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In my opinion, if you want to build bankroll, there are far better and easier options than GG poker.
If you already have bankroll, you have to play GG. Because here you can make million (obviously need to be lucky and bink games)

I played GG before (but only nl500). Had okish results but room was super tilting for me and I stopped playing it (year ago), software is good but something else made me overly emotional. Maybe it was game dynamic, recreational players, images and so on. Anyway I dropped it.
About rake - think it is more than 5bb. Because pokerdope shows 5bb, but I imagine it didnt count jackpot rake. Because 5bb would be not so terrible number to be honest (think it was 6-7)
About beatable - it is been recently discusses in a russian blog blog

think like 90% high volume players losing decent chunck pre RB and only couple of persons winning - Cameron, MrBuildam and .... If you try to bumhunt though they gonna warn you. Other than that should give it a try

hey, I think rake is bigger than 5bb on GG. Because of Jackpot rake. it is like additional 1-2bb rake which suppose to return overtime by winning jackpots

Flop for sure bet, there are not much reason for check on super draw board vs 2 players (and one from them is fish). You probably a bit overthinking and trying to play balance where is no need to do it.

Turn is also too small bet, vs 3/4 they also gonna call strong Ax

Have a problem with your line, if you overbet river you rep quite thin there (QT; 99?). But I think it should get through there because you aren't suppose to have a lot of bluffs and it is hard to show up with enough amount

Calling turn doesn't look like a mistake without information. Because his size is quite small and we can bluff 4club rivers. On blanks can check down for some EV

Don't hate folding though, because it is quite scary turn for the villian and hard to expect a lot of bluffing here

Yeah agree with fold - hard to have bluff for him and our range is very strong there. By the way he looks on a flush a lot, doubt 55 will play such scared size.Rejamming seems not good without info

Not too big deal to shove there, pot is too big and 4b/fold is the worst options

Maximum winrate for top player I guess might be around 7-9bb/100
For non zoom games maybe 10-15bb/100

But top player wouldn't play any of those and likely will not have motivation/interest, his focus (concentration) also might be average

Hello Jan!
I tend to follow sections such as: diet, sleep and exercise.
But I struggle a lot with relationship
With girls and even with family/friends.

With girls is quite tough for me (too much stress and distractions, yes thats correct), also it does go against my ''life visions'' and ''value''. Because I really fully focused on poker and have feeling that I almost reaching it

With family I am being too negative often and quite unsociable. Friends also distractions, because if meet them too often my study routine is suffering (which gives me bad emotions about myself) :D

Leaving the game certainly good idea if your expectation is negative. However, that sounds like avoidance??? Of course when you are clearly making mistakes and become -EV, staying is worst option

Hello; I've got a question and unfortunately it relates more to previous video (tilt)

What are you suggest to do when you finding yourself in ''tilt state''? By ''tilt state'' I mean condition where you clearly not playing your A-game and your thoughts became obsessive about something related to game, additionally negative emotions overflow you.
And 3 small observations: 1)Self-talk and logic doesn't work (it works only in ''light state'')
2)Can't leave game (and not playing C-game, however profitability is very low ~breakeven) 3)Breathing technic is already used

Well I think we want to look EV closely, if difference is big then it is dealbreaker and we might wanna invest some time into that. If it is always checks but EV is same not worth it! Of course solver doing it for reasons, but solver plays vs solver and we play against humans

EV was close to 10-20bb/100 which is big number, but our hand is basically not exciting in this line because should bet flop

Wow!!! Glad to see you have mouse cursor (much easier to follow action)

GG is softer for sure and more people/games (though at nl50-100, nl200 it is not super relevant, you can find games at stars as well) rake is extremely high and rakeback is low (on paper it is huge, but because of PVI - player value index you won't get a lot)
Stars is tougher, but software is far better and more convenient(and faster also, at GG I played less hands in hour at same amount of tables). Also rake is lower which is super important!

Summary: Suggest playing stars only (below nl1000/nl500), better for nerves and can have stable and solid win rate. Rather than battling 0bb/100 at GG

That's cool. Actually also I noticed something interesting. When it comes to me* (mostly emotional part), why logic isn't working (even experience in that area doesn't help that much)?

*It is like you know what you should be doing and it is inside your mind, but having so much resistance to do so

Will try to bring an example: 1)You understand and self-reflected multiple times why you shouldn't be envy(pretty detrimental), yet you still mostly are!
2)You know what short term variance is meaningless, yet you upset after bad session
3) You know you shouldn't be scared of ghosts/dogs/cats and you even can write down dissertation about it, but it doesn't work! Still scared!

Well, something about tilt - when you are tilting you brain not working same as if you are relaxed and calm. Some parts of brain shutting down! That's why angry person (or extremely tilted) looks like possessed :)
Therefore it is important to realize that if you reach that state - pretty much nothing will help when you there. You won't be able to play your A-game for sure, won't be able to think clearly and have patience/long term attitude.

My advice is - noticing when you are accumulating negative emotions, noticing your ''light tilt''. Breathing also alright but it is like a quick bandage rather than a cure. Acceptance is helping me when I am in between sessions and resting, rather than I am in the middle of the game

It is great video!
Bit funny but I found most of the things mentioned in the video are ''my difficulties''. Especially all kind of controls and considering that it is actually working. Which by the way I realize is working!!! but short term or by draining insane amount of mental energy

My poker goals are quite connect with my core values (+dreams). However they are a bit results oriented, -> well playing nl2k and winning there for sure results oriented goal; But I feel it is alright because it is really what I want to reach.
Also I have process oriented goals, but not exactly sure about them because: how to measure them? Most of them not possible. Even for example having exact winrate vs GTO-trainer. What if I have that winrate next month? Can I check out that goal and move on??
Nope, because after checking it out I might fall behind it. It is similar to being ''honest'

Can I have some examples of process oriented goals in poker (strategy or poker, without mindset goals like ''playing a-game more often'')?

Looks pretty good, if your opponent never opened solvers or spent countless hours in 3B SB(BB)vsBU he wont be able to play turn well, because playing based on your feelings is the way of justifying wrong EV plays. I would say even some nl1k regs are making blunders there (overfold/overcall)

you guys have nice comments here :) so I would like to participate as well. Will try to provide ''problem'' and what I think about it

1)Whats the problem: Not accepting myself for who I am
2)What issues it brings: low confidence, anger as self-protection, ego, envy
3)How it shows in real life: I might see someone outside and think in my soul (ahhh I wish I was him, nice hair/car/body/gf etc)
4)How it shows in poker: I want to be better than this m*f winning reg(based on his graphs), I studied more (likely true), I play better (most likely true also) but damn why it bothers me that much
5)Possible solutions: Accept myself, be at easy, self-reflection
6)Ideal scenario: I started to get envy again and feel stressed when see person who are better than me (for most obvious parameters like success/appearance) but letting it go. Not judging, just noticing and moving on

Pretty good one, liked it!

Think I have some flip side to this story. I won't tell it is perfect or great by any means but being ''light result oriented'' person in poker isn't bad. Main reason why I think so - it can bring spark/interest and motivation! Same as bringing stress and depression :D

Yet ''Avoid potential pain" is big one for me. Quickly explains why don't want to go to a dentist.

Bet big turn and jam river you have plenty of bluffs for him to calling decent Jx. If he calls all Jx against river jam: it is just printing money spot

22min AQdT - Clear fold there, our continuing range is fairly tight
Stuff like Kx(bdfd); Third pair already mixing

Would just bet flop, bet turn and jam most rivers.
Most likely your opponent is weak player and his range 77-QQ; some AQ/KQ and variety of ''cute hands''. Don't really expect him to have A4, 55/33 so nothing to worry. (If he somehow have those hands, that great. Means he might have also A5/A3 QJc and bunch of hands to get value from)

I see your point! Probably it depends on person as well then, because if I had no emotions when playing (happiness, anger, tilt) I would for sure move to my B-game faster. So completely getting rid of those would be great on 1 side, and bad on another. But spectrum is big, if too much tilt that's of course C-game. If no anxious than A-minus or B-game (I am talking not about 1 session, but more like whole day which for me consist from 3 sessions). You got my thinking anyway

Been reading TMPG1/2 recently and 1st book is great! Did many exercise from it, and sat down with list of paper and pen for a quite long time.

Hey, I have something in my mind:
1) In my opinion if we completely get rid of negative poker emotions - we will actually play worse/less/... Because it is like fuel, it makes us play better, focus for longer and not lose interest(motivation).
Money is big factor here - you can really reduce quality of your playing if you drop down to stakes which means nothing to you and won't have any challenge there.

I am kinda always thinking twice about things like that: for example if in ''real life'' I completely reduce my shy/awkward level to 0, maybe I go out next morning outside without pants? :D (Should have some downside, fixing something might cause interesting negative effect)
Think drinking just switching off that part of the brain, that's why it is easy to be social, while drunk!

2) Finding myself quite uncomfortable losing - especially in continuous way. For multiple times during sessions, that's easiest way for me to move from A-game to C-game. In C-game brain shut downs some parts and stuff which you do well in A-game now, In C-game cause huge troubles.

Difference is very little to be diving into it. Actually (from my experience) trying to remember details like that is not helpful at all. They easily go away from memory and next time you dealt this texture you wont remember exactly what you suppose to be doing. Which is quite frustrating (I can provide quite easy example - have you found yourself sometimes in common preflop spot and had some hand which you aren't sure call/fold. For example 3Bet SBvsBU and you have K7s, you are thinking that is it close between all 3 options, but you aren't exactly sure about %. Or vs CO open you have Q2s which is marginal call at best ( vs 2.5x below nl1000 rake). That happens all the time)

A7c and A7d have bdfd to go with; while A7h aslo blocking his 7x. Which by the way shouldn't be massive deal on the flop, because ranges are still wide and blocking 2 combos where IP have 500 combos isn't crazy. On the river this of course changes when you x/R; overbet turn and push river; but still it is not like his A6 and 76 only nuts he can possible have

hard to make explo fold when you actually having enough odds vs his range. What he is 4betting here (if assume he has 0 bluffs) AK/QQ+ and vs those you aren't standing that terrible right?

Also you don't need to be profitable there, just losing less than your 3bet size

I would say folding is worst option that you can possible think of. Unless this guy play KK+ exclusively

Fine board to bet range, generally you should be doing here okay. Because all of your bluffs is AQo/AQs and AJs; you might as well have JJ and TT and KQc

Check-calling cant be bad also, imagine you have AA here, best hand to check it always