Making a living with STT SNGs

PT4

I played in coffee shop 3 tables of 30s with 30 minutes timer. Won 7 buy ins pre RB. Took those games, reimported them in my desktop and now I get for those same games -1 buy in. Pretty sick and bad how PT4 bugs when it comes to my tourney improting.

I will request from Poker Stars games and hands at the end of the month (beginning of April) To finally check the real results.
In the meanwhile I have 20 buy ins for initial shot (600$) + 420$ more that I made on top of that. That gives me 34 buy ins for shot on 30s 3 tabling. I will have to keep from today after every day an eye for my money won graph.
Poker Stars cashier won't do it because on average 3 tabling 30s for 5 hours per day gives me over 50$ in RB per day. So that is why checking cashier is not the best way to track. I have to track the actual 30s results after each session on desktop and if I play on laptop (like I did today in a coffee place) to actually write down how much I won or lost and add or take out from desktop balance.

Pretty fucked up and bad but I have to deal with it on the go. Will grind now remaining of the day , have another 4.3 hours to put in. Coffee shop session was excellent, played very well in both 3 bet pots as well as limped and SRP.

In regards to today

Played over 5.5 hours. Taught guitar and music lesson in the morning. Had coffee with my best friend and played some 30s in a coffee place (30 minutes).

Despite very good results today (480$ profit pre RB), I am not satisfied with some specific spots and hands.
Its always good to hit, win and keep on going but what puts me in some sort of mental feel bad is when I know I made a mistake.

Most of pre flop spots today were good. There were post flop mistakes however that shouldn't have happened. Its not like I didn't have time to decide while 3 tabling. No, that may have like 10-20% to do with it (faster reaction time in more difficult unsolved completely spots in my head) but its the fact that I find myself in a spot I shouldn't be in the 1st place.
Most of the times, when I am sticking to most profitable game plans of mine, even on 30s I have no trouble. Once I start going into very advanced adaptations is when I make mistakes. Making mistakes is part of the game and learning process. I get that and I am all up for it. However, what happens in the middle of the game when I loose a hand that I miss played or opponent had totally unexpected holding in my hand reading, I immediate want to shut down tables and go to the lab and do the work.

So yesterday there was a ton of spew. Today mistakes post flop, some bad plays post flop due to different ranges pre flop leading me into bad spots.

Overall I am OK with how I am going on 30s. I know however that despite 3 tabling them I can do a lot better then this.
In future works with my friend who 3 tables 30s as well, we will tackle textures that I sent him out to run in PIO Solver after which I expect to have even clearer understanding in such spots. It should add edge on this limit.

BR right now is close to 2k above starting point. That means that I am up 2k from 5k set by 15th of May - and March just started 5 days ago. So things are looking very good financially, despite winning that 100x on 15s, I made in the meanwhile around 800ish$ post RB on 30s 3 tabling in 18.92 hours. I am running above EV on this sample since my cEV is only 42 3 tabling and PT4 shows my EV post RB hourly (without top 3 multipliers) of 18.35$. Like I said, I can and I will do a lot better then that cEV. I think even 55+cEV is very reachable 3 tabling 30s. Opponents are more difficult but they like I have a lot of leaks. Player pool is not that scary nor difficult and there is real money to be made here.

I will still continue taking shot at 30s, I have about 1.2k left for it (40 buy ins). My main focus in future days will be to STOP MYSELF from getting into those weird spots like I did today and tomorrow. That kind of play is very variable, brings at best some positive win rate. I will focus executing things that I know how to do well and win rate will stay positive and increase from 42 cEV I am positive about it. Also, will talk to friend to do sessions more frequently. In March we did only a bit and now when I play 30s I want to do a lot more work.

When it comes to DB analysis, I found that my BB win rate in HU is strong but not amazing again while 3 tabling and that my SB win rate also in HU and 3/3 is not performing as I expected.

So studying will focus on HH reviews for such spots, to keep improving my hand reading, adjusting and that will lead to better results in those areas.
On the other hand my BTN 3 way is as I expected, my BB 3 way is excellent now (leak that I spent over 6 hours of studying past couple of days - mentioned it in one of the updates) and my SB strategy is very good as well.

So need to continue with those study sessions as well as work on the textures. For time being will not do any more sweat session with my friend also because we will likely meet daily at the tables but mostly because there are more important things to work on - the ones I mentioned above.

Finally, this shot taking is very interesting to me to say the least. I entered the limit expecting sharks and what I saw is that I can very well fight and swim in those waters. In potentially near future, in this year I hope to move to 30s full time. Before that, a lot of work awaits me away from tables as well as at them - putting those grind hours in and out daily 5 hours per day.

Enjoy end of this week on and off the tables and lets see what happens in following days and hours on 30s.

P.S. On the side note, I have been doing pull ups daily at home and now I can do 8 in a given set but only a single set so far. I am going for magic number 10 by the end of the year (set in the goals) although I think with current pace I can definitely expect to get to 10 pull ups in 2 months or so. Also, will focus very hard to drop down my weight and body fat before I go to Thailand again. Ideally I want to have 10% body fat at least by then which will definitely require me to put in some steady exercising over the summer. So 30-40 minute training outside, running 10-15 minutes, doing burpees, push ups, sit ups,pull ups, squats - those things alone will push the heart rate to skyrocket and burn those calories. Also, plan to stop drinking soda and just stick to healthier food choices as I used to last year while dropping weight down. Very much look forward to results of it. December is not that far away anyway, I need to start with this ASAP in order to be fully ready for my Thailand trip

Before bed decided to set up 5 buy ins stop loss for 60s. Its weekend, I am ahead when it comes to profit, my game on 30s is profitable, I wanted to see whats up on 60s.
So I was 3 tabling 60s with 5 buy ins stop loss. Played 1.08 hours, dropped 3 buy ins but my all in adj is 14.6/100; chipev/100 is 67 ev roi 7.68% ♦
So despite loosing 3 buy ins, I ran bad in that 1 session and was very proud with some plays.
In 1 of the HU games one opponent bet call river super thin and light on wet run out.
In last HU I played one of the best HU opponents I encountered if not the best one yet on Spins. I saw 1 interesting strategy that I was thinking about past weeks about. He had it and he knew it. He also did something that I expected other regs to do but only saw him do which is regular on high stake HU Hypers.
Overall that guy had excellent ranges and knew post flop very well. He was difficult to play against. Also saw some very interesting plays that nobody does on other limits I played so far.

So I will now put 2 tables and play until I reach stop loss for those 5 buy ins.
When it comes to 3/3 play I think I did very well in those 28 games. Even made opponents call me light and super thin + got them to hand me stacks in several spots. So that part of the game I am satisfied with. It is clear however that I can do better in HU vs better players so that is something to set and aim for to get to the brutal level of post flop and crush.

Lets see what happens

Done for tonight
Finished 36 games, cEV 54, evbb/100 8, ITM 41.67% evITM 36.9%, ROI % 5.56 , EV ROI 5.22%

So ran a bit above EV. 1 buy in pre RB won and 2x25$ bonuses cleared. 1+ hours 3 tabling then 2 tabling due to 2 buy ins left and as soon as I won 1 game I added 3rd table again and continued all the way to the end. Last game won 4x with k8 vs 88 10bb eff so that's that. Tomorrow will play 6 buy ins on 60s and see what happens, 3 tabling of course - want to keep 3 tabling as a theme in March.

60s shot is finished!
Dropped 5 buy ins in 2.02 hours
cEV was 41, All-in Adj bb/100 is 6.33, post RB ev hourly without top 3 multipliers was 40.01 $

Was so close to continue shot, final game was 6x and I lost it with KK vs Ax.

Already 2 hours of grind in today, will grind 3 more hours at least. Also try to make up volume from that day when derby match was played (Saturday).
Tonight also teaching guitar and music lesson 9-10pm so before and after that grinding.

For 30s I have now 32 buy ins for shot, will continue to 3 table them.

Quick review

Past several days not playing nowhere near my A game poker. Yesterday for example I played one of my worst poker in the evening. It was caused due to lots of experimenting, testing and getting out of comfort zone. So results will swing a lot and change.
There is several reasons why this happened and it has very little to do with being tired or nutrition and such things.

Key reasons are:
- Game plan on 30s
- Lack of knowledge for most textures

Since I am 3 tabling 30s with shot taking currently, I get into a lot of difficult and troubling spots because I don't have general game plan for each blind depth and position in both 3way and HU. What I mean here is, on 15s thanks to my sample I did last year, I was able to construct very solid adjustments to be able to multi table and make money. On 30s I have no sample and 3 tabling without sample gets me into a lot of trouble and I make mistakes. Example would be l/shoving and running into top range while expecting opponents to iso wide vs limp bvb. That is just one example. There are many others such as HU how wide opponents r/c for different blind depths, what they l/t, what they shove over limp etc.
To construct game plan for 30s, I need sample and need to invest in studying DB analysis to be able to multi table them.
So realizing that it is what causes mistakes and uncertainty, despite knowing that I can play this limit even now, in my head I have let go of expectations on 30s. I am now just enjoying the experience of playing them, experiementing and testing strategies and things. When I do DB analysis and adjust my game plan for all key areas, my expected win rate and EV will go tremendously up. Until then, I will find myself in spots that I am less familiar with and where I am leaking chips and money. I am fine by that NOW but I was very upset yesterday about it.

So 1st goal in future sessions with my friend is to start covering complete game plan 3/3 and HU. His strategy and the way he plays are different vs mine but he also uses a lot of adjusting and is profitable on 30s.
Ideally in this year, by the end of it, I would like to play 30s full time and have a crushing win rate there. I am not satisfied 3 tabling with 55 cEV there. In my opinion such win rate still has tons of leaks, especially post flop and in pre flop adjustments when multi tabling. So I want to surpass even that 3 tabling and make 40+$ post RB on 30s before adding 60s to the mix and moving to them in the future as well.
To accomplish that goal, several key things need to happen in 2017:
- I need to improve my default game plans for 30s. All the things I mentioned. For that I will need with my friend to analyze his sample and take out conclusions from it and create game plans vs it.
- I need to study more textures. Solution is in textures always. Learning them will allow me to have much less doubts post flop which translates into more money of course.
- I need to have sufficient BR to move to 30s full time. This means 9k for 3 tabling with ability to move down to 15s 4.5k is dropped.

Since it has been 1 month since I am working with my friend, so far we covered 2 textures, done several sweat sessions and he helped me a lot with setting up new HUDs and my PT4 with it. Outside of it, he responded to many of my questions over Skype. So our deal is very strong so far, however I want to systematize it more which will include following things:

- Steady session times. Picking times to work and sticking to them steady vs improvised scheduling. This will give maximum EV in the long run. I suggested morning times to my friend, it works for him, we just need to negotiate the time that would work best for both of us. Earlier the better IMO. I love to start the day with hardest activities. Grinding is easy, studying is hardest in poker so that makes sense to tackle 1st.
- Session plan. 1st we need to cover pre flop game plan for all the positions 3way and HU with different blind depths. This includes running DB analysis and THEN constructing optimal ranges and strategy vs it. After this, focusing on Textures.
- Alternatively, picking specific number of sessions just for textures and just for DB analysis.

Since deal has a limit and end date, I think it is better to pick for example 15 sessions for textures and 15 for DB analysis and finish it all before the end of the deal. I don't feel the need nor see any more EV in doing sweat sessions - we both looked at each other play and we haven't seen much if any improvement from it (its more entertainment value for me really). Doing HH reviews is very useful but instead of doing hands with him, I prefer to do them with him in PIO Solver because it will teach us both how to play optimally balance IP and OOP. We can then take this strategy and adjust it in real games vs real opponents who have tons of leaks. Vs me sending him hands and him saying what he feels is good or not. I want to check with absolute best and optimal play which is what PIO Solver does.

My plan is once I finish the deal to purchase PIO Solver and do studying there on my own + teach my best friend with it and discuss to study with my friend crusher but without doing future deal (just doing daily studying together in it).
I can't say with 100% certainty if I will stay on 30s to play stacked even after 5k profit is reached or if I will go to 15s and play on my own. Both have positive and negative sides. Positive on 15s is I already beat that limit, I will make easier money there and I keep larger % of profit playing on my own of course. Negative playing 15s is that I will not improve there because 99% opponents that I face don't challenge me to improve and work on my game. Positive thing about playing 30s is that I see that I can handle playing the limit, players are better on average, there is more adjusting and adapting, there is more drive and will to work harder to become better player and win rates and hourly is larger potentially of course. Negative thing about playing 30s is need for larger BR therefore continuing to play staked and doing more profit splitting.
So I will decide about that as the deal gets closer to the end. Right now I am about 1.6k in profit post RB from 5k profit set by 15th of May 2017. I have about 20 more buy ins or so to shot 30s 3 tabling them. I am not counting for shot taking RB that I made in March so far which is 318$ (3$ from promo and 315$ from coins). So that money and future money from RB will stay in BR and in the profit.

In the meanwhile, focus is on setting systematic studying and coaching sessions with my friend. Tackling DB analysis and constructing very profitable game plan for 30s while working on the textures and improving post flop. Additionally finding time to do more hand reading and going over marked hands.

This is all for this update. I will head back to the tables now and continue 3 tabling with some DB analysis adjustments for 30s that I found recently...

PIO solver is game theory optimal right? so how do you think it will work?

Do you put lots of different situations into it and it gives you optimal general lines? Does it factor in the population tendencies, or is that completely the opposite of what it does as its GTO so doesn't care about population tendencies? Interested hearing your thought on elaborating on this, because I know some people that use it, but can hardly get my head around even what it's meant to do properly!

Originally posted by SmellTheCoffee
PIO solver is game theory optimal right? so how do you think it will work?

Do you put lots of different situations into it and it gives you optimal general lines? Does it factor in the population tendencies, or is that completely the opposite of what it does as its GTO so doesn't care about population tendencies? Interested hearing your thought on elaborating on this, because I know some people that use it, but can hardly get my head around even what it's meant to do properly!

Hello,

Right now, I don't think there are any GTO precise software out there. If there was, NLH would be solved game. But, these programs are as close as it gets to it (GTORB, SimplePostFlop, CREV, PIO Solver, Snowie etc).
My opinion is that picking 1 of these programs and sticking with it is extremely +EV for any current and future generations of poker players. These programs show as close as possible to optimal strategy how to play 3 streets of poker. They show difference of EV between checking or betting as well as donking, xc, x/r or folding. So they are extremely +EV to get and work with but both upside and downside is that it takes tons of time to invest and work with it because there are many different pre flop ranges, different stack depths as well as different textures.
This is one of the things that to grasp concept of how these things work is extremely simple but to learn, apply and master takes a lifetime (not literally of course).
So if you hop on that train today, you are already ahead of 99% of poker players making money playing with feeling and their expectations. I strongly believe that in 10 years people playing higher buy ins will have these ranges under their fingers and the edges will be super thin because of it.
Until that day comes and even when it does come, you can still get to 50$+ hourly playing poker which gives you very strong salary in any country in the world so it is definitely worth the time and investment in yourself.

GTO doesn't account for population tendencies. You need to analyze population tendencies, import those in program and then program will give you profitable strategy vs it. You can do this in CREV very effectively for example.

Hope that answered your question!

Quick update - 1.5k out of 5k profit completed

Just had a bit over 1 hour talk with my friend in regards to everything.

I suggested and he agreed, that we do profit split and for me to 3 table 15s!
So I will do now from 5k planned profit 1.5k$ profit split. It will take weight from my back because I will need 3.5k to make by 15th of May and I can play limit where at this point I have higher EV hourly vs 3 tabling 30s.

This plan doesn't change nor affect our work however. We will still do DB analysis for 30s so that I can prepare myself to play them full time by the end of the year and we will continue with HH reviews and textures work.

I also sent out message to my very good friend who stakes me and I am guessing he will be quite pleased to get another nice profit split

So later today, I will see you back on 15s. I will likely do that until the end of the month and depending on how profit goes, I may set another stop loss of 5 buy ins for 30s but it is just easier for me at this point to focus on 15s only and increase my EV hourly there to 30+$ and then with such hourly attack 30s with even stronger knowledge about expected plays from opponents.

Your opinion regarding BR management for sitngos, for example 18man sitngos!?

Originally posted by Jaunais
Your opinion regarding BR management for sitngos, for example 18man sitngos!?

Hi Jaunais,

I have not played such format but in general the rule for SNGs I apply is - the more players there are, the higher variance you should expect. That is why playing MTT format of any kind requires a lot of buy ins while playing HU game requires less buy ins due to direct skill edge 1 vs 1.
BR management should be determined on multiple things. Your skill, edge vs other players, mental game to cope with bad beats, your ability to play B game or better, multi tabling skills, rake, rake back, field that you play against etc.
In general, if you are multi tabling, you are dropping edges most of the times. That means you increase variance which affects your BR management. So 4 tabling Spins for me is 300 buy ins as a must. I think 3 tabling 200 buy ins is more then enough. 2 tabling them 100 buy ins or less very likely.
But, it all depends on your skill and edge in the games.
Another rule is, if you face a lot of all in spots or not. Game formats that are based on constant all ins (like SNGs and Spins) those increase variance significantly because you are constantly facing spots where you have 5% additional equity vs opponents range in the long run. That means over long sample you will win 55% and loose 45%. That's where variance kicks in and on a very large sample you can run below EV loosing those spots with 85% frequency or so.

Hope that helped!

Originally posted by Jaunais
Your opinion regarding BR management for sitngos, for example 18man sitngos!?

Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
I have not played such format but in general the rule for SNGs I apply is - the more players there are, the higher variance you should expect.

In general, the variance grows quite slowly as the number of players grows, and the expected ROI also grows, so I'd use roughly the same BRM for all turbos - the main consideration is the speed of the tournament, not its size - of course, any hyper requires much more buy-ins than any turbo, I'd say, twice more.

However, 18-mans are a notable exception because of their top-heavy 40% / 30% / 20% / 10% payout structure (6.6 / 5 / 3.3 / 1.7 BIs) paying for merely 4 places (22% of the field) while 9-mans pay for 3 (33% of the field).

Knockout SNGs generally have lower variance than non-KO ones of the same speed because some part of the prize pool is given to those who don't finish in the prize zone but still manage to knock someone out. 18-man super-KO hypers actually have about as much variance as 9-man hypers, the problem is only that the attainable ROI is lower in hypers than in turbos.

A good rule of thumb for 18-mans is to move up once your BR exceeds 400 divided by your adjusted ROI (in %s, with Starscoin rakeback included), e.g. 400 / 8 = 50 buy-ins (of the new, higher stake) if the adj. ROI is 8% (= the net adj. winnings divided by the total BI). If you have little confidence about what your ROI is, then delay moving up until you get enough experience with this SNG format and know your ROI quite precisely.

For 6-mans and 9-mans of any speed, I'd need only 200 divided by the ROI, e.g. 200 / 5 = 40 buy-ins for a 5% ROI, because the payout structure is quite flat - 50% / 30% / 20% (4.2 / 2.5 / 1.7 BIs). I use the same rule (200 / ROI) for 18-man super-KOs (250 / ROI for 24-mans), just I'm pessimistic about the attainable ROI until I figure out the complex strategy of those games.

I'm obviously not a fan of tight BRM, and the reason why I'm not a fan is that, if things go wrong at the high stakes, I can always drop down to $1.50s and rebuild the BR quickly there because they're soft.

Hey thanks for the great answer about PIO etc, useful to know.
How hard is it to get to the stage where you're earning a $50 hourly , like you mentioned would you say?
Do you think its equally as possible (difficulty wise) at cash , as sngs etc?

Thanks for great responses!

Originally posted by SmellTheCoffee
Do you think its equally as possible (difficulty wise) at cash , as sngs etc?

Each player has their own intellectual strengths and weaknesses and thus cash may be better for some but SNGs may be better for others, etc.

I think that if you're a 'feel' player, i.e. intuition prevails in your thought process, you're good at handling unusual spots better than the opponents, then you should gravitate towards deep stack poker formats because there are too many possible lines of play there which can't be mastered by pure calculation. To be honest, I don't really know how 'intuition' works, just it's clear that no one plays optimally with a deep stack, except maybe for HUNL which is close to 'solved' due to its old age and the sheer effort that has been put into its study by many crushers.

If you're a 'math' player who relies rather on memorisation, calculation and database analysis, then go for short stack formats where your advantage will come from knowing the precise ranges in the few most frequent scenarios and adjusting them in the right direction to exploit weaker players.

Originally posted by SmellTheCoffee
Hey thanks for the great answer about PIO etc, useful to know.
How hard is it to get to the stage where you're earning a $50 hourly , like you mentioned would you say?
Do you think its equally as possible (difficulty wise) at cash , as sngs etc?

You welcome man.
Very difficult to estimate how hard. It depends where you are starting, how hard working and goal driven you are, do you have time just to do poker or you want to fit it in other activities in life, how do you plan to get there (stables, individual work, study partners, coach etc).
There are people who reach this in less then 6 months with just some range understanding. They do this by playing fewer tables, playing a lot of hours to get experience and then working their asses off off the tables Then there is those that take years to get there.
I am the example of someone who got to certain hourly and pulled the breaks being content and satisfied with it and just fitting poker to give me life that I want. In this year however I am pushing myself again to get to as high a hourly as possible. Minimum target set is to go from 25$ post RB hourly to 30$ and then go for 35$ but after my experience of taking shots on 30s I can already see that it shouldn't take me whole year to reach even higher hourly then that.

For everyone is different. CG in my opinion is maybe easier then Spins because in Spins you have to learn shallow stack play and play very wide ranges and win HU games. So you encounter tons of post flop spots and you need to understand how to play your range. CG is easier in that way because opponents CC ranges are much tighter and therefore its easier to put opponent on the range post flop when calculating equity on textures and deciding which flops you should bet more then others.

You can make 50$+ hourly on both CG and on Spins. People who mix 30s with 60s and play 3 tables successfully Spins have this hourly. To get this on 6 max CG, you likely need to play nl100-400 with strong pre RB win rate.

Originally posted by Jaunais
Thanks for great responses!

You welcome. You should thank Tony more because he does those calculations flawlessly I would say I just gave you my opinion and approach to it.

In regards to yesterday and today

Did profit split for 1.5k out of 5k set. I now have 3.5k to make by 15th of May which is very realistic and I expect to get there before that date.
I played 5+ hours where most of the time I played 15s 3 tabling. I did have about 55$ or so from starting BR so I played some 30s and 60s with super aggro shot loss. Ran bad on 60s, on 30s as well on such low sample and then remaining of the day for 3 hours or so played 15s 3 tabling.

Interesting things I noticed about my game overall. I have a very clear problem with my game plan for specific spots. That is excellent news because this will be solved with a lot of hours of studying with PIO Solver and understanding when to do what in such spots. In the meanwhile, I have decided to trust DB analysis and play exploitable in such spots. That means I will not play optimal strategy which I am always big fan of (due to higher stakes , better opponents and overall understanding of poker range vs range) but will rather stick to what DB analysis told me to do in such spots. That will lead to lots of awkward spots but I don't mind it because greatest growth happens in areas of our discomfort in whatever area of life you deal with.
So my theme in future grind sessions is to focus on such spots with 100% focus and see what happens in future DB analysis with me applying this strategy. I expect a lot of miss plays, spews and such on both mine and opponents part but I accept as part of growing while learning in PIO Solver all different textures.

Today had session with my friend and also was teaching my best friend. Both hours were very good. I enjoyed a lot working with my friend in session because we got to start new texture where we both discovered and learned new things. Tomorrow we will continue finishing flop for both IP and OOP and then we will focus on different run outs from that point on.

Remaining of the day will grind as much as I can, I expect to hear confirmation from my guitar and music student and potentially I may go to movies tonight. Also, there is Partizan Belgrade game at 3:30pm (1 hour from now) which I will likely have running in the background (on my laptop) while I grind (on desktop with 1 monitor).

Finally, investment wise, since I did profit split yesterday, I will add money to my best friend BR so that he can in relatively near future play 3$ spins as well before he moves to 7$ limit by June or so.

Study wise, I will before every coaching session with my friend, review my notes for textures and in the evening after finishing grind go through marked hands from that day. Stepping up with studying, it is where the EV is hiding and what will give me most understanding and increase hourly in the process.

About yesterday

I watched 2 football games after 2 hours of coaching and working with my friend. My body then felt exhausted for some reason and I ended up sleeping from 8:30pm to 1am, then 3am to 8:45am.
When I woke up, I felt rested. Now 1.5 hour later I get this exhausted feeling again.
In less then 10 minutes I have session with my friend after which I will evaluate how to proceed. I may take a rest day again and just regenerate or I will push through it.
In my mind I feel a lot of unsolved spots for post flop and that creates uncertainty. Potentially that is stopping me to grind - being aware that I am not playing super strong game. However, studying and grinding go hand in hand so the solution is to accept all the bad plays, learn from them, keep improving and grinding steady.

Today goal is to finish flop texture for both IP and OOP. Write out strategy for it and learn it because it happens quite frequently and before yesterday I was not approaching it correctly for certain hands (less obvious ones).
Next week, this texture will be finished with different turn and river run outs after which we will start new texture.
In the meanwhile, I will pick 1 hand per day to send to my friend which I feel needs analysis.

Finally, in regards to yesterday, I did do something useful.
I took 14bb or less BB checking range and analyzed it in depth. How many 2x all the way to Kx hands it has. It allowed me to realize which textures hit more BB's check behind range in limp pots, understand how he will play which hands and how I should proceed IP in those limp pots. Basically, when to be passive, when to be aggressive, when to aim to be balanced.
Before I did this for 1 hour, I already was expecting similar results so my strategy was not way off - which is good. I did learn about certain kickers and hands that I did not consider huge part of opponents range.

Session with my friend about to start.
I will update later tonight about how today went in terms of studying and grind!

Excellent session with my friend

We continue with flop texture and there is so much work to be done. Next week on Monday we will finish it and I can then apply this much better in game. It is kind of spot that gave me a lot of doubt how to play it but now I have much more solid understanding how to balance my ranges IP on it. Will also look into how to adjust OOP my range vs different opponent types on it and how to proceed on different turns.
This texture is very similar to other textures that are troubling for me in such spots. So once this one is finished, I can expect potential increase of EV in such spots. Right now its decent theory knowledge backed up with exploitative lines and strategy. I want to back up my theory knowledge and improve my adjustments 100% vs different opponents because that will provide maximum EV in such spots!

Will get to grinding now and see what happens in limp pots 14bb or less, area I worked on yesterday for 1 hour. That will be theme of 3 tabling today through out the day with emphasis on this texture and applying new strategy adjustments on it.