Yearly graph at 200 zoom? Much respect gl for 2017

ytd pls

IG grey posting ITT, get a profile picture

safe, following you too. Real sorry to hear bout your session yesterday smits still asleep lmao

Glad you're enjoying the ride mate! So all my best friends are poker players, the UK crew specifically have been friends since we were teenagers and when we turned 18 we started playing online and in casinos. Fortunately our group has expanded and now has a bunch of euroregs too. Luckily for me, i play the middle of the range stakes, a few play lower and a few play up to 5knl. We'll always talking about hands and giving random sweats when we're at each others house. tbh pio is the way forward to survive in this world - something i'm not willing to do long term anymore. You got a couple more years at least so make the most of it!

haha we actually are pretty prolific

kreuz big instigator

bloody good read. d'you come from round there? I may have asked you that before, sorry if so!

thanks pete! time off has been great but felt the guilt big time

meh, it'll come tomorrow or the 1st depending if i play or not. I've actually just passed the 100k hand mark at 200z!

fml, you know it's crispy and still you ask me to post. total scumlord

profile pic incoming

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I FINISHED MY ESSAY. Such a satisfying feeling to work so hard on something and have it completed. Without a doubt the hardest i've ever worked on a piece of work... kinda sad really.

Put in a stressful session to celebrate with many big pots.



ohhh yeaaaaaah



fml fml fml fml fml fml fml, thought i had 89dd until the pot dragged to him. Even fist pumped when he called funny cus my river bluff combo is amazing but the turn bet is soooooooooooooooooooooooo bad



Fish getting ul cus i nearly always have a bluff here



Haven't stationed a fish this hard for a while



gl closing out the year! Oh also two teamheart members are coming to stay tomorrow. Birdayy and the one and only gazzybusto. Pics to come

Boys, gunna stream some NY day 200z with the one and only GazzyB in about an hour. Will be on his channel!

Twitch.tv/gazzyb12345

Bens a bit shy

2016 Yearly Review

Here's a comment i made at the beginning of the year. I just wasn't expecting to be up that much by April and then proceed to not win any cash for the rest of the year!

It's been a very strange year in terms of where my winnings have come from. Losing 50bi at 200 6max, winning a chunk at 400. Getting ruined at full ring. I've got mixed feelings that i started the year playing a lot of 400-1k and now i'm playing 200z. There's also the fact that i legitimately ran the worst of all time for several hundred thousand hands. The positive out of that is more mental game resilience - I like to think that mine is right up there with the strongest nowadays.

The main difference this year is that I've focused a ton of time on other aspects of my life and i wouldn't change that for anything. It does feel like a loss that i'm not playing as high, however i can't afford the stress of large swings while taking a very demanding training. On the flip side, i'm a far better player than i was this time last year and that's an indication of how much harder the games have become.

Graph



Stake breakdown



Someone requested my 200z graph



With what i've seen at 200z and being over 4bbev over my first 100k hands i imagine i'll be able to make a decent amount over the coming year.

Some casual goals for 2017

[ ] Visit 3 new countries
[ ] Gain 6.5kg
[ ] Pass first year of masters
[ ] Cover ridiculous London expenses!

Happy New Year guys. Looking forward to a productive and fruitful 2017

good stuff ben
will be following in 2017

what do you think is the reason of the huge gap between 200nl and 400nl
surely 200nl should be way easier to beat, or is this lack of focus at lower limits?

Didn't mention 20k in rakeback and 12k in staking. 77k total

Very impressive Ben!!

I like your mention of a strong resilient mindset being a good pro after a downswing, I 100% agree.

Best of luck for 2017!!

Average

WP man, let's run good in 2017!

Kudos for not going insane through that breakeven stretch. Good luck in the new year!

was nice to follow you along your journey this year. Absolutly amazing mental strength and work ethics, big props. Congrats on the very solid year, see you soon buddy.

On my way now, gonna get ready bet 1/6 pot on T98hhd with 98% of my flop check raising range and leasing 10x pot OTT when you online wizards capped at quads.

PS Great stream, and very nice year esp considering the huge downswing!


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This. Kinda scary this is possible assuming you think you were playing decently well over the sample. Congrats on the mental toughness and a solid 2016 despite the mental beatdowns. gl in 2017

77k is still nice. Gl for 2017 mate

tyvm for sharing everything with us, one of the last pg&c threads left that actually shares details/thoughts/results and it's really appreciated.

Congrats on staying strong this year and also all the accomplishments outside of poker. Funny how poker can kind of jade us towards anything outside of it, but when you look back in time (at least it's like this for me EVERY year), you cherish your travels/friendships/career moves way more than any poker accomplishments, even when you run super good in poker.

Solid year still mate, gl this this year!

I think I started following the thread just as the downsw0ng from hell started, and you were moving to lower stakes, so I got the incorrect impression that you were heading to bustoville. The first 400k hands weren't too shabby! The graph (and volume) as a whole is very impressive. Great thread too. GL in 2017!

thanks a lot max! cheers for tuning in to the stream too

Likely pure variance, it's impossible to be a winning 400nl player and not beat 200 ya know. It could also have been a focus thing - when playing up to 1k probably not caring about the hands at 200.

cheers man! That's the only good thing about a downswing, you come back stronger. Or you go busto and quit

suck me

thanks bro, yes pleaaase

yeah i felt a bit loopy several times. Hopefully it's behind us now. thanks

thanks a lot man. Hope you've been crushing the vic. Congratulations on your finish in the GUKPT too! Hopefully see you soon

haha, shame i didn't stick around long enough to see this epic gto play. thanks for your comments on the stream

definitely true. easy to lose sight of stuff like that when you're surrounded by people banging out 100k easy. you too

you're very welcome and i'm happy that the thread provides all of the mentioned aspects.

yeah it's so true. If i spend all my time just with poker players or just play poker for several weeks straight, nothing else seems to matter. Become so consumed by it and can forget everything else. Can strongly relate to the looking back and cherishing everything thats non-poker. However, poker has given me the ability to do all those things, so lets not bash it too hard

tyty bro. you too

haha, yeah i can see how it may have looked that way to you! All in all, you're right, decent year, so no more complaints from me. Thanks and gl to you in 2017 too

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Played some live last night which was fun. Birdayy, gazzyB, hu4hoes and smitdude tearing up the tables. I left at about 1am and gazzy got back to mine at 3pm after a 15 hour grind. The kids got serious heart.

Put in 2 good length sessions. Felt i played really well. Not running great so far in 2017 but we'll take it!



kinda transparent bluff from reg



rec doing some stuff



vs rec and reg



Juice hand from stream



Cool bad beat



Wide bluff from reg



Going for dinner with the boys tonight and may play a little more live Man it feels amazing to not have an essay hanging over me. Got a few more days of grind then off to valencia for the weekend for dccnesquicks birthday.

glgl

AJ is a bluff? lol

still a good year mate, and good things coming for 2017

loves the two jj hands on stream

Rare live appearance tonight!

GL! Subbed