This week I tracked 19 players - 10 showed profit, 9 had losses. Winners combined for about $160,400, losers for only about $116,500. Korpieworm played biggest sample again - 1186 games.
2 days ago one reddit member raised interesting conversation: Is there a 'cartel' of high stakes HUSNG players who attack regs who try to move up in stakes? (CLICK HERE)
Dominik "mad_domonox" Bosnjak - Won The Most
mad_domonox: my nicest herocall ever (flex)
10/20 No Limit Holdem • 2 Players • FullTiltPoker
$350 Heads-Up Sit & Go
Hand converted by the official HUSNG.com hand converter
| BB | chrisgee89 | 610 | |
| SB | mad_domonox | 390 |
Effective Stacks: 20bb
Blinds 10/20
Pre-Flop (30, 2 players)
Hero is SB
mad_domonox calls 10, chrisgee89 checks
Flop (40, 2 players)
chrisgee89 bets 30, mad_domonox calls 30
Turn (100, 2 players)
chrisgee89 bets 70, mad_domonox calls 70
River (240, 2 players)
chrisgee89 bets 160, mad_domonox calls 160
Final Pot: 560
chrisgee89 shows
mad_domonox shows
mad_domonox wins 560 ( won +280 )
chrisgee89 lost -280
Charles Hawk: was it intuitive guess?
mad_domonox: No he just reps nothing all the way. I was planning to shove river because some hands still beat me but I thought a 9high call would be way cooler so i clicked call.
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- Charles Hawk: anything fancy for new years eve?:)
- mad_domonox: barcelona with girlfriend and friends (party)
- Charles Hawk: Areu happy with this year overall? Profit and grinding wise?
- mad_domonox: Could have been more grinding. Didn't reach SNE :(
- Charles Hawk: ohhhh! How many vpp behind?
- mad_domonox: 180k
2013 stats and graph
What is your strenghts and weaknesses?
I think I am very good handreader and I play my ranges very well in most spots especially against fish. My weaknesses are my multitalbling skills and concentration issues that I have sometimes. Playing long sessions is impossible for me.
Tell me your start in poker and how you managed to climb up the stakes up to high buy-ins?
I started to play poker 2009 when I heard about the free 50$ on pokerstrategy.com. I donked around for 3-4 months playing cash game and 9max sng not making any significant winnings. I played my first 5$ husng (regular speed) in the beginning of 2010. From there it took me half a year to reach the 200s playing straight forward and exploiting fish tendencies. I play highstakes for more than 2 years now and I still feel like I'm improving every session. My results confirm that feeling.
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Weekly stats
- Wins: 443
- Biggest Winning Streak: 9 games
- Most Profitable Opponent: MGG19 (+$7,910)
- Most Profitable Day: Sunday (+$14,818 after 226 games)
Great week for Rachid Ben "SkaiWalkurrr" Cherif, Adam "v2the3/vtothe3" Sykes and Eric2441989
1) Skaiwalkurrr
Weekly stats
2013 stats
Favourite games
Most Frequent Opponents
- Johannes "Jossel2008/JosselTheKiller" Meyer : +$22,247 after 2425 games
- NorthuJr: +$69,701 after 485 games
- anthonyff: +$11382 after 389 games
- DaynaWhite: -$13,344 after 388 games
2) Adam "v2the3/vtothe3" Sykes
2013 stats
Favourite games
Most Profitable Opponents
- Martin “0Piggybank” Finger: $34,108 after 305 games
- Natashis: $24,176 after 260 games
- Harthor: $22,707 after 984 games
- Matej "mtvdeuem" Cepon: $22,012 after 1101 games
4) Eric2441989
This week he won $20,841 after 629 games; This year he is up for $223,000
More Winners
Fis won $13,121 after 190 games;Korpieworm won $9,647 after 1186 games; Wayde "ricestud" Townsend won $7,472 after 406 games; caaaaamel won $5,501 after 253 games; I just L0Ld won $3,679 after 451 games.
Richard "chadders0" Chadwick - Lost Huge Again
He started week winning ~$10,000 in about 100 games, but then things went into another direction. Although he played with unknowns a lot and got decent amount of games with fishes he lost $43,844 after 996 games. Last week - when he faced top regs mostly (at least 885 games) - he lost -$18,100. This week he lost big amount not only in 1ks but in 500s too.
Last week I posted funny trashtalk between chadders0 and low stakes husngs player Pirus82. This week they continued:
- Pirus82: Yeah with rakeback on stars you still have mediocre profit. You will not make on stars ever again, its over!
- Prisu82: I see you're too scared to play now also, never thought someone with such a big ego as yours would be such a big coward.
- chadders0: on holiday bro lolz
- Pirus82: Losing on holiday must feel great.
- chadders0: staying in a 400 a night hotel getting my dick sucked whilst you google hair loss remedies
- Pirus82: Doesn't impress me cracker ;) you may have money at the moment but you have zero class. It wont last long =)
- Pirus82: Rome lol and there was me thinking you meant a real holiday not a cheap easyjet flight.
- chadders0: you spend way too much time thinking about me, on christmas day no less, it boarders on flattering
- chadders0: Pirus82, do you even lift bro?
Weekly stats
- Biggest Losing Streak:12 games
- Total Losing Days: 4 out of 5
- Rake: $8,858; Rakeback:+$6,289
- $/game:-$44
- Worst Day:Wednesday (-$22,624 after 368 games)
- Least Profitable Opponents: RoyalSF86(-$6,919) and Viktor "Isildur1" Blom (-$5,940)
Other Losers
Martin “0Piggybank” Finger lost $25,581 after 98 games; Dmitry "JustNoPain" Ivanov lost $19,076 after 175 games; Fishenzon lost $8,922 after 319 games; Grayson “spacegravy” Physioc lost $7,355 after 71 games; anthonyff lost $4,874 after 124 games; Allan “Sifosis” Baekke lost $2,316 after 292 games; WhatIsICM lost $1,896 after 499 games; Fil Gordon lost $1,689 after 342 games; Ryan "Moca Choca89" O'Donnell lost $676 after 362 games.
Hand Packs from Last Week
1) $1,000 hyper turbo hand pack mix: SkaiWalkurrr, Jossel2008, anthonyff, killuifuplay, Lotte Lenya, Harthor, OLD TIME GIN...
2) Daniel "mrGR33N13/riyyc225" Colman hyper turbo hands ($1,000) against two unknowns: +PHOTO; +CHAT with chadders0; +VIDEO
3) Harthor hand pack (+PHOTO; +NICKNAME MEANING)
4) Olivier "Adonis112" Busquet turbo hand pack (2013 stats and graph, +PHOTO; +EPT PRAGUE; +ARTICLE)
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5) 6-max Hyper Turbo Weekly Results (#8): George "Jorj95" Lind - Won Most Again; andyafc#1 +$15k after 64 games... (+VIDEO; +CHAT)
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Last week Leon "flippetyflop" Louis launched fundraising campaign in justgiving.com. He is aiming to raise 1,000 pounds for Cancer Research UK while not drinking alcohol during the process. He wrote:
Drinking is one of my biggest vices!
Since there's absolutely no chance of me giving up on any of my other main vices........brothels,chocolate, or sexy secretary videos on YouPorn, ''Dryathlon'' seems like the perfect opportunity for me try and raise money for a great cause and also get healthier in the process.
I know it can be tough in the new year, but please show your support for Cancer Research and donate anything you can....and if I reach my 1k target if I see you in February the pints are on me !
Please help Leon to reach his goal by donating and sharing this campaign via social media: http://www.justgiving.com/disaronnoandcoke
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Note: We use multiple collection methods to parse together stats. We use everything from tracking sites, to private sources to actual player reports (on themselves and opponent results). Due to the nature of collection methods, these stats should only be used for entertainment purposes. They are not accurately enough in any way to be used by governments, or for any official purposes. Actual stats for players that are reliable for legal purposes would need to be gathered directly from the poker rooms. No sources that we use are close to as accurate as the poker room themselves.
The cartel link doesn't work...
Cartel link is working now :)
I am always looking for new interview opportunities with HUSNG and Spin Reg's who play $30s and higher. Please PM me here or on 2p2 (Charles Hawk).
cartel link working, found also other forum link to another cartel (60-100$) i think. Scare me a bit even if im still at 7$ it make me sick to see this im know im gonna grind anyway and rise up then after what? Been block or bumhunt from all those pool of regs pushing away grinder to keep the small fish pool to us..Ok i can maybe understand at 1k$ etc but 60-100$ really? Come on..
Dont Let Variance Affect You!
This is typical of maturing markets. Although usually companies are limited by anti-trust laws from making such explicit collusion agreements lol.
Not a good sign for the long term sustainability of professional online poker.
Customers don't keep coming back when they're being so blantantly ripped off.
Yeah but also to consider, some site already adopt a way to prevent bumhunting like doing anonymous lobby so you have to play random and some even after dont have nickname so give less opportunity for this kind of business. Stars may take this in consideration if it become a scandal or something..
Dont Let Variance Affect You!
Annonymity mechanisms also devalue the poker experience though.
Building reads and getting inside your opponents head is a large part of what makes poker a strategically interesting game in my opinion.
I think it's a balance. But willingly maximising short term profits at the expense of driving casual players out of the game is a pretty bad business decision for professional players.
Yeah we all know but thats what happen when a portion of the player pool (not all regs but bunch from 60$-300s) doing this bumhunting things to keep fish. Pokerstars and big rooms most find way each time a typical games become less play like hu cash things (bumhunt lobby etc) now they add hu cash on zoom which is a better move than doing nothing for the business. Also they add new games like 5 card omaha and 5 card courcheval who is really good for action and really soft since people dont realize what adjustment they should make from omaha or holdem to 5 card. In general, poker room find way to rise up action when something like to struggle and i really hope they work on this issue if its become in bigger picture.
Dont Let Variance Affect You!
It's actually better to have cartels than not, because without these cartels many of the regs are just too weak minded to decide to sit a lot of regs on their own for the greater good. It literally requires groups of players at the $60s and $100s to hold elections, form groups and decide who to sit, otherwise nobody plays regs and everyone bumhunts.
So my point is that this is better for Stars, and better for good regs. It makes it so that the weakest regs need to work harder.
However, in reality, the lower levels have too much politics involved to truly be "the best regs." There are many players that shouldn't be in that are in. This should be good news for anyone who is scared of these cartels. Just make friends with the right people and don't act like a baby when the cartel sits you, and you will be fine long term. December is a bad month because everyone is trying to hit milestones, but long term, if you're a good player, you're not going to be shut out of $60s and $100s unless you handle yourself poorly when facing regs (and even then, if you're good enough, it doesn't matter).
I agree that this is a natural occurrence, and I also believe it's not anything to worry about. It's only as scary as you let it be, the more you freak out and act emotional about this stuff and fail to work on your game, the more effective cartels are, and that's not really a bad thing.
thanks for sharing opinion on this things Rypac really appreciate it, gotta agree on couple things on this situation. Like i said (dont remember if i said it here on skype with Cdon) but i will keep working on my game anyway and not that close to become the one who will get either bumhunt or hunt myself. Since i've see the list i find it pretty funny because i watch couple of guys sometimes and some should be close and exchange HH and opinion but they are no room for more reg at the level and the reg decide to bumhunt to one who is attending but will surely be soon or later in the regs section hopefully for him because i think he work hard and can really bet lot of regs that only wanna sit fish and gonna challenge themself a bit.
Dont Let Variance Affect You!
If you become a big enough shark you can eat other sharks. Mr Green comes to mind with over $1m annual profit vs some of the best regs in the game.