yeah, colours - if you have enough sample of the limit work well.
however i saw my coach playing my limits on a stream and he had a player there, whos nickname seemed familiar, and he marked him as a good reg.
afterwards i saw that player on a table with me - and i had a tight-fish mark for him))
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Originally posted by Nazgos
I'm working with different colors for the players. And at Stars when I'm looking at a table I could see the colors. If there are 5 regs I will wait for another table
I play at Stars so I will check it out. I tag players green atm who are not playing fullstacked. Time to tag the regulars red.
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No worries. Thanks for replying and good luck with your future endeavours.
Originally posted by H0witzer
The main improvement was actually quite simple: stop playing vs regs and start playing more vs recreational players. Very obvious, but still...)
Any tips on that? How do you select the softer tables?
The simplest way is to sit down, and watch for a few orbits, playing uber-tight and spend the time watching.
If you like what you see, play your normal range.
If you mark players as weak/incompetent then in some rooms, you can see in the lobby if there are any of them at the table.
Hey guys, new month arrived, so here is a little update.
First of all, i've bought a car and am very happy about that!) it's not new, so i hope it won't break the next couple of months)))
Secondly, i moved to NL25 and played around 20k hands there, resulting in 4bb/100 (i am a bit lazy attaching the graphs, so maybe later))
My main focus right now is in exploring the ranges and trying to understand them. For example, we all, i think, understand, that a 35-40% fold to cbet in regs range is prbly a bit loose, and a 70% fold is exploitive, but i am only starting to learn the hands of which those ranges consist on different boards. I have a huge leak i've found recently - my FtCbet is very low, but the raise vs cbet is also low. So in general my calling ranges are to huge, thus leads to big problems playing vs 2-3 barrels. I've never actually noticed that, so now i am sitting with excel and just writing down all the ranges in different boards and what they will accord to in percentage of folding, raising, etc. Hope this will help me improve.
And also, playing NL25 is actually a bit harder, because the rake in my room is much bigger in NL25 than it was on NL10. Moreover then that: there are literally no tables in NL25, idk why, most of the times i see like 2-3-4 NL25 6max tables and like 6-8 NL50 tables, don't know how to deal with it, because i live in Israel, and there are not so many rooms i can play from here.
GL every1! 
Hi everyone!
So APril past and i come back with my review.
First of all, this month was pretty tuff, literally 0 time to do anything, a lot of work, plus my wife is in the last period of pregnancy: we are expecting our third child by the end of the May. It's pretty exiting, but quite difficult, especially in a new country)
Secondly, the rake and the amount of games at NL25 in my room is pretty awful. I mean, i am always in the top of the daily leaderboards, however i never got in money in the shootout tournament, and i don't play enough during the week to get the amount of rake needed (450$ by now during the week).
Thirdly, i was working hard on my postflop game, especially with my red line: check-raise, donks, 3bet vs cbets, etc. It led to some mistakes, mostly in the beginning, where i was overbluffing and overplaying a lot of hands, however i believe now i am a bit better in those spots and can exploit some week and mediocre regs, who overbet or overfold a lot.
I also didn't get my EV in winnings, but, hopefully, this will improve in May.
Also, i was on top of the pokestrategy leaderboard and got some tournament money, so i am going to play a main event of GTD this weekend. Haven't played a tourny online for ages, so any tips will be helpful)
And, finally, the results: 
And hi again, I am back to this blog!
Haven't posted in a while, however didn't stop playing, was just posting in the other blog, but since i put myself a goal to make at least 5 posts per month, I am willing to start here again, due to the fact that I am too lazy now to make 5 different posts per month 
So since last year I have moved on through the limits and now playing Nl100 in Chico.
So, to restart the blog, those are the last month results:
I'm feeling quite well with my game compared to the average of the current limits, however as more i study as more i understand, how much improvement i need to go further. So still working with a coach and learning GTO with Wizard.
Hope will write here again sooner, then in a year
Hello everyone, have a nice day!)
So since the last update this is my NL 100 results:
and those are for NL 50
Almost two weeks ago I had a very interesting discussion on another resource, so I'd like to try and start it here, because I think it's important for lots of players, including myself.
GTO or not GTO?
From the very beginning of my acquaintance with poker, I have been plagued by a question that can be formulated as follows: GTO or exploit? Are we playing from certain abstract lines or are we aiming to make our opponent's game against us as uncomfortable as possible for them? It's not surprising (perhaps) that the longer I delve into game theory, the more difficult it becomes to answer this question. On the one hand, I have a strong mathematical background, which initially inclined me to believe that a human in a vacuum cannot outplay a computer in a vacuum. On the other hand, the large leaks in the game of moderately competent regulars indicate that often GTO can become a problem rather than a solution, simply because adhering to a GTO line on one street can lead to a mistake on the next, which will result in an even bigger mistake on the third street, ultimately lowering our winrate more than making decisions based on a simple analysis of opponent tendencies and ranges.
I've talked to several players at limits of 5k and higher and received three different opinions. One person explained why it's necessary to adhere exclusively to solver strategies, the second doesn't use GTO at all (because it's unnecessary information), and the third advocates for using GTO lines only on the flop and turn, while suggesting playing based on exploits on the river (this same idea was voiced in training videos by Wizard, so he probably took it from there).
Obviously, from a game theory perspective, it's necessary to base decisions on maximizing expected value. It's also obvious that no matter how well-trained you are in terms of GTO, playing solver lines over the long term is close to impossible. Equally obvious is that playing GTO will be much easier than exploiting, as finding the correct solution to exploit players slightly above average level is much more difficult than playing a basic strategy that is already ingrained in you.
At the same time, from a value perspective, let's say, even if I show a much higher expectation in certain spots than what the solver gives (a classic example of all low and medium limits - SRP, where simply by overcbeting opponents on the flop, we get more than the solver).
So, I come to the feeling that it's necessary to combine two concepts, however, I still don't quite understand what is the best approach to do this. Perhaps studying the limit itself should come to the rescue: where people more often make one type of mistake, where the other. However, when these mistakes become significantly less obvious, great difficulties arise.
What are your thoughts on this matter?
Hey guys, my latest april results:
I was surprised to find that NL200 is much more enjoyable to play than NL100, but I lack the bankroll to play it. Overall, I feel confident enough to move up in stakes, but I need to come up with something for my finances because I currently depend on cashouts.
Taking into account RD the sum is 2k per this month, so I plan to play 60k hands next month without reducing the amount of study. I want to try studying theory in 6-hour sprints, 4 sprints per month. Plus, playing hands, and all of this.
By the way, two other NL100 regulars and I have weekly meetings to analyze hands. If anyone else wants to join, let's give it a try.