MathrimC

It's great. I like the banana and chocolate flavours the most. I eat it once or twice a day now, instead of other meals. I also tried Jake, another brand. I like the taste of that even more, it's smoother and greasier, but they only have one taste so I'll keep eating Joylent too.

Ah that sucks :sad:

They would have to be for cash since fixed opening ranges for MTTs make no sense given the many situational influences. Nonetheless, they can still provide a good basis for making MTT decisions. I'm neither a full ring nor an MTT player, but when deep, I think they are ok if the table is not too aggessive with its 3bets and people are positionally aware so they know your range is strong. The advantage of a hand like 98s is that as UTG raiser your bluffs are getting a lot of credit on A or K high boards, while on middling boards you can flop a lot of well disguised equity. Hands like ATs, KTs, QTs, A5s can be dangerous though because of the reverse implied odds: people are going to call you with a strong range, so when you hit your A, K or Q and they play back at you, they will often have top pair with a better kicker. When more shallow (under 30bb) I would drop all suited hands below AQs, KQs and QJs.

Shoving QT is definitely better than folding, as your calculation indicates. I know the feeling you get when you shove into a monster and go out quicker than you would have with more passive play, but with high blinds and antes, you can't pass up on a good steal opportunity. You don't always get it folded to you in late position when you have a stealworthy hand, so if you let those opportunities pass you'll be blinded out in no time. Letting yourself blind down is much worse than pushing small edges. However, push/fold charts compare only two options, there are two other options you could evaluate: Raising small and folding to a reraise: I think you're too shallow for this and it is bad versus good aggresive opponents. With all the money in the pot, a reshove becomes really attractive for him. You want to be the one making the shove, putting the ICM pressure on them instead of allowing them to shove on you. Limping and making a small cbet on the flop: whether this is good depends on the opponent: this works well with opponents who tighten up and play fit or fold postflop when blinds get high. Vs good aggressive opponents this can get tricky and gives him the chance to steal a part of your stack. So you made a good play and were just unlucky.

I'd like to submit my entry for heads-up comeback of the year. At blinds 200/400 ante 50 I had less than 1bb left. Next hand I folded to his shove, the hand after he called mine with crap: Then I had to fold a few hands, which dragged me down a bit with the killing blinds. Somewhere someone is throwing his pc out of the window.

Nice post, makes me jealous I wasn't there.

Just encountered Hotted89, one of the e-sports sng guys, in a €10 sng. From this hand on he had the chiplead throughout the whole SNG, but I got lucky heads-up and beat him 😃

Allow me to dig up a question from a while ago: Have you ever heard of Soylent? (or Joylent in Europe) It's a meal replacement. It was originally developed as a hobby project by a software engineer who was tired of wasting time cooking, eating and doing dishes. It's a powder that contains all necessary nutrients. You have to mix 4 spoons of powder with 1/2 liters of water to have a shake that contains at least 33% of all essential nutrients. Very quick, quite thick so it really fills you up, and it's healthier than most fastfood wich does not at all contain all nutrients. The reason I dig this up today is because my first Joylent order just arrived today, and I drank my first shake to replace my dinner this evening. Took me 1 minute to prepare, and filled me up nicely 😃

MTT and SNG ROI would be interesting. And if you keep track of days of the week and hour during the day, ROI comparison per day of the week, and per time of the day would be interesting. I'm planning on doing that for my SNGs, to see if there is a big difference between weekdays and evenings and weekends.

Nice post! I think it's normal you want some variation and not play the same games and opponents all day every day. Some variation is a good way to prevent a poker burnout. I also wish Unibet was bigger. But then again, half an hour in the chat of a pokerstars twitch stream or 4 hours grinding for 1 cent in a pokerstars freeroll pulls me back to the friendly Unibet environment and makes me glad some of those people aren't over here 😏 The growth of Unibet is a long term process, but if the poker team can continue to do what they are doing, I'm sure it'll get bigger every year 😃

I just did it! I just got a walk with KK in the big blind. Very lucky I know, but technically it counts as a won pot! And in the UK Tour final none the less, lucky me :laugh:

Unfortunate bad run, but great that you're keeping your motivation. With this attitute I'm sure you'll turn it around 😃

I'm not brown, I have a very good sun tan. Are you related to Bobby Jindal? He said the exact same thing I had to google Booby Jindal and the comment and the first thing that came up was @pirahn wrote...lol. Yes all 1.3 billion of us are related. You should come to the next uk tour event where you can see myself @ChapInAChair and @jonny2192 having a conversation and you can get a better appreciation of british humour. @pirahn you missed out @MathrimC Who is Belgian but seems to have picked up the sarcasm humour gene somewhere in his past :) I pronounce mathrimc honorary sarccy British person :) Indeed, it doesn't matter what color or nationality we may have on the outside, deep inside all good people are white and Brittish.

Just keep doing what you're doing and things will turn around. Here's how I deal with a downswing: You can treat them as good mental practice, and see them as a challenge, which you loose if you tilt too much or too long. I know this works for me. This meta-view helps me to care less about the results themselved, and more about my attitude about it, and it can even make me feel proud when I don't feel too bad after losing some buy-ins.Reviewing the biggest pots I played helps after a big loss. The outcome is always positive: either you find some mistakes and you can learn something, which is good; or you find you played good and you were just unlucky, which boosts your confidence and takes away the doubts you had after your bad run, which is also good.Good luck in your next sessions!

Great results for the month! Looking forward to seeing you stream 😃

I've long since given up all hope of ever being able to play through a PLO4 ticket.

Any 6, 7 or 8 gives him the win, which is 9 outs or roughly 36%. With the 4% backdoor equity added that makes 40%. So again, as your previously deleted "bad beat", this is a situation you will lose 4 times out of 10 after the chips go in on the flop. I know it always hurts if it's the decisive hand for the win, but if you can't get over that, you shouldn't play SNG's until you've practiced your mental game a bit more, because spots like that happen all the time.

You shouldn't complain. There were still about fourty horsemen left in the deck, so even on the flop he was still a big favourite. He was ahead, just didn't have a made hand yet. Or did that mean that you were ahead at that point although he had more equity. Or were you ahead because his equity wasn't realized yet, or... Oh no not this again.

Thanks for the alias inspiration!

Thanks! I made the same calculation. Only couln't find the Butler League 2 winner in the other two tournaments, so if he played them with a different alias, he might still win it.

4th in butler league 1&2, and 14th in butler league 3. Think I might get close to the win this week :)