Sorry, I don't play MTT, so my question may seem simple. How do you convert 100 seats into cash? Also, when you say you won 90K in main event sats, how do you convert that to cash?
Thanks.

I have one permanent horse who I stake in high stakes mtts both live and online, and about 10-15 other people who I buy pieces of in big live events whenever they want to sell action. Before I get 100 staking requests in my inbox, I'm not really looking to expand on this too much.

I don't use a HUD, I tried it for one day about a year ago and everything just lagged too much for my liking. I put a lot of poker tracker stats in the notes though so I usually have a pretty good idea of everyone's ranges. I probably have notes on like 1000 people if I had to guess.

I just turned 32 last week, been married for about 2 1/2 years, no kids (yet). I really don't play all that much except during wcoop when I was playing all day every day. But since wcoop I've probably played like 10-15 hrs total in the last week. I tried to put in more volume during wcoop since the games were way more profitable. I don't really have trouble finding time to do other things in life though. I tend to go in spurts where I play a ton for a few weeks then basically don't play at all for a week or two. Probably helps me recuperate a bit and stay fresh. We also tend to take trips quite a bit which helps get me away from the computer for a while.

Hope I answered all your questions.

When you win a seat, you don't really get a ticket to the event. Instead you get W$ or T$ which can be used to enter a bunch of different events. There is a market for these so even if you don't want to play any events you can sell them without losing much. There's a thread in the MTT Community forum where people post offers for buying or selling tourney dollars.

Nice well, good to see you still answering questions

Read through the entire thing, can't think of a relevant poker question, so I hope you don't mind me asking a few personal questions. Here goes:

Are you thinking of having children in the future? How do you see your future and in particular your poker career change when you have a kid, or don't you think it'll change that much? Do you think your wife would still be as supportive as she is now when you have children?

Don't answer the questions if you find them too personal. I was just thinking about how poker affects relationships, and I was wondering how you would handle that.

No, I don't mind answering any of these.

Most likely we will start having kids in the next couple of years. I don't think it'll change too much with poker except that I probably won't put in quite as many hours. We've already talked about this quite a few times, and I don't have any reason to believe she will be anything but supportive of me.

What's your answer to: 'but how much did you lose?'

Fortunately I haven't been asked this one yet by my non-poker friends or family. I have been asked some version of "If I give you $100 can you double it for me?" about 10 times now though.

haha I hate when people offer to buy me in to tournaments and they get 90% and crap like that.

On to the questions.

1 What is your ROI in these hyper turbo games. If you don't like to discuss this what is an attainable ROI in these games. (I've managed about 4.6% over a small sample size)

2 What would you suggest to the majority of the average players that play these games. What problems do they have or leaks you may see?

1) I'd say any roi above 1% is pretty good if you're playing a lot of tables.

2) Wow this one is kind of hard to answer. I mean, so many players are not very good at these, but it's not like they all do the same things wrong. Some people call or shove way too loose, others are way too tight.

Hm, I just thought of a good one. When you are deciding what to do with a certain hand especially in the later levels, let's say you have a choice between shoving and folding. You really need to think about how each choice will not only affect the current hand, but what the affect will be for future hands in all scenarios (you fold, you shove and get called and win, you shove and get called and lose, you shove and don't get called). For example, there are times where it's key to maintain some fold equity, so you probably want to shove looser than normal.

There are times when ICM will tell you to do one thing but if you think logically about how the next few hands might play out, you can see that the play that is +ev according to ICM is actually a bad play. I don't really want to give out specific examples though.

I hope this made some sense at least.

I agree completely and I think these things are actually full of pretty terrible players... And I would prefer you not list example either because I understand what you are talking about don't want to take away the edge.

Hey jorj awesome that you're doing this still...glad I bumped into it.

I've got a couple of questions.

1. I was looking into programs (just as SNG wiz/powertools) to run some hands for hypers but am having difficulty taking into account the unique blind structure with the 20% antes. Is there any program or any way to account for this?

2. What do you think is a reasonable hourly rate playing strictly $87.72 hypers at 60/hr as a solid player?

3. What is a good roll to have to play the $87.72 hypers?

4. In all honesty (I won't take it personally) do you think I'm bad at hypers? (I guess you dont have to answer this if the answer is yes and you dont want me to stop playing haha)

I think that's it. Thanks a lot for doing this!

1) I don't use the ICM programs near as much as I did when I played sngs. I have used powertools a bit for them...there's a way to add a new structure to your options. You would be best off emailing them and asking them how to do it. I mean, I know how to do it but if I posted it here I would probably forget a step somewhere along the line, and it's kind of hard to explain as you need to create and modify some files. I'm guessing you can do something similar with sngwiz although I have yet to use it for hypers.

2) If you're making more than $1 per game that's really good in the $87.72s, so I'd say $60/hr in your case.

3) This is just guessing but I'd say you need to be willing to weather at least a 10k-15k downswing.

4) I'm not all that good at remembering how specific people play since I play so many of them, but according to my notes I've never seen you do anything stupid at least. I would guess you'd be a winner in them in the long run, especially if you select games with less regs already signed up, and most importantly, keep learning while you play.

Best of luck in the games.

Thanks for doing this,George,awesome well :-) ,and please excuse my bad english.

1/ I´d like to make you the same question as mls,althought your answer may be the opposite :-p My screen is adventurier

2/
Wow,I didn´t thought that it may be that much.. Do you think that playing few tables,is it posible a significantly much higher ROI (whith less variance,also) ?

3/In the case that you read Aprilsfool´s metaphor when multitabling many different tourneys whith different buy-ins? ( http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/23...-basis-583460/ )

..I loved it and would like to know if you use any similar metaphor or ways to motivate yourself while playing


4/
My last question is about psychology:
From my point of view,this is probably the most important part for a poker player,and I would like to know how you work on this topic..
What is/are the most relevant thing/s you have learnt on this topic,etc?
How dou you motivate yourself?

Also,as a high stakes sng & mtt player,variance can be a killer..,so what are the most usefull ways,tricks you use to handle whith it?


Thanks very much again,and best luck at the tables :-)

1) I don't have any notes on you but like I said previously, that's probably a good thing for you.

2) I don't know, I just know that in any game where the very best player's edge is so small, the variance is going to be huge. I would imagine variance would be a bit lower with less tables, but I doubt it makes that much of a difference. I mean the way I play is basically exactly the same no matter how many tables I have open.

3) Hah that aprilsfool post is pretty funny. I don't think it applies to me as much because I'm usually only playing one or two buyins at a time, and as such, I concentrate on every table pretty much equally. I never have had a problem with motivation, I don't know why but I'm kind of a sicko and I love grinding.

4) I'm not really sure what you mean by psychology in this context. If you are talking about mental stability while playing (i.e. not tilting) then I guess I'm naturally pretty good at that as I'm a pretty even-keeled person when it comes to poker and really life in general. So I'm not sure that I really learned anything, but I was lucky to find a 'job' where that is a really good attribute to have.

Like I said above I don't really have a problem ever with motivating myself. I just feel lazy if I'm not putting in enough hours.

Variance doesn't bother me at all anymore as I don't really play high enough where a downswing is really going to make any difference in my day to day life. I don't know if you read my entire well but I'm pretty sure I talked about the huge swings I used to have when I was a sports bettor and so the swings now seem like nothing.

And as always, best of luck in the games.

I'm probably too lazy to email them, but I don't see how they can not give it to you. You seem like the perfect candidate.

That said, would you want the time commitment/"responsibility" of having to represent the site? Obviously it depends on the particulars of the deal, but you seem to enjoy an unstructured lifestyle and the ability to take time off at a whim.

I've been dabbling in the hyper turbos lately and making a bunch of mistakes. If you feel like sharing any specific ones that you have observed and/or remember, PM me!

Great thread, thank you.

Earlier in this thread, you mentioned that you were planning a trip to Europe in April.

What countries did you go to? And how did you like it?

Haha I was only half-joking about the emails anyway. I mean I certainly don't mind that a few people did email them, but I doubt it makes all that much difference in who they pick.

Objectively, here's how I see my chances. The positives are that I have a reasonably popular online name and have a few followers at the tables. I enjoy chatting with randoms that want to chat with me (unless I have 25 tables going, and even then I still try to chat). Something like 99.99% of my online action is at Stars, and I think their site is miles ahead of any other site in almost any aspect, and would be happy to promote them to people. Also I got the most vpps in the history of their site and got to elite quicker than anyone else has, both of which probably can't hurt my chances.

The negatives are that I'm probably older than what I imagine they're looking for (I'm 32, and I picture this promo as being geared mostly towards early 20somethings). I'm American, and I'm guessing they will prefer non-Americans over Americans, all else being equal. I play freaking hyperturbo sngs, which aren't exactly the most marketable form of poker...I see this as being geared towards mtt players more than any other form, although I could be wrong. While I do play pretty much every wsop and wcoop event, I barely play any live besides the wsop. Also I don't have a blog (it's possible I'll start one at some point) and I'm not a part of any website or training site, and it's pretty unlikely I'll ever be part of a training site unless I get an amazing (read: unrealistic) offer, as it's really just not worth it for me to do, and frankly doesn't sound all that fun.

And yes I'm not even 100% sure I would want the deal if offered. If it was a huge time commitment and took me away from my normal playing and vacation schedule then yeah I'd probably turn it down. That being said, I certainly wouldn't mind doing things here and there to help them and I would enjoy representing them at the live tourneys that I do play if that's called for.

As for mistakes in hypers, here's the thing. I've only played a few with you that I can recall, mostly during wcoop. I don't remember any glaring mistakes that you made, but almost certainly you are making some that I never saw. I mean I've played over 60k hypers and I still make mistakes. But here's the catch with hypers. They seem really easy to play at first. And realistically they're not that hard to play decently well. But they're deceptive. The hardest thing about them is that in a normal sng, a good player will rarely be able to make a mistake that costs him more than like 1-2% expected roi for that tourney as long as he has studied icm. In the hypers it's not all that rare for otherwise decent players to make various mistakes that cost them 10% or more expected roi in that tourney. And they make these mistakes over and over without realizing that they're making them. So while there are probably less mistakes to make in a hyper, the mistakes that people do make can be really really bad ones.

Glad you enjoyed the thread, and best of luck in the games.

We went to UK for a week then Ireland for a week, then my wife had to go back home while I played the Monte Carlo tourney.

UK was great. London might be my favorite city that I've even been to. There was just so much to do there. There's all the obvious touristy stuff which we did, like the London Eye and Big Ben and the castle. But besides that it was fun to just randomly walk around the city and see what we found. It seemed like we always found stuff to do there. Lots of good food and beer too.

We took a day trip to Liverpool one day because my wife is a big Beatles fan. Liverpool was ok I guess but it was really touristy. It was obvious that pretty much the whole downtown area is geared around Beatles crap. The Beatles museum was pretty interesting though.

Then, Ireland. We spent a couple of nights in Dublin, which involved a lot of drinking. Then we went on a 3 day bus tour of the southwestern part of Ireland. We went to Cork, Killarney, and Galway, and saw the Rings of Kerry and the Cliffs of Moher. The tour was decent, but I don't know that a tour bus is really our kind of thing. It sucks in that there were places that we went that my wife and I didn't care about and we'd spend a couple hours there, then we'd end up in a place that seemed really fun, and they'd say to be back on the bus in 10 minutes. Overall Ireland is really beautiful though and some of the best stuff was just looking at the countryside as we rode through.

After that my wife went back home (she had a family emergency) and I went to the Monte Carlo tourney. This whole time was pretty much a mess. I got knocked out of the tourney on day 1 and then I got really ill for a few days after that. Also it was hard not being able to talk to my wife much. We had already been to Monte Carlo the previous year and had a great time so at least she didn't miss out on a place that we hadn't been to yet.

We're thinking about doing another Europe trip next year, but not really sure yet. It would probably involve France, Netherlands, and northern Germany but that could definitely change.

What are you going to use this years SNE packages on?

Is that an official question?

Definitely playing PCA and definitely playing WSOP. I'm probably about 50/50 on Monte Carlo for next year. Most likely it comes down to whether or not we make a vacation out of it. As I mentioned in my previous post, we're thinking about doing another Europe trip next year. If we do this we'd most likely do the trip right before the Monte Carlo tourney, then make Monte Carlo the last stop on the trip. In 08 we made the mistake of doing the tourney first then went on a trip after. It was hard because it's really not that fun to play a 10k euro tourney the day after flying/traveling for 20+ hours and being 9 time zones away from your normal time. In 09 we did a 2 week vacation and then the tourney after and it was much better with regards to stamina.

Other than that I'm thinking about doing Costa Rica again in November but I'd say that one is less than 50/50 right now.

Hehe it's funny I didn't even realize it was Scotty asking the previous question until I saw your question and couldn't figure out why you were asking it. It's just not the same Scottyy without the PokerStars VIP Club avatar.

I agree. Scottyy needs his avatar back.

Did you make the last Cardinals game? I was there rooting for the other guys (yeah there really are Texans fans out there). First time in the new stadium in Phoenix for me.

No, I haven't been to a game yet this year, last game I went to was the NFC championship last year.

Did you use your SNE MTT entries or did you cash them all except for the WSOP ME this year? Are you pleased with the SNE promotion?