yes there should be a seperate BBV fdor tournaments/cash/ and life IMO

gogogogog mods

this is y I play cash niow.

mtts too tilty for me

this hand is pretty much the internet reading equivalent of chopping up onions

Megabrag

Beat: I won like 1k$ in march which I used for stupid stuff like drinking and partying + staking. Now, I am down about 800$ in 11/22$ turbos. Im a student and am in debt about 500$ which I have no money to pay for. I guess my parents could help me out but I could probably get the money by playing sngs, but Im not STILL motivated, even that Im in debt. Every day I say to myself "today Im going to play x amount of sngs" but I still wont do it. I dunno why. I have gained a bit more of motivation now, but not enough.

I feel like Ive been on a downswing for my whole life. I have a coach and he thinks that Im playing fine. The only problem is that I cant get in enough volume. Its weird.. Please motivate me BBV and Scotty. I love 2p2 and u guys.

Set a sweet reward for yourself that you will want ASAP and give it to yourself after the next 500(?) games

If you find something that works, make sure to let me know. I played something like 900 sngs this year... i mean... 900
PS: i'm 9-10tabling...

I'm up 500 dollars in 2 weeks playing hamburger sng and mtt.

I've completely accepted that I am going busto learning something other than SNG's. I don't play thousands of games in any month, but the swongs are just too much. Watching players who have easily 5-10x better understanding of these have huge down swings at stakes where you would have to 20 table to make as much as a waitress at a bar is insanity.

GL to anyone who is stuck, but I think I am done with these things. I have no illusions. I think the chances of me getting to the point where I could consistantly win with these things with anything that resembles a decent hourly clip is basically 0%.

Does anyone worry that becoming a good STT player purty much makes you a bad pocer player? Irony of the day imho.

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After a bit of a break from playing SNGs I'm starting to remember why I stopped playing them.

From what I am told... becoming a good SNG player translates to tourneys better than cash to tourneys... FWIW.

STTs totally killed Raptor's game

BTW, I typed in the chat because I knew there was no way in hell stars would let me win this hand.. :-D

PokerStars Game #27551418798: Tournament #159130495, $15+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level VIII (200/400) - 2009/04/27 18:43:33 CET [2009/04/27 12:43:33 ET]
Table '159130495 1' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 4: Deurdy (7445 in chips)
Seat 5: watsnotused (6055 in chips)
Deurdy: posts the ante 25
watsnotused: posts the ante 25
Deurdy: posts small blind 200
watsnotused: posts big blind 400
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Deurdy [7h Qh]
Deurdy: raises 7020 to 7420 and is all-in
watsnotused: calls 5630 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (1390) returned to Deurdy
*** FLOP *** [Ac 3d 9s]
Deurdy said, "loooooooool"
*** TURN *** [Ac 3d 9s] [2d]
*** RIVER *** [Ac 3d 9s 2d] [Jh]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
watsnotused: shows [2s 5s] (a pair of Deuces)
Deurdy: shows [7h Qh] (high card Ace)
watsnotused collected 12110 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 12110 | Rake 0
Board [Ac 3d 9s 2d Jh]
Seat 4: Deurdy (button) (small blind) showed [7h Qh] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 5: watsnotused (big blind) showed [2s 5s] and won (12110) with a pair of Deuces

I wanted to subscribe to this thread anyway so I guess I have a reason now.



avg buyin $90, this is past 10/12 days, 40 buyins

gotta sngs

Don't shove pf?

sorry, no hand history

took 1 running flush, 2 running straights to go from chip leader to the rail and to finish on the bubble. thats all... *don't tilt-don't tilt-don't tilt!!!!*

on these days I want to claw my eyes out and and run my head through a window

I mtfkn swear everytime I'm like "wow that is so horrible, if god knew someone would make that play someday he wouldn't have bothered with the whole creation ****" I end up bubbling versus a bluffcalling ******

****mylife

I want to rip my spine out and strangle a furry animal with it.
I want to smash my hand into a wall until my mom got scared and said "you're moving with your aunte and uncle in Bel-Air"

I begged and pleaded with her day after day but she packed my suitcase and sent me on my way she gave me a kiss and then she gave me my ticket I put my walkman on and said I might as well kick it

First class, yo this is bad, drinking orange juice out of a champagne glass if this's what the people of Bel-Air livin' like, hmm this might be alright!

I whistled for a cab and when it came near the licensplate said "Fresh" and had a dice in the mirror if anything I could say that this cab was rare but I thought now forget it, go home to Bel-Air

I pulled up to the house about seven or eight and I yelled to the cabby "Go, home smell you later" looked at my kingdom I was finally there to sit my throne as the prince of Bel-Air

And fold the best hand..??

interesting comma position

I hear ya...



I guess I should consider myself lucky I didn't lose any money though

Sunday, monday, tuesday I played mtts. I ft'd three of them - was CL going into one, 2nd at another .. and I think avg stack the third - All three I finished 7th which has been dissapointing.

Along this time, I would load up sngs that looked good during my mtts. During this time, I literally got ****ed up the ass on 4 or 5 bubbles LAUGHABLY ... and after 50k+ sngs for a bubble to stick out, it has to be something special. I can particularly remeber sweating / losing the following bubbles on the riv:
- a 1 outer (I have higher pair on board + a flush draw, he nails offsuit set)
- I flop a set vs undercards, turn a flush draw, and lose to the gutshot offsuit running str8
- Another one utg has <1bb and mucks. I raise induce with KK vs a reg who I thought would be on atc ... atc = aces, toobad ********** ... board came Kxx-A-A just so the extra ace could rub it in a bit
- The other two were standard 2 outers, just for solid stacks going ITM which sucks obv.



If anyone reads my blog then its documented that I am not the biggest fan of the ev graph software:

"I wish this program wasnt invented - it shows the amount you SHOULD make 'if luck wasnt involved' in red, and shows the amount you ACTCUALLY made in green. All it does is tilt the happiness out of my poker soul. Not only that, but I have literally had ONE session where I ran significantly (4 figures) above expectation, and probably a dozen where I ran significantly below over my last 4k games, to the tune of like 20k total downswing - although that is an estimate, I am scared to check to be honest."

Anyways, I imported the mtt sessions sng hands onto my desktop today and who the hell knows how, but I ran WAYYY above equity? It looks like those bubbles may have been some of the only bubbles I had the entire time. Either way, I shouldnt just post here to whine, because sometimes I run good too (sadly this is a beat as I used my rungood up in the 'meaningless' sngs when arguably more $ is made by just winning one of the bustout FT hands)

SO HAPPY to quit an awesome session @ peak for once in my life, still down over my last 1k games according to HEM tho

This is not even filtered, only picked up all my single table $16, 27 and 38 SNG's on PS, since HEM will not show EV-luck for MTT SNG's, where I did not run good either, no need of HEM to tell me.
This is more than 150 BI below expectation over my whole poker life on PS (around 4k STT SNG).
My ROI is

4.4% below expectation on the 16 over 2.5k games
1.8% below expectation over 1.5k games on the 27
17% below over 100 $38

Had to move down and down again b/c of BR requirements. My game is affected. Life is great.

fwiw i have had a sick upswing this month on the sngogogogos, however my stats all-time this year now read: 6.5k sngs, ~200 buyins below

the crown of loserdom is still mine

OMG, it means it can get worse...