So, Six Weeks Campaign failed. Although about 3 effective weeks and +12k€ wasn't bad considering all things. Year is roughly +20k€ right now, very bad but bearable result.

This September has been super mega über bad. First had about 1,5 weeks of leg pains, which healed just in time before favourite uncle's funeral. And right after that I got a bad flu, which still continues. Also University took whole month to approve my extra time application, which effectively means that my 1st period was wasted. Quite a bit more challenging timetable now as has only bit over 1,5 years left and some courses are available just once a year or even less often.

So not much poker neither studies, although I did play quite a bit to get thoughts away from leg pains. Got some success @ small ones but shots ended up dead after flopped nut set was cracked @ 250€ PKO at mega pot etc. So poker was a disappointment too (prob bit up).

Goals for next 20 months (until end of May 2020):

Main objective: Master's degree. Will require lots of attention, require about 90 points worth of studies out of which 40 points is Master's Thesis. Takes 1,5 years at a recommended pace.

Secondary objective: Poker – not so much objective but ~1200 hours and +60k€ would be a reasonable goal. That would be 10 hours per week on average during studies (16 months) and 30 hours per month during next month and summer.

I should be able to save whole amount of poker winnings to grow my bankroll without touching my current investments.

Bonus objective: Reach ideal weight zone... would need to lose about 16 kg (91 → 75) to reach that.

Current poker bankroll: 60k€ (50k€ as main bankroll and 10k€ as a shot bankroll, most of it going for now to live events + Millions Online)

Target poker bankroll: 120k€ (100k€ as main and 20k€ as shot).

From games you should get a clue from calendar I made 1,5 months ago: https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...0&postcount=15 . Party did remove all the games but fortunately got some new games introduced @ MPN and Veikkaus.

Overall long-term goal decided at the beginning of 2017 remains the same, to be a millionaire by the end of 2023. Challenging position (roughly 260k€ now) but should be beatable, depending on many factors. Maybe most major single issue is about when stock market is going to crash into recession and how it will revert.

I will make different short-term goals for shorter periods.

For next month goals are following:

- Two successful weeks playing leaderboards before I leave for Battle of Malta @ 23rd of October.
- 5-figs
- Not to get much over 50€ abi by selling action from 100+ buy-in games.

Bit ambitious short-term goals, at least 2 successful weeks, as I expect leaderboard to be far more tough than during late summer + I am still recovering from flu. But certainly beatable, let's hope for the best so year is not going to be worst moneywise during this decade.

After that I won't have any chance to play leaderboard before Millions Online as studies will start right after BoM. Probably will be playing shorter sessions using regular calendar though.

While I was writing this (and afterwards decided to twitch rest of the tournament, you can check video there: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/313532486 ) I burned some free 1,1$ and 5,5$ tickets from PartyPoker click a card promo and ended up having decent free score:



Tomorrow I will take a bigger one!

Sunday didn't go well. Didn't go well at all. Despite such soft fields, noticed that 215$ NLO8 Supersonic was roughly as ridiculous as 27$ hyper but maybe even more soft. Hands like straight all-in every hand like KJ44ss 200bb deep at the beginning of tournament and these limp-calls were very common:



Surely going to sell action to those 82$-215$ NLO8 / PLO8 games next Sunday-Monday alongside leaderboard tournaments, those are nuts and should be easy to sell. Especially Supersonic as it takes so little time to finish.

But this Sunday, sold some action @ 100-200 buy-in games, got half a dozen deep big runs, zero hits despite they weren't so huge fields (but most paid like 4k-6k tops). Few mincashes brought back enough that Saturday profit pretty much covered it up, but decided not to go for leaderboard as I was very tired at the end of the session because of flu. No real reason to try and endure 15 hour sessions on average while not physically at the best shape.

Instead plan is to play 4 live tournaments from Wed to Sat this week as this is a rare opportunity, usually live tournaments are only arranged at Casino Helsinki. 3x 100€ 1 re-entry "city champion" tournaments out of which 2 is arranged literally next door (100m from my place) and third on another part of the Helsinki region but I can go there literally by walking about 200m by using a metro. Fourth is some kind of 50€ satellite to live event held in middle of nowhere in a bar @ village where ~ 400 people lives. A friend of mine is going there so I get a transport.

Aim is still to get 2 good weeks, but it's gonna be hard. Secondary objective shall be 400 MTTs this month (before BoM). Third would be to lose 3 kg before BoM.

Well, worst possible result from a live tournament.

Soft field, got AKs > QQ at the beginning (would've re-entried though), after that quite card dead for 5 hours but got some chips until blinds hit 400/800/100 and lost a bit @ FT blinds before bubble (6 paid), then got 7 left 88 > A6o just to bust out next hand AKs < JJ at a big pot and bubbled. I so hate live tournaments, at least this time it wasn't too long and too expensive. It's very annoying at multi-day tournaments when you play well, gather nice stack but end up card dead @ 2nd / 3rd day and get busted at first flip for bubble / mincash.

Tournament structures were quite ridiculous as usually. It played somewhat deep until 500 / 1k -> 750/1500 -> 1k/2k blind levels which co-incided with bubble effect, so stacks effectively halved and it was push-fold poker for most stacks.

Have cashed like 6/20 low buy-in live tournaments, but of course have run super badly @ high buy-in tournaments. Live tournaments do have value, but of course A) variance is mega bad and B) usually travel costs are far too expensive to cover. At least this time it wasn't too bad to walk 100m to tournament place.

Today not much better, but was out more quick. Won a lot @ non-sd pots but couldn't win any flip, both AAxx @ PLO got cracked at a flip (first was against QJ93ss) and last hand was 3-bet half my stack (7k, 5k starting stack) and go in @ 932r flop AAJ2ds vs. KQ98ss, turn J river Q.

Very good feeling about edge, but MTTs and live MTTs especially are short-term so luck based especially with these structures (starting stack 12,5bb after 2 hours of play and it runs quickly shorter) that one needs NOT TO be unlucky to beat even small field tournaments. Opponents weren't so bad as one might expect @ PLO, there were actually few pretty good players firing at this 100€ PLO tournament but of course field overall was far weaker than me... despite PLO being my worst game out of 3 I play even semiregularly (O8 / Texas / PLO). It's just that most players even read table and their own cards weakly + don't even think what I may have in my hand.

Back @ internet poker.

How not to arrange promotion

Nice freeroll. But all marketing there was one random tweet and I guess that was all. Didn't forget to mention about this to "pro" team members though



Playing this one and firing a late session later. Sold 50% action, so it's pretty much these + as many regular (turbo) rebuys + 22-55 O8s I can play alongside.





Wish me luck!

Btw. if anyone is interested about buying shares later let me know. I mainly just sell these @ fb poker friends and @ finnish poker discord, it's been rather easy to sell there. Forums are very slow and complex to deal with when you sell shares like these. But I will sell them later too and in case there's some big tournament I've won a satellite ticket I usually try to sell some % to reduce variance.

Feeling literally sick. With no (advance or whatsoever) warning leaderboards were removed. So I was playing leaderboard and only noticed it after leaderboards disappeared from the client, no mention @ twitter or here or anywhere except on a tiny print on their promo page (which had been probably updated today or yesterday).

All the while for almost a year at every spot Party has claimed that LB will run until November. Their words are utterly worthless and they seem to have no morale whatsoever.

So short-term plans go anew and goal is 400 good tournaments @ total. Counting these crappy tournaments too. Playing with rebuy NLO8 etc. calendar, probably trying to play about 10-12 days out of next 20.

Have been running very badly, but did have a run @ NLO8 215$ Supersonic last night but after 3 lost flips was crippled but managed to make it from F4T -> 9th place for 1,1k$ so got most buy-ins back. Still have few runs and planning to play some O8 today and probably some rebuys.

Hi, will you post some hands that you played and write some thoughts on it or this will just be results posting journey?

Plan is to have less hands, bit more strategical level thinking and even more reflections about overall things, tournament calendar and goals. Most critical hands are usually pretty straightforward and short stack situations @ MTT.

If someone is interested about some basic hands etc. I have them on Discord, easier to post there midsession (usually keep 2+2 closed during session if I have any more tables): https://discord.gg/2QjgfBq

It's in Finnish but #farseerinblogi you're welcomed to ask @ English too if there's something interesting. English channel still has 0 msgs so welcomed to open it too if you have any generic questions.

Frustrating day. Super bad flip run @ big spots. Also still bit sick, which makes long poker sessions more wearing.

Huge lead 1/7 -> 3rd place from last one, 82$ NLO8 hyper for about 10 buy-ins. Lost 3/4 flips (and splitted 4th one for no good) @ the FT. Like 50 3rd-8th places from these, super mega über bad endruns @ O8 tournaments this year although I am still about b-e (but used to have 50%-100% ROI at higher levels too earlier, much money to be won @ these). Many people fire up to 4 shots who have absolutely no clue what they're playing.

Gonna check tournament calendar a bit on coming days, there's been some bad news as some tournaments have been cancelled / turned to worse. But there should be pretty good amount of value tournaments running from 18:30 EET until 02:30 EET or so. And it shouldn't really be a shame playing shorter sessions... firing a bunch of turbo rebuys + hyper hi-los etc. is okay way to take a short value session if there's nothing else to do.

On more positive note, there are a few extra sats which might be worth playing.

Well. 6 FT's, 1 win out of 22 tournaments. Great day? Like hell, truly very bad one. All FT's were very small ones and from 3r or 5r tournaments and win was this while all other results were 3th-8th.



Couldn't win any flip or hold any 80-20 situation at flips worth over €100. Well, got buy-ins back but when best cash was about 150€ it's rather obvious that losing all flips @ 11r-82 tournaments did eat all profits from small ones. FT bubbled 12r @ 2,5k turbo rebuy @ 888 and that was only cash (just 66$) from higher buy-ins than 5r.

Much like this 55 added sat:



I play this one with small stack but you can see what's the value of these games (too much to pay after a raise I guess...) :



There's a tricky spot for you.



AxKc imo. only value hand ahead of us this this opponent plays like this (both having value hand + nutdraw). Usually meet some mid-high pocket pair with Xc played like this.

Hard to keep motivation and stopped regging after 3 hours. It's strange, I personally think that 82 NLO8 hyper PKOs are best value games by far but don't like playing them because @ one flip I usually lose more than winning at small field (but great value) games I can win. Also been skipping small field 55r turbo for while it has great value it doesn't have THAT great value in comparison to 5,5r turbo or 11r when we think about variance and psychological effect on motivation.

For small games value is occasionally awesome skill level of opponents, like that 5,5r PLO8v I won (again, won it about 50% of times I have played it but it has just 15-25 players usually), more often than not HU opponent seems not to know rules of the game. Like this time he did play tight, but go all-in with no folding equity with hand like KJT7ds (ok hand @ PLO but super crap @ PLO8).

Hey I would like to learn about plo8 basics for start to sometimes fire some plo8 tourneys that are running, where do u recommend I can start learning basics?

There's not much books or any good info around there about O8. And it's good thing, as most people play it like regular Omaha

I did basically start by playing shortstacked NLO8 tournaments, basically playing like all AAxx / A2xx and it worked pretty well. Propokertools is useful for counting odds and basically O8 games are very soft especially at lower level so even playing tight-aggressive is probably profitable way. Read the rules, latereg into regular O8 tournament and play, it's probably best and fastest way to learn.

Well what a max frustrating week and Sunday. Lots of deepruns, all big ones busted and just got few ~500€ cashes. Too many 3rd-9th place finishes, especially 5th-9th. 20r and 55+ O8s just didn't have much chance to get nice scores, just Mosh Pit was even somewhat close to big score.



This week: 115 tournaments, +1,4k€ about (+1,7k€ if one counts ups from sold packages). No big scores (best were about 600-700€) and higher buy-in tourneys didn't go well... but got solid amount of cashes.

Only Sunday got a full session, about 8,5 hours and 39 tournaments. Trying to get 3 such sessions and 1-2 short ones @ upcoming week and nice profit.

Games were super soft. During Sundays regular tournaments seem much softer, I guess most regs are hunting for bigger tournaments leaving all the fish (and me) around.







FT lol.

Start of the week hasn't been good. Monday was bad short sessions, got some small runs which brought buy-ins back but yesterday was hopeless and today just started few tournaments. Overall 36 tournaments so far this week.

Thursday night will be investment club evening so no poker, and Saturday will be Unibet Mancave night (lots of drinks). So probably trying to play Friday + Sunday good sessions, added few more tournaments to my MTT calendar and going to check it out how it works.

This HR also looks very interesting. Mostly players shooting 50bb+ direct all-ins etc. when I looked at it after 3 hours of play, and overall level seemed about as bad as 27-82 O8s. Lots of very late late reg's too, which is always positive at PKO.



Maybe I will use my online portion for shotroll to play 109-215 NLO8s.

Few words about bankroll management

As I stated at the OP my poker bankroll is 60k€. I have more in savings and investments so it could be higher amount, but rather play it safe than sorry. And currently playing on high stakes tournaments is more of a psychological and game selection challenge: there isn't so many good 55+ rebuys or 109+ NLO8s where 50k€ main bankroll wouldn't be enough.

I don't want to play high stakes only because I could do so. Or make 10%-20% ROI at some HS games and endure huge swings. I want to play good value games which I can crush comfortably. Leaderboards were totally different thing, at least @2016 as they were after are very easy to beat solidly @ monthly basis back then.

Main bankroll

Bread and butter-bankroll. Not planning to lose it. Max €50 buy-in (1k buy-ins) even with smaller fields and good value tournaments with good ROI. You really can't be too careful with MTT variance, but this pretty much covers one up from bankroll issues.

50€ average buy-in pretty much cover all stuff. You can add some 33r-55r and 82-109 tournaments to the mix which mostly consists 22-55 O8 and 5r-22r rebuys. Add some value satellites and other spots and we're pretty much done. Enough for MOST promotions too.

Shot bankroll

Primarily aimed for good shots, but for last two years it has been mostly (in vain) spent for live tournaments due to "have to play" tournaments. And shots on those or high buy-in events online hasn't really been successful. Also buying / swapping shares of tournaments belong here. In the past these shots have been like Ongame 530€ highroller 50k guaranteed with 70 players or that kind of stuff.

Really think that I have rather nice edge @ live due to good understanding of odds and I can reasonably well read people. But playing 2-3 events live a year and handful online which cost much variance and luck is of course dominant factor. Too bad all my live runs (cashed 7 out of roughly 30 live events) have been used to dominate small buy-in events.

Now of course part of 10k€ allocated goes to Millions Online (plan to swap or sell 60% though) and Battle of Malta (going with 2 ammos), but that allows me to shot 215 O8 events or things like that. And I can always sell shares... not really tempted to sell without MU as my edge is good and outside 215 Supersonic they last much longer than my regular tournaments.

Basic idea is for now that I plan to grow bankroll is to grow both bankrolls, 20% of main bankroll winnings go to shot roll and 50% of shot bankroll winning go to main bankroll. So if I have basic stuff +10k€ week I get handful of shots to 200-500 events and if I bink 50k€ at some shot event it'll grow main bankroll by 25k€. So basically idea is that either way my bankroll grows and I will have a chance to make reasonably good shots.

Psychology part

It's not so much about limitations of my bankroll but more that I just HATE to lose and I HATE to lose money as well. Bankroll-nit, you can call it. Born into poor family and having had very limited amount of money and resources have that effect. But time to put money into work, be it poker, investments or some other form (like my current apartment).

Well that was one another mega über bad Friday. Started bad and ended up in catastrophe. Opponents were kindly saying ultra bad (like usually @ Fridays). Every single 11r or higher tournament did run worse than any nightmares you've seen, and while early in the session three smallest 5r:s FT'd it didn't help much as 1st place @ Mini Bullseye paid 144€ and 2nd place in another 122€.

One bit bigger one ended up this again mega chip lead (I was probably 3/8 at that spot) 8th...:



Best spot was very early in the session @82 NLO8 hyper PKO, but twice a whale beats me in almost 1k flips and second was direct bubble.





In the end last straw was when I quickbusted roughly eleven out of dozen last tournaments very quickly including eff. sat bubble against megawhales lotto call, so decided not to continue regging. Early session marginal profit, late session nasty loss. Could've easily been huge profit and something else.

Late session was pretty much this and other way around, always losing all setups no matter 20% or 80%.



Not overall huge loss if we count 215$ ticket won... but it's little comfort as should really be making great profit.

By the way, did try Unibet 10r and Winamax 5r for first time in ages. Both busted @ first hand against opponents aces... first hand had flopped top pair and another KK. So much for welcome back-runs.

Tomorrow party-party, Sunday poker-poker. That's the plan.

End of a bad week, 35 tournaments and some nice deepruns but nothing really came from them.

Some hands from 55 PKO 1 million guaranteed... could've been nice shot for 50k 1st place + bounties since field was super soft.

Big bounty, maniac opponent.



Bounty hunter anyone? 2020 left 2000 paid.



Two last hands. Pretty awful setup last one, opponent was ultra maniac.





20r 10k€ guaranteed got F3T, but no longer.

2nd place from NLO8 12r turbo, got flip for the win but no cigar. Interesting FT though, as original chiplead was sitout most of the FT and 888 prizestructure makes it rather -EV to bust 3rd but managed to hold my ground against bigger stack.

Very awful week, but probably pretty near break-even in the end. There were some great value games, and while my best cash was only bit over 300$ managed once again to get break-even despite running super bad @ all major spots.

35 tournaments today, 101 this week. Not as much as I wanted, but was overall very hard week both @ poker and otherwise. Next week I will concentrate on doing stuff done before Battle of Malta.

E: Actually profitable week. Did win 200€ from live cash @ basement night. Not bad, it was like 30 hands 1/1 dealer's choice

Decided to stop trying to push for 400 MTTs. In any case I have always been bad @ making some goals as they favourite non-optimal game selection + I have never been good at grinding. And I really want to do all the stuff before Malta trip, including arranging all things @ my house.

Decided to test new added live satellites for fun though. Pretty fun, except last one which is hideously slow.

1050 sat currently going, took two nasty hits moment ago so just 2/3 of starting stack left. How likely it is that every single time they have J (or 22) here?



and also took (almost risk-free) 5,5 -> 22 ticket to WPT Montreal although that time is bit booked but firing day1 online is always an option.

Other sats also got some interesting hands. Always when there's no interesting hand I have always win that satellite today (not too unlikely with added sats as you don't have to win many flips).

No history hands, expect @ first one there were 9 hands played and opp had 88/22/0 stats but didn't see it since 1st hand at this table.



Not really sure against random opponent. But it's rather usual here that because people have satted in they do big or go home with random hands early at the sat. Most usual hand AK ofc.



Well positive news... I didn't lose anything! Buy-ins were about 44$ and I got 50% rb from e-mail which covers it. Great value games, although ofc. better value if you can / will play some regular tournaments alongside. But it isn't easy to multitable these sats either.

So freerolling but with smallish stack @ CPP sat.

Long time no see. Last week before BoM didn't play much, just about 35 tournaments (mostly added sats). No success, no big losses either.

Malta trip was 90% vacation, only played main event and side event included in my package. 550€ Main Event got over 3800 entries, so huge price pool mostly consisting Southern Europe whales and satellite players once being better players than rest of the field. Super soft tournament, as you can probably imagine. Decided to play 1C because there were no parties and since day1s had lasted 13-14 hours (we played until 15% field was left) decided to late register as I wanted to have energy left during more important levels of the day and secondary plan was to re-enter turbo day 1D starting few hours later should I bust my first entry.

Run rather easily from from starting stack of 25k -> 75k @ super soft table with few good hands / hits consisting three überwhales for most of the time. One was classical limping station, second was oldern Southern European whale who liked to play every hand and third was worse than them combined: Asian lady who played like lottery machine for instance calling 15bb shove from UTG with A6s @ middle position and liked to either limp or open 5bb or 6bb as an opener. Of course she run like Goddess of Fortune herself and got to day2. Rest of the players were rather bad nitty players, but unfortunately only reasonably good player in the table alongside me got direct position against me.

Transfer to a new table. Was somewhat worried as young / rather young players with no usual Southern Europe looks and decent stacks. Was able to control table quickly though with little opposition and got my stack run to about 110k. Then a loosiest player on the table opened @ MP for 7,5k, I did 3-bet from button with pocket queens bit more than usually (22,5k, opponent had about 105k behind and expected him to come in with middle pairs at this spot and I wanted him in now because I didn't except to get easily value from hands like 77-TT or AQ after board cards were dealt). Well, opponent comes in holding pocket tens, table runs blank blank blank blank TEN. As every ****ing time in about every major poker spot in my life.

Would've been CL of the table by a nice margin and could've easily overrun any opposition during last 4 levels (40 min each) of the day when people were playing super nitty and were mostly very tired (15% of the field advanced to day 2 meant that people were in the money). I really am not a fan of this kind of arrangement as it promotes stalling and day1 was really, really long in my opinion but it makes players very easy to be overrun as bubble time is well known.

Well, I was left with 2bb. Didn't give up, got dealt ATs before my BB (tournament was played with BB ante so my stack wasn't hurted by antes before BB), 4 players called and I got nut flush (another player holding 64s for flush won a side pot) and I was back @ 10bb stack just for few hands before blinds were about to rise. Managed to steal few blinds, then doubling up JJ < A8o and after that our table was broken. Was transferred to other table where everyone except one player covered me, people were playing tight-aggressive... didn't get much room to move except push-fold.

Just after last break, when tournament staff paused tournament to count exact number of players still in (247 players before break, 236 after that, 232 paid and get to day2) I got 99 @ UTG+1. 235 left, 232 paid @ 3k/6k/6k (BB blind) and I had 89k. Every single player covered me, and while they didn't open much they had flipped bit more liberally. We didn't know amount of bubble money yet, but decided to fold that 99 since it about never is @ good spot if called and with 7 players left to act after me without fear of busting themselves (and probably most didn't understand I would push super tight at that spot as I had been somewhat active holding good hands earlier). I think it was a good fold, although in the end would've won the pot preflop (like I expected to happen roughly 60% of the time). Just that ~40% calls (like TT+ / AK / AQs?) mean I will probably have like bit over 30% to win the flip.

2nd day. Managed to maintain my stack while blinds run @ 4k/8k/8k (they'd been rolled back to 2k/5k/5k at the beginning of day2) , then pushed all-in from UTG with pocket kings, BB called with slightly shorter stack with A4o and turn brought ace. Would've been almost average stack even at that spot if pocket kings would have holded.

Was very pleased at the level of my play. I was best player by far in every single table I played (well didn't play too long @ my table but it didn't seem that big stacks understood and used spot well where most people were tired and just hoping for day to end and them to cash). But as always, live tournament poker has absurd amount of variance and at least this case I managed to mincash (850€) which gives some small comfort.

Had to play 150€ side event because I had ticket to it so enjoyed free drinks @ VIP room and late regged to it. First won TT > 42o against small stack, but lost 60k pot after I pushed 99 for 14bb @ HJ and very tight SB woke up with aces.

Few thoughts that are good for me @ live tournaments :

- Late register into tournament if it runs very long. At least I can't maintain good level of concentration for almost 14 hours day 1 (and it's hard to recover for next day as well if it starts about 10 hours after day1 have ended). Many players worry that worst whales will bust early but don't worry, there'll be enough of them and those players early regging tend to be whales as well at the end of the day when their concentration level is super low and high blinds makes every decision much more critical.

- Use headphones to fight off background noise. With over 1000 players at the same room making noise makes my head ache, rather keep music on when you're not participating in the hand.

- Concentrate your thinking on the meaningful things: don't worry about food breaks or other things you can't reasonably easily affect. Keep your thought @ poker and stay well informed about your opponents chip stacks and general play, but don't overconcentrate on specific issues.

- Remember hydration. Sounds easy, but most live venues are super ****ty and don't have good service for drinks or any automats, some places even forbid your own (non-alcoholic) drinks but this time found few drink automats (super long lines @ bar during breaks especially). Red Bull is very good for live tournaments (add vodka after you have busted).

Hard to get motivated to grind. Played just few tournaments today, first forgot to add-on, then got all-in aces vs. some crap and lost and after that third one just withered away. Didn't feel good to play.

Maybe trying to play decent session @ Sunday and fire 6 days next week (mostly short sessions) to gain extra incentive to play @ MPN to win extra tickets to 33 1r1a and 22€ turbo KO (88€ extra value wouldn't be bad).

Also there will be Day 1A of Millions Online @ 25th of November. Got a ticket for that, planning to split and sell total of 50%-60% of that tournament to fight a bit against variance. Next live tournament outside of Finland (might fire some regular ones @ Casino Helsinki) will probably be MPNPT Tallinn as still have 550€ ticket because didn't have to re-entry @ Battle of Malta.

Sunday wasn't my day. Played just 7 tournaments though, woke up just before midnight and fired a very small session while watching twitch.

Basic start:





And super crappy ending as usually. First 2/7 -> 7th 5 paid 11r hyper.





One hand in between two earlier ones. Just ridiculous how super badly these opponents play (clear shove sb last hand after that bet-fold).



And direct bubble @ 19 left rebuy. Took more variance-heavy line as opponent was forcing the bubble with any2. Bubble being just 38€ / 1,5% of prizepool at @MPN while win gives 600+€ it is far more tempting to have 65+% flip for 2x average stack than take just blinds which will happen 80+% of time if I shove. Especially as people seem to play bubble far too tightly (and bust rarely) considering that bubble prize isn't so huge.



Well, **** happens. Still pretty nice how decent session from great value games you can fire in 2-3 hours while just watching twitch. Just would hope to beat variance once in a while.

It's surprising when one plays session which consist just 5 tournaments + lasts only 1 hour. Lost 4x 80-20 pre-flips and one 70-30, got rivered too. Played some nice 100% overlay live sat and bunch of other 11r:s.

Simply can't ****ing win anything, although players are exactly this "good" in these 11r tourneys:

Not much games, no cashes either. Mostly trying to read for political history exam, not going smoothly. Stocks have been wild here in Finland, my biggest holding got a nice boost when they sold most of their share of another media company and got boosted 20% so with my other major holdings being moderately succesful my investments seems to make small profit this year.

Made a little +EV sports bet. Had 100% profit boost, so took Premier League (usually have very nice RTP, checked market tops and made this bet).



Been playing some small +EV casino bonuses too. Nothing major though. Not sure yet, but if I manage to get through this exam and get my bachelor thesis forward I might grind 2 weeks (UOS + rebuys mostly) in December.

Should really concentrate more on studies, but for now if I get this one course through + manage to finish up my bachelor's thesis this year it'll be enough. Trying to do 6 courses next spring, leaving me with Master's thesis + proseminar for university year 2019-2020. If I just get my studies running it would leave some time around for other stuff including poker too.

Didn't hit. Listened to woman's advice and that's why lost (was playing for 1 she told me X both were market tops so decided to listen). Note to self: don't ever listen to women when it comes to games or bets.

Well anyways, was certainly a +EV bet so let's swallow it and make good day 1A and strive for $2,5M @ 20M guaranteed starting today.

Well, no ****ing chance again. Lots of bad players, but rather bad card-runs (got some chips though) but couldn't play too much as maniac in position (not this one). Wasn't in a hurry though as slow structure + lots of bad players throwing their chips away in average means lots of +EV chips and tournament played mostly 100bb-200bb with full table as long as just keep cool head and wait to grab easy chips.

But supermegalol how ****ty runs my "seemingly" good hands always hit.

This is bust:



At that flop would've most likely c-r all-in @ flop either way should I have decided to just call pre-flop.

Opener a new player, have played EP hands. Might have gotten rid of this JJ against this seemingly tightish player unless there's been a bit of history (it's shouldn't bee too likely player to get twice in a row QQ+ when I rarely 3-bet) but of course lolPartyJoker makes such runs. It's also to be noted that all history is at the same table with player right on our left side playing with maniac stats (which would mean solid player at that position would open less when not at the button).



Well. **** happened, again.

November was very bad poker-wise, but really not many games. No scores, but small buy-ins and some +EV bonuses + poker bonuses brought most of losses back (not counting 5,3k ticket). Otherwise managed to make one book exam (4 books, 5 OPs) which was primary target for this month.

December and advent calendars = quite good bonuses alongside regular ones. So far best have been 40€ value freeroll (50€ froll 5x slot wager @ 98% RTP) has been best, but probably worth of roughly 200€ bonuses moneywise during first 3 days.

Not including some sportsbook bonuses which are more volatile, but there was like 50% up to 50€ deposit bonus which only requires to 200€ wager @ 1,4x or higher odds. In the future I will probably activate them more often if they have great value. @ Premier League RTP is usually 98+% if you check best odds from oddschecker or elsewhere.

I will probably play UOS today, and if it seems so that I have some motivation to play more I will fire Tuesday & Wednesday too. If at that spot got more than minimum points, may fire whole 2 week session. It has much worse value than before, but should still give rather nice December score on average should I play for full 2 weeks. Alongside I can use some poker christmas bonuses.