I check this thread from time to time to see how you're doing. That downswing is rough! Your mental game seems tight, am sure you'll make it if you keep plugging away
Thanks a lot, I will keep updating this throughout my poker career, and hopefully people are interested, but so far this year, it's not as interesting as last year, when I climbed the stakes quickly.
The height of the downswing is actually 27buyins and I lost 10 buyins in 30 minutes a couple of days ago. It was really testing for me. More info below about what I've done to change this.
I think rake at GG is unbeatable except the very high stakes. You might try obviously, but I think you are better off playing at pokerstars.
I can confirm rake is not beatable for any significant winrate. I think if I ran like I would expect I might beat it for a few bb/100 but that's not worth it imo. I have actually moved to pokerstars as of this morning. I can use my HUD, grind regular tables and really focus on table selection and owning fish.
sometimes watch for the success of other players is very useful, so the belief that the poker game is not a waste of time, good luck)
I try to follow as many other poker players as my attention span will allow
thank you.
So, guys, to no one specifically, this is my graph on GG poker. I can show you all that I actually made -$50 over 131k
hands. I ran terribly, but also the rake is ridiculously high. The first 70k hands or so are reg tables, the second 60k is the rush and cash where rake is lower, however I went on a 28 buyin downswing from hand 95k to 131k hands. It is, of course, the worst swing I have ever been on and it was tough for me.
I have decided that I do not want to grind rush and cash for 5bb/100 with HUGE swings, I am moving back to pokerstars where I can use my HUD and really look to exploit opponents, rather than play a more GTO leaning style.
Will update in due course. Here is my graph on GG. Overall, I made 350 dollars but that was all from leaderboards and rakeback.