Will be back for April challenge, enjoying a little bit of time off before. Will write a report on march later today. Finished month up 25k or so on 1/2 (including profit,RB,...)

Great thread, great work. Thank you for sharing.

March finished with :

+20982 Global. Roughly $140/hr.
+1490 Pokerbros. $12/hr
Ignition: -200. -3bb/100 or so. HUD is not working.

RB and bonus : $2800

Total: +25072

Ship it. Obviously couldn't have wished for a better grind/results.


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MOVING ON TO APRIL! I have decided that for this month I will:

* Play at least 200 hours.
*Start off playing 400nl-600nl. The vast majority of this will be 6max due to lack of full ring volume.
* This might be the most genius thing, but most likely the most ******ed. I decided to face my fears regarding Pokerbros and not winning there, and throw myself in the deep end. Will be 10tabling 400-600nl on Pokerbros for about 8hours/day. If I somehow drop 5-7k doing this I will adjust goals and go back to what went well last month ( Global ). This will be my final attempt at Pokerbros and crushing it. I hate how all of March I got this really bad vibe from this app, complain about it, yet continue to play there. So one last try, I'm going all in on the 400-600 nl tables.

It should be a lot more interesting since I can actually post results/graphs/HH's etc.

My goal for April is :

*100k hands min 400-600nl. This will come down to roughly 30k rake. I don't know the exact rules regarding posting rakeback numbers etc, so I won't for the time being.

* Have a winrate of 2.5BB/100 or better. If this works, I'll earn more than 20k from pure profit, which I'd be happy with. I'm optimistic to get closer to 30k, but don't want to be greedy. If I can get to 30k profit including RB I'll be very happy. anything over that is .... sublime.

*Drop down to 170 lbs.

Bear with me while I try to figure out how to post graphs this month... and wish me GL!

https://imgur.com/KSmjjlB


My HEM messes up data for Bro's unless I select the entire month ( If I select last 12 hours or something similar, results are totally inaccurate ). So each day I'll update my total profit/loss and total amount of hours played along with a graph.

Total: +1947
Time: 488 min

Do you switch windows in Pokerbros, or do you have separate emulator for each table? Glgl

Have 12 separate emulators. No idea how someone could grind switching tables within app, seems very annoying to me ( plus HUD not working afaik ).

Damn, how much RAM do you have, and what emulator do you use? Also, insanely impressive results, why now just stick to 200nl on global, I made a mistake in the past of switching up games, when results suggested otherwise. Even if there are indicators that other games are better, these are shady times.

Are HUDs allowed on any of the 3 sites that you played on during your March challenge? Also, congrats - Well done!

Sick results! Good luck with your April challenge.

Very interesting to follow.

48GB RAM.
Intel Core i7-8086k CPU @ 4.00Ghz
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1060 6GB


It's not so much the RAM that matters most, I made that mistake on an earlier computer. Bought some pre/build Dell computer with an insane amount of RAM thinking that's what I needed for the emulators to work well. Ended up finding out that the Graphics card in that PC was like some $25 piece of ****, and entire computer was basically worthless and Dell makes it where you can't open up a PC case and just exchange individual parts (or it's very hard anyway ). The graphics card is definitely important.

I use LDplayer.

I switched (back) to Pokerbros because i want to give that app one last shot and am just going all in on it. Either I finally run normal and make some profit/run great and keep playing there, or I bust 5-7k and I'll be done with it for good and go back to my Global. I just want to try one last time to prove to myself that it's not the app that's the issue, but me. So 100k hands will be plenty to prove that.

I also will consider doing some agenting in the future, if only for the fact that I see some douchebags post rakeback deals of like 10-20% on this forum and presenting it as if they are doing anyone a favor. Obviously those are **** deals. In any event, if I were to consider suggesting Pokerbros as a valid option to play for players, then obviously I can't feel like it's a piece of **** rigged/colluded app.

HUDs are allowed on Pokerbro's and Ignition. Global has a strict no HUD policy, nor do I think they exist ( let's hope it stays that way, probably explains why the games r so good ).

Great, I also thought that RAM is the thing for emulators. Hope you crush PokerBros!

Sometimes I do really stupid ****... Making the decision to try and 10table 6max games after not having played them for a while, in an attempt to prove that the app can be crushed, is def high up on the stupid **** list.

Rethinking goals for April. the 200 hours min volume will stay.

Great thread, not sure why I wasn't following. Just out of curiosity, why do you choose to grind mostly full ring? Any generalities about how your strategy changes going from 6max -> 9max?

My winrate has always been significantly higher on full ring tables, which makes sense to me because they are a lot easier to play/beat. If you're playing 6max games and have 1 or 2 aggro good regs at your table, they will make your life hell and you're constantly finding yourself in shitty spots OOP/marginal postflop spots etc etc. It has a way more aggressive dynamic than full ring, where you can basically (obviously exaggerating ) nutpeddle. I enjoy the more passive, easy game of full ring.

Some of the main differences I find are :
*3bet ranges are way more polarized/value heavy. Most regs won't bother 3betting a lot of hands that they would in 6max games ( which isn't wrong ).

*4bet ranges are way more polarized/value heavy. In 6max games you're constantly wondering if a reg is 4betting you light. Should you 5b ship it light ( basically not done often anymore in current games ) or defend and flat the 4b. The amount of 3bets vs regs is already drastically decreased in full ring games, so their 4bet bluffing range will also be. There's also a huge amount of players that play full ring tables that basically only 3bet for value ( can be somewhat wide ) and basically only 4bet with nuts ( KK+ and flat rest or fold ). It plays totally different from 6max games.

I basically never flat preflop (except from BB ) in 6max games. My flatting range full ring is slightly wider depending on a lot of different factors. There's a lot of passive/loose regs that have like a 3b % FR of 4% or so, and flat 10-15% from all positions. Usually they all suck and are easy to play against and make up the majority of full ring regs. It's a lot harder to find such shitty regs at 6max tables IMO.


EDIT: I shouldn’t say polarized/ value heavy. It’s just value heavy. Not a lot of bluffs in there.

https://imgur.com/AOYbnS6

Day 2 done. Don't have time right now to write big update, will do later.

Are the $Rake numbers correct? My God, thats so much rake. Are the games on Global/Ignition that much better to justify having no 30%+ rakeback? You can literally make 2.5bb/100 in rakeback based on those $Rake numbers.

Rake numbers are correct afaik. The dreams of rakeback keep drawing me back to this app, not gonna lie. Games look the softest too, so hoping to run well/normal on Bros this month and put my fears and thoughts of monsters under the bed to rest.

Changing challenge goal to 10bb/100 WR on Bro's this month at 400nl/600nl. With my current schedule ( wake up 5AM, hike 6miles, grind 8-12, break 12-4, grind 4-8 ) this usually translates in full ring games not really running all that much. So most of the challenge will be 6max tables. Will limit myself to 4-5 tables.

Gonna put in 200+ hours, pushing for hourly of at least $100/hr pre RB.

I get so angry every time I see someone has won the BBJ haha. Would be nice to bink it once this month.

April 3 done. Am taking the day off tomorrow.


Total: +5479
Time: 1429 min

4tabled 40-600 all day, went well. Will try to play the 600nl tables whenever I can and if they look decent. Games are very good and all month it's felt like a 'normal grind' on Bro's.

https://imgur.com/yoYuJJt
https://imgur.com/TwwYwj4

Some 'interesting' hands from today:

https://pokeit.co/public/1r5hxWDSBAN/r
https://pokeit.co/public/6r5hxWz2nMZ/r
https://pokeit.co/public/5r5hxWCHs8a/r
https://pokeit.co/public/3r4DQuc7XNN/r
https://pokeit.co/public/4r5hxWEGNgs/r
https://pokeit.co/public/1r4DQubMWHo/r
https://pokeit.co/public/4r5hxWrBwDo/r

April 4-6 done. Took Saturday off, got way too drunk, played a couple of half ass sessions on Sunday. Today was a good grind day. I keep kind of hopping from full ring to six max to 4 tables to 10 tables to ... whatever I feel like at the time I'm playing. I usually start the day 4tabling 600nl, and after 30min I'm so bored by the slow speed that I start adding tables. I probably shouldn't, but whatever. Gonna have a little fun trying some stuff this month.

Total: +5917
Time: 2443 min
Rake: $5720

Suppose that puts me at over 8k profit for the first 6 days ( Only played 5 ), so far so good. With the amount of random things I'm doing (like multitabling etc ) it's gonna be hard to get to my 10bb/100 goal. Not sure what I'm going to do regarding it. I kind of just want to see if I can copy the same results I had in March playing on Pokerbros instead of Global.

https://imgur.com/FIgXdMM
https://imgur.com/PJRcVdn

Some hands:

https://pokeit.co/public/5r5hxXfxLA1/r

Meh. Most people continue to bet turn for value instead of go for double checkraise. Leveled myself into calling since my hand improved. Prob spew and can just check back turn. I bet the turn not expecting many checkraises, but then got one anyway lol. wpwp.

https://pokeit.co/public/1r5hxXp7toP/r

Not sure about this one. Didn't really have stats or reads other than that he seemed like a reg.


https://pokeit.co/public/5r5hxXy8678/r

Guy had regstats, missclick pre I guess. Not loving my rivercall especially with that sizing.

April 7 done. Uploading pics every time is kind of time consuming so will just do 1x/week pic of graph/results. Ran KK vs AA 5x in 75min and lost all, but somehow still made small profit for the day.

Total: +6161
Time: 3059 min
Rake: $7550

10tabled all day, mainly 6max. Ran awful in FR games as has been the theme on Pokerbros always. Doing better in the 6m games so putting most volume there. It's hard to combine 6m +fr tables (for me anyway) because they play so differently, and most of my grind hours there aren't 10 tables FR 400nl+ available.

Hi man.
I hope you crush games this month.
What converter do you use to convert hands to Holdem Manager?

Sent you PM with info. Not sure I'm allowed to advertize here.

April 8 done. I'm making a steady profit throughout and somehow ending the days up, but it's been crazy swingy. I also am starting to realize that the whole 10tabling 6max is just reaaaaaly stupid. I make so many mistakes I lose count. Dropped 3k or so for the day, told myself to go back to 5tabling and focus and shipped 4k or so in less than 2hours. So far all of my profit has come from 4-5tabling 600nl, so should prob just stick with that.

Total: +6850
Time: 3740 min
Rake: $9341

I don't really know what to say about it, but the amount of KK vs AA ( and vice versa ) and sets vs sets I see on Pokerbros is insanely high compared to what I experienced in my grind on Global last month. I remember when I was 6tabling 9 hours a day on Global I would run into AA vs KK type situations maybe like 1/2 x per day, and set vs set about 0.75 per day. This month... I have had an average of 10 AA vs KK ( and other way around ) per day (8 hours of playing approx ) and 5 sets vs sets. As you all know I'm not a math guy, so Global experience regarding that may have been way below average, but it feels like it happens insanely often on Bros. Variance I suppose.

Had a lot of LOL hands today against people I thought were regs... and then they do stuff like this :

https://pokeit.co/public/7r1otGb9sTr/r

https://pokeit.co/public/7r1otGb9sSo/r

https://pokeit.co/public/3r1otGmwCgJ/r

I get in that last hand that I have basically no valuecombo hands (other than a very random 8x like I just did and maybe A8 ) and that he can apply max pressure to get me off Ax Kx etc, but still... lol.

Hey there notawizard, glgl

I have no idea what the midstakes scene is like on bros as I'm currently at 20nl but if it's half as good as my games I imagine you will print soon enough