hey great thread ive been following a few on this forum but havent posted yet

i play fr at the min but il be shifting over to 6max in a few months as u dont get many fr tables going above the 200 level on the euro sites

u play across some levels i suppose if u see a good game ud be daft to pass it up

i find these threads to be a big motivation and proff that u can actually make a living online if u put the work in at the tables and away from the tables + have a lot of discipline with br and bad beats

good luck and keep on crushing

Sorry, why?
anyway no problem about OP's SNs obv

Thats a really good question.

I personally think the games are very similar to pre-black friday. Most tables are still 5 regs and 1 fish.

As far as how i see poker evolving, i think that peoples frequencies will become much more optimal, and people who dont have optimal frequencies will start getting exploited more. Like preflop, a lot of regs are 3bet bluffing from the bb vs MP and UTG about 0% of the time. Thats a really simplistic example but i think that thats something that will change over time. Another example would be postflop. On the river when I want to get slim value Ive been betting about 1/3 pot in some spots. In these spots my range has been 100% hands that i want to get slim value with, 0% the nuts, and 0% bluffs. Im getting away with it and getting snapped by lesser hands who i guess are just happy not to be facing a big bet and have to make a decision, but what im doing really shouldnt fly, and i dont think it will as poker evolves. There are a few other things i think will change but thats one that really comes to mind.

Maybe there will come a day when regs stab river with a bluff

thanks


I havent played at ongame in at least a week or 2. I can deal with the no waitlists thing, but not the no timebanks.

I didnt buy hands from PTR. Ive just been playing tables kind of at random and tagging anyone that does dumb stuff. By now i have so many people tagged that i can surf through the lobby and find fish pretty easily.

thanks and gl as well.

time will tell

thx.. wish i could move up as fast as you.. as i said im doing the same.. started after a few days in october and im at 53k hand +5k w/ rb but i cant move up without at least 10k :[

Sicko ITT, subbed.

glgl

I am wondered when i just have ended reading this thread.



gl, def. will follow this.

play more hands! 5k is solid tho, i think i remember you saying you were playing 100nl right? so thats almost 10bb/100 with rb so really sick pace.

thx thx

good stuff

Hi OP, thanks for this great thread.

I would like to ask you about rakeback and how it affects grinders at nl200-600. At the beginning of this thread you were at nl100 and playing almost exclusively at IPoker due to a great rakeback deal you had.

From nl200 and up you seem to have played at lots of Euro sites and table selected. Was this a calculated decision wrt rakeback? What I mean is once you got to nl200, you felt it was more profitable to beat the game more by looking for the softest tables, rather than earning a bunch in rakeback with a lower winrate?

I ask cos I'm in pretty much the same situation - pl200 grinder. I'd like to play more tables at Pacific and Party but the rakeback in those rooms(or VIP if u like) is very poor in relation to other Euro rooms. I still like the insurance of nice rakeback to make the downswings softer, despite the fact I know in theory that finding lots of soft games is probably more important once you get to pl200 and up.

wery good
GL

posting to subscribe.

GL OP, very nicely done so far.

I never really calculated it but its deffiently something important to think about. I personally think that me obsessing over rakeback was a factor in the downswing that this whole thing started with. Id recomend playing good games and trying to move up over grinding lots of tables for rakeback.

THX!

ME too ! +1

OP Great Thread! You will have no problem reaching this goal, it's only a function of time. Keep up the soul crushing good work!

Enjoying the thread. Question which was kind of asked before but you gave a v short answer. What is a rough sketch of a typical daily routine for you? When you get up, how many sessions, how long the sessions are, what you do the rest of the time etc. Best of luck.

I've been a regular at LA before. Recently tried it again. 6 tables on 888 is more pain than like 20 on stars with tableninja. So how many tables do you play and if more than 6, how?

thanks!

My scheduals pretty chaotic. My sleep schedual changes really frequently, because i dont use an alarm clock or anything. As far as daily routine, it usually looks something like

Wake up
Brush teeth
Grind until im really hungry
Eat
Shower
Grind
Go to bar/brewery/a resturant/wherever to unwind
Pass out

Some days I wont go out and will just grind through it. Id say about 8+ hours of grinding daily since i gotten here. I try to grind while im doing anything in the appartment too, weather its watching a movie or eating.

Im playing 5-8 tables now. Most often 6. The software at 888 is pretty bad but i dont even think its as bad as ongame. what's LA?

Man, ur addiction has gotten bad, rly bad...

After modding the graphics, 888-software is superb imo, or at least would be if I was able to figure out how to change the fonts...
It's better than Ongame, yes, but if modified thoroughly Ongame is decent too. LA stands for LuckyAcePoker (another 888-skin) I guess.

GL with ur goal!

if i had a 30k month id be obsessed with grinding aswell. gl op

What's the best way(s) to improve at this game?

vice versa..