A Year in the Life of a 200 ZOOM CRUSHER
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Carrot Corner has just signed its latest video creator for the subscription service coming April 2024 - a professional cash game poker player who chooses to put in volume on PokerStars and consistently wins in some of the toughest mid-stakes poker games available. This player has chosen 200 ZOOM as his battleground and triumphed over a massive sample against one of the toughest fast fold poker pools on the internet. In this video we look at his yearly results and I analyse some hands I recently played at 200 ZOOM. - เกม
Pete you say you want coaches to prove their worth with proof of results. Which is great, and should be expected. May it be possible to see your proof of worth?
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Sure he is gonna post his golf score.
The main criticism I face in the poker world is not about my ability to teach poker; I can honestly say that I am not aware of a single instance where criticism has been about the quality of our courses, and it is rarely about my understanding of the game. The only thing I commonly see that constitutes negative feedback regarding Carrot Corner is the fact that I have not been playing much poker at all for years now and so have no recent graph of a large enough sample to qualify as proof of poker ability. Let me address this criticism now while also discussing the 100NL Challenge. I will try to be as clear and honest here about my situation as I can be. What I am about to write, I will copy and paste wherever this question comes up in future. If you see someone making the same criticism, please feel free to copy and paste this statement in response.
First off, a brief insight into my life. I run Carrot Corner as my full-time job. I work 9-5, Monday-Friday making content, teaching, and building my business. I structure my life so that I have very clear work hours and I do not play poker outside of these hours because it falls under the ‘work’ umbrella. I also teach bridge to children in schools and to adults in bridge clubs. I play bridge avidly and value time with friends and family. My fiancé (possibly wife depending on when you’re reading this) and I live on a small holding with dogs, cats, chickens, ducks, and goats and looking after the animals can be time consuming. As for work, there are lots of moving parts to my job. Carrot Corner is becoming a bigger and more successful company every day and over the last few years we have grown significantly. I never expected things to go this well and I am very grateful that we are on such an upward trajectory, but running the company is very time consuming and I'm not the sort of business owner who wants a to work a 60-hour week, and so I don't.
The following is not a brag but an explanation of why I have spent my time in the way I have over the last few years - not playing much poker. The single biggest reason for which I haven’t been putting in volume is that I make considerably more from running Carrot Corner than I could from grinding online at any commonly running stake. Had I neglected the company to grind a massive sample (and I would have had to had I wanted to do this) Carrot Corner would be nowhere near where it is today.
Does this mean that I have no credentials as a poker educator or that no one has any reason to trust that I understand the game or to purchase any of our courses or services? No, of course not, but if you think this, then that's perfectly okay. You don't need to watch the free TH-cam content or buy any training content from our website or listen to any of the professional poker players who are joining our team when we launch subscription videos. Many of the professional poker players who will be teaching at Carrot Corner when we launch subscriptions are Carrot Poker School trained and have been coached by me personally. They have very impressive recent high-volume graphs because playing poker is their job and these will all be publicly available on Carrot Corner when subscriptions launch later in April 2024.
As for me, what are my credentials if they don’t come in the form of a graph? Simply, quality of training content. The TH-cam channel and our course sales have both grown significantly over the last few years and from these metrics we know that people really enjoy the way I teach the game. There is a time for being humble in poker, in fact, arrogance and ego are vices poker players generally do well to avoid but let me be totally honest for a second at the risk of sounding arrogant. I back myself as an excellent teacher and I think the viewers of the TH-cam channel, my private students throughout the years, and our customers at Carrot Corner would overwhelmingly agree. The Carrot Poker School course is highly praised by those who have invested in it and has turned many struggling and aspiring players' games around by giving them a complete understanding of how the game works. I have found that many winning professional poker players want to come to Carrot Corner to teach the game because they rate the quality of our poker teaching. In many peoples' opinion, The Carrot Poker School is by far the best poker course they have taken. People tell us this via the discord server all the time, often with a before and after graph which paints a clear picture about how much the course has helped them.
Now, let me discuss the 100NL challenge as it has become somewhat of a bone of contention for some, and I understand why. People are sick of challenges that never get finished and want to see someone follow through on their mission. Last November, I came up with the idea of trying to play a big sample at 100 Fast Fold to see if I could win at a big win-rate for the format. It may be that the upper limits of this are 3bb-4bb/100 as many people claim, or it may be that by playing a highly effective exploitative strategy that I can do better. I very much intend on finding time later in the year to get into the flow of putting in higher volume and to stream the challenge regularly on Twitch. While I love teaching and running the business, I want to feel like a poker player again at some point soon, but given my goals for the company, this has been impossible so far this year.
Upon reflection, it is clear to me that I should have waited until we had launched subscriptions and automated a lot more of the business before announcing that I was going to do this because putting in a big sample depends on me clearing enough availability to focus on it fully. Announcing my return to grinding volume before the company was automated enough to allow for this was a mistake, but I was excited by the prospect at the time. I am not giving up on the idea of doing this when the time is right, but I want people to understand that it can’t be my priority currently and that’s why I should have planned further ahead and waited to announce the challenge. One of my flaws in business is the tendency to sometimes make rash decisions, but I think my impulsivity is also responsible for much of the creative success Carrot Corner is experiencing in the industry. As for when I plan on sharing results publicly as proof of ability - not until the sample is large enough to be credible.
I hope that this explanation gives anyone who has doubts about me or about Carrot Corner an insight into my situation. To the haters: if you don't like the content, or don't want to purchase our courses, then I don't see the problem. If you think it’s overpriced, don’t buy it. I honestly don’t understand why this aggravates anyone. This is a free marketplace, and companies can charge whatever they want for training material. I believe The Carrot Poker School is worth every penny of the price it sells at and I would not sell it for that price if I didn’t, but you can spend your time and money wherever you want.
I'll wrap this up by stressing that when you're trying to get better at any discipline, the best people to teach you are teachers. We're taking on poker players as instructors who don't just know how to make money at the game, but also know how to teach. This is perhaps the most under-valued skill in the poker training industry, and I hope you will all see how valuable it is when you see the quality of our subscription service content.
Finally, I make a point of not hanging around poker forums and comments sections and I have found that it is better for my mental health not to read everything that is said about me on the internet even when most of that is positive. Therefore, I am going to state here that I will probably not be engaging much with responses to this post but I am very grateful to those who have supported me and Carrot Corner. It means the world to me.
@@CarrotCornerPokerI’ve played poker part time and periodically full time since 2005. I’ve had over 10 coaches and watched a tonne on online free and paid content. I can say without a shadow of a doubt that your YT content and your carrot poker school is the best, most cohesive and easy to understand and implement foundational strategy that I’ve ever seen. The fact that you are able to work in humour is just a bonus. Carrot Poker is the place for the average Joe who aspires to become a legitimate crusher because it has logical, easy to understand and apply building blocks to a strong overall poker strategy. Anyone who disses Pete or the Carrot Corner is either intentionally trying to slander the brand or a fool.
Great work Pete! Keep it up. Good job with the "featured hand" segment intro
Possible the best and funniest poker analogy ever
38:01 Why is the solver assigning very different frequencies to bluff catch with the variants of AKo? I tried to examine the blocker properties but couldn't figure this out.
LOL the dog example was good.
The featured hand bit was the best part of my day 🤣
And of mine
GJ on the animation editor!
Great video, as always. But I’m hanging out for the next episode of Poker Distilled. When is that coming?
Thanks Pete, can't stop thinking about the pocket potatoes now, nights ruined.
Could you give us an insight of what his routine looked like that year? How many hands did he play a day, how many days a week, did he also study daily or what else did he do...
I imagine he 84 tabled 27 hours and never took a shower because shower = -EV.
Think the Colonel from Neebs gaming battlefield friends, when he is talking about how he got so good.
The episode is Colonel 100 if interested.
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I think you have to be fairly balanced as a person to be able to consistently beat the game.
Double float Q10s because of ego is my judgement call to outplay reg :) Love this video btw keep em happening
No way I've been watching this guys videos
You know online poker is dead when 3bb is crushing and after all that variance including that disgusting 50 buy in downswing near the beginning you're still making a below average salary playing 200nl.
Online poker is not dead. I know dozens of people who make above average US salary playing poker. Obviously there is selection bias because I am one of those people and therefor naturally friends with many. Nonetheless, for people who do not like the idea of a normal job, online poker can still support a life.
Lmao creasing at you saying this, keep projecting
@@Jimmyballsthe3rd projecting is when we displace our own feelings and judgements onto another person rather than owning them for ourselves. For example, someone might project that everyone else is a fool for attempting to succeed in poker because they themselves have failed to succeed and have some unresolved feelings around it.
@@ColliePoker-re4sx yes I’m aware that’s why I used the term correctly describing the commenter
@@Jimmyballsthe3rd oh lol I thought your comment was in response to me. I guess I was the one projecting XD
Why post a graph with lines missing…
Personally I don't love to post my red/blue publicly where people I play against can see it. The EV line over this many hands seems pretty irrelevant also. The deviation from net won is going to be pretty small over this large a sample. This is cleaner and less confusing for people who don't track stats
the start of the vedio is realy reassuring me since im 30 buy in under ev in arounf 70k hands... i play nl500 fr on gg with 200bb buy ins and im wondering where i play bad... after studying more, i realised i changed my way of playing du to the bad run, and started to play pourly...
I recall Cruzer having the avatar of the villain from Dexter's Lab if I'm not mistaken. Had no idea he was a crusher though.
Mandark?
@@jeffshackleford3152 Yeah it was Mandark 😄
Based on the title, I was looking forward to a video about an entire year of life from someone playing 200z. I did not get that at all. I am sad and don’t feel good about clicking on whatever video comes next.
ok
I dont give a flying fuck about some life-story in poker. Im here to learn, not be in awe.
I am guessing that graph was showing a year in the life.
I dunno, what was it 750k hands, give or take?
does that seem plausible?
@@ekw555 yes thats at least one year of pretty hard grind
First JJ hand: How about blockbetting ~10% on the river? It's a bit suprising you don't consider this in your analysis
Let's go !!
Well Jeff all that really matters is if someone has been doing well the last couple years. The past doesn’t really matter as guys have gotten a lot better 😮
C'est la vie ❤
Its kruzer20 for sure if youve watched his most recent video. Great addition i think.
QTs hand
You 100% don't have a set on the river as played. Total punt
I mean he could. But villain 100% won't believe that and will snap with AK every time. And therefore no need to ever bluff with that sizing in this pool.
Bang
10/10 🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕🥕
All hail the potatoes.
Guys jus play reg tables and select and you can make even nl 100 bigger proffit in year and less variance
Variance smariance
I'm sure kruzer will be good coach.
How do you know it is Kruzer?
This graph looks similar than his. Im not 100% sure tho.
It's him
$47k profit in a year doesn't really seem that great of an income though?
That doesn’t include rakeback. If he is in the new stars select rakeback thing, it will add another 20-30k on top.
@@redraw0160 That's still not that great of a salary tbh? If I had to do that and pay taxes on it, I'd only be left with ~45k a year net.
Seems the poker well is well and truly dried out.
Dude with 50k+ you live like an absolute king in most eastern european countries. I live in Budapest and in a „normal job“ its pretty damn hard to make that amount of money under 30….
@@matthiaskrenn7511 Yea sure, but that's when I left poker in the early 2010s, when I saw many of my peers move to cheaper countries to have a decent quality of life left. Eastern Europe, Thailand, Mexico etc.
Not the best career if you can only earn enough to have to move to a cheaper place. Today it is even worse than it was back then.
If the same guy went to play on another site with the same volume he could make a lot more money, which mean playing on zoom isn’t a good idea 🤷🏽♂️
It would be very difficult to match this volume without playing fast fold. Usually, you trade off BB/100 for BB/Hr.
and how long will it take him to play "the same volume" on a non zoom format? Hunting for tables, waiting for action, having to monitor several sites.
At the end its way more hours for the same volume, so while the bb/100 will be higher, the $$/hour might not, or might not be that high compared to just opening the site and launching zoom tables
@peterjack1 yes agree i was talking in term of money
@@morfos95 most sites have fast fold format
I’m just wondering how the lack of HUD stats for something like ignition would matter? Can’t play a lot of sites in the US
He’s only winning at 3bb/100 is that really considered crushing?
it is zoom format...
"only" 3bb/100 on Zoom200 haha Clown
@@Awre18It was an insult masked as a question.
@@chrisL02 good but still not crushing
3bb/100 is crushing at 200z
There really is no money in online poker huh. This guy's a total crusher making below average US salary. Probably make 150k+ a year live
I think trajectory for most pros serious about money is they battle online until they're hard stuck and then they focus on the highest stakes live games they can find. A good winner at 200z is probably table captain at a lot of 25/50s
This doesn't even include rakeback. So it's probably above average US salary.
There is a lot of stuff to consider first there is rakeback which will be around 20k roughly so its plus 60k a year and he is surely in a 0% tax country england austria or whatever so its around 5k $ net plus which becomes way above us average income plus if he’s in europe the cost of living is lower than us so it has a lot of perks
But if you ask my opinion even with all that i don’t think nowadays its still worth it 😄
@@Assi9910 but if you live in a cheaper country your purchasing power can easily triple. You can live really well in Thailand or Eastern Europe for $2-3k/month.
It's Kruzer he makes YT videos, he also had like $28k in rakeback