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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