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01-10-2017 , 11:05 PM
Later than typical update. I'll try to keep them weekly.

Results Jan 1st - Today


HU Hypers/Spins Results


30s cEV Graph


So overall it was going well until today/yesterday. Got crushed a bit but that's ok. **** happens. I challenged two regs at 30s Hypers and felt the D. I went 0-13 vs a Reg today before I quit. I think it's a good opportunity to practice my HU. Small sample, def got reared though. I'm worse than the 2 people i played, but not THAT worse as the results show.

Spins have gone alright. I'm gaining confidence. cEV hasn't came yet, but it will. Regs are e-z peasy now. Having no issue running them over. And I've always loved my vs Fish game. Looking forward to firing more.

I fired a lot of MTTs this past week. Something like 200-250ish? I had a lot of teases, and 1 scoop. My notables:

15th 7.50 PSKO
73rd 33 BB
6th 27 NLO8 Omania
20th 7.50r
14th 11 BB
3rd 11 NLO8 Hyper
3rd 22 KO
15th 22 FO
20th 4.40r Splash
18th 27 PSKO
39th/34th in $33 Bubble Rush (Blue Text one)
1st 27 PLO Omania (Holy **** a win)
37th 22 6-max PSKO (big mid-day one)
21st 33 Freezeout

I had a lot of close calls in a lot of bigger prizepools. I did at least win the Omania, but if another one wins I have a 1-3k+ week to start the month. Oh well such is life. Been playing well. I think my evBB is good so far for a ~22abi.





Lastly, I'm getting a ton of volume in all over. I'm on record pace with my VPPs, and I think I might get Supernova for the first time lifetime. I mean it's kind of lame that it's monthly now, but I'd still like to hit it once before they ax it.



I'm aiming to hit 10k VPPs by Jan 21st. I'll finally be that Supernova whale everyone loves to play against.

I've streamed 9 out of 10 days so far as well. Some days have been good. I'm averaging ~20 viewers, which is ok to start. Growth is exponential. Once I get a deep run on a big MTT, it'll blow up, I know it.

Lastly, I've been given permission to selfroll MTTs. I'm incredibly excited for this. The make-up was getting a little daunting, so I'm feeling more motivated to grind than before. I've got a decent roll to start, so I can still fire stuff i was being stacked for. It'll be nice knowing I have 100% of myself in a tourney, and it's not just going to make-up. I'll of course have to recover make-up through spins, but that'll come with time.

Until next time lads. here's some thread sava:



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01-11-2017 , 02:42 AM
gl this year d00d will be following!
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01-11-2017 , 05:30 AM
Great job Pat! Stream for Omania was fun too Keep it up!
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01-11-2017 , 06:00 AM
Best of luck for 2017, man!

Gonna catch up on this thread later, for now I'll say nice savers!
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01-16-2017 , 10:37 PM
Look at me updating on a Monday. Weee. Let's show some picture updates, then I'll get to the nitty-gritty.

MTT Graph since Jan 10th:


Mixed Game Graph since Jan 10th:


Spins Stats:


cEV Graph:


Meh results overall, but did really well in my NLO8's this week as always. I'm borderline just dropping NLHE from my MTTs. I haven't won an NLHE tournament since July 10th, and it's blowing my mind how I can't win one. I'm solid at FT bubbles atm. Wahhh Wahhh. I'll close one eventually. Can't lose em all am I right? I do feel like a NLHE fish atm though.

Notable Results:

1st 16.50 PLO8 turbo
3rd 16.50 NLO8 omania
1st 7.50r NLO8 Hyper
8th 27 NLO8 psko
15th 11 PSKO
2nd 22 NLO8 8max Hyper

I think it's hilarious all my results are effectively NLO8. I was crushing the $11 psko too, but lost a big flip with 21 left, blah blah blah rest is history.

TCOOP is coming up and I'm pumped. I'm playing a huge schedule. Here's what it looks like:

Quote:
82s
#2 PLO8 PSKO
#3 Freeze
#5 Bubble Rush
#7 PLO win the button
#8 100% psko
#9 NLo8
#11 PLO psko
#12 Shootout
#19 fREEZE
#20 nlo8 HYPER
#26 PLO PSKO 4max
#28 5card PLO
#29 3max zoom PSKO
#30 FLO8 turbo
#34 5card PLO8 psko
#41 Big antes
#43 NLO
#55 mix-max
#56 NLO8 33% PSKO
#58 Freezeout


27s
#4 6max psko
#13 27r
#21 freezeout
#32 win the button bubble rush
#42 NLO8 Phase
#47 NLO8
#63 Main
#62 Phase

215s
#18 HU
#22 NLO8 PSKO
#57 NLO8 ultra deep hyper

Super amped, since a ton of them are O8 and you're gonna have so many NLHE players punt into them. Probably the juiciest time to fire these birds.

I also played at a live home-game these weekend. Went to my buddies house from Friday Night until Late Sunday. The game ran Saturday night and holy jeez was it wild. We played NLHE until a PLO crowd came, and then it was 1/1 PLO for the rest of the night. I was kind of turned off by the game though because we started getting 4-5 hands an hour with PLO. Everyone kept arguing what "pot" was preflop and it got frustrating AF. There was one point where the whale of the game got it in on the turn vs the PLOReg, and there was a HUGE argument before the river was dealt. Basically, the Whale was super drunk/high. He started screaming at the dealer, and then screaming at the host of the game. It was about touching chips and "IT'S A ****ING BIG POT AND THAT'S MY MONEY" and "YOU DONT HAVE ANYONE BACKING YOUR GAME DUDE. I CAN DO WHATEVER THE **** I WANT. IF SOME UKRANIAN COMES IN, HE CAN KICK YOUR DOOR DOWN AND ASK FOR A CUT. YOU CAN'T DO ****." Eventually things calm down, they run it once, and the river is dealt. PLOReg tables a solid hand and the whale goes "Ok your good..... Wait I have a straight" and slowrolls the rivered second nuts. I don't remember exactly what PLOReg had, but it was a 2 outer for a ~1200 pot. The Whale then proceeds to punt 1000, and the game breaks once he quit.

I made like 260 so it was an ok night. I was up $700 before PLO tho. I ran so ****ty during PLO lol.

Just finished an excellent stream. I peaked at about 70 viewers, which is an all-time high since I've been streaming full time. Happy to see that happen. Mondays are a solid stream day, no doubt. Hopefully next update will include a TCOOP bink or something. Until next time, Here's some thread saver:

Posting this one because I lol'd at the shirt







Quote:
Originally Posted by GrimIsCool
Great job Pat! Stream for Omania was fun too Keep it up!
<3 Thanks Grim. Glad you enjoyed my antics.

Quote:
Originally Posted by WALMARTcnxn
gl this year d00d will be following!
I'll continue to say hi to you at the tables.

Quote:
Originally Posted by LOLCh1pPorn
Best of luck for 2017, man!

Gonna catch up on this thread later, for now I'll say nice savers!
unfortunately my threadsaver game was pretty weak. But I've been in the lab for a few months, so I've definitely got a new GTO gameplan for future thread-saver posts. Thanks, hoping for a great 2017.
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01-23-2017 , 06:33 PM
Took a short day today, so let's update the ol' blog.

First off, I'd like to announce that I am the newest member of Team Pokerstars Online!



It must have been the increase in my stream viewership that sold them! Pretty funny glitch during today's 3-max zoom turbo. If you hovered it actually said "Click more to learn about Egption" like if I was a real Team pro. Lasted maybe 2-3 hands before it went away

Results of the week:

137th $82 TCOOP-03
12th $12 Turbo
5th $22 Powerfest #001
3rd $16.50 Bubble Rush

andddd this:


We got 3 handed Round 3 of the shootout, but unfortunately couldn't close for a FT. I wasn't looking forward to the event, so this was a pleasant surprise. This and the powerfest saved me for the week. I've fired a fair amount of TCOOPs, and most have been bricks. It is my first time playing TCOOP, so I guess that much is expected. With the XL/Powerfest/TCOOP going on, I'll be grinding super hard this next week. I plan on putting an a lot more MTT volume than usual.

Spins went ok I guess:




I guess you can say I ran above expectation. over 30 buyins in 168 games is a pretty decent stretch. A few more of those and I'll be out of make-up.

My stream has been going pretty well. TCOOP has helped bring in the viewers, which I'm loving. I'm averaging 30-50 viewers per stream consistently. That's a big up for me since I've began. I also peaked at over 200 viewers with my Shootout run.



It felt cool to be near the top of the list. I'm starting to see my work pay off on that regard. I'm streaming everyday until my minds melted. Hoping next week I'll have a better tale to tell with an MTT run. I plan on playing about 10 or 11 more TCOOP events. I have 50bb+ stacks in both Phase 2 birds (NLO8 and the NLHE) so I got those to look forward to as well.

Last edited by Egption; 01-23-2017 at 06:54 PM.
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02-04-2017 , 02:54 PM
January Month Report!

So it's a little late. on the 31st I was a salty-splatoon so I didn't feel like updating. On January 1st I had Vandenbos surgery on my left big-toe, and I drastically underestimated the severity of recovery for this procedure. As such, I literally spent Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday lying in bed with my foot in the air to reduce bleeding/reduce pain/increase the healing process. Basically, the surgery is to correct ingrown toe-nails. The process of the surgery is to cut off the inflamed skin around the nail, allowing it to grow back and correct the ingrown-ness.

I think for the sake of the blog, I'll post some pictures of it. I STRONGLY recommend not to look if you're not a fan of gore. For those sick puppies who want to see what happened.

Spoiler:
Seriously this is gross.
Spoiler:
I'm warning you.
Spoiler:
Here is what was cut off.
Here is what it looked like the first time I took the bandages off 24 hours later.
Here's a bathtub full of blood. This was the second time i filled it. I already drained/rinsed it out once.


I almost passed out. I watched it spurt blood for ~10 minutes before I was like k **** it let's wrap this up. Fortunately, the next few times I changed bandages the bleeding decreased. Take care of your toe-nails people.


Anyways, here's some graphs before I go into my monthly review:
MTD Spins:

MTD 30s cEV:

Spins $ won:

MTD MTTs

TCOOP MTTs:

$0-35 MTTs:



We'll start with the bad. TCOOP ate ass. Go figure, I lost over 20 MTTs in a bunch of turbos. We had one close call, but that's how it goes sometimes. I think the theme of the month was "close, but never enough". The amount of close calls I had to big scores was a real ball buster. Without TCOOP, it's a breakeven month. It's easy to sit here and think "oh I'm never lucky" and "oh i can't win a flip when it matters." While initially it's what I think when I get 10th, it isn't what I think 10 minutes later. I think there is something critically wrong with my MTT game, and it's a direct effect from spins. I still think I'm miles better than like 99% of the MTT regs, but I definitely punt in situations most wouldn't. I'm blaming myself moreso than variance here. I did play over 600 MTTs, which is a lot I guess. I'm going to reduce my MTT playing in February. There's a few reasons. First, it's boring for the stream. My worst viewership is during MTT streams. If I'm not deeprunning something, I can't bink the monster viewership. Two, I think I can produce a much higher hourly at spins at this point. Three, I'm not enjoying them at the moment. I feel a little burnt out at this point.

On to Spins. We almost had a legendary month, but January 30th happened. I got absolutely butt-blasted on my last day of spin grinding. I punted off over 1/3rd of my months profits that session. I lost my first 13 spins to start the stream lol. The month went well $ wise, bad cEV wise. I had a lot of break-even cEV stretches in the month, and my last session murdered it as well. I'm definitely more confident at the stake. I'm finding Reg leaks, and punishing them in a ton of spots. I'm no longer afraid. I'm already looking to the 60s at this point. I'm looking to get the defining sample to prove I'm as good as I think I am, then going to try and move up.

The stream had one hell of a month. I had my awesome TCOOP run which provided me with over 200 viewers. I've increased my average viewership from 10 to about 30-35. I'm having quite a few 50 to 80 average person streams. I've also found out the ideal times to stream and not stream. So far, Monday's have produced my best days. Since 95% of twitch is MTTs, players like to take Monday off. I can definitely slide in for that absence of the big boys on Mondays. Tuesday/Thursdays are pretty horrid. All the big boys stream, and they stream for a while. I'm debating just making those my off-days for streams, or streaming at late night times. It'd be better for spins anyways. Fridays and Saturdays at nights are great times to capitalize on viewership. Sunday Afternoons are easily the nut worst. EVERY player and their mothers stream. I don't think I'll ever stream a Sunday morning or afternoon again. It literally feels pointless.

So I've basically decided I need to change my schedule and become a more nightly guy. Competing with the big boys straight up just isn't a fair fight. Maybe in a few months once I build a bigger following. Also, I'm going to gravitate to more spinning streams because it allows me to work with my toe. I have to soak my foot 3 times a day. Odds are, I'll be doing it a few times during a stream. I'll need to play something I can stop for a few minutes to fill my little bucket with water to soak my foot into.

I think I'm going to back away from staking $3/$7 spins. I just can't dedicate my time to it anymore. I'll still continue to coach, but not as a staker. My two students have produced wonderful results, and I'm very proud of them. My little Lithuanian Superstar and My little Australian Whiner have made me feel like "hey maybe I know what I'm doing". I still have one student under contract, but once he's done (makeup permitting) I'll be discontinuing it.

As for February, I should probably set some goals. Here's what I'm thinking:
- 2000 Games @ 30s
- 45 cEV over the month

I'll be doing a freeroll to the first two posters. If I can't hit my 2000 games goal, you'll get $20.

I also have a prop bet with a friend. It's a gain/loss bet. He needs to gain weight, I need to lose weight. My goal is 12 pounds lost. his is 6 pounds (muscle) gained. We pay $10 for every unit we're off (1 unit=1 pound for me, 1 unit=0.5 pounds for him). It'll help keep me eating clean while I literally can't move for the next 4-6 weeks. It's for the month of February.

Welp. Full-time poker/streaming's been a wild one so far. Looking forward to the next few months. The heat has been turned up to yield some results.

Oh, and I didn't forget the Thread saver this time.





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02-04-2017 , 04:12 PM
GLGL!! I enjoy your streams a lot
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02-05-2017 , 08:27 AM
in for freeroll
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02-14-2017 , 02:37 AM
This past week of grinding had a lot of emotions for me. A fair amount of good, coupled with nearly equal amount of bad. I figure the best way to explain this is with some $ won graph pictures and gifs.

Monday to Thursday:



Spoiler:



Friday to Sunday:



Spoiler:


Monday:



Spoiler:




Alright, with that out of the way, let's look at my Stats so far this month:

$ won graph


$15s/$30s stats:


$30s cEV graph:


Honestly, the downswing just felt simply like a regular downswing. Didn't feel like I was playing bad, just kept running into **** and losing flips. You know how it can get, whales donkmash pot buttons, sometimes they get there. Those standard calls where occasionally you're wrong, and you're wrong. It's my worst downswing $wise, but not my worst downswing cEV wise. Monday was on pace to be as worse until I shipped a ton of multipliers. It's a little frustrating when you get bottom 10% of hands HU at 30/60 and 40/80 blinds. blah blah blah.

I feel like I'm playing wayyyyy better 95% of the reg pool. They all play horribad post flop, and have relatively simple preflop strategies to adjust to. I'm essentially a Hungarian with my aggressive tendencies, so I imagine I've tilted some regs.

I've ran like ass in multipliers too. 0/6 in 10x, and bricked a 25x. When you're very close to getting out of make-up, those hurt. I seriously just can't catch a break in a 10x+. I mean there's no way I top my 17 game 10x losing streak, but I don't wanna try.

We've played virtually 0 MTTs. I started 1 mtt session, money bubbled a nlo8 hyper to a whale punting for a CL stack, then realized i still hate this and stopped registering.

Volumes been decent so far. averaging like 80ish 30s a day, which I like. Not 100, but it'll do. Threw in some 15s when I'm tilted or exhausted and keep want to grinding.

Stream has gone great too. I'm finding out the optimal days to stream, and their not Thursdays/Sundays. I'm just going to start taking those days off from streaming.

On a personal note, my toes feelin better. It's leaking random fluid, but hey I guess that's part of the healing process. It's still pretty gross, but getting less gross as the days go by.

See Y'all next week.

Quote:
Originally Posted by captain292
GLGL!! I enjoy your streams a lot
<3
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Originally Posted by 20101996
in for freeroll
si papi you are.

Edit: doesn't feel right without thread saver. My bee yo




Last edited by Egption; 02-14-2017 at 02:44 AM.
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02-14-2017 , 03:12 AM
I haven't seen your stream but will do my best to tune in at some point when I see you are in the streets. I wouldn't be so concerned about competing with the big boys as viewers will come with time. If viewers are your main concern maybe just focus on hitting some type of niche or making yourself somewhat different from the main politically correct guys.

What are your thoughts on the 20$ spins w/ Panama package? From what I've played in them they seem absurdly soft and the jackpot round is somewhere around 1/667 spins. Any idea how many games you would have to play to have say a 90% chance at getting a jackpot?

GL this week
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02-14-2017 , 03:29 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by WALMARTcnxn
I haven't seen your stream but will do my best to tune in at some point when I see you are in the streets. I wouldn't be so concerned about competing with the big boys as viewers will come with time. If viewers are your main concern maybe just focus on hitting some type of niche or making yourself somewhat different from the main politically correct guys.

What are your thoughts on the 20$ spins w/ Panama package? From what I've played in them they seem absurdly soft and the jackpot round is somewhere around 1/667 spins. Any idea how many games you would have to play to have say a 90% chance at getting a jackpot?

GL this week
Panama spins are an absolute punt to grind imo. You're going to have no regs grinding it with 0 viability to make $$. the multipliers being only 2x/3x or jackpot and 2x's being an LOL 79% of the time makes it a joke. Stars has done their best to avoid people from grinding them. Much better off just doing regular tournament satellites imo.
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02-19-2017 , 07:54 AM
I tuned in when you were singing to Lady Gaga's pokerface. Man, you were bad..
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02-20-2017 , 10:10 PM
Welp, this was a pretty meh week.

Here's my update in pictures

Overall


$30 cEV graph


$ won Graph



I've had better weeks. Oh well. Not much I can do. Decent volume though. It's a little bit harder for me to get 100+ games in since I have to play them straight. I can't just stream spins, quit after 3 hours, then start the stream 1-2 hours later. So I often just stream for 5-7 hours straight then quit when my minds melting and I feel myself slipping. Just wasn't catching a consistent string of breaks, and couldn't print the $$ this week.

I'm also starting to feel a bit of kickback from streaming. As my stream grows, so does the amount of regs in my pool who have heard of me. I've received an increase amount of trashtalk (lol) and see a frequent change to my playstyle. I'm definitely going to reduce the amount of vsReg HU matches i display. I'm going to focus on any game with fun players in them over a game with Regs. I've had to change some aspects of my game to adapt to their changes.

Overall streamings going great. Getting some solid viewership and a lot of friendly support. I of course have my base of trolls who bully me, but I love them despite it. I really hope it continues to grow.

I've told my stable I'm looking to quit. So far no response. I'm pretty sure the admin hasn't been on in a month who does all the day-to-day stuff. TBH once I'm out of make-up I dunno what I'm expected to do. I mean can I just send the money and leave? No contact or response has to be grounds for something. I also feel like I've received very little EV when it comes to the stable. I pretty much contribute all my success to myself and personal trial/error. Some videos helped a bit, but I definitely crafted my own unique playstyle. I see no regs play like I do. It's definitely frustrating some of them.

We've got some good volume this month:


Probably on pace for ~18-20k VPPs in a month. It's no slayersv1fan type volume, but for lazy punks like me it feels nice.


Lastly, we've got a new avatar. It's just past the one year anniversary.


It says "Selling Action!" in the picture. Lest we forget the scam of the year last year. I feel it's going to waste while I'm in the spin pool. No spin regs are going to know who he is, so it makes me kind of sad. I look forward to some MTT player reactions when I showcase it sometime this week.


Quote:
Originally Posted by AguaPorFavor
I tuned in when you were singing to Lady Gaga's pokerface. Man, you were bad..
I'm going to choose to think that you mean bad=good, so you loved the singing. Have you heard my Canadian Idol TRUE STORY?

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02-20-2017 , 11:13 PM
GL for the remainder of the month (and the rest obv) mate, will try to check out the strim sometime even though spins aren't really my thing
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02-27-2017 , 10:24 PM
Nice cEV even when bad week!!! Stay up and result will come!
Hope month end good can see all month? And good idea leave backing, better 15s all alone!
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02-28-2017 , 10:16 PM
Month to Date Update time!

Welp Here's some pictures.

Overall February Stats


MTD $30 Chip graph


MTD $ won graph


VPP's on the month



Well I obviously had higher hopes for the month. I'd like to start by saying today was awesome. Had a great day $ wise, and the stream was super fun. Hopefully the spree continues and I bust out of the downswing. Overall, it's been something like a -80BI downswing. Given I had between 48-55cEV the entire month, it really is frustrating to run so under EV. I seriously just want out of my stable, and it's such a serious let down to be in makeup for another month.

I feel like this needs to be stressed on. I haven't profit chopped from online poker since July 13th. It blows my mind how I haven't seemingly "caught a break" and busted out of this. I've played full time for the past 2 months, with over 220+ hours in each month. Yet still I've made no money. If I wasn't streaming, there would be no silver lining.

If I don't at the very least end makeup in March, I'm really not sure what I should be expecting from the rest of the year.

There were of course highlights to the month. My stream is growing so much. I absolutely love each of you fools who watch and support me. We're producing some quality numbers, and I have high expectations for March. I'm looking to push it to averaging ~100 concurrent viewers per stream by the end of March.

As well, I played a live home game at a friends on Saturday. I managed to win $700, which helped me feel better about my month. I basically held in my 75/25s and 80/20s vs Recreationals to build it up. Like the last time I played, it got super sloppy at the end of the night. At around 6am everyone was just piss drunk and the game started to break down. I quit to save my sanity and just book an ezpz win.

Oh I probably lost ~200 playing mtts too of my own money.

Welp, there was February. Looking to March for some sort of sanity in this wild game.

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Originally Posted by LOLCh1pPorn
GL for the remainder of the month (and the rest obv) mate, will try to check out the strim sometime even though spins aren't really my thing
Did you stop by? Have you enjoyed my singing?

Quote:
Originally Posted by RonaldoVamos
Nice cEV even when bad week!!! Stay up and result will come!
Hope month end good can see all month? And good idea leave backing, better 15s all alone!
I'm not looking to selfroll $15s. too low of an hourly to justify my decision to be a professional. Aiming for the 100s or skipping out of the variant.

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03-01-2017 , 01:07 AM
you didn't hit 2k games, so I won my freeroll??

good luck for march
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03-01-2017 , 01:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Egption
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I'm not looking to selfroll $15s. too low of an hourly to justify my decision to be a professional. Aiming for the 100s or skipping out of the variant.
Wow 100s!! I did not mean insult with $15s! Just that think $30 hourly is good and could get that at 15s!
At least cEV still OK this month even with bad luck did not make play bad so stay positive friend!
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04-28-2017 , 11:35 AM
Update coming soon....


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05-01-2017 , 12:41 PM
Well. It's been an interesting March/April. I experienced both a career high and career low. We'll start with March, and why I chose not to make updates.

So in the Month of March, I was a spin player. Going into it, I was near out of make-up, and felt I was on pace to jump ships from my stable to greener pastures. I was actively asking my Manager to speak with the owner, as I wanted to quit. Things didn't go as plan. Here are my stats for the month:

Overall Stats:


30s cEV Graph:


15s cEV Graph:


$ won Graph:


The results took place mainly March 1st-March 23rd. I took a very required rest of the month break from poker and streaming after that. I was devastated. I went on a downswing I just couldn't comprehend. I felt like a piece of sh*t. I thought I was going to be out, and I was pulled back in. It was so disappointing. Especially when I would have bought out of my make-up at the time before this downswing (low 4 figures) before it happened. My stable took 1 f**king month to get back to me about me quitting. I had to threaten to quit and send back the roll until they finally responded.

What it got me was the most half-hearted attempt at a conversation. Over the span of an hour, I got a bunch of empty comments, and a "hold with us for another month before you want to quit." Then the owner after getting no real substance out, says "someones at the door" and that'd be return shortly. ~1 hour after that I got the "we'll catch back up later" and that was that. I couldn't have been more frustrated. I sent all backed money back to them, and said I refused to play until I had a serious conversation about me leaving. It had been a full month since my initial quit request and I still got no word.

The threat did work, as I eventually had one with the stable manager, on behalf of the owner. I was offered a buyout % of the makeup, or to play it out on an EV deal if I was worried about the swings. I decided to choose the EV deal and try and ride it out. Unfortunately, the downswing continued, but in EV.

I felt like crap, and didn't want to play. It was showing in my streams. Fortunately, I was reliving my glory days and going to go to a Halo tournament at the beginning of April. So I decided to take the rest of March off and practice for the event.

The Halo event was great. I realized that I was 1) washed up and 2) still a competitive mother f**ker. I really did miss that competitive atmosphere. Part of me wanted to continue playing seriously. But it's just not feasible to get what I want out of Halo. I have too much time dedicated to Poker/Streaming to possibly get as good as I once was. I'm not the 17 year old who could fire off 8 hours a day ezpz. It was a great vacation.

I spent this time off re-evaluating my poker career thus far. I had made effectively $0 my entire 3 month time as a full-time pro. The stream was taking off, but it was still in its infancy stages. This life shot-take was not going nearly as played as I hoped. I knew something needed to change. Spins were not doing it. The future was only getting more and more bleak. 30s are reg infested. Sure most of them are sh*t, but beating rake at a reasonable level isn't worth the time invested. I'd given it 3 months and yielded nothing.

So I decided to flip everything. I chose to go back to MTTs. However, I decided night schedule MTTs were my best fit. One, it is much lower variance. There are vastly smaller fields, requiring less AIPF's and more focus on just being the better player. I'm able to squeeze out a MUCH larger edge. Also, it would be the best direction for my stream. The overnight EST stream slot is fairly baron. I had a ton of friends and fellow streamers who I knew I would get their support from when they ended their streams. It just made sense. I needed change. Well, here my results for the month of april after said change:

April Results:


I had my best month ever as a poker player. the cliffs of my FT's:

3rd big $33
7th Omania NLO8 $33 Saturday Special
3rd $16.50 NLO8 Omania
1st $11r NLO8 Deep Stack Hyper
2nd $22 Party
1st $44 Bounty Builder (My new high score)
3rd $22 Party
1st Big $16.50
7th $16.50 NLO8 Omania
6th $16.50 PLO Omania
4th $16.50 NLO8 Omania
1st $22 Deepstack 888
3rd $16.50 NLO8 Omania
3rd $30 Pacific Swordfish
1st $5r 888
5th $30 Pacific Swordfish
2nd $22 NLO8 Hyper
1st $11 NLO8 Omania
1st $5r 888
4th $5.50r NLO8 Hyper
1st $16.50 NLHE Deepstack (First NLHE win in nearly 9 months)
5th $33 WTB
3rd $11 NLO8 Hyper
1st $7.50r NLO8 Hyper


Those are the more notable finishes. I probably had double that in FTs that fizzled out. Obviously it's easier to FT stuff when it's 80-500 player fields, but screw it. I'm proud. Some tournaments I made my specific b*tch, like the $16.50NLO8 Omania.


My stream had it's best month as well. I'm averaging ~100 viewers by the end of my stream. I've had streams reach 750 viewers. I've had several streams averaging 200-400 viewers. I think I'm nearly able to get partnership with twitch.

For the first time since I've begun, the dream has felt alive. With all that out, it's time to look at May. SCOOP/XL/Powerfest might make me switch my MTT schedule for the few weeks. Some of the events are just too high value to miss. I'm debating just grinding it entirely. I'm also debating overnighting on days I don't play SCOOP the next day. It's still undecided.

I will be making a SCOOP package and posting it here for people looking to buy pieces. It's going to be essentially $109/$215 O8's,8-game, and the main events. I won't be firing any $109s/$215 hold'ems except the NLHE HU. That I'll be probably keeping 100% of unless I sell at reasonable markup.

Finally, I have a friendly wager with my friend to help me from living like a hermit. I need to play 21 days of basketball (minimum 1 hour). He has his own goals. Looking forward to both of us improving our lifestyles.

Time for some thread saver:




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05-01-2017 , 12:48 PM
nice recovery man, keep pushing with the MTTs and focus on solid volume
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05-01-2017 , 06:49 PM
wow that is A+ results in mtts so good nice to see for you! Will watch your stream as not seen in time and liked seeing spins. You ever play any spins now when down to 1 or 2 table mtt and bored or not want to?
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05-01-2017 , 06:55 PM
Rooting for you over the coming months. Hope mtts go well for you, it seems like many people I know (including myself) are leaving spins behind and opting for something else. I rate your schedule choice too in regards to opting for lower average entrant tourneys.
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05-05-2017 , 11:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Everest17
nice recovery man, keep pushing with the MTTs and focus on solid volume
TYTY. Hoping to continue through SCOOP

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Originally Posted by RonaldoVamos
wow that is A+ results in mtts so good nice to see for you! Will watch your stream as not seen in time and liked seeing spins. You ever play any spins now when down to 1 or 2 table mtt and bored or not want to?
I mean I play some blasts here and there, but I tend to not play Spins on stream anymore.

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Originally Posted by Labax
Rooting for you over the coming months. Hope mtts go well for you, it seems like many people I know (including myself) are leaving spins behind and opting for something else. I rate your schedule choice too in regards to opting for lower average entrant tourneys.
Yeah I really appreciate the small field/same badreg schedule. Much more enjoyable and I get to FT moar.


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Welp. SCOOP is upon us. I plan on selling action ofc. Here's my entire stream/playing schedule for SCOOP:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing

If you're interested in buying action, feel free to contact me through my thread, PM's, my email (iregption@gmail.com) or skype if you know me already. Unless you're someone I'm confident in, I won't be accepting anything other than an online poker $ money or e-transfers.

It's riddled with 109/215 O8's I'm incredibly confident in. The SCOOP series brings in a TON of NLHE players who just button click their brains out. There are also some M's I feel are high value (the shootout, 4-max) in which I feel my short-stack expertise is going to give me an edge. I also have a $109 PLO8 on 888 I left out, the $215 HU highroller, and the $109 Main I haven't included in the package. Probably closer to I'll opt to look to sell if I feel necessary.

On a different note, it appears I have better news about my stable. It looks like we're changing ownership. Knock on wood, but if it goes through it's literally the dream situation for what I wanted. I'll definitely give more details once something materializes.

See y'all next update.
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