Thought of 3 more:

1) When you play a session do you have any superstitions or weird habits? Like for me when I'm finishing up a session and have 3 tables to the sunday million left I always open up the lobby and already unregister from it just because I think it's lucky

2) Have you ever folded aces preflop in a hyperturbo? Or even thought about it?

3) Do you have any regrets about anything pokerrelated? Something that haunts you a little, like a certain important hand you misplayed or something you wish you hadn't/had done?

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1) That's pretty funny. No I don't really have any habits like that that I can think of.

2) Yeah, at least twice that I can remember intentionally. Probably misclick folded it like 10x or so, maybe more.

3) WSOP 2008, down to 12 people in the 1500 NL event, I'm like 5th in chips, get a9o in cutoff, blinds 8k/16k, I have about 500k stack, I open for 42k, folded to bb who barely covers me, he makes it 100k, I shove after like 15 seconds, he tanks for like 3 minutes at least before calling with JJ. I miss and bust. I don't really regret the way I played the hand, moreso I regret him not folding, or me not hitting an ace. It was basically the only good shot I've ever had at taking a big tourney down.

Oh another hand at APPT Sydney in 08, I don't remember the blinds or any of the bet sizes, but the hand was something like this. We were probably like 10 spots from the money and I had probably 2-3x average stack. I open like 3 off the button with T7s, folded to bb who calls. He has me covered by quite a bit. Flop JJ5, he checks, I bet like half pot or whatever, he checkraises fairly big, I 3 bet him, he 4 bets for about half of my total stack and I really really felt like he was weak but I ended up folding after a couple minutes. I really wish I had gone for that one as I'm pretty sure he was full of crap.

It was really similar to that Phil Ivey hand where he 5 bet bluffed some guy heads up in some donkament, except Ivey had the balls to pull the trigger and I didn't.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--Qap3VT_ZY

yeah that one

do you have a stop loss?

or even breaks when winning big?

or do you ever start up a session, find that you're out of it for some reason and quit after playing like 50 or 100 tourneys?

Do you feel you manage to have a good work-life-balance? If so, do you have any hints how to manage that well? It's sick with the games always running it feels like there's always "work" waiting for you. Kind of like when you're running your own business, people doing that tend to put in crazy hours as well, sacrifing their free time and maybe deriving less enjoyment from it too.

I don't have a stop loss but I do usually end sessions quicker if I'm losing, just because it's not fun to play when I'm losing. When I'm winning I pretty much never stop unless I'm tired or I have a prior engagement.

Yeah I sometimes plan on playing all day then after an hour or so I just don't feel like playing anymore, so I quit. I find it best to not play when I'm not fully into it, as I just start to make some dumb plays from not really paying attention.

This year I've definitely been playing way more because of how often the games run now. Last year I mostly played Sunday and Tuesday except during the WCOOP because the games just didn't run much on other days. I've been playing a little less the last couple weeks though because I've had other things going on, plus I don't want to burn myself out before the SCOOP starts.

I don't really have trouble making time for non-poker stuff though. I just don't play if I don't feel like it. The only absolute must-play day for me is Tuesday because of how often the 153s and 430s run. I also try to play Sundays and Mondays whenever possible but if I miss one that's ok. Other than that I just play whenever I'm in the mood to play.

Hey guys I'm selling some of my action in the $50k 8-game event at the WSOP at even money, link is here if you are interested:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/16...-markup-761336

If this is considered spam I apologize and feel free to delete, but I figured it's my own thread.

Hi George, I noticed that you do staking as well. What kind of numbers/things do you look for in a stakee? On a completely unrelated note that 5200 Limit Holdem SCOOP event is really soft or so I hear yet over my bankroll.

great well just finished reading it. took a few days but thought it was worth it.
definatly thought the Robert DeNiro Avitar was by far one of the best. besides mine of course.

So i am trying to think of a good question that hasn't been asked yet.
and this is one i think might be interesting.
I noticed when i play the $87 hypers that i get into this aggressive mode where i think it affects my game, when i play slow structured Mtts.
So here is the question. Do you ever separate tournaments from the hyper turbos. and if not does it ever effect your play in Mtts when you play the Hypers , as i feel if affects my MTT game as i feel i become more aggresive. (as i am a Nit when it comes to tournament play)

I don't know, I mostly just like to take a piece of players in big events. It's a fun sweat. I'm not sure exactly what I look for, but mostly it's people I know already or people I know of through other people. I used to do some permanent deals with horses but that was just such a mess and way too stressful for me, so I quit doing it, and now I only buy pieces of individual events, nothing long term.

If you're serious about selling pieces of the 5200 limit holdem, you should probably start a thread in the marketplace. Somehow I doubt that event will be very soft though. That and the 25k HU event are the only 2 events that I'm definitely not playing.

I don't think it affects my game really except for the fact that it's harder to concentrate on the mtt's when I have 20+ hypers going too. During SCOOP I'll probably play less hypers at a time if I'm in a few mtt's, just so I can properly concentrate on them.

Would you say that Limit Holdem and NLHU are your weakest games? Or are you not entering these 2 events because you don't feel you have an edge over the stacked fields?

I'm not entering the HU because 25k is a pretty big buyin against what's sure to be a very tough field.

I won't play the limit holdem 5k because I'm definitely a dog to that field and I don't really enjoy playing limit holdem very much anyway.

Hey jorj. What's the longest stretch of tournaments that you've had a breakeven or losing red line (adj. EV) on your graph? On a related note, are you running okay at the 88s lately, at least in your adjusted results?

I haven't imported my hands in like 2 weeks, and also I really don't pay much attention to the red line stuff, but I'm checking it right now just for you.

Filtering for just 6-max hypers and graphing by # of buyins, it looks like I have a breakeven red line for about 8k games at one point, and about 5k games at another point. The biggest red line downswing I see is about 50 buyins.

As for the 88s specifically, it looks like my red line is still going up even though I've been losing a little recently in them.

I still have my doubts about how useful the red line is in hypers though, and honestly the only time I ever look at it is when people ask me about it in this thread.

Thanks for looking that up. When you talk about the red line, is it your sample size that makes you think it's useless or do you think it's inaccurate for some reason?

I think it's inaccurate in that it's easy to see that certain playing styles could give you a better red line than others. If you based all of your decisions on ICM calcs, even in spots where it would be stupid to do so, your red line would look really good even though you're obviously playing incorrectly, and you would look like the unluckiest guy in the world. I could be wrong about this possibly as I really don't know exactly how the red line is calculated.

It's more that I just don't really care about it I guess, and I think a lot of people use it as an excuse to whine and complain about how bad they run, instead of looking for ways to improve their game.

How dare you? 99% of people who write poker blogs are going to have you crucified.

Could you give an example in the hypers that would make your red line diverge from your green line?

jorj, how do you track your results? do you use pokertracker? I recently downloaded PokerTracker, but for Sngs it does not get the prize, just wonder maybe there is some trick I don't know.

I would have to know exactly how it's calculated in order to do this. I assume it calculates your ICM EV based on how often you were supposed to win the hand. Like if you were 60% to win the hand when the money got in, it would calculate your ICM equity assuming you won the hand and multiply by 0.6, and then calculate your ICM equity assuming you lost the hand and multiply by 0.4, then add the two numbers together. Is this correct? If this is true then every calculation it does is wrong because your ICM equity is never really equal to your true equity, except in a few hands purely by coincidence.

I just use sharkscope, or just look at how much my account balance went up or down. I know sharkscope misses some games but it's close enough for my liking. I don't really care about the exact results since the games it misses should be a random sampling of my games, and therefore shouldn't really affect my ROI % on there.