I've wrote this entry like (seriously) +10 times and always ended up deleting it. That's because I don't think I can write my own thoughts very well, even I'd really like to. I'm always enjoyed reading blogs here & other forums and wanted to produce entertaining / interesting content myself as well.

I actually opened a thread on PGC few weeks ago, but A LOT has happened since. There's not much to read, but if you want to have cliffs of my poker "career", you can check it out from here: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/17...ter-i-1659593/

As mentioned, a lot has happened since I opened the first thread. I really wanted to start playing poker again, but due to the lack of hours in my life, I decided to start from cash games. That was an horrible idea, since I don't think I never enjoyed them as I do MTT's. (I can't believe I just said that, since last night I played $5 deep stack, lasted 8hours and finished 7th for $70......).

Anyways.. I quit my job about 3 weeks ago. Not to play poker full-time (I'll come to that a bit later on this wall of text), but just because I didn't enjoy what I was doing. I have savings to get me through ~5 months and if my goals with poker isn't looking too good, I'll get a regular 9-5 then. My SO is working with decent salary, so no matter what happens, we're not financially crippled.

Then onto the poker stuff:

My goal is to play MTT's full-time. I can't tell you if this is going to happen, but I can tell you that I will try my best. I'm playing on PS, 888 and Party Poker (the last one tilt's the living sh*t out of me by not working. Like ever.).

My daily schedule looks something like this:

6:00am | Wake up
7:30am | Take my kid to kindergarden (or daycare, not sure what's that called in English)
8:00am | Start session
3:00pm | End session
4:00pm | Pick up the kid from daycare and spend some family time
6:00pm | 2nd session (only playing twice a day for around 2-3 times per week)
10:00pm | Sleep
11:00pm | Hopefully sleep
12:00pm | Fak. I should be sleeping and not watching Andrew Neeme from youtube.

So very much a "family man"- looking schedule. Not the ideal for MTT player, but there's also some weekends I'm able to put in some extra hours.

Another interesting fact about my journey is that I actually started taking MTT coaching for the first time in my life. (Shoutout to @that_anon_pgc - http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/18...99/?highlight=) I've only had my first hour of coaching, but can already say that I'm in good hands. Really enjoyed the first hour and looking forward for next week to go through another coaching session.

I feel that my overall game is pretty solid, considering I've never done basically anything to actually improve. Yeah, I've watched a ton of videos, played a lot of poker in my life, but never like this. Not only the coaching, but the genuine passion for developing my skill set, so I can make a living out of this.

As I don't have any sick graphs to show, I'll start with a #sometimeslucky hand, a flopped royal flush hand and a quick overview of my stats. Rest assured, I will be posting those 4 & 5-fig screenshots soon enough

If you read all the way through, here's an high five! I know it's a long read and I'm maybe not the best content producer of all time, but I'll promise to update this regularly! Going to have a family trip now for 3 days, but after that it's all MTT's from left right and center.

#SOMETIMESLUCKY




That's a good flop.





(Next month will be my first full month of playing MTT's, so here's a preview of what I've done in last 3(?) weeks I guess. Nothing to brag about, but just a good starting point. I'm playing with ABI of ~5$)

Sigh.

Decent amount of deep runs in the last 3 days, but as we know, in MTT's those aren't going to make you rich

Don't have any particular topics I'd like to discuss about, I'll just post few of the last hands that ended those runs, in case someone finds something interesting from those. I think these situations has been fairly standard, so hoping to run a bit better in the upcoming days.

Against 30/26/13 V with 89 CBET Flop. Last orbit he limped 88 from SB and we checked all the way through J high board. Standard cooler I guess. Finished 13th.





The cold 3bettor had stats 22/17/5. Usually with these stack sizes this is a std 3bet from me, but been mixing some flat's with AKo in EP as well. In micro's, you'll see people get stacked a lot of the time A/K high boards, with weaker kickers. The flop raise was just to mix things up. Obviously that bet-size is the same than shove, but yeah. Don't think it makes any difference.



I wanted to post one hand from 22d PSKO MTT as well, but apparently my lighter version of PT4 doesn't track those stakes anymore? Weird, since HUD is working perfectly fine on 22's as well.

Well, I think I've FT'd twice the 11$ KO MTT on 888poker (in 2 days), but no real success there.

I'm following, gl man!

nice nick! reminds me to start watch 2nd season. Unfortunately EU banned streaming recently so I guess I have to lend myself a netflix account.

GL on the felt

Let's gooo!

Thanks man! I actually hated the first 3 episodes but then it clicked. Awesome show.

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I made a stupid play today @ $22 PSKO.

I mean.. What is he barreling 3 streets with a bluff, after UTG open, on that board/run-out? I can think like KQs, that's pretty much about it. TT/JJ/QQ (obviously only 1 combo of QQ's left) should've check back the river. My first thought was that it's a good card for him to bluff, but quickly realized my thought process here was really flawed and couldn't do an in-depth analysis during the hand, which would've saved me some chips.

That board connects my calling range pretty well and still he fired 3 bullets. That should've been enough for me to fold river. I still can't make those thought processes work during hand, so definitely leaking chips and money from that. Need to get better.

Exiting times. Will play SCOOP, XL Inferno & PowerFest events, starting from today. Will play only low-buy in events. Still the ABI is going to be bigger than it should, but I'll worry that after May

I have already used my one-time in my career, so can't rely on that anymore. Let's gooo.

What a way to start the SCOOP. A pretty std cooler, but the thing is: Exactly 1 hand ago, this dude 3bet 5x, then called a 3x 4bet with AQo and sucked out AQ v KK.

Next hand, he's 3betting big again, I'm like let's goooooo, let's make a bit bigger 4bet (he's btw insta-clicking buttons).

Bam, perfect flop. Oh ****. GG.

No SCOOP's today.

ITM @*Powerfest 5,5$ (finished around 80th place)
ITM @ Powerfest 22$ (still going, 11bb's, 67 left)
14th @ $22 Deep stack (888poker)

Few other min-cashes. TT v AQ, 99 v AK, AT v 99. These sort of things. Been losing these A LOT lately, but not complaining. I actually have played waaay better than I usually do, during this evening session. I don't know why, but feels good.

I just hope those big flips will go my way soon

Only 2 double ups and I'm back at it @ Powerfest! 3.8k up top.


EDIT: Out 50th or something. Neverlucky.

Haven't been playing in couple of days. My kid has been a bit sick few days, so I've been running daddy things at the house. It's been rough though. Hats off to any stay-at-home mom's / dads. I honestly couldn't do this full time.

Had another coaching session few days ago and can't wait to fire up MTT's throughout the whole weekend. I feel like I received another valuable concept to my game, which should've been there already. Oh well, that's what the coaching is for.

I did play few hundred hands @ NL25ZOOM, since I had some spare time during evenings. Not much to say about that, since if I'm leaking on MTT's, I'm definitely leaking on cash games.

Don't know to correct implied odds here, but should been getting it in good amount of time when hitting my set. This could be fold PF, or not? Anyways, decided to gambooool in 3-way pot and board was fairly decent.

Subbed, gl man

Btw, what country do you play from ?

From the coldest place in earth.



Thanks a bunch

Guess you haven't been to Ottawa, Canada

GL at the tables!

You're right, I haven't. I'm rooting for Sens this season, is that enough?

How much do you think you have to make playing poker a month to make living in Finland? 5 months to make it in MTTs seems like a rather short period of time, still hope you make it

Yeah I know 5 months is extremely short period. Although I don't have financial pressures to succeed, so I don't think about it that much. Obviously I can't keep on going forever if things don't work out, but I still feel confident that the 5 months will give me enough time to figure this thing out

As I am not the only one bringing money to the table at my household, I'd say around ~3k$ / month from MTT's would keep us living relatively relaxed lifestyle.

Good luck! How bout that hand when you flopped quads against the boat

Yeah, well karma is a *****



... I'm done with cash games. That hand was std cooler, but played waaay too many hands today, as I don't even feel comfortable playing NL25.. Oh well, back to regular MTT schedule from tomorrow. A LOT work to do.

definitely enough!

Not much to update tbh. After taking care my kid whilst he had the flu, I caught it myself as well. Haven't been playing anywhere near as much as I should.

Been mixing some 6max hypers, if there's not enough MTT's running during morning sessions (which there isn't usually..). I'd be having way better volume, if I'd start my sessions after 6pm EET, but those next morning 6am wake-ups are killing me, if the session goes for +8hrs.

Coaching will continue today, and I bought the Moorman's Book Of Poker as well. Have only read like 5-10 HH's from the book. It seems decent so far.

I've always enjoyed those funny threads with a lot GIF's, so I'll give it a shot as well. I obviously busted all my morning donkaments already, so might as well try to do something productive. (Posting GIF's onto internet forums are obv GTO).

This is going to be a quick recap of what's going on:

First thing that bugs me the most, is the fact that I'm not 100% sure if I play bad, or just have a disgusting run at the moment. This is confusing me because I FEEL that I'll lose every single big flip when having deep runs. If not that, then I'll get coolers left right and center. However, I can't seem to find evidence of that from my PT4, and I figured these are the reasons:

1. I actually don't run bad, I'm just playing bad (I highly doubt it, but never say never)
2. I don't know how to analyze these stats, nor I can find the ones that would really indicate what's going on
3. I'm running GOOD (above EV) in the early stages of tournaments, but then getting rekt when it really matters.







Too lazy to filter out turbo's and reg speeds, but on this small sample of 500 tourneys, there's definitely a lot more turbo's as in the beginning I had to play those a bit more (lack of time at my disposal). Have shifted towards more and more reg speeds lately.

So basically breaking even for the last 500 MTT's.





....But at least the ITM% is decent?



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I actually lied about busting out ALL of my morning tourneys. I thought I did, but still ITM @ Booty Builder 5.50. Let's hope for some run good.

EDIT: Lied again. It's not ITM yet.. My bad.

Liar!

Subbed, best of luck man! Btw you just have to kinda grind it out with mtt's, your winrate suggests you're absolutely crushing your stakes (even tho small sample) so don't worry about it too much. Variance is sick in timbeys unfortunately. Glgl!

Thanks for the support!

Yeah, variance on MTT's sucks. I don't mind running bad, but I do mind playing badly. I'm just not at the level yet, where I can comfortably evaluate my own game, which makes the situation a bit more annoying than it should.

We'll get there

Subbed! Good Luck on your way to crush the MTTs!
Going to follow how it is going since I also only Play MTTs beside of some SNG.

To the ITM% I got to say that it could be actually a little too high.
Just a thought but maybe you play too defensive in early stages meaning more min cashes but going into the late phase with a lower stack. since I tend to go for more flips in early stages I got a lower ITM but also a higher winnings total. this applies especially to bountys. If you look at the top online mtt players their average ITM% is somewhere around 12-15

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Thanks man!

Maybe I can dig that info out from my PT4, but I highly doubt that's the case. Especially with bounties, I'll be hunting those preeetty wide in the early stages.

I think I play pretty aggressive / solid in the early stages and can also exploit bubble situations. However, I could have a hunch that on top of the disgusting run I'm at the moment, there could be major leaks on my game when it comes to deep runs and 15-30bb stacks. I'll make sure to bring that up with my coach for the next session and see what we can do about it :

About the coaching: I've now taken 3 hours so far, and it definitely has had impact on my game already. The results are not there yet, but I'm confident they'll follow.