Will def be following, name of the bar please so I can actually go there next time I go to Pest!

GL this year and with the 100k challenge!

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GL with all your projects! Business are a gamble, I'm just closing one to reopen a new one and I can tell you that most workers wont care about their duties as they should. If you want things done well, you either do it yourself or get someone you can really trust.

Excited for this thread!

Be sure to keep us updated on the startups as well!

GLGLGL!!!

postin in epic thread.

#braceletincoming

Hit me up when you're there! I'll be the one taking down the Junior Event

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Wait wait let me get this straight.. cash game grinder wins half a mil in a year playing MTT's and dosen't want to commit back to cash full time?? WHAT??

haha seriously though very happy to see this thread since it was one of my favorites last year and we are in for an epic sweat!

As far as Vegas goes I stayed in the RIO for a month my first time there and it was one of the worst experiences of my life. Obviously it didn't help that I was losing but I just found the place very depressing in general and almost never left.

It hurts that you can't drive, but if you have some other guys in your house with similar schedules you should be able to ride with them every day and minimize cabs.

Palms Place is great, and Vdara apparently is amazing if your willing to splurge.

GLGL

First off, res all on the WSOP package OBV .

Second, I know the guy that creates those mobile bike pedal crawlers out in Arizona. I can hook you up with him if you want

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one Q: http://www.boomplayer.com/poker-hand...896_157FC7B4C5 what is yours/u think should be villain(99 guy) shoving range in his spot

Took today off and had a meeting with a good friend of mine. She was working for Prezi which is a really successful start up here but wants to run her own business now and is really passionate about Frozen Yogurts.

We both see a demand for food trucks here in Budapest and there is a lot of festivals/really good floor space in and around Budapest that would be really successful in the summer. Bad news would be that I wouldn't be here in the summer, but she is looking for financial help rather than working help.

The investment amount is pretty big as have to buy all the machines etc, but their are some people flying in from Switzerland on Monday to discuss the machine prices and then on Tuesday we will go and taste the different Yogurts etc. I'm around 40% to commit to it right now, lets see how I feel next week.

Its funny because 3 weeks ago I was considering getting staked for MTT's full time, I don't mind sharing with you the thing I wrote.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...nLrQtwHrA/edit

Have such a tough time thinking about whether to proceed with this or just keep my own action. I was previously just going to play cash and then v high variance MTT's (Live/Scoops/Sundays) but now I'm starting to play more. I'm not sure how I would feel giving away so much equity. Really tough decision, but I guess I won't rush into anything for now. I didn't go through any downswing whatsoever, it was just so tough going for SNE and having to grind hard on Monday/Tuesday when Sundays were so big and I was thinking how I'd feel if I lost 50k+ in SCOOP and then had to miserably grind all day every day for SNE whilst chasing this huge downswing. I really, really love poker. Too much I'd say and it kind of scared me that I could fall out of love with this game. Weird situation and probably not verbalising it correctly, but will just follow the OP that I wrote for now.


Saved some hands from a session I played on Thursday:

I've been experimenting limping really strong hands off 10bbs in these kind of situations:

http://www.boomplayer.com/poker-hand...115_821E9031C2

Kind of interesting to see him raise/fold. Initally I though lol thats terrible. But lets think about my l/r range for a second. I basically never have Ax here, I never have 22-77 here, I never have Kx, never have Qx, never play suited connectors like this etc etc. My limp/jamming range here is going to be like JJ+ which actually makes it pretty good for him to r/f pre flop, he avoids any reverse implieds on the flop and gets me to just fold whatever else I completed with pre. Makes me then question my play, I think I'll just avoid limping these hands from now on. Whole thing is pretty interesting though.


This isn't really a moan, but I actually think the 4bet jam is decent. I'm not going to be flatting very often with these stack sizes and these positions and probably going to be putting a lot of pressure on the stack sizes here and manipulate. I think his jam is something most people don't do very often, but if you run it through crev it will show a good profit. Also don't think people 3bc here wide enough. Vs some guys who are absolutely mental you can 3bc A9 here pretty comfortably which I think is underused by most.

http://www.boomplayer.com/poker-hand...404_0DDF25FA46


I think this is a really awful river c/c by villain. http://www.boomplayer.com/poker-hand...952_BF1DAD8BFF

He blocks my KQ and I actually think his turn barrel is pretty bad, I would just c/f turn if I was him. Betting turn and c/c river vs me when he blocks my potential bluffs seems absurd.

I've been playing a lot of deep small stakes tournaments alongside my normal schedule. Opponents, even winning supernovas making 100k+ a year are making terrible mistakes with deeper stacks and just in general seem to not have much of a clue asides from jamming ranges and even those are very optimistic. Here is an example:

http://www.boomplayer.com/poker-hand...626_B348FFA396

I'm just not sure at all how pre flop can ever, ever be a good sizing as I literally cannot fold. But then again lets think about his options..

1) Cold call? Nah cannot be good
2) 4bf to 12k? Going to be getting an exceptional price to call me off
3) Jam? Expensive and theres 2 guys behind too

What do you think is his best option? I think he should probably just have a tighter range pre flop and jam everything. Thoughts?

Interesting r/c utg vs bb..

http://www.boomplayer.com/poker-hand...706_B660A27AD1

I think this was Vea with the 87. Seems weird to me..

http://www.boomplayer.com/poker-hand...449_B5633128D9

This is an interesting hand, perhaps a little bit FPS. It goes super mutli way on the flop, I have everything pre flop that gets to the flop thats nutted except AA. On the flop I think I can make him b/f Ax most of the time. On the turn whilst it looks like a bad card as it decreases my value combos I think I can manipulate it really well and rep an even stronger range by betting smaller. Also something to consider is that its very unlikely he has a flush draw imo. Ofc he could do but alot of the time in these progressive knockout things when people c/r the flop big they just say fu and jam.

http://www.boomplayer.com/poker-hand...485_63CE56C991

This is another interesting hand where you can exploit people who don't protect their range. I would assume 99% of guys in this field will be betting 2pair+ on the turn 100% of the time. I decide not to cbet, debatable. On the turn I pick up equity and I can 1) Get him to fold A high/underpairs on the turn or 2) Get him to fold his 1 pair hands that dont improve on the river

http://www.boomplayer.com/poker-hand...575_BB51DB5D5C

I have to be selective about rivers, but it doesn't matter so much, because the cards that improve his range (q/7) give me a straight, so the only cards I really need to give up on are T and 6. On 2-5 (including 5) we can overjam and get him to fold his one pair hands and on an Ace we can maybe bet smaller, although sizing is for sure more interesting on an Ace.

Its tough playing the 100r/320 6max and the 11c and 8c. You have to play very different in both and with too many tables you can either overadjust/underadjust/forget to adjust etc and this can be a big reason why people put things down to variance in MTT's. The true bosses are super focused, super on point and really crush. I spoke to JDJTPOKER in Prague 3 years ago before I ever played online MTT's we were playing in the 5k main event and we were chatting about MTT's and cash games and he said to me the best MTT players are the guys who play cash game styles and mtt styles all combined.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying I play perfectly all the time, or even a lot of the time. Of course I make big mistakes, we all do. But for this weekend I'm going to focus so much. I'm going to post here on Monday morning and tell you guys I'm proud of myself. Of course I always think this before a session and often wander off into my C game but theres not many days between now and Event 1 of the WSOP and even less days before the first day of SCOOP. I don't want to have these regrets that I could have done more. I've hired Jared Tendler and bought 8 hours of mental coaching, I'll use him initially and then over the summer too. I've heard great things and I'm really excited to get started.

Yo thanks. I live here so it was an easy decision to start here.

Tuborg. It's next door to instant. How you enjoying budapest so far? It's ****ing cold atm huh?

We didn't rename the bar yet. Waiting to incorporate skme new concepts.

Yeh for sure. I'm studying a lot of cash game stuff and played 80k hands or so already this year. Looking forward to continuing this throughout the year but don't have any set goals yet.

Vam fkn osssss

Nice I'd like that

Hurry up and graduate so you can pay for my Vegas hotel <3

Haha

Are you coming out this year? I've heard good and bad things about every hotel, except Rio which all I've heard is bad

Agh I already have the bike and the supplies and everything but thanks! I know you're super connected so always feel free to post links/contacts

Errrmmm I'm on phone but assume qq+ for him. Assume I should fold Ak and jj for sure, QQ should be close but with these ****ing Brazilians you can never ****ing trust them!

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Good luck with your goals! When you realise how insanely degen it is to take 100% of yourself in the one drop if you have $211k profit or more presumably you'll quit playing online at around $200k if you're close to Vegas then be anti sweating your stable? I know I would be doing that... All sounds crazy but good luck!

How are the cashgames going? NL500?

The city is ****ing awesome. Cold is okay to me except for those late nights out im freezing. Your bar is like 10min away i'll check it out next time.

I'd pbly recommend improving the Search Engine Optimization of your bar especially at this day & age where people use their phone and internet a ton to decide where to go drink , I had a hard time finding it online myself with just the name (google search engine-google map-facebok-what not)

Hello man.

Very interesting read and a huge fan of yours. Keep it up!

In general Im not sure its good to ever have a bluff range here in villain shoes with those stack sizes and that being said, do you think our call is going to show a profit even with those pot odds?

Pretty akward stack sizes on flop and im not really sure how are we going to proceed on different boards. Guess if the board is K high, we are getting it in, but what about somethink like 9Qx?

Pretty leveling, but dont see the point in shipping the turn? Maybe he is just protecting against something like QJ type hand, if the fish(?) decided to get creative but still I dont like it tho who am I to judge a guy like him.

Interesting stuff.

Is he a reg, or unknown? Do you expect that the majority of the field in such a high BI mtt to be good players capable of bet/folding Ax (even up to AK)? or you knew he was some kind of a reg?

Turn is interesting, but, as you said, it really decreses our value combos. What you think about his flop calling range? Was your plan to shove a blank river if you get called or you dont expect him to call much with that stack?

You said that, flop is debatable, but I tend to check that type of hand, on that type of board vs BB alot (almost always tbh.) and wondering if that is good, and what is your point of view? We could cbet cuz of the backdoors we have I assume, but his stack is akward and I'd rather cbet here polarized istead of hand like KT?

The 4betshove should be profitable vs aggresive opponent, but what do you think about him 4bet/folding? I will do the math later cuz im going out now, but im pretty sure he has the room to do so and no get himself commited to your 5betshove.

If your 3bet/calling range is the same as your 3/5, isnt it more profitable for him to 4bet/fold?

damn good thread gl

Very busy week. I've been speaking a lot to different people about different staking deals. I really was against it, but after speaking to people and getting offered a deal that works really well for me and favours me I decided to go for it. It involves playing a lot of big live tournaments too, so I'm definitely going to be at Malta playing a full schedule including the €5k main and €10k high roller, very likely to be in Monaco playing the €10k main and €25k high roller. Ofc playing every event in SCOOP and then the next day travelling to Vegas and playing a 100k+ schedule there. One of the most important things is to make sure I still make my own bankroll work, keeping large amounts of money doing nothing, making little interest and just slowly churning away isn't smart, using it as a poker bankroll helps it grow, but now I won't need it for that I'm really pumped to get into as many profitable investments as possible, whether that be investing in start ups, shares, stocks or whatever else. I'm definitely not going to be stupid and gung ho about it, but hopefully by the end of this year my overall portfolio is more varied and I'm a lot more clued up about everything.

Part of the deal is I can still play cash games for myself, so will possibly go for SNE too, but truthfully it's impossible to do everything.

My main poker goals for the next 10 months

1) Without doubt my main goal is to win a bracelet this year. Ofc variance means this is totally out of my control, but I will be preparing as good/better than anybody in the series this summer and will be giving it 100%

2) Final table 2 SCOOP events. I'm not going to limit this to exact formats, last year I finaled the 200c and the PLO8, I'm hoping for something similar this year

3) Be known as one of the top 5 MTT players in the world by most people by the end of the year. This is of course subjective and everybody in the world has people who think they are awful. But I'm going to continue studying 3x/week and playing as much as possible and in combination with perhaps a few live results would like this

4) Play mid/higher stakes cash as much as possible and be confident of a good win rate.

5) Run the best MTT stable in the world. Right now we have had such a great start, I think with the team we have, the coaches we have what we offer is second to none. By this time next year I want it to be very successful and let the hard work pay off

I decided to leave Pocket Fives/GPI off this, but naturally if I'm successful they should follow.

I actually didn't blog a lot because I really didn't want to moan, I know I've ran awful over the first 2 months of this year, I haven't lost much or anything like that, but I've really been playing a lot. I lost AA v T9 on b109 ft bubble and had maybe 6/7 things like that happen, but I just don't want to post moans in here, you don't want to hear about them so it's fine.

Here are some hands I saved from this week:

1- Reminder to myself not to use lazy sizes pre flop early in tournaments - http://www.boomplayer.com/poker-hand...557_7210F7ACE3

2- Really interesting one. I flat pre because he bets 94% so he's going to bet a lot when we have top pair and when the board is like 633 we can rep pairs and he will c/f turn a lot. His sizing made me go urgghhhhh though! Possibly a mistake folding - http://www.boomplayer.com/poker-hand...429_15AD8FDE66

3- This ones pretty fun - http://www.boomplayer.com/poker-hand...166_C0CB216045

4- I'm glad I won this so it doesn't seem like I'm moaning.. I really think his sizing pre flop is atrocious, villain who called will surely never fold vs this size with his range and that means we have a polarised range pre flop that will very often be playing flops against a strong range. IMO make it 1170 or something a little larger http://www.boomplayer.com/poker-hand...044_97EAA804A3

5- Hand of the month http://www.boomplayer.com/poker-hand...421_7BA86682F5


I'm not sure if you guys like me posting these hands in boom format? Would you prefer I weaktighted/imported them into the post? I find it easier to save Boom hands than I do hands directly to PT and obviously easier to find everything afterwards too.

Grats on staking deal and boom player is fine IMO.

Could you elaborate further here? I don't see anything wrong

Keep posting as boom please

Genuine question pads, what's up with all the flatting 3bets, even with really shallow stacks. Saw one hand for example where you opened qto utg to 15k(140k start), utg+1 3bets to 40'ish (he starts hand with slightly less than you) and you still decide to flat pre. It seemed rather ambitious to me and it's gonna be really hard to win the pot often enough postflop, esp when his 3b range (both value and blufs) most likely have us dominated a lot of the time.

Boom is fine btw, gl with everything, i'm a longtime fan.

potodds doe

Yeah you have potodds in basically every spot in mtts

tahts why he plays every spot