These Are the Voyages...

[Farseer]

No Malta for me Card dead at final satellite, and first push from SB was also the last.

Was already hoping for some Southern Europe tour, but prob settling just for spending most of October in Canary Islands (maybe Alicante too).

Also bubbled 100€ satellite and winning nothing at regular MTTs (though started session around 2 hours ago) so probably costly day. Just 2 MTTs going... Titan and 20 R/A on other site. Time to open bottle of rum again! 

[Farseer]

Sometimes one MTT is enough to turn the tide. 2nd yesterday, first today.

[Farseer]

Cake (was -60%, value) and House of the Dragon within 35 minutes.

Edited September 12, 2022 by Farseer

[P0kerM0nk]

Gratz on 1st and 2nd scores! 

What's the cucumber for?  

[Farseer]

Shittiest day in a while. Usually don't write from other sites, but gotta share this.

Just one mincash (5th place from Comet), and last MTT happened to be 1050$ PLO8 from 55$ sat.

Well, you can maybe guess it:

27 left, 24 paid (2000$ mincash, over 37000$ for the win). Get AK32 with being 2nd in chips (at this table) @ button, chipleader of the table opens CO with 7532. 3-bet him, ofc. Whale calls OOP which is horrible line. 952 flop, decent for us (nut low draw with a deuce, opp not likely to hit anything much better). Opponent decides to go in with check-raise all-in with this btm 2 pair and very bad low draw (very likely to be huge underdog against my range) and his 49,7% hand scoops. Shit-shit-shit-shit-shit. And shit once again.

Was 16x starting stack megapot, so effectively about 16000$ in value (bit less due to ITM, but I was really probably best player in the field or at least one of the best players, it was super soft with money-scared players and series grinders who don't have a clue about PLO8).

Couldn't that überwhale would have either 1) not blowed it up by playing like total moron or 2) run like god with that crappy hand.

Time to get real wasted. 

Edited September 12, 2022 by Farseer

[Farseer]

And yeah, no third deep run at Titan. Had some QQ < AK 100bb flip (though quite well before ITM).

Was hoping that would take a bigger fish this time as that PLO8 was only one running after that. Well, that didn't happen: even mincash would've been bigger than yesterday trophy but I was aiming to the major prizes and trophy (and the hand couldn't have been played otherwise even if cards would have been opened).

Edited September 13, 2022 by Farseer

[Farseer]

Decent freeroll.

Good to play them from the start as majority of your starting table opponents might be off-line.

 

10th place from 27$ NLO8 hyper PKO was salty though. Played just those 2 MTTs, woke up (or kept being awake) due to this freeroll. 

[Farseer]

Flights are sometimes super expensive when bought near flight time. I was about to buy a package and come to Unibet Open Malta, but 360€ for one-way ticket with horrible change of flight is just too much. Seems like lots of Finns have same problem - without direct flights it is gonna be expensive flights with changes.

I was planning to go from Malta to Spain or right away to Canary Islands, but there were bad flight connections too. So for now just bought one flight: direct flights with Norwegian from Gran Canaria to Helsinki for 31st of October. Costed like 150€ with baggages, and managed to pay it with bonus points.

Flight there is gonna be much more expensive, but I can take any route. Maybe few days in Barcelona or somewhere else on my way to Gran Canaria? Well, with no clear timetables I have a chance to make last minute calls. 

[Farseer]

Canary Isles trip booked: 6th of October until 31st of October so you better dominate Unibet MTTs while cat is out of the building  

[Farseer]

Back from the trip. Maspalomas weather was great, not a single drop of rain during over 3 weeks and daytime 25-30 degrees of celsius while bit over 20 degrees during night time. Nice parties, great pubs and awesome food. 

3 years without travelling and with very few flus or that kind of thing just probably had lowered my resistance quite a bit, so first got a diarrhea and after that sinus infection made trip a little less nice. Latter infection still running but getting better, not a huge issue because can take it easy.

Though on positive side those stuff did make me eat less -> surprise weightloss from around 97 kg to 93 kg. 

No poker, casino or sportsbook during last month. If I get things running during weekend, I might try to get a shot for next week leaderboard. 

[Farseer]

Finnish cold and dark weather is not exactly improving my wellbeing. Feeling quite sick and sinus infection seems lingering, though not a major issue. Don't really like to go outside when it is 5 degrees of celsius, wet and dark.

Did play 10 majors @ Monday. 0 cashes, but field wasn't exactly tight... all flips, first one 98s was cold call - cold call line.

[Farseer]

Basic Ice Age runs.

[Farseer]

Salty 4th (270€) position from 25€ "stack". Pushing with 18bb from button (23bb SB, 9bb BB and 60+bb UTG) met nasty setup (my T8s v SB QQ).

First cash from these, with 7 MTTs today, just one running (earlystage bullet). Bit boring that prizes are so meek at most MTTs, while overall buy-ins during evening session easily climb to over 300€ or even 400€ (or more with 100€ special events).

[Farseer]

Why these always come @ PLO?

[Farseer]

Should've just started Lonkero Day without games, would've been cheaper.

 

[Farseer]

Last MTT went into the final table, where 4th place after megainferno. Last hand CL pushed that one and dealer's special (a split second thought I won at the river) :

With bit better run could've won, or at least finished 2nd. But just about buy-ins back  These PKOs don't pay well unless you get lots of bounties or win.

[GR1ZZL3R]

4 hours ago, Farseer said:

Why these always come @ PLO?

Because you can't get dealt 4 of a kind at NLHE.  

Edited November 12, 2022 by GR1ZZL3R

[Farseer]

Sunday games went badly, no chance in bounty flips. Played just higher buy-ins trying to get something out from LB for no good. At least got 100€ ticket back from satellite. Prob skipping last 2 since no overlay expected - getting buy-in back from LB in form of bonus points with a deep run score is not so tempting.

Opponents were playing interestingly again though:

Game #1768878640: Table €10,000 Title Fight (Major) - 25.00/50.00 - No Limit Hold'Em - 18:29:54 2022/11/13
 Seated players 
Seat 1: MvE11 (5988) - €25 bounty
Seat 2: Fars33r (5209) - €25 bounty
Seat 3: AHwasRight (6940) - €25 bounty
Seat 5: Carollyne (5482) - €25 bounty
Seat 6: SnowmanSnowy (4454) - €25 bounty
 Blinds and button 
Carollyne has the button
MvE11 posts ante 6
Fars33r posts ante 6
AHwasRight posts ante 6
Carollyne posts ante 6
SnowmanSnowy posts ante 6
SnowmanSnowy posts small blind 25
MvE11 posts big blind 50
 Hole cards 
Dealt in SnowmanSnowy
Dealt to MvE11 [6s 4s]
Dealt to Fars33r [Qd Qh]
Dealt in AHwasRight
Dealt in Carollyne
 Preflop 
Fars33r raises 100 to 100
AHwasRight folds
Carollyne folds
SnowmanSnowy calls 75
MvE11 raises 125 to 175
Fars33r raises 500 to 600
SnowmanSnowy folds
MvE11 calls 425
 Flop  [7h 9s 7c]
MvE11 bets 200
Fars33r raises 1000 to 1000
MvE11 calls 800
 Turn  [7h 9s 7c] [8d]
MvE11 bets 4382, and is all-in
Fars33r calls 3603, and is all-in
Uncalled bet returned to MvE11: 779
 Showdown 
 River  [7h 9s 7c] [8d] [2c]
MvE11 shows [6s 4s], A Pair of Sevens
Fars33r shows [Qd Qh], Two pairs, Queens up
Fars33r wins 10536
 Summary 
Total pot 10536
Seat 1: MvE11: bet 5988 and won 779, net result: -5209
Seat 2: Fars33r: bet 5209 and won 10536, net result: 5327
Seat 3: AHwasRight: bet 6 and won 0, net result: -6
Seat 5: Carollyne: bet 6 and won 0, net result: -6
Seat 6: SnowmanSnowy: bet 106 and won 0, net result: -106

[Farseer]

These bet-calls at 25€ regular MTTs are interesting, too.

[Farseer]

Very simple Unibet program until the end of leaderboards, if I decide to hunt for weekly leaderboard (otherwise it is likely just those 2 R/A MTTs and maybe 50€ PKO or re-entries if it looks like they have nice overlay). Finnish time (CET+1).

19:05 + 105 min 25€ re-entry Unibet
20:05 50€ PKO Unibet 
20:30 25€ PLO PKO Unibet
21:05 25€ PKO Unibet
22:05 + 70 min 50€ re-entry Unibet
23:05 + 40 min 25€ Turbo re-entry Unibet
23:05 10€ turbo R/A Unibet
00:41 5€ Hyper R/A Unibet

[Farseer]

Terrible day, but got some tikiets from freeroll. Last hand bluff with missed draw didn't go through, but 2nd place pays ok tikiets.

 

[Farseer]

Epic inferno continues to haunt me at high FTs (opponent pushed straight all-in and of course has to call though terrible ICM).

Only cash today so from regular MTTs horrible day (also terrible at leaderboard), got 3x 100€ tickets from freeroll and sat though.

[Farseer]

Rest of critical "flips" of the day:

[Farseer]

Leaderboard situation after Monday:

Overall: 19 (only 1st place matter)

High: 11 

Low: 105

Not playing all low events, trying to keep table amount at 4 tops (for a moment can have max 6) so I can concentrate on big games. Overall victory is only way to make major leaderboard hit, as it would also mean good result at high. High leaderboard victory alone brings less than half of that (and it likely goes to overall winner too). Scrap prizes from high are expected and possible from low (usually play if re-entry has overlay or if have just 1-2 tables).

Hoping to get 1 overall victory from maybe 3 or 4 leaderboard runs.

[Farseer]

Catastrophic day. Did have some nice starts, but all ended up busting before good cashes / bounties. Most MTTs busted like handful of seats before ITM, withering from good stack after many lost flips to bust.

Except this one, last hand is epic (BB has been off-line like last 2 hours and even he beats me with his blind hand).

Last chance was small field 55$ NLO8 hyper PKO on other site, but flipped for massive chiplead pot at the FT-bubble to busto. No saving from there.

With 100€ event today it was prob like almost 500€ buy-ins and 200€ cashes/bounties + one 50€ ticket (from regular satellite).

Hopefully tomorrow manage to get some good score(s).