Farseer

Freerollin' level 2 after 250€ satellite and 100€ supernova yesterday for no return (with tickets, of course).

Thanks SkilfulPoker. Back to the games, doesn't start well. Opponent calls, calls and at the turn we are in the middle. Too bad that river always brings up beat.

No was just bubbling everything (4 bubbles last evening from like 20 MTTs). Got this one though (100€ with bounties):

Salty 9th place and scraps from low leaderboard:

PKO Series went super bad. Got only few bounties and only cash was this one (blindfight might have seen bit worse hands from opponent): At least won another 5€ PLO R/A for almost 500€, so Sunday week and week were mildly profitable despite high buy-ins draining a lot of money. It is getting more tempting to move more into PLO / PLO8 / NLO8 MTTs. Gotta check out if I could get calendar over them - problem with Texas MTTs are that they run quite late, have bigger fields and thus bigger variance and PLO / O8 players are generally very weak.

Horrible day at Unibet PKOs. 18th at low leaderboard ja dead at high leaderboard (tickets used). Probably skipping rest of the series unless I find motivation on grinding low events and alongside that grind other MTTs. While day looked horrible, at the end managed to win 5€ PLO R/A for over 400€ and 33$ PLO8 turbo PKO for around 666$. With high'ish buy-ins profitable day, but not as much as one would've hoped. Texas Tournaments drained a lots of money and Omaha / Omaha Hi-Lo brought it back. Regular day at the office.

Back at the games yesterday, I kept 100€ ticket for participating into series first day and played all 6 events + some satellites. Bad start, just 1 high bounty and bunch of small ones. Overall games were super high for me, like around 1k€ buy-ins and disappointingly deepruns didn't go well (100€ 55k€ guaranteed PKO ITM with good amount of bounties, super salty 5th place at 82$ NLO8 hyper PKO and 2nd place at the 10€ PLO R/A) but brought enough back with few satellite seats that made it break-even. Huge potential though. Been having horrible diarrhea all around last week, so it gave extra difficulty level last night 😄 Probably playing today too, let's see if I get more bounties at the leaderboard! Probably streaming like I did yesterday, feel free to say hi though it is in Finnish mostly: https://www.twitch.tv/farseerfinland

The New Schedule introduced 10 months ago was in my opinion just horrible. Step from boring yet working schedule to despising copy-paste from other sites, which has absolutely 0 chance to be successful. And this was despite leaderboards (which I love) which did run for 2-3 months and so on - I still preferred earlier schedule with lots of great MTTs like Neptune R/A's and other stuff. And after leaderboards were over, there were few reasons left to play on Unibet - mainly 2 remaining R/A MTTs. As Titan (nowadays €1500 turbo megastack) was again ruined by another useless limbo level, I will probably skip all Unibet regular MTTs in the future as there is only one playable tournament left at regular schedule which is 5€ R/A hyper. So - until the next series where I will again come and catch leaderboard top spot (at least if promotion is good enough in comparison to the schedule buy-ins).

Two MTTs from Unibet today. Salty heads-up loss though. Opponent was 4 times at all-in flip against me with worse cards at the FT with his stack in the middle, but won every single one (splitted one). Zero cashes from like 15 MTTs on other sites, so pretty bad day. Probably about break-even, with 100€ ticket extra. At least better to go break-even than for loss - there were lots of great value satellites on other site so bit different day as skipped most O8-MTTs today.

Big Sunday. Horrible Sunday. With like almost 1000€ of buy-ins and biggest cash being 60€ or so (also got 3x 100€ tickets and used them, one of them to Supernova) it is quite clear that losses were considerable, about 500€ or so. Had 50€-100€ MTTs alongside regular stuff - juicy opponents there too, but nasty dealers everywhere. Also lost all leaderboard stuff maximal way this week (from 1st -> 5th at the most important one). Demoralizing stuff really. Need to go for a long walk, next week gonna try to have 3 good days of game.

Just a quick one-hand ticket burn.

Bit better day, though higher buy-in events still went badly. But two trophies and one 2nd place alongside few mincashes made ok day. Just played one MTT at Unibet and won it:

Yeah, problem just is that getting 2 trophies is harder than it sounds. And while you get 2 trophies, other players will also score some points so you stay behind. And as I mentioned, fields go smaller and when we have 50-60 players at the events top prize will only be like 70-80 euros so you would have to win 3 while your competitors shouldn't get meaningful points. Main issue supporting not playing these is just that only reason I "have to" play in Tuesday and Saturday are these events, and other leaderboards (and other promotions) where I fare better are around Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday. Playing 3 compulsory weeks a day leaves much more room instead of 5 compulsory days. And on those 3 days I usually have my screen full of tables when league events run, since all events run around same time slot 😄

Super frustrating night. Got places 3, 4, 4 and 6 from small fields and busted last and only real megafield at 14th which had almost 2k€ for winner. One 4th place was from 10€ R/A Megastack turbo. Community leaderboard continues as a trainwreck, no cash: Might skip Saturday and rest of series. But let's see - if I feel good at playing in Saturday then I will probably reg PLO events too. Part of the problem with current league is that point system is heavily flawed. Using cashes as "points" has lots of issues in comparison to better point systems, but maybe most major of those is that as latter leaderboard events have smaller fields and thus smaller prize pools making it almost impossible to reach top2 at the leaderboard when one is this far behind.

No great day, but let's post hand with a good timing.

And the latter one.

Trainwreck leaderboard, woke up just to play these.

First week wasn't good result-wise (slightly profitable, bad starts at the leaderboards) and problem remains that holding up reasonable sleep patterns proved to be hard. Even today woke up 6 pm though got sleep 6 am and had wake up call around 2-3 pm (slept over it). Well, gotta try to play 5 days this week and consider the possibility of playing earlier PLO and O8 events instead of late rebuy/add-ons which often last up until 4 am or so. And if community leaderboard continues to go this bad and it seems impossible to reach top2, maybe just sack community events since that would free Tuesdays and Saturdays from compulsory grind. This week aiming to get bit better mix of poker, free time, good food, some exercise and sleep.

I just play O8 MTTs at Stars really and their fields are quite small. At ipoker I play some bigger fields, but haven't played lots of them because they run so late at night. Overall I have been playing very little during last few years. Probably not huge difference, but bigger fields bit better in terms of ROI. Which gets negated by longer average runtime. Haven't played megafields lot usually since longer runtime and much higher variance + worse promotions.

Nowadays it's impossible to keep them as records to watch later at Twitch since I listen to copyrighted music while streaming.

Good spots, but fried out to 6th place at earlier Community PLO event and other spots as well making it slightly profitable day today.

Well, blind betting monkey got extra 1k from guessing that Spain U21 - Ukraine U21 ended up 5-1 (had that and 5-0). Planning to start a stream within next 1-2 hours: https://www.twitch.tv/farseerfinland It's gonna be mostly in Finnish, but feel free to say hello. Hoping that it will improve my concentration in the game which has been severely lacking. Trying to fire a full session. From Unibet planning to play these: 21:05 Communityevent Unibet 21:30 Communityevent Unibet 22:47 10+r turbo latereg Unibet 00:41 5+r hyper latereg Unibet

Well, at least won last (PLO8) MTT. Not a big one, but 350€ much more than (short session) buy-ins. Tomorrow gotta try to keep up longer session, even if with fewer tables. With or without stream. Probably gonna late reg PLO ones since I like playing that game with shallow stacks + early regging community MTTs often take too much concentration from other MTTs. Just those passwords make it bit annoying, hate to search those during session so printed schedule + passwords on paper and taped it on wall.

Ultra hard to keep up playing after a bad start, and it happened today too. Partially due to calendar being flawed as wrong late registration time to R/A's which is probably due to different MTTs having different structures in Sunday and other days. Super annoying! Hmm, maybe I should stream tomorrow and force myself to reg stuff from 8-9 pm until 2 am.