Fish on a Heater -> Crushing 200z

It's definitely safer than every other site I can access. I just don't see how there could be any significant collusion or botting in the games I play without me and others noticing.

As for RTA I save a ton of hands every session (just bookmark the replay link with name of villain) for review and take a lot of notes. If they're just using it in big decisions, a lot of exploits rely on people messing up previous streets which anyone bad enough to cheat is definitely doing, so I'm probably better off vs them than a 2k reg.

Will miss my 0.5% rakeback dearly

I think I have like $68 left on there from my player points. Not sure what to do with it.

1. Play a $60 Jackpot SNG and try to run it up.

2. Bet $68 on a single number in Roulette

Which number though?

Whatever you want. Just don't be a fish and play your birthday.

So someone else's birthday?

+$11.9k

-$2k on Global mostly at 100nl. Played like 40 hands of 500nl and called off vs a 2k reg when they had a wild overbluff, first $1k pot I think

Feels like I'm playing very well but there were definitely some punt calls vs fish, bad bluff sizes, and just missed aggression

+$12.5k, 23k hands so maintaining 1k/day

Leaked photos from the new GTO headquarters

Still a lot of 50/100nl on Global, I definitely want to just be playing 200+ just not enough to re-deposit. Good practice playing against a lot of fish at least, the bad regs not as much since they don't exist higher, but maybe it's good for when I play live.

Miami trip is planned and I'll have a free place to stay so it should be very +EV

What stakes you plan on playing live?

2/5 for whatever the max is. Maybe some smaller stakes PLO if I'm bored or there's any 5 card.

I've never played at hard rock but from what I've heard you will crush pretty hard.

April +$940

-$1220 on Global 27k hands
+$2160 on apps 5k hands

Hmm maybe more volume on apps for May

May goals:

- 31k hands
- Some exercise every day
- Nail all the double barrel nodes
- I've already started doing this but c-betting GTO instead of spamming 25% pot
- Blast off in most spots
- Mostly 200nl
- run good

+$14.1k

Been back to basics this month mostly preflop, flop bets, and delay/probe lines. Basically all the stuff that comes with not range betting flops

Also been studying early positions SRP, it's barely less common than BTN vs BB and some of the strats are fairly different. For example delay c-betting HJ uses way more 33/50% and bluffing rivers enough gets harder when you don't have T8o

The mythical rangecall
$1 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players

CO: 241.5 BB
BTN: 94 BB
Hero (SB): 100 BB
BB: 110.3 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A♣ T♠

fold, fold, CO raises to 2.5 BBs, fold, Hero raises to 10 BBs, fold, CO calls 7.5 BBs

Flop: (21 BB, 2 players) Q♦ 3♥ 2♥
Hero Bets 5.2 BBs, CO calls 5.2 BBs

Turn: (31.4 BB, 2 players) 3♣
Hero checks, CO Bets 10 BBs, Hero calls 10 BBs

River: (51.4 BB, 2 players) 4♦
Hero checks, CO Bets 38.6 BBs, Hero calls 38.6 BBs

BTN shows: K♦ 8♦

ty

+$14.1k

May +$1510
21k hands mostly on Global, I'm about even for the past 50k hands there but I think my WR is quite high as I'm way better than when I made $8k in 90k hands

nice! just realized this blog was yours, seems like you are on a really good trajectory to move up and start playing higher. i'd probably try and stick to one site but I 100% understand the struggle. In my blog I switched sites like 6-7 times over the period of 1.5 years, it helped keep me engaged and focused but definitely hurt my winrate . See you at the tables (maybe) and glgl!

I've gotten refunds from Ignition in the past for collusion/cheating. Few hundred bucks. I don't know much about poker bots but I don't think they're that prevalent or that big of a problem. I would estimate 99%+ of the player base are real humans. Also I've never seen any obvious collusion like seesawing or anything like that but people could definitely be sharing hole cards I guess. And how good is RTA these days? Don't you need a supercomputer to solve outputs in real time? At least turns and rivers get more complicated and take lots of time I thought. Doesn't seem to be an issue, but that's just a guess.

What I do know about Ignition is that every other table has a 50% VPIPing whale in full ring games. And players who will mini3bet preflop from a 2.5bb open to 4bb total 3bet. All sorts of wildly bad stuff.

Good luck!

+$14.6k, definitely the worst variance I've experienced in terms of all-in EV but I collected enough punts and nit money that I'm somehow up. Games have been good, at some point I was 8-tabling because they were all too fishy to leave

tyty! Not quite sure how it would hurt WR just to have more tables to choose from

How recently? Seems like 1-2 years ago games were very good and they actually cared somewhat

RTA would be plugging spots into Wizard, presolved library on a second PC, or some custom more automatic software that exists. I agree not a big issue even though like 5% of my hands are against a guy who allegedly got caught using RTA

Didn't think call was winning but didn't want to fold

Hero (BTN): 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A♥ T♥

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.5 BBs, fold, BB calls 1.5 BBs

Flop: (5.5 BB, 2 players) T♣ 9♣ 7♥
BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: (5.5 BB, 2 players) T♠
BB Bets 4.1 BBs, Hero calls 4.1 BBs

River: (13.7 BB, 2 players) 8♦
BB Bets 11.5 BBs, Hero Raises to 93.4 BBs and is all-in

Felt like a spot some weaker regs will be close to range folding

Hero (BB): 100 BB

SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.5 BB) Hero has A♣ 7♣

fold, HJ raises to 2.5 BBs, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls 1.5 BBs

Flop: (5.5 BB, 2 players) J♥ 9♥ 3♠
Hero checks, HJ checks

Turn: (5.5 BB, 2 players) 3♦
Hero Bets 13.75 BBs

Got both through, would be nice if it was Iggy and I could see what people fold

It was a long time ago like 5+ years ago. Seems like the games are pretty good currently. And yeah I'd be more worried about game integrity if I was playing heads-up, at full ring it's not much of a concern for me.

+$15.3k

Forgot about this, should take like 20 hours so definitely doable

RTA is less of a concern in 6m or FR, but collusion was also an issue on ACR, and potentially could happen / is happening on ignition

From my experience collusion is happening waaaaaaay more on Ignition.

I think it being anonymous has a lot to do with it. But just the feel of the games. Like is it normal to have cold 4bets twice an orbit constantly?

Or limp limp, iso, raise, jam? See this all the time on Ignition.

In ACR you basically never see that latter and cold 4s happen at normal frequencies. Yes there could be collusion happening, but it's happening at way lower rates and they are better about concealing the methods. Perhaps maybe just card sharing to help drive more precise decisions.

There is for sure hand sharing and RTA on both of these sites. They were littered with them when I was playing last year.

I’d stay away from both of these and maybe away from online in general unless u have a good reason to trust a legit legal site

RTA is a huge issue and we have to stop telling people or acting like it’s not. It’s the worst thing to happen to poker and very very hard to recognize this type of cheating. It’s easier for us to see when 2 people might be colluding 1 hand than it is to tell if someone’s playing perfectly over thousands of hands

+$16.5k, mostly 100nl since tables at 200 were mostly bad and I didn't think I was playing very well

Imo if you can't spot several bad plays within 1k hands you're either not paying attention or a fish

When card sharing is involved things might look like bad plays