Ffs lol

ohhh UL won´t tell you anymore the bink will come (but seriously it will come!!)wp glgl with the grind!

How you run so good and then so bad

kk spel

I know right. Thx for all the support guys, means a lot!

yep.

Thx, really nice to read these type of comments

Perhaps ^^

Haha that's actually correct. What was your screenname back then? I do study in Gent indeed.

So let's do a small recap for the month. Very mixed feelings, even though we had a solid plus, it obv felt like it could have been much much more. Finishing 9th, 14th, 10th & 11th in tournaments with respectively 28k eu, 16k, 25k & 55k up top definitely hurts. On a more positive note, I'm thrilled with the amount of work I put in this month again. I actually lost my appetite for studying a bit after WCOOP, but glad to have it back. Ran quite some sims, adjusted some things, worked on specific stats, did some reviews, you name it and I basically did it. I don't think it's really a coindidence that my ev bb/100 rose above 10 for the first time in months. Got in 275 games, which is ok, given how busy I've been with school and the limited amount of sites I'm able to play. I don't really regret much if any decisions I made in my deep runs, so from that point of view, I can't be very dissapointed. In the past, I tended to pass up on a few spots, or take a more passive line, etc but definitely not this time. I think i'm not overly biased by saying that I just got very unlucky in a few of them. Not even specifically in terms of getting bad beats/coolers etc but more like being extremely carddead in the end phase. Yesterday the swu was not different either, I didn't get dealt any broadway or pair for the last 50/60 hands, and the first broadway I then got was immediately my bust hand. Now, when you are reading this, you pbb think you shouldn't only play broadways or pairs. Ofcourse captain obvious, I know that, and I did try to keep my stack afloat with a few steals etc, but can legitimately say I was proper card/spot dead for most of 3/4 tournaments I went deep in this month. In the end, you can study for inf hours, for days, for weeks, for months, but still gotta run extremely well to basically win any tournament. I think that those who advocate something different, just have ran way above expectation but maybe I'm wrong, what the hell do I know. Bang bang to all the sunrunners out there <3

Looking forward, I'll be playing a live bird this week. Rent an appartment with a few friends, so should be fun. After that, it pbb will be more of the same. Busy with school, try to flick in a few online sessions, try not to miss any sundays, and meanwhile looking for an internship. Also, the end of the semester is nearing, which means, exams. If all goes according to plan, this will be my last full exam period before my graduation. One final one and a half months of pure suffering, bc I did simply not enough/anything during the semester.

Hopefully can keep my game sharp in the meanwhile, and maybe bink some more timbeys in the few sessions I'll be playing. Xoxo



Almost forgot, best article I read this month ainec

http://waitbutwhy.com/2014/06/taming...-run-life.html

Solid article. My mammoth told me to forget all about it though..

GL in the liveament!

So namur was.. let's go with fun. Arrived in the early evening, after only having had a few hours of sleep, a lecture, a group meeting for a group task, and an internship talk. Main wasn't very interesting at all. At my highest point I reached 95k from 50k start, dwindled a bit down, and ended the day with startstack aka 25bbs. Day 2 wasn't any better. Lost a few small pots, defended bb, etc then busted the very first shove of the tournament. Went back to the appartment for a bit, and decided to fire the 550 side that evening.

Boring timbey until bb1k. Was left with 10biebers, ran it up to 35 non sd, won a flip, won a few pots, and ended the day with 128k coming back in bb2.4k and 33 left with 20k up top. Was up a bit for the day until this hand occured with 22 left and 17 paid.

I open AKo utg from 135k to 7k bb3k and dutch semi-reg (not very good, not very bad either I guess) 3bets to 17k from hijack/cutoff and covers me (he has like 200+). I weigh my options, and decide flatting is pbb the best play.

Flop is 732 (rainbow iirc)

I x/c 17k

turn is 5

I x/c 24k

river is 6

Check, villain bets 48k, I have about 70k left, bit less.

So my thinking ingame was the next. Preflop he's probably the kind of player who doesnt 3b jj or queens in this spot, and even if that would be the case, he pbb doesnt 3 barrel them anyway, so we can discount thos quite heavily. Ofcourse can have AA & KK, and then will have a few combos of like a4s 86s 98s sometimes. So given that we do block aces & kings, he only has 6 combos of them instead of 12, and then we add like 4-6 combos of straights as well I'd say. So he has like 10-12 valuecombos, and we get a very good price. We have to call 48 to win a pot of 225. If I call and I'm right, I'm the big chipleader, and can crush the bubble. If I fold, i'm left with 15bbs, If I call and i'm wrong, I'm left with 4-5bbs. I thought this was a spot where he would likely be overbluffing, and given the odds, it's not even hard/its very possible he's overbluffing this. From a theoritical pov, he should only bluff like 2/3 combos, and he's not the kind of player who thinks in terms of this, so he could very well be overbluffing with a a hand like kq, aj, at, aq perhaps, so he only needed to have like 2/3 combo's of all the possible combos. I tanked for a looong while, and eventually the clock is being called on me. I flick in a 1k chip 5 secs before the clock is running down, and get tabled two black aces. I quickly flash my AK, since most of the players were already on break. Obv they had no clue what was going on, and couldn't quite well understand that AK was a way better calling hand than queens or jacks. I legit think that apart from some KK/AA this is one of the best callinghands I do have. I don't think I have a set very often, would pbb fold 77 pre this close to the money, don't have any straight, might sometimes have A4s but not very often so yeah still like my call.

Was crippled after that one, but managed to spin it up again, and reach the money with 200k in bb6k after quite a long bubble. Unfortunately **** pierre neuville coolered the **** out of me (kq vs aq on a q high board) and then got showered within blind battle where I managed to brick 20 outs on turn. So yeah another great 14th finish in timbey with 20k+ up.

Did fire the 200 bounty in the evening, and the beauty of live poker was once again demonstrated when someone jammed for 5bbs, the btn calls, and then snapfolds AJo to my 14bb jam in the bb, even when he both covers us with quite a bit. Did get that bounty with QTs, but busted eventually in bb3k when I rejammed a9o vs chipleader who had heaps & heaps for 50k'ish. Couldn't get there vs 77 unfortunately.

All in all pretty decent trip. Breakeven'ish, met a few nice people again, had some good talks, so yeah overall enjoyed it. Buddy of mine is chipleading the main with 8 left, so let's hope he takes it down now. Back at the virtual tables again on sunday.

gg

one tabling b55 with decent stack while friends of mine are chipleading the storm & micromillions main hahah

will do bigger update soon, have been super busy with school ^^

fitting end of the year, 20-something in 215 6max which was huge (35k'ish 1st)

will recap year later xoxo

Ok, time to recap the year. First, let me review my goals.

Overall I can't be really satisfied with results, given how many shots I've had to clear make up/actually book decent profit. Esp sundays left me in a world full of pain this year. However, pretty happy with how I've improved my game this year, and confident that if I keep working hard, the shots will keep coming and eventually one will fall our way. Was at an all-time low around april this year, but managed to pick myself up after that and put myself in some serious shots to make money. Volume is whatever. It's tough to compare since I don't play fulltime and dedicate a lot of my time to school as well. According to PT4, I played 823 hours of poker, whch equals to +- 16 hrs a week of pure playing. This doesn't include studying or talking poker. Shoutout to #team****thisguy who've all progressed a ton this year, and I foresee even bigger things in the future.

School was a huge succes this year. Got my bachelor and currently studying for my master's degree which I'll hopefully have around september next year. Have been super busy lately for school, given we've had tons of group tasks/deadlines to meet and lots of classes. In fact, only started studying last week, and first exams is already in 2 weeks. Therefore pbb won't play any poker till february. I did find an internship after all, which I'll be attending from march till may, so likely there won't be as much poker ahead of us as this year. Along with the master thesis I have to write, my time will be limited, and I most likely will be able to play one or two sessions a week. Will try to be prepared as well as possible whenever I do play, and ofcourse try not to miss any sundays. Think this year I've played 35/52 sundays, the gap coming from exam periods (those are like 8-9 sundays) and then some travel/other activities. After hopefully having finished my master degree in september, I'm not sure what I'm gonna do. At this moment, I really feel like it's too early for me to have a regular 9-5 job, so most likely will do one extra year of studying or travel abroad (maybe combined with an internship). This will kinda depend on my poker situation as well. More likely to keep studying/go travelling if poker has gone well, since I'll then won't have to worry as much about my financial situation. Not gonna lie, not having chopped any profits for over 2 year, has significantly decreased my bankroll to the point that I really have to start paying attention to it for the first time in a long while. One of my goals for the next year def will be to try and manage my money better. Fortunately, I still live at home with my parents, so there aren't any fixed costs yet such as paying rent/mortgages or whatever.

2016 was also the year of personal growth for me. I tried to be a better person, tried to overcome some fears, and tried to separate poker as much as possible from my personal life. Think i've made significant progress already, but still a long way ahead of us. Will try to solve the next part of this never-ending puzzle next year. My goal of reading books has failed pretty bad. I'm not sure why, I started out with shantaram (which I haven't finished yet) but for some reason I never got into it. It probably has something to do with only wanting to read when there is really nothing else going on, which leads to me not being focussed at all. I don't know, might try to pick it up again next year, maybe along with a more strict schedule. Just as basically anything in life, you need discipline. Maybe forcing myself/planning moments to read could help me with that. Last goal of mine was working out, which was going fine until last trimester of the year. I got sick, and kept struggling a long time, and after that never had the courage to pick it up again. I did renew my subscription this summer though, so I def plan to start going again, after having finished exams. Just really didn't have much time the past couple of months, since school has been so busy that I barely had time to play much poker. ^^ Will post my concrete goals for 2017 later in this thread, since I haven't thought about it very well. I will leave you guys with some stats/graphs.



Winrate for the year, not sure if I play btn very bad, or just variance lol



Meh



Biggest scores for the year, the 3.5k being the biggest on stars is actually prettty sick imho. **** site, **** game ^^

*SPOILER* whine incoming *SPOILER*

sundays really loved me this year



Last but not least, shoutout to fukuruku, must suck really bad to be braindead (kinda snapped me as well lmao)



Wish you all a happy new year, and much luck in 2017. Much love and thx for reading <3

much laki to u too sire. see you in barca

Your sizing should be arrr in though.

agree size is too small. not sure it should be allin, 36ish-38ish seems fine too if we wanna include most 2 pairs and bluff this and 98/T9 type things

don't think it should be all in. could be a tad bigger, but we do have significant range disadvantage not having any combos of 77/99/jj/aa & aj really, whereas going all in would not make much sense since we would only be repping t8 and allow villain to play almost perfectly when we do choose this size with for example a7o. I'd like to rep 2 pairs ofcourse as well, therefore picked smaller size. agree 32-38 pbb better.

Your sizing should be fold, congrats on the school succes and vamoooo 2017.

Yeah agree don´t like raising this river.
Best of wishes for 2017!! Hope the run good comes to all who work hard to improve!

nice post broski, **** sundays forever

happy new yr and gl in 2017

GG 2016 and goolakk 2017!!!

#TFTG!!!

lol you can't make this up

decided to fire a evening session and goth 14th in phase 2 for just another **** finish in this **** game. lost like ak<aq for 5.5 mil bb100k

also lost kk vs aq & qt on q74 for heaps in the millie, like 220 bb3k, and jj<aq 55 6m last 10 as well

chopped a bowl on party as a consolation gift, bc that's my maximum 1-3k scores.

#whenwillitend #prayforop

w/e taking time off till february for school. hope you guys had a better sunday

Quite interesting hand btw, 17 left avg pbb 2.2-2.6 mil whatever, very soft field. people limp/show folding ax in sb etc




lmk what you think

I think raise decide is pretty clearly the play. I don't see much merit to jam, even the worst players will play pretty close to correct vs a jam, whereas I think they'll make much more mistakes vs a raise. I don't think you need to be worrying about them shoving light on you in a soft field.

Not even close, jam. You have 16bbs (12.8 average effective BBs), shoving is +cEV, and with 17 left I want to go for the FT w/ a decent stack.

I don't like minraising here, because we have no blockers and our hand isn't going to play great postflop. 77 is a hand I'd rather open shove rather than r/c here.

MOAR

will post my own thoughts later

lol the ****? no way minraising is even close the ev of jam if even close to most people are decent. but then again 10$ timbey, and my timbey reads are not fabulous.

jammmm