I qualified as expected. I have even managed to win some more chips at the end because I widened up my RFI and 3-betting range.

~$360 from the $109 tourney. Last hand KK vs AQo for 20bb all in pre. And just like that they sent me to sleep early early...

To be honest, I feel like I had lost a big part of massive fan base. I believe this is due to not winning $10K+ over the last 2-3 weeks. I have had many deep runs but nothing big to shout about. My sharkscope graph has been sliding down slowly. I think I need to end the slide and win this big boy tonight. 51 players left at this point and I am 9th in chips. Almost $8K for the top place. I know it is not as much as the $11K but in my defense I am still not feeling fully recovered from the symptoms from my covid-19 vaccine.

Another very deep run and finishing just outside of the big money. Obviously, very disappointing.

We are gonna grind the next four nights. Good luck us!

Many deep runs today and I even managed to reach one FT but PokerStars cut me off short immediately with AK vs AJ. I have won three $109 satellite tickets one of which I played and finished 11 players short to the money. Obviously, I am very disappointed. Anyway, one day one of all these deep runs will materialize in something big, like the Tuesday tourney I finished second one month ago.

Otherwise, from playing perspective, I have added a lot of new moves based on what I have been learning from Pokercoaching. I am glad to see that I have managed to improve my game a bit.

Another deep run but this time I have managed to finish on 3rd place. Much better than the last few weeks. Back-to-back FTs. I am really pleased with the way I played the FT. I was towards the bottom of the pack almost immediately since I got to the FT. However, I had managed to dodge some bullets and let the more aggro players to bust before me, which they did of course. I was playing like a pussy (meow) throughout the most of the FT but I believe that was good. I did not fold knowingly +ev hands for the sake of playing tight. A solid FT overall.

I probably won't be playing tonight so I drew the line for the month. What a month it was. In fact, it was the best month I have ever had thanks to the 2nd place in The Tuesday and $11K+ bink. However, what I am particularly happy about is my Average ROI. It is positive, which is really nice. I believe this shows that I am able to hold my ground at the stakes I play.

I have been playing well overall, which I am delighted about of course. I have increased my buy in range a bit by mixing in some $50s yesterday. This still underutilizes my bankroll but I am doing it due to prudence and risk management. I do not wanna play stakes that I think I won't be winning purely because my bankroll allows me to. I look forward to increasing the ABI as the time goes by.

Last hand I busted the FT of Big $33 a few days ago. I just finished reviewing the FT HH with Icmizer. I am very pleased with the way I had played it. Virtually no big icm mistakes, unlike the other players I believe. I feel like I have an edge when I play FT. This is not really because I am so amazing in icm but because everyone else is terrible. It is like someone has opened the flood gates and people just cannot wait to punt it off. I believe I made nice money by playing tight and let other players bust before me. I definitely feel like I took the maximum out of that FT. I remember when I played The Tuesday where I won $11K+ for the second place, people were making massive mistakes for hundreds and hundreds of dollars. On the other hand, I was just sitting tight and wait for the dust to settle.

Reviewing the HH with Icmizer definitely helped. I saw a few spots where I should have been even a little bit tighter but not that many. Generally, I believe I am fine. One thing however, I noticed was that I need to reshove a bit wider vs the big stacks when I am short stack. Currently, I am a bit too tight. Also, the openjamming ranges have to be tighter when I open vs big stacks. So I need to tighten up appropriately in such situations.

I have played maybe 30-40 tourneys today. What intense day. I even managed to get to one FT with $125 entry, which I won from a sat. I even was the cheapleader on the 16th player bubble. Unfortunately, the high powers decided that from that point on I should lose all filps and even when I was favorite. It is what it is. What I am the most happy about was that I believe I played very solid the F2T and the FT unlike villains. The punted big time as usual. They never disappoint me really.

Some hands from yesterday. Making some moves. These hands are from the bubble when there were 16 players left, 15 get in the money.

1. I like how I played this hand postflop but I think the better play would have been to open jam pre.
https://plomastermind.com/replayer/69AN5NycM/

2. People are so loose. I think I am the only one that tighten up on the bubble with mid or short stack. Everyone is playing like they are the chipleader, although they are not.
https://plomastermind.com/replayer/69AN5RUvL/

3. Although I like how I played this hand, it might be a punt. I do not know.
https://plomastermind.com/replayer/69AN5TmmF/

Now already in the money:

4. I knew this hand was very close. I just did not know how close. I decided to fold it because the players seemed pretty punt happy and I thought I would have better spots later. Still very close though. I remember I tanked for a bit.


Final Table:

5. Yeah, I do not know about this one. I seem to be missing these rejams. I decided to flat call. As we just started the FT, I did not know how loose this guy was. It is an extremely profitable rejam according to icmizer. A few hands later, I saw that he was very loose.


6. Another marginal openjam that I did not take. I knew it was right there around breakeven but I decided that it was not worthy to take it. The table was very loose aggro and there was one 8bb stack still in play. And just for the record, the short stack busted the next hand.


7. And now as the shortest stack, I was looking for opportunities to reshove wider.


8. And the busto hand, which you saw yesterday already.


Overall, I believe I played a very solid F2T and FT. Luckily, this was towards the end of the session where I had only a few tables left to play and even only this table when I got to the FT so that I was focused on it. Next time, hopefully I will win it. Btw I have not won a tourney since I resumed my MTT grind. I got a few second, third, etc places but no first place.

This is hand 7:

I have had better weekends. Sunday was not good. Nothing seemed to work. I even got tilted.

Nothing interesting over the last few sessions. They have been overall slightly losing ones. I have had a few deep runs but just finishing in the top 50-100.

Getting beaten up lately. I have made quite a few deep runs but finishing up at the F2T or in the top 100. This obviously does not lead to profits. I have decreased the upper range of my buy ins to $30 until I gather some momentum. The shot at $50 was not successful unfortunately.