Questions from returning player

Hey winterguy,

We have some videos where a coach explains using HUD,stats and tracking software. You could search with words "stats" "hud" and "database". Unfortunately some of the mare for gold+ members but there is still some good stuff for silver

What stats you want on your hud is totally up to you. Some prefer to keep it simple, some tend to add a lot of stats. What you have on your hud is a good start but of course there are many key stats missing. For example 3bet stats, fold vs flop cbet and so on. And blind battles are quite different than total 3bet and PFR stats so some prefer to add steal and re-steal stats for those. You can start building up and tuning your hud slowly when you have more information and feel comfortable with it. The most important thing to know is that you need a big sample to look at some of these stats. Misinterpreting stats or building your strategy on a too small sample is worse than not using a hud at all.

Your point about winrate is good. 3bb/100 would already be quite good and the problem indeed is that not many beginners feel satisfied because the money is still quite small. But at the lowest stakes our goal should be to learn the game and be happy if we win. At NL2 the focus shouldn't be on making money. I have been thinking about writing an article about this.

When reviewing your hands, you could create a list of tough spots you want to work on and filter those hands. For example if you think you are calling too loose OTR you could filter for hands where you called OTR. But with not very strong knowledge reviewing your own hands might be difficult. As you mentioned you might have some big leaks you can't spot yourself. This is where our hand review board might come in handy. As a private coach I'll of course suggest taking coaching Getting help from someone experienced is great because then you don't have to spend time to look for your own leaks and you'll learn to fix them faster.

Hi winterguy, do I understand well that you come from the Czech community? I do too, it is always nice to see a fellow Czech grinder here. I am going through something similar, I returned to poker after 4 years and I am basically starting from the beginning on NL2 again.

From the lines on the graph, I would say one thing. It appears to me that you are too loose and aggressive for this limit. It results in the flat non-showdown winnings line and decreasing showdown winnings because you get into too many marginal spots and players on micros are stationary. But I can be entirely wrong and it can be just variance on this sample of hands.

As for the HUD, it is totally up to you what stats you use. But I would recommend just the super basic stuff because on micros one should be focused more on the gameplan in general rather than making decisions based on some detailed stats. Usually you wont even have the sample size for that. I would save that for higher limits. I myself use only VPIP/PFR/3bet to be able to categorizeplayers in order to adjust my play against them in general.

And as la55i said, on micros it should be about solid game, getting value from fish, lots of study and patience. The cash will come later if you are good. Somewhere around NL25-NL50 it starts to be interesting. Until then, you should focus on your winrate but not from the point of view of dollars.

Btw. How are you playing on Party Poker? The only explanation is that you play from different country than the Czech Republic

Im from Slovakia currently living in the UK.

Also is there any type of thing as Cornie challenge here on UK forums?

Hey winterguy,

We have something similar called Get Rich or Die Tryin' - The Bankroll Challenge.

Cheers

Laz