LeVsKaRa

Royal Ascot

13:15 - Sir Busker

13:50 - Juan Elcano

14:25 - Convict

15:00 - Lord North

15:35 - Montatham

16:10 - Sheriff Bianco

16:40 - Collide

Round 3

Osasuna-Atletico Madrid                     X2

RB Leipzig-Fortuna Düsseldorf           1

Wolfsberger AC-Red Bull Salzburg     2

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@LeVsKaRa wrote:

Round 2

1.FC Union Berlin-SC Paderborn 07   1

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Round 2 completed

Royal Ascot

13.15 Kaesco

13.50 Terebellum

14.25 Frankly Darling

15.00 Mogul

15.35 Glass Slippers

16.10 Queen Power

16.40 Land of Oz

Round 2

1.FC Union Berlin-SC Paderborn 07   1

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@LeVsKaRa wrote:

Round 1

Arminia Bielefeld-Dynamo Dresden 1

Round 1 completed

Round 1

Arminia Bielefeld-Dynamo Dresden 1

The week was a small disaster results oriented, as I mentioned in my previous post. I will try to list the good things first and then will proceed with the results update.

• No tilt: despite getting a lot of bad beats, I stay calmed and continued playing my game
• I didn’t chase my losses, I didn’t disrespect my bankroll management: in such situation last year I would have just load a NL10 or NL25 table to try “quickly” win my losses back. Now I took the wise decision to not play cash games until the end of the week, get the Double Trouble Ticket and try again next week.
• I often smiled, when the fish hit their river. I truly did. It is just a silly card game after all and I know the maths: I can’t win every 80%/20% or even 90%/10% situation. But in the long run I will make money.

SNG:

Starting bankroll: 50 €; bankroll after week 22: 103,12 €; bankroll after week 23: 99,04 €

1x2€ SNG and I finished 5th after my own mistake: it was a river shove from my opponent, when the straight and the flush draw were completed and I couldn’t fold my set.

I then played 10x1€ SNGs, mostly trying to rebuild my confidence. The results weren’t perfect (2 wins and 1 other cash), but it was just some kind of small variance, I did the right things in most situations.

I find a big gap between the players at 1€ and 2€ SNGs. Once I read in this forum, that the 2€ level is more difficult than the 4€, because in the 4€ there are more fish with simply more money to play and in the 2€ are all of the good players from the 1€ SNGs or something like that.

I played my 1€ HexaPro ticket from June Mission Part 1, hit a 10x multiplier, but I couldn’t win it… I hate this HexaPro bingos… In my opinion this is not real poker at all, especially in the 1,5x multipliers, where you can’t play a hand postflop. You don’t have time to wait for decent hands, to get some reads on your opponent, nothing. You just hope to hit some cards and get lucky. Or maybe I am just terrible at these. I see that Unibet will make them even more turbo, there are always promotions to play them, and in the same time the SNGs are almost dead…

Cash games:

Starting bankroll: 100 €; bankroll after week 22: 129,96 €; bankroll after week 23: 104,82 €

Well I “won” a Double Trouble Ticket. No need to say more.

Satellites:

On the 2€-level I played 2 tournaments, but I couldn’t win a ticket.

On the 4€-level I played 1 tournament and won a 25€ ticket. I played at my absolute best and in every single situation I knew why I played it the way I did. Dara’s book is absolute masterpiece for he satellites. If you play these, just read the book!!!

UO Ticket bankroll:

MTT (bankroll 17,98 €):

No bankroll management at all once again. I lost 5,50€, couldn’t make anything significant in the monthly freerolls.

Double or Nothing (bankroll 35,60 $)

9 more played (3 ITM). Overall 101 played, 60 times ITM (59,4 %)

As conclusion I will quote blackrain79: “If you take this game seriously then I would advise you to stop worrying about the money right now and start focusing instead on the things that you actually control. And that is putting in the long hard hours both at the tables and away from them and challenging yourself to get better every time you play.”

@Livertool , it is the same in my account. I think it is just some kind of mistake and it is just one bonus.

Round 1

The predictions are: Hamburger SV double chance 1X and Tsarsko Selo 2015-Slavia Sofia under 3.5 goals

Evaluation of monthly goals: May

• Satellite goal: collect 40x4€ UO tickets COMPLETED
• Study goal:
  • Finish “Poker Satellite Strategy” and take notes COMPLETED

New monthly goals: June 2020

• Satellite goal: play 8xUO 4€ buy-in and 6xUO 2€-buy-in satellites
• SNG challenge: play at least 20 SNGs
• Collect 5000 challenge points
• Complete all parts of the June missions
• Study goal:
  • Review some interesting hands after finishing a tournament
  • Choose and buy next poker book
• Cashgame goal: Collect 50 Spins in the King of Flips promotion

This week was a small disaster for me at the tables so far. Despite playing close to my best and taking in a lot of situations the right decisions, this card game can be brutal... I will play the May missions freerolls tonight and will update my results tomorrow evening.

In the video below you can see who wins the free spins (30 Cash Spins @ Let’s Get Ready to Rumble if I am not mistaken). The reward will be credited by @ReCorpH 

I wish you good luck with the spins and please share the outcome here in my blog!

I hope you all enjoyed this little giveaway! Run good at the poker tables and have a nice evening!

SNG:

Starting bankroll: 50 €; bankroll after week 21: 103,12 €; bankroll after week 22: 103,12 €

No SNGs played this week.

Cash games:

Starting bankroll: 100 €; bankroll after week 21: 133,77 €; bankroll after week 22: 129,96 €

I had one of these awful days on Friday, when I lost 5 buy-ins (set into set, straight into flush, flush into full house, KK into AA, etc.) Good thing is that overall for the week I am only 1 buy-in down.My main focus this week was on the cash game tables. The King of Flips promotion brought a lot of guys, who just want to see flops. For me this means, that I can c-bet the flops more often, because most of the guys went to flop with speculative holdings and just fold.

Satellites:

On the 2€-level I played 1 tournament and won a 10€ ticket.

UO Ticket bankroll:

MTT (bankroll 23,48 €):

I had a little adventure with MTTs this week. Playing like absolute gambler tournaments from 0,25 € buy-in until 10 € buy-in. No bankroll management at all. Luckily I finished 3rd in the 300 € Atom (cash for 54,17 €) and now I have a tiny MTT bankroll again.

Double or Nothing (bankroll 39,02 $)

15 more played (9 ITM). Overall 92 played, 57 times ITM (62,0 %).

If you don’t know I have a restriction for the casino, so I am not able to use the free spins from the monthly missions. So I decided to make a small giveaway here in my blog. In the spoiler I tagged everyone, who has contributed to my poker blog (like or comment) until yesterday, 31.05.2020. If you are tagged and want to take part in this giveaway, please like this post within the next 48 hours (deadline Wednesday, 03.06.2020, 15:30 CEST). Then I will choose randomly one of you and @ReCorpH  will transfer you the free spins.

SNG:

Starting bankroll: 50 €; bankroll after week 20: 108,62 €; bankroll after week 21: 103,12 €

5x2€-SNGs, one buy-in was a ticket from the Challenge Points System (I reached 3000 this week). Not a single cash.

I played also Hexas to complete the May missions. I finished with +2,50 € from playing these.

Cash games:

Starting bankroll: 100 €; bankroll after week 20: 105,09 €; bankroll after week 21: 133,77 €

7 buy-ins won, marks my best week at the cash tables. 1 buy-in was won in Omaha.

Satellites:

On the 2€-level I played 1 tournament, but couldn’t cash. I won 1x2€ UO ticket from Part 5 of May mission. So no changes in the UO Ticket bankroll.

UO Ticket bankroll:

MTT (bankroll 0 €):

I busted my tiny MTT bankroll once again. No surprise here, because I do not have any plan and just randomly play 5€ or even 10€ buy-in tournaments. I won the two tickets for the special monthly freerolls. I will play these and then make a real plan here.

Double or Nothing (bankroll 37,28 $)

15 more played (8 ITM). Overall 77 played, 48 times ITM (62,3 %).

My first deadline at work was last Friday. Everything went well so far. The other deadline was postponed with two months, so this all means I have a little more time to play poker.

SNG:

Starting bankroll: 50 €; bankroll after week 19: 98,62 €; bankroll after week 20: 108,62 €

1x1€ HexaPros, hit a 5x, but I finished runner up.

4x2€-SNGs: two wins, 2 other cashes (2nd place).

Cash games:

Starting bankroll: 100 €; bankroll after week 19: 98,45 €; bankroll after week 20: 105,09 €

1,66 buy-ins won, slowly but I am going in the right direction xD. I managed to 3-table for 20 minutes yesterday, but I got tired pretty fast.

Satellites:

BIG NEWS HERE! I have 40x4€ UO tickets now. I played 3x1€ tournaments (using 4 tickets, 1 rebuy) and won 3 more tickets, finishing the step 3b of my yearly goals in style. I played 97 tournaments (I counted a rebuy as a new tournament) and won 37 tickets from these (38,1% ITM). Now with 40 tickets for the next level, the plan is to never ever play the 1€ UO satellites again.

The first couple of 4€ tickets will expire in July, so no rush here. I will finish Dara’s book until the end of the month and will start “grinding” the 4€ UO satellites then.

On the 2€-level I played 1 tournament and my KK got destroyed from AQs (all in preflop), turned flush…

UO Ticket bankroll:

MTT (bankroll 15,08 €):

No MTTs this week.

Double or Nothing (bankroll 37,40 $)

I’ve got a little mistake in my excel sheet for this section.  Now everything should be correct. 15 more played (10 ITM). It took me two hours 3-tabling, at the end I was exhausted. Overall 62 played, 40 times ITM (64,5 %).

Big congratulations on your cash! In my opinion folding into the money was the right strategy on the bubble in your situation. You qualified for a small amount of money (20 euros I read) and a min cash in this tournament was more than 10x of your invested money and as you said is doubling your bankroll. I wish you all the best for the Unibet Open. Show this patience in the early stages again and run good!

I barely played poker the last three weeks, but I will write a short update in my blog.

SNG:

Starting bankroll: 50 €; bankroll after week 16: 100,28 €; bankroll after week 19: 98,62 €

4x2€-SNGs, 2 cashes (2nd place).

Cash games:

Starting bankroll: 100 €; bankroll after week 16: 85,71 €; bankroll after week 19: 98,45 €

4 buy-ins won after very few hands played: I basically won 2 very big pots, both all in preflop. First one KK>AQ, second one: 4-way pot my AK hit the A on the flop and beat KK, TT and 89s.

Satellites:

Starting Budget: 30 €: budget after week 16: 17,04 €; budget after week 19: 0 €

I have a solid ticket bankroll now, so I don’t need the remaining 17,04 € from my starting budget. This will be transferred to my MTT bankroll.

I played 7x1€ UO satellites and won 2x4€-tickets.

On the 2€-level I played 2 tournaments and won 1x10€-ticket. I will use my remaining 8x2€-tickets and then I will decide how to proceed on this road.

UO Ticket bankroll:

MTT (bankroll 15,08 €):

I busted my previous “MTT bankroll”. Now I added the budget from the satellites (17,04€). Not real plan how to use/play here, but no need for a plan for the near future, as I am not going to play much.

Double or Nothing (bankroll 32,08 $)

Couple of months ago I started playing Double or Nothnig SNGs on another poker room. My starting bankroll was 25$. The format is very useful to train my satellite play and to be honest is one of my favorite. So far 49 played, 30 times ITM finishes (63%).

At the end it is written that one goal is to play 10 000 SNGs for this period, so this means 100 per day.

There is currently a problem with the data in the poker lobby in all MTTs: the information about number of players, payouts, etc. is frozen... For example in tournament ID 18520860. Playing a sattelite without knowing how much players will win a ticket or how much players are in the tournament at all is absurd. Please fix it!

April was a strange month: I didn’t any poker since 19th of the month. Still I want to evaluate my results. I will not have much time to play in May, that is why I will set just two simple goals.

Evaluation of monthly goals: April 2020

• Satellite goal: collect 40x4€-tickets UNCOMPLETED
  • I have 38x4€ UO tickets right now, 2 away from my goal. I don’t want to make any excuses and that is why this part is marked red.
• SNG challenge: play at least 20 SNGs COMPLETED
  • 37 SNGs played
• Study goal:
  • Review some interesting hands after finishing a tournament PARTLY COMPLETED
  • Reread “Poker Satellite Strategy” and take notes (chapter 5-13) UNCOMPLETED
• Cashgame goal: Play at least 10 hours of cashgames (2-tabling) and finish all parts of the Moving On missions PARTLY COMPLETED
  • I did play enough hours of cash games, but I finished just the first part of the Moving On missions.

New monthly goals: May 2020

• Satellite goal: collect 40x4€ UO tickets
• Study goal:
  • Finish “Poker Satellite Strategy” and take notes

For the first time this year I had a whole calendar week with not a single poker hand played. There are a couple of reasons:

• I have a lot to do in my regular job. Two big projects that I am working on have their deadlines in May, so some days I stay late at work. The result is that I am more tired and have even less free time than usual.
• https://www.unibetopen.com/unibet-open-tour-move-online-rest-2020/ : The article is from Monday, but I expected it with the beginning of the pandemic. The whole live Unibet events will be online… This is a huge frustration to me, as the main reason, that I play poker is to qualify for a live event, in order to visit new places and make vacations there. Now this is not possible this year, one of my main yearly goals was to qualify for a live event and this isn’t possible now. So my motivation for playing poker right now is gone...

Of course I love the game. I will continue playing the UO qualifiers, I have a long road until I will be even  able to play a 250€-final. In May I will not update my poker blog weekly, after that I hope I will have more free time and hopefully my motivation back.

This whole pandemic situation is one huge piece of :Heart::Hearts::Heart:. I love to travel and this year (and maybe the next couple ones, who knows?) this is going to be almost impossible.  And the whole “no social contact thing” is starting to really piss me off…

Match list:

Hello guys! It is time for my weekly update of my results in 2020. It was an awful week for me regarding my poker results. I took so many bad beats and basically I couldn’t win a single meaningful showdown, despite getting the money in as a 70/30, 80/20 favorite almost the entire time. 

SNG:

Starting bankroll: 50 €; bankroll after week 15: 111,11 €; bankroll after week 16: 100,28 €

I played 3x1€-SNG, won just one.

15x2€-SNGs, 2 wins, 2 other cashes.

Cash games:

Starting bankroll: 100 €; bankroll after week 15: 93,43 €; bankroll after week 16: 85,71 €

AK<AQ all in preflop; KK<AJ all in preflop; QQ<AK all in preflop; AQ<QJ all in on Q high rainbow flop, J on the turn; 88<66 all in on 78T flop, 9 on the river and I won AA>KK all in preflop. I didn’t take any screenshots, but all pots were like 6-8 Euros.

Satellites:

Starting Budget: 30 €: budget after week 15: 17,04 €; budget after week 16: 17,04 €

I played 7x1€ UO satellites and won 2x4€-ticket. Here I messed it up in one tournament, the other 4 were bad beats...    

On the 2€-level I didn’t play any tournaments.

I couldn’t turn my 0,30 € DSO ticket (won last week) into 1€ DSO ticket, but I managed to turn my 1€ in a 4€ DSO ticket. 0/4 this week in the freerolls.

UO Ticket bankroll:

MTT (bankroll 18,66 €):

I played 5xQualifier to 5€ Ticket, won just 1, used it and my AKs got destroyed from a A7o all in preflop. In the 3000€ UOS Freeroll my AKs lost to QQ (standard flip).

@Andy-Unibet 

Thank you very much!