Forgot how much of a mental game fish you can be <3 <3

Gotta shrug it off and keep on keepin on bro, look at Lipo and I #keepstudying #keepregging

makes me wonder how good you've run up until this point tbh if you consider that a brutal mtt day. you can't expect to final table 5+ timbeys errrryday Think about it rather how fortunate you were to be/get in those positions.

I remember you mention about BitB and BBZ is a good staking stable. Can you give me some advice about staking?

About myself

In the last 120 days I only played 131 and prizes $7598. These days, I mainly play cash games 50nl. I want stable to help me increase my skill in MTT and I don"t need them to stake me.

What I want to ask is:

1. Am I qualified to be stakes by 1 of them?

1. If yes, what is my best cut from my coaches?

1. If not, How or what I need to achieve to be qualified?

Thanks

sub, gl

you know i respect you but cmon lol that post
shouldn't help you writing/thinking of it or later when you read it

Just looking at P5s, (not counting today's results), and I see 12 FTs with 4 figure scores already this month! And thats not counting all the other cashes. Wow!

Damn Jae,

I count exactly 100 cashes already this month with 23 Final Tables. I don't know how many you played this month total, but your VPPs must be through the roof. And we're not even 1/3rd through the month!

I can barely remember what i was eating this morning and you remember every ****** detail. No whining in this thread anyway gl gl and go gettem man!

GL man!

In regards to your latest post, I would check out the latest Jared Tendler podcast with Niels (sp?). He's one of the best professional pool players in the world, and a piece of his advice from the podcast really stuck with me.

He said something along the lines of "the number one thing that sets apart the guys who win a lot of tournaments and the guys who are one and done is their ability to grind out the ugly matches."

He said a lot of the guys get frustrated when things aren't going their way and they don't have the mental toughness to grind it out and keep playing their best.

Regardless of how you felt you played after you started to get tilted, we all know we play worse in a tilted state of mind, and that could be the difference in a key hand where you make a mistake and misplay a hand that could have gotten you to another FT or could have saved you from busting.

The top players in any sport know you just have to move on and grind out the ugly ones. See it as a challenge to keep playing your best even when you are getting slaughtered, because most people aren't able to keep it together.

sick thread and nice posts so far
two questions pls, I will understand if u will not answer tho
how many mtts guys do u think makes 250k+ in EV per year?
what is your expected hourly in daily schedules ?


gl man

Realizations:

After chilling for a day and hearing some tough love from quite a few people I respect and my coach, I think the root core of all of my frustrations on that day are tied to the things I can directly control.

1. Losing focus when Party crashed and not paying attention to it enough to get back on before blinding off a few orbits in the $215. This is tied to me wanting to focus fully on the 3 final tables and send in some strategy questions on Skype to my coach. It comes from a lack of focus and still too many tables.

2. Not being able to avoid a "standard cooler" when a regular in the hand plays very transparently. I was disappointed in myself for not catching this for sure.

These are problems that I have to fix by just focusing more and playing better. Yes, it didn't help that I was on a gross lack of sleep and facing so many terrible runouts and big equity losses. But the core root of it was my own disappointment with myself in my failings. That's on me.

I appreciate the tough love and do acknowledge some issues. I'm lucky that my tilt doesn't affect my play too much at the tables. I mean I one table the $5.50 Bounty Builder at the end of a long Saturday. I don't think I've ever punted a stack intentionally in my life. Though there could be some subtle changes at the end of sessions though, realistically speaking. For example, at the end of the day, grossly misplaying a standard flop spot in the 11R with 2 tables left and taking a really thin/bad reshove in the $55.

Just felt (still feel) that the run of luck that day was a bit ridiculous and decided to write it all down. This journal is the real RAW triumphs and tribulations of an MTT player and while I can always go back and edit posts or whatever, I want to just leave even the stupid stuff out there.

I'm not really a huge fan of Jared Tendler. I've read his book and stuff but yeah. Adjusting to tilt definitely comes from within and I'm going to make a few adjustments in the future to make sure that I won't get into a bad frame of mind again (close Skype, close browsers except Sharkscope, laser focus on every table).

It was really a combination of things that day though that perfect stormed me and turned me into a childish person.

I can't really answer this for you since I don't run those stables. I would just recommend doing a thorough read of the offering stakes forums and actually posting in the threads applying.

Standard cuts are 50/50 and you can always work your way up from a smaller stable (I think both of those stables offer a lower stakes team).

Honestly I'm not even sure. I haven't even been to the top in a while and I don't really talk strategy with a lot of top MTTers. I also don't know what my EV was in the years I hit those targets and the game is just always changing. I also don't really know what my hourly is, what my true ROI is, or any of that stuff.

I do keep a regular tab of $0.01-$530 stakes on Scope since 2014 and there aren't very many regulars who have hit 500k in those games alone. It's almost always going to be a combination of players who have done well in the biggest events of the year (1k+ and special series and run hottest).

There are definitely a group of players elite enough to just fade the variance I can name off the top of my head, but then there are another class of super elite players who don't even seem to make that much money on stars. Few notable names who I still consider very good who are winning million+ live are on huge downswings of six figures+ on Stars.

Some Goals:

1. I'm not sure how much late registering is tied to things. I feel like I've won plenty of tournaments that I've late registered that I just don't remember. But lately, can't help but feel like late registering tournaments at 20-25bb is just not good at all, even with overlays and stuff.

I haven't been stupid with it, but sometimes I will load a $109 at 40/80 blind levels or a $50 or something at 60/120 with only 25BB.

No more late registering anything $50+ for less than 50BB

2. I generally have Scope, GChat, and Skype open while grinding. GChat/Skype for questions to my coaches and talks with Luxy occasionally. From now on I'll do my best to ignore anything that takes away from my focus in game (including lobbies). All of that stuff will be closed, no scoping or googling people during game either.

Will work out a penalty for myself if I break either of these goals that will result in money for readers :P

Good luck, feel like sometimes you have to vent even though it is considered mental game fishiness, the MTT grind is mentally tough and we can't all be mental-game perfect. See you at the tables

No late regging <50bb and no scoping will cost you greatly

Hey Jae,

Thank you for your responded and I wish you all the best. Cheers

First hour on the grind with the new restrictions. Had to resist a few autopilot tendencies but the focus was a lot better and I didn't miss any spots or anything. Table count probably still a bit greedy

How many tables you play yugi?

Please let us know when u get deep.

Productive grind so far. Coming in 11/54 in the Big 22 and 17/39 in the Big 109, pretty exciting since I haven't been deep in either in a long time.

6/26 Big 22
8/16 Big 109
1/22 $33 Turbo 12k

The hype is real!

Well that sucked.

Made a bad ICM call in the b109 to finish 10th. Lost a bunch of hands to go from 1st to 10th in the 33 Turbo. And 17th in the Big 22

Got 3rd in the $109 on Microgaming. Felt pretty good about the grind today but didn't get the finishes I was seeking :P

Will be back at it hard on the weekend.

subbed for greatness

gl bro, i think cutting down on tables and focusing on the bigger stuff is the right approach.

changed your tag in pokerstars sometimes last year from top reg to not-so-top reg , so i`m happy for you realizing the wrong in your ways.

wish you a great year <3