PlenoPads - The most important year yet
11-05-2017
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, 02:03 AM
I decided around 6 months ago to make sure that all of this "hard work" is not wasted and bought a notebook which I geekily renamed the P-Files. I have a lot of info on most of the regs, online stats, tendencies, weaknesses, leaks, if I think they are staked, who they discuss poker with blah blah. For the next 2 months I want to work with an intern helping crop 100s of hours of online footage from feature tables and look very strongly for live "stuff" to add to this. I need it to be ordered better, structured better and to be a big help for 2018. I don't share this with anybody or ask for others to contribute to it.
Again, best way to hire for this? Enthusiastic young poker guy or use Leverage again?
The inspiration for this came out from Barcelona feature table, I haven't been able to "watch" myself back very often as never been on feature tables, but watched all of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpVt5mrEWas
Fund hand is from 55:40, but watching me here I just think that I maybe need to slightly change live presence a little bit. I really didn't think I was EXACTLY like I was, and I should know EXACTLY how I look in every spot.
So much stuff is happening in this hand. I'll try and post stuff I see
55:50, I start looking for live reads telling him I check to my friend and make sure we both smile before cards come (will help later)
56:00 I'm riffling chips
56:00 I am bobbing my head a lot. I had no idea I did this lol
56:20 He puts his chips in some kind of strange way
56:30 My head hasn't stopped bobbing
56:45 I'm shuffling chips a little differently
56:50 I do something with my cards
56:55 My hand is over my mouth
57:40 I call pretty quickly, definitely no "fake tank/balanced tank"
57:50 My hand around my neck I'm not aware of in real life
57:58 I instantly lead for min bet
58:05 I am chewing somewhat aggressively, probably gto never to chew
58:20 My shuffling speed has decreased
58:30 How sexy is the bet though
58:45 I am obviously very very happy the move worked but people at the table will be able to see some emotion in me, probably gto to not show emotion imo.
Anyway, think you should watch the hand, its extremely interesting hand imo. not just strategically, but both of us are very very different in the hand, one is wearing sunglasses, playing very cool customer image, shuffling slow and quietly, deliberation about every single move, putting chips in the same way (or at least trying) I am more all over the place, lots of movement, lots of noise, aggressive shuffling. I think this has kind of always been my style and its worked well though, people, I think at least, pots I play become very intense, people get emotionally involved when they shouldn't, maybe I'm more involved than I should be who knows.
Anyway, the plan is to go over 100's of hours of this footage for all tournaments from last 1 year and improve P-Files.
Last edited by OurSurveySays; 11-05-2017 at 02:16 AM.
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Using our brand I think we can cooperate with some different game types, maybe hypers, maybe cash games, whatever else. 1) We can make a great product with our skill set of staking combined with some players who are very good 2) It strengthens bitB brand 3) Our MTT players can learn from things from other games 4) Its fun1
11-05-2017
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11-05-2017
, 02:46 AM
Will quickly apologise in advance about any emotion I put into writing. I always just write exactly how I think. If I think I'm the unluckiest player in the world I will write it, if I think I am the best player in the room maybe I'll write it. I like to be honest, sometimes it gets my into trouble, but I prefer it this way.
Here is a post I wrote on the bitB PGC just before I entered my 2nd bullet of the 25k where I came 4/5th.
Here is a post I wrote on the bitB PGC just before I entered my 2nd bullet of the 25k where I came 4/5th.
Quote:
It's really sick how series make you either the happiest or saddest grinder based purely on how well you run in that weeks.
At the start you are always like "ah, there will be tomorrow, so much more to play" but as the days tick down you allow yourself to get dragged into delusion that you're the most unluckiest player in the world, you see those same regs attempting to put their stacks on fire but just managing somehow to get there.
For me this week I really felt abit down, I had had those good runs in the last 5-7 days that just got ended short for whatever. I started to look into my results a little bit deeper.
$0-$900 I run at a pretty solid $140 abi with 72% roi, over $1m in profit and more or less no dramas.
https://gyazo.com/acfd16bc4aa38b806cc40b8a21db7943
At $1000+ I've only managed to play 400 games, but I'm around -$250kD:
https://gyazo.com/b5415ce52d7c9bcfa1bb571305b1fd28
It's kind of interesting how this makes you/me feel. It makes me question things at first, "am I really just a 0-900 player, is that the games I should be playing" then you have to snap yourself out of it, tell yourself its 500 ****ing games and the games you play at 0-900 are probably tougher than the WCOOP/SCOOP 1ks etc with better structures and whatever else.
The thing is that $1533 (LOL) abi is really absurd, if I was playing 100th of the stake (15abi) the downswing would be $2.5k (this seems so wrong and I've double and triple checked but seems right?!) which just really shows the whole thing. How many horses have I had that have lost $2.5k at some time at $15 abi? Every single one of them!
So it just goes to show that these high stakes tournaments, WCOOPs, SCOOPs with large fields are really just a joke. Sure the best guys will have less downswings than the guys they are better than etc, but at the amount of games we will get in over the next few years theres just no way for us to control it.
So the question is where to go from here, or what should you do if you're playing mid stakes and starting to play higher stakes?
At this point, I feel OK bankroll to just keep unlimitedly firing all of these kind of events, but at the point where I perhaps do lose a lot of my bankroll, or I invest it or keep it less liquid etc its EXTREMELY important to practice BRM at the higher stake games you play.
There is nobody in the world who is good enough to play aggressive BRM at an ABI that is 10x the amount of their normal games. If you are staked by a company and youre playing $20 abi normally, if it comes to WCOOP/SCOOP time and you get to the point where you really want to play high and "battle" just understand the variance of that amount of games. Make sure you do things to decrease your variance, don't reg with less than xbbs, make sure to swap with other guys of similar ability etc.
For guys who are coming up and wanting to play hihger stakes, I would say that the very important thing is to not let high stakes control your whole year. Once you are starting to play $2k abi during WCOOP/SCOOP its very tough to then go and grind all of those softer days, thats why I have the most respect for Lena, Darwin and Graftekkel. They are the kind of guys who will show up 3-4 days a week, every week. If you allow yourself to get into some backing deal with is centred around glory, i.e live stops, WCOOP and SCOOP then I would seriously recommend just getting as far out as possible.
At one point if I had chosen to get staked for that part of my career I would have been in something like $350+k of makeup, maybe I should have done it!
I've also spoken about this before, but its so important not to get bitter to your friends when they run good over samples you run bad. Lets say youre in a stable and one guy wins the sunday million twice whilst you brick it every single week as your top end buy in, that shouldnt make you angry, his win should be your win almost, what you guys have studied together actually worked and watching him in those final 2 tables doing the things your coach coached you together should be motivating, it works and your day may never come, but at least all the time and effort your putting into this means something. Same as if its somebody you studied with, if you both learn $55 mtts and then he goes on a sick run, plays an ept that you cant afford to because you ran really bad at mid stakes and then wins, you should be really happy about that. I really struggled for a long time accepting this kind of thing and was sad to see people I was close with succeeding in times when I failed, but if you're reading this and think that you think the same sometimes, from speaking with players its apparently very common and you shouldn't think you're the worst person in the world, I kind of quietly thought I was worst person in world, but when I started to confront the issue it was actually really easy to get over and I really don't get that at all anymore. I'm really lucky that I'm in a great support group, people like European and Elmerixx will always be rooting hard for me and on the rail when I'm deep in stuff which is great, hard to root again those kind of guys no matter how they run in comparison to you.
I think the key ingredients to succeeding are:
1- Dedication
2- Find a good support group
3- Don't try and play higher than you should, stick at a level and crush it and build competence and confidence through improved fundamentals
4- Understand the variance of higher stake games and leave all ego out of it. If you are on a great path, very happy and fluid then starting to change that path is extremely dangerous. I've seen horses that were CRUSHING $30abi so so hard and just wanted to accelerate their growth, sometimes I forced that growth and then at a quick rise in stakes they weren't used to losing these kind of $ amounts and then were in a big makeup back at $30abi with no confidence at all, sometimes 1 step forward will very heavily end up being 3 steps back.
Anyway, busted 1st 25k bullet before I wrote this, going to jump in again now.
THE TRUE MOAN IN.
At the start you are always like "ah, there will be tomorrow, so much more to play" but as the days tick down you allow yourself to get dragged into delusion that you're the most unluckiest player in the world, you see those same regs attempting to put their stacks on fire but just managing somehow to get there.
For me this week I really felt abit down, I had had those good runs in the last 5-7 days that just got ended short for whatever. I started to look into my results a little bit deeper.
$0-$900 I run at a pretty solid $140 abi with 72% roi, over $1m in profit and more or less no dramas.
https://gyazo.com/acfd16bc4aa38b806cc40b8a21db7943
At $1000+ I've only managed to play 400 games, but I'm around -$250k
D:https://gyazo.com/b5415ce52d7c9bcfa1bb571305b1fd28
It's kind of interesting how this makes you/me feel. It makes me question things at first, "am I really just a 0-900 player, is that the games I should be playing" then you have to snap yourself out of it, tell yourself its 500 ****ing games and the games you play at 0-900 are probably tougher than the WCOOP/SCOOP 1ks etc with better structures and whatever else.
The thing is that $1533 (LOL) abi is really absurd, if I was playing 100th of the stake (15abi) the downswing would be $2.5k (this seems so wrong and I've double and triple checked but seems right?!) which just really shows the whole thing. How many horses have I had that have lost $2.5k at some time at $15 abi? Every single one of them!
So it just goes to show that these high stakes tournaments, WCOOPs, SCOOPs with large fields are really just a joke. Sure the best guys will have less downswings than the guys they are better than etc, but at the amount of games we will get in over the next few years theres just no way for us to control it.
So the question is where to go from here, or what should you do if you're playing mid stakes and starting to play higher stakes?
At this point, I feel OK bankroll to just keep unlimitedly firing all of these kind of events, but at the point where I perhaps do lose a lot of my bankroll, or I invest it or keep it less liquid etc its EXTREMELY important to practice BRM at the higher stake games you play.
There is nobody in the world who is good enough to play aggressive BRM at an ABI that is 10x the amount of their normal games. If you are staked by a company and youre playing $20 abi normally, if it comes to WCOOP/SCOOP time and you get to the point where you really want to play high and "battle" just understand the variance of that amount of games. Make sure you do things to decrease your variance, don't reg with less than xbbs, make sure to swap with other guys of similar ability etc.
For guys who are coming up and wanting to play hihger stakes, I would say that the very important thing is to not let high stakes control your whole year. Once you are starting to play $2k abi during WCOOP/SCOOP its very tough to then go and grind all of those softer days, thats why I have the most respect for Lena, Darwin and Graftekkel. They are the kind of guys who will show up 3-4 days a week, every week. If you allow yourself to get into some backing deal with is centred around glory, i.e live stops, WCOOP and SCOOP then I would seriously recommend just getting as far out as possible.
At one point if I had chosen to get staked for that part of my career I would have been in something like $350+k of makeup, maybe I should have done it!
I've also spoken about this before, but its so important not to get bitter to your friends when they run good over samples you run bad. Lets say youre in a stable and one guy wins the sunday million twice whilst you brick it every single week as your top end buy in, that shouldnt make you angry, his win should be your win almost, what you guys have studied together actually worked and watching him in those final 2 tables doing the things your coach coached you together should be motivating, it works and your day may never come, but at least all the time and effort your putting into this means something. Same as if its somebody you studied with, if you both learn $55 mtts and then he goes on a sick run, plays an ept that you cant afford to because you ran really bad at mid stakes and then wins, you should be really happy about that. I really struggled for a long time accepting this kind of thing and was sad to see people I was close with succeeding in times when I failed, but if you're reading this and think that you think the same sometimes, from speaking with players its apparently very common and you shouldn't think you're the worst person in the world, I kind of quietly thought I was worst person in world, but when I started to confront the issue it was actually really easy to get over and I really don't get that at all anymore. I'm really lucky that I'm in a great support group, people like European and Elmerixx will always be rooting hard for me and on the rail when I'm deep in stuff which is great, hard to root again those kind of guys no matter how they run in comparison to you.
I think the key ingredients to succeeding are:
1- Dedication
2- Find a good support group
3- Don't try and play higher than you should, stick at a level and crush it and build competence and confidence through improved fundamentals
4- Understand the variance of higher stake games and leave all ego out of it. If you are on a great path, very happy and fluid then starting to change that path is extremely dangerous. I've seen horses that were CRUSHING $30abi so so hard and just wanted to accelerate their growth, sometimes I forced that growth and then at a quick rise in stakes they weren't used to losing these kind of $ amounts and then were in a big makeup back at $30abi with no confidence at all, sometimes 1 step forward will very heavily end up being 3 steps back.
Anyway, busted 1st 25k bullet before I wrote this, going to jump in again now.
THE TRUE MOAN IN.
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Oh, and the biggest thing, when somebody is crushing and you see them do 2-3 really bad things, dont just think omg this guy is such a runreg, look into it more.
So many people saying vea is **** and overrated etc, I watched him a lot recently and I actually think he is very good. There is certain parts of peoples games you may not want to implement, but that doesn't mean there isn't really effective and successful things they do.
So many people saying vea is **** and overrated etc, I watched him a lot recently and I actually think he is very good. There is certain parts of peoples games you may not want to implement, but that doesn't mean there isn't really effective and successful things they do.
11-05-2017
, 03:00 AM
For those of you who don't know wtf bitB is. Its staking team which stands for (best in the Business) ironic title as I started it as a $1 HU SNG player. We're currently staking exclusively for MTT's online and live. It takes up probably 10+ hours of my day from one way to another. Coaching, management, thinking about things, being in the community etc. I do it with my good friends that I made through poker (tomi/sam - elmerix/european) and a lot of the guys we have worked with have became genuine friends. If a guy is deep in a tournament, even the Million or WSOP or whatever else I am basically never thinking 1 second about my financial interest and purely about their personal situation/wanting them to win. Its the strangest thing ever and sounds cliche/bull**** but its 100% true. I can't understand why other people ghost people that they stake, obviously financially it makes sense for them, but this is their BIG TIME, their BIG OCCASION, imagine you're 3 previous deepest runs you stopped playing at the final table?? Whats the ****ing point?!
Anyway, year to date graph (coaches not included) people who have binked huge and then left not included.
Anyway, year to date graph (coaches not included) people who have binked huge and then left not included.
11-05-2017
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, 08:19 AM
Solid rythm bud will be following along ofc
will be following along ofc
