The University of Tournament Poker talks about the latest achievements and invites the FiatLab Community two-year tournament to a heads-up tournament.
Hi GipsyTeam!
This is FiatLab, and last month we reached an impressive mark: our players played 4 million tournaments with ABI 50 and earned almost 51 million US, showing a total of 25.1% ROI for the entire time.
The last month was especially striking – in May, our students played 13 monthly Romeopro distances with an impressive 49.73% ROI. There is something to be proud of!
We wanted to tell you how we were able to achieve this and what (and who) became the architects of such an achievement.
First of all – Professional Analytics. In FiatLab, she has long gone beyond a simple analysis of individual distributions: data help to evaluate the game, choose tournaments and understand more accurately, due to which the player can increase the advantage over the field. The system developed by Anton Bikk87, analyzes more than 200 game situations and evaluates the contribution of each of them to the general win rate. This is not just a set of reports on the base, but a tool that helps to understand which errors are the most expensive and what changes will give the maximum effect.
The breakdown of the stages of the tournament is also important. The advantage over the field should be assessed not only at the beginning of the tournament, but also in the middle and late stages, where there are fewer amateurs at the tables, and the biggest money is played out. Our players regularly show a high win rate at all stages, especially in the late one.
Recently, the analytics has become deeper in terms of the tournaments themselves. FiatLab evaluates not only the quality of the game, but also the structure of the fields: what compositions are assembled, what days the wait is higher, what events should be added to the schedule, and which ones to be limited for individual courses. As a result, working with data directly affects the choice of tournaments and the expected EV players.
As Anton explains, the bases are now analyzed in different planes: the stage of the tournament, buy-ins, streets, the size of banks, the game with different combinations. In the base itself, not only specific spots are watched, but also common problems on different streets – preflop, flop, turna and river.
Another aspect is personal calls with high-course players. They allow you to more accurately see not only the overall picture on the base, but also highlight the specific causes of the problems.
At the same time, the analytics does not turn poker into a simple formula. The result is influenced by form, psychology, variance and many other factors. And the task of FiatLab is to do everything so that the player has the maximum possible advantage.
Therefore, 50 US million profits are not just the amount in the table, but the result of fruitful work: analysis of bases in different sections, assessment of compositions, schedule updates, control of growth zones and constant tuning of the educational process.
Not only numbers
Along with the general figures, individual achievements are also important. Let’s talk about the first mini-group of junior students: there were only two players in it, and both in their own way became part of the history of FiatLab.
Both are Vladimir amgisss and Andrew BerodualN – They came from Funfarm, played ABI 15-20 and how the players were at an early stage of their development. Now Vladimir works in the selection department and is engaged in the schedule and evaluation of tournaments. Here is how he talks about how it all began:
“I knew that all the students of Lyosha, and himself, are very strong in poker, and the founders were notable and important people in FF. Therefore, when I learned about the creation of FiatLab, I did not doubt for a second that I would be here.
Already at the starting stage, everything here was at a high level. I was trained by the strongest players, and I was comfortable in this community. There were often group calls to cheer at our final tables. It was cool. The environment of strong players was very motivated.”
Later, the circumstances changed, Vladimir could not play in the same volume, but a solution was also found for this.
“A few weeks after the creation of FL, hostilities began. There was no longer an opportunity to play a lot, and often there was no opportunity to play at all. I applied for teaching, and one of the founders, Andrey harrrmonica, offered me a job in the selection department. Since I love working with numbers and statistics, here I stayed.
I do everything related to the assessment of the composition of serial and regular tournaments, determine which courses can play them according to our system, monitor and analyze the load of players, make adjustments to maximize EV, study and add new ones to the schedule poker rooms.
Andrei became for me a mentor, from whom I learned everything. Now I feel confident in what I’m doing, and I’m good at it.”
According to Vladimir, the choice of tournaments directly affects the result.
“No matter how cool you play, there are tournaments that are simply impossible to beat. Therefore, it is important to protect players from such tournaments and, conversely, highlight the good ones – those that someone might not have played, because they are expensive or not paid so much for the first place.
During the existence of FiatLab, the tournament grading system has changed a lot. It all started with Ability, which shows SharkScope. Then we found out that this is far from the real picture of the composition, although it is better than nothing. Now, thanks to joint work with the analytics department, we can see the full picture of the composition in the tournament: how many amateurs, regulars and so on. This greatly increased the accuracy of the assessment.”.
Andrey BerodualN went the other way: he grew up to the masters of the elite, later left FL and returned, and along the way won Venom. For the first place, he received almost 417,000 US and another 128,000 US in the form of a bounty.
So from one starting point two different trajectories were obtained. Vladimir gradually moved from the game to work with data and schedule, headed the direction that affects the choice of tournaments for the entire team. Andrew grew up as a player and became one of the examples of how the FiatLab way could lead to high limits and victory in a major tournament.
General graph of BerodualN
There are enough interesting stories from other threads. Seymour semapsk Came to FiatLab about three years ago for a second year. Prior to this year, he played in another fund, where he started with ABI $1. At first, the growth went quickly, but then stopped several times: in the eighth year, Seymour could not become a bachelor’s degree for several months, and later for more than a year he waited for more than a year to move to a master’s program.
By the 12th year, he was already steadily earning, playing a lot, going to classes and was completely involved in the work, but there was no increase. At some point, he stopped waiting for the next application to finally lead to the transition to the next level, and decided to just continue to play at his own limit.
As a result, the cumulative effect worked. It was promoted not for one tournament, but for distance, activity, discipline and constant quality work. Then there was a sharp jump: in 40 days – 14 course, in two months – the 15th, in three months – about 100,000 US profits, and now Seymour has become a master of elites.
In this story, not only rapid growth after the increase is important, but also the mechanism itself: the player kept the distance and learning activity for a long time, did not receive an increase right away, but in the end the work gave a steep transition to a new level.
At the same time, Seymour himself does not tie growth to individual victories. Tournaments, he says, are won with a great deal of luck, so one result does not make the player a professional automatically. He sees the main factors in something else: the environment, confidence after the increase, the ability to quickly absorb ideas and immediately transfer them to the game.
Another example is graduate and associate professor Arthur munezwho came to Fiatlab with ABI 15. According to him, he carefully chose the team for himself: he chose FiatLab because he felt the prospect here, and now he is sure that this was the right decision.
Over the past few years, Arthur has gained a foothold at higher limits, began to play more thoughtfully and more adapt to the field. He connects his progress not only with the results, but also with stable winrates.
graph munez
Now Arthur is returning to teaching with masters. He believes that it is possible to teach the strongest only in good playful form, and feels ready for this role.
Victory in Venom
At the final tables of major tournaments and expensive series, Fiatlab players can often be seen. One of the clear examples of recent months is Venom, the flagship tournament of the WPN network.
At the end of April Eugene Yevko Won Venom with the 2,650US Buy-in and a prize pool of over 8 million US. Its result is more than 624,000us. On the day of the final table, Zhenya was promoted to a master. We wrote more about this in the blog, and the founder of FiatLab Alexei Fiat later analyzed the distributions of Evgeny on the stream. Registration left on YouTube:
Vasiliy donkbla Marked in Venom Mystery: 8th place, 540,000 US bounty and almost 70,000 US prizes.
These are just a few of the results from the FiatLab chronology. They do not replace the overall distance, but show the scale of tournaments in which FL players have already won.
Heads-up Tournament for FL Community servers
In 2024, the university created an open FiatLab Community server, where distributions are dealt with and poker every day in the chat. On June 30, the participants of the open server will also host a festive tournament in the heads-up format in honor of the two-year anniversary. It will have a prize fund of 1,000 US, and merch will also be played among the participants. Details and password will be found on the server in Discord.
What’s next?
For the founder of FL Alexei Fiat, the line of 50 US million is important not only as a beautiful figure.
When you first pass 30 million, then 40 million, 50 million already seem to be something natural. It seems that we will definitely achieve this number, and you gradually get used to it. But in reality, this is not entirely true.
In our field, you can’t relax: you won’t get far on old ideas. All the time you need to come up with something new, improve and improve. I am glad that we continue to do this, and this figure just says about it. Given that we do not have a gigantic number of players, it confirms the level of our work. This is especially evident in the course results.
This number also shows that poker is alive, and this also pleases. As long as he is alive, I hope we will overcome new frontiers.
I am glad that we are still the best, but more importantly, it does not force us to slow down or less likely to look for new solutions. Now we are developing analytics, service, changing learning formats. The methodology remains alive: we will not come to one final version, but will respond to the ever-changing realities of online poker.
Thanks to all the teachers, school staff and all players. You are the best. Thanks for your hard work
50 million is not a final point, but a cut that shows how FiatLab has changed over the years. This figure includes the contribution of all courses, work with schedules, analytics, selection of tournaments and people who have gone through different paths inside the project: from low ABIs to masters, from game to teaching, from initial courses to victories in major tournaments and work for the entire team.
That is why this milestone shows that infrastructure has gradually grown around FL, where the result depends not on one strong player or one tournament, but on many related processes.
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