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IvicaIliev77
Joined: 31.05.2012

Originally posted by tonypmm
Love is blind, especially with football stars.

Btw, thanks for giving me an idea to use MatejaKezman9 as a Microgaming screenname :f_tongue: (it will only last for ~1000 hands, of course, then I'll have a chance to change it).

Sweet! Kezman is the nuts as well. Although now he works as manager for a lot of national team players. Most notable one is Sergej Milinkovic Savic who got a million euro per season contract in Lazio. Kezman is behind that...


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IvicaIliev77
Joined: 31.05.2012

Originally posted by tonypmm

Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
Since today, I started mixing 15s and 30s!

It seems that now you need to reevaluate your BRM because most of the UK fish from the 15s must have gone into the new 10s (available only in the UK so far but probably coming to other countries soon) with a $1.2M = 120K BI top prize tier - 4% of each buy-in goes towards it, and another 4% towards the 1200 BI tier - and 8% rake, thus essentially with 16% rake if we exclude the top 2 multipliers :ayfkm:

The full payout structure as reported on 2+2:

120000x - 1 in 1,000,000
1200x - 100 in 1,000,000
100x - 500 in 1,000,000
10x - 1,000 in 1,000,000
6x - 30,000 in 1,000,000
4x - 171,601 in 1,000,000
2x - 796,798 in 1,000,000

It looks interesting but I won't switch to it for time being. Maybe with my own BR but that is a bit in the future (2 months maybe from now).


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Alleen86
Joined: 27.05.2010

Originally posted by IvicaIliev77

Originally posted by Alleen86

Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
Lets crush 30s ;) :f_cool:

Good luck, IvicaIliev77! :sfishg:

Btw, could you explain a bit why your nickname is IvicaIliev? :f_smile: I know he is a footballer, a veteran now, and that he played for Partizan, but he didn't have a particulary impressive career, at least globaly. Was he popular amongst Partizan fans?

Appreciate good vibes always man :)
Ivica Iliev is currently sport director of FC Partizan Belgrade. He was the player who got us twice into Champions league. 1st time his goal vs Newcastle away secured us overtime and penalties after which we went into CL. 2nd time his cross lead to own goal in Belgrade and 1st goal away vs Anderlecht he set up from corner for Cleo. So 1st time directly, 2nd time indirectly, he is the player in the recent history of Partizan Belgrade that brought glory to the club. A lot of fans don't watch football like I do. I watch all 22 players + work on understanding coaches and formations they choose and exploits vs teams (specific match ups). Ivica Iliev was kind of player (when he used to play - now he is sports director and a very successful one) that brought fans to the Stadium. He could with 1 pass make a difference, dribble effectively and score goals. So attacking midfilder, supporting and main striker. The guy can do it all and for someone from Serbia he is very unappreciated by general public (he only played few games for national team while other Red Star players got 40+ caps and didn't do shit for the country = national team lobby for 20 years or so was Red Stars), but I know why I love this player and why I fully support his work.
He is one of the football players I would like to meet in real life and hang out with. We have some common friends, that might happen in the future who knows :)

I love it. I know there was some story behind which someone from outside can't be aware of. :) I'm also a huge fan of football and once an active player until a bad knee injury I had (I was even very close to 1st croatian division at some point as a youngster). Things with football here are also not the best. One man (Zdravko Mamić) "privatised" my favorite club Dinamo Zagreb and croatian football in general so people don't go to Dinamo's matches as they used to before and some of them are trying to make some damage to the national team (remember last EURO), believing they will kick Mamić out of football with those acts. But most people here are still very pasionate about our national team and we also had some success in the past, but also have a great squad atm. So, I totaly understand how it is when politics messes with football. Fortunatelly, alot of things are going forward here, probably mostly because we are a part of European Union, and also that One Man is accused of various criminal acts (like stealing money from Dinamo Zagreb, money loundring etc.). Officially, he even doesn't have any function in Dinamo nor football federation anymore (but stil his people are everywhere). So I expect him in jail in a near future, which could eventually make the situation better.


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IvicaIliev77
Joined: 31.05.2012

Update in regards to financial situation

Today I did another cash out from Skrill to my bank. Financial situation is looking better and better for me.
Since I covered all my expenses for this month (rent, food, bills), I have now made a plan for the rest of the months and I intend to follow it like a boss.
So, current cash out pending to my bank account, plan with it is to cover 2 months of rents in advance. That means that on 15th of March, I will pay 360 euro and then not worry about any rent money until 15th of May! That will give me a lot of time to study, grind and just focus on right moves.
Besides the advance rent money, I will have 100ish euro on top also for some things (internet and some food) but I also payed in advance some bills to my dad in February for March already. So yeah, things are looking very solid.

Here is now the financial plan by 15th of May:
- Since I will cover rents by then, major focus from that point on is to focus on BR for poker
- By 15th on May, use money from guitar and music lessons to save for additional rents and bills
- Goal is therefore from today until 15th of May to make 5k$ post RB

5k post rb after splitting the money will allow me to play on my own 15s and by then also have 100% of profit left for myself by the end of 2017!
Since my monthly goals are around 5k from poker and music 10 months out of 12, making 5k in more then 2.5 months is certainly doable and manageable goal.

Since my 2 future rents will be covered, I will still stick to my original plan of 3 tabling but I will 2 table 15s and 1 table 30s with stop loss of course. I have made so far on 30s over 10 buy ins in 5 hours grind 1 tabling. So I have from this moment on about 15 buy ins left before I switch off 30s all together.

Best case scenario is that I don't loose my stop loss and continue playing and making money on 30s. That will increase my win rate, hourly and RB.

Finally 3 tabling will be very interesting with 2 new HUDs. I still have post flop spots that are a bit puzzling me, especially IP. OOP play thanks to a lot of hours doing HH review and range vs range is much better now. Now IP I have some spots that cause me trouble but for obvious reasons I will not list them here

So yeah, that is the plan.
From this point on, 5k post RB by 15th of May 2017 from which I will have more then enough for my BR to play 15s on my own. In the meanwhile, use money from lessons for living expenses and perhaps another rent. Everything above 5k earned I will put aside for my friends future bankroll for 7s (he started at 1s and already made 30-40 buy ins ins 200-300 games...).

The whole idea behind doing things this way is simple. Paying in advance rents allows me to not have any stress over it and then I can just focus on putting in hours studying, having sessions, improving, grinding, teaching music and guitar + coaching my friend and money will come as a prize for all the right effort.

Lets do this guys :)


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IvicaIliev77
Joined: 31.05.2012

For those wondering how 30s are going so far, here are 2 graphs (due to 6x not loading correctly in my PT4)

Graph missing things (6x and what not):

Results tab with 480$ won pre rb:

Super LOL sample doing 1 tabling with 1 tabling 15s today and yesterday. What I noticed is better play in HU, 3/3 also somewhat better but not too much. I saw a lot of aggression and I didn't really have hard time to adjust it. In the beginning some of my value bets ran into nut range, and when I bluffed opponent called very thin or was on top of the range. That is the part when red line was below 0 and going up and down. After those several spots, rest of HU's were good. Even though I had very aggro opponents, I adjusted accordingly and post flop was doing some very +EV plays that I discovered while doing my own HH analysis January and February. So its looking solid so far.

The most important thing is stop loss. I made 480$ which is 16 buy ins. I have set 5 buy ins stop loss, so that makes it 21 buy ins from this moment on or 630$ that I am allowed to drop. If that happens, I will go to just 15s.

By the end of the month just 2 tabling, whole March focus will be on 3 tabling and doing 150 hours grind making it a steady grind month vs Jan and Feb.

That's it for this update. See you at the tables soon :)


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IvicaIliev77
Joined: 31.05.2012

Super quick update

Played a bit over 5 hours today.
Stop loss for 30s is now at 690$ or 23 buy ins since I won in past 9.23 hours of grinding them 18 buy ins or 2 buy ins per hour.

Very interesting HU spots. Some opponents putting me on test on certain textures. Just shows me I am FAR from my true potential and knowledge.
Very excited to do session with my friend crusher on Sunday where we will go over texture. I will start bombing him with all the marked hands also

Over balance around 200$ now but I will not do cash out. I want to leave it in the bankroll due to 690$ stop loss just in case :)


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IvicaIliev77
Joined: 31.05.2012

Update about today, tomorrow and end of the month

1 guitar and music lesson in the morning, coffee with best friend and short grind session, remaining of the day played a bit over 6 hours.

Key things about today:
- Made some potential miss plays which I need to go over in PIO Solver in very near future with my friend crusher
- Figured out couple of more spots that, 3 to be exact, that I will work with my friend in PIO Solver
- Played couple of sessions just 2 tabling 30s.
- Won 10x on 30s in the last session but despite it ended the day several buy ins lost combined (70$)

Tomorrow I have 1st official coaching session with my best friend for Spins. We will go over his questions for assignments I gave hm for whole 1st week - pre flop ranges 3/3 and HU. He will soon switch to PT4 instead of HM2 and start using 2 new HUDs. 1 is from my great friend Elpsycho for 3 players, and HU HUD is the one I used for 2+ years that printed me money in SNGs and later in HU Hypers as well as last year in Spins.
Depending on how session goes, we will either stay on pre flop ranges and work on them another week (quizzing, range memorization, combo counting etc) or move onto textures.
Plan is to hit by June 7$ limit and play it until the end of the year. We have set profit target of 4500$ by the end of the year as a minimum goal. Since he will 2 table 7s and play 100 hours per month from June to December, that means that he needs to earn in those 6 months 750$ per month or 7.5$ hourly 2 tabling 7s. Of course, before June, he will play 1s and 3s where he is already winner making additional money but getting all the strategy things down both pre flop and working hard on post flop.
I will also strongly suggest him to open blog here on Poker Strategy and update daily. Just couple of sentences is enough - volume accomplished, things notices, tilt, tiredness, focus etc. Up to him but accountability is very important aspect of sticking to things and blog helps you a lot with your poker dreams that you want to turn into goals towards which you take action.

Besides that coaching session I plan to continue 2 tabling 30s with stop loss of 25 buy ins right now or so. Instead of doing mix, I can afford to do this with 30s and get my feet wet more, get even more used to HU spots.
My cEV is 51 now after 151 games and 15 hours of grind on them. However, graph is not working correctly, 10x missing and 6x games are missing also on it which probably affects EV on it. I also have EV9bb/100. Today I dropped it from 14 to 9 because I entered several SPEW spots which I am not happy about and would like to omit as much as possible.

Finally, I grinded today like previous days with very long sessions. I did sometimes 2 hours without stopping just putting on stop watch again and again for 30 minutes. I usually take break for lunch/dinner, to go to supermarket or something like that and rest of the time I play with Big Bang Theory in the background. That's right, 2 days ago I got back to TV Shows running in the background.

Things I look very much forward to:
- Session(s) with my friend crusher. We need to go over all the pre flop things I encountered on 30s and discuss my vs his vs optimal strategy (PIO and/or CREV suggested). We also need to continue with our textures work and I need to send him a lot of hands and spots that I marked for analysis.
- End of the month! I am very excited to add 3rd table. Thanks to my studying in this year, C game in 2 spots where I was burning money has now improved significantly. So adding 3rd table should be fun.
- 30s shot taking. So far is going very well, from 151 games I may have had 3-4 difficult HU games, rest were regular. Find it very OK when it comes to edges vs any opponent but that's mostly thanks to 2 tabling of course. Wonder how 3rd table will affect this.
- March and 150 hours of grind. I will have 2 rents covered and I will just dedicate to 5 hours per day grind + teaching guitar and music and getting in some stream study sessions along with a lot of coaching with my friend crusher :)

I will post 20 hours of grind on 30s tomorrow both graphs and results tab but keep in mind its LOL sample and things are going up and down all over the place :)

Enjoy your weekend on and off the tables!


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IvicaIliev77
Joined: 31.05.2012

Update about today

As promised, Graph + Results on 30s on LOL sample 20 hours of grind. Today and yesterday played 2 tables just 30s and will continue to do so until I reach stop loss. Haven't noticed nor getting much challenged in HU or post flop. Believe I can play it very profitably 2 tabling and having even higher cEV then 55. However, 3 tabling is very different and that would also be interesting to test 1st on 15s (or mix 2x15 1x30 for example) and see how post and pre flop adjustments are affected. To this I look most in March.

So here is Graph that doesn't include 2 times 10x won (both games played without HUD ofc) and I believe once 6x won (again played without hud):

2nd thing is Results tab from PT4 where you see actual profit of 720$ pre RB.


What happened in the rest of the day

Coached my best friend close to 3 hours today if not more. We set up PT4 with new HUDs, got HH from Stars and improted it, set up HUDs while 1 tabling 1s, did 2 different coaching sessions (1st focusing on all his questions, 2nd with post flop examples and assignments using ICMizer). Also suggested my best friend Strongly to start doing daily blog update here on PS - lets see if he follows up on it.
Also, had a coaching/sweat session with my friend crusher. Since I am behind on the volume I suggested we do 2 tabling on 30s me playing him observing and commenting/critiqueing my plays. Was very happy how that went but we did mark some hands for future study sessions which is awesome always.
I look forward in future sessions us covering more textures, discussing specific tricky and weird spots that I feel I am behind on. On my own however, I will do independent homework that I have set for myself to gain even more edge not just for 30s but for later limits as well. I will share it with my best friend as well and it will help him crush (if he studies and applies it correctly) this year and beyond.

So yeah, that is how today went. Remaining of the month will continue to 2 table 30s and check stop loss.

Very interesting thing is that besides positive cEV and OK win rate, I have had some MAJOR BAD PLAYS in the area which was a problem of mine in January this year (basically BVB play). I overplayed or miss played several hands, and on this small sample of games that is just too much. What I am saying is that that decreased my win rate significantly but thanks to those miss plays I saw what population and regs do BVB and how light/wide/unprofitable they call down. Basically almost identical approach like 15s players, calling 3 barrels too thin etc. So, will obviously re adjust to that and stop the leaking and spew and focus on other areas where I can milk the edges.

Enjoy end of your week on and off the tables!


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IvicaIliev77
Joined: 31.05.2012

What drives me to improve and potential new deal for 30s!

I want to share with you really quick tip what pushes me to work hard in this year.
I check my DB every 7+ days or so. I check all the positions and stats and if something seems very off I tackle it. That means that it has become my C or C- game and it needs to be dealt immediately. Also, I take larger sample of hands and do this on to notice whether this is just current bad run or card distribution or bad play that I did, or if overall I am leaking in that area.

So...
In December when I resumed my Studying with goals to improve my knowledge and increase win rate in the process, I found 2 key areas where I was leaking. That is SB vs BB 3 way and BB vs SB in HU. 2 months or so later, I have improved both of these positions and win rates significantly by doing DB analysis, CREV to get optimal ranges vs expected strategy from opponents as well as doing hours of HH reviews and doing range construction.
Now, we are at the end of the February and while playing 30s I noticed 2 more leaks that need to be fixed.
Today I didn't announce Twitch study session but I did work on my game for 1 hour and 1 of these leaks is looking much better now. It will take me couple more hours to save my strategy in my head and start apply it while playing. I firmly believe that it will improve my win rate for that specific leak.
After I am done with this leak I will tackle 2nd leak found which should also increase my win rate but for that one I need to do in depth DB analysis and unfortunately I don't have SAMPLE on 30s to do that on. So for that 2nd leak I am depending on my friend crusher to do with me DB analysis, basically to use his HHs for DB analysis. This might take some time so that is why I am focusing now on what I know and that is tendencies for 1st leak I found.

Finally, last night I investigated some 3 tabling 30s results... If you 3 table assume that you play 24 games per hour and grind 150 hours without EVER hitting 120x or better multiplier with 52cEV you get 30ish $ post RB hourly (with 28% RB) and with 55 cEV you get closer to 35$ hourly.
I talked to my friend who stakes me last night and despite 5k profit we set the other day (for my future BR to play on my own) I pitched him the idea of continuing to work together but for 30s. I basically asked him if he wants to do it and if he is ready with 9k BR for it and he said he is ready! So now I am on the verge of deciding what could be most +EV thing for me. If I 3 table 30s with 52 cEV , from 30ish$ post RB hourly I would give 5$ per hour to my friend and keep 25$. So I would make very good money, not worry about BR for such high buy in and get to improve more vs better players (continue to work hard outside of tables and learn vs better players their strategies etc). Versus playing 15s on my own with 200ish buy ins with lesser hourly expectation likely due to twice as low limit but not twice as high win rate! Also another positive thing about that would be that I can use money from 5k deal earned to invest in my best friends BR for 7s right away and use the rest of the money for example for remaining of the year rents and life expenses (8x180 euro for rents and then rest of the money for BR savings for example).
So yeah, I will think about this long and hard and get back to my friend with the decision.
Right now 30s don't feel as hard as they used to when I tried them last year. Also, my knowledge now and last year is huge difference. My HU game plan is better and more adjustable to opponent types, I improved my hand reading skills even more, I fixed some MAJOR LEAKS in my game and my expected win rate is much higher vs what it used to be in only 2.5 months or less of studying! I can just imagine what will happen by the end of 2017 with my progress. I will continue to attack weakest parts of my game, improve win rate there and then A game and top of my game will be every day closer with my lower end of the game which will lead into very solid overall B game that will print even more money.

BTW, I have now about 11 buy ins stop loss left. Today I had a lot of setups in all in spots both 3/3 and in HU. Also several bluffs didn't work and I miss played some hands as usual. But overall I am very happy with how I played so far today and I will do another 3 hours of grind to hit 5 hours for today. If in next 3 hours I drop 11 buy ins, I will move down to 2 tabling 15s since stop loss will be reached. So right now +180$ pre RB on 30s while Adjusted is 678.77$ so about 500$ bellow EV on 270 games or so (16 buy ins or so). Standard variance stuff ;)

Back to tables now - see you there or later tonight in the blog :)


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IvicaIliev77
Joined: 31.05.2012

Just to connect with previous post about leaks fixed

In February win rate for BB vs SB in HU for all limits is evbb7.81/100 on sample of 7281 hands!
Before in December with 5 tabling it was -3 or -4evbb/100 and while 4 tabling I had it around +evbb4/100 or so!!! Huge difference in over 100 hours grind this month.

SB was between -2bb and -1bb for evbb/100 in 2016. Now in February it is +2.63evbb/100 on all limits on sample of 5841 hands. In January I was still burning money on SB play but once I adjusted my strategy with study sessions I Twitched, I skyrocketed it from negative to positive win rate. I strongly believe I can get it even higher to like 4bb or 5bb but I still need to do hand reading and be even more selective with my spots for it.

Overall, you see that these 2 positions have improved in over 150 hours of grind tremendously. Studying pays off and this is just one of many proves for it.
Focus on your C or C- game, once you improve it, your win rate will go up with it. If you are really good player, focus on studying your opponents game plans. If you are average, fix your own leaks, protect your game plan. If you are very weak and bad, start with highest negative win rates and go from there.

Now in next period focus will be on 2 more leaks that can use improvement where I expect to increase my evbb/100 combined by 2-3 at least.

I am providing screen shots for the win rates.

SB win rate February by EVbb/100:

BB in HU in February by EVbb/100:

Good luck and have fun with your studying!


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IvicaIliev77
Joined: 31.05.2012

Quick update

Close to 2 hours grind today and over 4 hours of studying done.

Covered game plan for the leak I found. Also in those 4 hours, did 2 hours with my friend crusher where I went over each spot and covered why it works the way it works. Very happy with what I accomplished today. Its a bit chaotic for some spots but overall I feel very strong now for this leak and I feel I have actually increased EDGE significantly with this 4 hours studying today.
Remaining of the day will go for at least 2 more hours of grind on 30s but before that go to market for some dinner.

See you at the tables later ;)


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IvicaIliev77
Joined: 31.05.2012

Update about today

4.5 hours grind, 4 hours studying.

Super productive day for poker. It didn't unfortunately finish well results wise. I finished with my shot taking on 30s for time being. Today I dropped close to 30 buy ins or something like that 2 tabling. Had chance to win most of it back in 25x but aggro player iso pre , bet bet called vs my river 1/2 bet with A high and won a huge pot on texture where I am super value heavy on on such run out, and this time of course I had bluff and that was that.

Will write to Poker Stars and again ask for HHs because my PT4 did not work on 25x, 10x , some 6xs and graphs and results tab are not matching. Its very annoying to be honest. They charge money for program and every time its the same problem. They keep making updates and patches but Postgre with PT4 is just nasty. At one moment they claim 1 version is great and has no bugs then 4-5 days later or 5 games later (really no rules in time interval) it bugs and stops working.
I am seriously considering to do total back up of my laptop and just do brand new system with just poker software. 2nd option is to switch to Desktop with SSD for grind but for that I am waiting for money for new mouse, keyboard and some monitor power cables.

Anyway, tomorrow returning to 15s 2 tabling for 1 day and then from 1st of March 3 tabling 15s 150 hours. Depending on how March goes both study and results wise, I may take shots again at 30s during it. However, main focus is to figure out win rate 3 vs 2 tabling 15s and most importantly check leaks in DB on larger sample at that point. SB 3 way; BB HU; BB vs BTN 3 way; BB vs SB 3 way. Those are not all huge massive leaks and not for all blind depths but defintely there are blind depths that I need to tackle hard and improve to sky rocket my win rate. Besides these things, need less to say - textures studying with my friend crusher.

Today very happy about grind and studying. With this kind of dedication amazing results will follow.

Tomorrow guitar lesson, very likely will receive and pick up money from Skrill from actual bank, grind 5 hours, study more game plan stuff and likely if money arrives go and buy new mouse, keyboard and get that power cable for 2nd monitor and prepare to move in March and grind on Desktop computer on 2 monitors.

Enjoy remaining of your February on and off the tables!


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IvicaIliev77
Joined: 31.05.2012

What's up guys, IvicaIliev77 here
About today:

- Spent over 3 hours with my friend crusher setting up PT4 with Stars on my desktop computer with HUDs
- Grinded close to or over 3 hours (made close to or over 200$ post rb)
- Was 3 tabling 15s
- Had miss plays but overall 15s at least today felt significantly easier vs 30s

So, March started, quick lay out of goals:
- 150 hours of grind
- 3 tabling 15s
- Take shoot at 30s when BR increases to 4k from current 2.8k (300ish$ in make up now)
- Study minimum 15 hours
- Work with friend crusher minimum 15 hours (textures + some pre flop advanced range work)
- Coach best friend 8 hours minimum
- Teach guitar and music 16 hours

When it comes to results from the beginning of the year, I don't have all the hands and graphs ready nor I did number adding up with guitar and music lessons.
From top of my head I remember that I made from RB over 1.1k$ this year, and from actual games close to 3k if not more, and from guitar and music lessons I made at least 500$. So I assume I made in 2017 so far close to 4.5k$ (around that more or less) in 160+ hours of grinding and teaching close to 16 hours. Not bad, somewhat standard.
Ran bellow EV on this sample but that doesn't really matter. On larger sample things will even out as always.

Now March is real challenge for me, especially to grind 5 hours per day and balance all the other important things I have set out to do.

Blog updates might be less frequent or just with some stats and observation (things like 8 hours of poker activity 1 hour of teaching etc).

That is all.

Lets crush March!


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IvicaIliev77
Joined: 31.05.2012

Quick update

PT4 problems continue
HUD doesn't always work on 6x. Also have problems with tournament summaries. Some games (3) didn't show correct win rate. So I edited them like 2x wins even though they could be bigger. So what I will do is wait for end of the month and ask for HH instead.

3 tabling is going OK. I miss spots and get into some spew mode on and off but overall am very happy with what I am doing.

Studying - need to finish advance edges for 2 more spots and my win rate will sky rocket even more with multi tabling.

Got so far 7.23 hours of 3 tabling, 49 cEV with period of several hours of setups (20 buy ins dropped or so in couple of hours). Going for 70-75cEV because that gives over 30$ post RB 3 tabling 15s (3.6k games with 28% RB without top 3 multipliers).

Will update as I cover new edges and fix leaks. Graph posting will suck since now I grind on desktop, and I update blog from laptop + my PT4 is not doing great with tournaments summaries and working with HUD on 6x etc

Back to grind - enjoy your March on and off the tables!


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Primrose6789
Joined: 01.07.2016

Coool! When will be your next grinding streaming? Would love to see you grinding the 30ties! _thumbsup:


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IvicaIliev77
Joined: 31.05.2012

Originally posted by Primrose6789
Coool! When will be your next grinding streaming? Would love to see you grinding the 30ties! _thumbsup:

Good question. I am now grinding on desktop exclusively so not sure if that and how it will happen since I don't have any headset with mic to connect for audio.
Keep an eye for updates, I will announce it sometime in the future :)


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IvicaIliev77
Joined: 31.05.2012

THIS JUST IN



Another 100x won!!!

Lost count how many I got and won so far

This one was special because for the 1st time my PT4 HUD didn't work through out the whole game. So I relied on things I worked on IP and OOP in HU, range balance, bluff catching appropriate number of combos, focusing on bet sizings etc.
Very happy how I played it obviously, crushed opponent in HU and in 3 way opponent jammed over my POT DONK mway on A54 with AQ (of course I had 32s there - EZ game).

Now since I am in profit in the deal about 1.1kish$, I will take a shot on 30s again but this time with 20 buy ins and 3 tabling them !!!

Lets see what happens there ;)


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vuciitis
Joined: 19.02.2011

Gratz on another bink :f_drink:

May i ask, why do u want to 3table 30s if u clearly state that there is noticeable difference between the limits? seems really unnecessary, even more when u always post that as soon as u increase table count u feel like missing spots and start to do some dumb shit :f_confused:


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IvicaIliev77
Joined: 31.05.2012

Originally posted by vuciitis
Gratz on another bink :f_drink:

May i ask, why do u want to 3table 30s if u clearly state that there is noticeable difference between the limits? seems really unnecessary, even more when u always post that as soon as u increase table count u feel like missing spots and start to do some dumb shit :f_confused:

Appreciate it on the gratz :)

Regarding questions there is several reasons why I am choosing 3 tabling now:
- Spent whole month 2 tabling. Saw what kind of edge I have with it (red line increased, very strong ROI, more decision time etc). Thanks to studying and working on my C, C- game, I am now ready to do more tables.
- Whole March 3 tabling, whatever the stake I am on. I want to compare my focus on 3 tables and do DB analysis for March for each position to check where I was getting exploited most - it will show me my C game again!
- I am in profit and taking shots is very good for several reasons. Main reasons are to play vs better players and keep improving, secondary reason is opportunity to play higher stakes (move up) and finally opportunity to have higher hourly and win more money.

So how it will work out, its very hard to say at this point. I can tell you that I played 1 session now 0.87 hours 3 tabling 30s, had 17.71evbb/100, EV ITM was 40.9% I ran at 28.57% and chipEV/Tourney was 114! I ended session 2 buy ins down despite playing well. 18 more buy ins left for shot taking :)


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IvicaIliev77
Joined: 31.05.2012

Quick update

Played 6 hours today + coaching session with best friend and guitar and music lesson. Very good day overall.

As I was 3 tabling, I marked very specific hands and spots and took notes. It is more difficult vs 2 tabling but I am getting used to note taking.
Also, 30s like I mentioned before, have a different level of play post flop and pre flop for HU. So it is the limit when things become to be very interesting in terms of knowledge. I rarely encounter very difficult opponent to play. My different game plans and adjusting is working well.

BR right now is a bit over 4.5k or so. So I made close to 10 buy ins today on 30s which means I have close to 30 buy ins left for shot.

Plan for tomorrow:
- Studying, advance edge improving (part of both regular and A game plan)
- Grind 5 hours minimum
- If student confirms, teach 1 guitar and music lesson
- In the evening go see Wolverine movie

Enjoy your day on and off the tables!


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