My results of grinding 2NL 5NL 10NL 25NL 50NL 100NL
Hello everyone, I want to share with you my 20 days result with 50$ deposit on GGpoker
2NL was awful, after like 15k hand
I'm thinking to myself now what unfair world we live in, some guys playing mid to high stakes thinking they are way better and i have to suffer at micros like this
I'm stuck because I can't make super disciplined/nitty laydowns when i face preflop 5 bet shoves while im holding QQ/AK (yeah right)
I have to make super tough laydowns postflop basically everytime villain starts to bet huge, even if i have a two pair or better (yeah right)
Otherwise i just lose massive amount of stacks and im not getting 300BB worth of value in 2 above hands where i clearly should have
I mean at this point online poker is in big question, i just wanna see really good players play on GG rush micros over 100k+ sample to see if anyone can really beat it for good without making super nitty/tough laydowns
Well I'm no way giving up, i know ill beat this, im confident with myself and i know what it takes to beat it i just need to make really kind of nitty laydowns that i can't even share here because no one will accept it as correct play but to make such laydowns consistently i must be a robot or something, its extremely tough, its against my nature
Dead money wise my game is really good against that pool
Why are you checking turn?
Answer, controling variance is not allowed.
Sorry but to me looks like two nits playing their hands to its max value potential.
I'm checking turn because knowing the pool i don't want to play for my stack there, my intuition tells me that im behind and i will get raised
To further explain: tbh i don't see big values in two pairs anymore especially on that board where straight draw completed, if someone plays big im the one who's losing, i just want to see showdown there, so i check the turn (once again considering pool how nitty they are)
You dont have to play for stacks here and vs most players I wouldn't as well. Im calling vs raise here and deciding on rivers (obv depends on opponent).
I think it come down to you being afraid of hard decisions/uncofortable spots.
Some guys here think its basic fundamentals and technical side all that matters to beat micros on GG, i agree without solid fundamentals those games will be impossible to beat but thats not enough, not even close, it takes much much more and mainly capability to make huge laydowns
You dont have to play for stacks here and vs most players I wouldn't as well. Im calling vs raise here and deciding on rivers (obv depends on opponent).
I think it come down to you being afraid of hard decisions/uncofortable spots.
Yeah that can be true because deep down myself i know how hard it will be for me to lay down two pair there
Looking at your hand histories there is a clear pattern. You very often check or bet really small with strong hands and giving opponents the chance to lose the minimum with bluffcatchers that could stack off. So every time you have the best hand you give them a fantastic price, and the times you're behind they just raise your small bets and you stack off. To summarize: Either they call your small bets when they're behind and you win a small pot, or they raise your small bets and you lose a big one.
Looking at your hand histories there is a clear pattern. You very often check or bet really small with strong hands and giving opponents the chance to lose the minimum with bluffcatchers that could stack off. So every time you have the best hand you give them a fantastic price, and the times you're behind they just raise your small bets and you stack off. To summarize: Either they call your small bets when they're behind and you win a small pot, or they raise your small bets and you lose a big o
yup that can be, well i don't always bet small but in the end it becomes comical, when i bet big opponent has no real hand and when i bet small they have something lol
i believe every stake has its meta game, like for example NL2 is not same as NL5 and NL5 isn't same as NL10, NL25 is different and NL50 is also can be much different etc
basic fundamentals are key foundation on every stake but it's not enough, i need to adapt to meta game and use betting patterns accordingly
maybe here in my case meta game can be to just brute force with my nutty hands just move my stack in by the river no matter what, no matter what board looks like, no matter thinking about ranges etc just make sure stack to be in by the river
Imo you are choosing to live like a blind man even though you are not. You clearly have the motivation and discipline to make it but unless you delete everything you think you know and start from the beginning with the fundamentals, get a coach ect, you will never get there. You will always struggle in the micros and blame the pool instead of admit that you s*ck and learn from your mistakes.
Donking turn to charge a little for draws, you ain't charging sh**, you give them a great price and you put yourself in though spots for no reason against a thinking player that will raise every time you donk.
You do certain plays to avoid "though" spots. Donking OTT for example because you don't like facing more aggression is not a reason for betting.
You were calling from SB w KJo, JTo, ...
You play small pots with big hands and big pots with small hands
You are always trying to change your strategy because it didn't work the last 3 hands.
Every hand that you played like a complete fish you make excuses, nitty pool, they don't stack off, pool is this pool is that, blablabla
I don't mean this in a bad way but for me this all means you are running around like a chicken without a head and you just don't realize it.
You have the dedication, you really want to make it. Why not allow yourself to get there then?
Imo you are choosing to live like a blind man even though you are not. You clearly have the motivation and discipline to make it but unless you delete everything you think you know and start from the beginning with the fundamentals, get a coach ect, you will never get there. You will always struggle in the micros and blame the pool instead of admit that you s*ck and learn from your mistakes.
Donking turn to charge a little for draws, you ain't charging sh**, you give them a great price and you p
woohoo chill mate chill hahaha well i respect your honesty and agree with most of the things you said but that doesn't mean anything ill get there anyway i believe in myself
about coach, not at this stage, first ill make it with my own strategy to the upper stakes and only then i will hire a coach just to correct my technical side of fundamentals etc
i just dont want someone to build my playing strategy, i dont want to play like they want me to play, i want my own style now
yup that can be, well i don't always bet small but in the end it becomes comical, when i bet big opponent has no real hand and when i bet small they have something lol
i believe every stake has its meta game, like for example NL2 is not same as NL5 and NL5 isn't same as NL10, NL25 is different and NL50 is also can be much different etc
basic fundamentals are key foundation on every stake but it's not enough, i need to adapt to meta game and use betting patterns accordingly
Now we're talking. This is what nutty hands are for, getting stacks in by the river. You should still play good fundamentals and think about ranges. But instead of narrowing down their range to the nuts every time you consider value betting on a straight or flush completing card / board pairing, focus more on the majority of villains range. If you get raised, first think if you can beat some value, if not a fold might be a good option.
Now we're talking. This is what nutty hands are for, getting stacks in by the river. You should still play good fundamentals and think about ranges. But instead of narrowing down their range to the nuts every time you consider value betting on a straight or flush completing card / board pairing, focus more on the majority of villains range. If you get raised, first think if you can beat some value, if not a fold might be a good option.
agree, will work on that
2 monster hands here and you're scooping a 20bb pot.
I really don't see how you don't win a stack running into a top of the range hand and luckboxing the river.
well when i bet small on the river i expected a raise but i guess there was a glitch in the matrix maybe a black cat ran somewhere near lol
idk whats wrong with this new event lol i opened countless of candles and no more than 0.2$ each where is the 1000$ lol
any idea whats the optimal amount of candles to be opened? maybe i should wait and collect 300+ before opening it
well when i bet small on the river i expected a raise but i guess there was a glitch in the matrix maybe a black cat ran somewhere near lol
I still don't know how you check behind turn and give all the draws out there a free card.
Check call of river by villain is super nitty though. I imagine most people with 99 are putting a raise in and stacking off hoping to see worse.
bribri is right but u are also kind of right - hiring coach at this point is likely not necessary or wise and part of the fun should be to get to at least nl100 on your own
i did beat nl200 with basically just intuition back in time and trying to think of poker in my own terms however after bought coaching i realized how flawed i was thinking and managed to improve a lot
by taking some advice and trying to rather focus on what you don't know and question the things you do as ur "own thing" would hugely improve your game
who would coach him and for what kind of money
all the content to how to beat nl50 or nl100 is out there you really just do the work , lol , more ranges and free content and advice than ever before
if someone can dedicate all his time to poker and cant get to nl50 on his own or nl100 he is just lazy
but thats what it is if play lets say nl200 nowadays the regs keep changing - people are soft , there is barely any real grinders anymore
when i started with poker the standards for fastfold players were to play minimum 80000 hands in a month
my first cfp- was with finnish headsup high-stakes player Jakeeee who crushed with massive volumes and I played like 75k hands in a month and he said I should improve my volume
You guys should just work harder
imo it's not comparable old fast fold games vs nowadays GG
can someone show the graph actually beating it?
Ok zoom 200 this year lowest volume ever bcz cant really grind online that much still totally beatable didn't even study anything
GG sure micro is beatable ur game just sucks
So many people say dont donk bet
u donk bet
So many say don't do this don't do that u disagree
Its like my boy cat that eats plastic because he loves plastic then he keeps puking whole day and he repeats it every day
You love doing "your own thing" which is ur biggest problem , trust me
So many people say dont donk bet
u donk bet
So many say don't do this don't do that u disagree
Its like my boy cat that eats plastic because he loves plastic then he keeps puking whole day and he repeats it every day
You love doing "your own thing" which is ur biggest problem , trust me
I agree donking is flawed but at these limits donking is not what makes my winrate lower, it may hurt my winrate when i move up vs better players but here its totally different things that matter
Lets say last 20 times i got raised on the river and i called how many times my opponent had hand that beats my hand? 19 maybe
Lets say last 20 times i had top pair or overpair and i got raised on turn my opponent had hand that beats my hand? more than 15 maybe
These numbers are so high on value side that i can just print money by folding but the thing is its very hard to fold everytime i have good hand and they go big lines, thats my main problem, not donking or stuff like that, thats minor thing to be fixed right quick
Lets say how often i get value with my value hands? not too often
It's not pokerstars mate where rake helps you and people actually stack off light, here its totally different story on GG rush games
Here i could fold first hand, like when they raise they got it, second hand i have to fold top pair and all the time its so challenging to make such laydowns, sometimes i can sometimes, i can't
Preflop is another thing too when they 5bet shove and i have QQ/AK probably you will just call and i want to see you do that on GG, not pokerstars, how often will you win just curious
Keep in mind you aren't getting enough values and mostly build stack with small pots, taking shots on dead money but those big hands just kills you
oh my god i miss value again, i hesitate to raise flop because im afraid they will fold overpairs considering how nitty they're and expecting them to bet value on the river but they just check back