For his debut video, Stelios reviews a turbo husng match he plays at the €10 level on pokerstars.fr. Playing against a passive opponent, Stelios explains his decisions and also analyzes some of his opponent's mistakes.
For his debut video, Stelios reviews a turbo husng match he plays at the €10 level on pokerstars.fr. Playing against a passive opponent, Stelios explains his decisions and also analyzes some of his opponent's mistakes.
Here's Stelios graph.
This is a first video, so please let me know what you did and did not like, thanks!
Is this for all his sng's? or just husngs?
VHL
Should be HUSNGs only.
8 minutes into the game, you hold JJ on a K33 board:
what do think about checking back and letting him catch sth on the turn? he´s folding like 90% to our cbets. i guess a bet here against this opponent is losing value, because he only will call with a K or a 3 (both of which have us beat) or a FD.
I think checking back makes sense and is definitely worth considering for the reason you mentioned. However, I also think that opp calls there with all pairs in between (44 - TT). Also, due to the fact that I had been cbetting a lot and he was folding a ton, it might be a reason for him to start calling with some A-high type hands as well. I think both plays are fine, probably almost equal as far as EV is concerned.
Hey dude that graph is like 45 degrees, zero variance !
How come you don't move up if you're crushing the games over such a large sample?
Spent the last year splitting my game between Sitngo and cash games. I concentrated more on the volume so I had decided not to move up for the first six months of the year. Volume was much lower in higher stakes and I was trying to keep 16 tables running at the time (was playing HU, 6max and 9max simultaneously). Unfortunately, after first half of the year was over there were some family issues that move me backwards for quite some time and I had to waste playing time and money for it. That's why, ultimately, I didn't move up in stakes during last year. Hopefully this year there will be no unexpected issues... :-)
As someone at the micro's contemplating adding another table in the near future, It would be interesting, if you have a brief moment, to hear how you progressed to playing 16 tables and mixed formats.
How long did it take and what were the joys and pitfalls along the way ?
thanks for the vid, look forward to more.
TC.
Go forth and CRUSH !
It wasn't easy and it took me almost a month to get in rhythm trying to do it - I will tell you that much! My main area in SitnGo play was always Heads' Up games but, since it was impossible to play more than 3 at the same time, I tried to add 1-table SitnGo's to increase my hourly rate.
At first I wasn't able to deal with all the different skills that these formats required and didn't have much success. After a month or so, I got the feel of it and was running 3 Heads'up tables along with 12-14 1-table SitnGo's. Focusing more on the Heads' Up games, my EV in the 1-table SitnGo's was obviously decreased but after I got the feel of how the regs played and also deciding to avoid reg-packed tables, I was able to maintain my expected profit in the Heads' Up games and also have a positive ROI in the others - something that increased my hourly rate almost 50%.
During those sessions, I always focused more on the Heads' Up tables and auto-piloted most of my 1-table Sits. Fortunately, the level of play on Pokerstars.fr was bad enough for me to avoid any huge swings along the way.
One pitfall, however, was that averaging more than 100 SitnGo's a day plus my cash game sessions on other websites, there were some (fortunately short) periods of time when I felt exhausted and didn't have the will to play much.
Thanks for that. It really helps to have information, just as a novice to build a coherent picture of what is possible and how you approach things.
Appreciate the time taken to answer.
Wishing you God mode !
TC.
Go forth and CRUSH !
Hey, how was action on those games during January?, cuz on the 50-100 eur which are the games i'm playing there, action was terrible. The lobbies often looked very bad having 7 or 8 of us waiting for someone to come, I mean, rec players do notice that, don't they?, Imo, it's just bad that it's very rare for regs to play between them on the 50-100s euro games ( at least on the turbos), and when u adventure to sit them, some of them even get angry.
Then, you have winamax, where there are only 2 tables per stake, and is also super reg infested on the 30, 50, 100, 200 eur level, where you really have to battle regs if u want a seat.
VHL
I didn't play in pokerstars.fr in January so, I have no idea what the action looks like now. Until the end of last year, action on the stakes I was dealing with was fine, had tables up and running all day long.
Winamax is a place I am looking forward to trying soon anyway.