What do you believe are the most important strategical concepts/qualities to grasp for a player to do well in the games you play? I would imagine the most important thing is to deeply understand ranges and what lines to take/balance with on various board textures and situations etc. Secondly i figure having a good grasp on combinatorics is very important to make correct decisions in all spots.
Do you agree with this? Are you able to quickly do out rough estimations of players ranges by combos in your head while playing and it helps you alot? Best of luck to you!

Nitty bankroll management and copying trends at higher stakes are a couple of leaks i think small stakes players have.

What you said is correct and being able to do basic combinatorics in your head is crucial but i think being able to "soulread" certain spots is a very important and underrated skill.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean.. on either point, really.

"Nitty bankroll management" is a leak?

and..

can you explain "copying trends at higher stakes"?

EDIT: Oh and.. biggest downswing in BB's?

hmm

guilty as charged .

cant break out of my nitty brm. but i guess it's directly dependent on your skill.

please reply to pm if you have time.

mad props, sick giraffe

I heard you're traveling overseas soon to play Dota2 professionally, are you really considering quitting poker for Dota2?

Daysofthunderarse2?

NLHE confirmed dead, OP killed it.

If you want to move up quickly man up and take shots. You can always move back down if the shot doesn't go well and you will improve more playing with better players.

By copying trends at higher stakes i mean people rail hands or watch videos and then try to bluff bad regs at 100nl off overpairs. Or they see sauce limping his range bvb at 25/50 and then use this strategy at 400nl without realising theyre paying 20bb/100 more in rake in this spot than if they used a typical 3x 40% strategy.

Biggest downswing in bbs about 25 or 30 buyins over that sample however i have had some bigger ones in the past.

only if we sign you on as hard carry.

OP - did moving up in stakes where your raises would be well respected ever factor into your decision making?

op any chance you were the one who took jeans laptop at arts?

only way most of us could win like that wp.

HERO
well played man

PM if you want to play some IXDL games

Bumhunting killed it

Nice graph + work ethic

beast

Wow, this is really impressive. Well done!

Thats sick! Well played man!
Please post stats and red/blue lines if you dont care.

Congrats! very impressive.. Do you mind sharing your poker history?? thanks!

we played a bit vs eachother at midstakes on party in 07-09 somewhere. did you find that the game evolved extremely fast between 09-11? im one of those guys that made a killing for a while and like over night turned into a BE rb grinder and had to rebuild after black friday. did that ever happen to u?

its very inspiring to see that those winrates are still achievable! GG

Wow this is really impressive. Nice job!

nice giraffe man

Pretty standard story. Started with ftp freerolls and free 50$ bankrolls on various sites in 2008 and eventually ran it up on party, and then moved up and started adding other sites.

I never really notice the games getting harder because its a gradual process but you can look at hands from 3 years or even 9 months ago and see how much better people have become. I would imagine if you went from making a killing to breakeven in a short period of time you were either running really well beforehand or really poorly afterwards or a combination of the two.

I did win less in 2011 than in 2010 which was kind of a wakeup call, so in 2012 i worked on my game a bit more, played fewer tables and game selected more.

OP, great job indeed, you seem to be an intelligent, hard working and nice person.
Question: your last strat post (or at least thread you started) dates back to more than one year ago. Is this because you believe
[ ] 2p2 strat discussion / content quality deteriorated over last year or so, you feel like you can no longer improve by using it
[ ] you no longer want to share your strat insights with others for obvious reasons
[ ] you moved to another venue for strat discussion (public or private)
[ ] all of the above
[ ] none of the above, but ...