You're a sicko Yugi. Keep your head up and crush!

What did he say about the elite coaches? Sorry, couldn't find it in the search.

2k mtts thats a lot of grind..
interested how your setup looks like 1,2,3?? monitors ???how many tables u play simultaneously?? tile, cascade stacked?? how many hours your sesions are??? do you use any tools to manage the tables TN, hotkeys??

i just started this year to add other sites (i played only stars last 3 years, mix cascade/tile like up to 20 no problem) and find it difficult now to play more then 12-15 tables max total, I am keep siting out and cant max focus if i play more tables then that (especially @888 sucks)


gl at the tables, nice thread

Was getting caught cheating and banned at the yugioh game the best thing that ever happened to you? I remember you won the Sunday million shortly after you got banned from yugioh and posted it on the yugioh forums LOL

This is a very inaccurate portrayal of what went down almost like it's to make me look bad. I got banned from YGO because my deck got stolen and I scrambled to find a replacement to play that round out or get dropped from it (this was in round 10). There was absolutely no strategic value for me to go away from a deck I had been practicing 100% with to something else. But I had been blogging and writing a lot of critical articles about the game and I think they just had a hardon for getting rid of me. Like I know 100% all of my colleagues who worked at Metagame and also the designers were super salty about my articles.

I won the Warmup after going to YGO Nats and getting some encouragement from thef guy who coach/staked me last year. I was still bad at poker then. Never posted anything like that on the forums either :P

But you're right about it being a blessing. At one point I was trying to monetize a YGO store and monetize my blog as well. But after the banning happened I just went all out for poker and here I am.

enjoying this thread alot! always a challenge playing pots against u!
I'm a bit shocked by the AT call at the bubble ft of Big 109, especially from someone like u with strong sng background.
anyway best of luck in life and poker, will keep following this

Thanks Re8uZ.. gl this year. I have two monitors, one for lobbies and early Party Poker games and some games on Stars I have to focus on. Main monitor stacks a bunch of Stars games and then I drag out the important ones to focus on.

Party is the only other site where auto time bank actually works for me.

Sessions usually probably 10 hours, maybe longer depending on how it goes. My ideal session would start around the Big 82 and end with the Hot 44 but I don't always do that due to sleep schedules and stuff.

I try to play around 12 tables if I'm playing lower buyins. I agree with you that it's kind of hard playing non Stars stuff so I try to just stick to the 100's and the Monsoon each day.

Thanks Resha you're always tough as well and I wish you the best in 2016. Yeah the ATo call was pretty bad. I had been doing a lot of work with +cev calls (I was calling too tightly and adjusted). And I wanted to get more chips so I could hoodflat people. And this guy had just started open jamming so I thought he was just trying to own all of us. Really bad call and a fold I would make literally every time in the past

Had an interesting day today. It started off horribly but then turned around. Won a few satellites to the Thrill and chopped the 109r 6m. The tables were pretty tough (as expected) and it's always a really fun format to play short-handed with a bunch of regulars you see in the trap every day.

Also won a few satellites to the Thrill and got 2nd in a 55 4-max that I actually just finished right now. I was working on a few runs in Party and on WPN (13th in their 109 "Major") and this was the last tournament I registered.

I actually woke up too late today even for the Big 109. I gotta get to bed soon so I can fire up the Thrill.

I kind of feel like Billy Beane when he says his **** doesn't work in the playoffs. I'm eager to play for some big boy money at some point. I feel like I'm winning a lot of small tournaments to tread water, and that's fine and all as a professional, but I want to break off some runs in some tournaments that are more arousing.

I'm too jaded but even when I get deep in stuff that pays 10k+ to first, the adrenaline doesn't really flow for me the way it used to. But anytime I'm deep in a Sunday something, ooh wee I get a tingle down my shingle.

On Sunday I was lobby watching and noticed some really good players deep in the Million and the Sunday 500 and stuff. And man it was so exciting! Every minraise was an adventure. Every pot was so tense with 18 left in the Million! One day

nice month mate! what abi are u playing ?

I was refering to this post.

subbed gl jae

id much rather have a good coach than a training site. training sites are the nut worst way to get better imo

Last session of the month and it was up and down At one point I had really big stacks in the Thrill, Party 500, and 888 Quarterback. Ended up ITM of Thrill losing like 3 flips in a row for big beefy bounties. Got 11th in the Quarterback, 18th in the Party 50k, and 2nd in the Micro 109 (the smallest one ).

I'll be back for more in April. I might head to Manila for the APT there and meet up with some friends. But otherwise more of this same online grind coming up.

Moving on to April

End of the month, finished a bit on a downswing. But at the end of the day, made +/- 10k or so for the month and am continually improving. I'm constantly running GTO calculations and some of the outputs are very surprising to me. I'm actually over-barreling in spots and under-barreling in others because of a poor understanding that is improving every day.

I ran KK into AA in the Party 109 with 18 left, lost 99 to A8o with 11 left in the 888 Quarterback, and came close again to two solid scores. Looking over the month overall and it's just losing a lot of 30/70's, losing a lot of 80/20's, and losing a lot of 20/80's with QQ+. Tough cookies. More importantly, I made two pretty big errors within the parameters of my poker ability (I could have known better). But at the end of the day it's very hard to play perfect poker for 10 hours straight especially against tough players.

Also I had some tilt yesterday. I was very emotionally invested in the outcome of the Thrill and the end came quite suddenly. I lost a 10bb pot on button for a bounty, lost a 20+bb pot on button for a bounty, then got ITM and lost a 13bb pot jamming AJo UTG and losing to AA. It all happened within an orbit or so. After that I had the Quarterback and the Party 109 still left to focus on, but mentally they weren't the "main attractions" or something stupid so I kept loading $60+ sng's to fill 6 tables.

On honest reflection, I think one of my mistakes was due to "winner's tilt." I had been really just locked in and crushing my tables in the Party 500, Thrill, and Quarterback (close to chipleading all 3 at one point). And I took a pretty thin/bad spot versus a tough regular that crashed me down. It wasn't a terrible punt or anything but it was definitely a mistake. And probably due to some part to feeling aroused from the circumstances.

At 888, a regular got moved over for the last two tables. If I wasn't tired and a little deflated over the Thrill and a little more locked in, I would have Scope/Googled everyone at the table to make sure. This guy was showing 16/12 over 97 hands with a 2% 3bet. I just assumed it was a nitfish. And I made a really bad raise/fold against him with 11 left. Turns out this guy is one of the best guys out there and is crushing 888 at a 225 ABI.

Every edge matters. You can't sit there and beat yourself up over every little thing, especially when people are playing like hot doo-doo in every FT replay I open up. But every edge counts and I'll try to bring it harder in April. Old habits die hard but I really need to stop loading meaningless games when I'm deep in stuff, even if I think I can be focused fully. It's not like I was 12 tabling or anything, I was playing well below and had the tables dragged out. But 888's time bank sucks and I could have Scoped the table if I had been thinking better. I'll try to never make that mistake again, especially when I'm getting more tired near the end of the day.

Also on a side note, I do hope this blog doesn't come across as too melancholy or anything. It's going to be hard to sound super enthused or excited when I keep bubbling 10k 1st's, but my mind frame is actually pretty positive and I am enjoying life. I just try to have it capture my honest mentality. I feel like it's 2012 again. Just hungry to break out and stake my claim to this MTT game.

I'm hoping to balance my posting ranges and have a bunch of sunny stuff in the future along with some personal content But as of now I'm just shacked up at my command station grinding hard.

good luck this month sir........hope you can go on a sick heater

Really enjoy your updates. GL in April.

Thanks guys

Not much traction too. Ran ashy Larry bad in quite a few spots. Got 6th in the 109 on MPN, 11th in the Party 25k giving a bunch of chips to tonkaaa the conqueror. Got ITM of the B109 and gave a bunch of chips to jaime corazon staples and got ITM of the B162 and lost.

Super pumped for Sunday . Will sort out some strategies and be ready to get in there.

In because BBZ is the best obviously.

I see you taking on WCG Rider in the 109!

Got 5th in the 888 215 Turbo Major. K6<KQ in a really standard BvB spot, then AQs<A6o in another spot, then 78s<A4o or something. Was extremely annoying since I wanted to start the month with some nice padding but you gotta run so good to run deep in any tournament that you can't really complain about the end

Anyways my cool story for the day is I'm currently:

59/555 Million
69/179 Bigger 55
755/796 Mini Million
7/33 WHALE
2/66 in 888 100k Challenge

No loading stupid SNG's. No being dumb. We grind hard all week and study to get put into these kinds of spots. Regardless of what happens results-wise, what a time to be alive.

glgl ship the milly!

Gg in the turbo mega deep.

Assuming you will be posting this anyway but eager to hear of any results from the 5 above?

hey guys~ I saw your MTT graphs and lots of Korea people talk about you^^
I didnt visit 2p2 but Korea poker community people links your threads~~~~~~haha
it is so interesting about your poker story.

I hope you visit korea's 2p2 poker site PokerGOSU and write down an thread~~for your korea fan.

a few days ago, 'i need sheet' visited and write an article.~
see u soon
http://pokergosu.com/

Hey man I see you battling out in the 60$ 18's and I was hoping you could answer me some questions

So what in your opinion separates a 30$$ reg from a 60$ reg to a 100$ reg. I would assume that once you are capable of beating the 30's your ICM knowledge should be qualified to play the 60's and probably the 100's as well and yet I see some regs mixing 15's and 30's but not going higher even tho the games have the potential to be fairly alive if these regs start playing them.

Is there really that big of a difference gap between these 2-3 levels that makes them just not worth it for most regs?

Thanks and gl