MathrimC

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@Livertool wrote:

Little bit too fast for me :D

 

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I've slowed them down a bit :Smile:

It helps to vent about beats. But because no one wants to waste a lot of time on other people's bad beat stories (most people probably don't even open this topic anymore), I've decided to compile mine in GIFs. Here are two GIFs with frustrating hands of the last month or so, one with bad beats and one with bubbles.

Bad beats:

Bubbles:

 (the one were I had 860 chips left wich I lost soon after deserves to be in there for villain's glorious 4-high call pre)

And to be fair to RNGesus and ballance things out, here's a gif with hands where I sucked out:

Guy with a €244 stack at NL5 banzai shoves on the flop, which is effectively 5x pot, and Anonymouse has KK ...

https://clips.twitch.tv/MushyFitBibimbapArsonNoSexy

How to win €45 in one minute playing PLO10 and Banzai NL5:

https://clips.twitch.tv/CrunchyRefinedAnteaterMVGame

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@VikingsAF wrote:

Secretly it's @MathrimC himself ;)

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Hehe, I can only wish I could make sense of PLO like he does. It might actually be Jonny in disguise, he talks with the same accent.

There's a new one to add to the list: https://www.twitch.tv/00anonymouse00

He's normally a higher stakes player, but he's doing a bankroll challenge now, starting at €100. He grinded it up to €284 so far in 5 days by playing mainly SNGs, Banzai and PLO cashgames. The stream setup is very simple, and the mic quality a bit low, so there are some improvements to be made in the production value. But the poker content is very good, and he's very interactive with the chat. Also, he streams until late into the night, long after the other Unibet streams went offline, and he's the only PLO cashgame streamer on Unibet :Smile:

On the bubble of a qualifier:

Won the DaVitsche Unibet Open Bounty Hunt tonight, with an epic final hand, caught on stream:

https://clips.twitch.tv/TolerantFilthyToothFrankerZ

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@MoreTBC wrote:

@MathrimC, how was the Joylent? Does it taste nice? 

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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:

@MoreTBC wrote:

 

I don't really know a good way around it all so I'm looking for some tips from the daily grinders on here :) How do you survive 4+ hours of play and eating?

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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 

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@jonny2192 wrote:

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@pirahn wrote:

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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.

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