YourDoom
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hello, nice story
my question is
what's your standard of level up, meaning moving up to higher levels? bankroll management of aggressive spending some profit - try out....
the second one is
what is your standard to quitting the table? like....lost 6 buyins or something.
the third one is
how to keep ur A game longer...especially during the high pressure...[default thinking that high stake level table is very aggressive....than usual]
thank you for any advice....
my question is
what's your standard of level up, meaning moving up to higher levels? bankroll management of aggressive spending some profit - try out....
the second one is
what is your standard to quitting the table? like....lost 6 buyins or something.
the third one is
how to keep ur A game longer...especially during the high pressure...[default thinking that high stake level table is very aggressive....than usual]
thank you for any advice....
YourDoom
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Silver Level
Hi!
1. 20 BIs is the "standard" but I say you need to reach whatever point where you can jam 100bbs on the river as a bluff, lose and shrug. If you play with scared money or lose a stack and think "oh that's so much money" don't play that level.
2. When I'm no longer feeling a good, positive, flowing optimistic energy, I quit. Yes, for many people, losing a bunch of BIs in a row can cause that frustration to creep in.
3. I use Elliot Roe's hypnosis mp3s. They are incredible. I've found that they 've increase my A+ volume by at least 40%.
bezobrazny
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Silver Level
I truly bought your story because I play that way. My math is only on the table but my problem is that I am not still ready to play and invest some normal amount. Maybe after I win some nice some on mtt. But the thing is, play your game and stay focused.
YourDoom
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About Me - Part 2 - Published August 31, 2014
I'm admittedly not the best blogger in the world, but since it's been about three and a half years since I wrote and published my original story (above) about how I grew from playing $10 SNGs to becoming #1 in overall winnings at NL2k on pokerstars in 2010.
I think we left off part 1 on a positive note. It was the start of 2011, games were great, my game was sharp, and $ was flowing like a river into my poker account.
I was starting to play more of the super sick 40bb shallow games on FullTilt and was transitioning away from PokerStars when the day that we all remember struck, Black Friday. Living in the US at the time, it was a huge blow. For the first few days I didn't know what I was going to do. After a few days of turmoil, I semi-planned to move to Atlantic City and start playing live poker full time. In the meantime, since I suddenly had more time on my hands, in an effort to fill out my schedule, I lowered my coaching rate from $450/hr to $325/hr but had no idea if I was going to get 15 inquires or zero. Fortunately, the response was great and my coaching schedule filled up. I also decided that it was a good time to start making instructional videos. I had always passed on offers before, since I was playing full time and like most successful players didn't want to "reveal how I played."
I was vetting several different instructional sites and finally decided on PokerStrategy. They were the biggest site at the time and gave me the best offer by far (like 3 times more than what other sites were offering), to make the highest level videos for their site. So I began making videos and coaching full time. After a short learning curve, all of my videos were getting excellent feedback. Apparently my background in teaching helped create a product that most people really found helpful and seemed to enjoy.
Later in the year I was approached by another coach who asked me to make an expert level NL 6 max course for his site that unlike my PS videos which I received a flat fee for, would be sold privately as individual copies. He showed me the numbers for how well the HU course that he sold was doing and I became intrigued, but as this sort of thing was totally new to me, I was still hesitant.
I had no idea what to expect so instead of a fully comprehensive NL 6 max course, I decided to start with a smaller course focusing on just one area of play just to see what would happen and how many I would sell. The topic I decided on was "How to Play from the Blinds."
I already had the topic outlined and half of the videos recorded, which I was just days away from selling to PokerStrategy.
I finished the series and my first privately available video series went on the market. To make a long story short, the response, sales and feedback I received was phenomenally positive. Sales quickly exceeded my highest expectations and I was absolutely hooked on this newfound stream of semi-passive income.
Towards the end of 2011 I was able to relocate and start playing online poker again but was unable to put in the same volume I was putting in before Black Friday. Something in my brain along with a list of physical ailments was preventing me from being able to play long sessions.
2012 was a great year at the tables...
But as you can see, my volume was low. I continued making new videos series covering a wide range of topics and developed a sort-of cult following of loyal fans who followed my work.
The games were great, but I couldn't play more than 750 hands on any given day and could absolutely not play two days in a row. If I played too much I would freq get a migraine and would feel a wicked hangover the next day. If was the same feeling as if I got very drunk the night before.
In 2013 things got worse. I started getting migraines after trying to play more than a few hours and had sinus headaches all the time. On my worst days I could play my A game for about 500 hands and then would have a headache and feel hungover the next day. It was incredibly frustrating, because I felt like the games were great and when I was playing I generally felt dominant and in command of the table.
I didn't really understand what my problem was. I was embarrassed about my inability to grind like I used to, attributed a lot of it to "just getting older" (I'm 37) and was generally uncertain about what my future in poker would be.
By the end of 2013 I finished the year with as much volume as many full time grinders play in a few weeks...
I was also in a downswing. "Not allowed to win; ridiculous bad beats; blah blah blah, the usual stories..." When you hit a 40k hand downswing over a few weeks it's no big deal, but that variance is clearly magnified when it's your entire year at the tables.
Feeling a bit embarrassed by my 2013 performance, I closed to coaching new students and made a full force effort to focus on "fixing myself." I started with new computer glasses from the eye doctor, and then moved on to finding an effective nasal spray for allergies which eliminated 95% of my sinus headaches. I also started taking 500mg of Magnesium and 200mg L-Theanine both of which are complete natural supplements which killed my migraines. In general, I'm very anti-drug. I don't even really like taking Advil when I have a headache. But natural supplements are something I'm now getting more and more into, and something I'm learning more about as I believe they can be highly beneficial to poker players.
So I was finally feeling good physically, but my volume was still pretty weak. If I played over 1000 hands I still got that hangover feeling the day after and was sometimes a mental wreck. That's when I started working with the man who saved my poker career, Elliot Roe. Elliot is a mindset coach for MMA fighters and Poker players. He previously sent me some free copies of his pregame hypnosis mp3s and I became instantly hooked. Just by using the mp3s alone my A+ volume increased about 50%. I have since taken several live coaching sessions with Elliot. We have focused on removing the mental blocks and my "accumulated tilt" issues that were preventing me from putting in long sessions.
It's now the end of August 2014 and I can now generally play about 1250 hands effectively and have no hangover whatsoever the next day. Sure, it's not exactly nanonoko-like volume and may be akin to a 350 lb man losing 40 lbs, but I'll take it
and plan to keep improving. Along with playing poker, I have a pretty full schedule of sports (I play a lot of hockey, volleyball and football,) coaching and running my website. With poker, like with many other activities in life I believe you get the most out of them when doing them in moderation. So playing 3 or 4 nights a week works out great for me. I don't really care to play more often than that, but I would like to still be able to play more hands in a given day and improving that volume is now my main focus.
Here are my 2014 results to date... I didn't play any hands before 2/17 as I was finishing my newest video series
But as you can see, things are back on track. The downswing is over, I'm feeling great, I'm focused and running awesome
I'm admittedly not the best blogger in the world, but since it's been about three and a half years since I wrote and published my original story (above) about how I grew from playing $10 SNGs to becoming #1 in overall winnings at NL2k on pokerstars in 2010.
I think we left off part 1 on a positive note. It was the start of 2011, games were great, my game was sharp, and $ was flowing like a river into my poker account.
I was starting to play more of the super sick 40bb shallow games on FullTilt and was transitioning away from PokerStars when the day that we all remember struck, Black Friday. Living in the US at the time, it was a huge blow. For the first few days I didn't know what I was going to do. After a few days of turmoil, I semi-planned to move to Atlantic City and start playing live poker full time. In the meantime, since I suddenly had more time on my hands, in an effort to fill out my schedule, I lowered my coaching rate from $450/hr to $325/hr but had no idea if I was going to get 15 inquires or zero. Fortunately, the response was great and my coaching schedule filled up. I also decided that it was a good time to start making instructional videos. I had always passed on offers before, since I was playing full time and like most successful players didn't want to "reveal how I played."
I was vetting several different instructional sites and finally decided on PokerStrategy. They were the biggest site at the time and gave me the best offer by far (like 3 times more than what other sites were offering), to make the highest level videos for their site. So I began making videos and coaching full time. After a short learning curve, all of my videos were getting excellent feedback. Apparently my background in teaching helped create a product that most people really found helpful and seemed to enjoy.
Later in the year I was approached by another coach who asked me to make an expert level NL 6 max course for his site that unlike my PS videos which I received a flat fee for, would be sold privately as individual copies. He showed me the numbers for how well the HU course that he sold was doing and I became intrigued, but as this sort of thing was totally new to me, I was still hesitant.
I had no idea what to expect so instead of a fully comprehensive NL 6 max course, I decided to start with a smaller course focusing on just one area of play just to see what would happen and how many I would sell. The topic I decided on was "How to Play from the Blinds."
I already had the topic outlined and half of the videos recorded, which I was just days away from selling to PokerStrategy.
I finished the series and my first privately available video series went on the market. To make a long story short, the response, sales and feedback I received was phenomenally positive. Sales quickly exceeded my highest expectations and I was absolutely hooked on this newfound stream of semi-passive income.
Towards the end of 2011 I was able to relocate and start playing online poker again but was unable to put in the same volume I was putting in before Black Friday. Something in my brain along with a list of physical ailments was preventing me from being able to play long sessions.
2012 was a great year at the tables...
But as you can see, my volume was low. I continued making new videos series covering a wide range of topics and developed a sort-of cult following of loyal fans who followed my work.
The games were great, but I couldn't play more than 750 hands on any given day and could absolutely not play two days in a row. If I played too much I would freq get a migraine and would feel a wicked hangover the next day. If was the same feeling as if I got very drunk the night before.
In 2013 things got worse. I started getting migraines after trying to play more than a few hours and had sinus headaches all the time. On my worst days I could play my A game for about 500 hands and then would have a headache and feel hungover the next day. It was incredibly frustrating, because I felt like the games were great and when I was playing I generally felt dominant and in command of the table.
I didn't really understand what my problem was. I was embarrassed about my inability to grind like I used to, attributed a lot of it to "just getting older" (I'm 37) and was generally uncertain about what my future in poker would be.
By the end of 2013 I finished the year with as much volume as many full time grinders play in a few weeks...
I was also in a downswing. "Not allowed to win; ridiculous bad beats; blah blah blah, the usual stories..." When you hit a 40k hand downswing over a few weeks it's no big deal, but that variance is clearly magnified when it's your entire year at the tables.
Feeling a bit embarrassed by my 2013 performance, I closed to coaching new students and made a full force effort to focus on "fixing myself." I started with new computer glasses from the eye doctor, and then moved on to finding an effective nasal spray for allergies which eliminated 95% of my sinus headaches. I also started taking 500mg of Magnesium and 200mg L-Theanine both of which are complete natural supplements which killed my migraines. In general, I'm very anti-drug. I don't even really like taking Advil when I have a headache. But natural supplements are something I'm now getting more and more into, and something I'm learning more about as I believe they can be highly beneficial to poker players.
So I was finally feeling good physically, but my volume was still pretty weak. If I played over 1000 hands I still got that hangover feeling the day after and was sometimes a mental wreck. That's when I started working with the man who saved my poker career, Elliot Roe. Elliot is a mindset coach for MMA fighters and Poker players. He previously sent me some free copies of his pregame hypnosis mp3s and I became instantly hooked. Just by using the mp3s alone my A+ volume increased about 50%. I have since taken several live coaching sessions with Elliot. We have focused on removing the mental blocks and my "accumulated tilt" issues that were preventing me from putting in long sessions.
It's now the end of August 2014 and I can now generally play about 1250 hands effectively and have no hangover whatsoever the next day. Sure, it's not exactly nanonoko-like volume and may be akin to a 350 lb man losing 40 lbs, but I'll take it
and plan to keep improving. Along with playing poker, I have a pretty full schedule of sports (I play a lot of hockey, volleyball and football,) coaching and running my website. With poker, like with many other activities in life I believe you get the most out of them when doing them in moderation. So playing 3 or 4 nights a week works out great for me. I don't really care to play more often than that, but I would like to still be able to play more hands in a given day and improving that volume is now my main focus.Here are my 2014 results to date... I didn't play any hands before 2/17 as I was finishing my newest video series
But as you can see, things are back on track. The downswing is over, I'm feeling great, I'm focused and running awesome
YourDoom
Enthusiast
Silver Level
Thanks guys
Jancianna, bb/100 means "big blinds won per 100 hands"
ptBB/100 is how we used to keep stats in the old days (for some reason) and is exactly half of bb/100.
So if you win at $1/hand at $5/$10 your winrate is 10bb/100 or 5ptBB/100
Jancianna, bb/100 means "big blinds won per 100 hands"
ptBB/100 is how we used to keep stats in the old days (for some reason) and is exactly half of bb/100.
So if you win at $1/hand at $5/$10 your winrate is 10bb/100 or 5ptBB/100