Making a living with STT SNGs

Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
Nice first session , running above EV again and EV is at 12.8% which is nice... I think Demonic is on Stars , have to check his nick soon ♦
By the end of the day will try to play 50+ games more at least, perhaps 100 +.

If this is a cheap way to find out if I actually am, good luck with the research!

About the slacking, this is the time when winners are made bro, when everything doesn't go as planned and life is distracting you. If you haven't read it yet, read the productivity guide by Schnitzelfisch (see link in my blog), and Raskolnikov's vids are also a great motivation for me.

Originally posted by Demonic226

If this is a cheap way to find out if I actually am, good luck with the research!

About the slacking, this is the time when winners are made bro, when everything doesn't go as planned and life is distracting you. If you haven't read it yet, read the productivity guide by Schnitzelfisch (see link in my blog), and Raskolnikov's vids are also a great motivation for me.

I felt that dude Dooppe or something like that is you

I read whole productivity guide couple of months ago, applied some things from it (wrote down mission statement, am using lists, applying 30 days a habit thingy , trying to live as healthy as possible etC) so its a good thing to know for sure and apply. I purchased yesterday book he recommended, 7 habits of very successful people, it seems like a good one so far...
Raskolnikov was great also , watched 3-4 videos, liked his approach of simplifying everything and that no bullshit attitude (accept your reality and then do the things to change it).
Basically life throws you curve balls and you gotta deal with them on the spot. I already know what my leaks are , things that I need to decrease : 1) Less time with friends for coffee and stuff 2)Less going out and hooking up with girls 3) Alcohol
Every single time I go for coffee with friends its like 2-3 hour thing which for my day is just impossible to sustain in the long run (coaching, warming up, working on the game + 3 sessions = in between gym eating healthy etc), so I gotta decrease that to like once or twice a week tops. Time with girls is most difficult thing because lets face it I love spending time with them and Serbia is full of very beatifull girls I always think I am 30 now and single, whats the point of not taking advantage of that and enjoy time with girls as much as possible ? Alcohol is something that I want to totally cut out simply because if I get drunk drinking 5 liters of beer then I am hangover for 2 days and that just sucks big time
To sum things up, I gotta stop drinking (so far I have been only drinking when going out with friends hitting up girls or birthday celebrations and such) hang with friends less and cut out some girls keep like 2-3 in the loop instead of balancing 10 of them
Thanks for thinking of me by the way - when are you moving to stars Dooppe

You don't have to drink if Serbia is full of beatifull girls. Only those from other countries have to drink coz after 10 pints of beer every girl becomes pretty ♦

Originally posted by husky333
You don't have to drink if Serbia is full of beatifull girls. Only those from other countries have to drink coz after 10 pints of beer every girl becomes pretty ♦

Haha very true Beer is my weak spot especially in the summer when its like 36 + degrees Celsius during whole day !

Morning,

Nice session BTW yesterday.

I have deposited on an Ipoker skin Poker770, as there seemed to be few free $$ via PS so kinda made sense to have a look it. I have to say it looked dead as a dodo. I looked at various times between 8 to 10 Pm last night and again early this morning, hard to see even getting 4 tables going. Have I just chosen a bad skin in which case which do you recommend? I miss stars and only been away 1 day

Steve

Originally posted by 177272
Have I just chosen a bad skin in which case which do you recommend?
Steve

It doesn't matter what skin you select as you will see tables from all skins e.g. you (from Poker770) could be sitting at the same table with players from various skins e.g. William Hill, Everest Poker etc.).

Thanks for that, so that makes the playing pool even smaller then?

That makes it bigger IMO. If you were to play only players from one skin you would wait a lot longer for table to fill up.
As IvicaIliev77 mentioned before there should be no problem running 10 tables in any format of SnG in iPoker network.

Originally posted by 177272
Morning,

Nice session BTW yesterday.

I have deposited on an Ipoker skin Poker770, as there seemed to be few free $$ via PS so kinda made sense to have a look it. I have to say it looked dead as a dodo. I looked at various times between 8 to 10 Pm last night and again early this morning, hard to see even getting 4 tables going. Have I just chosen a bad skin in which case which do you recommend? I miss stars and only been away 1 day

Steve

Hey Steve,

What limits are you playing there ?
There is traffic at 5-11$ 6 max turbos. Also a lot traffic on Double or Nothings and jackpots.
Like any other network besides stars, peak traffic is from 6pm to 1am every day - try it then let me know how it goes.

P.S. One of the main reasons I switched to stars is ability to grind any time of the day and have 12 + tables running , on other networks that was possible with mixing limits and formats only!

Yes sorry my point was unclear. I meant if I cannot find traffic on that skin and that represents the whole network then.... poor traffic overall. I entered a $2 50/50 last night to check tables ect., after 40 mins it didn't fill so left and shut down lappy and dreamed of stars filling super quick

Ivic, i looked at all levels and seemed dead and I was hoping for 18/27/45 man action which was even less.

I will check at peak time as you mentioned and will report back.

So if I have it right all players are on different skins but same network. each skin is independent and different and therefore can offer different deals/bonus, but the traffic is always the same?

Steve

Originally posted by 177272
Yes sorry my point was unclear. I meant if I cannot find traffic on that skin and that represents the whole network then.... poor traffic overall. I entered a $2 50/50 last night to check tables ect., after 40 mins it didn't fill so left and shut down lappy and dreamed of stars filling super quick

Ivic, i looked at all levels and seemed dead and I was hoping for 18/27/45 man action which was even less.

I will check at peak time as you mentioned and will report back.

So if I have it right all players are on different skins but same network. each skin is independent and different and therefore can offer different deals/bonus, but the traffic is always the same?

Steve

Yes, traffic is combined for the most skins on Ipoker so you should have no trouble playing 10+ tables 6 max combining 5-11$ buy in. For 18/27/45 I don't think you will find traffic anywhere but on stars. Again you gotta play at peak times in order to get maximum out of it otherwise it will not pay off in the long run.

Today tons of activities, without grinding yet and I might not even grind today since girl from Belgrade arrived I have to meet up with her + Partizan game at 8pm.
I did however sharkscope most of the regs for this month and saw surprising results.
Games wise, even tough I slacked tons , I am still in top 3-5 players volume wise. My ROI for this month is also decent considering that I started 12 tabling on 12th of August (before that I made minus after it came profit and EV going way up).
Just to share some info here

Top grinders this month (games wise)
Elio Oneiro 3025 (ROI 0.4%)
Ponchua 2787 (ROI 8.6% , 11.3% with satellites)
Bezbileta 2618 (ROI -4.1%)
IvicaIliev77 2597 (ROI 2.4%)
Kymatoz8814 2484 (ROI 5.6%)

My ROI since 12th of August 12 tabling is 6.6% on 1806 games.

The rest of the players are below 2000 games, some guys have locked accounts so not entirely sure what their ROI is like but anyways this is just to keep an eye on my frequent opponents.

Ponchua is still by the far best grinder and ROI player, total respect from me. I think Elio Oneiro started mass multitabling and therefore lost tons of edge. Kanabal18 playing for ROI but less games , I think when he starts playing for living he can become top reg at this limit, Bezbileta and Kymatoz are tough nuts to crack , glad to see what they are like on sharkscope (on and off months still not stable games/roi)...

Now back to reality...

For next 4 months (September until January) I have to make about 100k in points which is 25k VPPs per month. In order to do this I need to play 28 days just 15s about 150 games on those days. I will not go to Belgrade to watch Partizan, I will reorganize my coaching to more group sessions, I will try to put at least 20 hours a month (minimum) working on my game, grind wise I have to play 28 x minimum 6 hours a day = 168 hours every month 12+ tabling. Overall grinding + working on the game + coaching will exceed 220 hours easy a month.
It will be quite a challenge since I will also do my best to play my best game and increase my total ROI by the end of the year to at least 3% before RB.

That is all for this update, as I said I might not be at the tables today but tomorrow and day after I will play minimum 300 games combined to finish month off (close to 3k games)!

Done with 1st session for the day, Partizan will play in 10 minutes gotta watch that !!!
Hopefully remaining sessions will go better as I was spewing and making some post flop leaks from before in this one...

Hi over at ipoker now and confirm a lot busier especially $5/10, sigh really might have some more research on this maybe single table is the way ahead.

Ps got HUD up YUK

In before you have to grind 9 hours a day during Christmas and will be behind your computer until 23:59 on December 31st ♦

Originally posted by Demonic226
In before you have to grind 9 hours a day during Christmas and will be behind your computer until 23:59 on December 31st ♦

sounds like my life....

wow read through a bunch of you're blog, I remember when it first started grinding micro's I was in the same position don't know if you remember me I also had a sng blog. you've come a long way its great to see!

Originally posted by 177272
Hi over at ipoker now and confirm a lot busier especially $5/10, sigh really might have some more research on this maybe single table is the way ahead.

Ps got HUD up YUK

Glad to hear that ! How is traffic on 6 max on limits lower than 5$?

Originally posted by Demonic226
In before you have to grind 9 hours a day during Christmas and will be behind your computer until 23:59 on December 31st ♦

Haha somehow we can sense that I am going to end up doing just that !!!

Originally posted by lessthanthreee

Originally posted by Demonic226
In before you have to grind 9 hours a day during Christmas and will be behind your computer until 23:59 on December 31st ♦

sounds like my life....

I WANT YOUR LIFE - or at least your knowledge ♦