Lately I’ve been running like absolute trash, mostly on ACR. Feeling fed up with how far under EV I’ve been running I enlisted the support of Deepseek to better understand downswings in poker, as they relate to running under EV. I thought the responses were interesting and illuminating so thought it would be worth a…
General Observations and Strategic Differences Oct-Jan vs Feb-Mar VPIP: Pretty much exactly the samePFR: Same3B%: SameWTSD%: Lower in SB, tiny bit lower in other positionsAGG%: Slightly lower in CO and BTNAF: SameWWSF%: Worse everywhere except SBCBET%: Slightly lower, mostly in BTNSTEAL%: Same4BET RANGE: Same All In EV Oct-Jan: Feb-Mar: Both absolutely horrendous. Preflop All In:…
Thinking the best use of my time, allowing for proper recovery… Online play: Avg of 6 days/week, ~1100 hands at reg tables/day = ~30K hands/month.Live play: Average 2 days on, 1 day off = ~21 days/month.Poker trips: Once every 3 months. Manila done, Seoul booked for early April.Morning hand reviews: 6 days/week, before playing online.Dedicated…
We’re a month or so in to this surgical repair of my game and I’ve identified the zones where I’m leaking and have come up with a plan to address each of these zones. It mostly boils down to that I’m a calling station. I’m not entirely shocked that I’m calling off too light but…
So it’s a little over a week in to the experiment, I’ve made some changes that will start to address the red line. After checking my stats vs some benchmarks I found a few opportunities that I’ve turned in to commitments. Namely: Preflop: Postflop: There are some more but these are the main adjustments. Overall…
We all have to start somewhere. This is not the beginning of my poker career but it’s perhaps the beginning of surgically addressing my leaks. After a year of private coaching I’ve come a long way in understanding the game however at this point it’s clear that there are some opportunities that I need to…
