climbing out of the downswing and into the black must've been one of the GREATEST feelings ever! Congrats on a successful poker year along with your content!
That winners tilt cycle is true for me too. I see it happen within single sessions all the time. I host home games, so I kind of have to keep playing till the game breaks and though I'd be up over 100 big blinds at some points, I'd often lose it all by the end of the night cause I'd start playing splashy.
GL in the new year Greg! FWIW I'd strongly recommend getting your WR up at 1/3 before moving up to 2/5. Ambition is obviously a good thing, but developing your skills is a very multifaceted journey and takes time. If your WR is 2 BB, you might go into a 2/5 game already in the theoretical red. Try doubling or even tripling your current WR before moving up.
Tip from an online grinder: The games are tougher online. I recommend playing for no more than a quarter of the stake you would normally play for live. And stick to one table at a time until you're profitable. We're not all like Nanonoko. 😉
Congrats on the winning year Greg, I remember stumbling onto your channel back when you only had a few hundred subs and I think we were pretty close to each other in out poker journeys. Now at the end of 2022 I'm playing 5NL on stars and I'm pretty comfortable, I just moved up from 2NL a couple of months ago, winning at 15bb/100 over 20k hands overall. My goal for the end of 2023 is to be a full-time online pro, being fully financially independent. A big goal I know, but I have spoken about this a lot with my coach and I think it's realistic with how much I've learned just in 2022. Cheers and may 2023 bring big things for both of us!
Congrats on profiting this year Greg! I moved up to $2/5 last year and had a strong start, but punted all my profit in 1 week😢. I realized i had an accumulated tilt problem, so i took a break for a couple months and when i came back in December i felt soo much better when playing. I hope we both sun run in 2023!! 🙌🏼
I totally feel you on that winners tilt. If I'm up big ill start calling with suited 1 gappers and stuff like that and it eats away at your profit for sure. Props to you for recognizing it. Happy new year Greg!
Greg: "I go on winners tilt and play too loose" Also Greg: *wears his signature "Stay loose, play 7 2" shirt* But for real man, love to see the introspection. I learn a lot from your yearly reviews, and I'm glad you post them!
Well done Greg . I have enjoyed your content . I often do the same thing with winners tilt . Especially in bigger games . Cheers for also helping me realise that. Good luck next year
I 100% understand what you're saying... About the swings (being splashy)... Two words that changed for me.... DON'T CHASE !!... I play solid after repeating that at the tables
A large number of poker players are losing, so winning is a big step in the right direction. Nice job being transparent about your results. It's only up from here.
Don't set winrate goals, they are completely out of your control, especially over a small hand sample size. Look at any serious online players graph and you will see 100k hand long downswings, even for long term crushers doing 3-4BB/100. Instead set goals like working on your mental game, studying more specific spots with solvers, playing more volume, not playing drunk or in a poor mental state etc. These things are in your control so you can actually achieve the outcome.
Hi Greg.. you are a great asset for the poker community. Your passion for the game is incredible. Stay up there.... And u r a real motivation for people like me trying to make a name in the game. Stay loose and never play 7 2
Players are much worse at $2/$5.. you will find people bluffing alot more but you should notice that the majority of players at $2/$5 bluff in terrible and obvious spots.
Crazy you made more yt money in 2021 than other poker vloggers with three times your sub count. I understand viral, content, algo, etc affects things but still that's a lot of money
Be careful in 2-5 man. The competition is much more skilled. If you’re having such wild swings in 1-3 then you might want to consider staying there for a bit longer under you’re more consistent
Hey Greg, nice results! I played with you @Aria past year and I think you were card dead because you barely play any hands, that means you are being disciplined and it shows on your results, keep up the good work 👍
I saw you at my table in Calgary playing the $400 Megastack WSOP-C tournament yesterday! I was the guy who should’ve folded the A high flush to the obvious full house to the guy on your left lol. Did you make day 2? Love your videos and good luck in 2023!
Hey Greg, always enjoyed your content and I’m happy for you that you had a winning year. You made your goal for 2023 a $ won goal which I think is inherently a bad idea in poker, there are better ways to track results because you can’t really control how much you win. Trying to play X amount of hours or hands, or win/lose a hand of X amount of dollars/bb is a better metric to track your growth in my opinion. Cheers and all the best in 2023
Ahh a local Vancouver player! Been watching for a couple months. My variance has been wild but been playing primarily at parq, need to get away from that rake tho.
Good job Greg, and I don’t want to take the wind from your sails, but it’s not good for your mindset to set a $$ amount goal. Just set an hours played goal, there’s too much variance in this game to set a realistic money amount. Im still tempted to do it occasionally myself 🤷♂️ Also, it’s really great you’ve identified your mental leak.
Be careful choosing stakes online. If you're barely beating 1/3 live u likely aren't beating .10/.25 online and r getting absolutely demolished at 5/10 online
I sure would love to hit Vegas with you sometime. Problem is I very rarely go, just every couple years. I might go in June 2023 though. When you travel to Vegas, do you drive? If so what major cities do you go through?
That idea of "I just won a bunch and I get too loose" can be a good thing, though. But you'd have to go from winning huge at a high limit table down to a very, very low limit table. So, for example, win thousands at one table, then buy in for a few hundred bucks and see some flips. Don't go too crazy, but you can't suck out unless you try to 😂
One thing you could do to alleviate some of that feeling, perhaps, is win a hundred bucks and then go do a SINGLE max bet (low limit, obviously lol) slot pull. Win or lose, cash out. You might even hit a bonus game once in a blue moon!
Greg! Rooting for you... you forgot to add... HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET BETTER TO HIT YOUR GOAL? Are you working with a coach? Have you learned any lessons from the last year? Do you have GREG'S RULES OF POKER! Are you reading a book? What are you going to do to get better? Share with us. GOOD LUCK!!! Visit Houston! THANKS JC
Ambitious move to 2/5. Not trying to be a hater, but it doesn't look like you are bankrolled for that. Perhaps a better goal would be to not succumb to winners tilt? Results orientated goals are dangerous for poker, a very non results orientated game.
