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03-08-2018 , 08:04 PM
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Originally Posted by LittleGoliath
mindset appears to be on point, gl
He's been blogging in finnish forums for years and allmost every single one of these blogs are bitching and moaning with basically zero strat talk. Guess it's one way to let the steam out of your system but he's pretty much a living joke because of that.

And there are several players in Finland allso playing cash full time and winning. Because you hang out mostly with mtt regs doesn't mean there are no cash regs out there grinding. And you can say the excact same thing about mtts. Boring as hell. Wait untill the latereg ends and start flipping. Might be interesting for streaming for sure. Playing? Hell no.

But no hard feelings. Just needed to point out that you can make a good living from cash allso. Even if you are not a bot. You do your thing here. Happy to see you here instead of ps.
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03-08-2018 , 08:26 PM
nice thread m8, keep it up
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03-08-2018 , 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by KossuKukkula
He's been blogging in finnish forums for years and allmost every single one of these blogs are bitching and moaning with basically zero strat talk. Guess it's one way to let the steam out of your system but he's pretty much a living joke because of that.

And there are several players in Finland allso playing cash full time and winning. Because you hang out mostly with mtt regs doesn't mean there are no cash regs out there grinding. And you can say the excact same thing about mtts. Boring as hell. Wait untill the latereg ends and start flipping. Might be interesting for streaming for sure. Playing? Hell no.

But no hard feelings. Just needed to point out that you can make a good living from cash allso. Even if you are not a bot. You do your thing here. Happy to see you here instead of ps.
Well while it's true that most of my blogs have been mainly for venting some frustration, I think you're quite out of the line that there's been zero strategy content, I have written quite much about it and people have praised it. It's not so much about single hands but bankroll management, promotion hunting, leaderboard strategy etc.

I didn't say that there's no professional cash game players in Finland, but I still think there's far fewer than professional MTT players. At least online, since I don't know if there's actually more live cash players nowadays than online. It's possible that there's quite many Finnish live cash players playing both in Finland and abroad, I don't know because live (cash) game have never interested me. Of course lots of players (both MTT and cash) like to stay out of community and concentrate on playing so impossible to say definite numbers. Certainly far less than 10 years ago.

Believe it or not, did try to keep good old-fashioned bad beat ranting out of this blog. But with (every single one of these hands is from my tables) just this week hitting -6k out of 8k buy-ins with very soft MTTs running alongside ok-value leaderboard is something so ridiculously bad luck that didn't happen.

I rather rant and ventilate out of my bad beats / bad luck than implode and go on tilt mode, but everyone handles their own stress on their own terms. Of course it is hard especially from cash game perspective to understand how brutally bad variance can be in MTTs and most other people have watched too much Dr. Phil stuff.

I would still appreciate if people would recognize that this is my own blog. If you don't like it, don't read it. As I will try just to ignore people trying to provoke me.
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03-08-2018 , 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by FarseerFinland
First time this week saw this kind of great play from opponent. Read itself isn't excellent, but self control is something what 99+% players lack at these games not to make river bet.

It's not a secret that (I think) most players in 55+ stakes are poor to mediocre players. Some because they multi-table too much and lack spots, are oriented and locked to some playing styles and of course some because they're just bad players who lack basic MTT skills.

Party, $50 Buy-in (3,500/7,000 blinds, 900 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

Hero (BB): 380,668 (54.4 bb)
UTG: 293,643 (41.9 bb)
MP1: 970,852 (138.7 bb)
MP2: 187,520 (26.8 bb)
CO: 301,737 (43.1 bb)
BTN: 118,833 (17 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 9 8
UTG raises to 15,400, 4 folds, Hero calls 8,400

Flop: (36,200) 3 7 A (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG bets 10,980, Hero calls 10,980

Turn: (58,160) 4 (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG bets 43,620, Hero calls 43,620

River: (145,400) T (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG checks

Results: 145,400 pot
Final Board: 3 7 A 4 T
Hero showed 9 8 and won 145,400 (74,500 net)
UTG mucked A A and lost (-70,900 net)
could you elaborate a little bit on your turn play, esp when we assume 99% of players are gonna check back top set once the flush gets there?
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03-08-2018 , 09:07 PM
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Originally Posted by randomkid
could you elaborate a little bit on your turn play, esp when we assume 99% of players are gonna check back top set once the flush gets there?
1%.

Got a read that he's like to bet river too from stats etc. Still turn is close one, borderline I'd say. Fold would be perfectly ok at that spot too. Some players might level themselves to c-r which would be horrible choice of action at the turn.

I also say that most of the players are going to make gigantic mistake by making first smaller mistake and then making crying call for a shove. Most players at these events don't usually think anything else than their own hand and action directly at hand withouth thinking about what to do next if opponent raises.
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03-08-2018 , 09:14 PM
Good we have a gazillion BB behind so that 1% makes up the EV in implieds for the river (who care we might actually end up getting flush over flushed ^^)

solid read is solid, confirmed @ showdown...
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03-08-2018 , 09:35 PM
Last one opponent limp-call CO A6o at near money and KJs doesn't have a beat. 0 cashes lol.

Cut at the leaderboard did run so far that although my friend promised to buy some action I'll just skip rest of the week and get drun... some rest before starting next week all over again. Hideous results, better sleep over few days before doing again.
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03-11-2018 , 08:20 PM
Decided to play last UOS tournaments as was still in top100 at all leaderboards except nano (top100 paid some small money). Quick busts on other ones (only top3 100r would've been enough to save the week).

But salty as it is, even this stings. After this preflop flip, 0 hands won 3 left @Unibet 25€ rebuy.



Gotta play few 55-109 events still, so basically that was just enough to make a purple.
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03-11-2018 , 09:38 PM
Sure 51 left 48 paid 6-max turbo.

Possibly skipping whole promo altogether, since this leaderboard is probably worst value MTT promotion Party has ever run + it requires larger bankroll than I have to run without selling action + I am really not used to play lots of tables, can easily hit over 12 tables at the peak time if you play them all including high rollers.

Party, $100 Buy-in (17,500/35,000 blinds, 4,500 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 816,548 (23.3 bb)
BB: 1,548,693 (44.2 bb)
UTG: 655,431 (18.7 bb)
MP: 469,663 (13.4 bb)
CO: 631,661 (18 bb)
Hero (BTN): 318,645 (9.1 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BTN with 4 A
3 folds, Hero raises to 314,145 and is all-in, SB raises to 812,048 and is all-in, BB folds

Flop: (690,290) 6 4 7 (2 players, 2 are all-in)
Turn: (690,290) K (2 players, 2 are all-in)
River: (690,290) 2 (2 players, 2 are all-in)

Results: 690,290 pot
Final Board: 6 4 7 K 2
SB showed K A and won 690,290 (371,645 net)
Hero showed 4 A and lost (-318,645 net)
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03-12-2018 , 06:11 PM
Well, it didn't go any better. 1 mincash (buy-in back @ smallest one) and 1 bounty (12,5$) so no run this week. Even just this one (with bounty only) would have doubled my cashes.

Ei edes yhtä vitun bountya... 0 rahastusta viime viikolla 215

Party, $200 Buy-in (2,500/5,000 blinds, 650 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 225,778 (45.2 bb)
BB: 204,350 (40.9 bb)
Hero (UTG): 90,689 (18.1 bb)
MP: 84,124 (16.8 bb)
CO: 334,966 (67 bb)
BTN: 157,657 (31.5 bb)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with A A
Hero raises to 12,450, MP raises to 83,474 and is all-in, 4 folds, Hero calls 71,024

Flop: (178,348) 8 3 7 (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Turn: (178,348) 9 (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (178,348) 6 (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Results: 178,348 pot
Final Board: 8 3 7 9 6
Hero showed A A and lost (-84,124 net)
MP showed 9 9 and won 178,348 (94,224 net)

Made a quick calculations yesterday, and realized that this leaderboard promotion mixed with high stakes is simply not worth playing. It has huge variance, and even if you beat 55-215 games by like 20% ROI (which is hard especially if you late reg any PKOs and have to play lots of tables) and win (iow go top20) leaderboard 80% of the time you would still get rather bad hourly wage. Not saying that not going to play at all, but it'll probably be like "Monday hit or miss - play rest of the week if get great start and few opponents".
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03-12-2018 , 07:44 PM
Why do u latereg PKOs? Whats the reason behind it?
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03-12-2018 , 07:45 PM
U need to FAP more ur ***** stressful
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03-12-2018 , 07:53 PM
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Originally Posted by LAKATOSKLAUS
Why do u latereg PKOs? Whats the reason behind it?
Leaderboards. I usually early reg first entry, but if one busts before late reg ends it's almost compulsory to late register if you wish to be successful @ leaderboards.

E: Though occasionally decide to take some rest and late reg anyways if I have 0 tables running (or if I have so many that I don't think early regging PKO makes me more good than losing concentration on other tables does me bad).
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03-12-2018 , 11:12 PM
Yea keep going at it Mondays - with 20 paid this month there's still value - when its down to 10 I'd forget it myself - be mostly guys playing the highrollers that qualify then.
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03-12-2018 , 11:42 PM
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Originally Posted by the4bettingmonk
Yea keep going at it Mondays - with 20 paid this month there's still value - when its down to 10 I'd forget it myself - be mostly guys playing the highrollers that qualify then.
Yeah playing Mondays is not a bad plan. Too bad that first prize however is a ticket to a single tournament held in December, so it's much worse than T$ and there's only 2 weeks left with double prizes. It's also a bit problematic that 3 last Sunday tournaments are counted in the next week leaderboard and last of those end like 10 AM @ Monday.

Last time Party also forced people (myself included) to play 2 live Millions tickets from same kind of but separate leaderboards (first one from Powerfest leaderboard, second one from regular leaderboard both weekly) when they were first held in Nottingham. Worry that they may very well do it now, when that ticket is even possibly much more worthless.
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03-14-2018 , 02:09 AM
Well, this is possibly finishing post for this blog.

Reasons are that just found it much harder to write and finish my thoughts in English especially after games than Finnish and truth is that I have had very low motivation to write about tournament strategy / overlay hunting / good and bad sites for different reasons etc.

Another reason is that I am trying to move from being "full-fledged poker player" to reasonably have more variety "poker, investments, studies and maybe even some other work". Although there's absolutely 0% chance that I stop poker altogether (I just love playing occasionally) it's still a huge change. Also trying to spend less time in poker forums generally.

From highstakes leaderboard crusher back to casual midstakes crusher

Well, I believe that there's 2 major factors if you really want to be a consistent MTT professional. One is risk and second is reward. Third to think about is that how much of your free time are you willing to invest and sacrifice in terms of getting good value for your tournaments.

First autumn was sort of easy: won 15 out of 15 leaderboards I played. 2017 started much more rocky, and although managed to keep decent track record @ LBs -40k downswing at high rollers did pretty much eat my profits alongside with no cash 2x £5k live events. The rest of the year managed to get decent scores, although was hit super hard by the collusion event which also made me to have 4 months of almost complete vacation from poker.

Was really looking forward for this year leaderboard. Well, what changed? Pretty much everything due to the new "improved" schedule, but this quick counting really sums it up:

Daily amount of tournaments (some PKO, some added special tournaments in Sunday)

55 1 re-entry 6x
55 2 re-entry 1x
109 1 re-entry 3x
109 2 re-entry 2x
109 PLO 3 re-entry 1x
215 1 re-entry 1x
215 2 re-entry 3x

High rollers
530 2 re-entry 2x
1050 2 re-entry 1x

With some re-entries and skipping high roller buy-ins would be around ~20k$. With aggressive re-entries and playing all events buy-ins could easily peak up to over ~50k$. Considering that field sizes popped up and PKOs are much more top-heavy than regular tournaments amount of bankroll required is super high. I would say around 200k$+ minimum even if you skip 1050+ buy-ins.

Let's think you win leaderboard 80% of the time and have 20% ROI at those lower buy-in events. You'd get paid like 8,5k$ per month (~7k€). Sounds great, but...

Then let's see what went to worse from my POV which makes it harder to get that 20% ROI which would've been sort of easy earlier:

- First tournament starts @ 15 EET, last one finishes @ 10 EET -> even if you latereg @ 17 EET, that means up to 17 hours of playing time EVERY SINGLE DAY.
- Super slow structures -> worse $/hr
- Lots of PKOs -> you want to play them from start
- Every tournament have re-entries -> yes, you're gonna play them at least for some hours -> lower value for PKO re-entries
- All of the reasons combined before: MANY more tables running simultaneously. At worst case you can have around 15x tables running, out of many might be 6-max PKOs. Impossible to play well, and I have never been good or enjoyed playing lots of tables.

It really doesn't sound so great that if you survive all of that and end up playing 100+ hrs per week with 20% ROI at the high stakes you still just receive 70€/h. If I can do that, I'll rather take my life back and settle for maybe ~50-60€/h @ midstakes with lower variance and let my investments run at the same time. Especially as I really plan to return to study in September.

Summa summarum: I did win ~30 leaderboards @ 15 month from July 2016 to October 2017 (or in other words, finished top10 when there was 10 packages) at this time @ PartyPoker. While I am content that I could still crush it decently with the newest leaderboard should I risk my savings (making a bankroll of roughly 200k$) and being prepared to play 100 hours / week I just don't see enough reward to justify risks + loss of quality in terms of life value.

While the result is super disappointing (overall from July 2016 did gain a net profit of €150k) it's done and at least I got a nice start-up capital for my investment portfolio (bought an apartment with my earlier poker winnings).

Case pads

While it might seem that I don't respect pads or think that he's stupid that couldn't be further from truth. Pads is a born business man, clearly a good / great poker player and he seems to work much harder than 99% of people. He is certainly doing his best to be as successful as possible be it in poker, business etc.

I don't really have major issue there: for instance only very few people would turn away from lots of money if they would just have to make few small lies to make it. Of course pads is doing lots of work too. I just don't see any chance that pads would be making this "building PartyPoker MTT schedule" -thing from his pure heart and if schedule is so great that he has been telling us for past years, why wouldn't his stable be playing those tournaments (some of those leaderboards were so easy that it would be impossible them not to get some prizes). I would be super surprised also if there would be lots of seats sold as cheaper price in terms to maintain and meet such an ambitious guaranteeds in live events (and I believe this has been confirmed many times) and pads live poker team wouldn't be at least minor part of it.

Much kudos for great investment mind. And much shame on PartyPoker on either having super greedy or blatantly incompetent top poker management. Sacrificing their credibility and trust to gain short-term gains have very rarely led up @ good results in online poker world.

The End(?)

The collusion event is not yet finished, I plan to test my luck and make a long and thorough complaint to Alternative Dispute Resolution entity. After all, there were just two parties who profited from collusion event: Players participating at the collusion and PartyPoker who grabbed all the rake collusion players generated while doing ~zero of the work on the security side.

Did open "99% ****storm"-blog again @ Finnish site. It's much more efficient way for me to prevent tilt and venting atmosphere than destroying things like most MTT players like to do (keyboard and mouse manufactures should thank poker sites for extra income). For some reason most people just seems to have impossible NOT TO read it and they just cry out and try to lash out to me at every place like all my posts like here would be the same.

If you liked some of these posts, great. And I may write here at this blog later something when I just have the motivation and reason to do so.
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03-15-2018 , 05:33 PM
ul gg.

I mean you can criticize party for lots of mistakes, I get that, but "Sacrificing their credibility and trust to gain short-term gains" - I just dont see it, and it seams absurd to me . They create TNs knowing they will overlay, paying out of their pocket when they make mistakes (see monster series Events last year). They are pumping huge amounts of $ into the market running these leaderboards while still paying quite high RB etc etc. I see about zero short term money grabs there.

just my 2 cents

gl whatever you'll do
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03-17-2018 , 10:20 PM
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Originally Posted by randomkid
ul gg.

I mean you can criticize party for lots of mistakes, I get that, but "Sacrificing their credibility and trust to gain short-term gains" - I just dont see it, and it seams absurd to me . They create TNs knowing they will overlay, paying out of their pocket when they make mistakes (see monster series Events last year). They are pumping huge amounts of $ into the market running these leaderboards while still paying quite high RB etc etc. I see about zero short term money grabs there.

just my 2 cents

gl whatever you'll do
I'll respect that we might consider these things from different perspectives, but here how I see how PartyPoker has miserably failed their customers (at least from perspective of being transparent). For instance:

- They did have lots of disconnections - out of which LOTS of players have received low refunds and mostly just been muted by support.
- They had worst MTT collusion event what has happened on any poker site for many years - yet their security got no clue, and they refused to A) give any meaningful reparations to players, B) to give us any information how many players were banned and C) to give any information how much these collusionists got from players. In addition to that they refused to give us any information how reparations (meek as they were) were paid out.
- Working with Pads is super questionable from the start, as a owner of major MTT stable he has vested interest to make MTT schedule to his liking and also inform his stable about any upcoming changes in advance.
- Everyone can see that their effort to make cash games run without HUDs has been a disaster - there's people breaking the rules and profiting with no fear of reprimand and there's the rest.

To be sure, they have high guaranteed prize pools (mainly on live tournamens). But high guaranteeds mean absolutely 0 added money to players when they are met, like they are most of the time. Partly, because (admitted from Party side) they use their own horses to deduce and effectively eliminate overlay by bringing their selected collaboration players in at a lower cost to participate tournaments which would otherwise overlay (both live and online). Of course they can't eliminate it all just by foul play, but they're surely doing their best.

Everyone in the poker world with a small understanding knows that poker stables are cancer for online poker which is increasingly sucking money out from the community. Yet PartyPoker has decided to embrace that cancer, instead of fighting it. That is what I would say: PartyPoker is sacrificing their (and partially all of poker community) future for their own short-term gains. In that light, as a MTT player, I am roughly 99+% sure that PartyPoker has 0 incentive to fight against bots in cash games / SNGs and probably that also applies as MTTs are more and more threatened by collusion and bots.

Unfortunately it's pretty much clear this discussion achieves nothing. PartyPoker has clearly stated that it is okay for them to have bots / collusion / stables making their own schedule etc. on their site as long as it won't hurt their short term profits. Trying to help them to improve MTT schedule etc. seems to be a fool's errand with 0% chance to success.
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03-18-2018 , 10:33 AM
Going forward

My new (preliminary) computer setup:



Haven't played since Monday. But should try to work out working poker schedule. This is almost 2 years old, but it'll look little like this one, though with slightly higher buy-ins. Just to give you picture.



Most tournaments for new schedule will probably come from PokerStars.eu, MPN and iPoker. Probably some tournaments from Veikkaus (Finnish site) and 888Poker. Possibly some from Unibet and PartyPoker, maybe America's Cardroom. Of course good value MTT promos too.

Any other sites to consider for good value tournaments?
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03-18-2018 , 08:23 PM
Well, it didn't go too well. Money tournaments 0 cash including this bubble (though just 6 good value tournaments, but high buy-ins).



But on other side won 4/4 satellites. Other ones were small (and one ticket already used) but small live trip incoming. Not sure if going to Bratislava or to later stop, gotta think about it.

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03-22-2018 , 11:26 AM
Not the greatest fan of 888Poker, but gotta love this: https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...postcount=4236

These kind of changes keep the hope alive that on some sites they actually listen to people, although not always agreeing to the changes. Unfortunately there's quite few of them nowadays, during old good time when there were lots of other poker sites they were far more open for suggestions.
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03-22-2018 , 07:29 PM
Just launching a test stream from my place, feel free to watch and say hi: https://www.twitch.tv/farseerfinland
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03-27-2018 , 09:59 PM
Two days of HS (LB) grinding. Did sell ~50% of my 109-530 action and have grinded alongside some satties and good value tournaments. Rather bad start for a week but marginally profitable while package have been break-even despite deep runs. Also got 550€ live seat to play alongside my package as a back-up ammo.

Got 5th place from 109 20k turbo yesterday (ofc would've wanted to win AK vs. A4), today got 8th place from 215 50k and 10th place from 109 50k, so very frustrating but enough to get package break-even. So ridiculous that I can never score at these. My friend won just yesterday 215 100k PKO and 55 PKO too, but 1,5 years as a highstakes reg with absolutely 0 binks is something surreal (0 real binks actually since 2011). Well, when that changes it's gonna be a sad moment for other HS regs as I am going to simply crush them.

Still playing tomorrow, LB is not at good shape (12th now but it's coming down as more tournaments finish) but we'll see if it goes better. At least feeling much better now as my swings are far less destructive as wrong side of variance doesn't threaten to destroy my bankroll.
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05-01-2018 , 11:14 PM
Sacrificed May Day for grinding LB as I expected it to be soft + had a few tickets (and I rather play 6 days bit smaller fields + 1 day megafields instead on 7 days of super mega fields). Well, it's been two more days of utter despair and broken dreams at high stakes. 4 cashes total, 2nd smallest tournament one 2090$ (highest cash and 3 mincashes, 2 smallest ones and the highest one possible but should've really been more. Just today:

1050 PKO (mincash, bubble just have bursted so players bit more open to go in). No way to go out, both players have 1,5k$ KO and I bet-call in hopes of looking somewhat weak and getting other player in. No way to survive from this.

Party, $954.55 Buy-in (7,250/14,500 blinds, 1,750 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 635,152 (43.8 bb)
BB: 562,204 (38.8 bb)
Hero (UTG): 724,345 (50 bb)
MP: 411,708 (28.4 bb)
CO: 1,484,321 (102.4 bb)
BTN: 1,558,095 (107.5 bb)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with Q J
Hero raises to 36,105, MP calls 36,105, 3 folds, BB calls 21,605

Flop: (126,065) 8 T Q (3 players)
BB checks, Hero bets 53,189, MP calls 53,189, BB raises to 195,750, Hero calls 142,561, MP folds

Turn: (570,754) 4 (2 players)
BB bets 328,599 and is all-in, Hero calls 328,599

River: (1,227,952) A (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Results: 1,227,952 pot
Final Board: 8 T Q 4 A
BB showed T Q and won 1,227,952 (665,748 net)
Hero showed Q J and lost (-562,204 net)

At least got this...



Like ~20th big near bubble flip that has 60+% this year gone wrong.

Party, $200 Buy-in (8,500/17,000 blinds, 2,100 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 8 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 335,330 (19.7 bb)
Hero (BB): 641,592 (37.7 bb)
UTG+2: 854,780 (50.3 bb)
MP1: 994,479 (58.5 bb)
MP2: 817,349 (48.1 bb)
MP3: 1,931,675 (113.6 bb)
CO: 919,735 (54.1 bb)
BTN: 760,778 (44.8 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BB with J J
4 folds, CO raises to 42,500, BTN calls 42,500, SB folds, Hero raises to 127,500, CO calls 85,000, BTN raises to 758,678 and is all-in, Hero calls 511,992 and is all-in, CO folds

Flop: (1,431,784) A T 3 (2 players, 2 are all-in)
Turn: (1,431,784) 5 (2 players, 2 are all-in)
River: (1,431,784) A (2 players, 2 are all-in)

Results: 1,431,784 pot
Final Board: A T 3 5 A
Hero showed J J and lost (-641,592 net)
BTN showed A T and won 1,431,784 (790,192 net)


Yesterdayv events:

Highest event 530 PKO 20 left 16 paid. Could win these even occasionally, it would be refreshing

Party, $500 Buy-in (4,200/8,400 blinds, 1,060 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 7 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 645,043 (76.8 bb)
BB: 163,093 (19.4 bb)
MP1: 390,643 (46.5 bb)
Hero (MP2): 318,635 (37.9 bb)
MP3: 1,017,251 (121.1 bb)
CO: 319,096 (38 bb)
BTN: 280,453 (33.4 bb)

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with J J
MP1 folds, Hero raises to 20,916, MP3 folds, CO calls 20,916, BTN folds, SB raises to 105,000, BB folds, Hero raises to 317,575 and is all-in, CO folds, SB calls 212,575

Flop: (671,886) 7 5 4 (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Turn: (671,886) T (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (671,886) A (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Results: 671,886 pot
Final Board: 7 5 4 T A
SB showed T T and won 671,886 (353,251 net)
Hero showed J J and lost (-318,635 net)

Got this one though. This is ONLY top4 place I have got @ Party this year. Well it's about 50-75% of daily buy-ins...



Have got two 5th places, both out 70-30 and 80-20 and lots of times. Those also were quite small one (25k and 30k guaranteeds I think) and just got 2 8th places @ 50k+ guaranteeds. Highest cashes this year not counting bounties top3: 2090$ and 2) 1160$. 3) mincash I got today. One could say that it's hard to make profit if you don't get any top4 place @ tournaments. But try to do it when you're also down about 10k or so for 215+ events this year.

Game is at top notch now and I can easily see how much better I play than other (leaderboard) regs, especially at the PKOs. When they're playing 8-12 tables or more and I mostly play like 2-4 tables with 6 as hard limit I really can see lots of leaks etc. what other people can not. Especially when playing 6-max PKOs which really need extra concentration. It's also important to learn how fish play + write notes so I can squeeze them to get some juice.

But alas, it's no matter if my game is at a top notch if these runs continue: Results overall this year so far:

530+ 1 mincash (got it today), just 3 mincashes @ 215s... and I have played quite a lot 215s with LOTS of good runs. Considering that 55-109 haven't went well either (I guess they're bit up), leaderboards have gone badly (just one 5,3k$ ticket), small buy-in tournaments have run super bad (probably break-even), and satellite runs have been decent (probably about +10k) but not really good ones that's all it's a miracle that I have managed to keep this year break-even (maybe gave played bit over 300 hours, didn't really play Jan-Feb).

If there's anything called justice this May should easily be best month ever... it's just about 30k€ to beat earlier record. If that happens I promise to write at least 1 positive post to my blog!
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05-01-2018 , 11:27 PM
And oh yeah, I think exactly 0 times my aces holded @ a flip today. Featuring higher ones (just played one 1050, one 530 and 3 215 today with 0 re-entries to keep my buy-ins low and table count reasonable).

215 PKO

Party, $200 Buy-in (1,550/3,100 blinds, 355 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 8 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

Hero (SB): 85,769 (27.7 bb)
BB: 91,120 (29.4 bb)
UTG+2: 125,044 (40.3 bb)
MP1: 162,899 (52.5 bb)
MP2: 234,119 (75.5 bb)
MP3: 170,322 (54.9 bb)
CO: 358,526 (115.7 bb)
BTN: 68,001 (21.9 bb)

Preflop: Hero is SB with A A
UTG+2 folds, MP1 raises to 6,200, MP2 folds, MP3 raises to 19,075, CO calls 19,075, BTN folds, Hero raises to 85,414 and is all-in, 2 folds, MP3 raises to 169,967 and is all-in, CO calls 150,892

Flop: (437,488) 6 3 K (3 players, 2 are all-in)
Turn: (437,488) 5 (3 players, 2 are all-in)
River: (437,488) 4 (3 players, 2 are all-in)

Results: 437,488 pot
Final Board: 6 3 K 5 4
Hero showed A A and lost (-85,769 net)
MP3 showed A K and lost (-170,322 net)
CO showed 7 7 and won 437,488 (267,166 net)


Another 215 PKO

Party, $200 Buy-in (550/1,100 blinds, 135 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 8 Players
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SB: 109,560 (99.6 bb)
Hero (BB): 118,179 (107.4 bb)
UTG+2: 3,084 (2.8 bb)
MP1: 129,917 (118.1 bb)
MP2: 93,615 (85.1 bb)
MP3: 99,565 (90.5 bb)
CO: 124,965 (113.6 bb)
BTN: 116,915 (106.3 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BB with A A
UTG+2 raises to 2,949 and is all-in, 2 folds, MP3 raises to 99,430 and is all-in, 3 folds, Hero calls 98,330

Flop: (203,439) 6 7 6 (3 players, 2 are all-in)
Turn: (203,439) 3 (3 players, 2 are all-in)
River: (203,439) 5 (3 players, 2 are all-in)

Results: 203,439 pot
Final Board: 6 7 6 3 5
Hero showed A A and lost (-99,565 net)
UTG+2 showed Q J and lost (-3,084 net)
MP3 showed J A and won 203,439 (103,874 net)

Not sure but I probably (at least I don't remember) didn't win any flip against aces either.
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