First I confess that I AM A FISH at Super Turbo HU but I love this games and I’m eager to learn them. That’s why I’m taking coaching by a great coach and my game has improved but because I tilted one session on too high limits I destroyed almost all my winnings.
So I decided to play 10 Euro (not having the roll for them and still too high limit). The beginning was great but soon I was break even again. (glad it was no tilt) but emotionally it felt really bad so I thought it was better to play “my buy-in”. So back to the 2 Euros where I belong too, at least for the moment.
But I decided that this time I will do it differently not just playing. I will before I start a session review the last one, so I can see in which spots I lose chips and if I am unsure about a hand than I will post it here. Once a month I let you know about my results.
The Goal is the I make some profits on the 2 Euro levels that I can move up by the end of the year.
Wish me LUCK! :D
Good luck
Thx mate!
My graph after 117 games. (Yeah, upswing)
Well, best of luck to you (from what I see, you already had some, running above ev all the time , which is not really my case.)
I also started a challenge in HYper turbo HU, micro stakes, 0.50€, 30€ BR, and things are going....up and down...and up...and down.
I can't seem to keep this BR moving upwards ;)
I am working quite hard on my HH, replayed them all, tried to find leaks in HM2 based, had a look at Chadders pack a friend showed me (thinking about buying this one, or would you advice for any other pack here ? )
Hyper Turbo HU is so much more fun than Full RIng SNGs I used to play before, adrenaline is there (yes, even at 0.50€) , and what a great training against tilt (can't believe the number of times I have lost against a 27o or a 69o all-in with AA or KK in my hand....).
Profiling the opponent remains a bit hard for me at these stakes (except for obvious ones, usually I can't really find any logic to these overbets flop, limps half of the time followed by a series of all.-in PF, hard to draw any "tendency" from this...
Anyway, I found that enough players play their cards and are quite easy to follow, lead= I flopped, check = I did not flop at these stakes.
At these stakes, I usually play a basic Nash below 10BB deep, although I decided to tighten my shove and call-shove range compared to what Nash recommends : not comfortable shoving T7o 9BB deep except facing very tight opponents, which I have never met at these stakes by the way (usual VPIP/PFR I meet are about 95/75....)
So good luck again, I'll post some results myself and maybe some hands where the decision was not that clear, maybe we can also discuss some tricky hands of yours ?
Cheers
PokerPuker
HU Hyper Tilter
Short update before going on holiday:
306 games ITM 54.9 ROI 4.2% won around 26 Euro
Hey Bomba,
How are things going with your quest to move up by end of year. Just wondered who you are getting coaching from. I have had coaching myself and during coaching I was winning but to be honest think during the coaching I was actually just running good but my adjusted roi never went above 0 so don't think the coaching was helping and when doom switch hit lost a lot then tilted more so then reloaded and same shit again so since then have lost a lot!!!!. Has anyone heard of bestpokercoaching they have some packages but seem almost to good to be true.
Thanks
David
UPDATE:
After having grinded a lot of 2 Euros I had a ROI of 2% and somehow lost motivation in playing the micros. I started thinking to quit hypers HU.
THE FOLLOWING PART IS NOT RECOMMENDED TO ANYONE OR SHOULDNT YOU TRY TO DO THE SAME!
I was looking at the lobby and saw that a losing player is registered (thx to pokerprolabs.com) in a 100 Euro. I played and won. I played a 200 Euro after having checked the registered player with pokerprolabs.com. Won-Won rematch. Wow, can that be possible... a lot of money... cool :D Of course I was aware of short term luck and variance and everything or at least I was thinking I knew....So I kept on playing high stakes Hyper HU, soon I crossed 1k barrier, got more and more bonus points in a faster way. I won 700 Euro one day, lost 800 the next, won 1200 and so on. I enjoyed my playing as a high roller. And I don’t know why but my game really improved and I became better in analysing hands and game situation. And my bankroll grew to 3'000 Euro It was such a great time.
Yes it was... Downswing came... Normally not a problem, but when you're playing 200 Euro games with a bankroll of 3000 Euros you simply cannot afford any downswing. Worst of it when I saw my roll shrinking I started to play too tight what just increased the shrinking of my roll. When I was 1000 Euro down I finally ended my ride by playing high stake HU hypers. I cashed out and made a break from playing. Good thing I could stop and cash out (+1 for me). How to continue? Playing 2 Euros was not an option. Do you know "the micros" comic on YouTube? At one point the main character goes broke, and then he started with a new I idea about how to play and how hard he will study and.... I was feeling like him. So I decided to exchange all miles I collected during my high stakes ride into Cash what has given me a roll around 700 Euro. Not a bad roll for playing 10 Euro hu hypers. I went into my account and closed all games higher than 10 Euro (to protect myself in any case). And I started to grind them on 9th of September. I'm doing well I played now 734 one table 10 Euro hypers with a ROI of 3.3% (54.2 % ITM). Of course this is no sample size but still a good start, feeling comfortable with the level I play now and I enjoy playing it. More and more I start also to understand the EV-Line ;) (Thanks to the forum here) and my games get better. I hope to continue improving my game (sure my coach will help me) and I understand too that you must play tons of hypers before you can say something about how you are doing in them....
Following lessons learnt:
-BRM is important, really important... all good players tell you that and it's true.
-I know that I can stop playing when losing and cash out some winnings -> no gambling problem
-My game has improved but needs tons of more hard work if I ever want being back at the high stakes again ;)
Future:
-I will move up to 20 Euro games when my bankroll hit the 2000 Euro line (calculate without bonuses and rake back etc.)
-I will post more often hands here in the forum
-Enjoy the 10 Euro games as much as possible ;) and keep on dreaming of coming back to the high stakes
Hopefully you enjoyed reading it.
update 3rd, October 2014: Games 797 ROI 3.8% ITM 54.5%
Variance is a bitch! ;) She punched me hard in my face. After having had coaching session I played some games. I lost 19 games out of 20.
games played: 868 ROI 1.7% 53.3% ITM
I think I still run too good. My goal till the end of 2014 is playing a lot of games and having a ROI between 1-1.5%.
Another bad beat I got from PT 4 somehow I messed up the whole data base. it shows now 800 games with a loss of 8'000 Euro by just playing 10 Euro games :D
Losing 19 out of 20 is variance kick in the balls - OUCH! Hope you win some 19 out of 20 soon.
Yesterday a winning session. I played 22 games and I won 9 Euro according to ev line should have been around 20 Euro but I want complain.
In the last 110 games I totally lost 242 Euros just by playing 10 Euros. Personally I haven't any problems with the fact of losing money because it's part of the variance but when I lose that much in a short time I start doubting in my abilities to play HU Hypers. Does any of you (pros) know that feeling? What do you do against it?
Im still grinding the 10 Euro and I started to play 12.5 $ on another poker room just to get another pictures.
I played 1705 games now Profit 45.49 Euros ROI 0.3% ITM 52.6%. My results are a bit frustrating and I'm not satisfied at all with them, even I know that the sample size is still small. Worst thing I run over EV At the moment I can exchange my player points to 150 Euros this makes the results a bit better.
I realized that my winnings are small and I generate a lot of rake. I made some calculation what were my results if I had played the same number of games on stars playing the 7$. 1705 games I would have won net 351 $. What is a lot more than the 45.49 Euros. Okay, Stars has better players but still if this mean that my ITM would drop from 52.6% to 51.5% I would still win 94 $. I'm really thinking about playing on stars in the future...
What do you think, shall I change or are the players even stronger on Star that my ITM Rate would drop far under 52.6%? What can I expect from Stars Bonus system?
Let me know you are thinking.
Best regards
UPDATE: games: 2051 Profit 130 Euro ROI: 0.6% ITM: 52.8% Bonus to Cash out: 200 Euro
Some information about my HU Hyper SNG Journey. I applied for the staking program of HUSNG.com. I got an agreement for the "Kiddie Pool" and I will soon play on Stars and grinding the 7$. I'm happy that I can take part in a program like this.
My hopes:
I really hope that I can improve my game to a higher level
I hope to satisfy my "money givers" and coaches.
One last thing: Wish me luck :D