Just wanted to post a comment and thank everyone for all the positivity in here and also to the guys that have reached out in my DM’s as well. I’m truly humbled by the reaction and I can also say that it’s given me a lot of optimism and motivation for the year moving forward. You’re all the best and thank you again. Here’s to a great 2025 ♥️
Thank for sharing this, Simon. Being real, truthful, and vulnerable will bring you all the things you want in life! Keep the videos coming- I’m a loyal fan and viewer!
Hey man, thanks for sharing this video, I can relate to a lot of what you are saying. Playing similar stakes (200nl for the first half the year and 500 for the second half). I also have the urge to battle and proof that I am better than the other regs thus not table/time selecting enough (Esp after watching the Coinpoker Championship😅). I also play less or even stop playing in times of downswings to avoid the negative emotions and just find excuses to do other stuff (didnt even manage 300k hands this year) I also dont want to play live even tho it might increase my winnings but then fuck up my sleep schedule and stop improving as a player. I also coach low stakes players which is great but takes away time of the main goal; to improve as a poker player. Maybe it helps to hear that there are people in similar situations out there, like it helped me. All the best for 2025!
Thanks for sharing, clearly you hit brutal variance this year. It sounds like you already decided on this, but higher volume is the key to everything in my opinion. Your intuition and ability to execute gets sharper, downswings last less time making mental game easier, you won't overadjust from short term results. Best of luck for 2025
Thank you mate! I've definitely been through the negative end of variance a fair bit this year but as you say, volume is the only way we can get out of that and I didn't really do this in 2024. Definitely top of my list to improve on this year!
The transparency along with the pressure you feel to show good results due to your position is class mate, few would do it and mad respect for putting it all out there, GL 2025!
Hi, HarissaMB on stars over here. I rarely comment on TH-cam but wanted to send you support and wish you all the best for this year. I really appreciate the honesty on this one. It's something extremely rare to see these days where everyone is supposedly crushing every stake. GG!
Hey Simon, been silent consumer for month now. All you guys from UK, Weazel, Easty, you, Bena, really can pick up a good connection to you guys. Your display a very grounded guy. And I like people like you. The poker scene is a really egoistic scene imo. So even harder to let the pants down in these eco system. So I get the point that it is hard for you to post a video like this. But the honesty about is is much more valueable then creating a picture of a crushing guy be able to charge tons of money for coaching of people to proof the point that you are good. Just fuck off what people might say or even if the jump of the Elmo train. I can appreciate honesty like this one much more than anything else. It will print in the long run. Keep it going and all the best for the new year! ps. Hope to see you battle Bean tomorrow. We wanna see you get BTOed!
Respect the honesty. WIth regards to your brainfog while playing problem it could be lack of sleep, lack of nutrition or some mineral/vitamin in your diet or potentially playing too soon after a big meal . Those are causes I can think of
Hey mate! Yeah thank you for this, my diet and fitness routine is something I'm constantly trying to improve as it's always been a weakness of mine. I have definitely gotten better at it in 2024 but I still have a long way to go!
Yeah absolutely nutrition related imo, I’m worse than anyone with this and feel like I’m on hard stimulants when I start eating good and healthy, it’s night and day it’s crazy. Especially if it’s been 10/20 years of bad diet you won’t even know your own brains full power
You got this brother !! Always had a much better nack for the game than anyone I studied with before add the professionalism in and I'll start having to anti sweat you ❤❤❤
Thanks for posting this and being so open. Avoidance has been a big problem for me too. I took six months off, came back in November to run up 70 buy-ins at 10NL. Then in December, I played 45k hands at 4 EVbb/100 but ended up breaking even in realised. After a few stupid hands, I tilted hard, dusted off 4 stacks at 25NL, and my monkey brain wanted me to punt the whole lot so I wouldn’t have to feel any more negative emotions. Luckily, I caught myself and snap withdrew the roll. The stress was brutal, mainly the compounding of runbad/playbad and the way I handled it was embarrassing to say the least. I can’t imagine the pressure of playing for a living with serious money on the line. Seeing your post made me feel a little less awful and even think about playing again. But my mental leaks from poker bleed into other parts of life, so unless I can sort that out, poker is massively -EV for me.
Sounds like you've reflected really hard on this period though mate and learned a lot. I think it's similar to my view on things with poker in that fixing stuff outside of the game often has massive benefits for you in game. Hope you continue to figure it out!
hey man. i really respect your try and your honestly. almost everyone believe that to play poker is easy just sit and win money but its far away from the truth and you show this. i hope you the best in game and out of it. Cheers from Greece and happy new year !
I played a decent amount with you this year. The easiest route for a coach is to play very few hands per hour, only with whales, and to show that graph, but I saw you playing many times at bad tables. Winrate without context doesn't mean anything, especially in small samples. I think you are very qualified to coach, and if they hire you, they are not going to regret it. Props to you for being honest. I hope you fulfill all your objectives in 2025.
i played 200k hands 2024 and have a fulltime job so you do definitely need to increase hands even if it is at lower stakes which is what i did during my downswing. respect for sharing your hands and also your learnings, you definitely helped improve my game Simon!
@@pkrelmo if you need income or a quick bankroll at 100nl gg or 200 reg tables you can always make 300 per day cos thats so soft compared to 200zoom on stars. id probably do that whenever i lose 2k on 200nl. also rebuilds confidence fast.
Morning grinders assemble! GL this year, hope things go your way. I can safely say you've run nut low vs me this year so I'm bracing myself for things to switch.
Morning grinders! It’s always funny how every player has one reg who they can never win vs but also one reg where the opposite happens 😂 GL to you this year as well mate ♥️
Great video which needs a lot of courage to post. Transparency will bring you much further than hiding anything. Confident that 2025 will bring better poker results. Keep it up.
Thanks for sharing this an being so honest! Have exactly the same thoughts/feelings about the last year. Pokerplayers are very similar :D Wish you all the best for next year and onwards!
Yeah, it’s amazing how many people have reached out saying they’re going through similar. Super happy that people can resonate with it and hopefully it helps a few people along the way ♥️
I just found your channel, great vids. I think the way you didn't know how to spell that word then decided to use a different ones shows you're a great poker player :)
2bb/100 in Zoom pools especially is a good WR for a pro, obviously we want it to be higher but it is what it is. Performance and mentality is key, your technical skill can be high but without those tools to be able to access your skill in your brain you won't give your best and that is just a big part of poker. Thanks for sharing, for the record if I paid for coaching I'd want a transparent coach like you.
Nice video bro.We were in the similiar situation at the start of 2024 on stars with those RB changes....everyone was hyped to grind but most of us in the end lost in that period of time 🤣.I like your honesty.i recognized myself in a lot of the stuff that u were talking about being competative,being the guy who prefers playing a football session rather than going out partying 😂, esp for the coaching part doing it,liking it but eventually not having enough time to play more because u are exhausted from it in the end.As for mental side yeah to be honest with u for most of the players its way better to improve mentally rather than technically because its easy to get better technically u just grind solvers put in the time study eventually u become better....but as u said no matter how good u are it doesnt matter if u cant execute the strategy u know because u are tilted or tired or whatever in the time u are playing the hand.Its 100x times harder getting better mentally than technically atleast the way how i see it.Anyways GL in 2025 bro hopefully we battle each other again on some different site because i cant play on stars anymore😢❤.
Thank you for the words mate, you inspired me to man up and actually do this video haha. Mentality is everything ultimately and none of us are ever going to be perfect in this regard. Think a lot of it comes from fixing stuff outside of the game and then the stuff in game will follow. We can only keep working! Shame about the lack of stars where you are now, are you gonna relocate at all!?
Iam sure if you keep your head in the right place and focus on yourself you will be posting nice winning graphs and joining the 1K NL pool in no time mate 👌
Facing the mirror and being honest with oneself is a great attitude to have as it's a springboard for improvement and progress. I'd frown upon a coach who would not do that and attempted to hide one's own failures. It gives you even more credibility as a teacher in my view as it takes strenght and character - I wouldn't want to model anything less than that as a student. Get a new wallet cuz 2025 is yours ;) GL
Love how honest you are, I’m sure this openness will help many others see they are not alone. I do wonder though if you’re competitiveness will prevent you from winning at any stake over a long enough time. As said, playing live or, I assume, dropping down a stake isn’t an option for you because it’s not ‘competitive’ enough or you see yourself as being better than that level. What happens if you win £60-70k this year @ 500NL, will you feel it’s competitive enough in 2026, or will you always be chasing that next level and never be content just earning good money. Would you rather win 40k a year at 1K NL or 80k a year at 500? for example. Something I think you should put a lot of thought into.
Hello mate, hope you’re doing well! Think you make some really good points. I’ve decided I’m going to play more live this year (and play more in general) as I do want to play in better games and make as much money as I can in 2025. So I’m definitely gonna try to make more profitable choices and manage the ego a bit better. But I’m also determined to move up online and test myself higher! Just gotta try to juggle both 😂
@ pleased to hear it! I’m sure you’ll crush and get to where you want to. This is all just part of the process. Hopefully catch you on the live felt soon!
It's difficult to explain the graphs because it looks like two different players before and after the upswing in the middle. The initial period of positive red line while the blue line is absolutely cratering would be characteristic of a player whose bluffs are always called and value never paid off. That suggests that you weren't being selective enough in your bluff spots and also being overly sticky. Then you hit a huge heater in the middle and I think this somehow skewed your thinking and set you up to fail in the second half of the year. The ski-slope red line coupled with stratospheric blue line is someone who is simply getting bluffed far more than they are bluffing. Perhaps the run of good cards conditioned you to forget about bluffing so much and just wait for the next good hand.
@@pkrelmo Thanks man, many professional poker players suffer from procrastination, or motion vs action as described in "atomic habits". Here's a surprise: your goal, even if it's not monetary based (which you don't control anyways), but time-based which seemingly is totally under your control (let's say, play 1.5m hands in 2025 which you can control, allegedly) will NOT create a habit at all. That's why about 80% of ppl fail their new-year resolutions. There's a lot to actually creating a habit. I recommend that book, or that author's course in masterclass.
Imagine not having rake or the rake being a bit lower. You paid $45,000 in rake? That is insane if you think about it, right? Wish you a great winning year.
@@pkrelmo but playing live you will have 100% lower hourly than online, so i have no idea why would you play live 2/5 making 40$ per hour. It is more profitable to play nl25 online
He is an excellent youtuber, I wouldn't take coaching from a person that is so shady about his results... Even if I see ok ones - like even/slightly losibg post rake (pre rakeback) in 200nl, I would've said maybe, but I think he is no adaptive enough exploititive-wise, always try to exploit pool even vs huge outliers and lacks theory understanding in key spots, despite being a self proclaimed theory master
Carroters is really bad at poker compared to the people who actually play the game. He tries to sound smart by explaining basic concepts in unnecessarily complicated ways. If his graph was winning he would’ve shown it
I think he is very good at explaining some key elements in poker, and has a sound thinking process. I think that he lacks some knowledge but mainly his philosophy is extremely losing/not winning in some key spots, and he needs to change it. But - I cannot believe he is losing 200nl with rakeback, he is definitely too good, unless he is just extremely trash at playing @AllielIll
@@adamba99 The thing is - he is trying to sell a product for a lot of money without any results to back it up. And results in this case really matter, because it is a field were it is very easy to say who is capable of teaching you how to be a winning player - only winning players are - unlike history or philosophy, were there are no specific results to determine the capable bar. It is not to say that if you are a winning player you are capable teaching others how to, but if you are a losing player, it is pretty insane for a poker player to pay you hundreds of buyins to teach him how to be a winning player, when there are many winning players that teach poker. All in all, I think his content is really not going to make you a winning online player - it can really help you with 2-5 live play, but it is simply because live is much easier. I believe beating 5-10 live or 50nl online, is not something that he teaches well enough, and there is free/premium content that can translate well to these stakes
As always, appreciate the transparency. Think it's important to keep in mind what you have achieved this year with starting the coaching business, Building your social media presence and by the sounds of it, finding some balance outside of work. I would guess, if at the start of the year, you were told this is where you would be at the end of 2024 you would be somewhat satisfied, despite the poker results. Ultimately your volume was always going to suffer, and at the end of the day you likely made a few Benjamin's with rakeback. Good luck with trying to better align your goals and actions in 2025.
Hey mate, thank you for this! I think you're right and I'm going to look back at this year with a lot of fondness when all is said and done. I've accomplished a lot but it's also great to realign with my goals and I've got a lot of motivation from analysing all of this. Good luck to you as well!
Respect for courage! Well, thats why I would advise everyone to think twice about turning poker pro. Its really hard profession - technically and especially mentally. I'm more casual player but damn, its 300k break even and you are still here standing strong. What do you mean by table selection? Less Zoom, more regular tables and whale hunting?
@@pkrelmo For me personally big jump in profitability was when I realized how important is table selection and compared winrates of regs from my zoom sample(1,5kk hands back then) with regular tables regs. It was -1bb vs 3bb. I know you know this, just posting this for people reading this.
Yeah but your next 100k hand maybe be all going up and you are a lot of profit at 500k hands. I think best advice is to find the passion and excitment for poker again. Play shorter sessions but short breaks make sure you feel good and locked in and ease into it and i’m sure you will run great again and get those plays in!
Yeah, I think you're completely right mate! Think this year I fell out of love with the playing side of the game a bit and it's time for me to fall in love with it all over again!
You are not wrong, sir! I definitely realise this but didn't want to make this a sort of moaning video where I talked about sample sizes, variance and all of that stuff. Think there should be a happy medium where I acknowledge that variance and sample issues exist whilst also taking responsibility for my results, ya know.
Just show your student's graph, we know how much mental is involved in the long run, as far as your coaching is technical, how could your personnal grinding results be the only proof of your coaching abilities? Makes no sense, critics will come from weaker egos than yours, you're showing right there that you care about trust and truth. Hope 2025 results video will crush this one
Thank you for the support mate! I’m gonna be posting some coaching videos & stuff on this channel soon so people can get a glimpse into that side of things as well, I think 🫡
Hi there, maybe you need some sessions of phycotherapy. In my humble opinion you struggle to wake up your old dream about to be top winner on high level but your current life is in a real sweet spot without yr old dream. I don't know if you should try to align with that or you should try to be very best in poker . That's why i said aboyt psychotherapy to dig in and find your path !
Hi mate! Funnily enough, I started seeing a psychologist a couple of months ago and it's been really beneficial for me so far. I've definitely got a lot of stuff to work through (as have most) but I'm confident I'm on the right track!
Other coaches would come off much better if they followed your lead and showed their graph with caveats. Ignoring requests to show theirs but not outright admitting they haven’t been winning players just looks shady
Yeah, I can’t speak for other coaches as it’s very much their own prerogative if they want to share their results or not. But it’s something I will always do both now and in the future ♥️
Just wanted to post a comment and thank everyone for all the positivity in here and also to the guys that have reached out in my DM’s as well.
I’m truly humbled by the reaction and I can also say that it’s given me a lot of optimism and motivation for the year moving forward.
You’re all the best and thank you again. Here’s to a great 2025 ♥️
super honest video and really important reflections. onto a better 2025 for us all mate
thank you mate!❤
Thank for sharing this, Simon. Being real, truthful, and vulnerable will bring you all the things you want in life! Keep the videos coming- I’m a loyal fan and viewer!
Love to hear it, thank you!
Hey man, thanks for sharing this video, I can relate to a lot of what you are saying. Playing similar stakes (200nl for the first half the year and 500 for the second half).
I also have the urge to battle and proof that I am better than the other regs thus not table/time selecting enough (Esp after watching the Coinpoker Championship😅).
I also play less or even stop playing in times of downswings to avoid the negative emotions and just find excuses to do other stuff (didnt even manage 300k hands this year)
I also dont want to play live even tho it might increase my winnings but then fuck up my sleep schedule and stop improving as a player.
I also coach low stakes players which is great but takes away time of the main goal; to improve as a poker player.
Maybe it helps to hear that there are people in similar situations out there, like it helped me.
All the best for 2025!
Sounds like we're the same person, brother! :D
I'm glad this video helped and gl to you in 2025 as well!
Thanks for sharing, clearly you hit brutal variance this year.
It sounds like you already decided on this, but higher volume is the key to everything in my opinion.
Your intuition and ability to execute gets sharper, downswings last less time making mental game easier, you won't overadjust from short term results. Best of luck for 2025
Thank you mate! I've definitely been through the negative end of variance a fair bit this year but as you say, volume is the only way we can get out of that and I didn't really do this in 2024. Definitely top of my list to improve on this year!
Cool video Elmo, love the honesty. You seem like a very chill, down to earth guy.
Thank you mate, huge fan of your channel!
Lots of encouragement for this year! I wish you the best version of yourself, working and playing in A Game. 💪🧠
Thank you mate!
The transparency along with the pressure you feel to show good results due to your position is class mate, few would do it and mad respect for putting it all out there, GL 2025!
thank you mate!
Hi,
HarissaMB on stars over here.
I rarely comment on TH-cam but wanted to send you support and wish you all the best for this year.
I really appreciate the honesty on this one. It's something extremely rare to see these days where everyone is supposedly crushing every stake.
GG!
Hey mate, thank you for the words! Always enjoyed our early morning battles and hope to be having many more of them in 2025. GL! ❤
Hey Simon, been silent consumer for month now. All you guys from UK, Weazel, Easty, you, Bena, really can pick up a good connection to you guys. Your display a very grounded guy. And I like people like you. The poker scene is a really egoistic scene imo. So even harder to let the pants down in these eco system. So I get the point that it is hard for you to post a video like this. But the honesty about is is much more valueable then creating a picture of a crushing guy be able to charge tons of money for coaching of people to proof the point that you are good. Just fuck off what people might say or even if the jump of the Elmo train. I can appreciate honesty like this one much more than anything else. It will print in the long run. Keep it going and all the best for the new year!
ps. Hope to see you battle Bean tomorrow. We wanna see you get BTOed!
Thank you very much mate, I really appreciate the words ❤
Respect the honesty. WIth regards to your brainfog while playing problem it could be lack of sleep, lack of nutrition or some mineral/vitamin in your diet or potentially playing too soon after a big meal . Those are causes I can think of
Hey mate! Yeah thank you for this, my diet and fitness routine is something I'm constantly trying to improve as it's always been a weakness of mine. I have definitely gotten better at it in 2024 but I still have a long way to go!
Yeah absolutely nutrition related imo, I’m worse than anyone with this and feel like I’m on hard stimulants when I start eating good and healthy, it’s night and day it’s crazy.
Especially if it’s been 10/20 years of bad diet you won’t even know your own brains full power
Respect and all the best for 2025. Also, thanks for all the great vids including this one.
Thank you mate!
You got this brother !! Always had a much better nack for the game than anyone I studied with before add the professionalism in and I'll start having to anti sweat you ❤❤❤
Thank you mate! Just got to take a leaf out of your book don't I and just keep showing up and doing the business!
Thanks for posting this and being so open. Avoidance has been a big problem for me too. I took six months off, came back in November to run up 70 buy-ins at 10NL. Then in December, I played 45k hands at 4 EVbb/100 but ended up breaking even in realised. After a few stupid hands, I tilted hard, dusted off 4 stacks at 25NL, and my monkey brain wanted me to punt the whole lot so I wouldn’t have to feel any more negative emotions. Luckily, I caught myself and snap withdrew the roll.
The stress was brutal, mainly the compounding of runbad/playbad and the way I handled it was embarrassing to say the least. I can’t imagine the pressure of playing for a living with serious money on the line. Seeing your post made me feel a little less awful and even think about playing again. But my mental leaks from poker bleed into other parts of life, so unless I can sort that out, poker is massively -EV for me.
Sounds like you've reflected really hard on this period though mate and learned a lot. I think it's similar to my view on things with poker in that fixing stuff outside of the game often has massive benefits for you in game. Hope you continue to figure it out!
hey man. i really respect your try and your honestly. almost everyone believe that to play poker is easy just sit and win money but its far away from the truth and you show this. i hope you the best in game and out of it. Cheers from Greece and happy new year !
thank you ❤
I played a decent amount with you this year. The easiest route for a coach is to play very few hands per hour, only with whales, and to show that graph, but I saw you playing many times at bad tables.
Winrate without context doesn't mean anything, especially in small samples.
I think you are very qualified to coach, and if they hire you, they are not going to regret it. Props to you for being honest. I hope you fulfill all your objectives in 2025.
Hey mate! Always enjoyed the morning grind with yourself. Thank you for the words and good luck to you this coming year as well ❤
@seiscero daaaamn Seis, you're still around? hope you're doing well.
i played 200k hands 2024 and have a fulltime job so you do definitely need to increase hands even if it is at lower stakes which is what i did during my downswing.
respect for sharing your hands and also your learnings, you definitely helped improve my game Simon!
You’re not wrong there mate! Already played a lot of 200 these past few days just for the volume and I will continue to do so 😎
@@pkrelmo if you need income or a quick bankroll at 100nl gg or 200 reg tables you can always make 300 per day cos thats so soft compared to 200zoom on stars. id probably do that whenever i lose 2k on 200nl. also rebuilds confidence fast.
Morning grinders assemble! GL this year, hope things go your way. I can safely say you've run nut low vs me this year so I'm bracing myself for things to switch.
Morning grinders!
It’s always funny how every player has one reg who they can never win vs but also one reg where the opposite happens 😂
GL to you this year as well mate ♥️
Great video which needs a lot of courage to post.
Transparency will bring you much further than hiding anything.
Confident that 2025 will bring better poker results.
Keep it up.
Thank you mate ❤
Thanks for sharing this an being so honest! Have exactly the same thoughts/feelings about the last year. Pokerplayers are very similar :D Wish you all the best for next year and onwards!
Yeah, it’s amazing how many people have reached out saying they’re going through similar. Super happy that people can resonate with it and hopefully it helps a few people along the way ♥️
Refreshing video, good luck with your poker journey in 2025 💪
Thank you mate, gl to you too!
I just found your channel, great vids. I think the way you didn't know how to spell that word then decided to use a different ones shows you're a great poker player :)
Love the transparency - GG, buddy. Best of luck for 2025.
Thank you mate, good luck to you too!
2bb/100 in Zoom pools especially is a good WR for a pro, obviously we want it to be higher but it is what it is.
Performance and mentality is key, your technical skill can be high but without those tools to be able to access your skill in your brain you won't give your best and that is just a big part of poker.
Thanks for sharing, for the record if I paid for coaching I'd want a transparent coach like you.
Thank you mate! ♥️
Good honest video fair play and gl this year man
thank you mate, gl to you too!
Nice video bro.We were in the similiar situation at the start of 2024 on stars with those RB changes....everyone was hyped to grind but most of us in the end lost in that period of time 🤣.I like your honesty.i recognized myself in a lot of the stuff that u were talking about being competative,being the guy who prefers playing a football session rather than going out partying 😂, esp for the coaching part doing it,liking it but eventually not having enough time to play more because u are exhausted from it in the end.As for mental side yeah to be honest with u for most of the players its way better to improve mentally rather than technically because its easy to get better technically u just grind solvers put in the time study eventually u become better....but as u said no matter how good u are it doesnt matter if u cant execute the strategy u know because u are tilted or tired or whatever in the time u are playing the hand.Its 100x times harder getting better mentally than technically atleast the way how i see it.Anyways GL in 2025 bro hopefully we battle each other again on some different site because i cant play on stars anymore😢❤.
Thank you for the words mate, you inspired me to man up and actually do this video haha.
Mentality is everything ultimately and none of us are ever going to be perfect in this regard. Think a lot of it comes from fixing stuff outside of the game and then the stuff in game will follow. We can only keep working! Shame about the lack of stars where you are now, are you gonna relocate at all!?
Keep the head up, mate! Nice video. 👍
Thank you mate, your video a few months back definitely inspired this!
@@pkrelmo haha happy to share the pain mate! I'll be posting my 2024 stuff next week also!
Iam sure if you keep your head in the right place and focus on yourself you will be posting nice winning graphs and joining the 1K NL pool in no time mate 👌
I'm coming for you mate!
Great video mate....the valleys teach what the mountain peaks can't. 2025 is your year 📈
Thank you mate!
Make a great year 2025. I hope you will comeback on track.
thanks brother ❤
Facing the mirror and being honest with oneself is a great attitude to have as it's a springboard for improvement and progress. I'd frown upon a coach who would not do that and attempted to hide one's own failures. It gives you even more credibility as a teacher in my view as it takes strenght and character - I wouldn't want to model anything less than that as a student. Get a new wallet cuz 2025 is yours ;) GL
This is really kind mate, thank you! GL to you too for the new year. ❤
Love how honest you are, I’m sure this openness will help many others see they are not alone.
I do wonder though if you’re competitiveness will prevent you from winning at any stake over a long enough time.
As said, playing live or, I assume, dropping down a stake isn’t an option for you because it’s not ‘competitive’ enough or you see yourself as being better than that level.
What happens if you win £60-70k this year @ 500NL, will you feel it’s competitive enough in 2026, or will you always be chasing that next level and never be content just earning good money.
Would you rather win 40k a year at 1K NL or 80k a year at 500? for example.
Something I think you should put a lot of thought into.
Hello mate, hope you’re doing well!
Think you make some really good points. I’ve decided I’m going to play more live this year (and play more in general) as I do want to play in better games and make as much money as I can in 2025.
So I’m definitely gonna try to make more profitable choices and manage the ego a bit better. But I’m also determined to move up online and test myself higher! Just gotta try to juggle both 😂
@ pleased to hear it! I’m sure you’ll crush and get to where you want to. This is all just part of the process. Hopefully catch you on the live felt soon!
Great video appreciate the honesty!
Does this graph include RB? What did the rakeback on PS end up looking like with the changes?
It does not include RB. And to tell you the truth, I don't even have a figure for the total RB :D
Be great to see a stream/vid of you "in the lab" so we can see how a pro goes about improving their game
Funnily enough, I'm actually filming a series on this for RIO!
Keep the vids coming
thank you mate, will do ❤
It's difficult to explain the graphs because it looks like two different players before and after the upswing in the middle. The initial period of positive red line while the blue line is absolutely cratering would be characteristic of a player whose bluffs are always called and value never paid off. That suggests that you weren't being selective enough in your bluff spots and also being overly sticky. Then you hit a huge heater in the middle and I think this somehow skewed your thinking and set you up to fail in the second half of the year. The ski-slope red line coupled with stratospheric blue line is someone who is simply getting bluffed far more than they are bluffing. Perhaps the run of good cards conditioned you to forget about bluffing so much and just wait for the next good hand.
Yeah, it was definitely a year of two halves! Definitely agree with a lot of what you’ve said and am already on my way to rectifying it this year 😎
thanks for the vid Simon !!
good stuff simon!
Don't focus on the goal. Focus on the system. Set of small habits.
Completely agree mate! Process orientated goals as much as possible (even if it is easy to set those enticing profit goals haha)
@@pkrelmo Thanks man, many professional poker players suffer from procrastination, or motion vs action as described in "atomic habits". Here's a surprise: your goal, even if it's not monetary based (which you don't control anyways), but time-based which seemingly is totally under your control (let's say, play 1.5m hands in 2025 which you can control, allegedly) will NOT create a habit at all. That's why about 80% of ppl fail their new-year resolutions. There's a lot to actually creating a habit. I recommend that book, or that author's course in masterclass.
Good for you Simon.
thank you mate!
Can i offer you a free db review?
Hey mate! You absolutely can, drop me a DM on instagram and we can talk! ♥️😎
Did you play only 300k hands while playing zoom?
Plenty of zoom for the first 4-5 months, then pretty much only reg tables!
Imagine not having rake or the rake being a bit lower. You paid $45,000 in rake? That is insane if you think about it, right? Wish you a great winning year.
It is rather depressing to think about, aye 😂
Is it really that easy to play live in US ?
I may have overstated things slightly, but it's definitely easier than 500NL on Stars haha
@@pkrelmo but playing live you will have 100% lower hourly than online, so i have no idea why would you play live 2/5 making 40$ per hour. It is more profitable to play nl25 online
@@mattsmith9968 I don't think you can achieve 40$ per hour in nl25
maybe Carrot poker could inspire and post his results as well when he charge infinity $$ for coaching
He is an excellent youtuber, I wouldn't take coaching from a person that is so shady about his results... Even if I see ok ones - like even/slightly losibg post rake (pre rakeback) in 200nl, I would've said maybe, but I think he is no adaptive enough exploititive-wise, always try to exploit pool even vs huge outliers and lacks theory understanding in key spots, despite being a self proclaimed theory master
Carroters is really bad at poker compared to the people who actually play the game. He tries to sound smart by explaining basic concepts in unnecessarily complicated ways.
If his graph was winning he would’ve shown it
I think he is very good at explaining some key elements in poker, and has a sound thinking process. I think that he lacks some knowledge but mainly his philosophy is extremely losing/not winning in some key spots, and he needs to change it. But - I cannot believe he is losing 200nl with rakeback, he is definitely too good, unless he is just extremely trash at playing @AllielIll
He doesn’t play and he said it , he only play on stream for 2h max , what results you want him to show you lol
@@adamba99 The thing is - he is trying to sell a product for a lot of money without any results to back it up. And results in this case really matter, because it is a field were it is very easy to say who is capable of teaching you how to be a winning player - only winning players are - unlike history or philosophy, were there are no specific results to determine the capable bar. It is not to say that if you are a winning player you are capable teaching others how to, but if you are a losing player, it is pretty insane for a poker player to pay you hundreds of buyins to teach him how to be a winning player, when there are many winning players that teach poker. All in all, I think his content is really not going to make you a winning online player - it can really help you with 2-5 live play, but it is simply because live is much easier. I believe beating 5-10 live or 50nl online, is not something that he teaches well enough, and there is free/premium content that can translate well to these stakes
As always, appreciate the transparency. Think it's important to keep in mind what you have achieved this year with starting the coaching business, Building your social media presence and by the sounds of it, finding some balance outside of work.
I would guess, if at the start of the year, you were told this is where you would be at the end of 2024 you would be somewhat satisfied, despite the poker results.
Ultimately your volume was always going to suffer, and at the end of the day you likely made a few Benjamin's with rakeback.
Good luck with trying to better align your goals and actions in 2025.
Hey mate, thank you for this!
I think you're right and I'm going to look back at this year with a lot of fondness when all is said and done. I've accomplished a lot but it's also great to realign with my goals and I've got a lot of motivation from analysing all of this. Good luck to you as well!
Respect for courage! Well, thats why I would advise everyone to think twice about turning poker pro. Its really hard profession - technically and especially mentally. I'm more casual player but damn, its 300k break even and you are still here standing strong. What do you mean by table selection? Less Zoom, more regular tables and whale hunting?
Thank you mate! And by table selection, yeah more playing at good hours, making sure I'm not in reg only games and so on.
@@pkrelmo For me personally big jump in profitability was when I realized how important is table selection and compared winrates of regs from my zoom sample(1,5kk hands back then) with regular tables regs. It was -1bb vs 3bb. I know you know this, just posting this for people reading this.
Yeah but your next 100k hand maybe be all going up and you are a lot of profit at 500k hands.
I think best advice is to find the passion and excitment for poker again. Play shorter sessions but short breaks make sure you feel good and locked in and ease into it and i’m sure you will run great again and get those plays in!
Yeah, I think you're completely right mate! Think this year I fell out of love with the playing side of the game a bit and it's time for me to fall in love with it all over again!
Damn dude. Lmk if u need some coaching
Hey mate! Hit me with your credentials 😎
Good honest video!
thank you!
is this greenline graph including RB? if not how much did you make from RB
It doesn't! And in truth, I'm not even sure of the RB number haha.
Respect
sample is key so I wouldnt go to harsh with myself...
You are not wrong, sir! I definitely realise this but didn't want to make this a sort of moaning video where I talked about sample sizes, variance and all of that stuff. Think there should be a happy medium where I acknowledge that variance and sample issues exist whilst also taking responsibility for my results, ya know.
man, mcdonalds would provide better income..This is not a career..no problem if this is just entertainment, but move on otherwise
Gonna have to agree to disagree on this one mate 😂
Just show your student's graph, we know how much mental is involved in the long run, as far as your coaching is technical, how could your personnal grinding results be the only proof of your coaching abilities? Makes no sense, critics will come from weaker egos than yours, you're showing right there that you care about trust and truth. Hope 2025 results video will crush this one
Thank you for the support mate! I’m gonna be posting some coaching videos & stuff on this channel soon so people can get a glimpse into that side of things as well, I think 🫡
Hi there, maybe you need some sessions of phycotherapy. In my humble opinion you struggle to wake up your old dream about to be top winner on high level but your current life is in a real sweet spot without yr old dream. I don't know if you should try to align with that or you should try to be very best in poker . That's why i said aboyt psychotherapy to dig in and find your path !
Hi mate! Funnily enough, I started seeing a psychologist a couple of months ago and it's been really beneficial for me so far. I've definitely got a lot of stuff to work through (as have most) but I'm confident I'm on the right track!
@pkrelmo good psychotherapy is always a value bet ! Good luck!
Other coaches would come off much better if they followed your lead and showed their graph with caveats. Ignoring requests to show theirs but not outright admitting they haven’t been winning players just looks shady
Yeah, I can’t speak for other coaches as it’s very much their own prerogative if they want to share their results or not. But it’s something I will always do both now and in the future ♥️
Hahaha 😂😂😂😂😂
respect
thank you!