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
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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
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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, $500 Buy-in (4,200/8,400 blinds, 1,060 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 7 Players
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SB: 645,043 (76.8 bb)
BB: 163,093 (19.4 bb)
MP1: 390,643 (46.5 bb)
Hero (MP2): 318,635 (37.9 bb)
MP3: 1,017,251 (121.1 bb)
CO: 319,096 (38 bb)
BTN: 280,453 (33.4 bb)
Preflop: Hero is MP2 with J
J
MP1 folds,
Hero raises to 20,916,
MP3 folds, CO calls 20,916,
BTN folds,
SB raises to 105,000,
BB folds,
Hero raises to 317,575 and is all-in,
CO folds, SB calls 212,575
Flop: (671,886) 7
5
4
(2 players, 1 is all-in)
Turn: (671,886) T
(2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (671,886) A
(2 players, 1 is all-in)
Results: 671,886 pot
Final Board: 7
5
4
T
A
SB showed T
T
and won 671,886 (353,251 net)
Hero showed J
J
and lost (-318,635 net)
Got this one though.
This is ONLY top4 place I have got @ Party this year. Well it's about 50-75% of daily buy-ins...
Have got two 5th places, both out 70-30 and 80-20 and lots of times. Those also were quite small one (25k and 30k guaranteeds I think) and just got 2 8th places @ 50k+ guaranteeds. Highest cashes this year not counting bounties top3: 2090$ 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!