Staples is supposed to be using RYE's ranges or at least he should if he is supposedly coached by them. I use those ranges, AKS is a 3b. Pretty straight forward, but it's more about his lackadaisical attitude in not taking free coaching material (from the best) seriously.

Dam, I just wanted to know a work ethic of a top reg. Now this thread has just turned into a witch hunt, f.ck poker, ill try making money through finger painting instead

To me is more interesting if that top 5 player from Austria from this 10k Main Event were RYE members? Like it looks like there are more end bosses from Germany/Austria then North Europe.

The populations in Scandanavia are very small. Germanys population alone is over 3x sweden/finland/norway/denmark combined.

If u guys think Lena is performing so great because he is so agressive blabla I think ure wrong. Especially preflop I saw him beeing way more cautious then other regs. I feel like he is playing a way more post flop based style and this is where his big edge comes from. Saw him flatting pairs like jj/qq in certain 25-35bb spots instead of 3bet/gii that all other regs would do. Same with AK. He definitely does some things different then the majority of the top regs imo. Maybe Iam wrong and these were just special spots with reads on villains, but from what i saw from him it at least seems a little bit like that to me.

2 at FT were from italy but live in austria

Very interesting series, unfortunately Lex has made his stats private, so I don't know if he's beating the high stakes this year, but IIRC he beat $100 ABI last year when he had em public and you can see some of the simple range mistakes he's making. Lena I'm sure knows his 100%.

People make mistakes who knew

There is a difference of magnitude of mistakes, chess categorizations work well:

Inaccuracy (almost never costs you the game)
Mistake (can cost you the game quite often)
Blunder (will cost you the game most of the time)

An inaccuracy is calling 63o in the bb 3 ways when it should be 64o, a mistake would cbetting AKo OOP on 1087 3 ways because we have to "protect our range" and a blunder would be potting AA on 1098 montone where you don't have flush blockers 3 ways.

What's interesting is the amount of blunders Lex makes pre flop, specifically one being that he folded A5s in sb v a UTG opener, Ben pulled up equilab and showed him how bad this was (he had around around 40% equity, was getting 3.5 to 1 to call).

There are other spots that I would classify more as mistakes, but it's interesting that Lex plays at the highest level successfully (at least from what we know) while making these massive preflop blunders, same thing with Tonkaaa.

If we had an in depth look at Lena's game, I'm sure there might be an inaccuracy here or there and maybe a very occasional mistake (maybe one every 5-10k hands), but I would bet he is close to perfect preflop at least within a GTO and exploitative confines.

Lol one mistake every 10k hands

Even oborra made more mistakes

I think you should mostly shut the **** up when you have 0 idea what you're talking about and are just blundering nonsense 24/7.

I was talking about preflop, you think he's doing something as seriously wrong as folding A5s in the SB v UTG open as a cognizant decision regularly?

I think if that were the case, people would rebut what I was saying without throwing childish tantrums as you've done, besides even if I was wrong in my assertions, people can correct me and everyone learns.

Take someone like yourself, you can't even differentiate between blundering and blabbering and yet you have the audacity to call others out for being incorrect.

Tell you what though, you play $60 ABI successfully, educate the people with your excellent understanding.

Does Ben pay you to shill?

LOL 70AD, is this guy real life? or a robot?

Lena900 is actually Emil Forsberg, who scored Sweden's goal against Switzerland yesterday.

Professional footballers always make the best poker players.

2018 and guys that are EV- on micros still claim the high stakes crushers make money because they flip well

I wish, my personal experience with him has been very disappointing to say the least, that said his products and info are great.

Being a slave to ICM is simply smart and it depends on stacks among some other things.

Deeper understanding, I don't think so, likely hurts; I play a lot of different poker stuff.

Someone else mentioned that putting an opponent on a test for his whole stack; well, that reads in a book (vol 3) as Apestyles' style and he hasn't been winning with the usual stats (55% field, 25% roi, 11% top 10%) during the last years (nor has PearlJammer with the same stats and a different style).

Even weak players have up to similar ROIs and some top players are similarly lucky with the same stats. It seems that on average the top players are not losing in MTTs, but that's about it these days. The rest being luck, if you win or not and how much.

if being up over a million dollars over the last few years isn't winning. Then I wish to be a losing player just like apestyles.

Pearljammer plays low/micro stakes and has done for a long time unless he quit now.

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Old thread but I loved to give another answer to this, as it was what I was wondering about myself too since that guy Lena900 has most earnings by far now, according to pocketfives, however that's just showing total winnings not net-profit... A few things I noticed:

1. I don't believe you can always play very agressive and put pressure etc if you want to get far in each/most tournaments, when I do so I get busted anyway, once you are in that gambling mood you won't be patient and cautious anymore. At one FT when he was HU with the chipleader 1st hand he just bluffed off his entire stack with nothing and so got place2, so not always that smart to play like that. Another hand for example I saw him folding AK so he sure isn't always playing aggressive and loose otherwise he wouldn't be that succesful.

2. As for how these guys/pros study I think it all depends on the person, I'm not a guy that is into studying much game theory etc, I'd rather analyze your own play and just get out your leaks and improve, as well as your mind to keep going steady and stay focused/disciplined, not tilt etc... I think everyone has his way of playing poker or how you play hands etc, you always have a 100 ways or strategies and there is no perfect or ultimate one.
You can study a lot of theory and apply it too, but afterall you're not a robot in the game you will still play your own game mostly, at least I would.

3. Not all is what it looks, for example I was looking at the stats/results of the best poker pro in my country, has 10mil$+ in live earnings and also online very succesful, saw on sharkscope he made 100keuro+ last year on just one poker site and I thought wow, and that's just his winnings there...
But later on I read an article where he admitted that he actually had a losing year, because spent about 500k$ on live tourney buyins and won maybe 370k... So you can be fooled at players who at 1st sight seem to be very succesful... A lot of succesful players, online as I've seen have only 1/5 to up 1/10 or less actually net profit over their total prize money... That and other player stats/bankroll on sharkscope thought me some more of how the business of poker goes and the huge up and downswings most (pro) players have...

lena knows when to holdem and knows when to foldem. Does he know when to run? fedor might know when to run and it seems he has.

running like Jesus.

rake hard and jokerstars rewards you..

7OAD made this thread entertaining.

I wouldn't give a **** about poker anymore either after I won 33mil+ lmao..