Hyperdrive!

Hey guys,

Little update, I've started a staking deal with a very successful hyper grinder. I'm tracking my progress here:

MY 2p2 PG&C thread!

If anyone wants to stop by and rib me for fishy hands or share in my (planned?) success please stop by!

I'm going to make lots of moniez! promise :)

Peace!

Rob

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New Manual Link for 20bb CAP and ShortStacking HUD

Hi guys, just a quick post for any CAP regs reading, there is a new pricing structure included in the latest update of the manual, which can be downloaded HERE

Basically, we have moved to the system of having an SSNL version and a completely unlocked version, with more affordable pricing.

The price for an SSNL pack, which will be locked to 50nl CAP, is $100.
The price for the unlocked pack, which works on all stakes, is capped at $299.

The reason for this is a lot of players seem to game select anything between 100nl to 1knl. It quickly became apparent that the pricing structure did not work for these kinds of players. The pricing structure was largely based on the NoteCaddy Advantage pricing originally, but it seems in these stakes a guy who plays 1knl will not spread his games over so many stakes as a CAP player will.

Peace!

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Free HM2 Filters

Hey guys,

I think that if there's one thing that is annoying about analyzing your opponents play, it is setting up filters! I dunno, maybe some guys get a kick out of it, but for me it is the pits. I'm always sifting through lists of variables to set and unset, checking the spot, rechecking it, rinse, repeat.

So tonight I scripted a bunch of basic filter files for 6max cap games that you can download.

There are 84 filter files in total. Here's a pic to illustrate:

So as you can probably see, they are defined for the postflop pot-state (HU or Multiway), the hero's postflop position (IP or OOP) and their action for that street. I'll also possibly do some preflop stuff. (I didn't do preflop filters from the outset because they are simple enough to create in the filter window of HM2, and adding heaps of filter files to your filter file list will defeat this exercize since it will take considerable time to find the filter you want!).

The idea behind this was to create a base list of post flop filters, and then only have to worry about manually adding texture filters, betsize filters or whatever you desire.

If anybody has any suggestions or needs any help with these shoot me a comment!

Instructions for use:

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Not Just Your Average Support Forum!

Hey guys!

I have been a little bit lazy this week but felt like posting a giraffe-less blog.

I've been playing a little bit of 888 push-fold tables, and since it is a new game for me I have had a lot of study to do for it (I've never let my stack run below 20bb in CAP, I don't think I ever did this at the FTP shallow tables when i used to play those either). I'm working on creating my own HUD for myself and my coach so, on top of developing that, studying, playing those games as well as some CAP, and working on various things for my existing CAP/Short-Stacking HUD, my hands have been pretty full!

I noticed a few guys asking about the support included with my package and I was surprised when people were pleasantly surprised when I explained how I envisaged the support forum for the 20bb CAP and ShortStacking HUD to be, so I thought making a post detailing my thoughts about it would be a good exercise for any future guys that want to know about it:

I don't see it as a support forum. Rather a small club, or secret  society of short-stackers. I have a few really good reasons (detailed below) for why this club will be successful.

I imagine that the clients for this HUD solution will not be a massive group, for a variety of reasons. I’ve developed a lot of HUD stuff for different grinders and the most obvious hurdle when creating a new HUD is that grinders usually are already very attached to their existing HUD. The thought of dropping that and adopting a new system is not very appealing.  This could even be the sole reason people turn their backs on this opportunity, and that is fine. However I do want to explain a few things.

• Notecaddy is an extremely underutilized tool, but it won’t be for long. I can personally ensure that many high-stakes grinders are currently using customized HUDs that make exceptional use of what NoteCaddy has to offer. They understand that adapting to a new HUD, while it might take some getting used to, is far too +EV to pass up.
• There does exist staking groups that commission people like myself to develop HUD solutions that they introduce to all of their horses. This is particularly effective for post-game review and sweat sessions – (think of how much easier it is to instruct someone when they use exactly the same HUD system as you). For this reason I’ve opened up a video section in the support forum, for customers to upload videos for peer review. If any of you have been a member of a skype group or studied with someone else using this method, you will realise just how much this kind of study can help you grow as a player. My hope is that customers who enter the CAP hud forum see it more as an opportunity to be part of a super-study group rather than buying just a hud.
• Using the same HUD as other grinders provides the opportunity to have many minds thinking about how to further improve the system. I can guarantee that this HUD will not be sold as-is and never improved. Both ShortStackHero and myself play CAP, and use this HUD ourselves. When we discover better ways to streamline information or a customer makes a valid suggestion, we will make sure it is implemented and passed on in future updates. Think: grouping players by player type (colour definition solution) and the re-introduction of 20-40bb shallow tables at Full Tilt Poker. These are the new frontiers we want to explore in future updates, all of which you, as a customer, will receive for free.

Anyway, for now that is all I have to say on the topic. I will leave you with a video that ShortStackHero created, where he provides commentary on the HUD package (this has been long awaited, and a replayer video is still in the works, but seeing this should answer a lot of questions I have been commonly asked).

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20BB CAP and ShortStacking HUD solution now on the market!

BOOM!

Psyched to have completed this. It has taken many many hours and I've poured so much into this! But it is finally here. It is finished. And it has been done right, which was my top priority moving into this project.

I won't post too much about it here as I'm super busy with setting up the support forum and some other projects but all information about the project (what it is, why it will help any aspiring cap player, how to use it, etc) can be found by viewing the manual HERE, or the sales page HERE.

My contact details are included in the manual so please take some time to look through it and see exactly what is on offer.

I've been able to play a little at the tables this month using the final pack and the results speak for themselves:

(obvious rungood in the graph but I think this HUD has really helped me pick off opponents in many more spots than usual).

I don't really want to blow the trumpet of this product, I don't think a whole lot needs to be said for it. But its good, its effective, and I'm really proud of the quality of what ShortStackHero and I have accomplished.

Until next time, good luck at the tables!

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August - no volume and superhuds

Ugh, what a month. And by that I don't mean I smashed each and every one of the goals I set for myself last month. In fact, in a direct sense, I failed most of last months goals miserably.

For instance, here is my volume for the month:

Yep, just a touch over 25k hands! But, I think I had the best month in terms of game improvement that I have ever had. I spent a bunch of time working on a couple of HUD projects with some good friends and mid-high stakes grinders. I've found I'm learning tons just by understanding what the better players in the online poker landscape wish to know when looking at their HUD. And another guy I've been working with is unrivaled in his game format, so I feel very honored to be able to work with him and learn.

 I can't say too much about the specific projects (as much as I'd love to) because of the arrangements made but I can tell you that I'm close to releasing my first commercial HUD solution developed with ShortStackHero. It is designed specifically with PokerStars 20bb CAP games in mind. I am super excited about it, so much work has gone into development and design of this system and I believe it will be a huge asset to anybody who gets their hands on it. Being the main game I play, I can't wait until we put the final touches on it and I can really put some hours in at the felt with it. I have had a great time working with ShortStackHero and have been lucky enough to have a really good tester, Chavarie, who is the terminator of spotting bugs. He's been awesome. I think each of us have a very sound work ethic and I'm sure when we release (very soon) it will show in the final product. We are releasing it through NoteCaddyAdvantage, a company owned by Nilay Chatterjee. 

I'm proud to release it through him as he has been one of the guys that has opened my eyes to what is possible with HUD's and software ideas. He is a very good thinker and is great to bounce ideas off for different software and definition ideas, and his pack that he created with the Bluefire Poker coach and stat-wiz Alan Jackson is testament to that.

HoldemManager has been good fun, the other night our license server had some downtime during US night time on the weekend, so some of the HM support juggernauts (fozzy, udbrky and many others) were asleep. That left me and Denise to swallow the waves of emails and forum enquiries that came in! But I'm having fun working there, it is great group to be a part of.

This month is up in the air, I'm going to try and fit some poker in but between HM support, the release of the 20bb CAP NoteCaddy Advantage pack, and private HUD work, it looks like time to grind is going to be very little. I'm going to aim for 30k hands or so, and pick it up when I get some more time. As I said though, I'm really not worried about that. I'm learning heaps and able to put in a lot of hours analyzing in HM and developing definitions, and if that doesn't help my game, I don't know what could!

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PGC! Let the games begin!

OK! I don't think I'm alone here when I say that the seeing epic prop bets and yearly goals fulfilled in the PG&C forums at 2p2 are some of the most inspiring things you will read in the online poker world. I'm not really one for new years resolutions or similar; I think part of the reason for that is I continually fall short of goals that from the outset were either not feasible, or not feasible due to being results-orientated (for example, I'll earn X thousand dollars this month instead of playing X thousand hands).

In any case, I'm going to try and adjust my horizons a bit this time, and try and shoot for goals that I think I should be able to achieve if I can maintain a good work ethic over a variety of aspects of my life, rather than what I usually do, which is focus on a single goal and relentlessly attack that while practically ignoring everything else.

Lifestyle goals:

I am pretty active with various sports, but I'm 3 days into quitting smoking. (3 days in so far, weee!). I also want to limit drinking to 2 nights a week tops.

Poker Goals:

Monthly:
I want to get 13500 vpps a month to stay on pace for Supernova.

Yearly:
I want to move from playing 50nl and 100nl CAP to 200nl by December (tentatively - 400nl?). This seems like a thinly veiled results orientated goal to me, since in order to compete at those levels I obv need fairly good results between now and the end of the year. But I really want this.

I also want to put some time into learning another game format. I have a friend that grinds big superturbos at Merge and Revolution, so the re-introduction of FTP (who had the same format as these games) makes me inclined to learn those. I'm actually in two minds about learning the Stars hypers or the FTP superturbo format, because I'm not sure what site I will want to be grinding on after the reopening of Full Tilt. I envision it to either be: FTP shallow tables, supers OR Stars CAP, Hypers. I need to think about this a bit more in the near future.

Work:

Fire Brigade:
I want to become rescue accredited for the NSW fire brigade. In NSW the fire brigade is responsible for primary rescue (car accidents etc), and I still have a fair bit of training to complete to become certified for this.

HM:
 I want to continue to grow within the HM company and try to take on/absorb as much information as possible so that I can be a great resource to the company and clients.

Dev:
I want to build my skills in scripting code and .NET. I don't really have any set goals at this, just to be able to complete various projects I have set out for me and to grow in that area as much as I can.

Anyway, that's it for now. Once a month I'll make a post updating you guys with my progress in all of these areas, in between then I'll just post random stuff I think is interesting :)

Oh, before I go, I may as well post some more results (this is far less than my total hands but I have them spread out over 3 pcs and don't have time to import them all into one for a pic right now!)

CAP:

MTT/SNGs:

Rob

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About Me!

Hey guys!

Anyone reading this probably knows I'm Rob, and I currently grind the SSNL Cap games at PokerStars.

I've decided to trial the whole blog-thing! Seems like many guys are doing it and from the outside it seems like a good way to track my thoughts and experiences and goals and be able to reflect on my journey in online poker.

I read a tonne of blogs already and find it really fun to sweat different friends growth in poker so hopefully this can serve the same purpose to some people.

Backstory:
I'm a standard 21yo Australian guy. I live on a coastal town so I've grown up loving surfing, football, fishing, diving, wakeboarding, skating etc. My non-sport interests are mostly art/design, poker, programming, writing, music, films. This is the local break where I live, pretty sick spot:

Work:
I currently work for Holdem Manager, and it's great fun. The team is all super cool and friendly, I have met some great people so far there and am learning a crazy amount about the software and the different third party apps they offer.
I also do a lot of private dev work for online grinders who need different things. I've been fortunate enough to meet some great poker minds through that who have helped open my eyes as to the attitudes, commitment and resourcefulness
necessary to be successful at what they do.
Lastly I work for NSW Fire Brigades. It's a very important aspect of my life; It wasn't until I joined the Fire Brigade two years ago that I learned how +EV it is to do something that you know makes
a direct difference in peoples lives.

This blog won't strictly contain poker content, I want it to track various goals and challenges over the year if I can stick at it, one of those being attaining Supernova status at PokerStars but definitely not limited to that.

Thanks for reading, my next post will be a scaffold of my goals for 2012/13 and then who knows?

Take it easy!

Rob

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