Making a living with STT SNGs

Originally posted by tonypmm

Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
6th clip
MY FAVORITE CLIP

Nikola Drinčić amazed me by his free kicks back when he was playing in Amkar in Perm - a Russian city in the Urals with about 1M inhabitants where one of my constant JP SnG villains (Mishantiy at Pokerstrategy) lives.

I haven't been watching sports events lately, though. Poker is exciting enough.

I just might get tied geographically to Partizan in case I move to Belgrade because the closest cheap neighbourhood to the Grand Casino is Zemun, whose local FC Teleoptik is Partizan's official farm club. There are some other reasons to prefer it over Crvena Zvezda (like the reacquisition of Danko Lazović, a double champion of Russia with my favourite Russian club Zenit; the goal that won the 2010 title was actually Danko's), but listing them would be too long.

Nikola Drincic is the best player in Partizan right now. He had troubles with injuries while in Russia but he is super useful power midfielder who contributes equally to all phases of the game. His free kick/shooting skills are phenomenal. This season he already scored 3-4 goals, screamers from distance!
Danko Lazovic was really good while he was in Zenit, he contributed a lot to the title(s) like you mentioned. He came to Partizan couple of days before beginning of the 2nd part of the Jelen Super League (JSL). He is out of form right now and a bit out of shape. If he stays for 2 more seasons (he is 30 now) I am sure he will regain his physical condition fully and become super important to Partizan team.

Lived in Belgrade 6 months and was attending games constantly. I love going to games, such a great feeling and adrenalin rush always
Once I drove from Nis to Belgrade like crazy (exited weeding I was with ex gf at ♦ ) to celebrate title at JNA stadium (2 seasons ago) ♦

I am not sure how much living in Belgrade would pay out. I think Nis is way better in terms of expenses but Belgrade definitely has more choices for things to do around.
Is it really worth the difference of say 500 euro Nis regular life vs 1000 euro regular life there? Going out more expensive in Belgrade, time required to travel in Belgrade also sick vs Nis where you basically get from any part of town anywhere within 15 minutes tops

My Sharky license is now active!

About to go through the whole manual, set up everything with PokerStars so there is no conflict later on.

I already see familiar faces in 30s lobby, including my bro Demonic ♦ Can't wait to join you guys.

Will let you know of Sharky settings as soon as I get it running!

Ok I just set it all out and will test it for 50 games now

Here are my settings for all of the 6 max games

And here is my settings for registering various games

Hopefully it will not cause any problems with PokerStars + hotkeys + PT4 !

Hi IvicaIliev77!

Nice free-kick . It will be interesting till the end for the title.

I am realy fascinated, that you don`t use any help in multitabling before. This tool should skyrocket your winnings. I wanna ask you if Sharky also have hot keys such as TN2? Or you must set them in PokerStars loby? I am interested in this tool as well, because TN2 don`t filter tables so specifely as Sharky do. Basicaly it don`t wait (or I don`t know how to set that) for let say 4 opponents to sit down and then register. It register on first table that fits criteria you set. I know I write it a little bit in complicated way, but I hope you will understand my question.

GL at tables and looking forward to your progres in your challenge and with this tool.

Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
Once I drove from Nis to Belgrade like crazy (exited weeding I was with ex gf at ♦ ) to celebrate title at JNA stadium (2 seasons ago) ♦

Your activities with the ex are so nice And she doesn't qualify as an ex - your relationships are too warm. I'd promote her status to smth like fwb / psk (friend with benefits / prijateljica sa koristima) or ptgf / vc (part-time girlfriend / vanredna cura) or even agf / vdc (acting girlfriend / vršilka dužnosti cure)

Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
I am not sure how much living in Belgrade would pay out. I think Nis is way better in terms of expenses but Belgrade definitely has more choices for things to do around.
Is it really worth the difference of say 500 euro Nis regular life vs 1000 euro regular life there? Going out more expensive in Belgrade, time required to travel in Belgrade also sick vs Nis where you basically get from any part of town anywhere within 15 minutes tops
It's safe to say you've never lived in Moscow My current place is near an urban rail station, and it still takes 50 minutes to reach the Kremlin from here, while some urban neighboorhoods have no stations and so are even less accessible. Traffic jams are abysmal so going by car is way longer.

I'd compare my neighbourhood to Grocka, Barajevo, Vrčin and Ripanj (and to Velika Plana if going by car ) in terms of the distance from the historic centre, but it's perfectly urban with big blocks of flats, unlike the listed Belgrade suburbs. Speaking of the formal borders of the city, the farthest urban (i.e. with new blocks of flats) 'neighbourhood' - Kievsky - is about as distant from Kremlin as Jagodina from Belgrade (in terms of time - at least 1.5 hours at peak hours).

And I'm not planning to go out much, so the difference in costs will likely be significantly less than two times.

Originally posted by mylove190207
Hi IvicaIliev77!

Nice free-kick . It will be interesting till the end for the title.

I am realy fascinated, that you don`t use any help in multitabling before. This tool should skyrocket your winnings. I wanna ask you if Sharky also have hot keys such as TN2? Or you must set them in PokerStars loby? I am interested in this tool as well, because TN2 don`t filter tables so specifely as Sharky do. Basicaly it don`t wait (or I don`t know how to set that) for let say 4 opponents to sit down and then register. It register on first table that fits criteria you set. I know I write it a little bit in complicated way, but I hope you will understand my question.

GL at tables and looking forward to your progres in your challenge and with this tool.

Hey welcome here as well

Glad you enjoyed the free kick. Title is more or less done cause red star "closed" all games behind the curtain except football derby where we showed them who is the boss

For Sharky only hotkey there is uses starting or stopping software to run. I use hotkeys from Poker Stars.
I totally understand your questions, you will get all you are looking for with Sharky.

It worked for me and you are right, this will increase my ROI even more now

Will post graph from 1st session with Sharky in a minute...

Originally posted by tonypmm

Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
Once I drove from Nis to Belgrade like crazy (exited weeding I was with ex gf at ♦ ) to celebrate title at JNA stadium (2 seasons ago) ♦

Your activities with the ex are so nice And she doesn't qualify as an ex - your relationships are too warm. I'd promote her status to smth like fwb / psk (friend with benefits / prijateljica sa koristima) or ptgf / vc (part-time girlfriend / vanredna cura) or even agf / vdc (acting girlfriend / vršilka dužnosti cure)

Originally posted by IvicaIliev77I am not sure how much living in Belgrade would pay out. I think Nis is way better in terms of expenses but Belgrade definitely has more choices for things to do around.
Is it really worth the difference of say 500 euro Nis regular life vs 1000 euro regular life there? Going out more expensive in Belgrade, time required to travel in Belgrade also sick vs Nis where you basically get from any part of town anywhere within 15 minutes tops
It's safe to say you've never lived in Moscow My current place is near an urban rail station, and it still takes 50 minutes to reach the Kremlin from here, while some urban neighboorhoods have no stations and so are even less accessible. Traffic jams are abysmal so going by car is way longer.

I'd compare my neighbourhood to Grocka, Barajevo, Vrčin and Ripanj (and to Smederevska Palanka if going by car :f_cry:) in terms of the distance from the historic centre, but it's perfectly urban with big blocks of flats, unlike the listed Belgrade suburbs. Speaking of the formal borders of the city, the farthest urban (i.e. with new blocks of flats) 'neighbourhood' - Kievsky - is about as distant from Kremlin as Jagodina from Belgrade (in terms of time - at least 1.5 hours at peak hours).

And I'm not planning to go out much, so the difference in costs will likely be significantly less than two times.

Speaking of ex, I haven't seen her in a week or two but this Saturday I will hang out with her , hear about her Prague experience ♦

Tony if you are looking to invest money into real estate, I think you can buy 2 vs 1 apartment in Nis vs Belgrade.
Really can't recommend you where to go. Belgrade is bigger and has more things to offer but I go there just for special events (Partizan games, concerts and things like that). In Nis I am living normal life where I have balance to grind, see my close friends, occassionally go out for some drinks, hook up with girls whatever For 1/2 price vs Belgrade it is the place to be.
If I lived in Belgrade now, I would probably grind less and go play jazz music more, visit some nice places for going out and spend way more money obviously.

Hard to choose but I choose Nis always ♦

First 50 games with Sharky using preferences I posted above

Distribution with Sharky

P.S. Should have had more then 6% difference in HU definitely, tons of shopping.

RNR Sharky ♠_cool:

Another update for May grind check it HERE

I am going this Sunday to Sofia! Plan is to spend day with Gavron, see Kurrkie for the 1st time and just enjoy it If there is some football game I will go also like last time to Levski CSKA (it was awesome match!)

Definite recommendation for Sharky, it does this auto registering and makes life super easy. My focus was just on left monitor for the whole day, felt I played close to my A game today with very little mistakes

This mix of 15s and 30s feel it will be very profitable this month. I was expecting 4k post RB this month but can already say that even 5k-6k is not unrealistic. Definitely feeling this will be the best month so far.

As far as study goes, my HU is super strong, recapping some things reading notes from it, but most important thing is I got used to my new PT4 hud now 100%. I am now exploiting opponents even more and my late game study is paying off greatly at 30s.

Finally ratio of fish vs reg those past 4 - 5 days is the same on both limits. I have seen a lot of bad regs on 30s also therefore playing there is very profitable long term.

If everything goes as planed this month profit wise, I will consider switching to 30s exclusively from next month!

Have a good night on and off the tables!

nice to see that you are doing well, you deserve it..gl moving to 30's

Yeah, it's been a good job lately (I wish I had such HU dominance, I need it more)! Move to the 30s right now, you nit

Originally posted by alxpoker91
nice to see that you are doing well, you deserve it..gl moving to 30's

Thank you my friend

Lets wait end of month see the results, if $ is there (anything above 5k) I will move up definitely

Originally posted by tonypmm
Yeah, it's been a good job lately (I wish I had such HU dominance, I need it more)! Move to the 30s right now, you nit

Spoiler

Said by an 'ubernit' playing with >1K BIs for the main limit :f_biggrin:... well, just seeing no opportunities for a bigger hourly elsewhere.

Haha I am similar kind, want to play them exclusively with 300 buy ins! A lot of people say that's not necessary but I prefer to be safe then sorry

Now average buy in is 20$ or so, I have enough roll to mix for now. If this month go as planed I can move up to them exclusively.

Since I finished HU deal, I had on my account something like 720$. Yesterday I checked and now there is 2100$+ ♦
I didn't even reload nor use my roll, played from profit of HU deal

Total ownage

Now will leave that 2.1k , won't do any withdrawals cause that is 100 buy ins or so for mixing 2 limits.

Worst case scenario, I can sell some action if I decide to go to 30s exclusively. There is always home and safe place of 15s but I am already seeing that I have a lot of edge on 30s - why not capitalize on it right away?

Finally moving to 30s can enable me to get higher VIP status. Now I am almost at 50k VPPs and yesterday my grind brought me like 1.2k vpps (150 games mixing). Can just imagine if I just grinded 30s and later in the year add 60s how that will affect VIP status.
Probably 200-300k chase this year

But lets not get ahead, lets see this month 1st, I expect about 2k 15s and 2k 30s sample so we shall see whats up at that sample already

1k games in May so far

Like a boos graph ♦

ITM graph with HU ownage

Some sick 1k sample with tons of setups.

Happy with most of my play during this spell except today where I played B- game at best cause I coached 3 sessions went for lunch and it was crazy to do all this in 10 hours straight without single brake

Also in future I will try to do 3 x 50 games sessions vs 2 x 75 cause my head starts to hurt in between 2 and 3 hours of total focus and looking for ways to exploit every single opponent on every table. Hence headache now and auto piloting playing C+ , B- game whatever today.
Before 2 days ago I played 3 x 50, so I will stick to that it is better for my focus and energy levels.

Important thing is that everyday I went through different filters checking specific things to make sure I was doing correct plays. From what I have seen, there is some spots vs wider than nash regs who are in top 5 earners for 30s but make very bad calls IMO, so vs them I will tweak my shove ranges, everything else is super standard and just bunch of setups.

My post flop and HU are more then ready for 30s which makes me very happy. Feel super confident entering the tables and games and welcome them with smile

Really look forward to next 1k games, hopefully things will go in my favor more in terms of card distribution and in bubble things holding up or at least avoiding sick setups vs 3 outers and stuff

Hopefully I can keep this pace and hit those 4k games by the end of May!

Enjoy your day on and off the tables!

P.S. 7% difference in HU , say whaaaaattttt ♦

Whaaaaattttt?

To help you get a more accurate estimate of HU pwning skills, I'll share the simple stat I designed late last year that calculates the all-in ICM equity adjusted 1st place frequency (where the EV difference is calculated under the primary assumption of the ICM - that the 1st place probability is proportional to the chip count). Here it is (alas it works only for SnGs with a total of 9000 chips in play - PT4 has no way to count the total # of chips at the table; one day I'll be less lazy and teach it to detect the total chip count basing on the table name). Here it is.

The adjusted 2nd place % for Stars turbos is then calculated using the formula [(<ROI % Adj>*(BI+Rake)/BI)+100%-3.9*<1st place % Adj>]/2.1. Wait, I'll come back with a separate stat for that in a moment

Originally posted by IvicaIliev77

Originally posted by tonypmm
Yeah, it's been a good job lately (I wish I had such HU dominance, I need it more)! Move to the 30s right now, you nit

Spoiler

Said by an 'ubernit' playing with >1K BIs for the main limit :f_biggrin:... well, just seeing no opportunities for a bigger hourly elsewhere.

Haha I am similar kind, want to play them exclusively with 300 buy ins! A lot of people say that's not necessary but I prefer to be safe then sorry

Now average buy in is 20$ or so, I have enough roll to mix for now. If this month go as planed I can move up to them exclusively.

Since I finished HU deal, I had on my account something like 720$. Yesterday I checked and now there is 2100$+ ♦
I didn't even reload nor use my roll, played from profit of HU deal

Total ownage

Now will leave that 2.1k , won't do any withdrawals cause that is 100 buy ins or so for mixing 2 limits.

Worst case scenario, I can sell some action if I decide to go to 30s exclusively. There is always home and safe place of 15s but I am already seeing that I have a lot of edge on 30s - why not capitalize on it right away?

Finally moving to 30s can enable me to get higher VIP status. Now I am almost at 50k VPPs and yesterday my grind brought me like 1.2k vpps (150 games mixing). Can just imagine if I just grinded 30s and later in the year add 60s how that will affect VIP status.
Probably 200-300k chase this year

But lets not get ahead, lets see this month 1st, I expect about 2k 15s and 2k 30s sample so we shall see whats up at that sample already

Good to see your doing so well ♠_cool: You deserve it.
I like mixing buy in levels, depending how the tables are playing and if I'm tired, or the (zoom) player pool is low. But remember to give us here the first shout if you are selling any action. ♦

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Tony
Are you looking for a property investment? Lanzarote is good just now, and it's a 12 month season. You could get a place for around 50k euros.

Landlord, I'm not looking for property for investment purposes, I'm looking for a cheap place with internet access and somewhat legal access to the global iPoker server to end my pathetic life (ironically, with no landlord berating me)

Meanwhile, the 2nd place adjusted (Stars normal / turbos) stat ahoy! Someone please test it on a meaningful sample (unlike mine) and post here if it's faithful ('convergent') to the actual 2nd place frequency or not. (If not, I've most likely made a math mistake somewhere.)

Edit: I tweaked it for hypers (replaced 9000 chips by 3000) and tested it on a 73-game sample... it doesn't seem way off

Originally posted by tonypmm
Landlord, I'm not looking for property for investment purposes, I'm looking for a cheap place with internet access and somewhat legal access to the global iPoker server to end my pathetic life (ironically, with no landlord berating me)

Are you looking to rent?

Originally posted by tonypmm
Whaaaaattttt?

To help you get a more accurate estimate of HU pwning skills, I'll share the simple stat I designed late last year that calculates the all-in ICM equity adjusted 1st place frequency (where the EV difference is calculated under the primary assumption of the ICM - that the 1st place probability is proportional to the chip count). Here it is (alas it works only for SnGs with a total of 9000 chips in play - PT4 has no way to count the total # of chips at the table; one day I'll be less lazy and teach it to detect the total chip count basing on the table name). Here it is.

The adjusted 2nd place % for Stars turbos is then calculated using the formula [(<ROI % Adj>*(BI+Rake)/BI)+100%-3.9*<1st place % Adj>]/2.1. Wait, I'll come back with a separate stat for that in a moment

Hey Tony,

I will test it out later tonight after I am done with all the grinding.

I think whatever EV does, it can't show post flop domination or pre flop exploiting leaks and in my opinion that is foundation to crushing any SNG limit.
Can teach my grandma to shove and call NASH but to think of perceived ranges and learn to thin value bet, double-tripple barrel bluff - that takes much more time and studying

Originally posted by TheLandlordUK

Good to see your doing so well ♠_cool: You deserve it.
I like mixing buy in levels, depending how the tables are playing and if I'm tired, or the (zoom) player pool is low. But remember to give us here the first shout if you are selling any action. ♦

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Tony
Are you looking for a property investment? Lanzarote is good just now, and it's a 12 month season. You could get a place for around 50k euros.

Appreciate it my friend

Would you consider buying action for 60s turbos using Sharkystrator (table selecting)? ♦

This is very interesting information regarding Lanzarote. When I played on Cruise ship Aida 10 weeks contract, I was in Lanzarote once a week. Lovely city, beach restaurants chillin like a villian style. I haven't gotten chance to meet local girls there to full fill the picture but its very laid back relaxed place in general