errors, even really basic ones even from 'winning' regs. Maybe its variance and I am not really used to experiencing it. Or maybe the level of work I put in away from playing is not what I want it to be.
Who knows I am sure I will figure it out and be more consistent.
Away from poker life is pretty good, I paid off my mortgage this year and have a decent sum put aside into investments. Going forward I thinking of dabbling in the world of crypto like every other poker player out there. I don't know a ton about if actually at the moment and have only really just started looking into it and researching it. If anyone has any good resources please let me know.
In addition to this I have been looking at investing in property as well and have done quite a lot of research/study into it over the last 6 months. At present the climate is not great for it though with lots of uncertainty of the economy here, plus the government made some quite harsh changes in regards to buying and renting out property. In some misguided attempt to try and fix the housing crisis we have in the UK.
There is a fear/misconception that people owning 2nd/3rd properties as investments is driving up the costs of housing for people who want to get on the property ladder. It certainly does have an impact but the main issue is we just don't have enough houses as successive governments didn't invest in it and the related infrastructure. So for the short term these plans are on hold.
Guess that's all I got at the moment, if anyone has anything of interest they want to know about I will try to get to the thread at some point.
11-30-2017
, 01:15 PM
11-30-2017
, 01:40 PM
Man, your results are just super impressive. Congrats! Not sure why you feel the way you do about your play but I hope you figure out what it is that's bothering you about it. Thanks for the update and if I'm in the group of 'winning regs' that you see making huge errors I hope to change that sooner rather than later GL! 
GL!
12-01-2017
, 07:37 AM
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Man, your results are just super impressive. Congrats! Not sure why you feel the way you do about your play but I hope you figure out what it is that's bothering you about it. Thanks for the update and if I'm in the group of 'winning regs' that you see making huge errors I hope to change that sooner rather than later GL!
GL!
Maybe it's just confidence actually, I was talking about this recently with someone and misguided confidence can take you a long way in poker xd. I am by nature a pretty pessimistic person and constantly fear the game passing me by as stupid as that sounds. I have seen it with so many players who were crushing and then they get complacent while everyone else around them improves.
There are so many guys who have these nice upwards graphs which then flat line for the last 2/3 years and I don't ever want to become one of them.
As for your game we haven't played a ton to be honest recently. Think you were at a decent FT with me a month or so back and I don't recall you doing anything bad to be honest (think you didn't really have chips). I assume you are winning a reasonable clip though (not checked out your results or anything I should look at your PGC)
The other guys at that FT were taking some pretty ambitious lines if I recall though and making some huge ICM punts.