I want to share with you my recent win. At the moment it is the best win in my non professional career. Сonsidering, that few last years I did not play, result is not so bad. Tournaments are definitely my thing, because as always I lose in any situation by playing cash, with the same frequency I reach ITM and reach late stage of tournaments.

Once again, I was convinced that the key of MTT win is patience, because if you are playing tournaments for 8 hours, many times you feel the urge to “improvise”. But this time everything wil be okay (mostly )

Of course there was a place for luck, but such tournaments like any other MMT you can`t win in another way. Luck is not enough to win but without luck it's impossible.

And a few words about why only a second place. In general, I was a confident chip leader until the middle of the tournament, when there were less than 100 players left, balanced in the middle of the list, sometimes dropping below 30 bb, but closer to the final table I firmly held the 2nd place, with a gap of 15-25 bb with the rest of the players. I was the chip leader until the heads-up, and there was a moment when the chip ratio was 3 to 1 in my favour, but I was unable to take advantage, and lost after 40 minutes of heads-up play, due to my own mistakes. It's very sad, because I wasn't even playing my "b" poker at the end of the heads-up, not even “a”, and I could have beaten my opponent 100%, but I will have this experience.

It's a pity that it's not a PO format, because the prize money would have been much bigger, but it's not bad either.
And I also want to say about 888 Poker, which "pleased" me immediately after winning by blocking the withdrawal of funds and the need to update the documents, although I had already sent a full package of documents before and even successfully withdrew $15 two months ago
The verification of documents is delayed, and I hope the story with the blocking of the withdrawal menu will end quickly

Would you like to hear such stories in the future?

Nice win and story I hope you all the best and remember that there will be insane periods of bad luck that seem to never end. That 67x win is INSANE for non full time player.

Thanks a lot for your kind words. I heard thousands times about down strick period and know that its can happens, but it is hard to be ready for this type, so we will see how it will be.

We didn't have to wait long and I win again. This time finally first place. Difference between 1-st and 2-nd place was close too 200 $. So, besides desire win tournament I also had a financial motivation

This time the game was not as smoothly as the previous time. I also had a average and higher steck during the tournament but several times fell down to 20-30 bb and needed to regain the top positions. The most dangerous was a situation, when 6-7 players stayed on final table, and I played bad with 66 and just big blaind was increased. At that time I had 15 bb what is super non comfortable stack on this short table. But in HU everything was perfect. I reached the heads-up with a 3x advantage, which I increased to 4x in a couple of hands.And it all ended with an unsuccessful all-in from my opponent with 9J to my ace king. And I got this victory.

Also, literally on the same day, I reached the top 18 in the 7000$ Ramble tournament ($22 buy-in) and didn't make it to the final table due to my poor play. But of course, $70 bounty softened the defeat a little bit.

I'm interested to hear your comments, so don't hesitate to write

I haven't written here for a long time..
One of the reasons is that I almost stopped playing poker after this time, as I was a little exhausted from playing and didn't have enough time.

Recently I decided to start again and the results are not the worst.

I added one more small win that I got in the spring after the ones above,



and I'm adding the 1st place win of 3.30 that I got recently.


To tell you the truth, I was lucky as hell. I didn't play my best game and a couple of rivers helped me. In general, the cards was very cool, probably 5 times in total I got AA/KK/QQ, and it certainly affected the result.

All in all, not bad, but then I decided to try my hand at 16.5 PKO, and after the second buy-in I realized that it was probably time to take a break. ����
(Although it's right to say reentry, I haven't played for half a year and 888 has changed everything))

I also had a good 4th or 5th place in 11 PKO with a prize pool of 2,500, where I took $190 along with very good bounties, but considering that it's not even top three, I didn't take a screenshot and don't add more details here.

I feel that anything above 11 bucks is little difficult for me, it lacks technicality. Although I'm surprised that I took 1st place in a run for 22 dollars, it's still not my comfort zone, to put it mildly. And the weight of the buy-in plays a role by about 15-20%, but it is definitely not the key factor.

What do you guys advise me to do next? I would be sincerely grateful for your comments.