These Are the Voyages...

[Farseer]

Two FTs, but just marginal winning day with few MTTs. At the 4k 25th Anniversary edition lost 5 left KK < 66 flip which finally ended the nice run there.

Had to stream when a fanatic fan sent like quizbillion messages demanding stream :D

[Farseer]

On positive note, 2 FTs during last 2 nights made it that I will be top25 at the Unibet 25th Anniversary leaderboard. So gotta get a shot at the Supermoon (actually first time playing that tournament).

Feeling actually quite good about my play, but problem is that finding a motivation for grinding is still lost. When you face 4-figs swings each day at the stock market (and 5-figs swings once in a while), it makes it less exciting to play some 10-30€ MTTs.

Especially when making roughly about 2000€/month while grinding stupid casino bonuses. This month been nice at them, like +4k€-+5k€ or so.

Edited June 25, 2022 by Farseer

[Farseer]

Sunday not so funday. 0 cashes and nasty downswing, just couldn't literally win any flips.

Just got one 100€ ticket from a satellite, something to play alongside Supermoon next Sunday?

29 degrees of celsius inside, good time to go for a long walk listening audiobooks and podcasts now when it is bit less warm. Not drinking today, as lots of long drinks and ciders (120 liter in total) finally coming up tomorrow and probably better keep one day without booze so I can get wasted next week. It's a party week here! And after that, party month! And after that, party-party-party for rest of the year.

Gonna be like:

[WuDu]

1 hour ago, Farseer said:

Not drinking today, as lots of long drinks and ciders (120 liter in total) finally coming up tomorrow and probably better keep one day without booze so I can get wasted next week. 

And that mentality is the reason why Finnish "men" are only #3 in the world in black-out drunk days per year, while Finnish women rank #1.

[Farseer]

It's not like I am going to drink them all alone. Gotta have few for guests too!

[Jami-Unibet]

36 minutes ago, Farseer said:

It's not like I am going to drink them all alone.

I understand that it's important to keep up the appearances online but you can be honest with us. 🙂😉

[Farseer]

I expect to receive more (expensive) booze as presents! It a trade up!

Wow, woke up 7 am. Been sleeping most days during last weeks, so feels like Mission Accomplished. Might even keep this sleep pattern, party daytime sleep night time during summer heats.

[Farseer]

Terrible PKO run continues. Couldn't win this flip at Supermoon:

And Lomu setup'd playing as maniac and slowrolled this one (covered 2 other stacks with AK's, ofc would have beaten them for nice bounties):

Time not so well spent. Hot-hot-hot, should've just skipped games today but got those tickets.

Edited July 3, 2022 by Farseer

[Farseer]

Haven't been playing for a month. Except slot and sportsbook promos (didn't play even those when were on summer cottage for a week though), otherwise been quite well but Book of 99 have drained my bankroll quite badly (+EV-promotions, of course so in average like 104% RTP).

Today gonna have a graduation party, so time to get wasted. Place have a 1000€ guarantee of sale so if not overly many people gonna come (prob like 20 and my cousin has been lazy so haven't invited his friends) so might be "getting drunk with champagne" before 9 pm (place is reserved for us from 4 pm till 9 pm).

[Farseer]

Unibet's sister site is running a promo for Finnish players, so might be back grinding all 1€+ buy-in events which have at least 50 players (or 50x guaranteed prize pool). 

Prize would be Unibet Open package. Would be fun to travel after a very long time.

[Farseer]

First day/night of grinding (it started 00:00 Finnish time but so that tournament end times were ones that mattered so started with Good Luck Mr Gorsky). Terrible card runs, but got last 2 "close but no cigar"-state for both money and points:

Setup'd 8 left at Titan, chips in at turn:

And last one, pflop flip and river kills it. Would've been 3 points win for leaderboard which are far more valuable than 1st place money.

[Farseer]

Feeling is being like becoming Queen Mother if I continue grinding poker:

 

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What did she drink? During the 1930s, she was patron of the Windsor Wets' Club, a posh drinking society whose motto was "Aqua vitae non aqua pura" ("Spirits, not water"), and favoured Beefeater gin.

 

[Farseer]

Couldn't have run worse today. 5 final tables, with 5th, 6th, 4th, 7th and 4th position and nasty downswing. Hard to get trophies with these runs, when with good hands you always get outdrawn and otherwise when it is other way around:

Basic FT setup:

More basic FT setups:

Basic maniac pushes with 95o and cold caller setups:

[Farseer]

Real f*ckf*ck-day, but finally at fourth all-in this whale got beaten for 3 points:

[Farseer]

Losing day, but at least got one late night trophy from 2€ PLO. Got another headsup at 2€ freezeout, but opponent did run hotter than hell.

[Farseer]

Huge grind promos aren't for me, it was proved once again. Probably no UO Malta for me, unless I manage to win seat or package. Though might take a last minute vacation package if find one at right price.

For UOS I am bit mixed. Extra prizes aren't great, but with 5 MTTs a day and 8 day long series it might tempt me enough to try and gamble tomorrow events. Maybe some stream, too?

[Farseer]

Day would have been decent if not for UOS events. QQ < KJ and JJ < AK at the high one, costing 300€ in total. From satellites got 4x 100€ tickets and 1x 150€ tickets (part from Unibet and part from another network). 

Sunday satellites seems nice even nowadays. Main events seem quite slow (take too late if one wants to wake up before midday) though.

Only day2 came from 5€ UOS edition. Not even ITM, but probably going to play tomorrow UOS events as there's PLO R/A's, after that likely skipping most games unless hit something nice (I noticed that leaderboards pay just for the top spots and only overall and high pays anything meaningful, which is pretty lame as high buy-ins are kinda over the top).

Streaming was ok. Did order and new webcam and microphone today, maybe getting to test them next weekend.

[Farseer]

Dara isn't great PLO player I guess, but better lucky than good (pflop flip).

[Farseer]

Horrible run continues.

I actually bubbled that 5r day around 1,5 hours after start of day2, bubble has been in play with 50+ players for over (it was also point bubble) half a hour. Pushed 99 with 15bb, megastack woke up with JJ and off-liner with 0,3bb was like 🤣

Also lost heads-up for 200€ ticket against tight whale, who managed to get full house <<< his quads, trips, more of AKs than I can count for and other stuff like that during our 20+ mins long headsup.

Won 2x 50€ tickets so that PLO at least was paid by those and one 100€ ticket, so it was like before: satellites did go rather well, everything else went straight to hell.

Have 2x 100€ ticket so prob back for Friday 100€ R/A. Let's see how horrible beat I will find from there! Hopefully I will find that at headsup.

[Farseer]

Blast from the past - Malta trip 2009 (some discord stuff posted here, because it is a decent story)

Current stuff is gonna bring back memories... my first real long-distance poker trip was EMOP Malta back in 2009. Won a package from Sunday satellite about 4 am in the Monday morning and live MTT started in Tuesday.

We walked from Marsaskala (friend of mine had got hotel from there) to Waterfront where casino where tournament was played was located (Casino di Venezia). Too bad we got lost in the wayand 5km via "birdway" became 10 km walk + 10 km taxi trip.

Back then packages were 1100€ buy-in + 900€ money so friend took the cheapest place. It was nice, though there were some cockroaches and it costed like 25€/day per room. Breakfast was good! (No cockroaches, mostly fresh eggs and bacon).

You know, very cheap student budget and lots of money free for booze instead of choosing some expensive hotel.

St George's Park is my choice nowadays if I have to pay for hotel myself  🤣  30€/night or so with perfect location.

Edited September 5, 2022 by Farseer

[Farseer]

No more grinding with 0 cashes, though might try to play 25 UOS events in total (10 played now) to get that freeroll ticket 😄 

Planning to play on Friday those R/A's and maybe later evening PKOs, so would have to play 10 UOS events in addition to that. If playing this week, might grind some shots from satellites and play smaller events alongside.

[Farseer]

Quick set including UOS events and 3 satellites. 0 chance in hell at any flips, so over in less than 2 hours except 2€ donkament still going (trophy is far less than buy-ins, even as they were just bit over 100€).

15/25 UOS played for freeroll. Friday events and one another day of grind for that.

[Farseer]

No luck yesterday, didn't play much else than UOS events though. Still should play 5 events to get that damned expensive freeroll ticket.

Was planning to play PKOs today so could concentrate on satellites and other events in Sunday (got 250€ ticket for UO satellite too), but would actually like to take a break. But Supermoon is far too expensive to buy-in directly so would have to play at least 1 event today. Stupid system, with just 5 events per day.

Yesterday R/A's were ultra super slow. No wonder if people don't want to play them with 3,5 hours of late registration during Friday evening and almost 7 hours of runtime and not even ITM. Structures have been very horrible at those, especially on lower stake levels.

[Farseer]

Last Unibet crapshoots of the night: https://www.twitch.tv/farseerfinland

Edited September 10, 2022 by Farseer

[Farseer]

It is salty to lose against shitwhale, but at least statistics (other FT "players", at least this one fought back) were out of the way. 2nd place pays decently: