Folding and waiting for better hands is just an opportunity to observe and take notes

In defense of zoom - aside from the increased hands/hr, zoom is more fun for me because it's challenging and it pushes me to improve. As someone who came back to online poker 2 months ago after a decade hiatus, playing tons of hands against tough opponents taught me the meta far faster than playing against a standard 10nl pool with 2+ fish per table. By getting put into difficult spots constantly (I get one every ~200 hands), it forces me to research and understand these spots, research the players in my pool and try to think about exploits to counter their play. Maybe I've not been successful at that - from my HHs and graphs you will see that I'm far from a crusher, but I'd say it's undeniably helped me ramp up my knowledge in a short time frame.

By contrast, I recently started playing on bovada 25nl reg tables and the tables are much softer with multiple fish/table. I've had only 4k hands so far, but there have been much fewer hard decisions. Maybe I'm playing on autopilot and not exploiting the fish hard enough, but I think if I started there and not at zoom, I would be worse off skill-wise.

When you are just mindlessly folding from table to table there is no opportunity to see what kind of tendencies someone has and take advantage of them. Even playing 4 reg tables i can make enough observations by watching hands play out that im not involved in to add a lot of EV

Today’s Wordle ended my best streak of 127. LOL

I got it in 6 guesses to extend my streak to 2

Congrats, here’s to a new year of bigger and better streaks!

Oh yea, before it's too late

2022 was an odd year. Lots of personal things came up which caused me to need to withdrawal my roll a few times. Tried shot taking 25nl on a very short roll the last 2 months, and ran and played poorly.

2023 Goals

1. Study more. Review hands after each session and look over some common lines/spots in my DB once a month.

2. Practice better BR management

3. Play 1 or 2 MTTs a week

4. No ego - don't let an individual hand define me.

Awww, sorry to hear man. That is a beast streak, and you survived plenty of streak busters to get there.

The last several days have been rough. I have been barely hanging on with some fives and sixes.

My goals for 2023:

1. Change the layout of my coaching and produce some material (notes, solves, example hands) for every lesson that I offer

2. Move up to 2kNL (currently playing 500NL regularly and testing the waters at 1kNL)

3. Learn some basics of PLO/PLO5 because the games seem super juicy and the average player is pretty bad, considering the game is not explored yet

4. START A BLOG HERE ON TWO PLUS TWO (gonna do this probably in the next days)

Nice goals from everyone who posted - setting goals is the best way to progress in poker and life.

Quick question : NL10 100bb deep.

Will you always call a 5b shove after "standard sized" 3b and 4b with AK ?

GTO wizard says you do, but i do not necessarily believe the population will 4b gto, either they will never do it with AQs, 99,TT and maybe not JJ, or they will do it with a lot more combos if they are fishy/on tilt.

What's your take and what reads do you use to decide ?

No it's based on position. BUvsSB yes. UTGvsBB no.

My approach is if you don't want to call a 5 bet shove with AK then don't 4 bet with it. If you open UTG and BB 3 bets you, just flat and see a flop. I wouldn't 4 bet then fold it.

Against standard sizes you are probably getting the right price to call vs a range of QQ+/AK.

How can i study 3bet pots with GTO+/GTOWiz most effeciently? In particular OOP starting SB/BB vs BTN/CO etc? I use hand2note too btw

Well done man. You deserve it as does DooDoo!

I want to get to 100nl this year and also set myself a target off 20 live donkaments..

Also thinking of getting GTO+ via the Red Chip bundle where they have tutorials on how to set up trees. Does anyone have this, or are the trees pretty easy/intuitive to set up themselves?

this is a very broad question. In general though look at metrics like equity distribution, bet sizing, and checkraise frequencies on GTO wiz to understand why we take certain strategies on certain boards, and then put it into GTO+ to nodelock and create a more simplified strategy

There is a "Solver School" channel on YT with very good tutorials on how to use GTO+

I did this and it's pretty good value. I was completely new to solvers so I found the course pretty helpful.

Thanks man!

Thanks.. I didnt know gtowiz had check raise frequencies? Ill take a look

Thanks guys - I went and bought the bundle, using the RCP courses primarily and will supplement with Solver School.

I put this on my desktop next to my tables when I'm playing.

So far so good

Is this all it takes?