Stacking Off With Stackoffski

Originally posted by VorpalF2F
Just take 'em as they come.
It may be your time to make a FT -- who knows.

I can't remember all the tasks any more.
Even if you miss a couple, it is still a decent shot in the arm for your bankroll

Take 'em as they come ... but I want to know what I'm in for ... who do you think I am? Some kind a gambler or something :f_drink:?
But now at least I know it is mission impossible to get all points, and therefore there is $150 I can't get. That's fine, like you said there is still enough to go for. But they shouldn't be like oh just complete the missions every day and then put some mission impossible in there. I feel lured in ... is this my honemoon? Well I'll take it!

Originally posted by LahtiPelican
I have never played on GG, but a few month ago I saw this site about honeymoon challenges: https://honeymoonmissions.com/list-of-honeymoon-missions/

Idon't know if they are changed them or they are the same now.

You got some good resources... thanks for that haha. Maybe they tweeked them a little bit but still some impossible missions most likely.

That looks pretty close to what I remember.

2.5+K Hands Update

Played 2.5K Rush hands so far ... about breaking-evenish EV. Well, at least not loosing so that's good. Let's see about longer term and see if my stats have changed since I posted my stats of 15K hands at stars. A few things were wrong there. I am never trying to reach certain stats or adjusting my play to tweek my stats, I never think about that, and of course I shouldn't.

What I don't like about Rush at GG is that there is no option like Stars where you had 'Fold and watch'. With that button you kind of could control the speed of the game, and take a breath if you needed to, but now it's always fold? boom! next hand! fold? next hand! it's either a rush indeed or you are completely sitting out. And sometimes you might want to take a look at how a hand proceeded, for example when some reg 3bet, I would sometimes look if there was a showdown. I guess I could see it in the handhistory thing at GG, but when I open that window I think, fck it, unreadible, close window.

You might think I'm making a big think out of all these little things, but I because of studies I have a feel for things like interface design, so I might give more about it than the average person. And I like good quality!! Nobody needs bad quality crap, we have too much of that in the world.

Originally posted by Stackoffski
What I don't like about Rush at GG is that there is no option like Stars where you had 'Fold and watch'.

Again, I have never played on GG, but as far as I know if you hold the cntrl button on your keyboard while you clock fold, than you can watch the hand after you folded.

Not sure about the cntrl, maybe it’s an other button, but there is a way to do that.

Originally posted by LahtiPelican
Again, I have never played on GG, but as far as I know if you hold the cntrl button on your keyboard while you clock fold, than you can watch the hand after you folded.

Not sure about the cntrl, maybe it’s an other button, but there is a way to do that.

For real? They did not tell me and I read this nowhere. Might be somewhere in ther explainatory pages. There is also no hotkey possiblity for it ... But I will try all those keys next time ... thanks for telling me .. makes a big change!

Here are some early pool statistics that I got/calculated from my DB when I had 2020 hands:

All percentage-values are pool averages from $2nl Rush @ GGPoker.

So if I open at MP, based on the average fold-equity, I need to win win ~1/5 hands vs the hands that VPIP against the open, to make a profit. That seems very doable I think.
I don't know how close these numbers are to the real averages after 6*2020=13120 hands, but they will not be very far off.

Maybe it is time to open up my preflop game again. Although the general tendency for players at these stakes might be to call too much, I think this is not the case when it comes to preflop at Rush/Zoom kind of games. I can probably up my winrate by making use of this preflop foldequity.

It is important though if I do that I do not put money in the pot when I have a weak holding and could be ahead. Just fold those hands because if you get called you almost always lose the hand. And if I start to put money in the pot in these situations, I will not be winning more, but losing more. I just have to trust that with the preflop foldequity that I had I made a profitable open, but I got called this time, let it go.
I think it will be a long time at these rush games before people will realize that my check-folding range may be large after my preflop open. Just don't get really out of line to not make people chance their 3bet or calling ranges against you a lot. Can't get too crazy with it, but I have tightened up recently and I think I can open up again preflop, but play very tight postflop.

Originally posted by LahtiPelican
Again, I have never played on GG, but as far as I know if you hold the cntrl button on your keyboard while you clock fold, than you can watch the hand after you folded.
Not sure about the cntrl, maybe it’s an other button, but there is a way to do that.

Oh, This didn't work though, the only way to watch the hand is if you VPIP in the hand and fold. Then you watch the remainder of the hand until you click 'next hand'.

Some good news for my Bankroll:

I went on a little heater, running 17.21 EVbb/100 bustin' that rake!

But now the REAL good news:
While doing my honeymoon mission I got a straight flush at the All-in Or Fold tables, and apparently you get some jackpot: +$77!!

Okay, and finally the incredible news:

I also happened to get the Bingo ... and won a WHOPPING $2 with it!!

Some good news today ... I don't even have to win with poker and they're throwing all these monies!
Now I could check out $5nl too.

BR = $155

Love the straight flush!

Yes I'm one lucky fish.

Originally posted by Stackoffski
Yes I'm one lucky fish.

I had my own today... https://www.pokerstrategy.com/forum/thread.php?postid=3270047#post3270047

$5nl really doesn't like me It's no different at GG .. I took a little shot and got butchered, ...luckily mostly by unluckyness:

So back to $2nl it is

Already posted, but I managad to lose some more at $2nl ... This is yesterday's graph ... lost $30 at nl$5, nl$2:

But like I said, luckily break-evensih EV-wise. The trick now is don't feel like I have to win this back, which is difficult for me. Well maybe it is just that I do have to win this back before I can make another shot at nl$5. Well let's try just to play well.

5000 Hands @ GGPoker!
Played 5K hands at Rush ... mostly $2nl, but also some $5nl (where it goes down). I wish I would make more volume. I am not very patient when it comes to this. I want to see longer term results now! But, I will have to grind it out.

This is only $2nl, this one looks good so far ... although my red line is rising pretty steeply here :sifflote:... the blue one is not going down anymore. But yes short term.

Could be better, but I am winning, I'll take it! I also don't know how much impact the rake increasement has now that I play at GG.

You don't like to fold at all post flop regarding your graphs, are you? You are either calling and/or raising too much!

Originally posted by vengeance77
You don't like to fold at all post flop regarding your graphs, are you? You are either calling and/or raising too much!

Yes, that was the conclusion when I posted stats from an earlier graph at Stars. I am changing and already changed a lot I think. I letting more pots go now, play more passively in some spots. And I certainly don't have the feel like I don't fold or have trouble folding postflop. That's just what the stats say...

But now I need to play more hands before I can take a look again .. The blue W$SD line went way down, now it seems to break even, but yeah have to play more hands.

Originally posted by LahtiPelican

Originally posted by Stackoffski
What I don't like about Rush at GG is that there is no option like Stars where you had 'Fold and watch'.

Again, I have never played on GG, but as far as I know if you hold the cntrl button on your keyboard while you clock fold, than you can watch the hand after you folded.

Not sure about the cntrl, maybe it’s an other button, but there is a way to do that.

Now it seems there used to be an option, but not anymore ...

There is no rush button, but they mean the fold button. Holding down the fold button does not do anything though.

There is Fold and watch for rush, you can bind that key from settings!

Originally posted by vengeance77
There is Fold and watch for rush, you can bind that key from settings!

I tried the only likely-looking option:

It didn't work.
What am I missing?