Yeah but you probably play 50/100NL now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cocco_Bill
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Yeah but you probably play 50/100NL now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cocco_Bill
downswing over! Had some sick positive variance in the last 2 days, won about $12k or 20 buyins at 600NL in about 6000 hands.
http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/6135/aprm3rv5.jpg
6k hands in 2 days!? wow you are rockin'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cocco_Bill
#Brag warning#
I am playing a points race for a WSOP main event ticket so I am putting in shitload of hands this month.
Today I had my best day so far in my pokercareer and am starting to feel quite comfortable at 1000NL.
These results kind of feel unreal at the moment, now if I can just keep it up the rest of the month...
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/112/14majoe4.jpg
Below is a graph of May so far.
http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/5231/mayii6.jpg
Not a bad day. Or fourteen days. :shock:
Congrats.
edit: Holy motherfucking shit.
wow nice job.
do you think playing a smaller site is easier then the bigger ones.
Its not a small site, its part of one of the biggest poker networks. At prime time it has about 20 NL1000 tables running.Quote:
Originally Posted by storman99
hand of the day http://www.pokerhand.nu/hand/4396
When I do this shit I never win :cry:Quote:
Originally Posted by Cocco_Bill
You'd think after winning so much money cocco would figure out how to post screen shots correctly. :D
Sick and amazing as always.
Teach me?? I'm serious. My PM is at the bottom of the page.
omg. very jealous.
How many tables are you playing at a time usually and does this vary with what stakes you are playing?
This month due to the WSOP points race I've been playing 6-7 tables at a time mixing 500NL 600nl 800nl and 1000nl depending on where I can find fishy tables. I seem to be losing the race though:( well at least I'll get a consolation prize of $4000 + RB.Quote:
Originally Posted by andr3w321
this still nordicbet on prima?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cocco_Bill
Also, it'd be nice to see gabes and other highstakes ballas graphs in comparison to coco's
Only playing about 4 hours a day again, I've given up on the race so I'll just concentrate on playing my A-game and running like a god :wink: Yesterday I took a day off for some well needed rest.
http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/1392/maycf4.jpg
You're sick man. Also, what's up with not telling me wether asshat is a verb or not in the chat a month or so ago? :P
sry man I must have missed that.Quote:
Originally Posted by HalvSame
would you mind posting some examples of you being set under setted, flush under flushed, or similar hands? or do you just run that good?
Since set under set and flush under flush have occured so many times in my current database of 220k hands I just chose to search such situations for one hand 33. There is no magical way to avoid coolers, everyone gets them.
http://www.pokerhand.nu/hand/4607
http://www.pokerhand.nu/hand/4608
http://www.pokerhand.nu/hand/4609
http://www.pokerhand.nu/hand/4610
http://www.pokerhand.nu/hand/4611
33 is still showing a profit.
thank you. it pleases me to see that you run normal, or at least very, very close.
and if you dont mind, i dont think it came up earlier in the thread, would you please provide a little clarification on why you think you are such a big winner? stupid question, i know.
what im getting at is: do you think it's the table selection; are you always playing against donkeys whom you know how to exploit? or are you playing against a lot of decent regulars whom you are just more motivated than and smarter than so you've figured how to exploit them via metagame? or are you pretty much robotic with your play based on hand strength/board texture/etc, yet will make not-so-standard plays due to just sensing something unusual?
basically, if you had to explain why you succeed, and explain in a way that would be revealing to your audience, what would you say?
also. do you HUD? if so, in what ways do you find it valuable?
HUD?
COCCO DON T NEED NO STINKING HUD!
HE READS SOUUULLS, NOT STATS
zomg
you don't exploit regulars via metagame, a shark is not easy to exploit at all since he will adapt his play to your attempts to exploit his tendensies. Then again there are tons of bad regulars who wont adapt and will allow you to slowly take money off them once you've noticed clear weaknesses in their game, studying their big hands in pokertracker will help you with that and occationally making raises or check raises you otherwise would not to get a feel how they react.
A HUD is very valuable for quickly detecting the big fish when playing many tables, against regulars a hud is quite useless.
And yeah table selection is one of the most underrated skills in poker, when a table gets bad leave immidiately and find a fishy one instead, no need to play the same stakes on all your tables.
One more thing, take detailed notes of regulars, this is especially important when you start playing somewhat high stakes where the player pool is smaller.
my god. I sooooo agree with everyword. Maybe i dont suck afterall.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cocco_Bill
One question thats probably been thrown a round a lot in this thread bill, is the reason you win so big the fact that you are simply that good? OR is it more the fact that you just play big games with bad players and therefore its not too tough to win big against spewy/bad players?
Lemme come out and guess that it's a combination of both of those + great discipline?
ldo halv.
Im just wondering if coco thinks one has a big influence on how he does...
I think I win a lot because I run good, I am good at hand reading, I almost never tilt, I am a nit regarding table selection and I actively take notes to adapt to my opponents.
Wow, POTW. Read it again for emphasis everyone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cocco_Bill
I think it definitely helps that he doesn't get stacked in hands like this:Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
http://www.pokerhand.nu/hand/4611
Did you have a read in this hand?? thats one sick fold... not a fold I think many ppl are capable of.
i remember hsi anser when i said that first time round.Quote:
Originally Posted by griffey24
'i dont beat anything'
look at the hand, at non-spew stakes its pretty straightforward to fold i guess.
lol.... I guuuueeess..... still a sick fold!Quote:
Originally Posted by Miffed22001
Coco, would you have been more likely to call there if another player wasn't all-in? (ie: the all-in player forced the action to be legitimate, but if there wasn't an all-in player, he COULD have been bluffing?)
woah i didnt' see he folded that first time round.
he had to think villian couldn't do that with J2, 52, 32. looks like a loose table, if so pf those hands aren't too unlikely.
Villain was tight and predictable, he wasn't playing a raised pot with 32 52 or J2, trust me.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
Yeah that certaintly influenced my decision to fold. It was just so unlikely that he was bluffing here.Quote:
Originally Posted by griffey24
If you could be so kind as to give us a few pointers on note taking and what some of your player notes look like?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cocco_Bill
Jager, just make notes which help you to remember how they play. My notes could be something like ' f ' (fish) or ' folds too often to 3-bets from blinds when opening from button' or 'limp raised AK UTG' anything that you pick up is good.
I now have about 20/12 PF over my last 241k hands. Here is a full graph since November.
May was my biggest month by quite a margin but I actually wasn't running at a clearly higher winrate than my previous months I just played a lot more hands than usual. This graph illustrates that.
http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/8050/fulldboi5.jpg
Keep up the good work... 75k in June cocco?
oh my fucking god.
Bill, what's standard vpip/pfr stats of the tables you select? fullring if you know em.
holy shit, nice going bill. I wish more HS players would do stuff like this, its just makes me want to play more and get better.
I really table select by looking for known whales and not overall VPIP/PFRQuote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
even when you played smaller stakes?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cocco_Bill
even then, i'd still like to know what table selection is like on non-US sites.
Why does it matter wuf?Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
Find a table where you know where your money is going to come from, sit to their left to speed up the process, then repeat.
How do you know who the whales are when the player pools are so big? Like at say 50NL
it matters. if Bill's FR tables have an average vpip of 30-40% then no wonder his winrate is so nice. if it's 10-20% then we all suck at poker, and he needs to write about why.Quote:
Originally Posted by bigspenda73
the large majority of small stakes donkeys dont rebuy after going busto. player pools are gigantic. the large majority of regulars are decent players. the best i can do most ften is just find tables with the least amount of decent regulars and never sit to the right of a decent aggressive regular.
there are no bad players whose stats dont show it. sitting with whales or donkey is nice, but if you cant beat the regulars you cant beat teh stake.
I disagree 100%Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
Tell that to my entire bankroll that has been made by avoiding the regulars as best I can and beating up on the fish instead.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
Edit: spenda beat me to it. That's what you get for going to the bathroom mid-posting.
any winner makes his money off fish, but if he is a loser to the grinders then he will have a much more difficult time at higher stakes, no matter how much time he spends battling the grinders.
so i guess i phrased it wrong. but if you cant beat the regs at your stake then you will not successfully move up. a large number of fish at higher stakes are winning players at lower stakes taking shots.
I am +EV against most of the grinders. I'm guessing that anyone who plays loser than about 30/20 is going to lose money to me in the long run. Looking at my database I am also up against most players with 20/17/3 type of stats.Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
But yeah no doubt about it, most of my profits come from the fish and thats probably true for any winning player.
This I can agree with, seeing as I'm not more +EV at 3/6 than at 2/4 (and might in fact not be +EV at all yet).Quote:
Originally Posted by wufwugy
I still disagree.
If you breakeven with the regs you will move up from the dead money provided by the fish.
He's not talking about the regs at your current level, but the ones on the next level. If you break even with the regs at say 400NL then there might not be enough fish at 600NL to feed both you and the regulars at that level.
Breakeven vs good regs isn't that easy.
Hi Bill, very impressive results!
I noticed that you limp/call all your PPs (33 hands), I wonder which hands you balance this with SCs? maybe even some broadways?
I think he balances it by playing bad playersQuote:
Originally Posted by Kauf Jr.
When Bill is playing 20/10 he must be open limping other hands than PPs, I play the same network Bill does and I find that standard 18/16 tag tend to be very spewy. So I have been working on a more passive approach, and Bills style inspires me.
So I would really like to hear some of Bills thoughts on open limping with PPs and SCs, and calling behind limpers with these hands. TY
Hear that. In addition to probable skill advantages they tend to have position on me more often than not, because I usually don't sit if I can't get the big fish one or two seats to my right.Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry
You could concievably balance open limping only pp's with bluffing on a shitload of flops with low cards.
This is one of the best points I have heard in some time and I have never thought about this. If we are always getting position on the fish we will tend to struggle against the regs who sin on our left.Quote:
Originally Posted by HalvSame
Update Cocco? I don't want this thread to die.
20 games running at prime time! at 5/10? is that on the prima network?
Do you know how those games compare to the iPoker networks games in terms of softness?
not playing much this month again, enjoying the swedish summer and spending time with friends and family whom I havent seen in a long time.Quote:
Originally Posted by andr3w321
Here's what my month looks like so far
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/1263/junevn2.png
Shot at 2007-06-26
never played on ipoker, all i know is from one of my friends who is a heads up specialist who says that the 10-20 games have a lot of random donks taking shots.Quote:
Originally Posted by Toadstool
Just hit 300k hands played since November.
Still playing quite tight and with a low aggression factor, but whatever it works for me. Probably running above expectation in 500 and 600nl and below expectation in 1000nl.
http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/3050/300kym1.jpg
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/9428/300k2rx5.jpg
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/9273/300kposlg4.jpg
sweeeeeet mother of god.. this is the only thread i come back here anymore...
i envy u so much, i can't understand how u can pwn the game ridic good with so passive play
::chanting:: Video! Video! Video!
I'd kill for a video... i just dont fkin get it... Do u coach, id love to buy few hours (I play 200 atm, was up to 400 but had to withdraw almost half of my roll and didnt run that good up there either)?
Some hands from tonight..
Hands vs greatest ubermaniac known to man(80/60/16)
http://www.pokerhand.nu/hand/11103
http://www.pokerhand.nu/hand/11106
http://www.pokerhand.nu/hand/11102
http://www.pokerhand.nu/hand/11104(this one is sick)
http://www.pokerhand.nu/hand/11108
http://www.pokerhand.nu/hand/11107
hand vs Halvsame nh :)
http://www.pokerhand.nu/hand/11109
thanks for the compliments :D I think i'd make a terrible coach though, I'm just too bad at articulating my thoughts in real time. Also i don't really have time for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by ville18
bad day good month.
I'm glad I've had the discipline to get in many hands unlike previous months.
http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/3415/sephl4.jpg
http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/3...a269863a41.jpg
You finally responded to my chat today, :h:!
That KQ AI pre hand had me scratching my head even though he was crazee. I think I ran 5VPIP/0PFR on that table for the 40 or so hands I sat.. sooooooooo frustrating to not get a hand vs those guys, had them both on my left and all.
I tend to not notice the chat while multitabling browsing the internet and chatting with people, no disrespect intended.
why? It was without a doubt a +EV play against this player, perhaps not the optimal play though.Quote:
Originally Posted by HalvSame
It's just your preflop stats that tricked me, I'm a hudbot :).