en route to a better life – mtt sngs to mtts full time

hey man, having read your thread I have to ask you one thing.
you said you left for Malta because of a new law in Poland which prohibited playing on nonpolish sites.
but now you are grinding in Poland again?
I am asking because it seems that same thing will happen in my country (Croatia)
thanks.

@crazedTulip what's going on in Croatia?? I'm from SLO but live in Croatia and I don't watch the news so have no idea about what's you're talking about, please explain:)

Originally posted by pizdunar
Just read your introduction on your site, you had quite a journey up to this point and it fired me up a lot. Wish you well and kill it in 2019!

cheers bro, GL

Originally posted by tonypmm
It's great to know that $3+R's are still beatable despite the rake on rebuys, thanks for blogging and in 2019 and beyond!

thanks, GL to you too. Yeah, they are beatable. Most good regs transition to mtts already. I am still stuck in those and working my bankroll up

While I understand that this applies to 3+R that's the format that has the most postflop play and the lightest bubble effects out of all MTSnG formats, don't you think that preflop experts who're postflop fish have a much better chance of beating 18-45-mans with higher volume at multiple limits at once plus 4.50s (playing ultra-tight at the early blind levels, gaining a bit of $ equity from opponents' collisions and reducing the number of decisions per game to put in more games an hour) than crushing 180-mans with the same hourly winrate?

No, not at all. I think everyone is getting better at push folding and shorstacking in general. I think you need to find edges in postflop play, ortherwise you will be stuck in 2015,2016 with your strategy. Unless you want to have 5% roi, never move up etc. Then I think you should quit poker as MTSNGs will die eventually and you can't make a living out of them even right now. In the longterm that is. This is why I want to keep moving up.

Originally posted by CrazedTulip
hey man, having read your thread I have to ask you one thing.
you said you left for Malta because of a new law in Poland which prohibited playing on nonpolish sites.
but now you are grinding in Poland again?
I am asking because it seems that same thing will happen in my country (Croatia)
thanks.

Yup, exactly what happened. Poker is in the grey area, I think they are working on changing a law and make it 100% legal. By now all they did is, they said poker and sportsbetting will be banned. Sportsbetting is banned, but poker is not. The websited are banned, so you can't dowload the client.

Of course, I'm not going to quit poker, I'll just find a greener pasture

The ROI at ICM-heavy formats does depend a ton on how many non-regs survive until the FT on average, so I'm correctly avoiding anything above $1.50, I rather view non-KO MTSnGs as an emergency method of BR rebuilding for those games where reg-over-reg edges are thicker.

Originally posted by tonypmm
Of course, I'm not going to quit poker, I'll just find a greener pasture

The ROI at ICM-heavy formats does depend a ton on how many non-regs survive until the FT on average, so I'm correctly avoiding anything above $1.50, I rather view non-KO MTSnGs as an emergency method of BR rebuilding for those games where reg-over-reg edges are thicker.

well, under $30 SNGs most regs are terrible, so I don't understand avoiding the games

It's not at all easy to stop being terrible myself Of course, there's a lot of work to be done in the coming months, but $2+ SnGs aren't the easiest way of locking up a $75 profit in 3 weeks, you see

The cruel thing about life is that, the more I ruminate about how much I've screwed my life up, the more I keep screwing up, and that's particularly true about poker. So the best thing is to forget about the past and deal with the present.

OK, time for update. I was extremely focus on grinding and working on my game from the beginning of 2019. Decided to slowly mix some MTTS into my standard MTSNGs grind schedule and it worked out pretty well so far. Games are super soft and I think that overall they are much more +EV then SNGs, as the playerpool is way worse. MTSNGs are filled with regs on the late stages, and even breakeven regs or low-roi-mass-multitabling types are killing EV, as they know push/fold game pretty well. The reason why I started adding more MTTs is also that SNG grind has been a little painful lately. Seems like I cannot win coinflips either on semi final tables or final table, but I know that this is just variance and it will all turn around. When it does, I will come back to the SNG leaderboards again 🙂 I also grinded a little bit of cashgames on the side, or when I have hour of two of spare time. I really think that playing cashgames can help me develop as a player and have better understanding of the game. I started with NL16 and recently moved to NL25, as I developed more feeling to the games, build some basic strategy and made adjustments. I do know that I still have no idea what I am doing, as I have never played cash seriously before. And I don’t plan on doing so fulltime in the future. Cash is boring.

Moreover, I have been accepted as a coach for micro and low limits MTT and SNGs by Standard Backing stable. I have 3 students that I am currently working with. I really enjoy coaching and will continue to do so both in a stable as well as on my own. I have given couple sessions privately through my website, and some of the students said that they noticed results almost imiediately after our sessions. This makes me happy, it really does.

My game overall hasn’t been better. I feel very confident and, the winrate is great. This year so far, we are making EV of 12bb/100 in SNGs and MTTs. Reviewing on my own and with students helped my game tremendously. I also plan on writing down preflop and postflop solutions for MTSNGs in the future, as I have developed really good population reads and I feel like I know tendencies and gameplan of most players. It is gained by playing a lot with the playerpool, over 100k games so far! Sick. Furthermore, working with GTO+ solver helps. Talking hands over discord channel helps. Talking strategy with friends helps. Investing in sharskope gold subscription and getting sharkscope desktop HUD helps. Turning off all the distractions while grinding or working helps. Quiting facebook and instagram helps. Living poker 24/7 also doesn’t hurt. Not drinking alkohol, not going out too often and taking care of diet and physical activity would definiately help. This is something I will be working on in the near future.

This is a war, and we better be prepared.
Some stats below. Have a nice day folks!

FEBRUARY 2019

It's been a swingy month, in both MTTs and MTSNGs, but I feel like my overall game is constantly improving. I have been working on my BB game recently, and I found out that I was underdefending by a lot. This week my plan is to continue creating defending ranges vs variety of sizings and positions. When I have all ranges done, I will start creating reshoving ranges. It's been going really well working with a group of guys from my discord to have better understanding of BB defending and overall gameplan.

I have been coaching weekly and got 2 new players to coach from Standard Backing. We have only done few sessions together, but I feel like my coaching skills are also improving. It's getting easier for me to explain my thought process etc. It might be also because of the fact that 2 new players are on a decent level, understand strategy better then average and are willing to work hard.

I have also been a little better with scheduling and using my time efficiently. This is very important when I have to combine coaching, playing and reviewing my own game. The latter was lacking a bit, but I felt like coaching is improving my performance as well. So it's all good.

Fitness wise, well. It's my life leak. It's getting warmer right now, so I will put my running shoes to use soon, I'd imagine. Gotta join the gym as well soon to get that blood flowing.

Results from February and EV from 2019 compared with February. BB and SB still need a lot of work, but we're getting there

Where is March/April review man?

Hello again guys. It's been a while since my last post, but I was pretty busy lately and had no motivation to post anything. I have an idea of posting few hands/week and giving my thoughts about general strategy and to look at hands from both theory and exploitative approach. I have been working a lot recently with GTO+ and run a bunch of database simulations over different stacksizes vs BB. Additionally, I have been working with nodelocking feature within the software, as on under $30 MTTSNGs population deviates A LOT from what optimal frequencies and strategies are.

Since my last post I haven't been grinding as much as during previous months, but I have put a lot of work with GTO+, focused on preflop strategies and ranges. I hope that it will pay off soon.

My main game was MTTSNGs as usual, but I mixed in some MTTs as well. I also started to play on multiple sites, adding pokerstars.es and partypoker to my daily grind schedule.

A little update for you guys.

I am slacking a little bit and taking it slow during summer. I haven’t been playing too much volume, but instead putting a lot efford and hours in coaching, studying, watching vids, making notes, running SIMs. Definiately my overall game is getting better and my understanding about ranges correlaction, equities and frequencies is stronger then ever. I started to really enjoy working with theory and solvers and I hope that it will pay off in the near future. This month I will still be focusing on strategy and reviewing hands. From September onwards, I will start putting more hours into grinding and all.

This is results since last post:

GTO FOCUSED STUDY / POP RESEARCH / COACHING / TWITCH / EXCEL

Hello all, it's been a while since the last post. I wasn't grinding much lately, my main focus was on coaching and studying a lot. For the past 2 months I spent around 2 hours per day on average in GTO+, looking at solutions, creating new DB SIMS, studying a lot of spots and playing vs solution. I am lucky to be around likeminded individuals that I run SIMS with and we exchange them. We manage to collect huge amount of spots over 184 flops. It is going really well, and soon, we should have full database for 15, 20, 30 and 50bb both SRP and 3bet pots. It allows me to multitable play vs solution feature in GTO+ and see where I was making the biggest mistakes postflop in HU pots. Super interesting and somewhat entertaining for me.

I also work closely with Jur who created FlipFlops, which is advanced excel spreadsheet designed to interpret data from solvers in more user-friendly manner. I totally recommend checking it out.
FlipFlops video:

If you are interested, please contact me or Jur on Discord:
wanderer_pro#2680
Sir_Djun#6502

Additionally, I was looking at my PT4 DB to find population tendencies. It's eye opening to see big data and how much POP is deviating from optimal ranges, push fold ranges, 3bets, cbetting strategy, checkraises etc. There is still hope, as there was no frequency that POP is getting right.

I also decided to create some short strategy vids that I will publish in here. Nothing spectacular, just talking through one spot generally. More advanced and detailed videos will be published on my website and available to purchase in the future. Hope you guys will like some free content comming soon.

This idea was inspired by another small project of mine. I decided to collaborate with Ghilley and join his stream for a coaching session. That was my first time on Twitch and there will be much more comming every Tuesday. We used old vod, because GGpoker has no hand histories. That was a little slow, but from now on all coaching sessions will be in PT4 replayer which will allow us to speed up the process. You can find a link to the coaching session below. Please make sure that you follow his yourney, as he just started his 300 day challenge. Definiately worth sweating!
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/495084195

GL to all of you and stay tuned for more frequent updates!