The V's of Poker

To christen the blog, I might as well get into the nitty gritty of it. Super turbos are absolutely nuts and if I am able to stay calm throughout the daily grind, I will become the Yoda of this shit. The difficulty of the supers is not the actual Poker, the level of play is equivalent to that of a $1 game. The difficulty lies in being able to overcome the variance of the game. Being able to swallow losing 6-7 games straight to a fish who has a -20% ROI on their Sharkscope. At present time I am struggling with this which is reasonable to assume since I went from grinding the lowest variance games (deep stack heads up), to the Go Fish of Poker.


I have discussed these concepts with many people and from it I coined a term. Poker has what I call "the perfect equilibrium". The game by nature allows losing players to win enough to think they are skilled, but allows the actual winning players to profit in the long run. Without this equilibrium, without this allure that the game has over the fish, the winning players would only be breakeven/losing  (because all the fish would be broke and gone). So I have to remind myself of this, the fish has to win some too or else they will never come back.


Anyways, I labelled this entry the V's of Poker because for me to reach legendary status. Wait, let me correct myself. For me to reach Mersenneary status, the Michael Jordan of this super turbo shit, I will have to master these two concepts: volume and variance. Everyday I will aim to play 100 games. I usually two tables these and can get close to 20 games an hour so it'll take 5 hours of solid grinding to finish my day. Each one of my games has a rake of $1 so say I get 2600 games a month that's $702 in rakeback alone. At a 3.5% ROI over 2600 games I will be making $4550 so if I can bare the sufferring I will make over $5K a month clicking buttons. Seems worth it imo.

I think another obstacle that comes up when switching to a new game is questioning yourself as to whether you are playing optimally or not. It's one thing to be on a downswing in a game that you've been crushing and just chalk it up to bad luck. But it's another thing to switch to a new game and just lose. This can cause real confidence issues which in turn could create suboptimal plays. I haven't really experienced this yet but I can see it as a possibility in the future just by how swinging these games can be.


Enough about Poker. 

This year has been pretty big for me in the sense that there has been alot of major things go down. In September I was lucky enough to meet a girl that has truely been a great addition to my life. Everyday she fills me up with happiness, and we connect perfectly like lego pieces. Anyone who knows me knows I took abit of a hiatus from Poker, and she was the reason why. I guess there are ways to actually take the degen out of someone without sending them to gamblers anonymous :P. Well, temporarily, I've taught her the game and she now holds a 36% ROI in the $1 deep stack hu games lawls. Next month I'll be moving to Oakville since that is where she resides in the summer. It should be a pretty sick summer since I'll also be sharing a room with none other than Amin the cash game legend.

I personally think theres no other type of motivation as effective as living with another Poker player. You bounce strategies off each other, you root for the other to succeed and it all just creates an environment that is usually boring into something positive and fun. Plus Amin's been my boy so you know we gotsta get that paper chyeaa.


Anyways I think that's good for my first post. Hope everyone is pwning and GL at the tables.

Oh yeah, my graph so far. Enjoy!