FreedoM Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 @MathrimC wrote: You might deduce it from the numbers, but I forgot to mention that I won 5 packages in those 15 finals.giphy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MathrimC Posted November 10, 2017 Author Share Posted November 10, 2017 I've been on a little MTT downswing during the past week, dropping around €700. But tonight I finally had another winning session, getting second in the €600 Multiverse for €157,40 and third in the Dwarf Star Bounty for €154,35 and €20 in bounties.The next two days are going to be money time again with all the majors. I'll be streaming the Milky Way and UK Tour final on Saturday evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MathrimC Posted November 15, 2017 Author Share Posted November 15, 2017 The weekend MTTs hit me in the face again and cost me around €270, however I did manage to win myself 3 Ice Giant tickets through the DaVitsche league. Tonight I managed to book another winning session by finishing 9th in the Event Horizon and 4th in the Deep Impact.Results update: after 183 MTTs, I have €660 profit and a ROI of 16%. I didn't put my stream up tonight since there were already 5 other Unibet players streaming. However, I will stream on Wednesday evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4soul Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 Whats your favourite mtt ( daily of per week) from entire uniber room? Get rich or try bluffin'! Follow my sessions on TWITCH CHANELL and INSTAGRAM! Need results? My 1st places!My BLOGS: 1.From 0€ to decent! , 2.BONUS Challenge done! , 3.Crumbled the BONUS100€! and 4.From 4€ to 4.444€!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MathrimC Posted November 15, 2017 Author Share Posted November 15, 2017 @4soul wrote: Whats your favourite mtt ( daily of per week) from entire uniber room?At this moment my favourite is the Abyss. Good structure, perfect start and end times for me and my results in it have been very good so far (made final table 7 times and won it twice). I also really like the Deep Impact, the structure and prizepool are even better than the Abyss, but it starts just a little too early for me so most of the time I can only start playing near the end of registration.I'm not a big fan of bounty tournaments, but within that category the Dwarf Star is definitely my favourite. The structure is good and the bounties are small enough to leave enough money in the final table payouts.I also really like the Milky Way and Supernova. With my current bankroll size, those majors are prefect for me for taking shots once a week and make for an exciting weekend grind. I did feel pressure playing them the first few times, and I think it influences my decisions. But by playing them every week, and having regular deep runs in €25 MTTs, I'm getting over that, so they are also helping with my development as a player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VikingsAF Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 @MathrimC Small question on your graph.How can your ROI be positive at the moment your profit is negative? I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevant... It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MathrimC Posted November 15, 2017 Author Share Posted November 15, 2017 @VikingsAF wrote: @MathrimC Small question on your graph.How can your ROI be positive at the moment your profit is negative?To make the graph smoother, the ROI line only uses a data point every 10 tournaments. Between MTT 32 and 35 my profit went below 0, but it was positive at 30 and at 40, which is why the ROI line stays above 0. Here's the same graph but with the ROI using all data points: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MathrimC Posted November 18, 2017 Author Share Posted November 18, 2017 Today is the two year anniversary of my Unibet account. Exactly two year ago, on Novemer 18th 2015, I created my account. That time also more or less marks the start of me taking poker seriously. Given that there are many people here with small bankrolls grinding freerolls or the lowest stakes on the site, I thought it might be inspirational to provide an overview of my journey over the past two years and how I built my way up. And most of all, how I had great fun doing it. Unibet Open Antwerp18/11/2015 -> 29/11/2015Bankroll: €0When I signed up to Unibet and opened the client, I found a €10 NL4 ticket and a €200 playthrough bonus. Given that I didn't want to deposit, that was all I had, and I started freeroll grinding and playing some scared-money 4NL. I also saw a banner for the Unibet Open Antwerp livestream. So a couple of weeks later, I joined the Twitch streets to see what that livestream from Antwerp was all about. I must say I had a really entertaining weekend. That Mark and that David guy seemed fun and it was cool that you were able to ask them some questions through chat. But most importantly, the giveaways blew me away, getting multiple €4 tickets over the weekend is quite big for someone without a bankroll. During the breaks, I made another important discovery: in one of the promotional videos, there was a guy wearing a Jawbreaker tshirt. As any fan of non-mainstream music can probably confirm, when you encouter someone listening to the same bands in an environment you don't expect it, it immediatly draws your attention. Over the weekend I learned the guy's name was Jamie Sykes and he had a Twitch stream on Mondays. So the next Monday, there I was again, on Twitch, wathing this Jawbreaker-guy stream. The Butler days30/11/2015 -> 04/2016Bankroll (estimation): €0 -> €200Study: google, 2+2 forums, youtubeFor the new people who weren't around back then: Jamie had this thing called the Butler League on Mondays, 3 €2 MTTs with a general classification with extra payouts. I don't remember the exact timeline of my bankroll evolution, but I think the first few weeks I couldn't afford to buy in yet. The stream was still great fun though, lots of free tickets to win, getting to know the twitch crowd and conquering Jamie's heart by requesting all my favourite punkrock songs. I did run hot with my welcome ticket on 4NL, and eventually I think I was able to cash around €40. Or at least 6 weeks of Butler Leagues. Meanwhile I also discovered the other Unibet Twitch streams and their giveaways, and the coming months were a mix of playing cashgame tickets, €1/€2 SNGs and Butler Leagues. But most of all: studying. I was a huge risk-averse bankroll nit at the time, which is a great thing if you want to build up from zero. I always had, and still have, the feeling that I shouldn't be grinding that much just yet, but should first take time to read up on this or that strategic topic before risking my money at the tables. And that let me to a lot of googling, 2+2 browing, watching youtube videos, etc. I also started my poker journal in those days, on DaVitsche's pokerclub.be forums, which unfortunately aren't online anymore. A few months went by, and while the bankroll was slowly going up and my poker skills increased, I was getting familiar with the Unibet Twitch crowd and becoming a Twitch reg myself. Cashgame & UK Tour grind04/2016 -> 10/2016Bankroll (estimation): €200 -> €600Study: 'Small Stakes No Limit Hold'em' by Matt Flynn, Sunny Mehta and Ed MillerAfter those first few months I decided to take my studying to the next level. I chose cashgames to start, because they offer the most post-flop complexity to work on, while on the other hand involving the least amount of circumstancial factors to bring together (quite constant stack sizes, no special payout structures or bubbles). I bought my first pokerbook: Small Stakes No Limit Hold'em by Matt Flynn, Sunny Mehta and Ed Miller. I read it, took notes, and hit the 4NL and eventually the 10NL tables to grind and learn. I also did a few Twitch streams at the time, which helped me articulate my thought process and provided me some feedback from people watching me play. A few weeks later I bought 'Applications of No Limit Hold'em' by Matthew Janda. A book way too advanced for the games I played and the skill level I was at, but nonetheless an awesome read for a nerd like me. Although the book is some years old and some of the advice could be revised or nuanced with the more advanced knowledge available today, I find it great to reread parts of the book every now and then and realize how every time I do, it gets easier to grasp because of my development as a player.Back in those days, a lot of the twitch giveaways handed out €4 UK Tour tickets. Winning those allowed me a few shots at the UK Tour qualifiers, and I eventually got myself a proper UK Tour ticket bankroll. Thanks to the ticket conversions through 2+2 and livechat, I was able to grind it up. I was very scared to play finals though. €100 tournaments seemed way out of my league back then. I did try one or two finals, but failed. When I had collected 5 new €100 tickets after a summer of grinding, Unibet was kind enough to allow me to exchange that for a package, and I was all set to go play my first ever serious live event at the UK Tour in Glasgow in October! I still remember busting day 1a early with AA vs QQ all-in preflop, and being offered a free second bullet by Unibet. But no luck on day 1b either, getting busted by some smug aggro dude who woke up with AK versus my AJ. But I had a great weekend meeting some of the Unibet Twitch regs in real life, including Jonny, the mythical NMPfan, pyrahn, hensie, chapinachair and the Unibet staff which turned out to be really nice people. The highlight of the weekend was without a doubt the drunk community game on Sunday. After that experience, I was determined more than ever to make the UK Tour qualifiers a primary part of my grind. The Unibet Community11/2016 -> 01/2017Bankroll: €600 -> €910Study: 'SNG Strategy' by Collin Moshman & The Free Mersenneary Heads Up Poker EbookThe Unibet Community had been around for a couple of months already, but shortly after my UK Tour Glasgow experience, on Novermber 10th 2016, I decided to move my journal from the pokerclub forums to the Unibet Community. Since most of my pokerfriends from the Unibet Twitch channel were also on the community, this seemed a more fun and convenient place to write about my poker grind. I wasn't able to qualify for the next UK Tour event in Manchester in December, but Jonny came to the rescue and gave me a seat! So I was all set for my second UK Tour even without ever winning a qualifier final. The event itself was a lot of fun, I especially remember hitting the bar with Jonny, NMPfan and ATM Robin. One of the great things of these events is that they are a great opportunity to talk to the Unibet staff about your experiences and give them your feedback about any aspect of the site. After that I continued my cashgame grind for a few more months, and finally managed to bink a Butler League. At the start of 2017, since I was hitting a break-even stretch in the cashgames and I wanted something refreshing, I decided to switch formats and give SNGs a go. Besides, all the SNG bubble practice might also come in handy in my UK Tour grind and future live events. As preparation, I bought and read 'SNG Strategy' by Collin Moshman and read The Free Mersenarry Heads Up Poker Ebook in January, and decided to jump into the SNGs in February. Meanwhile, I finally won my first real UK Tour final in early January, getting myself a seat to the UK Tour in Brighton. The SNG grind & my first live cash02/2017 -> 09/2017Bankroll: €910 -> €4300Study: 'Moorman's Book Of Poker' by Chris Moorman, 'No Limit Hold'em for Advanced Players' by Matthew Janda, 'Playing The Player' by Ed MillerIn Februari, I started off my SNG grind with some €4 SNGs, but quickly moved on to the €10s. After grinding 10NL cashgames and already having some experience with short-stacked bubble play from the UK Tour qualifiers, I was pleasently surprised that I seemed to be one of the better players in most of my SNGs. I was also lucky enough to start my grind with a nice upswing, and my bankroll shot upwards in the coming months. During these months, Unibet also changed up their Twitch channel, got the new ambassadors streaming, and Davitsche kicked off his cashgame challenge. After some months in the €10 SGNs, I started to play some €25s too, and also managed to start on an upswing there, getting my bankroll to a little over 2K by the end of August. On the study front, I followed Davitsche's advice and bought Matthew Janda's new book: 'No Limit Hold'em for Advanced Players'. It turned out to be a great move, providing me with the best poker study content I ever had, and improving my game faster than ever. Meanwhile, my UK Tour grind also continued and after Brighton I qualified for another event in Glasgow and got two packages for the UK Tour in Nottingham. The event in Nottingham at the end of August turned out to be quite a succesful one. Not only did I play and survive my first live bubble, I managed to make my way to the final table and finished in 5th place for £2k after being busted by that exact same smug aggro dude who busted me in my very first event in Glasgow (why does he keep following me everywhere!?). I also qualified for the Unibet Belgian Poker Championship at the start of September, my first €500 buy-in event. In August I decided to start Twitch streaming again. Next to great fun, it forces me to structure my thought process better and it makes me play longer sessions. After that nice cash in Nottingham, and given the great results I had in the UK Tour qualifiers over the summer, I felt ready to aim for something bigger and started my Unibet Open qualifier grind. Jumping into the Abyss10/2017 - todayBankroll: €4300 -> €5100Study: PokerSnowie, Run It OnceAfter having my first serious SNG downswing in September, getting excited by the announcements of Unibet's new MTT shedule, and getting used to playing longer evening sessions anyway because of my Twitch stream, I decided to switch to playing MTTs. I immediatly got off to a great start, getting 4th in the very last Sunday Entitled at the start of October. The weeks after, in the new MTT shedule, I started playing most of the €10 and €25 MTTs and the Sunday Majors and hit another nice upswing, scoring my biggest online cash ever by winning the Abyss for €559 and bringing my bankroll to it's current 5k level. I also hit a great upswing in the UO qualifiers, binking myself my first Unibet Open package after just two months of grinding.So here I am now: exactly two years after signing up as a freeroll player and watching that UO Antwerp stream, I'm all set to go play a Unibet Open myself. I never would have expected back then that in two years time I would qualify for my first UO, after attending 7 other live events, and would be grinding €25 MTTs on a 5K bankroll. I think my path shows that you can still get somewhere in the game as a beginning player as long as you're interested in studying the game, and that the journey itself can be a lot of fun and give you some great experiences. Also, I think my journey shows the great retention value of Twitch and the community. I highly doubt whether I would still be playing poker if I didn't discover the Unibet twitch streams, and I definitely wouldn't have grinded for all those live events. Thanks to Twitch, an evening of grinding actually feels like a social experience, and it makes it a lot easier playing long sessions without burning out.I realize that I've been running hot this year and that can't continue forever, but I also know that there's no way 2015-Mathrim would have been able to get 5th in a UK Tour or qualify for a Unibet Open. Likewise, I'm sure that in two years time, 2019-Mathrim will look back at my current ability and laugh at all the leaks. As long as there are things to learn and I can feel myself improving as a player, I'm sure I'll find excitement in the game. I'm looking forward to what the next two years will bring! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UAC Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 Great update Mathrim and thanks for sharing. Very inspiring read and like you say really does show what one can do if they out their mind to it in Poker, even in 2017.Reading this just makes me wanna Play! Especially live. I'll be going to Manchester next month and after that I'm gonna follow your lead and try and grind a ticket bankroll using the exchange system.Thanks again for sharing. Keep up the good work man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtyMcFly Posted November 18, 2017 Share Posted November 18, 2017 That was a great recap on your progress. Maybe poker's not dead after all. Good luck with the next stage of your journey! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MathrimC Posted November 20, 2017 Author Share Posted November 20, 2017 I've set two new personal records during my Unibet anniversary weekend:my biggest losing weekend, down €575And my biggest overall downswing, down €1090 over the past two weeksThe upside is that I'm not tilted or discouraged and still have fun playing. I appear to have a good mindset to handle the MTT swings. And my bankroll is still big enough to play all €10 and €25 MTTs, so no worries.However, I do need to keep working on my game. I have leaks, and I make costly mistakes in big pots sometimes, it's not just variance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rushbie Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Don't let the success go in to your head, man. Seems like a typical downswing caused by ego. Get rid of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ArtyMcFly Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Yikes! That downswing is terrifying. Better luck this week. #StupidGame Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MathrimC Posted November 22, 2017 Author Share Posted November 22, 2017 The downswing continues, I'm down €1364 now over the last 122 MTTs.I did a little streampoll to rate all the advice I've gotten so far:So most of the voters, who play in the same games, want me to play higher.On a serious note: I'm still running well in the UK Tour and UO qualifiers, and I'm set to play two more UK Tour finals this weekend to maybe win a second bullet for Manchester. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rushbie Posted November 22, 2017 Share Posted November 22, 2017 Lolz, last time I wrote my "advice", I was just gotten home from the bar and it came out pretty.. cold, i see :happyshy: It mainly comes from live casino games 10 years ago, when I watched some other guys normally cool get lots of success quickly, and then come down like a hammer cos they turned into some sort of gods in their own heads. Didn't actually mean that you'd do that, but playing years of 2-5 might be the most riskiest for people sometimes 😉 Much love, man. Think I'll change my advice into question, would a small vacation do any good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MathrimC Posted November 23, 2017 Author Share Posted November 23, 2017 I don't feel burned out or depressed by it. I still very much enjoy playing and studying, and feel like my mind is still clear and rational. Ofcourse I make mistakes while playing, but those are because I still need to improve a lot as a player and aren't really linked to my emotional state or my runbad.Ofcourse it can be hard to judge your mindset yourself, and I might be mistaken, but I also haven't gotten a single remark about that during my twitch streams, where I count on my viewers being very judgemental 😉Anyway, I'm going to get a break from online poker soon enough, given that I won't be able to play for at least five days during the Unibet Open Bucharest next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrustyTheClown Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 Your mental game is A+ MathrimC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreedoM Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 @MathrimC My opinion is to drop in stakes, don't be too proud, just do it. #respectBRM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WuDu Posted November 23, 2017 Share Posted November 23, 2017 @MathrimCA lot of comments for the LOLsssss here (Hang in there, upswing is right around the corner; Drop down in stakes). If I were you, I would check my stats and see where exactly you lost over the last 122 games. 1300 Euro is a lot if you lost it playing Mr Gorsky or Deep Space Fireball for 5 bugs but if you lost most of the money due to playing and not cashing a few Supernovae or Milky Ways, things are looking a little different.So my advice would be to check your stats and calculate the ROI for each type of tournament and buy-in. If your stats look a little like mine, you probably find types of games where you win more than in others (Think about filtering for Re-buys or Bounties or Turbos or Deep Stack games). Focus on the profitable ones and phase out the non-profitable ones for now until you get back on track.Second, I'd stop playing the 50+ buy-in tournaments due to bankroll management concerns. Instead, I'd try to satellite into those games via lower buy-in qualifiers. Like e.g. the 10 Euro Milky Way qualifiers that run every two hours during the week...🤣🆒:laugh:I hope that helps and I'm looking forward to doubling up against you in the UO50s in the near future... We're gonna win on so many levels! We're gonna win, win, win. You're gonna get so tired of winning, you're gonna say: "Mr. President please, we don't wanna win anymore, it's too much!" And I'm gonna say: "I'm sorry, we're gonna keep winning because we're gonna make America great again!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MathrimC Posted November 23, 2017 Author Share Posted November 23, 2017 Thanks for the advice @WuDu.I've been grinding almost exclusively €10 and €25 MTTs with the Supernova and Milkyway every weekend, so yeah it's still well within the normal range or variance.As for my bankroll, I had set myself following rules:€2500+ to grind the €10 and €25 MTTs€3000+ to play the Milky Way€4500+ to play the SupernovaFor the Milky Way and Supernova this is aggressive, but since they only run once a week that's basically just shot taking while I keep grinding the €10s and €25s.My current bankroll is at €4357, so still safe to play €10s and €25s, and I'll still buy in to the Milky Way.In total I'm up €789 in the daily 25s. My Deep Impact ROI is 24%, my Abyss ROI is 53% and my Dwarf Star ROI is 17%. The Gargle Blaster is the only daily €25 MTT in which I'm down: -46% ROI, but I've only played it 14 times yet so it doesn't represent a lot of money. It's mainly in the majors that I'm losing money, busted all my Supernovas, Milky Ways and Ice Giants so far, costing me €866, but that's still a very low volume. And I'm down €191 in the daily 10s (Titan, Event Horizon and the occasional Fireball and Shooting Star).Given my nice ROIs in the UK Tour and UO sats, I'm thinking of also playing all Milky Way and Supernova sats with multiple tickets guaranteed, since I'm doing well in ICM situations. The only problem is that they mostly run when I already have too many tables open, so I have to evaluate which would give me a higher hourly. I might try for a while to play them instead of the other daily €10 MTTs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MathrimC Posted November 28, 2017 Author Share Posted November 28, 2017 I finally had another winning session tonight, winning the Titan for €289 and finishing 4th in the Dwarf Star bounty for €88. Wednesday I'm leaving for Bucharest, looks like I picked the perfect week to start a new upswing 😃 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtyMcFly Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Nice bounce back! have a safe journey to Romania and come back with a trophy! (Or at least a positive ROI). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrustyTheClown Posted November 28, 2017 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Nice one, well deserved win :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MathrimC Posted December 4, 2017 Author Share Posted December 4, 2017 November has been an interesting month, with new highs and lows. The month started off great by binking my first ever Unibet Open package, which led to me playing my first ever 1k buy-in last weekend. I also had my biggest downswing ever, losing 1,7k over a 3 week timeframe. Hitting downswings is inevitable in poker, and I'm glad it doesn't really frustrates me (yet) and it doesn't influence my motivation to play the game. I'm also happy with my studying last month. Although I didn't reach all my goals, I really enjoyed playing against PokerSnowie and watched some more Run It Once videos. Next month, I'm planning on continuing the same route: grinding MTTs and qualifiers and studying with Snowie and RIO.Evaluation of monthly goals: November 2017Play 200 MTTs, qualifiers and SNGs COMPLTEDI played 159 MTTs, 53 UK Tour qualifiers, 44 UO qualfiers, 5 Supernova qualifiers and 5 SNGsStudy goals:Play 1 hour a week versus PokerSnowie COMPLETEDWatch at least 2 Run It Once videos every week FAILEDI did increase my volume, I think I watched about 6 videos this monthStudy 4-bet shoving and reacting to 4-bet shoves for under 40bb stacks FAILEDNovember bankroll evolution:Cash: €5021,39 -> €4363,96UK Tour tickets: €408 -> €294UO tickets: €410 -> €290 (+ UO Bucharest package)New monthly goals: December 2017Play 200 MTTs, qualifiers and SNGsStudy goals:Play 1 hour a week versus PokerSnowieWatch at least 2 Run It Once videos every weekStudy 4-bet shoving and reacting to 4-bet shoves for under 40bb stacksStudy 3-bet shoving ranges Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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