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Can't beat $10NL Blitz (fast fold) BUT bossing it at $25NL (reg 6max)
It is more of a life challenge for me to beat $10NL Blitz.
$25NL regular 6max is like kindergarten compared to $10NL Blitz on the same site at ACR. Some things I've noticed: 1) Even though huds work on ACR's Blitz (I use PT4), I've found the aggression to be wAAAAAY higher on Blitz pre-flop. 3bettors are more frequent, and you also see a lot of 12%-15% 3-bettors in Blitz. There's a psychological issue at play when you sit at a standard 6-max table. When you 3-bet someone 2 times in a row, or 3 times, they start to feel bullied and will fight back, almost no matter who they are, unless they're just a total pushover. This doesn't really apply the same way in Blitz. Even if a guy 3bet you every single time you raised a hand with him, you don't get as emotional about it in Blitz because it occurs over the space of maybe days or weeks. When you're sitting next to someone at the same table for hours, you have to consider things like how your villain is feeling from how you've just 3bet him recently, regardless of what both of your ranges could be, because short-term emotions can really change the way you usually play. There are some other things I've noticed but this is the most non-obvious one I haven't really heard expressed much elsewhere so I'll leave it at that for now.
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Well, I notice a lot of aggression at the reg tables as well. This is true, this field is very aggro. You can try in some other room, if you don't like it. The reg tables always will be more profitable than the "fast fold" poker. Maybe you are using the info in "a good way". Maybe you are good at the reg tables. Just play only reg tables, no shame in that.
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Yea you're right. As far as table selection goes I'll play regular tables to make money. I sort of "train" on Blitz, like an athlete would train at the gym.
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Since you are essentially playing against unknowns in a fast forward game, its really not much different from playing against a computer, and the latter is a whole lot cheaper. You can also spend some of the money, you save, on a solver, if you want to take your game to the next level.
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As a marathon runner would not train their fast twitch muscle fibres at the gym; I would reconsider whether Blitz is really training your regular 6max game. Although I appreciate beating $10 Blitz would help you round your overall poker game...I agree with the previous poster that a program like Snowie should be more be appropriate to improve your reg 6max. IMO sometimes it's better to stick with what you're good at. But if you want to persist with Blitz, from what you said, you are finding people with higher 3bet% than normal - you can start to widen your 4bet% against those with a low 4bet-call%. Like how maniacs will sometimes use 89s as a 4bet preflop. Also moving some of your normal 4bets into your 3bet-calls and looking to trap the aggros (especially if they have low 4bet-call%s preflop). Furthermore, calling down boards with middling hands if Villain has a low showdown-winrate%. Experimentation will cost you money in the short term though!
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Thanks bro for the adjustments. Love the marathon/sprint analogy too!
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Just try to open less from positions and try to play aggressive too
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The more GTO / Math heavy you are, the better you'll do at fast fold tables.
If your strength is reads and adjustments, and exploitative play, you'll do better at regular tables. It's really that simple. It doesn't mean you can't do well w/ GTO at regular tables or visa versa, but those are the formats you'll excel at based on your strengths. Some very heavy GTO guys are horrible at exploitative play and reads and again, visa versa.
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Damn, thanks for this John. This probably explains the difference I am experiencing, though I do want to get better at the GTO and math aspects of the game.
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The other issue is, that if everyone play GTO and does it well, then everyone lose at the rate of the rake, which is around 10 BB / 100 for a game like 10NL 6-max. And I am actually not sure, these games are even beatable today on sites like PokerStars, 888 Poker or ACR. Of course its a bold statement to say, they are not beatable. But who actually has a database with for instance 200.000 hands from a 10NL Zoom game played in 2019-2020 to prove, they are able to beat the rake? What typically happen is, if people go on a heater, they assume they are winning and move up, and if they lose, eventually they give up and stop. Which is, what I did after around 30k hands at 10-16NL Zoom on PokerStars. This is a genuine question, so if someone has that database with 200.000 hands from a 10NL Zoom game, please feel free to share it
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What you talking about
And the normal tables , if you buy some hand history and if you use "some" table selection, then 10 blinds will be bad. With this "four tables" rule, I think even 15 blinds will be bad. 10 blinds rake is way too high. Must be some low limit with very aggro play. Yes, NL10...NL10 most likely. With uncorrect play. I had a sample, but I played very long time ago. With rakeback. I think 11bb/100 hands. Now without rakeback the "expected" win rate will be higher. Also if you play at 9-10 PM ET time, you will see some crazy things. I don't think the field is too strong now. Back in the days I played $15 SNG in PS and this was a nightmare. Very difficult to achieve 3% ROI at $15 18 men. 6 max STT was so ugly, BE crap. The fifty was good, but small rakeback. Now, exactly now, the games at $15 are soft. Yes, "soft", that's I said. With rakeback at $15 from 18 players, there was 13-14 regulars. Now not more than 6-7. Also this NL16 Zoom. Only crazy people there.
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Mate, if NL10 is unbeatable, then what about NL25!? NL 50, NL100!? Ofc the win rate will drop significantly. But there is a cap already. You will play deep, not quit with 115bb. There are regs there. For several years. And still play this. For living...There are bots as well, cartels as well. How this can be unbeatable!? For NL200 you can say that. But we can't compare NL10 and NL200. This is like to compare NL2 and NL50. Can you "beat" NL2 with more than 3bb/100 hands!?
This 30k BE at NL10-NL16 for sure is "very bad luck", downswing. Even if your "luck adjusted" line is not showing this. There are not only "bad beats". The "bad beats" are only small part from "the bad luck". You can be BE 30k hands even at NL2.
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I knew it. You dumb troll...
And I think this forum is at this "stage", because idiots, like you. Playing for 100 years freerolls. And NL2...But they know everything. . "Prove me". Well, where is YOUR proof then!?
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re: Poker & Can't beat $10NL Blitz (fast fold) BUT bossing it at $25NL (reg 6max)
"NL10 is unbeatable". And everyone clapping your hands." Ofc, mate, I knew it. This is a pure gambling. This is a lie. Let's go to the freerolls. We will talk something about poker strategy, but only to look, like badass."
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I want to be clear what is happening in this forum. I don't attack this guy @fundiver199 (https://www.cardschat.com/members/fundiver199/), I think he was just unlucky with this 30k hands at Zoom. I think he is good enough for good win rate. Also I am not laughing to him. Also this guy, @BUSB0Y (https://www.cardschat.com/members/busb0y/).
This @LevySystem, he is just a troll. He use some topics with a discussions, with different opinions. He try to offend me, to turn other people against me. To turn the discussion into argue. That's the trolls do...
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This is, what my database show for 10NL, and I think, its completely normal. I play around 22-23% VPIP for 6-max, which I certainly dont think is particularly loose, and I am a bit on the passive side preflop. Maybe you can get away with 8-9BB / 100, if you play really tight, but I dought anything below that is realistic. Of course as you move up, the rake will go down slightly because of the per pot cap. This is essentially never reached at 10NL, so every time you AK goes all in preflop against another AK, PokerStars keep 4,5% of your money, and most other sites keep 5%.
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Listen, give $1k to some couch and he will show you, whatever you want to see. Even 10/100 at NL200. If you believe in this (NL10 Zoom is unbeatable), then you should do something else, if you are not sick gambler. If the real win rate for Zoom NL10 is 0/100 and less, then the days of poker are over.
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Then they are probably also unbeatable as well, although it is a bit more complicated than that. As I wrote in the previous post, the rake does start to go down at least at 100NL. Player pools also get smaller, which should decrease the difference between Zoom and normal tables.
People of course have to pay their bills, but maybe they win at regular tables or tournaments and then burn up some of the money trying to beat Zoom. Or maybe they have other sources of income like streaming, getting paid by a poker site, coaching etc. If we are talking about the upper end like 100NL Zoom and above, its also not crazy to imagine, that quite a bit of cheating is going on like real time solvers, sharing databases etc. I personally think, Zoom games are a rake trap, and I also kind of hate the way, they play with an excessive amount of aggression. But if someone else wants to play Zoom, this is their choise, and I am not telling people not to
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Of course its not possible to prove, nobody is winning, without having access to the entire database of the poker site. It is however possible to prove, that at least someone are winning by that person sharing his own graph / database, and his winrate being buyond statistical variance. Which is why, I genuinely suggested, that people share their graph, if they are beating 10NL Zoom (or anything higher).
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"10 blinds for 100 hands, NL50 Zoom, 150k sample".
In one other forum the people are talking about this. Is this a "real thing"!? Is this a fake!? Is this an amazing luck!? Here we talk about NL10. Can be beatable? Can achieve more than BE? I guess different people, different forums, different topics. Different targets for the "affiliate advertisements". "CardsChat freerolls". "25 "good" post per day". Can't be different, I guess.
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I dont know, why you get so upset about this? I just wrote, that I am not sure, 10NL Zoom is even beatable. I did not say, I know for sure, or that I have evidence. Personally I saw a 13 BB / 100 difference in my winrate between Zoom and normal tables. This was over a sample of 30k hands at Zoom and at least 70k hands at regular tables.
Sure some of this might be due to variance, but for me it was enough to conclude, that the drawbacks of Zoom are massively larger than the advantages, so I decided to stop playing the format. I have briefly revisited it since but not for a large enough sample to conclude anything meaningfull. As for those people in "other forums", its obviously good for them, if they are beating 50NL Zoom for 10 BB / 100 over 150k hands. But are they showing their graph? Its not that uncommon for people to brag about their results, so without evidence I would take this with a grain of salt. But once again if someone in this forum - not another one - actually have that kind of graph, then feel free to share it. I would love for someone to prove, that Zoom games can still be massively profitable, because that would indeed be great news for all poker players
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I am not upset...You can't upset me so easily. You don't lie, you are not a "bad player", you just don't know.
This is my words :
I don't have a "zoom" friends. Only SnG, MTT friends. No one wants to play in PS. Because the rakeback mainly. But, mate, you are wrong. 30k hands are nothing. Can be very easily a "bad luck". Also I don't believe in this 10/100 Zoom NL50. Don't try to do that. Don't start to argue, if actually you want a discussion, if you want to learn something. There is a guy, very popular coach, creator of the big part of the strategy for UpSwing poker and PS. He have 6/100 for 300k hands Zoom NL200. I don't think it is a fake, I think it is a "luck". I talked with this guy. He can't even make a good HUD. Some ugly dumb HUD. Actyally he asking me how to do some things. His HUD was "blinking" and he don't know what to do. I mean obv he is not so inteligent player, he is a "very lucky player". Even for 300k. I believe for NL200 is BE for "average" good reg. But we talk about NL10. Very huge difference. I also really want to hear some over opinions. Do you all really think NL10 is unbeatable? Even with one blind for 100 hands? I don't try to say "NL50 is beatable with 10/100". I just tried to show what will happen if you post this in some other forum. No one will "like" this. Something different will happen.
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I will be really shocked if the most of the users will agree with you. I mean really...What you want me to do? To go at NL10 and play 200k hands!? Fck this...Fck PS...I am done with this. You are right, I am wrong.
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Its certainly true, that Cardschat is different from "other poker forums". "Other poker forums" are filled with a lot of big egos, and are not very welcoming to beginners. Which is why I spend some time here but not in any of those "other forums"
Speaking of training sites and coaches one of the main beefs, I have with this industri is, that most of the people in it started playing poker a long time ago, and they dont have any recent experience with the games, their students are actually playing. Which is of course mostly the micros. So they dont know, how soft or tough these games actually are, and they also dont know, how they play. And for that reason sometimes these coaches and training sites can actually do more harm than good to people just starting out. Returning to the topic of Zoom vs. regular cash games as with so many other things, it all depends. Inspired by this thread I actually just played 200 hands at the 10NL 888 Poker SNAP table. And ok I was exaggerating. Today this game was good with maybe 15% recreational players, and I won 150BB over this small sample. However this also showed up in the form of a 22-23% players per flop in the lobby. And when was the last time in human memory, someone saw this kind of number for a PokerStars Zoom game? There were also only around 45 people playing, and neither the 50NL or 5NL table was playing anywhere near as loose, so basically I just got lucky to get in the game at a good time. But maybe these SNAP games on 888 are actually better than Zoom on PokerStars, after 888 started allowing the use of HUDs. Having only 45 players in the pool rather than 450 is just so superior, because you actually pick up a sample on the fish, and you also get to see them again, while you can still remember, what you saw them do in a previous hand.
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But you have...With your "experience" you can say "NL10 is unbeatable". I will stop. For sure. Don't bother...
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You want a proof. I am just talking/speculating (but not you). But you are "not sure". You have an experience, I don't.
You are also said that:
But not for the beginners. No matter what you say, they don't listen, they don't think, they just argue "Who are you to tell". They want graphs. The magical graphs. Well, you will see that. This magic. If you pay.
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I saw enough from this forum. Now I am "upset". Some "GTO talking" for the nano limits, for the freerolls. The poker is rigged, the poker are not profitable anymore, NL10 is unbeatable. Enough...Also the mods don't care about the very obv "troll activity".
Obv this is the case. So many visitors in this topic. Obv they are agree with you. They like that. "We can't, because this is not possible". Bye...
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It's a fight against windmills.
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So I calculated, and for the rake I pay, I'm paying out at about 6bb/100 before my rakeback. I made a couple adjustments, maybe went on a heater too, and almost back to even, just a few buy-ins below 0 after almost 50k hands. I can perhaps share how to not-lose, but also not win, lol. But I still dont' know how to crank a decent positive win-rate at this limit yet.
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I've seem you in zoom a few times. After reading this thread I switched to 10nl 6max reg and have a high win rate, compared to a negative on on zoom! It has to be beatable. I often seen players there with $80 stacks. I know a lot of them are 25nl regs too. For fundiver's challenge, lol, not interested in playing 100k hands there if it's easier to play 25nl tho, so maybe we'll never know!
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One of my biggest leaks, which I'm sure we all have, but won't be evident on the graph, is that I like to smoke weed, and often I'll be high as **** and just donk away buy-ins. So if you're wondering how I can tank 500 big blinds within a few hundred hands, that can explain away a lot of it. In the last few thousand hands, I haven't been smoking weed for 2-3 weeks AT ALL, just went on a cold turkey break, not necessarily for poker, but the correlation of a better graph is hard to ignore.
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I'm sorry I didn't see this response sooner. That is cool man, you are doing well! Haha I actually came here to post my own graph like I was hot sh**... I'll post it for this month (my only 10nlz winning month) just to prove that bums like me can pull ahead (inb4 small sample size, sun run... yea maybe, but it don't feel that way) I have way less hands than you (and you are probably a better player) but yes, 10nlz on ACR is beatable, although it may be harder than 25nl. And don't do drugs, mmmmkay?
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That's why zoom more interesting and skilled
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i'm beating $25NL, got bored so trying $50NL now (bomb pots)
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I disagree. You're playing against the player pool's tendancies. fwiw I've played many hands in FastForward games (millions) & for people (including OP) to suggest it being readless (essentially against unknowns), etc. is very far from how it is. I personally have extensive notes and it doesn't take long to acquire. A few sessions and you'll have acquired a large number of hands vs. regs., can easily identify fish (including various types of fish) & can make adjustments & exploits accordingly. I also think it's a decent practice ground. Regular tables feel soft by comparison. (so then shouldn't that be where we should always be playing then? ... not if you like playing FastForward tables, lol).
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nice giraffe!
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Get more data on these guys(regs),helped me a bit
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