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04-23-2019 , 12:25 AM
After I get a considerable amount of games under my belt I’d say at least 1,000 what stats and filters in pokertracker can I utilize to improve my play? I plan on watching videos but would also like to look at my own stats and the stats of my opponents. I play turbo speed HUSNGs on ignition so all players are anonymous.
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04-23-2019 , 06:26 AM
I'd recommend trying to watch some vids from some decent players to see what kind of stats they're playing and then you can kind of compare your stats to what they're doing -- keep in mind, solid stats for hu are pretty different than solid stats in games with more players. Another thing I might recommend doing is looking at a few common lines where either you're not sure or you feel you're struggling and doing some focused review on those spots by looking directly at hands in those lines.
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04-23-2019 , 10:16 AM
What level do you play now and do you have any prior experience in HUSNGs or other poker games?
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04-23-2019 , 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by ChicagoRy
What level do you play now and do you have any prior experience in HUSNGs or other poker games?
I was a regular at the $57.50s pre Black Friday on PokerStars and now play on ignition at the $26.25 level and actually just started a challenge if you want to check it out

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/1...poker-1741304/
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04-24-2019 , 03:50 AM
Statistics is a great tool when you have big samples. 1k games is a nice number from human point of view, but it is very small amount for serious statistical analysis.
I would recommend going over few tournaments - paying attention to every single hand you've played and think about thoroughly. Why you are raising/calling/folding? Why are you betting T30 and not T60? What is you plan for different turn/river runouts?
What kind of range do you expect villain has in this river spot? etc.
You will find that some spots will be easy to analyze, for other spots you will have no clue. So now you have identified where you are not comfortable - you can try to filter for these kind of spots and maybe you will be able to see some patterns in your play/villain play and you will get better intuition how to play these spots in the future.
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04-26-2019 , 03:48 PM
I'm also really interested in solving preflop situations at different blind levels. Any suggestions on a good place to start? Preferably beginner material?

Thanks
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04-26-2019 , 04:15 PM
As a beginner/intermediate player, coffecalcs will be useful for learning preflop math. If you by "solving preflop situations" are talking about running GTO preflop simulations i whould storngly advice against it.

Basic software setup:
* PT4/HM
* H2N
* Cofeecalcs
* Equilab
* Starshelper or similar program depending on what site you are playing on.

Later on:
* Simple postflop, Pio, InstaGTO or other solver.
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04-26-2019 , 04:20 PM
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Originally Posted by maxagso
As a beginner/intermediate player, coffecalcs will be useful for learning preflop math. If you by "solving preflop situations" are talking about running GTO preflop simulations i whould storngly advice against it.

Basic software setup:
* PT4/HM
* H2N
* Cofeecalcs
* Equilab
* Starshelper or similar program depending on what site you are playing on.

Later on:
* Simple postflop, Pio, InstaGTO or other solver.
Thanks for the suggestions! Why would you advise against it?
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04-27-2019 , 05:23 AM
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Originally Posted by SHRaKeN89
Thanks for the suggestions! Why would you advise against it?
because people dont play gto, esp vs fish it can be very bad. In general fish plays tighter than gto, so calling openjams 20bb with JTo or raise calling KJo 20bb will be losing play.
Its good to know how gto ranges looks like and how % looks like, helps you adjust and exploit, but you should use them only as a guideline.
As for other preflop spots like if its better to limp or minraise, you just have to work with your database, imo there is no other options.
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04-27-2019 , 11:22 AM
What about coaching? Are there still HUSNG coaches around? I know HUSNG.com is still up but seems dead. I want to hire a coach but don’t know where to look.
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04-27-2019 , 08:54 PM
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Originally Posted by SHRaKeN89
What about coaching? Are there still HUSNG coaches around? I know HUSNG.com is still up but seems dead. I want to hire a coach but don’t know where to look.
Most are coaching exclusively in staking programs, HUSNG.com included. That's really where a lot of the newest content has gone, to a handful of the top programs, regularly updated. It just makes a lot more sense when a coach is getting a % of a student's winnings. It's often a mental thing, nice guys feel like "I eat what I kill" and other people feel like "I'm getting paid what I should be for my knowledge" and it just aligns a student and coach much better on average.

Back when there was a large public coaching offerings (and no actual staking programs and few private groups with quality content), I can't tell you how many conversations I had with a coach where they wanted to charge $400+ bc they had "secrets nobody they face on the tables knows." Half the time the secret was something poor that they could still win while doing despite that secret, or some theory or just a complicated explanation for a more common piece of good advice.

HUSNGs had it far better than many other games where there were dozens of effectively scam coaches though. I hardly saw anything worse than "bad value" in our community, and there was a lot of good value.

Anyways, if you want intensive coaching/updated ranges and explanations, you almost certainly have to give a % of your profits, or offer an absurd price to a good coach to convince them to do it.
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04-27-2019 , 09:12 PM
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Originally Posted by ChicagoRy
Most are coaching exclusively in staking programs, HUSNG.com included. That's really where a lot of the newest content has gone, to a handful of the top programs, regularly updated. It just makes a lot more sense when a coach is getting a % of a student's winnings. It's often a mental thing, nice guys feel like "I eat what I kill" and other people feel like "I'm getting paid what I should be for my knowledge" and it just aligns a student and coach much better on average.

Back when there was a large public coaching offerings (and no actual staking programs and few private groups with quality content), I can't tell you how many conversations I had with a coach where they wanted to charge $400+ bc they had "secrets nobody they face on the tables knows." Half the time the secret was something poor that they could still win while doing despite that secret, or some theory or just a complicated explanation for a more common piece of good advice.

HUSNGs had it far better than many other games where there were dozens of effectively scam coaches though. I hardly saw anything worse than "bad value" in our community, and there was a lot of good value.

Anyways, if you want intensive coaching/updated ranges and explanations, you almost certainly have to give a % of your profits, or offer an absurd price to a good coach to convince them to do it.
What about yourself? Are you still coaching? And if so how do you approach it?
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04-27-2019 , 10:37 PM
No, I haven't played HUSNGs in years myself.

I used to do a lot of HH reviews for lower stakes players, I found it gave them a better value and it fit my skillset well.

If I could go back and do things over again coaching wise, I'd of never made nor hired anyone to do a live video. Looking back, all the prepared videos (and these days video packs) were by far a better value to learn from.
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