not sure if icm is that big for you here, especially if 11 left and next payjump is at 9th place..Also not sure how good are sb and buton but sb range should be weithted here more towards ax stuff, suited broadways etc..At least anyaxs..I`d call, but i think u should try to calculate the hand to be sure..using multi table icm..

Keep up the study grind, **** evbb on last 50 k hands, i also had a 4,5 ev/bb month in june i think..close to 50k hands..I think it`s somewhat relevant on last 300k hands at least..but again samples could be skewed if u have severall months of top range/deepstack unfavourable setups etc..

LOOOOOOL got the ultimate troll treatment today

started playing around noon (1230 cet) lost all the keypots and had 3 tables left at 5pm, obv run up a stack in b44 then, one table it for 4 hours only to ft bubble it after ak < qq & aj < 55. great **** game this poker. waaaaaaaaay more tilted now than I would have been if I had bricked everything. Also wtf why am I always cartdead on pokerstars in deep runs/come in ******ed spots which don't occcur ever. Was hanging on <30bbs from last 30 till bust basically. Never got any momentum and just the moment I was picking up some pots, lose 2 consecutive flips and gg. super annnoying. Def taking tmrw off, sigh.

edit: ft rate on stars is ridic, 10/1500 games, and then obv not 9 bigs and the swu.

Haven´t done the math here, but pretty sure i call here with 11 left, think you´re too far ahead of their ranges and aplly a lot pressure if you win with a big stack.

Hahaha the same is happening to me, the more coaching i get and the more review i do, the worst my winrate and results LOL.

We´ll get there someday!! Keep the hard work and good ethic. GLGLGL

HEY MAN HOW'S IT GOING I HEARD YOU ARE RICH now

Rich in experience that is

Last few weeks have been hectic. I have so much stuff going on in my life, and esp school is taking a fair bit of my time, trying to determine a good subject for my master thesis, trying to figure out an internship location etc it's not easy ugh. Tried to keep up the poker study grind as well, and got in 2 sessions. On sunday was megatilt bc the partypoker (bwin actually) software didn't work/could not login on their client even though I could login on their site, so I was restricted to a pokerstars only session on sunday. Needless to say that a 2500+ avg playing field is rather hopeless, but only lost a few hundred by cashing some of my higher buy ins so was not too bad.

Played a early afternoon session today after I got back from a very early lecture (830am!!!) and won some hyper turbo ko timbey for 1600'ish to book a small profit today. Felt great to win a timbey outright again, even though it was a lol_hyper. Not sure what next couple of days will bring. Probably some more school carnage, I really want to try to sort this out first, bc atm my head is almost exploding from all the different thoughts, so I'd like to get that out of the way to begin with. There's also a WPT national series in Belgium, but most likely gonna skip that as well. Can't really play the main & don't feel very good mentally atm to flick a highroller, even though it pbb will be rather soft. Hope you all have been well, meanwhile i'm gonna try to further continue to figure out life. Holla.

Hi there! Where do you find the WCOOP replays?
Also curius, what schedule are you grinding?
Hope youre game turns around, wish you best of luck

lol did early grind, was soft as fk, but I haven't been this tilt in a loooong while

was 1/12 h82, disconnect
come back 4/10 very first hand aq < ak, was then left pretty short
on ft I have a first in spot, I jam, and internet disconnects again, hand gets folded
eventually finish 8th

brb gonna search a bridge now

WHY CANT SOFTWARE WORK LIKE IT SHOULD FOR ****ING ONCE?

Ha turns out modem was dying and is now officially gg. Great timing on a sunday. Pbb will have to skip today bc of it. Zzzzzz

Srry to hear about h82 disconnect..It really seems that everything that can will go wrong eventually. F`uck Murphy and his laws !!!

Anyway dont be too dissapointed about not being able to play on a Sunday..Sundays are waaay overrated and even though u may make a bit more $ in ev because of volume, you`ll also increase variance because of bigger fields..so yeah..Dont take it that harsh.

yeah man what one4play said...chin up
dont wanna put sault into your wound but how come you're not using a backup connection?its def a must and absolutely worth it
i have a 3g hotspot on my phone i can connect to at any time if internet goes to ****
gl mate!

How much did you save today by not playing? Sick brag gg

According to PTR 1108.14$

played late night sessh at some friends, lost some brutal pots when semi-deep. in the end made a run in h22, reship 35 left 20beebs from bb with a2s vs vamo chipleader who already had 80bb, but guy obv has queens again vs me sigh, flop queen no chance at all

Thx, I agree now. Should def have called that AQ. Especially on partypoker perhaps where endgames are big flipfests anyway.

Yeah, Pbb just variance I guess. Compared some stats today with that_anon_pgc and we came to the conclusion pokerstars is awful as an mtt grinder. it's not THAT uncommon to have 1k+ abi ds (for sure if you only play peak time) but can't skip them either bc most of them are really soft and I've actually cut the harder games now (h55+ and b109 on tough days etc)

Thx mate, hope you are doing well.

They are in the lobby under events I believe. Hopefully they upload them on youtube as well, just as some guys did in the past.

I'm playing 11-109$ mainly now, and add on sunday a few soft 215s. My ABI is pbb hovering around 35-40'ish right now. Unfortunately can only play stars & partypoker. Would love to be able to play on frenchies and 888 as well, but life is tough haha

It kinda does at the moment ^^ Have gone on another 5 fig+ ds since the previous 30k'ish upswing, so poker gods are really testing me good again. Won't let them beat me.

Actually should have listened to your advice, instead I booked a solid 4 fig loss. ^^

well, I have some backup, but was hoping it would fix itself at first (sometimes connects again at like 30-45secs in) and yeah then switched to mobile phone. It was then back up running, restarted client, and got disconnected another time after 5 mins in, so had to switch to phone again. Also have some kind of free wifi hotspot, but apparently that one was bugged as well, got a new one now which should work in case of emergencies.

Thx for all your support guys! Much love <3

Sundays are the best and you will make most of ur yearly income from Sunday majors and series. And definitely u dont make "a bit more" because of volume. You just have to show up

OP, you should be trying to get on ipoker and micro too or whatever sites u can access rather than stars? some low field ok timbeys there too and def steadier grind/income on those vs stars and will keep u much more sane

Why do u say this? Do u have any idea how much tougher are mtts on Sundays compared to rest of the week? If so, please tell me more about your thought process, but please come up with some non-results oriented approach. Why do u think u make more $/game on Sundays? I get it that bigger field equals bigger Roi, but also tougher field equals smaller Roi..Same thing applies to Serries aswell. Really interested in listening to your thought process.

Stood up very early for a morning session. Got a 3th in h109, which was a real rollercoaster went from 2/11 to 9/9 to 1/7 to 5/6 to 1/5 to busto in 3rd lol so I freerolled my session pretty early on. Had a ton of 10-25th finishes after that unfortunately, and ended the session with a 2nd in a party bowl for a solid +1500 day still. really wanted the win in that hu, but got coolered pretty hard twice. Missed one bluffshove/or at least a bet on the river semi deep in a timbey I finished 10th, which was kinda annoying, apart from that think I played pretty well overall. Looking forward to some more early grinds





The two hands in question from the hu. The first one is puke but way to high up in my range, and don't block hearts/block a2 so never folding. 2nd never ever folding as well, **** that

Meh, don't really agree (anymore) I think sundays are considerably tougher than any other day, and even though you can make some more bc there is more up top in every tournament, I think the difference in EV is pretty low, and obv MUCH higher variance. I am down heaps on sunday overall. But then you have some guys who sunrun sundays pretty hard and are up a few hundred k only on sundays. What can I say? poker is not fair eh ^^

I did play on ipoker for the past couple of years but just quit doing so, bc they totally screwed up their mtt schedule (everything is multi or re-entry, and ****ty structures) and bc it's inflated with 28/20 bots as well. Can't play any other sites besides party & stars atm. Well unibet, but that's pretty worthless wrt mtt's unfortunately.


Yeah kinda agree. I don't try to miss sundays fwiw, but think they are kinda overrated at this point now.

A big difference for me on sundays is the motivation to grind a lot. I think every mtter is somewhat looking for bigfield glory and it can even help you play better. Agree with above though

LG my friend, please bink the warmup this sunday. Vamonos!

Every Sunday all players no matter the stakes play a decently larger ABI than they play during weekdays. So if you justify that Sundays are tougher because of the sharkscope ability, i think that is not so relevant. The level of play during weekdays is a bit higher than on Sundays because of the winning grinders. But on Sundays u get mixed lineups with recs, fish and grinders taking shots at higher ABI. So on majors you get to play for good money up top with better lineups comparing to a weekday bowl just with regulars.

For example in 215micro major, you get ABI 40 regs and recs with some lost swedes and russians grinders that multi site. In what tourney do you get during weekdays to play with such a mixed field in a 215buyin ? ( the lower stakes regs will be playing to some extent a bit tighter than their 30fos, there will be more mistakes etc etc ). But as you guys say that you compare tourney toughness thru ability, how about all the ABI 40 grinders that have a solid 80+ ability and 20-30% roi at their stakes make the ability higher in one particular tourney?( or making u draw the conclusion that the tourney is not value ) Why do you count that as toughness?

Also heard an interesting point of view from Rider saying that " In wich professional sport do you get to play with say 5 regs, 2 recs and 2 fish for decent money up top?"

So you should be grateful and pumped for majors

Where do you think the extra money in the prizepool come on Sundays?
Lets take for discussion's sake the Monsoon on 888. During weekdays they have a withered 12k gtd. That is 240ppl gtd. On sundays sometimes they did 40k gtd, or 25k gtd. That is 800 and 500ppl gtd. Are you saying that all dragons come on sundays and play the monsoon ? And there are countless examples of tourneys where your expectations are much higher based on simple logic rather than just accepting that skewed ability number on sharkscope.

It is possible tho that i do not understand that well the ability statistic on sharkscope.

This is kinda the non-results oriented approach that ur looking for but it s kinda hard to discuss this subject w/o being results oriented. We could search some graphs tho

Well, obviously you have a point, but the playing fields are also much bigger, it brings enormous amount of extra variance with it. like sure your ev might/will be higher on sundays than on any other day, but the standard deviation & variance will also be much higher. It's a bit like a trade-off between variance and EV, and in the end it pbb will be fairly close. I'd rather make 300$ with a 500 avg playing field than 350$ with a 3k avg playing field. But obviously you can't skip sundays, bc of the amounts of possible outliers on that day.

Hey Ferdy, ty very much for your response. It was just the kind of response that i was loooking to. I`m not sure about other sites, i m playing just stars for quite some time..and tried to pay more attention at week days/ Sunday stuff after i studied as u said the Av Ability of lot of tourneys according to Sharkscope..

I`d like to point out that i think it`s a mistake to think the increase in prizepools is due to playing with more fish/recs etc..If that would be the case, the av ability would be much much lower, or at least the same as in weekdays. I think that most prizepools increase at 50$+ tournaments just because lowstakes players take shots, all the highroller guys come to play on Sunday + most cash game players play mtts on the side, or at least major ones. (Exception Sunday Million obv). I believe same thing applies on Series..Yes, more money up top, yes glory obv..but i`m really not sure how much bigger fields compensate for tougher field..Again i dont say that Sunday majors or Series are not must play days for a respectable grinder..I just say that in terms of $/game it shouldnt be that much difference compared to weekdays. And i am completely removing out of equation , bigger fields means bigger variance as goliath said..

Again i am reffering just to Pokerstars, but i dont think on other sites it`s that much of a difference since all grinders tend to look edges everywhere and suppose they try to play everywhere they can. But i could be wrong though..Really dont know anything about Microgaming.

I used to think that prizepools get bigger on Sundays mainly because of fish/recs, but at least on 50$+ tournaments i`ve come to the conclusion that unfortunately that is not the case(excluding milly), at least not anymore..Yes we might find few more overall, but there are much much more other regs that play than weekdays compared to fish,recs. Just pay close attention to lobbys, or Tournament Shark if u use it.I`ve been doing this for past 4,5 months, alongside comparing av ability on lots of mtts. Again i think it`s relevant just for Stars...

I like a smaller sizing on hand 2 targeting mainly Jx and giving him the chance to spazz with some gutter/airballs. As played is sick with your sizing i think he has close to 0 blufs and doubt he´s shoving worse for value. Think 1st hand is std/good.

Yeah you think they do but they dont, for example u and OP playing just Stars and then bitch about variance

In order to survive you have to be willing to die you know? Otherwise u should play cash games if u complain about variance

Anyways i think variance is a complex thing that is hard for us to comprehend and maybe we will never log in games ( unless u are lipofunding ) to reach the long run and reach our potential ev wich we also guesstimate. Nothing we can do besides trying to play good etc

And Stars is cancer.






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yeah stupid me only playing stars

haha didnt mean to offend u soz

glgl


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I actually meant that I already play all the possible sites there are available in my country. Over the past years, I actually played on acr, ongame, unibet (microgaming network), party, ipoker besides stars. For a number of reasons, basically partypoker network is the only one left. ipoker is inflated with bots and stupid structures. unibet cut themself in the foot by wanting to seperate from the microgaming network. amaya ****ed up ongame network, and acr starts really late and there are some bad rumours about the network as well, so don't really want to play much if any games there.