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I'm confused with the comments above. This all seems like recorded footage and after-the-fact coaching to me?

Poker’s hard

Unique! I love studying tricky spots that can be more widely applied. I learned to play a lot of backgammon positions using the same method of study.

A coach who has a falling out with the GTO training software xD

Thanks and welcome. Recommendation for future videos: zoom in (ctrl+scroll up) when you reach your destination in the solver so we can at least see the figures for ourselves. Enjoyed your commentary on the challenge yesterday, too.

Everybody wants to be spoonfed. Never changes.

Hell yeah!

Thanks! Just commit and get started!

Thanks, and yeah, they do.

First of all, 2% at the stakes with the highest rake is not bad. Assuming you're two-tabling, I think a good goal is 3%-4% with anything over 5% crushing but definitely achievable. 500 tourneys is also a small sample size for hypers, but we can see some trends in your stats all the same.

I'm no expert at analyzing stats, including my own, but I think you're probably playing way too tight and way too aggressively out of the BB. You should be playing very exploitatively at these stakes which should mean taking advantage of people playing too loose preflop and too face up and/or fit-fold after the flop. I would default 3B a merged range of around 17%-20% at 25BB and not ISO very much without very easy hands to navigate postflop. Remember, building a bigger pot when you're OOP is usually not ideal, especially at short stacks because the button's positional advantage is already quite diminished. I agree with Kalupso that you're probably bluffing too frequently and for too much of your stack. When you do ISO or 3B, remember to use fundamental board texture and handreading skills on the flop; you don't have to c-bet every flop and barrel every turn just because you ISO'd pre.

Other than that, you may well be misreading population's tendencies given that you've lost so much with one-pair hands. You need to tweak how you play those hands. While it may be theoretically correct to go with 85 on 35Q at 12BB effective, you may be up against people who won't get it in anywhere near theoretically correct to make it profitable.

Just keep playing and trying to improve based on the player pool! You got this!

Excellent way to learn, thank you. I look forward to going through all these very long, detailed series. Got hooked during Winamax's Winaseries this month.

Hey!

Thank you for your support!

I've never played on Stars, but one great thing about Wina is that the winning regs simply avoid one another. I play strictly fish. None of the regs established at the $10 level challenged me when I started playing; I assume they just sharkscoped my results and left it at that.

That said, from what I read, most HU non-hyper games should be fairly soft up till about the $20 or $30 levels, even on Stars.

Ah, thank you. I ran really well, what can I say?

Basically the end of the challenge, not that anyone is really Following! :p

Quick update for Days 4 & 5:

The first one is from Day 2, the second one from Day 3.

Days 2 and 3 graphs below for heads up only, of course. All games have been played at the 10 euro turbos, just as in Day 1:

Good, even though I didn’t cash in any of the three MTTs I played. Not sure I’ll post every day, but I will post later on tonight.

Thanks brother!

Thank you!

Thanks, I appreciate it.

Hey,

Thanks for the kind wishes, everyone. I played a few tourneys late last night/early morning today, so my starting bankroll was around 387€, but that's not important. The 60 buy-in goal remains the same, starting from my session this evening.

I reset my sharkscope for noon today, Central European Time, so if ever you're curious you can filter my pseudo for HUSNG from now till the end of the challenge.

Day 1 was excellent. I played very well and ran pretty good, though not as good as the net adjusted line would suggest, as I did, of course, get very unlucky in some cooler spots that were not quite all in pots. All 15 tournaments were turbos which on Winamax are 3-minute blind levels with starting stacks of 1,500 or 75BB. Needless to say, with total confinement in place in the player pool countries of France, Spain, and Portugal, the games are very soft and the action non-stop!

Here are my results:

I may post a hand history or two, but nothing too interesting has come up yet because all of these games except one were against whales.

Stay tuned.

Too bad you’re not making videos anymore. I’m revisiting your archive and think your teaching style suits me much better now than it did a year ago, for whatever reason. I’ll just watch all your videos now!

Excellent, thanks.

You can also buy GTO+ for $60. It's a great postflop solver, AND it comes with its own bot built in. Very, very good value.

À Christmas gift! Thank you.

This series is a hidden gem! I can't believe more people are not soaking this up. Thank you for persisting with an extensive overview of flop play! Keep going!