ffs cursed myself posting that, today heads up ev +2,458 actual -10,088

HU has been kind to me as well this year: chips-EV 11105 versus actual chips -38545

Yeh, but are you making $ev plays?

Can't even remember the last time I even looked at any ev graph lol, I don't see the point because:

i) it can affect you psychologically and negatively affect your mindset and prevent you from playing well.
ii) the time frame/sample size often used doesn't tell you **** about the LR
iii) using ev as a crutch can stop you from working on your game because you can just say it's run bad without looking at your own game as a whole.
iv) I don't want to ever become a whiny bastard like quantum, **** happens in poker, deal with it!
vi) I can't anyway because my last two Windows laptops with all my sexy graphs went crash! Just bought an iMac....it is the like flopping quads and getting action

well, looking at these is helpful sometimes. Heads-up, there is no skewed ICM calculations done in the back. Mostly, just simple push or fold considerations. I looked at this specific statistic as it helps evaluate my heads-up game in the long run without looking at specific hands. Obviously, this could prevent you from working on your game, more specfically the HU game here.
I don't whine about running bad during HU as it is the "easy to digest" side of variance. However, looking at this stat gave me the confidence that my HU play is at least above average and should win me some money in the long run.

What is your ID on stars?

I would be interested in hearing what ICM adjusments you are making once heads up?

Your 5 points are valid sure, but you do realise that every point can easily be flipped into a positive, for instance
i)It can positively reinforce your mind set and keep you playing your A game when results arnt going well.

inb4 a random meaningless stats comparison quantum v streity

Still giving me so much attention Billy, I'm touched. It could just be that I don't know who the guy is and want to:

1) know if I've played with him b4
2) play with him if I haven't

But if you wanna keep talking on my behalf, can you handle the rest of my correspondence? I only have finite time, could really use a secretary....

I would like to be playing those game but they are currently beyond my means. I have played a few 200s in the past and at some point this year I should be able to play them again but playing 300s and 500s would require me luckboxing some big mtt or something.

As far as playing hypers over mtts or cash. Cash games have not had any growth in a long time and stars recent change to the 40bb buy in does not seem like it has helped besides perhaps the low stakes games which are brutally raked. If I play hypers there is less of a rake factor to deal with if you need to add low stakes tables and the action is a lot more consistent on a daily basis and seems to be growing. On mtts there are certain days where I would rather play mtts than hypers like saturday for example I think I played 25 mtts. My hourly however is probably half or less than what it is playing hypers but the trade off there is the hours are way less intense so putting in long hours is easier. Mtts can be a nice switch for me here and there to mix things up but at the end of the day my hourly is higher in hypers and its less of a time commitment to start regging to sngs compared to mtts.

You're scaring me man, it ALMOST looks like we have found a little common ground. My general bank-roll rule is that I don't enter games or cash buyins if I don't have 10 or more buyins in my account - so $200 is usually my upper limit (now I'll only play the odd $100 if wadzon, exit, spanishfish, idb or dreamguy are seated). Maybe u have similar rules.

Most of the day you don't get much action > $60 anyways, so u may as well hit up some SnGs while u wait

As for the rake thing, yea, u are prob right. The TV pros I have heard talk about it say they can only beat the rake at tight online games above 2/4 NL. I used to see u quite often @ 3/6 tho, right?

I played around 50k hands of 3-6 in 12 and did pretty well. Lifetime Im probably up about 100k in cash games mostly from back in the day on full tilt but I have primarily always short stacked cash games so I dont really consider myself a good cash game player.

I am sure if you were nice enough someone on here would tell you...oh wait...

Your stack size represents you $ev HU. Of course you are making adjustments.

Indeed it is maybe a personal thing, no question. People can have different views to someone else apparently....maybe you should let Quantum know this!!

Are you back playing hypers regularly now sharkey?


Obviously, it works for you Brun. Gl man.

Well then the chip ev being +40k answers that question lol. Yeah i am back playing for a while, have had a redic start of the year playing live and my bankroll is scarily small. busto or robusto.

apples
pastry
juicy
sweet


or in one word:
Apfelmaultaschen


put some sugar on the table when serving them.

give them a try, they are really good

now give me that strudl recipe manndl!

cheesecake is tough. german cheesecake and american cheesecake are basically two different cakes.
afaik the basic ingredient for ny style cheesecake is cream cheese and for german cheesecake it is quark.

imo american cheesecakes are...dense. and german cheesecakes are fluffy.

started to get back into it now, much better day, only 20 buyins below ev.

hu chip ev = 311, chips won = -8,174

I had a streak of 6 2nd places in a row today. Maybe I need to work on my HU game

i got back to 1 buy in from even today then won 1 of the next 30.

hu ev = 527, won = -10,518

Is stars lagging for anybody else? every time i register it takes 3-4 seconds to go through. Really ****ing annoying whilst manual regging on a laptop.

A very respectable 25 buyins below ev today. Getting real close to 100 buyins under ev, i will post a graph if/when i get there, should only take another session or two.

i had faith one more session would do it. 35 buys ins below today and 105 below high point. I would say thank **** its the $3s but it feels worse seeing as my roll was already crushed.



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Just got 14 hands in a row without an Ace, from the beginning of a game. Quite much for being Omaha, imo. Every 3-4 hands, of course on average, has an Ace.

My March:



Pity the game a little... Have 18 max holdem try.

lucky fish

Congrats, Wadzon.

Nice job wadzon. Hope you're still aiming for SNE. #youcandoit