BlankyLion

My Goal for may

1. Make a money on other poker sites instead play stars
2. Do some stars session once a week to maintain feels (I'm not sure I can do this)

April recap

Results

1. 100z
   my C Won : $ 501.63
   all in EV : $ 237.07
   (so break even )

2. Past Monthly goal on Volume : 120K
   Actual Voluime : 79K
   I endup 79K hands even if I do only poker thing on whole month.

3. Get permanent select rakeback system on April 23th.

*What I felt over the past month*

what I realized is, if you play more than 100,000 hands a month, you'll be able to do almost nothing other than related to the poker.

Because I usually play the poker for about 8 hours a day and then after 2 to 3 hours to review the session, 24 hours disappear when I take a shower, eat, rest, and sleep.

Sometimes I want to meet a friend and refresh on a day when I don't play poker, but there are moments when I just want to relax quietly doing nothing, so grinding with a goal of 100k per month in stars has a very tight month schedule.

So like 120~150k month would be insane really.

I don't prefer to play 4tabling now because 4tabling zooms makes it pretty easy to play hands over 100k a month but I get to play very bad quality often.

btw , Is there anybody who makes 5bb/100 + on 100z or 200z with large samples these days?

I always trying to reach 3bb/100 + winrate , but It's so hard tbh. never get there on Long term period. Please let me know any advices.

I mean I really work hard. I really do.

But despite your hard work, it's pretty depressing if you don't like the results. I know poker isn't a game where I get the same results for my efforts for a certain period of time, but still wanting to see a prettier shaped graph is always my first priority.

Money

Make $2~3k a month and trying to cover living expenses and poker BR both is no make sense in my country.

So I decided to make some money on other minor sites , and will get back on stars after few months later.

Getting rid of bad habits

I didn't post it on my blog, but I decided to get rid of two bad habits myself during April.

1. Listening music during the session

2. check the graph frequently during the session

-1-
I've been absolutely successful at getting rid of my first bad habit. I've been playing music with lyrics and it's so disruptive to the game that I've been listening to music without lyrics for the past few months, but I decided not to listen to it at all because I thought even that would interfere with the game.
You may not create unnecessary emotional fluctuations by simply not listening to music during a session

-2-
This is so hard for me personally , But I will keep try it. I failed this tbh.
When a session goes in a bad direction, I pause or turn it off for a while, so when I feel like I've lost too much bi even if I'm not looking at the graph, it's hard to put up with the desire to check the graph.

My goal for April

Play poker for 25 out of 30 days in April and take 5 days off.
If you play 4800 hands a day and do it for 25 days, you can play 120k hands during April.

Reading you and dd's blog always so much inspiring for me. keep it up! thanks!

fkn site lmao

Do you want to make a community where you have to be wary of writing welcome to RIO comments? That's so ridiculous and breathtaking. So you want to say that every time everyone competing in the leaderboard should writes down super long or detailed comments, If not , they don't deserve a free elite course?

Jesus lol.

I didn't always rank 5th every month. And if all the comments I post were always like this it would be against terms, but it's kind of annoying that you snipe at only these comments while ignoring other detailed comments.

Way better visability than iginition live session lol.
And late Merry christmas plus early happy new year tyler!

What a move!! welcome to RIO <3

What will you do in 2024 to build more stable, more wholistic selfesteem?
-Do some consistent exercises

What are the unsuccessful coping mechanism you want to unlearn?
- all of the 1) self-exaltation

thanks for the nice video <3

I don't play GG so It would be wonderful

This is off topic.
I saw Luke Johnson came out on Wakko's podcast and say you've increased redline tremendously while studying poker with Wakko, so could you consider uploading a video of a lecture about increasing redline? It's a topic I'm very interested in.

I want you to review it positively Thanks!!

Teunuss video. classic comfortable warmup video for me <3

6:13
OBing Qs5s OTT by joeyps seems a bit insane. I agree
hisspecific bluff candidate OTT seems bad, but I think OTR it seems good to pull the trigger in his shoes. cuz he blocks nuts. (75s) and with Qs he doesn't block your folding range.
bluffing with diamonds would be bad OTR. how do you think?

11:49
lmao. I think this spot is a spot where regs who play GG always suffer from leveling perspective. Some players told me that when they think about it from BB's perspective, BTN will fold, so they will cut it small bet with JJ~KK or check. But I don't think I can fold even if I was in your position. I am so disgusted by this clever trick by GG.

Thanks for da nice video btw

Thanks for the Nice contents!

Niceeee videoooo

https://www.runitonce.com/poker-training/videos/luke-johnson-ring-postreview-3/
This is another topic.
Can you share some how to use this Starscaption fold equity stuff in this video? It looks cool b
Thanks!

Thanks for the great video always Luke!
33:06
Here with TT on 200bb deep ,
As far as I know, in theory we have to use a bigger cold 4b sizing here than 100bb depth (at least on gto wiz), the good professionals you and I know prefer small 4b sizing regardless of stack depth. Will there not be much loss of EV if we play this way? If I use smaller 4b sizing in the table then villain gets too good Odds in IP and it's uncomfortable for me to play 4bp of high spr on OOP, so I often do 4b big OOP. (which GTO wiz prefers.) The problem is that we have to do various hands 4b so that our range doesn't cap to around QQ-AA, AKo, KQs, A5s. But then sometimes we play very big pot on oop with relatively bad hands, and it's too hard unless we fit the board well. I don't know how to solve this dilemma.

Nice video and concepts.
I think this concept probably contains something that can refute the phrase "poker is dead."

oh what? hey welcome !!
I am one of the viewers who enjoyed watching your YT channel video.

Elite of course.

Nice warmup comments

very nice video.

That was three years ago. I'm often encouraged to play bros these days, but do you still agree that pokerbros is a rigged site?

This video type is fantastic. hope to see another simillar type of video!
I had a lot of small question. but I forgot it on the end hehe.
There are a few things that come to mind.

12:35
I think in lower stakes population CB more often than Pio sims.
so if villain does CB more than sims, definitely we have to call naked T8s more right?
T8 has a BDSD so I think that's the reason of its decent call. but if there's some certainty that BB does CB more than SIM, I think it's good to call naked J8s here, how do you think?

30:52
This is very counter intuitive.
But this seems to change how we set the range of bb to decide whether or not to bet qj. I went into nl500 sim on gto wiz and checked it. QJo is pure XB on that one. (may be it depends on how many BB 3b pre KQo , Q9o , Q9s , Q6s on their range)
still Qh seems good cuz we block Q3s Q9s Q6s Q4s

and Is it worth it too grind 500-1K NL on GG without decent rakeback deal?
Let's say RB is like lower than 20%

33:00 maybe tip would be this

thanks for da Nice video.

32:20
What is the specific reason of this on table 3?
Is it because fish didn't bet because he was scared of Q and his range is still quite protected?

32:46
This. I mean , your given blocker reason sounds nice of course.
I was surprised to see you prefer bluff jam to just foldin a spot like this. I think fish will do some "whatever" snap call in frequency, so I think I would give up OTR. Because if we could call his delay cb OTT with any draw, fish might call with thinking we're shoving in busted draw. Is there any small tip for choosing a good bluff spot against fish? Because I rarely do this bluff against fish. vs Reg obviously different.

cheers.

Wow thanks for the nice explanation on KT one.
so given reasons, folding KTo on COvBB scenario seems optimal.
but on BTNvBB I think KTo is still fill on A93r because of the wider range compare to CO right?