Farseer

Hot weather, very bad flip luck @ tournaments and exhausted Farseer -> very little playing. Last night had like 5 MTTs just a flip from cash (usually with nice stack), didn't win any of those. 55$ Banzai Bounty with AA vs. JJ vs. AT was last one, river J. Really hard to concentrate, so probably not grinding in June. Just playing few quick MTTs if up for it, not playing slow MTTs. Like Multiverse, Banzai Bounty or hyper speed O8, out of which most MTTs last like 1 hour tops.

First international soccer match seen live: won 4 tickets from Wolt lottery. So got friend and his 2 children to come along. Nice weather and Finland won 2-0.

Yesterday lost most of profit made in Friday. No runs, and last running 50€ R/A AGAIN bubbled, this time hitting QQ v AK flip just before the money at top3-pot. Nasty, would've paid almost 3k€ for winner. Variance is quite nasty when playing with like 50€ ABI. Bit problematic to find motivation for small and slow MTTs like Gorsky and Sputnik (5€ R/A which last ages) so been playing bigger rebuys, alongside some Banzai Bounties and fast-paced NLO8 / PLO8's, usually with PKOs. Quite nasty variance at these, but playing for 4 hours for 100€ top price just doesn't motivate me. 5€ Multiverse is much nicer, with 250€ 1st place and 2 hours (max) running time I always play it.

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Yesterday managed to get 1,3k€ trophy from one 20€ R/A while streaming. Played handful on big buy-ins, 50€ R/A bubbled after crashed into pocket aces twice in a row. Not a huge win, but feels great after quite a long streak with no good-sized trophies. Today going to hit the city and have fun. Maybe going to play some higher-stakes again tomorrow, maybe starting with good value satellites to Supernova and Supermoon. Not going to play them without satellites, prefer lateregging into 50€ R/A than playing 100€ regular event 🙂

Master's Thesis: approved. Pretty much as expected, second lowest approved (0-5, got 2) grade. Returned it somewhat unfinished, so would've got 1-2 grades better result if would have finished it, but better to have approved Thesis and finished studies as it's been hell to concentrate on such work. Last 2 years have been very difficult to concentrate on anything, so getting approved Master's Thesis was more than expected. Poker: running bad. Got 109$ ticket and 1050$ ticket from satellites, but no luck @ PKOs. Casinos / sports betting run bad as well, probably around break-even this month. Maybe bit more during summer - maybe not. Just going to play if I feel I want to. Been drinking and partying quite much and plan to do so during summer though trying to move a bit as well. Maybe changing my computer setup now, got a "new" computer (bought 1,5 years ago) so might install that one now. Stocks have been doing somewhat ok at rocky spot: year to date is break-even, while market has been diving.

Few games last night. Bubbled 530$ ticket with AQ < AJ, had double KK < ATo flips @ 50 R/A and ended up with 0 cashes (some bounties) and one 109$ ticket. Demoralizing runs at higher games. Playing with stocks more nowadays. Been buying stocks for about 70k€ during last two weeks. Of course with loaned money. GÄMBÖÖL! Still far less debt leverage than my friend has, just feel like it is great time to invest to (mostly Finnish) picked value stocks when fears are high and people are selling while stock returns are goods and Finland is likely losing some of its edge market discount when we join to NATO. Been quite hard to adjust living after Master's Thesis. Very hard to relax, haven't been able to give myself time to play computer games. Drinking more than usually and sleep patterns go all around, gotta find something better to do. Should also really lose some weight (or at least not to gain any more). Maybe some walking challenge? Beat last years 340k steps in June?

Master's Thesis: returned. Hoping that it won't come back to haunt me in form of boomerang. Returned it somewhat unfinished. Wrote most of the stuff within a week from 120 pages of notes and got 10+ pages of just source references. Holiday-time!

No much poker, mostly been doing Master's Thesis. Got to year 2012, which features a page or two of me at almost all magazines (was playing $10k live package won from one site freeroll series, used it to play low-midstakes tournament serieses and also wrote blog for them). Nostalgic stuff. Few games, and last night some super nasty 88 < Q2o bubble for super chip lead at 31,5 Banzai Bounty. Deadline for Master's Thesis is 10th of May. Got a cruise to Stockholm next weekend and May Day celebrations, otherwise it is going to be mostly that stuff.

Played just 25€ editions at Community games this week. Not much to say, as they were quickly lost to 3 lost flips. Earlier this week had a tilting session on other site, where major server problems happened just during bubble at 55$ PKO and ended until the end of tournament (finished 7th). Other sites worked fine, and so did youtube and internet connection in general and another Finnish player reported same problems on our Discord channel. However no refund from support, as they claim I am not entitled to one when I managed to cash. Planning to do stuff like excel'ng results bit more efficiently. Just planning to note balances on each account at the beginning and end of the month. During month just planning to count deposits and withdrawals instead of marking each tournament or casino result each day. Won't be able to differ poker, casino and sportsbook results that way completely as some sites offer them all, but it should be small price to pay. Maybe counting hours and amount of MTTs played, but I am not sure if it is worth the effort. Old excel was super exact, but quite hard to keep on track especially when playing on mobile. Since 1k -> 100k challenge was finished last year, not super important to keep it so exact. Though it is good to have some kind bookkeeping as a professional player, not least because I have quite big credit line and might need another mortgage at some point.

Action, no meditation I've been starting to hate slow tournaments lately. Including R/A's - which generally are soft and have good value. But slow tournaments are so boring! And mostly they play the opposite from other MTTs I play since they favor tight play (unless they are bounties, which I rarely play as slow bounty MTT has to be reg's from the start so it lasts even longer). After long play you usúally end up flipping like this and get busted: I've been lately playing Banzai Bounties and NLO8 hyper PKOs (or some other quick-paced MTTs). They're maybe even more soft, they last like 1 hour tops (yesterday FT-bubbled 55$ one and it lasted 50 mins, better than playing 4-8 hours at some 55$ regspeed and get busted same way). You jump right into action (like today I pushed 100bb all-in at first hand at NLO8 and got called by KJ99r which is about worst hand at that format). And they allow you to end session quickly if you're getting tilted or just don't want to play any more. Bad side is that offering is limited and you have to play bigger buy-ins as well to get enough action and chance to make decent $$$. Too bad Unibet don't have these: all PKOs with meaningful buy-ins and prize pools that I see are very slow. And no O8 :( Maybe I'll get patience and interest back for R/A's, but they have a secondary problem which isn't easily solved: best ones run until very late. At Unibet they might be finished before sun rises during summer, but on other site which has them sun is certainly up if you run even semideep at them. So one has to live like a vampire.

Also got 4k$ score from other site just last weekend. It was rather disappointing though, as finishing 147th place wasn't the one I was hoping. But it was sort of freeroll, got a free 150$ ticket to another MTT, managed to mincash it for 405$ so freerolled to this other event. Haven't been playing poker much (or really not at all, just 18 MTTs so far this month). Result-wise it's been good 🤣 though no trophies 😪

Took the pseudo-banzai today. Got a nice start with this huge pot (action was cheal limp -> all-in, all-in, all-in, call). After that little luck though and as stacks went short due to blinds got two bit nasty setups. At least got bounties to cover my buy-in + interests.

Just hate poker. Especially satellites.

By the way, about the topic: Star Trek: Picard season 1 was horrible piece of crap. But after 2 episodes, season 2 is actually quite good stuff. So, skip season 1 and go right to season 2.

Too drunk. Already.

Life is still running through some deep and rough waters. No poker, but some success at Chess. Haven't been playing any tournament in 20 years (was mediocre player then at best) and very few fun games, but took decent score from this one. Also had a wedding party for a good friend. Was a great to see some old friends (and also some new ones) after like 3+ years live.

Been sending some more help from Ukraine, via some game store which arranged a promotion: all funds coming from selling some board games will be donated to Ukraine military. So bought 10 board games, maybe keeping 1 of them (nothing good really for me) and giving rest as Christmas presents (mostly Carcassone / Ticket to Ride). 2 birds with one stone! Been feeling better. Just been playing very little - more active on stocks front though. Like to play very quick poker MTTs right now. Missed all UOS MTTs - well only Banzai Bounty would've been considered right now anyway. One might feel powerless right now, but there's always something one can do 🙂

Basic flip gone bad. At least I didn't lose any rebuys. February been a hell. All games run to hell, though still feel more bad for Ukraine right now. Sent some little €€€ for Ukraine army yesterday. Lots of people including poker players around here have done the same. Feel free to join 🙂 https://bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/natsionalniy-bank-vidkriv-spetsrahunok-dlya-zboru-koshtiv-na-potrebi-armiyi?fbclid=IwAR20lFYT3Ato6gT1cbAdjlojxDG2is6Tentp9E9u3uTBZSHSnbveiZUSZ4o

RIP Master's Thesis. Been just sleeping / bubble bathing today and got invitation for a party tomorrow including pre-party and after-party. RIP Master's Thesis, long live the life after covid-crap!

Well got a small consolidation prize. Would've rather played that freeroll (and it had great value), but nice gesture. Next time it's probably better, just having everything ready makes things much more simple. And sure would've prob bubbled it, wasting time. But would've got a good reason to drink more! Mixing coca-cola (zero) and dark rum here as that was just a start for another horrible Thursday. First got banned from valuable casino, then checked how my stocks were faring just to see that all of them reported horrible Q4 results, ending day like this: These Finnish songs pretty much sums how day went (first is "worse than each other" and second is something that is censored here anyways, just google it:

This is actually headline of my Discord-"blog" already. Most posts are "Xx 50€ deadspins again today". Make 8€ EV each spin, in average run -20€ real money.

+2,4 kg, so villa trip went as expected. Been recovering from it last few days, 3 days of drinking and eating lots of unhealthy stuff takes its toll at this age. It was fun trip, but payback is a bitch. Quite tired doing all the stuff that's been getting stuck, and just came here and got a quite instabad feeling about missing 1000€ freeroll with just a few players as tournament starting time was not told (despite asking about it personally 10 days ago) and it got run yesterday. If one is doing a promotion, why not do it properly? Zero reason why not to give freeroll time as promotion launches, in case some people are unable to attend it, now just feel like crap as missed lots of value and did promo for nothing. Didn't even get any e-mail about the MTT (private message would have given it). Small issues feel great when you are still tired, got lots to do, poker and studies are going nowhere, one is running badly at casinos (-1,4k€ and ~600€ cashback at hugely +EV promos last two days). I should probably rename this blog "Life sucks and then you die".

Katseltiin Superbowl NFL-fanin/fanaatikon kanssa ja koko matsin sai kuulla millaisia paskavalaita oli kentällä. Nothing to see here.

Get into bed just to lay down during daytime for a moment and wake up 8+ hours later has been usual way of getting sleep lately. Tomorrow: Got a small group (online) meeting with study psychologist (for Master's Thesis) and after that, going to go with poker friends for a 4-night vacation on a villa. Looking really up for it, just worrying that tomorrow is likely gonna be tough with little or no sleep.