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depends on how many regs do you want at the table.with 2-3 regs at the table maybe even 4 i can 6 table 7$ and 15$ turbo and knockout.in these 2-3 regs might be some good regs some BE even and loosing regs.

you play nash with them but nash is not a winning strategy,it's an equilibrium.if all players were regs and play perfect nash they all would be losing because of the rake.

i think stars games are harder than party but if you beat the 11$ on party you should beat the 7$ on stars.what sample do you have on 3.5$?maybe is just variance.

as for the number of tables i think is best to play less tables and try to improve your game.
GL

258 games down 20 bi, but i have only been playing 8 days, and some days i havent even played due to downswing. First 2 days i was up though, then i started tabling 12 instead of 6, and created shortcut keybindings so i dont feel like its going "too fast", so only thing i can think of, is im missing some timingtells. Although i have around 5-15 sngs where my inet fucked me up in crucial decisions so i got a ugly tilt session also, but if i count that out, i think im still only breakeven, and i should be like winning much more.
Current roi is -8.01%, BUT it that number is not taken in account that my tilt session after inet fucked me up when i was playing 12 tables (folded like 5 AA pf, 2-3 KK and some AQs where flop was A39 to a fish (more than 5 times) My chip ev goes up pretty steady, but my net adjusted ev is following green line pretty close.

Have u any experience in speeding up a process, where u know u can beat a surden limit, BUT for it to be comfortable, it has to be done a little slow by experience?
My answer is that i would play 12 tables so i could get the volume to get to the 15 within a month, but so far that hasnt been working, but maybe it IS a too small sample for me to say that yet?

Btw im an extreme nit where goes to br, since this is the only $$ i have to gamble for, so im doing it by 100-130bi rule, then when i get to 150 i would start mix in some 7s in bw around 3 7s and 9 3,5s (well thats my plan but i started with 30 bi for 5$ back on titan, and that i rocketed to 10$ within 70-100 sngs with a roi around 53%, and then after cooler after cooler back to 5s again. So maybe it COULD also have something to do with the psycological behind me playing too nitty right now, thinking that 3,5s is just so small that i dont "care", although i know its only numbers, i suspect something is going on around that area.
My old style at party and titan was to sacrifice itm for roi, alot on the boubble and such, but since i moved to stars, it looks like i have adjusted to the higher itm, with waaay too few 1. finishes. But HEY - again it could be a way too small sample for me to draw a conclusion yet, what do you think?

Originally posted by martinemem

depends on how many regs do you want at the table.with 2-3 regs at the table maybe even 4 i can 6 table 7$ and 15$ turbo and knockout.in these 2-3 regs might be some good regs some BE even and loosing regs.

you play nash with them but nash is not a winning strategy,it's an equilibrium.if all players were regs and play perfect nash they all would be losing because of the rake.

i think stars games are harder than party but if you beat the 11$ on party you should beat the 7$ on stars.what sample do you have on 3.5$?maybe is just variance.

as for the number of tables i think is best to play less tables and try to improve your game.
GL

258 games down 20 bi, but i have only been playing 8 days, and some days i havent even played due to downswing. First 2 days i was up though, then i started tabling 12 instead of 6, and created shortcut keybindings so i dont feel like its going "too fast", so only thing i can think of, is im missing some timingtells. Although i have around 5-15 sngs where my inet fucked me up in crucial decisions so i got a ugly tilt session also, but if i count that out, i think im still only breakeven, and i should be like winning much more.
Current roi is -8.01%, BUT it that number is not taken in account that my tilt session after inet fucked me up when i was playing 12 tables (folded like 5 AA pf, 2-3 KK and some AQs where flop was A39 to a fish (more than 5 times) My chip ev goes up pretty steady, but my net adjusted ev is following green line pretty close.

Have u any experience in speeding up a process, where u know u can beat a surden limit, BUT for it to be comfortable, it has to be done a little slow by experience?
My answer is that i would play 12 tables so i could get the volume to get to the 15 within a month, but so far that hasnt been working, but maybe it IS a too small sample for me to say that yet?

Btw im an extreme nit where goes to br, since this is the only $$ i have to gamble for, so im doing it by 100-130bi rule, then when i get to 150 i would start mix in some 7s in bw around 3 7s and 9 3,5s (well thats my plan but i started with 30 bi for 5$ back on titan, and that i rocketed to 10$ within 70-100 sngs with a roi around 53%, and then after cooler after cooler back to 5s again. So maybe it COULD also have something to do with the psycological behind me playing too nitty right now, thinking that 3,5s is just so small that i dont "care", although i know its only numbers, i suspect something is going on around that area.
My old style at party and titan was to sacrifice itm for roi, alot on the boubble and such, but since i moved to stars, it looks like i have adjusted to the higher itm, with waaay too few 1. finishes. But HEY - again it could be a way too small sample for me to draw a conclusion yet, what do you think?

your sample on stars is small.you can put a lot of volume to climb up in stakes but you must be sure you can beat those stakes.the 70-100 games with 53% roi is just a heater.you need a few thousands games to know you beat a limit.

my advise is to play the amount of tables you are comfortable and keep improving your game.it will have more benefits in the long run.

Ship it!

Look at us, back at gold baby

it will be some time untill i can be diamond from poker stars:)
how come you are gold?6 max is over?

Honestly thought it was implied i knew about that, but as u say, i can actually see the swings i should expect from my time at partypoker. This is on 3 diff limits, the last is ofc the highest, which funny enough is also the one with the highest roi.

about the 70-100, i was just giving u an insight in my startout in sngs, ofc it was a heater, i also was sure i could beat 10$ on titans back then after those 100 games.

So you have never experienced a move of roll to another site, and then not feeling comfortable playing ur regular stake? That is actually my question, since i suspect u have - how long was you to getting comfortable at the regular stake u where playing, when moved to another site, and what u did to fast up that process?

it will be some time untill i can be diamond from poker stars:)

Don't tell me that you are lucky one being tracked here via pokerstars?

how come you are gold?6 max is over?

well you know, better deals and i'm slowly moving away from SnG's if i can make it. I won't be gone for sure since i started coaching my old friend but i do wish to be free of that grinding. If things doesn't work out i can always return to that. But no way near, FR - so boooooring. ♦

Anyway, how's other format working? Cash, PLO? Tried yet?

Originally posted by martinemem
Honestly thought it was implied i knew about that, but as u say, i can actually see the swings i should expect from my time at partypoker. This is on 3 diff limits, the last is ofc the highest, which funny enough is also the one with the highest roi.

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about the 70-100, i was just giving u an insight in my startout in sngs, ofc it was a heater, i also was sure i could beat 10$ on titans back then after those 100 games.

So you have never experienced a move of roll to another site, and then not feeling comfortable playing ur regular stake? That is actually my question, since i suspect u have - how long was you to getting comfortable at the regular stake u where playing, when moved to another site, and what u did to fast up that process?

well when i was playing a lower limit that the limit i was used to play i was not so motivated when i was seeing the swings and how much i had to play until i can play my regular limit again.my plan was to play with an aggresive BR of 30BI and climb quickly in limits.as i said i was not so motivated so i went for a staking deal.if this is your feeling too you can put a lot of volume and climb up to the stake you want just be careful to be able to beat that limit.after the graph you showed me i think you can put a lot of volume in the 3.5$ because you can beat it

Originally posted by RovarTry

it will be some time untill i can be diamond from poker stars:)

Don't tell me that you are lucky one being tracked here via pokerstars?

how come you are gold?6 max is over?

well you know, better deals and i'm slowly moving away from SnG's if i can make it. I won't be gone for sure since i started coaching my old friend but i do wish to be free of that grinding. If things doesn't work out i can always return to that. But no way near, FR - so boooooring. ♦

Anyway, how's other format working? Cash, PLO? Tried yet?

Yes i have it tracked ♦

as for the other formats i didn't try any of them because i have some work at school and i saw that 9 man still have future and i want to concentrate on this now.

gimme 5 regs

i just play for a week and i don't know their names but if i see them at the table i can recognize some of them.

i saw some pretty good regs when i sharkscoped them.what regs do you think are the best there?

Oh i m sorry you misunderstood. I said give me 5 regs in one table any time ♦
Now i play only in peak hours because i dropped 7$s and i dont think there are many tables with less than 5-6 regs who are all winning. Variance is huge but this is good for my motivation

klicko766
magxedin
starfromhell
pasha89479
these are at one table.

gerovit gave me a great idea.from today until 12.06.2013 i will play 180h of poker.i hope i can complete this challenge

as an update played 22.1h instead of 36h but i might catch up.i am still happy with these hours.

what i am not happy is that more than half of the regs i mark are not opt in on SS and i don't know what to do with them.if anyone has any idea i am glad to hear.i have marked over 400 regs.i mark anyone who is playing 3 or more tables and anyone that i can't find in pokerstars.do you think is to much??

Originally posted by alxpoker91
what i am not happy is that more than half of the regs i mark are not opt in on SS and i don't know what to do with them.if anyone has any idea i am glad to hear.i have marked over 400 regs.i mark anyone who is playing 3 or more tables and anyone that i can't find in pokerstars.do you think is to much??

Note down as much information as you can about everyone is obviously really good. But of course it's important to distinguish between bad players playing 3 tables and solid regulars. Helps hugely with table selection. Even tho break even players are bad for your roi they are not nearly as bad as winning players. Just keep an eye on the tables and note down anything out of the ordinary and you'll quickly enough see which players are likely winning money and which aren't. Sharkscope doesn't really give you any information that you shouldn't already know if you've played 10-20 sng's vs they guy.

With that said. Nice blog you've got going. I'm gonna keep my eyes on it

Originally posted by Hlynkinn

Originally posted by alxpoker91
what i am not happy is that more than half of the regs i mark are not opt in on SS and i don't know what to do with them.if anyone has any idea i am glad to hear.i have marked over 400 regs.i mark anyone who is playing 3 or more tables and anyone that i can't find in pokerstars.do you think is to much??

Note down as much information as you can about everyone is obviously really good. But of course it's important to distinguish between bad players playing 3 tables and solid regulars. Helps hugely with table selection. Even tho break even players are bad for your roi they are not nearly as bad as winning players. Just keep an eye on the tables and note down anything out of the ordinary and you'll quickly enough see which players are likely winning money and which aren't. Sharkscope doesn't really give you any information that you shouldn't already know if you've played 10-20 sng's vs they guy.

With that said. Nice blog you've got going. I'm gonna keep my eyes on it

thanks a lot for the reply.i guess notes are still the best way to see with who are you playing.

time for an update

still playing on stars and getting comfortable at the 30$. I have a lot of swings on stars even though it has a slower blind increase than WPT.

anyway my is steal to improve as much as I can until i reach higher limits.on Wednesday I have a coaching with akrammon.

this month reached platinum star on stars and ps.com.I am still very far from supernova and I think I can reach it only if I move to 60$ and grind a lot in last months.

another good thing is that I that I had the best day since I play poker (winning wise)

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Just finished reading the blog. nice and good work. Your putting in allot of effort and its paying off from where you were grinding the 1.5s lol.

PS im jealous of you being tracked on stars I have to put in a few days a month on PKR, thats nose bleed.

thanks...yeah it was a long journey since i was playing the 1.5$..not knowing what poker is i made a lot of mistakes too, maybe this is the reason why it was so long ♦

as an update not much going on..this month was very busy and didn't play that much but studied more..next month i want to grind like 1500 games.

In the last few weeks I ran bad and didn't manage my time too well and I decided to start blogging again and set weekly goals and so on.Nothing much changed since the last update I am still mixing 7/15/30$ 9 man on poker stars and I am still on stake.

A new thing is that I finished the college and now I want to concentrate my time on poker.My plan is to play poker from Monday to Friday and go to the gym too.I think that a schedule is a good thing for a poker player.On weekend I might study a bit.

Next week goals:

play 30 hours of poker
study at least 5 hours
go to the gym 5 times
exploit 10 regulars

Hi! How would you measure the last goal?

Originally posted by savage1981
Hi! How would you measure the last goal?

i noted regs that i played over 1k games and i filter them in HEM and try to find leaks that are useful in game.the purpose of the goal is to make more notes about the regs i found more frequently in my game.

so far i played only 6.1h of poker because i got the hole stake only today.i think i will complete rest of the goals though.

Not such a good start.failed to all my goals but not by far ♦.I received the stake money only on thursday so that is a reason too.

play 30 hours of poker failed only 12h
study at least 5 hours failed only 3h
go to the gym 5 times failed only 4 times
exploit 10 regulars failed 0 regs

So week goals will remain the same but I will try to update daily.

Week goals:

play 30 hours of poker
study at least 5 hours
go to the gym 5 times
exploit 10 regulars