I've been good friends with my backer for a few years now, and I think I've been more than generous towards him. He knows I don't play fulltime, and he also knows school/university is important to me. He knew this from the start, and I don't think you can fault anyone for picking university over poker during the exams or the preparation towards it. The way the system in Belgium is built up, you usually can relax the first couple of months until December, then work hard from december till end january. Relax from february till april, and then study hard again from mid april till the end of june. And then depending on resits, have to study a bit in August as well. So that leaves me with February, March, half April, July, September, October & November being the months I am able to put in decent volume. I'd like to think I usually do so during those months, while I don't even play full-time nor am I being obligated by any kind of contract. Last year for example, I've played close to 4k mtt's while also succesfully passing most of my exams (failed one in the end). This is maybe like the first time since I've been playing for my backer, I am taking a few weeks/a month of from poker during a month I would be able to put in good volume, after having played 16/21 days during the previous month. Also this is the year I am about to graduate (bachelor degree) so I have a few more tasks before the exams such like a bachelor's thesis and a few groupworks as well. So yeah, if I then don't feel a 100% playing, I'd like to spent my time doing something productive for school and other things than poker during the few free time I have. The fact that I am willing to play the scoops + a few good value timbeys during a time I'd usually have to study, actually shows my dedication towards my backer IMHO. Whatever, think about it what you want.

Not much to tell you guys otherwise. Have been ill last week, puked like 10+ times during a 6 hour span, was really painful but recovered pretty fast. Must have eaten something bad I guess. Thoroughly enjoyed paris roubaix on sunday, although I was dissapointed as **** Boonen couldn't close. Afterwards played a small'ish sunday session. Built a few good stacks, played pretty well. Was being put in a few tough spots as well.

PokerStars - $50+$50+$9|70/140 Ante 21 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 1,964 (VPIP: 16.90, PFR: 13.45, 3Bet Preflop: 5.10, Hands: 492)
UTG+1: 11,809 (VPIP: 19.12, PFR: 11.94, 3Bet Preflop: 6.67, Hands: 69)
MP: 2,491 (VPIP: 27.27, PFR: 9.09, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 11)
MP+1: 6,102 (VPIP: 33.33, PFR: 11.11, 3Bet Preflop: 20.00, Hands: 9)
MP+2: 7,745 (VPIP: 37.25, PFR: 15.69, 3Bet Preflop: 6.67, Hands: 51)
CO: 1,518 (VPIP: 5.71, PFR: 5.71, 3Bet Preflop: 4.17, Hands: 70)
BTN: 4,085 (VPIP: 22.28, PFR: 17.61, 3Bet Preflop: 7.86, Hands: 364)
SB: 3,190 (VPIP: 37.93, PFR: 22.41, 3Bet Preflop: 14.81, Hands: 59)
Hero (BB): 7,328

9 players post ante of 21, SB posts SB 70, Hero posts BB 140

Pre Flop: (pot: 399) Hero has K Q

fold, UTG+1 raises to 329, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls 189

Flop: (917, 2 players) 9 7 Q
Hero checks, UTG+1 checks

Turn: (917, 2 players) 2
Hero bets 689, UTG+1 raises to 2,066,

This was in the 109bb. Villain was playing all the reds (s500 2nd chance etc as well). What are your thoughts on this one? Do we call/fold maybe jam? What rivers do we call off then. What's to make from this odd play. Wouldn't his semi-blufs bet flop a lot of the times etc.

PokerStars - $20+$2|250/500 Ante 50 NL - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP: 22,675 (VPIP: 28.38, PFR: 20.83, 3Bet Preflop: 10.00, Hands: 74)
MP+1: 11,902 (VPIP: 26.47, PFR: 8.82, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 34)
CO: 11,517 (VPIP: 16.20, PFR: 12.14, 3Bet Preflop: 6.78, Hands: 142)
BTN: 12,205 (VPIP: 18.81, PFR: 16.00, 3Bet Preflop: 5.26, Hands: 102)
SB: 13,054 (VPIP: 10.81, PFR: 8.33, 3Bet Preflop: 3.57, Hands: 74)
BB: 13,228 (VPIP: 19.77, PFR: 8.43, 3Bet Preflop: 3.03, Hands: 88)
UTG: 15,434 (VPIP: 17.81, PFR: 12.33, 3Bet Preflop: 10.71, Hands: 74)
Hero (UTG+1): 9,054

8 players post ante of 50, SB posts SB 250, BB posts BB 500

Pre Flop: (pot: 1,150) Hero has K J

fold, Hero raises to 1,095, MP calls 1,095, fold, fold, fold, fold, BB calls 595

Flop: (3,935, 3 players) 3 7 J
BB checks, Hero checks, MP checks

Turn: (3,935, 3 players) 9
BB checks, Hero bets 1,450, MP raises to 4,400, fold, Hero

This one was in the 22 mini-sm. Villain unknown. Jam/call/fold? Flop is definitely debatable/could see a bet def being better. Just thought villain (MP) was going to bet a bit more than he should.

PokerStars - $20+$2|2500/5000 Ante 500 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG+1: 61,482 (VPIP: 20.00, PFR: 14.29, 3Bet Preflop: 6.25, Hands: 85)
MP: 90,772 (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 1)
MP+1: 166,794 (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 1)
MP+2: 242,689 (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 1)
CO: 153,744 (VPIP: 65.00, PFR: 55.00, 3Bet Preflop: 37.50, Hands: 20)
BTN: 113,480 (VPIP: 21.05, PFR: 10.53, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 19)
Hero (SB): 135,220
BB: 89,610 (VPIP: 27.27, PFR: 20.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 11)
UTG: 160,724 (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 1)

9 players post ante of 500, Hero posts SB 2,500, BB posts BB 5,000

Pre Flop: (pot: 12,000) Hero has T 6

fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 13,700, BB calls 8,700

Flop: (31,900, 2 players) T K 3
Hero checks, BB bets 10,000, Hero calls 10,000

Turn: (51,900, 2 players) 8
Hero checks, BB bets 25,000, Hero calls 25,000

River: (101,900, 2 players) A
Hero checks, BB bets 25,000, Hero calls 25,000

BB shows 6 2 (High Card, Ace)
(Pre 27%, Flop 6%, Turn 20%)
Hero shows T 6 (One Pair, Tens)
(Pre 73%, Flop 94%, Turn 80%)
Hero wins 151,900

rekt

Thanks guys! Appreciate it

Uni is way more important

i mean your response just misses the point - you shouldnt roll variance on someone elses money, esp when youre not all in on poker. the fact that youve been friends makes it worse imo because youre taking a low ev, high variance line with someone elses money that you are close to.

if you and your friend disagree thats fine, i just think most of these situations are ****ed.

What's wrong with two adults agreeing to something where they both know the deal and decide to go ahead with it?

Where exactly am I taking a low ev, high variance line then? The one where I'll be 4/6 tabling max during scoop? I believe most of the tournaments I'll be playing I'll have a decent edge in (will play up to 215/320 wrt scoop events maybe take a shot in a 700)Sure I'd rather play a full schedule with all the bigs/hots eurosite timbeys but that just doesn't work for me wrt the stuff I have to do for school. I believe it's a decent alternative then to just play the best value tournaments (yet higher variance) and focus really well on them.

If you are talking about my general approach, I don't understand your comment at all.

Nice holiday pics mate, I hope you enjoyed your break.

Really hope you can whip out some positive variance soon!

and serious, your threadsavers, especially some of those butt grabs are second to none.

I appreciate those

I think there's a massive difference between big value timbeys and big field timbeys. Very good chance you ll be making more in a 50€ freeze out on winamax with 80 runners than some 320 scoop event

Yeah LG so dumb he doesnt play on Winamax

was just making an example. cuz from the sound of it lg does prefer the glory timbeys over the low variance higher hourly route which in this situation doesnt seem the best course of action

you have a point but if you're gonna 4-6 table during scoop how can you not play the scoops

Hehe thanks mate. Saw your crosspost in your own thread as well, thx for the kind words. Haven't post savers in a while, bc I prefer quality over quantity.

Obviously blakk. However, if you are only able to play 4/6 timbeys max I'm pretty sure playing a 320 scoop is the better decision compared to a 50fo on some euro site when you only have limited space/time.

<3

I didn't choose the thug life, the thug life choose me.

I'd agree in general, however as I already stated SCOOPs/series are different imo. Wrt my current schedule, I think I pbb play a pretty GTO schedule and I am maxizing EV pretty much, while trying to limit variance as well. Not playing higher than b55, h33 (except for the 109bb on 'soft' days) on stars. Perhaps I could cut some of the 50+ timbeys on eurosites for variance sake, but I'm willing to sacrifice some higher variance for a higher EV now with the amount of make-up I currently have. Would definitely cut some of the 109s on party & 75fo on ipoker if make-up were to reach a achievable low point.

exactly #trophiehunting

I've been reviewing a bunch, watching a few vids as well, preparing for scoop just in general. There was a cool vid on rio I've watched yesterday from Nick howard, which was titled 'Context'. Would recommend it to almost anyone. Also his blog posts on RIO are worth reading, some of his post are really valueable imho.

http://www.runitonce.com/chatter/ach...igher-balance/

Pbb gonna review a bit more, and maybe maybe play a session today. It's starting to itch again.

posting to follow. gl man

Ugh. Silly day. Absolutely sunrunned at one point, had more stacks than big huni & graftekkel combined probably, but in the end it wasn't meant to be (obviously)

*WARNING* wrap-up yogioh style incoming *WARNING*

Lost a 70/30 in the warmup last 30
Lost chiplead flip right before the end of day 1 ipoker major last 40
20th something in a hyper
went from both being chipleader in both 22s on party last 100 to 40th or whatever
and cashed milly, 109bb & party major as well

Pretty ****ing epic how much EV I had on my screen at one point. Really satisfied with my play though, marked quite a lot of hands I'm looking forward to review/look at. Probably will start studying (for school) starting from tmrw, so I'll just keep reviewing/working on m y game in order to be as well prepared as possible for scoop.

Peace

thx for the warning

Yugioh should do that to

Stopped reading there.

that feeling right as everything collapses on a day like that is the nut worst. Sometimes the near misses are a precursor to the big hit though, gl.

Wp last sunday !

yea big hit definitely coming. just keep plugging away

even with your warmup hint i cant figure out who you are, not that it matters. GL

edit: nvm, im an idiot. lol

Lipo on the timbey pgc rampage

you have no idea how much i lurk the depths of this forum. and ive always been a big LG fan

Have been doing some more reviewing/piosolver work and played a super small session yesterday. Cashed 4 timbeys (from the 12 lol) and got a small'ish final table which I punted in ridicilous fashion in 5th. Small winning day, but really that punt was ****ing amazing, still don't know how I did it. Basically ripped river over a small bet where I didn't have much fold equity. Just let my ego got in the way, something which usually never ever happens at these final tables. Played super well up till that point as well, really weird, but somewhat funny too. Couldn't help but laugh at how optimistic/bad my punt was. Glad it was in a small timbey at least

Really enjoy this 9 tabling and trying to get every decision right. I really feel all the piosolver work is super interesting, there was a super interesting spot I ran a few days ago MP vs BB (25bb deep) flop is K95hhx, and it's super interesting to run simulations on all kind of different turns/rivers. Results were quite surprising as well in terms of which hands are double barrels etc, so yeah that was cool and insightful. There also was another spot, which I asked teunuss about, and then ran it in piosolver, and results were just as he suggested. These cashgamers are just so ****ing good postflop when it at least gets semi-deep (in terms of bb). I'm really enjoying the piosolver work, since it gives you a deeper insight in which boards favour who, by how much, why does it differs that much, how much does it change if we change positions, stacksizes etc. It's all super interesting, but it's important to not get carried away too much by it though imo, since usually in mtt's an exploitable playing style will be better. It def helps if you understand GTO somewhat, and then make adjustments from there on. I have been really enjoying the few days I'm grinding lately, and feel like I am much 'sharper' when I'm actually playing now. Probably gonna play today as well, and then take a few days of until sunday.

Shoutout to fellow 2p2'er 'card core' who seems to have found the RNG button on stars. Good job buddy. I usually hate the saying 'well deserved' but I feel like you have been putting in so much work lately, it IS really deserved.

BONUS GIF



Seems to be footage of me after my punt yesterday.

I know right

Nevah, you wouldn't be able to resist

Yeah sure, this is just all a lead-up to a huge scoop anyway.

thx

Thanks Lipo. Actually means a lot to me, given you used to be the make-up king and now are doing so well on your own.

Had a very good talk with le blakman immediately after my session. Busted the 44bb after having been chipleader from last 200 till basically last 3 tabs in rather annoying fashion (flopped top two vs bottom set and bet/bet/jammed) rekt my sizing somewhat on the turn, should have upped it so I could shove river somewhat more comfortably, so I'll guess we'll take that with us instead of the brutal cooler I got dealt. Anyway, really productive and good talk with blakkman after that hand. Pbb gonna cut turbos/hypers totally for a while, or at least around peak hours. Also decided that I am just going to pick a few days I'll be playing during scoop, but playing a full session then rather than playing everyday 2/4 tables and leaving a lot of EV on the table, while possibly hurting my exams as well. Seems much more GTO now, and it's pbb for the best for both my exams as well as poker-wise it's pbb gonna yield me the highest EV as well. Taking a few days off until sunday now

I suppose u are not cutting the super value turbo stuff also ?
Also what version of piosolver have u bought? Seems like a good option for offtable work
GLGL and nice saverz !

ead ****ing 16th again party major

lost these two beauties




First one was for 2/14, just another 10k equity flip down the drain.

but hey eventually it will turn

Hate this post wtf.