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Originally Posted by Nefirmative
People opening that big prolly means you should be folding 77/88, squeeze 99+ (I assume, haven't been on apps in forver). Live the happy nit life
Yeah, pretty much what I've been doing. Feels wrong though since a lot of these guys are opening so wide to just be folding all of these mid pairs.
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Originally Posted by Fatboy54
Your cash games play pretty much identical to the low blind part of my STTs.
You want some coaching...I'm cheap as ****
and on a slightly more serious note this...
...is not a million miles from my low blind stt preflop strat, 'cept I'm even nittier.
Yeah, 99 at some stack depths will be very awkward to 3b/squeeze given they 4bet a lot.
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Originally Posted by PreflopWarrior
Which stakes do u play now?
Well, more on that in a minute!
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So there's a couple things I want to touch on briefly. Today I made the decision that I will quit these alternative Chinese apps and return to Pokermaster for a couple reasons,
A) The idea initially was to try these apps and stick with them if they proved to be juicier than PM. Well I've basically made no money over the past 70 odd hours (think my hourly was $4 or something :') )
B) I've been on a downswing at 5/10/20 for a while now and with my recent move to Thailand, my bankroll has been somewhat depleted. I've had a bunch of unexpected expenses: had to buy a motorbike here, had to fork out $1.3k for a desk to play on because zero of the 5 furniture stores I went to had anything big enough for what I wanted, had to replace my GPU in my PC which was damaged in the flight over, buy a new monitor, birthday gifts for family, punted off way too much partying a couple weeks back, had to buy a blender and then buy a replacement blender when it exploded with 2 litres of protein shake all over the fkn kitchen, had to buy a rice cooker, and now I'm forking out about $140/month in Pokermaster assistance software. Have had someone who owes me >$3k not pay me back, which will cost a chunk to get that back as well in debt collector expenses.
Basically, I need to start making some money and fast. To do that I've decided to move back to 2/4/8 on PM (roughly 150-200nl equivalent depending on your currency). I've just got Poker Grandmaster so I'll have a HUD and hopefully the lobby feature will make life a lot easier in terms of finding tables/seats.
The game plan will be to grind 2/4/8 for the next ~3 months for 40 hours a week to pad my life/bankroll a bit. I'd feel a lot more comfortable if I had some extra cash in the bank being in a foreign country and if something goes wrong like I get denied entry after a visa run and am unable to work for a bit.
I figure the following numbers seem reasonable,
2/4/8 @ 5bb/100 @ 500 hands per hour = $40/hr
2/4/8 @ 10bb/100 @ 500 hands per hour = $80/hr
I like to be pretty generous with these numbers so the 5bb/100 is basically a 'worst case scenario' winrate. I imagine my converged winrate will be much closer to the 10bb/100 but it's difficult to tell. My current winrate in the 2/4/8 games is 20bb/100 over I think about 35k hands. Sure I've ran good over that sample, but 2/4/8 is a very very soft game, I've had days where I've won 25 buyins in these lineups.
Anyway, after 2-3 months assuming winrate is at 10bb/100 or more, I'll have a much more comfortable bankroll/liferoll/networth/whatever you wanna call it. At that point I'll look to move back up to 5/10/20 on PM and hopefully have it stick this time round... Previously I've played 2/4/8, crushed it, moved up to 5/10/20, crushed it, and then been doomswitched and have to move back down. This is the second time regrinding at 2/4/8 for me now.
This does mean I'll be falling behind regarding my $160k profit goal over the next 9 months... While my 2/4/8 hourly has been well over $105 historically, I can't expect that to be the same over a big sample, but of course we'll see. What's more important now is that I get my finances back to a comfortable position and then I can resume playing higher stakes once that's in place. Even if my hourly takes a big hit over the next 3 months, if I'm able to make a successful jump to 5/10/20 and then 10/20/40 (which plays very similar to 5/10/20 apparently) and maintain a decent winrate there, I should be able to come from behind and save the challenge next year.
But of course, one step at a time. Tonight I'm busy setting up Poker Grandmaster, Poker Minion, boosting accounts, fixing spreadsheets, editing my HUD, and just getting everything in place so I can grind tomorrow.
I'm also making a revision to my play/volume schedule. After my first week doing this, I've realised I'm putting a lot of pressure on myself the day after my day off. Previously I was expected to grind 7 hours the day after my day off. This would be fine if I wasn't doing much on my day off but I'm a firm believer in working hard and partying hard. And this thread needs some more Degen stories anyway. If I'm going to go out partying on my day off, I'm going to want to recover the day after. So here's what an example of my new schedule is going to look like:
Monday - Off
Tuesday - 4 hours
Wednesday - 7/8 hours
Thursday - 7/8 hours
Friday - 7/8 hours
Saturday - 7/8 hours
Sunday - 7/8 hours
Basically I'll be doing 4 hours the day after my day off, to give myself a chance to sleep in and be hungover, go to the gym, and play two 2 hour sessions in the evening... Then each other day of the week will be 7 hours of volume except for whichever day coincides with my gym day off. Because I won't be in the gym for 2 hours on that day, I'll be able to squeeze in another hour.
This is a 40 hour schedule and not 43.75 hours, but I'm happy to shave off those extra hours if it means less chance of getting burnt out and better quality of life.
This also means I'll need to hit a higher hourly rate come June 1 2019 to have achieved my profit goal. But I think a sacrifice was definitely needed in one area or another. I think cutting work hours is definitely +EV because even if my target hourly goes from $105 --> $117 or something like that, it reeeeally shouldn't make much difference once we're on the home stretch. Either I'm still at 2/4/8 just grinding out a living or I'm at 10/20/40 and the hourly is well over $120/hr anyway. Only time will tell.