So it's been a month since I posted, I almost don't know where to start.
So first off let me apologize for the absence, it's never my intention to go leave without saying but I had a string of events.
My computer had a failure so I had to get it repaired and I end up using the profits from my poker, which started the absence. Work was a bit unusual for the month of February, where my schedule was really just messed up. Further more, when I did got back into playing, my PT4 just wasn't recording data properly. PT4 support was slow to respond and it took a long time to really solve things, so there was so many reasons keeping me from updating you all. Was finally able to get the data in though.
Last but most importantly, February and this month hasn't been a good month when I did play, so I was bit on the discouraged side playing, and because I end up using the profits to repair my computer (since i only use it to poker with now anyway), I end up dropping down in stakes and all that so all that really just wasn't good for me mentally.
So here is my yearly results so far, as you can see its pretty obvious where I moved down in stakes on the graph and as you can see, with everything that went on, I still had to deal with the variance part of the game, where I just got owned completely by variance.
This month, I haven't been playing as much as well I am intending to slow down a bit and regain my motivation to play.
So this week was a bit more trial and error, as I was researching and moving about, trying to conquer all the good things poker can offer outside the tables. Well what I discovered is things don't always go as smoothly. I encountered problem after problem, and it even had me re-evaluating alot of things.
First off, since the discovery of the rake issue, I came across a better understanding about online poker. For one, there aren't much site that is cheaper than 888 to play on except for Full Tilt and Pokerstars. This was also news to me since I am now paying more attention to these things after seeing just how it affects my winrate, so it makes sense why in general alot of people are attracted to the big market like Pokerstars and the reason Full Tilt is cheap is because its own by the same people that own Pokerstars (According to the online articles).
So what does this exactly did for me was first, it made me consider playing on Full Tilt or Pokerstars but there are some personal issues outside of the logical reasons that kept me away. Do note, these personal issues contributes to my comfort playing on these 2 sites. The biggest reason Competition: Now this here had me stumbling over rocks and climbing mountains trying to think about if I want to be playing on sites where the competition is greatly that much better. In my previous post "Beware of the rake", I mentioned about just studying and becoming better than my competition, well there is a fine line there that I really didn't get much into because I wanted it to be a simple message. The fine line for me is that fish/reg/really good reg ratio. How often will i run into fishes on these sites? How often will I run into the regs that I can beat? How often do I run into the regs that are just ridiculously tough?
Variance: This tops my personal issue by far because it may be just me or not, but I been playing poker for a few years and for sure Pokerstars and Full Tilt aren't rigged, but I experienced some of the greatest EV differential on these 2 sites. What I mean is, in the past, when I run bad, I mean it's the worse run bad I could imagine. On the flip side of things, when I ran good, it was almost like I could blindly close my and shove any 2 and get a good. I've had monster upswings before with EV being really low and I had monster downswings with EV being high. Not saying it's not possible anywhere else, but I never had such swings like mentioned anywhere else except at Pokerstars and Full Tilt. It crushes my confidence on bad days and then give me that sense of false hope on others. Its really a roller coaster of emotions for me, and while all in all, it all balances out, It's not comfortable for me and playing else where avoiding these big roller coaster results helps alot.
My Goal: My Goal still remain the same to obtain a 8% ROI at HUSNGs but if I go to these sites, I may have to reconsider what is the best thing to do because there are just tons of regs that I have to compete with where having a winrate is obviously good, but 8% on there might be looking at some deeper study and methods than before. The most important thing here besides reconsidering is doubting myself, I don't want to have enter a field to doubt if my goal is reasonable and lose that confidence.
Besides my personal issues, the logical choice would seem by far to play on Pokerstars and Full Tilt.
I'll be honest though, at first I was thinking about staying on Full Tilt, I played a bit, didn't run too good but I had a bigger issue. PT4 wasn't importing properly, I lacked informtion and lack my results. The support team and I went back and forward trying to fix it, but it seems to be something wrong with my system or something that isn't an easy fix. All in all, I still left Full Tilt because of my personal issues and I don't want to play no where, where I can't have keep records, how am I suppose to accomplish my goals without the basic of necessity?
With help from Pokerstrategy, I ended up joining 24h Bet on the Microgaming Network.
Can't escape the rake issues but at least I'll be getting better rakeback and faster withdrawals but lose having to deal with traffic.
There is one problem that still haunts me though.
My PT4.......
Well it works almost fine except, it incorrectly imports the wrong details of the tournament, which means my results are not showing the way it suppose to be showing. Well the support team and I will probably become good friends with all these problems I keep encountering, it's rather very exhausting and if I can't really solve it, I might just go back to 888poker and just be grateful that at least here my only problem is their loyalty program, which I hope I don't have to do.
So this is a follow up from yesterday's post where I started to talk about the loyalty rewards a little more deeply, and as I followed up with really diving into loyalty programs I came across some information that caused to me to move from 888poker immediately and I wanted to share some light on this matter.
For once as a HUSNG player, I was always aware that rake cuts into your winrate and you should be looking to get the best deals and so on. However, things change once you start diving into the volume aspect of the game. So despite me being a HUSNG player, anybody who is serious about putting in decent amount of volume should pay very close attention to what I have presented below.
First of all, I have been diving into getting good a deal as far as rakeback and loyalty programs could offer. This in a vacuum, kept me from seeing something that I didn't see too well.
Rake:
We all know the talks about rake, etc. Some of you may be more aware than others (and me) and some may not, but how many of us truly knows how much does rake affects our win rate? I actually took my January results and crunch some numbers up (trying to figure out good loyalty deals for rakeback) but instead got some shocking information about the site I am playing on instead. For one, I anticipated something like this, but never imagined there was such a huge difference.
The first mistake that I made was never paying close attention to the exact amount of rake being raked.
On 888Poker:
$5 HUSNG: $4.55 + $0.45
$10 HUSNG: $9.10 + $0.90
On Full Tilt:
$5 HUSNG: $4.77 + $0.23
$10 HUSNG: $9.45 + $0.45
As you can see, while I knew 888poker was raked higher, I was unaware that it was DOUBLED the amount of the top tier site. This may be because we only hear about rake in the form of % and we really don't dive into the number aspect of things, but keep reading it gets more interesting. Below are my results from January playing $5 games and $10:
I will be using my $10 games to illustrate a powerful point, but before that the original goal here was to see how much of a difference the rakeback from the loyalty programs of 888poker and Full Tilt would be and how it would affect my winrate. Here is my information:
888Poker
190 Games: $9.10 + $0.90 = $1,900
Rake: $171.00 (190 Games x $0.90)
Rakeback: $7.70 (4.5% - Silver)
Win: 104 ($1,892.80)
= $1,892.80 - 1,900
= -$7.20 + Rakeback ($7.70)
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Full Tilt
190 Games: $9.45 + $0.45
Rake: $85.50
Rakeback: $8.55
Win: 104 ($1965.6)
= $1965.60 - $1900
= $65.60 + Rakeback ($8.55)
= $74.15
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The Sad Truth is, I haven't even calculated the different levels of the loyalty reward program on Full Tilt and on 888poker you have to climb like 3 other status with a rakeback of 2.5% just to earn Silver's 4.5% Rakeback. The loyalty program of 888poker always bugged me but this might cause me never to want to play on 888poker again, more importantly, this caused me to be 100% more alert about picking different sites I play on. The overall results:
So here is the thing, I did that for the $10 games, what about the $5 games and my win rate? Well I had to see for myself just how much money I was causing myself. For this, because midway I was earning 2.5% Rakeback under Bronze status then started to earn 4.5% rakeback under Silver, I will just calculate everything under Silver for the sake of the point that I have that (Even though PT4 doesn't show rakeback).
Here is the results:
888Poker:
594 Games: $4.55 + $0.45 = $2,970
Rake: $267.30 (594 Games x $0.45)
Rakeback: $12.03 (Silver - 4.5%)
Overall: 8.73% (Note: For those who may not know, to calculate ROI: (Profit/Total Amount Spent) x 100)
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So basically, all this time I been fighting for a 8% - 10% ROI that I see top players been obtaining at the micros and little that I knew, it wasn't me that was the problem (well not entirely me, I still do want to improve) but it was the site I play on that was the problem.
Now of course this doesn't take into account of the competition difference and traffic between the sites but by looking at the data there, the difference is too huge and I rather just study to better than the competition on another site than to play on a softer site where rake dominates the "edge" I thought I would have by playing a softer field.
As of today, I will be on Full Tilt, until I finish check out other sites and more properly too. I will make probably do a report later on for any of you guys who are considering playing any form of SNGs.
For all those players out there, especially playing on other smaller or new sites, make sure you are aware of how rake is affecting your winrate. It might not make a huge difference for those who don't put in no volume and play like once a week, but if you plan to be playing online poker for a little while then consider how rake can affect your numbers in the long run because you can't take back volume you put in and I would hate to see any of my fellow players out there after months of hard work looking at their results like I did, just to figure out you could have made much more for your time only if you had played else where.
For all those players playing cash games or even live poker, it may not be as simple to figure out how much rake is affecting your games like it is for us tournaments players, but it is definitely possible to still figure out so put some time an effort in making sure you truly understand the numbers and do not just assume like I did. Do the research and make sure you are not hurting yourself in the long run.
So if you haven't noticed but the strategy I have been using so far is more Unexploitative & math based. For the most part this clarified a lot of things for me, such as what is the correct play but more importantly it help drew a vivid and solid picture for how I can exploit later on.
I want to be the first to recommend that if you are looking to improve your game, this may be the route you want to take, by getting into the unexploitative game style numbers on HUDs starts to make a lot more sense and spots become a lot more easier.
So as I continue to work on my Unexploitative game I want to purchase the Coffeyay Heads Up HUD to maximize my exploitative game. I'm beginning to understand so much more about what type of hands should be continuing and how it relate to combos. So far the most exploitation I been doing in my game came from Preflop only and look at my results so far. I am thinking that to have 10% ROI and higher, I will need to strengthen my unexploiative knowledge and my villians would bluntly let me know exactly which spots they are making mistakes in.
Betsizing:
This have been the key for all mathematical decisions. Opening sizes, cbet sizes, etc. There is an important theory I have developed that I will be putting into full practice later on:
(Learn more about my ratio by checking at Red Chip Poker under Doug's Range Construction Video Series)
Based on range and ratio:
I came with this theory that bet-sizing should probably be different every street as my ratio of value:bluff changes. Each street has a larger sizing which sets up a nice dynamic on the river. This is really the default bet-sizing plan I have in play now.
However bet-sizing will probably change under certain circumstances: Capped Range: Usually when I say Capped Range I am specifically talking about a spot where Its hard to have the monsters on previous streets because they would be in a different range (For eg. Check flop and turn, makes it hard to have Top pair or 2 pair). However in a spot where I have a capped range but improve to a value hand (For eg. Check 2 streets with A2 on K726 and facing a river card 2 or A), I typically would consider an overbet here. Thing is, its not common to run into a player who slow plays too much, and in a spot where my default image is to be a big better I can level players who isn't thinking about my range too much into calling. At this point the pot will usually be pretty small, especially if early on in the match so it isn't super scary as stack threatening or anything.
Exploitative Value-Only Range: Let's say I am in a spot where villain usually folds more than he should on the turn but decided this time he calls my turn bet. This is an exploitative spot where he is more likely to have a hand he can call with and usually this would be a spot to not have a bluffing range but based on my hand strength I will size my bet differently, being weaker hands = smaller bets and stronger hands = bigger bets. This may change into being where I just bet on the smaller size vs better players who will likely have a hand he can call with.
So on the other hand if you haven't figured out, I am more likely to size smaller with a value only range and size bigger with a balanced, default game style range, with the exception of having a capped range spot, where I just really pull the trigger. These spots should be much easier to spot as i continue to work on my unexploitative game where the outcome should mean I should be 100x tougher, hopefully just soul crushing stakes in the near future.
So January is over and there are some few things I would like to discuss.
First off, lets go into some detailed results:
This week I decided to move up to $10 games since I had alot of free time I thought it would be good to increase the earnings, plus I had a personal vendetta from last year playing these games where I ran like absolute garbage in this stake.
This time was no different, I started off fairly good and back into the trend from last year with a big soul crushing downswing on Friday. Personally I went through a different type of tilt I'm not to familiar with where I had this thing that Its always the $10 games on 888poker where I just can't catch a break feeling, where I think the recreational players are still the same and the quality of play is no different. However, I also did notice there were a few more regs than the $5 games which is expected but I easily avoided them for the most case, and when I did play them I did pretty well against them. Not the same case against the recreational players. This time I decided to stick it out at the $10 games to try overcome the my personal issues with the stakes and try to get back on track.
Below is a breakdown between the $5 games and the $10 games
As you can see, I ended the month slightly losing at the $10 games but did pretty well in the $5 games.
With a 6.85% ROI in the $5 games I did pretty well but not where I would like to be. Eventually I would want to fix this and will be playing the different levels to fix this win rate to meet up to my standards.
Now lets talk Rakeback and Reward System:
First off, I cashed $21 in rakeback, however this was a combination between December and January, where half the first month in January I was earning 2.5% Rakeback under Bronze status which improved to 4.5% Rakeback under Silver status.
Now me personally, I am very much upset about the reward system and I have been thinking about moving before, slowed down that thought after the Pokerstars changes were made to their loyalty system waiting to see how the rest of the poker site would respond and see if competitors would try to compete for the players who want to grind elsewhere because of this. However, not much happened as expected and I am back to square one where I am highly considering moving elsewhere.
888 Poker to me has the best rewards for MTT players with ton of free money for grabs, a ton of status tournaments etc. but I feel they personally neglect the other type of players but I can't complain too much because their method keeps their games relatively soft.
My main concern about the reward system is for days like I had this weekend where I want to play despite going through a downswing and most of that downswing happened because of the rake. Look at my chip graph, there isn't a dent in the graph (plus the fact that my downswing was the result of being like 34 - 35). At this point its time to make a closing decision on playing elsewhere because personally, I feel with my skill level, I would expect tougher games on the major sites like Pokerstars and full tilt but finding how much of a decline in my winrate + the rakeback rewards offered may prove to actually earn me more money.
It's a very delicate subject and I do need to highly consider this move for the better of my game.
Here is some slight numbers to put out there for those who may not understand exactly where I am coming from:
Silver Status on 888poker: 4.5%
Lowest level on both Pokerstars/Full Tilt: 10%
Rake Paid in January: $438.30
Rewards:
888poker: $19.72
Pokerstars/Full Tilt: $43.83
Keep in mind, that as I grind higher levels I get higher rewards, and judging by my output I calculated for reaching gold on pokerstars and silver on Full tilt for about 20% rakeback (or more, its hard to pinpoint with their system setup) for: $87.66
A huge difference in that extra earnings, of course though you have to take into consideration that
1. Pokerstars don't have $10 games
2. Rake is actually cheaper on Pokerstars/Full Tilt which affects rake paid
3. Traffic, Pokerstars will probably allow me to get more games in and Full Tilt, I may get less games in.
I scratched Party Poker off of my list, their husng formats just isn't good for me and traffic is pretty low, I do not want to play on the iPoker network ever since I had my account frozen on Titan Poker because they stop taking customers from the Bahamas.
I will make it my goal this week to check into Microgaming Poker Network since I saw that I can get a 30% Rakeback deal somewhere + it has more traffic than Full Tilt so that sounds really good for me.
So I've been pretty busy and stressed out with some life stuff, but it didn't stop me from putting in the volume. I've had a steady increase, going through the usual swings one would face in any HUSNG format.
During the couple days, I have realized my aggression from the SB defending, was probably a tad bit higher than I want. I think its because I am still not comfortable nor familiar with the new strategy like I am betting. I devoted my time into fixing this with studying and picking spots where I would want to play a more exploitative style vs my new strategy.
Week Result:
Other than the problem I encountered, my non-showdown winnings have been steadily increasing as well which brings a new dynamic to the tables vs villains that I play frequently.
Overall Result:
I've reached a new peek this week which is obviously a good thing. Graphs looks very pretty and I'm steadily climbing.
Shout out to Vaniaubanii14,
I had an extremely rough day Friday, was down by probably 10 or 11 BIs. Then Vaniaubanii14 came along and he kept playing me. We had a really really long session, at the end of the day I think I stuck him for about 12 buy-ins, even though I didn't win all of it, he brought my winrate up to about even which was really needed for my confidence that day.
So first, I want to say that all in all, I am not perfect.
What I meant by that, is upon taking this challenge I considered a lot of things but time management was one of those things, I didn't put much consideration into. With that being said, posting these blogs on a daily basis when I play is something more time consuming than I imagine it would be. To counter this, I will start posting weekly.
This has some merits to it though:
*It will give time for everyone to enjoy the post more and not be cluttered with all kind's of post
*It will allow me to post more news, and other poker related topics as I choose
Other than that, after Study Session #10, I will be stop using Weak Tight to post my hands or at least until they can actually fix those bugs they have. It's pretty annoying to have those bugs such as the Ks keep popping up randomly in my hand history when it's nothing wrong with my hand history, and then there are other bugs I encounter that you don't see. I have emailed them a few times, but the responses have been slow and the problems are just really annoying me.
So during this study session, I ran into a trivia that I will be posting on Red Chip Forums to see if I can get some feedback on. I'll actually post that hand up first for anybody redirected here because I am really curious in finding a solution to it.
Comment: So I'm back in a spot where I am noticing my range will have less than the optimal continuing %. For me, this means I would have a higher checking frequency than normal. My problem came with if I should be falling back into a more exploitative route where once I check, it's obvious I don't have nothing good at all since I can't really split my range. Having a higher frequency would mean I should give up more? It puts me in tough spots on the river where my range is Capped really hard.
So I am really thinking about this spot, and my only thing I can think of is to check my entire range here, allowing me to have the right calling range, raising range and river range where I don't get exploited. However, there are 2 problems to this:
1. OOP I may have to face 2 bets rather than just 1 &
2. I give up value.
Comment: So this hand taught me the importance of playing my bottom pairs optimally.
The problem that made me think alot is the river play. It's a spot where I think I have to live with the fact that I am going to be extremely weak when I check here. I am not willing to put strong combos in that range and risk losing value, but at the same time, what happens when I encounter a better player who may pick up on this and start checking back to do some overbetting, etc.?
Conclusion: My main focus right now is those spots like the AQo where I could find myself Capped really hard. Having spots where I am capped is more problematic in the long run and If I am going to compete at the higher limits, I need to have something close to unexploitable. However, for the players at higher limits that do not notice this, I can really exploit alot of players on the flip side of it. That's probably more valuable than fixing my range, which still is important.
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Results (Overall Results):
Aggressor: Not Sure but will put under mistake since I have no clear Correct Play. (20%)
Defend: Mistake (25%)
Raised: Correct (44.44%) Total Percentage (Total Hands): 29.63% (27)
So a few days ago, Poker Strategy sent me an email, offering me free money to play on Party Poker. I've hooked up the account which will be tracked on Poker Strategy with all their benefits. I checked out the Party Poker software and games, and they don't really have Red Speed HUSNG, but they do have Turbo format which isn't bad either. I've thought about it, but how I see it, it's less traffic but better software and reward and loyalty system.
So as of right now, how I see it, if I take up a side challenge with Party Poker, I might consider something like fast forward Cash games they have, probably look at keeping some kind of record on Red Chip Poker Forums. As of right now, I'm still undecided about what I want to do but I feel like it's a good chance to earn a few bucks and take advantage of Poker Strategy benefits which is a huge consideration in how I am thinking about it. However, because of the lack of traffic and no Reg Speed HUSNGs, I am less incline to make it my new home.
I've look into HU Cash as well, it starts at 50NL which I might think about, but I'll probably need to consider investing into Pro Poker Hud's HU Cash HUD, but If I do play 50NL Cash, I'll probably be more committed into making Party Poker my primary poker destination and I'm not sure if I want to make that move yet without better information.
I'll still think about it to the extent what I want to do and accomplish because I think the perks of it is really good even if it is small volume.
Well, looks like the win streak continues. So far, I've been increasing my ROI slowly back to the goal. I hit my goal ROI of 8% with today's win but I still would like to obtain that 10%. Either way, I am more than happy of my progression.
So let's look at Today's Result:
The scary part is I still I am far from perfecting this style but the results has been really amazing so far. So I'm really excited to see how far I can go with this.
Overall Results:
So looks like the graphs are really getting there. Probably should be aiming to play at the next level soon but what's the rush, right?
So today turned to be a next good day. I noticed something so far for the year. I only had 2 losing days so far since the new year and HUSNG suppose to be a very swingy game. I feel good about that. It shows what hard work can accomplish.
Anyway let's look at the results.
Today's Result:
Chip graph looks good, results look good, what more can I say? Keeping my redline positive is getting easier and easier, all thanks to the unexploitative game style I been doing. I'm pretty thankful for Red Chip for that though.
Overall Results:
Nothing more to say but I'm getting my win-rate up there. I'm at 7% ROI now which is massive for me and I'm just working to get that 10% ROI.
So I must admit there was a lot to learn in my study session. I had to make some few adjustments here and there but its apart of the process. Let's get into it.
Comment: Here is a classic spot where putting my ranges real-time is probably extremely hard + I never really worked out a situation like this where the board is double paired. Only thing i knew is I'm never folding. I think I could of guessed that A-high is probably going to be a value bet, however I think I was more scared of being wrong than being right at the time, especially holding a weaker Ax.
Comment: The 3, 4, 5 situation causes things to change a bit. I decided to start thinking about which BD- Straight draws I want to use so I don't confuse myself during real time, and I decided to focus on BD-Straights revolving around Tx. Now unlike the other board, I still needed a few more bluffs, and its hard to decide which I will be using on a board to board basis, but logically I think using BD-straights revolving 5x that blocks straights to Tx (Eg. J6) is a way to think about it, but In this case I want to utilize my Ax hands since they have better equity with BDs to the wheel.
When raised, I think it's important to realize that I shouldn't always be raising with a ton of my Tx here. I already naturally raise majority of them because of the dynamics of the game, which have to change. With the adjustment of my bluffing range, my raising range here is much better than before. Here I will take the top tier side of the BD-Straight draws revolving around Tx that has heart blockers and raise here. I struggle with the different sizing but one thing I do know, when the min-raise hits, my borderline hands become some A-high. Just have to work on my game with other raise sizing.
The last thing I noticed is my range on the river looks so much better now. I have good hands to value bet, good hands to call a bet with, and my bluffing range here is probably the best it ever been. Bluffing miss draws and my Top tier A-high.
Comment: I noticed that I have been betting too much BD-Straight draws in my real time game and it's hard to tell what BD-Straight draws I should be bluffing. So I decided to only bet Top Tier BD-Straightdraws on FD - no paired flop texture. Also I have been thinking about my value range when a 3, 4 or 5 comes up, usually the adjustment would to bet the overcards, but here where there are no overcards just undercards, I think I rather settle for having less value combos, which could be an edge for villains if they ever realizes it but I doubt 99% of them will ever realize it.
On the Turn, this is a spot where I am naturally getting more thin value bets in, this is something I upgraded since naturally to "correctly" call they would have to call much wider. However, when the board pairs, this is where I have more trouble defining my bluffs and continuing range because it's much harder to connect and usually this means we have to venture down the "high card" rank, which I have the greatest problems defining these in my ranges. So what I decided to do is use the middle tier BD-Straight draw range from the flop to help balance this spot.
The River shocked me the most, I Didn't realize how thin I should be value betting here. Thinking about in an exploitative mindset, I guess it makes sense, since Tx and Ax should be betting the turn. Thinking about the "correct" calling range, he should have a ton of combos here as well. I'll admit from an exploitative point of view this may be a bit too thin, but if I am going to get better I probably need to take these spots.
Conclusion: I want to make sure I am not bluffing too much because I changed the sizing of my bets to a larger size which started to made a big difference in my results lately and I want to make sure my ranges are getting better and better.
So today actually went good. The good news is that we are finally pushing the Red Line into the green. That is huge, because when I first became a winning player, my red line would always go straight down, opposite from my blue line. As i got better and develop my "aggressive" nature, my red line would be negative but it would go down in a huge huge slow process as my blue line climb. Even my last year result was the same. However, upon diving into a more mathematical approach my red line has actually been extremely stable and by tweaking around my game I think I may have finally put all the pieces together to have a really winning aggressive style.
Let's get into it.
Today's Result:
As you can see, I ran pretty good and was able to perform at a really high level. I'm surprised that I won close to 6K in chips. That itself is about 4 games worth of chips I won just from the folds I was getting. That's huge! If I can at least keep up this kind of results during bad runs then my downswings can be a thousand times better.
Overall Results:
So my chip graph is coming alot really well. My results for the year is at a new peak. That's obviously well. Winrate is sitting at 6% ROI, and I still feel like I am a long way from in my game and in this style. Seeing this makes me proud to know that my style is working and makes me want to keep working hard.
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Learn more about my poker goals here: Introduction
Comment: Here I wanted to double check my hand as it would play out when I'm mostly checking, to make sure I have enough combos that can continue pretty well.
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Comment: This hand was played in an exploitative manner as you seen and will be marked as a mistake but I wanted to verify how wide I would be continuing on this board texture and double check my ranges because I felt so unsure about what continues.
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Comment: I figured my continuing range will be much wider here, once again I was unsure what continues and decided to check it out.
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Conclusion: I purposely stayed away from any long explanation because I wanted to see what you guys may think but I want to keep looking at spots that give me trouble visualizing my range real time. I'm starting to see where checking back some hands has been really helpful in terms of getting chips and I want to really make sure my ranges are built perfect as possible. I'm also doing very small changes in my range building allowing slightly weaker hands than usual to move in the value tab because based on % and # of combos, one should be continuing so wide. By doing this, this allows me to play around with my stronger combos a bit having them fit in checking ranges in different spots, especially when defending.
