Well I simply couldn't run any worse. Just the tip of an iceberg, both . Every single tournament has had ultra mega bad runs and even best player in the world couldn't win with these runs. Been playing super good though.

109 PKO

Party, $100 Buy-in (2,250/4,500 blinds, 515 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 85,902 (19.1 bb)
BB: 112,924 (25.1 bb)
UTG: 165,312 (36.7 bb)
MP: 215,965 (48 bb)
CO: 101,150 (22.5 bb)
Hero (BTN): 231,678 (51.5 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BTN with A A
UTG calls 4,500, MP raises to 15,750, CO folds, Hero raises to 42,750, SB raises to 85,387 and is all-in, 3 folds, Hero calls 42,637

Flop: (198,614) T J 6 (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Turn: (198,614) J (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (198,614) Q (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Results: 198,614 pot
Final Board: T J 6 J Q
SB showed K A and won 198,614 (112,712 net)
Hero showed A A and lost (-85,902 net)


Another 109 PKO


Party, $100 Buy-in (11,500/23,000 blinds, 2,800 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 8 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

Hero (SB): 482,449 (21 bb)
BB: 617,386 (26.8 bb)
UTG+2: 814,470 (35.4 bb)
MP1: 688,371 (29.9 bb)
MP2: 322,798 (14 bb)
MP3: 1,493,961 (65 bb)
CO: 125,001 (5.4 bb)
BTN: 543,960 (23.7 bb)

Preflop: Hero is SB with A A
2 folds, MP2 raises to 319,998 and is all-in, 2 folds, BTN raises to 541,160 and is all-in, Hero calls 468,149 and is all-in, BB folds

Flop: (1,324,696) 8 K K (3 players, 3 are all-in)
Turn: (1,324,696) 3 (3 players, 3 are all-in)
River: (1,324,696) 3 (3 players, 3 are all-in)

Results: 1,324,696 pot
Final Board: 8 K K 3 3
Hero showed A A and won 319,302 (-163,147 net)
MP2 showed K J and won 1,005,394 (682,596 net)
BTN showed Q A and lost (-482,449 net)

0/4 won AA today and yesterday @ flip. Only way to win either win it without flip.

Hard to win when nothing holds at a flip or "flip" when opp has even runner-runners alive.

But I still keep playing my best at the best spots and hope that at some point doomswitch ends even for a short time because then I'll be ready and simply crush all games.

It's same time super frustrating and super tempting to see that all games especially PKO including 1050 PKO games are full of bad regfish and utter whales with probably no capability to make profit @ PokerStars 22$ regspeed. Now I really understand why such a mediocre or even quite bad players can play these and make marginal profit / go break-even even long time.

Not sure what you are trying to get out of posting all these bad beats, would find it much more interesting if you'd post a close river decision or a somewhat questionable barrel off etc

Look, Jesus! (Vihun nick ImFKNjesus)

Mincash. 33th when prizejump 295 -> 355 was coming. It's nuisance even when it is small one

Party, $100 Buy-in (17,500/35,000 blinds, 4,500 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 7 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 2,538,822 (72.5 bb)
BB: 1,397,098 (39.9 bb)
MP1: 1,182,932 (33.8 bb)
MP2: 685,173 (19.6 bb)
MP3: 345,756 (9.9 bb)
CO: 1,430,744 (40.9 bb)
Hero (BTN): 309,036 (8.8 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BTN with A A
MP1 raises to 70,000, 3 folds, Hero raises to 304,536 and is all-in, 2 folds, MP1 calls 234,536

Flop: (693,072) Q 8 9 (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Turn: (693,072) 8 (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (693,072) T (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Results: 693,072 pot
Final Board: Q 8 9 8 T
MP1 showed A 9 and won 693,072 (384,036 net)
Hero showed A A and lost (-309,036 net)

It's so ridiculous how badly my aces CAN RUN!

Once again F2T @ 109 PKO and mincash after lots of bad luck. Last 2 hands vs. maniac and aggro. 8,5 hours and about 3,5x buy-in, gotta love these ridiculously super bad structures @ PartyPoker. Not.

Party, $100 Buy-in (65,000/130,000 blinds, 16,500 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 5,881,173 (45.2 bb)
BB: 1,903,272 (14.6 bb)
UTG: 3,007,021 (23.1 bb)
Hero (MP): 3,516,191 (27 bb)
CO: 3,211,061 (24.7 bb)
BTN: 1,827,110 (14.1 bb)

Preflop: Hero is MP with 7 7
UTG folds, Hero raises to 323,700, CO folds, BTN raises to 1,810,610 and is all-in, 2 folds, Hero calls 1,486,910

Flop: (3,915,220) J 8 6 (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Turn: (3,915,220) A (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (3,915,220) 4 (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Results: 3,915,220 pot
Final Board: J 8 6 A 4
Hero showed 7 7 and lost (-1,827,110 net)
BTN showed A K and won 3,915,220 (2,088,110 net)



Party, $100 Buy-in (65,000/130,000 blinds, 16,500 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 5,881,173 (45.2 bb)
BB: 1,903,272 (14.6 bb)
UTG: 3,007,021 (23.1 bb)
Hero (MP): 3,516,191 (27 bb)
CO: 3,211,061 (24.7 bb)
BTN: 1,827,110 (14.1 bb)

Preflop: Hero is MP with 7 7
UTG folds, Hero raises to 323,700, CO folds, BTN raises to 1,810,610 and is all-in, 2 folds, Hero calls 1,486,910

Flop: (3,915,220) J 8 6 (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Turn: (3,915,220) A (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (3,915,220) 4 (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Results: 3,915,220 pot
Final Board: J 8 6 A 4
Hero showed 7 7 and lost (-1,827,110 net)
BTN showed A K and won 3,915,220 (2,088,110 net)

Party, $100 Buy-in (65,000/130,000 blinds, 16,500 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 3,398,021 (26.1 bb)
Hero (BB): 1,672,581 (12.9 bb)
UTG: 3,178,061 (24.4 bb)
MP: 3,638,720 (28 bb)
CO: 5,783,173 (44.5 bb)
BTN: 1,675,272 (12.9 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BB with T A
4 folds, SB raises to 3,381,521 and is all-in, Hero calls 1,526,081 and is all-in

Flop: (3,411,162) 3 8 7 (2 players, 2 are all-in)
Turn: (3,411,162) 9 (2 players, 2 are all-in)
River: (3,411,162) 6 (2 players, 2 are all-in)

Results: 3,411,162 pot
Final Board: 3 8 7 9 6
SB showed T J and won 3,411,162 (1,738,581 net)
Hero showed T A and lost (-1,672,581 net)



Never can have any chance for even a small success.

E: Just one left. 0 bounties @ 215 75k F3T (not that I wouldn't have tried, but lost all bountyflips + at least 3 times opponent lost 60+% of their stack by some kind of super bad line like cold call cold call c-r fold at some kind of QJ76ds board etc. So it's either top2 for money or mincash.

Party, $100 Buy-in (65,000/130,000 blinds, 16,500 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 5,881,173 (45.2 bb)
BB: 1,903,272 (14.6 bb)
UTG: 3,007,021 (23.1 bb)
Hero (MP): 3,516,191 (27 bb)
CO: 3,211,061 (24.7 bb)
BTN: 1,827,110 (14.1 bb)

Preflop: Hero is MP with 7 7
UTG folds, Hero raises to 323,700, CO folds, BTN raises to 1,810,610 and is all-in, 2 folds, Hero calls 1,486,910

Flop: (3,915,220) J 8 6 (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Turn: (3,915,220) A (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (3,915,220) 4 (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Results: 3,915,220 pot
Final Board: J 8 6 A 4
Hero showed 7 7 and lost (-1,827,110 net)
BTN showed A K and won 3,915,220 (2,088,110 net)

Came up. Came down. 9th place. Less chance than a snowman @ hell. 215 PKO.

It was somewhat quick but super painful (got only like ~15 hands).

Party, $200 Buy-in (36,000/72,000 blinds, 8,300 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 2,483,204 (34.5 bb)
BB: 2,932,540 (40.7 bb)
UTG: 1,447,473 (20.1 bb)
Hero (MP): 3,952,404 (54.9 bb)
CO: 1,718,647 (23.9 bb)
BTN: 2,964,676 (41.2 bb)

Preflop: Hero is MP with A J
UTG folds, Hero raises to 179,280, 3 folds, BB raises to 2,924,240 and is all-in, Hero calls 2,744,960



Flop: (5,934,280) 6 5 3 (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Turn: (5,934,280) 4 (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (5,934,280) 6 (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Results: 5,934,280 pot
Final Board: 6 5 3 4 6
BB showed K A and won 5,934,280 (3,001,740 net)

Hero showed A J and lost (-2,932,540 net

[IMG]Party, $50 Buy-in (6,500/13,000 blinds, 1,650 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 8 Players Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite. SB: 523,617 (40.3 bb) BB: 843,533 (64.9 bb) UTG+2: 576,577 (44.4 bb) MP1: 554,778 (42.7 bb) MP2: 620,370 (47.7 bb) MP3: 177,247 (13.6 bb) Hero (CO): 368,116 (28.3 bb) BTN: 558,561 (43 bb) Preflop: Hero is CO with 4 4 3 folds, MP3 raises to 26,000, Hero raises to 366,466 and is all-in, 2 folds, BB calls 353,466, MP3 calls 149,597 and is all-in Flop: (928,229) 8 9 Q (3 players, 2 are all-in) Turn: (928,229) 7 (3 players, 2 are all-in) River: (928,229) 6 (3 players, 2 are all-in) Results: 928,229 pot Final Board: 8 9 Q 7 6 BB showed K A and won 928,229 (560,113 net) MP3 showed J J and lost (-177,247 net) Hero showed 4 4 and lost (-368,116 net)[/IMG]



11 left at this spot.

Opp stats after the hand



Would someone have folded?

If answer is yes, then you are either lying, superuser or [spoiler]super bad whale.[/spoiler]

And rest of the hands just moment later...

Party, $200 Buy-in (36,000/72,000 blinds, 8,300 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 2,483,204 (34.5 bb)
BB: 2,932,540 (40.7 bb)
UTG: 1,447,473 (20.1 bb)
Hero (MP): 3,952,404 (54.9 bb)
CO: 1,718,647 (23.9 bb)
BTN: 2,964,676 (41.2 bb)

Preflop: Hero is MP with A J
UTG folds, Hero raises to 179,280, 3 folds, BB raises to 2,924,240 and is all-in, Hero calls 2,744,960

Flop: (5,934,280) 6 5 3 (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Turn: (5,934,280) 4 (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (5,934,280) 6 (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Results: 5,934,280 pot
Final Board: 6 5 3 4 6
BB showed K A and won 5,934,280 (3,001,740 net)
Hero showed A J and lost (-2,932,540 net)[/spoiler]


But alas, no help (pretty nice PKO and easy catch especially as prizejumps are smaller and other tables got 2M+ stacks).

Party, $200 Buy-in (39,000/78,000 blinds, 9,350 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 5 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 5,590,955 (71.7 bb)
Hero (BB): 2,940,950 (37.7 bb)
MP: 1,997,306 (25.6 bb)
CO: 3,115,526 (39.9 bb)
BTN: 1,854,207 (23.8 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 6 A
2 folds, BTN raises to 1,844,857 and is all-in, SB folds, Hero calls 1,766,857

Flop: (3,775,464) Q K K (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Turn: (3,775,464) 6 (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (3,775,464) Q (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Results: 3,775,464 pot
Final Board: Q K K 6 Q
Hero showed 6 A and lost (-1,854,207 net)
BTN showed K T and won 3,775,464 (1,921,257 net)


And bounty goes to the original 32s AKo man.

Party, $200 Buy-in (42,000/84,000 blinds, 10,600 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 5 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

Hero (SB): 1,086,743 (12.9 bb)
BB: 1,987,956 (23.7 bb)
MP: 3,106,176 (37 bb)
CO: 3,775,464 (44.9 bb)
BTN: 5,542,605 (66 bb)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q J
2 folds, BTN raises to 5,532,005 and is all-in, Hero calls 1,034,143 and is all-in, BB folds

Flop: (2,289,286) A K J (2 players, 2 are all-in)
Turn: (2,289,286) 3 (2 players, 2 are all-in)
River: (2,289,286) K (2 players, 2 are all-in)

Results: 2,289,286 pot
Final Board: A K J 3 K
Hero showed Q J and lost (-1,086,743 net)
BTN showed A 4 and won 2,289,286 (1,202,543 net)

3 of marginally losing days this week, 3 different ways. Just 0 chance to score anything that has any meaning @2018. 2017 was super bad, but this is much worse (and back then there were collusion ring partially responsible and still got bad +60k€ year).

It's mostly just to show how super unlucky a player can be. Mostly therapeutic, one has to when facing either worst or next to worst possible runs at every occasions. If you don't feel it you have been lucky, but test 2 years playing for life MTTs without 40+ buy-in cash at your regular games and no 20+ buy-in at the shots. Especially now as even 10 or even 5 buy-in cash seem very hard to get.

I can tell you, it's not nice and most people wouldn't be able to do it anyways because they would go broke. There's a reason why I keep on with very disciplined and tight bankroll. I have never lost my bankroll @ poker during my 13 years and I don't intend to do it now no matter how utterly super bad I run or how many MTT collusion rings I will have to beat or bust.

I actually personally dislike most river (or "hard") hands. They usually are A) super easy to play if you have time to think (like 99+% of regular NL Hold'em hands) or B) they require such a great amount of information to make a right decision (like some PKO stuff: you need to know opp stats, your own stats, opp bounties, your bounty, prize structure, situation at the tournament and if there's any special reads etc.) Due to the later it's also very tiresome and harmful for concentration to post such things midsession.

Also I greatly dislike blogs which just post hands with really little background info and blogs become full of hands at which is impossible to tell what play is good and people going for "OFC it is a right play" with no reason to support is then another comes to say the opposite and just goes on ranting. No strategy value whatsoever.

Afterwards watching @ hands is impossible to know all the situations and it's mostly useless waste of time, you can always calculate simple hand odds during session by just putting them @ ProPokerTools or so. I also prefer (and need too if playing this super hard LB) not to think about poker any more than I have to after session. It's impossible ofc. when you almost everytime get super disappointed and especially after spots like this (two major F2T gone bust and super ****ty session result-wise) you always but one has to try.

I know many players disagree and think that it's important to check all major hands after session or next day at least + use lots of PIOSolver etc. But most players did disagree also when I told them back few years ago that it is a (really) bad idea to take double stacks and run for big stack @ 3x turbos which had 10x add-on and 90 min late reg back then. 90+% players actually bought that it's a great plan (it's very surprising, as it was clear to me from start that it is worst idea ever). I think that 2018 version of such primitive and harmful thinking for MTT players is wasting lots of time with PIOSolver for no real use, but we will see.

But well, here are two "intuition" hands from this day. Hands where everything else told not to do that but intuition (and one major timing tell) told otherwise.

Really strange spot. CO cold calls a lot, and doesn't actually show much of a strength preflop with that bet. BB is super bad random loose-passive-donker which seems to do all kind of stuff randomly. Somehow I just felt that despite this LOOKS really bad spot to call, it's really only right thing to do against these 2 players.

Party, $100 Buy-in (4,000/8,000 blinds, 1,000 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 8 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 180,748 (22.6 bb)
BB: 175,724 (22 bb)
UTG+2: 163,600 (20.5 bb)
Hero (MP1): 242,502 (30.3 bb)
MP2: 251,984 (31.5 bb)
MP3: 193,232 (24.2 bb)
CO: 296,263 (37 bb)
BTN: 483,305 (60.4 bb)

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with 6 6
UTG+2 folds, Hero raises to 19,920, 2 folds, CO calls 19,920, 2 folds, BB calls 11,920

Flop: (71,760) 3 7 8 (3 players)
BB checks, Hero checks, CO bets 20,000, BB calls 20,000, Hero calls 20,000

Turn: (131,760) 5 (3 players)
BB bets 134,804 and is all-in, Hero raises to 201,582 and is all-in, CO folds

River: (401,368) 4 (2 players, 2 are all-in)

Results: 401,368 pot
Final Board: 3 7 8 5 4
BB showed 4 5 and lost (-175,724 net)
Hero showed 6 6 and won 401,368 (225,644 net)
CO mucked and lost (-40,920 net)


New opp first hand ever 14 left PKO. Timing tell @ turn (checked very slowly). Decided to go no value for river because well... it's no good if opp did hit something (or open backdoor) @ turn.

Party, $100 Buy-in (46,000/92,000 blinds, 11,700 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 7 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 2,342,310 (25.5 bb)
BB: 4,281,693 (46.5 bb)
MP1: 952,036 (10.3 bb)
MP2: 6,160,157 (67 bb)
MP3: 1,416,814 (15.4 bb)
Hero (CO): 3,057,021 (33.2 bb)
BTN: 2,680,461 (29.1 bb)

Preflop: Hero is CO with A J
3 folds, Hero raises to 229,080, 2 folds, BB calls 137,080

Flop: (586,060) 7 9 6 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: (586,060) Q (2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks

River: (586,060) J (2 players)
BB checks, Hero checks

Results: 586,060 pot
Final Board: 7 9 6 Q J
BB showed Q K and won 586,060 (345,280 net)
Hero mucked A J and lost (-240,780 net)

Already got one deep run but major CL 14 left 99 < AK 5-handed after that nothing but bad news. Until...

Well. I've seen lots of bad plays but I honestly didn't expect that.

109 PKO.

Party, $100 Buy-in (5,500/11,000 blinds, 1,350 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

Hero (SB): 159,464 (14.5 bb)
BB: 404,043 (36.7 bb)
UTG: 469,045 (42.6 bb)
MP: 569,253 (51.8 bb)
CO: 509,545 (46.3 bb)
BTN: 724,567 (65.9 bb)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q 7
4 folds, Hero completes, BB checks

Flop: (30,100) Q 7 4 (2 players)
Hero bets 15,351, BB raises to 60,952, Hero raises to 147,114 and is all-in, BB calls 86,162

Turn: (324,328) A (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (324,328) 4 (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Results: 324,328 pot
Final Board: Q 7 4 A 4
Hero showed Q 7 and won 324,328 (164,864 net)
BB showed T 9 and lost (-159,464 net)

Another major run gone bad. After this one I pretty much stayed at the same stack until last hand, opponents didn't bust @ flips so missed all the payjumps. 109 PKO 20k this one with nice overlay.

Party, $100 Buy-in (14,000/28,000 blinds, 3,300 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 4 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 1,266,978 (45.2 bb)
BB: 865,890 (30.9 bb)
Hero (CO): 2,336,891 (83.5 bb)
BTN: 1,326,971 (47.4 bb)

Preflop: Hero is CO with A J
Hero raises to 69,720, 2 folds, BB raises to 182,000, Hero raises to 2,333,591 and is all-in, BB calls 680,590 and is all-in

Flop: (1,752,380) 6 7 2 (2 players, 2 are all-in)
Turn: (1,752,380) Q (2 players, 2 are all-in)
River: (1,752,380) 4 (2 players, 2 are all-in)

Results: 1,752,380 pot
Final Board: 6 7 2 Q 4
BB showed J J and won 1,752,380 (886,490 net)
Hero showed A J and lost (-865,890 net)

And first flip out against aggro. Played FT pretty tight (mainly just not playing some borderline hands against button open -> shove or so) keeping my stack still intact but no payjumps although there were chances. Well this hand couldn't be anything else than bust with these boardruns.

6th place 500$ 1st place 3k+ and bounties and nice prizejumps along the FT. Not for me... again.

Party, $100 Buy-in (36,000/72,000 blinds, 8,300 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 1,865,792 (25.9 bb)
Hero (BB): 1,471,767 (20.4 bb)
UTG: 4,897,361 (68 bb)
MP: 1,357,334 (18.9 bb)
CO: 3,384,150 (47 bb)
BTN: 2,523,596 (35 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BB with K Q
3 folds, BTN raises to 158,400, SB folds, Hero raises to 1,463,467 and is all-in, BTN calls 1,305,067

Flop: (3,012,734) 7 J K (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Turn: (3,012,734) A (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (3,012,734) 3 (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Results: 3,012,734 pot
Final Board: 7 J K A 3
Hero showed K Q and lost (-1,471,767 net)
BTN showed T A and won 3,012,734 (1,540,967 net)

Again one minor lossday, despite half a dozen deepruns which each would have easily made a major payday without super bad run... again. This was the smallest but as I skipped all HRs today (didn't get enough sleep last night to feel comfortable playing them) it could have easily made my day pretty good. Now it's just super frustrating.

Parobably skip last ones to get 12+ hours of sleep. I really need it for weekend games, probably much more than LB points at this stage even as LB wise week has been bad too.

Hey OP, hope you collect some run good during Scoop.

Ahkeruus kovan onnen voittaa.

Menääään!

Maxi awful week. More about it maybe later.

But collusion or no collusion, 50-seater 51 left? Could be just "jokey donkey" but earlier play didn't support that. Impossible to tell the difference. So some Polish guy busted me at this, reported him in case there was some foul play. 0 confidence that Party will take any action though even if there's collusion, there's been proven collusion cases @ satellites before and culprit played same satellite next day.

However, if you see such action it would be better to report it. Even if it is just jokey dokey play you never know it at these spots, and it's best if people report these and poker support at least tries to follow some of most obvious collusion cases by asking user involved what they were doing. In that way it's a preventive measure for collusion, because while many people will do this (like their friend short stack and they can bust opponent with no risk) if they don't get caught even by got asked for it will prevent part of them doing it again. And on credible sites multiple plays like this which might help a friend in a satellite might actually result on account freezing.

***** Hand History for Game 17273522255 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $5.50 USD Buy-in Trny:170396006 Level:50 Blinds-Antes(42K/84K -10.6K) - Monday, May 07, 00:22:46 EEST 2018
Table $530 High Roller Mega Feeder. 50 x $55 Gtd (170396006) Table #37 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 6/6
Seat 5: DukeOfSuffolk ( 498,850 )
Seat 6: Patka2495 ( 1,310,155 )
Seat 3: best_girl555 ( 357,860 )
Seat 2: bouldozas4 ( 371,887 )
Seat 1: khonde44 ( 248,650 )
Seat 4: pingupro ( 86,794 )
Trny:170396006 Level:50
Blinds-Antes(42 000/84 000 -10 600)
khonde44 posts ante [10,600]
bouldozas4 posts ante [10,600]
best_girl555 posts ante [10,600]
pingupro posts ante [10,600]
DukeOfSuffolk posts ante [10,600]
Patka2495 posts ante [10,600]
bouldozas4 posts small blind [42,000].
best_girl555 posts big blind [84,000].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to DukeOfSuffolk [ Js Jd ]
pingupro folds
DukeOfSuffolk is all-In [488,250]
Patka2495 calls [488,250]
khonde44 folds
bouldozas4 folds
best_girl555 folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qc, 5c, 2d ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qd ]
** Dealing River ** [ Kh ]
DukeOfSuffolk shows [ Js, Jd ]two pairs, Queens and Jacks.
Patka2495 shows [ Ks, 4c ]two pairs, Kings and Queens.
Patka2495 wins 1,166,100 chips from the main pot with two pairs, Kings and Queens.
The tournament is now finished as the remaining prizes are of equal value.
Player DukeOfSuffolk finished in 51.

On a separate note concerning @ satellite hand posted earlier, I got 55T$ credited to my account. Sometimes good deeds don't go unpunished. So it might also be good for you to report such events if they happen to you and you're not sure it's collusion or not. Not just good for the community as a whole.

Its completly fine for him to snapcall you?
Esp. if some people know you from 2+2, some people are more than happy to snapcall you in that spot.

While blaming him, why dont you just blame yourself?
But it is always easier to cry to Party again that he must been cheating bc hes ripping you apart, funny.

btw honest opionion, from what people get to read here, i would consider to quit poker and do something where you dont beat yourself up that much.
Life has options, poker is only 1 of them...

Thanks for your opinion, but please take your poison elsewhere.

If you want collusionists to rampage around, that shame is on you. Like I wrote, there's hard to define if case aforementioned just 1) funplay, 2) bad play or 3) collusion. But PartyPoker can define it much more easier as they have more information we do. Same was with MTT collusion case, and if I would have listened people like you that collusion would never have come to an end.

13 years poker, no losing year yet. Sure, I don't like poker as a work, but decided to take a jump from semi-professional to hardcore grinder. It hasn't go well, but +150k€ net profit @ 1,5 years despite proven collusion etc. is more than most people ever do from this game. I will never stop altogether, but probably play more like a (profitable) hobby again after this summer.

In this specific spot Party is basically 0 chance to call it collusion/fraud.

People are making such calls to "end" the Sat, esp in bigger saties this will happen more often. It will happen less often reg vs reg as those regs will do the same in other satelites.

Ive been called off often enough to say people want to gamble to want to just bust you for whatever reason, thats it. To blame collusion for such things is lol.

I am completly for reporting colluison but to report any bs spot will cluster the system.
Your detected collusion was a great job by yourself and im happy that you reported such things, just report where it is obv collusion and thats it.

Im not saying you are not winning in poker but as people read your posts it is very clear that it seems not very healthy how you handle poker, thats why it might be better to do something else which gives you pelasure/fullfillment in your life.

To tell the truth I've never planned to play poker as a full-time professional until retirement age. Decided 2 years ago to try and find out how much I can get from poker around 3-5 years period to ensure some financial security.

Should've it gone better it could've easily been enough to make such money not to worry about how much I get paid each month or so. As far as I know most successful pros both @ Finland and elsewhere also have stopped playing after they got enough money out of poker and moved on, most usually found a nice career at financial sector or as entrepreneur. Haven't got nearly as much as I wanted but got a nice seed corn for the future.

I do enjoy the game when I can decide what I can play and when I can do it only when I want to. But that's not the way of making best $$$ out from it.

Do you thing that maximising your EV is the best option in the longrun?
Why not play what you want, when you want to and find "more" fun within poker.
Thats what poker is all about, do give your the freedom to choose when and what to play?
Not sure if those extra $ will make you happy, it just seems from what you are writing that you are def not happy within your Poker settings right now.

People (me included) get a very narrow view while thinking they have to do everything to maximise their ev but they only maximise their $ not their total life-ev.

Most people do spend 40+ years @ 9 to 5 worklife and they're not usually excessively happy about it. I would have really preferred to sacrifice 5 years for poker instead of 40 years at some miserable or even mediocre job to get same / even better living standards for the rest of my life.

This week back for grind. Today 3 bubbles, last two days big FT at 7th place, medium one at 5th place and small one at 3rd place. Utterly bad luck, but still result-wise about break-even (actually slightly profitable) and kicking somewhat strong at the leaderboard. Just played final day of serieses for no return.

So utterly bad luck continues. And got another obvious collusion case, this guy did play tight push-fold until 21 left. Then he did open 7 times in a row and busted me at this. Most obvious collusion scene I have seen in a long time.

***** Hand History for Game 17335668908 *****
NL Texas Hold'em $11 USD Buy-in Trny:169219145 Level:46 Blinds-Antes(30K/60K -6.8K) - Thursday, May 24, 06:07:30 EEST 2018
Table $109 Mega Turbo Satellite. 20 Tickets Gtd (169219145) Table #8 (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 7/8
Seat 7: Chengueee44 ( 962,969 )
Seat 6: DukeOfSuffolk ( 293,310 )
Seat 4: I_rivered_U ( 136,673 )
Seat 2: Mat1981 ( 383,866 )
Seat 1: gelebanaan69 ( 118,573 )
Seat 8: thesaintjonz ( 368,366 )
Seat 5: veridanado ( 482,821 )
Trny:169219145 Level:46
Blinds-Antes(30 000/60 000 -6 800)
gelebanaan69 posts ante [6,800]
Mat1981 posts ante [6,800]
I_rivered_U posts ante [6,800]
veridanado posts ante [6,800]
DukeOfSuffolk posts ante [6,800]
Chengueee44 posts ante [6,800]
thesaintjonz posts ante [6,800]
gelebanaan69 posts small blind [30,000].
Mat1981 posts big blind [60,000].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to DukeOfSuffolk [ Ah Td ]
I_rivered_U folds
veridanado folds
Your time bank will be activated in 6 secs. If you do not want it to be used, please act now.
DukeOfSuffolk is all-In [286,510]
Chengueee44 calls [286,510]
thesaintjonz folds
gelebanaan69 folds
Mat1981 folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jd, 4c, Jc ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 8d ]
DukeOfSuffolk shows [ Ah, Td ]a pair of Jacks.
Chengueee44 shows [ Qs, 8s ]two pairs, Jacks and Eights.
Chengueee44 wins 710,620 chips from the main pot with two pairs, Jacks and Eights.
The tournament is now finished as the remaining prizes are of equal value.
Player DukeOfSuffolk finished in 21.

Why do they always make collusion which is so super obvious escapes me. Come on, opening 7 hands in a row then making the most obvious collusion call ever. Well, we will see how Party responds at that.

Have seen other very suspicious bubble play @ satellites this week as well, although have played only 5 satellites until bubble. It's clear that collusion at Party satellites is rampant and I requested them to take a close proactive look at suspicious bubble play, but I also hope that players will report if they spot a clear collusion case happening (like a tight push-fold player going all-in every hand except on minbetting against small stack and then fold at small stacks shove etc.).

Only highrolelr @ this week (played via satellite) did bring up lots of salt. Roller coaster from start until the end. And the final hand wasn't a nice end for a story, but they never are unless you win.

Party, $500 Buy-in (2,250/4,500 blinds, 515 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 8 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 295,427 (65.7 bb)
BB: 287,206 (63.8 bb)
UTG+2: 77,935 (17.3 bb)
MP1: 135,698 (30.2 bb)
MP2: 191,650 (42.6 bb)
MP3: 93,390 (20.8 bb)
CO: 262,865 (58.4 bb)
Hero (BTN): 129,358 (28.7 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BTN with A A
5 folds, Hero raises to 11,205, SB raises to 31,500, BB raises to 69,000, Hero raises to 128,843 and is all-in, SB folds, BB calls 59,843

Flop: (293,306) 9 Q T (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Turn: (293,306) Q (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (293,306) T (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Results: 293,306 pot
Final Board: 9 Q T Q T
BB showed K J and won 293,306 (163,948 net)
Hero showed A A and lost (-129,358 net)

Worst start of a week so far. Just one mincash and lots of buy-ins, so will be hard to get it back from later games when buy-ins are smaller as all remaining tourmanents running now shortstacked. But we will try and it is utmost importance to gather LB points after a bad start of a week, still hanging 7th at the beginning of a day so a good shot.

https://www.pokerisivut.com/forum/vi...459561#p459561

Last satellite pretty much sums my Friday: Highroller sat 1/6 -> bubble (5 seats). My flips feat QQ < KK, KK < QQ followed by A6 < AT and finally KTo < any2 (was J5s). Opponents flipped quite a bit too. Unbelevable bad run, was like 0,000000000000000000001% really.

And LB got a crash from heaven. Opponents got huge runs late at last night while it looked that LB is pretty much done (making 12-13 players to fight for top10 instead of ~10) and good today, while I got very bad day not just moneywise but LB wise as well. Still hanging on... from a thread. While opponents @ LB are now very weak at least from LB perspective, but with largest run being some ridiculous ****ty run of miserable small cashes like 3rd from very small one, 5th from medium one and 7th from 50k with utterly disappointing run of 8-10th places and lots of bubbles it's hard to simply crush them like I usually do when having week as unpopular as this. Most regs clearly decided to take a vacation from grinding after SCOOP etc.

And last. 555,5$ for 5th place. I hate fives now. Decided to go for this as opp never has an ace here, I have had pretty tight image + opponent hasn't been a calling station and of course all draws miss.

Party, $50 Buy-in (85,000/170,000 blinds, 21,000 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 5 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

Hero (SB): 2,683,442 (15.8 bb)
BB: 15,757,665 (92.7 bb)
MP: 6,701,726 (39.4 bb)
CO: 8,578,392 (50.5 bb)
BTN: 6,678,775 (39.3 bb)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 8 7
3 folds, Hero completes, BB checks

Flop: (445,000) 4 J 5 (2 players)
Hero bets 226,950, BB calls 226,950

Turn: (898,900) A (2 players)
Hero bets 458,439, BB calls 458,439

River: (1,815,778) A (2 players)
Hero bets 1,807,053 and is all-in, BB calls 1,807,053

Results: 5,429,884 pot
Final Board: 4 J 5 A A
Hero showed 8 7 and lost (-2,683,442 net)
BB showed 5 K and won 5,429,884 (2,746,442 net)


https://www.pokerisivut.com/forum/vi...459635#p459635

Got rekt quite a bit there

I have to ask for LittleGoliath to stop posting at this PGC. Continue your worthless rant where ever else you want against me at other threads or even make a separate PGC about that, but keep my PGC clear.

Well, it was quite a weekend. Worst that I have ever had, by large margin. Friday and Saturday were two very bad days, but managed to cash few tournaments and was holding 6th spot @ LB after them. Then came first time ever when I shoot a major session and got 0 cashes... when probably a single cash would've been enough to save the leaderboard and 5300T$. Even lost @ first tournament just prior to money when shoved A8s @ button with 14bb and was greeted by monsters.

@Thursday I didn't see roughly any way to make a losing week. Despite a frustrating results I was 1-2k€ up and at very sweet spot @ leaderboard where there were 10 people relatively far away from the rest, and even some of those top10 players were skipping lots of tournaments. Same was true for people who were lagging behind. Well, lots of them did skip many tournaments or even full days, but made bink-bink-bink when they didn't and I did just get some mincashes combined with ultrabrick Sunday. Before the week I would've expected my about 3,2k LB points to win anytime this week as there were lots of tournaments cancelled (like most 215+ buy-ins).

Well, **** happened once again. Rougly -4k€ week in the end, which LB win would've made slightly profitable. So lots of booze after games @ Sunday night and then no time but have to decide what to do:

- Go with the original plan, play every day for 2 weeks lightly concentrating around UOS then go to holiday until mid of July after using all tickets and so on.
- Go for vacation for 6 weeks.
- Take 2 weeks off, then take a blaze of glory for LB again then vacation.

None of those exactly tempting. Quick answer for most would be middle one, and I really didn't think up about blaze of glory part. Decided to go with the original plan, since I knew from experience that it would ruin a vacation if I would have done it right after what was effectively a 3 day -10k€ run. It would also 99+% of the time make me get rid of any attempt to lose some weight. And in the end it would be super hard to get back to the games after the vacation with that in mind.

Instead of uncontrollable collapse (instavacation) or blaze of glory like most poker players would do at my spot I will try to have a two week cool down.

So, three objectives for next 2 weeks:

- Play well but just play when I want to @ addition to those 6 LB tournaments.

- Enjoy the summer when not playing... no poker before 8 PM.

- Do the complaint about these two issues and get them out from "to do"-list: https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...postcount=1738

I would imagine an average day could look like this:

~ 12 wake up
~ 13 some "early lunch"
~ 14 check mails do what little stuff I must / have time to
~ 15-20 enjoy time with friends, maybe take 1 or 2 drinks outside when there's a nice weather, walk around and enjoy the summer, maybe go and get some swimming at the sea etc. good stuff
~ 21 until the end of last LB tournament (likely between 00-02) poker
~ After that some netflix / whirlpool bath / podcasts etc. relaxing stuff
~ 03 Sleep

Haha you are literally the one posting super std coolers and suckouts 24/7 m7

Fwiw I actually think both of you played that hand somewhat fine.