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Could you give me some tips on GTOwizard
I pulled the trigger and got a premium sub. I uploaded bunch of my HH.
What should i be looking for. I did start to look into my biggest EV loss hands. Is there something more i can focus on?
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Originally posted by leveleleven47
What should i be looking for. I did start to look into my biggest EV loss hands. Is there something more i can focus on?
Surely, there is plenty, what you can focus on. I would start by analysing your biggest losses, or every spot above 0.10 EVLoss and building drill routines around those spots to practice and balance ranges and frequencies. What's your wrong plays % and Average EVLoss from bulk upload?
Originally posted by leveleleven47
seems like a good approach.wrong play 20%
avg ev loss 0.04are these bad?
Not bad particularly, I would say you have a room for growth!
When I started to use GTOWizard I had around 16-18% of wrong plays. My strategy was very far from GTO. It is not necessarily a bad thing, you might exploit the field and diverge from GTO in a natural way that allows you to earn more chips. In my case, it was an indicator of the huge gap in strategy and ranges that I got away with on a lower stakes, but being destroyed on higher stakes. I'm now down to 12% of the wrong plays indicator whereas my coach is playing around 5%. The higher you go on the limits, the closer to GTO reg vs reg games will be.
Beating micro stakes Challenge Week 1
Start BR: $100
Goal BR: $500
Start BR Week 1: $100
End BR Week 1: $131
Profit: $31
Games: 259
Hours: 4.75
Graph
# Overview
I'm playing way less than I used to due to multiple factors:
- I started to study more. I have a home assignment from the coaching session to assess my correctness of play and confidence level in PREFLOP and Flop Cbet and Facing Flop Cbet spots and that's a lot. First, I had to create all those drills in GTOWizard, and then playing them takes time and it is mentally more heavy, then playing a normal session. Here is how I keep track of drills created and played:
- Playing on micro stakes is not that exciting as the h
I started to write tools for myself:
-- Random Number Generator, which bothered me for quite some time. I used Randa before, that is a good tool, but you need to click on the "Generate" button every time you want to get a new number. Today I wrote a simple app that refreshes numbers every 5 seconds and colors it red/yellow/green with 33 < 66 < 100 thresholds. This already improved my life by saving a few clicks every 10 minutes. Here is a little video comparing AppStore app Randa (on the left) and my tool made in 2 hours (on the right)
-- GTOWizard hands downloader and analyzer. I'm still exploring what I can derive from it, but those custom reports that I already have built for myself are very powerful.
-- 888Poker Windows Manager. Something that's bothering me for a while now on 888Poker is their table window positioning. I'm not sure if this problem is only on MacOS, that I'm using, but every time I finish the game I get one pop-up confirming this game is finished, then another pop-up to register for another game, and after that one more pop-up of waiting for people to join and finally next game window. All those windows are opened in random places on the desktop, so I need to hit menu -> tile tables to bring them all to their places again. Compared to 888poker it is such a bad UX, there you could set your 4 windows and never leave them till the end of the session. So I want to write a tool to manage all those windows for me, to auto-click on intermediary pop-ups and position new tables in the correct place at the table. But this requires some advanced MacOS knowledge, which I don't possess at the moment. Any tip would be very much appreciated.
- I also enjoy not playing that much. I'm usually drawn into the action and playing big volumes is not an issue for me, but dedicating time to study, game analysis, and strategy improvements, is something that I usually skip.
# Microstakes Feedback
I don't like $1 at all, stacks are shallow, normal games are 7.5bb, 5x+ games are 12.5bb. You can play a lot of games in a short time, but no satisfaction at all. I played 178 games this week with 38 ChipEV and decided to switch to $2 games, playing aggressive BRM. At $2 at least I have the usual stack sizes and a descend HU stage where I can realize my edge. I played only 78 games on $2 this week with 61 ChipEV, hope this trend will stay ))
Good Luck at the tables 
You shoulda try Intuitive Tables or Jurojin for table managing and hotkeys 
I only tried the first one because it is cheaper for higher stakes. But Jurojin is for free up to $2 blasts. Intuitive Tables is free for 14 days. So or so they are worth the money. RNGs are inclueded in both Tools I think.
If you want to use hotkeys (what I recommend), let me know it in Discord. I can tell you my hotkey strategy, maybe you like it.
Originally posted by CaptainRofl
You shoulda try Intuitive Tables or Jurojin for table managing and hotkeys
I only tried the first one because it is cheaper for higher stakes. But Jurojin is for free up to $2 blasts. Intuitive Tables is free for 14 days. So or so they are worth the money. RNGs are inclueded in both Tools I think.If you want to use hotkeys (what I recommend), let me know it in Discord. I can tell you my hotkey strategy, maybe you like it.
Thanks for the recommendations, unfortunately, they are both for Windows only, and I have a MacOS. I started to consider moving to Windows PC as it is so much better for tools and poker clients. I'm thinking about this option, what do you think? I already have a monitor and accessories, I just need "Brains"
maybe look into Lenovo products/ think centres
I really love Lenovo. Haven't owned a pc or thinkcentre but on my third Lenovo laptop. Currently Lenovo Legion and it is my best laptop to date. They have great upgradeability for rams and storage.
Thanks for the comment, fellows. I'm a bit skeptical using emulator on my Mac as Host and Emulated environment share resources. I used to play Magic The Gathering in emulator and it was painful as hell. My DB is slow without emulator, in emulator it will be a turtle. Since I have M1 MacbookAir Bootcamp option is not available (one where you don't run it within host, but install on a side and use it as dual-boot)
I'll take a look at Lenovo. I know their laptops are a standard hardware in Business environment. Though, as I already have laptop, tablet I don't consider buying another laptop - leaning towards a stand-alone miniPC for that matter
Beating micro stakes Challenge Week 3
Start BR: $100
Goal BR: $500
Start BR Week 3: $135
End BR Week 3: $164
Profit: $29
Games: 188
Hours: 5.5
# Overview
Not much playing, but lots of partying and studying. Drilling my ass off in preflop and flop spots in all possible positions.
I didn't know that I was playing that badly until I started learning how I was supposed to play )))
I'm now doing a mix of $2 and $5 and running decent with 59 ChipEV/tourney.
The biggest anticipation is about being included in the deal with 60% rakeback, but for that, I need to wait and not play too actively for a while, so my plan is to double-down on the learning process and prep myself for a strong come-back to 100s limit once I get that deal.
I want to do a recap of the 2024 post (as usual with lots of numbers). It was quite a roller-coaster for me poker-wise and I played the whole year around
Happy New Year everyone!
Respect for your hard work with GTO-Wizard
But your BRM is me a little suspicious. 
Oh wow am I glad I decided to browse the forums this evening! I will be following your journey as I'm just dipping my foot in the spin and go pool. Looking forward to reading your previous posts. Definitely made it to the top of my reading list this week! WP GG Thanks for crushing it here and sharing!
Hey there! Just finished reading the whole blog after reading your interview. Really solid stuff! I'm also working on spins myself, although my current BR challenge is a cash based on. But we shall see what the future brings.
Awesome work grinding the variance heavy spin format, you are a beast for achieving all that you have so far!
Hi Studentishe,
is there any chance to contact you at skype?
I wish i could send you a private message but without bronze it isn't possible 
Haven't posted for a while now. Had a break from the tables, and needed to get my thoughts together about what to do next.
But gentle reminders from Pokerstrategy to post updates on the challenge thread led me back to the forum.
Originally posted by PokerSpass
But your BRM is me a little suspicious.Thanks, work in GTOWizard gives good dividends, but goes slowly and requires quite a lot of mental strength to digest its output and drilling spots, and streets.
My BRM is quite a shithole, that is something that I realized quite recently. It is designed to aggressively reach high limits, but not to stay and grind any of the limit consistently over a long period. I still will keep it for the challenge though as I'm not motivated to grind micro stakes.Originally posted by 2outterkiller
Oh wow am I glad I decided to browse the forums this evening! I will be following your journey as I'm just dipping my foot in the spin and go pool. Looking forward to reading your previous posts. Definitely made it to the top of my reading list this week! WP GG Thanks for crushing it here and sharing!Great to hear, hope you'll find something useful and entertaining for you on those 16 pages )
Originally posted by PsychoFin
Hey there! Just finished reading the whole blog after reading your interview. Really solid stuff! I'm also working on spins myself, although my current BR challenge is a cash based on. But we shall see what the future brings.Awesome work grinding the variance heavy spin format, you are a beast for achieving all that you have so far!
Thanks, happy to see new readers and followers here. Though I took a pause from playing and bloggin in the past weeks I hope to get back to crashing and blogging soon
Originally posted by persil
Hi Studentishe,is there any chance to contact you at skype?
I wish i could send you a private message but without bronze it isn't possibleSure, hit me up on Discord, my nick there: "shooroop." (with the dot at the end)
Beating micro stakes Challenge Week 4-6 (1.1.2024 - 21.1.2024)
Start BR: $100
Goal BR: $500
Start BR Week 3: $164
End BR Week 3: $206
Profit: $42
Games: 47
Hours: 1.5
# Summary
Had one 1.5 session before taking a break and that is it for this report. I'm holding my horses hoping to be retagged with mentioned affiliate and get into rakeback deal of a lifetime )
While waiting I'm doing drills in Wizard and go through opponents' stats one-by-one, comparing it to GTOWizard stats and designing my "revenge strategy" when I finally get back to high stakes.
I've found quite a big leak in my game and game of opponents when it comes to heads-up ISO spots. Lots of decent payes don't Iso enough and overfold on non-AI iso, this caused me to double down studying those spots. It is this revelation moment similar to one when I found out that the Nash Push-Fold chart is not optimal and there is a much better limping strategy down to 6bb. This wrecked my world back in the day. Now I took one step further to see how 95%+ limping strategy of week post-flop players can be exploited. Fun times
2024 year in graphs
Tried to pull the numbers from the 2024 year in Poker for me and this task appeared to be quite challenging due to variety of places where I track different data.
From what I could pull and can share here is my 888Poker Blast games
Overall graph:
100s Limit graph:
and my profit / rakeback graph from May 2023 is next:
In 2023 I tried a lot of things, played on multiple platforms, built and lost my BR and I wish that 2024 will bring stability and consistency in my game, strategy, and overall performance. I plan to build a healthy and profitable hobby out of poker that will challenge and reward me.
Have good luck on the tables fellows! :f_drink::f_drink::f_drink:
I haven't been posting for a while. The main reason was that I was playing in a not-very-legal way on a not-very-legal platform. And for obvious reasons decided to pause blogging and 888Poker. I'm still waiting for them to come up with a reasonable rake target for me to re-tagged into an affiliate program that gives up tp 60% rakeback.
I played only once last month on vacation from my IPad and from that time I had 4x$10 tickets from the leaderboard that were about to expire so today I decided to do a small session to use them and got very lucky - caught 25x multiplier, won it and placed 1st in Daily Blast Leaderboard 10:
Winning hand:
1st place in Leaderboard:
And balance without Leaderboard tickets:
I was not a very responsible challenger here. I missed to report progress over 3 weeks and now I'm not sure if this will count as a completion of the challenge or as abandoned challenge, but here we are... 2 months later I have reached my target number of 500$ BR
888Poker announced yesterday Stream On Contest that I'm now seriously considering to take part in.
The contest will run from 15th of March to 15th of April. 888 give away tickets based on the amount of stream time in a week and a grand price is a place in their Stream Team. 109 ticket for 10 hours of streaming is already a good reward, but the most valuable is the experience itself.
There is not much stream/video material about BLAST games with antes. I'm think participating in it would be an interesting and challenging experience. I'm not sure, though, that video of me silently playing 4 tables would interest anyone. I guess I'd need to develop some "streaming persona" for it. It was always fun to watch reaction of streamers on very standard plays or runouts, or how they take timebank just to make those spots more jusier.
Does anyone have a streamer experience to share tips and tricks? I would appreciate some coaching or mentoring in this topic