J (USA) / Joined September 2024 / +$302k
J joined BitB as a strong winning player, beating NL400 at 8bb/100. He has since successfully moved up in stakes, maintaining that same impressive winrate at NL750 over a 600,000 hand sample
How My Game Evolved
Before BitB my game was a very heavy exploit strategy which was good but it then also led to myself being heavily exploitable. During downswings its very hard to be confident in your game when you yourself know that your game has lots of holes in that your opponents may or may not be aware of.
The biggest evolution of my game from BitB is that I would have more confidence that my game travels. I’m no longer a 1 trick pony who goes crazy during rough times wondering if my trick still works or not. BitB helped me turn into a professional poker player that can remain confident during rough times. Most of this is due to the coaches going through individual spots in poker and teaching me more theoretical strategies.
The Biggest Shift in My Approach
The biggest difference for me is having a stronger theoretical framework. Also a very underrated strength of BitB is the emphasis on being a professional. This means you study, play, eat healthy, exercise, sleep well, and have your life in order for the sake of being able to put in significant volume over 5-10 years in order to reach a handcount where variance can no longer drown your winrate. My goal now is to reach a 4-5 million hand graph. Its not about the next 100k hands, its about putting in real volume.
The Biggest Impact
I think the 1on1 coaching was incredibly valueable and especially at the beginning. I personally enjoyed and found value in having other BitB members in my player pool that I can relate too and work with. Poker really is so much about who you are playing against, so if I were the only one in my player pool I think my experience would have been more difficult.
To Anyone Unsure About Joining
You will pay a lot with your profit split, but it just doesn’t matter because you will make more due to it and then you have the rest of your career to keep your earnings. You should not underestimate the value of a community in poker. Even though its a zero sum game there are communities out there where within the community a rising tide lifts all boats. BitB is one of them.
Final Thoughts
I really enjoyed all of the coaches and its amazing how they are all so good and give great answers while all coming up with their own answers individually.
Emanuele (EU) / Joined July 2023 / +$317k
Emanuele wrapped up his BitB contract with over $300,000 in profit, including a career best follow-up month of over $60,000. For him, the result felt “unreal,” but his biggest takeaway wasn’t the money, it was a complete change in how he saw the game.
My Biggest Realisation: Mastery Over Money
I wasn’t that happy about the money. Of course winning money is the goal of the game, but simply I am getting a bit indifferent about it the more my bankroll grows. I truly understood my ultimate goal will be to understand the dynamics of the game as deeply as I can, because that is what really makes me happy about the game. The fact of fully knowing what’s going on during the play is what truly keeps me focused and thrilled. This might be the biggest thing I inherited from my coach.
How My View of Poker Evolved
I am going in a direction which is understanding the game >> making the more money, hoping that these two lines will meet at some point. That is actually something I truly developed during my BitB journey. I remember at the beginning being very skeptical about what was the role of poker in my life, if it was barely a way to get a lot of money. Now I know it’s a means of personal growth at 360 degrees, and I would like to thank all of you guys for helping me understand that.
The Power of the Environment
Pointless to say that this group made the difference for me so far; it’s extraordinary how a strong environment helps. So I would like to thank everyone.
Ryan (USA) / Joined June 2023 / +$266k
Before joining BitB, Ryan was beating 200NL at 3bb/100. He has since completed his 600k hand contract, is now a winning player at 5k
How My Game Evolved
I have developed a deep understanding of theory and now understand the why behind the actions I am taking. This helped develop me into a better poker player. I now use solvers more effectively and from using them more effectively have been able to intuitively understand ways to exploit my opponents.Where I Grew the Most
Theory, process and mindset.What Transformed My Game
1 on 1 coaching.To Anyone Unsure About Joining
If you are trying to get to the next level, it is one of the most worthwhile investments in yourself.
B (USA) / Joined February 2024 / +$68k
B joined BitB as a 4bb/100 winner across 200NL and 500NL. He has since transformed his game, more than doubling his winrate to 8.5bb/100 while his average stake has climbed to over 1k for the past six months, playing a mix of 500NL, 1KNL, and 2KNL.
How My Game Evolved
My game prior to BitB was very basic in nature and quite passive. While implementing new strategies and understanding the game on a deeper theoretical had some serious learning curves, I really hit my stride toward the middle to last third of my contract where my overall aggressiveness has significantly increased in most nodes. The importance of the mental game of poker is stressed so much at BitB and allowed me to breakthrough into higher stakes that I was hesitant to enter. Most importantly through my time with BitB is learning how to properly spend my time studying. The group as a whole is so supportive of one another and having a wealth of knowledge to ask questions to about theory, exploits, the mental game, and doing so without fear of judgment has been the biggest win of my poker career.
The Biggest Shift in My Approach
My mindset has improved so much compared to where I was prior to joining BitB. The confidence I have in my game and understanding of where I am now, where I was, and where I will go in the next phase of my poker career took me from a somewhat lost player just logging on and putting in hours to having a full fledged strategy to allow myself win at higher rates at higher stakes now and in the future has completely changed my outlook of what poker will do for me moving forward.
The Biggest Impact
The one-on-one coaching is so crucial to understanding how you perceive your game, what your leaks are and how they are affecting your overall win rate, and how to properly solve them allows you to speed run from being a somewhat average winning reg to being a winning reg at very competitive stakes.
My Breakthrough Moment
The moment I began to work with our mental game coach completely shifted how I view the game and what I want to get out of it. My hesitancy to jump stakes was self inflicted and that moment where I first moved up sticks out in my head as a breaking point in my game. This combined with utilizing my own data in order to really figure out where I was losing EV were two moments I can specifically pinpoint that turned my game from where it was to where it is now.
To Anyone Unsure About Joining
The biggest fear anyone has about joining a group is the unknown of both what they will learn and what the actual cost of that learning / implementing will mean to you. After about two weeks of joining those concerns were completely quelled. If you want to take your game to another level and are willing to put the work in, there’s no place better than here.
Final Thoughts
In this industry there are a lot of players/coaches/people involved in the game in some capacity that are only in it for themselves. At BitB my experience has been that a rising tide lifts all ships and regardless of what stake, what player pool, and what your specific goals are — the team helps you get there in a supportive way that doesn’t have the pressure or judgment that many are fearful about when venturing into a new group.
From the get go the group challenged me in the sense that I knew I was nowhere near as good as the other students/coaches. This really motivated me to work hard in order to get to that level. What was awesome is that I was never treated any differently compared to the other students despite me being a much weaker player. Each coach and student in the group was very supportive and helpful in answering any question that I had, no matter how remedial it was. Seeing how down to earth some of the best players in the world are was very eye opening to me and extremely helpful. Also to me it’s extremely cool to read hand histories in the High Stakes thread every day, and see someone in the bitB cash discord server in a majority of the hands. If anything this just proves that the bitB process works.
I started out 2021 playing 100nl, now I play up to 2knl on an American facing site and am considered one of, if not the best reg on my site
‘I’ve always wanted to become a 1k reg and that i’ve failed a couple of times when shot taking before. i felt totally out of my depth and confidence was shot so i think i took the best possible step in my poker career and joined bitb last year. It becomes very obvious within the first month youre there that the coaches are multiple levels above what you think you know about poker. They don’t waste time going down pointless pio rabbit holes that you often see from c4p/coaching videos and streamers. They give you a solid gameplan framework + fundamentals but i like that they are open if you want to play a different strat here or there and not get bogged down in irrelevant details that you see throughout the poker discord groups. They certainly dont hold back when offering hh advice. And its very obvious that the coaches in the title are some of the best regs around and i think every hsnl reg would agree. Special shoutout to ymb/PE who goes above and beyond with bitb. The hours and dedication he has to it is on another level and responds to every hh posted (whether youre playing 100nl or 2k) in a way which is v.technical but easy to digest and learn. I 100% recommend applying. The track record is v.impressive.’
“Before I joined bitB I was doing ok at 500nl, I was doing a lot of studying by myself but not really feeling like I was improving much. When you join, they give you some guidelines on how they approach poker which straight away makes studying way more productive as you are not wasting time on things that don’t matter.
There are videos on every spot which give you a solid framework along with some adjustments to make against different pools. The coaches really go above and beyond what the need to, constant strategy discussions in discord and extra study sessions a couple of times a week are extremely valuable.
I am now taking shots at 2knl and feel like I am in a very good spot going forward, joining bitB is definitely the best decision I have made for my poker career.“
Joined January 2021
‘Before i joined i was weakish z200 reg for years, without clear strategy how to play, without idea how to improve on my own, how to be the best pro i can be or how to learn efficiently.
4 months later, and i play 500 comfortably, tried even a little bit of 1k, still game selecting hard, didnt expect that to happen this soon, and i am prepared that i may still have to move down in case of big downswing, as long as i am here i have tools to improve my knowledge and will move up further, sooner or later. I dont want this to sound like celebratory post just because i had good few months, i want to stay hungry, and i am aware that i need to study constantly for as long as i play.’
Joined March 2020
“Took me very long time to decide if I wanted to join or not. I was a pretty decent winner at 500z and 200z before, so had a hard time estimating if the EV of learning new stuff will compensate the amount of money I had to pay for it. Every friend I asked thought I’m totally braindead for even considering it.
The one exception was *****, who joined Poker Ambition stable being in very similar situation to me. He made me realize that studying with other midstakes players is incomparable to being coached by 5k+ regs. This conversation was the turning point, combined with my abysmal results at the time, I made my mind and decided to join. Its very clear now it was the best poker related decision I’ve made so far. I’m genuinely happy with how I ran in the beginning of the year, because otherwise I think there was very little chance Id end up here.
I’m still absolutely clueless about the game, but the puzzles start fitting together and bit by bit, thanks to all of you guys, I start understanding it more. Seeing all of your graphs, that are clearly a result of very hard work, makes me very optimistic about the future and I hope I can finally hit some decent stakes in 2021.“
Joined June 2020
“2020 overall was a very positive year for me. Even though results wasnt super crazy, I think compared to where I was at the start of the year ability wise I could not even expect to improve more. Especially last few months some things really started click to me in terms of how I should work on my game and even though I see lots of improvements already, I’m very positive that biggest improvements is yet to come and I’m excited to continue working on it.”
Joined April 2019
“It was almost impossible back then to see if its +EV for me give a share of profits for someone else when thought I already were somewhat good player already. Wasn’t sure at all if its possible to teach enough stuff to an already winning 200/500 player to make joining good decision. Luckily, decided to join.
My year was pretty good, made 108k EV according to HEM+RBs which was something like 3x 2019 result. No need to say I improved way way more last year than I dared to hope.“
Joined March 2020
‘When I joined bitB, I was definitely nervous. I had joined after being in another CFP and so being back to “square one” was not the most wonderful spot.
I definitely knew I had a long journey ahead in terms of learning, I just never realized how long, and how poorly I was technically (spoiler: still bad, but now a structured, manageable bad.
More about my experience can be found here‘
Joined January 2022
Finally I want to say thankyou to this community as a whole, not just the coaching team but the fellow students.
This entire community has become a huge part of my life and, more than anything, has supported me through all the dark moments.
There is 0 doubt in my mind that if I had never joined bitB on Jan 1st 2019, then I would never have reached the spot I’m in right now and I’m doubtful I’d still be grinding. It’s been a life-changer for me.
Joined February 2019
‘Joining bitB cash was a very good decision for me. If you have the dedication and commitment these guys will no doubt improve your game and help you crush.’
Joined Jan 2018
I never had any coaching or review so was pretty excited , asked around and came to the conclusion that Bitb was the best solution.
I’m very happy with that decision.
It took away my limiting beliefs of what is possible. It’s really motivating to see other students / coaches just crushing the game.
Joined August 2021
“Results in April were absolutely amazing and it’s crazy to think that I’ve made the same amount in one month now that I did last year. It gives me a great amount of motivation to keep going at it for the upcoming year, the sky is the limit! Still very happy and grateful that I’m in this group surrounded by crushers and like-minded people all trying to improve in life and poker. I wish everyone lots of goodluck at the tables!”
Joined February 2021
“It’s so sick looking at how many guys have progressed immensely while being at this group, some have developed their whole career here and its getting to an unprecedented level. Super happy to be part of it, wish the best for everyone this year, lets crush it“