GothMoth

@Boby maybe it's DNS related, I've had to flush the cache once when the disconnections were too frequent and the other players didn't have issues at the same time :wonder:

For me too, so far @Boby - not so many disconnections, but the bad beats... The last one was when I squeezed with ~20bb:

I'm so much fed up with this bullsh1t 😠

And because I feel a bit nostalgic today... The Lyrics: I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Hot metal and methedrine I hear empire down I hear empire down I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Love lost, fire at will Dum-dum bullets and shoot to kill, I hear Dive, bombers, and Empire down Empire down I hear the sons of the city and dispossessed Get down, get undressed Get pretty but you and me, We got the kingdom, we got the key We got the empire, now as then, We don't doubt, we don't take direction, Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me We look hard We look through We look hard to see for real Such things I hear, they don't make sense I don't see much evidence I don't feel. I don't feel. I don't Feel A long train held up by page on page A hard reign held up by rage Once a railroad Now it's done I hear the roar of a big machine Two worlds and in between Hot metal and methedrine I hear empire down We got the empire, now as then, We don't doubt, we don't take reflection, Lucretia, my direction, dance the ghost with me

It's great to see many rock and metal fans here. I love many kinds of underground electronic and rock music : from synthpop to oldschool black metal :rockon: But as the thread is for clips I'll post one of my all time favourites (it's black and white, but this makes it even more beautiful). Look at the amazing Tea F. Thimé :inlove: what a great voice too...

@MadAdo I'm listening to " Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker" atm and have read "Strategies for Beating Small Stakes Poker Tournaments" which he was kind enough to give me for free. Also got for free with audible registration on amazon "Positive Poker: A Modern Psychological Approach To Mastering Your Mental Game" which I've listened maybe 1/3 and " Peak Poker Performance: how to bring your 'A' game to every session " which is on the next year list. I'm very satisfied with the audio-book " Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker" but consider to obtain paperback copy too, as I'm slow listener (get sleepy, distracted).If someone has this e-book I'm ready to offer some other e-books in exchange which are not outdated as the most (the two by Leatherass are great). The other MTT one which is $17.99 but he gave me is sort of too simple and mostly oriented on the various player types and how to exploit them. Nothing new, but is written well and is easy to read. As for the Psychology books they are written with dr.Patricia Gardner and the one I'm familiar with is great and I like it more than the "Mental Game of Poker" which was/is revolutionary but too boring an tedious with all the instructions and notes you have to write... "Positive Poker" on the other hand is very interesting and really helpful and I should finish it soon 😃 Positive Poker outlines the mental skills that you need to develop if you want raise your game. Positive Poker will help you to: -Optimize your brain for efficient learning -Increase motivation and stay positive -Use psychological skills to increase your win rate -Increase self-control and reduce tilt And Lastly on your question (consider some on the mental game as everyone has issues, but we're more prone to read strategy which is hardly-digested and not sure if it will work in our particular games and will fit to our inherent playstyle than to follow some simple advices which will make better not only our game, but our life too 😃 @MadAdo I'm almost sure the one about the cash games will be very good too, but maybe more suitable for NL25, NL50, NL100 . The author just teaches very well - not every good player has this gift. So I recommend the "Positive Poker" as a mental game workbook and some articles by BlackRain or even his books( I have the 1st one) as he is specialized in the micros as no one else 😃 If someone have e-book(s) on MTTs (not Harrington) PM me to make some exchanges 😃 Here is the link to BlackRain's site: https://www.blackrain79.com/p/start-here.html

@MadAdo you discovered online poker only 2 years later than me and are still struggling with freerolls and centrolls... There is certainly something wrong: too little time for playing poker, no studying enough, wrong attitude or bad mental game, I could not know. Almost certainly you'll get the impression that I'm criticizing you and write too much about mine struggles in the past or simply brags about my "easy money" and this after you haven't asked me for advice in "4) MTT grinders" and I rarely give ones esp. about poker. But you are not a novice and I'll make an exclusion and even if you find my words not worthy someone else might benefit from them in the future 😃 I began my poker carrer in 2008 with 5-Card Draw which from the start until it became obsolete even on PS 5-6 years later was my main source of income along with some good loyalty freerolls and occasionally few MTT sessions - no more than 10 with €2-€10 buy-ins weekly. Now I wish to have had moved to MTTs back then after my 1st 4-digits win in 2009 :wonder: But the cash games were and are more steady income, so I even switched to NLHE for almost 2 years later( the 5-CD tables were almost empty already )and having to grind 2$-$10 NL for less then the half of my previous winings from 5-Card Draw and also to study a whole new universe of gameplay with no real progress in both and bad work ethic on top of it all, it became clear that this is only temporarily because working "real job" for even less money was out of the question. Then being fed up with the monotonous and robotic play at the micros I finally decided to specialize in MTTs and MTSNGs. I've had great start at MPN( few months ~€1000 profit when they offered numerous tourneys before they crippled their MTT schedule with many R/As and almost no decent .micro MTTs. Then I played shortly at Ipoker with decent success, also at other smaller networks which are not so good imo. One day while reading some 10 year old post at the 1st BG Poker Forum I remembered that I have made a registration at UnibetPoker back when they planned Unibet Open at Golden Sands and were giving some entries in freerolls... Since then my play is exclusively here and I might tell you that the bigger sites(esp. PS) with these enourmous playe-fields are one of the things you and many aspiring MTT players should avoid especially in the start of their carrer - the variance is so bigger that you might have to wait for years to win a tournament at stars ( I did back in 2011 and the field was less than 1000 people - no second 1st place since then and I've played more than 2000 games majority of which were MTTs). My alias there is Tzarvone and you could search it in sharscope(not opted-in though). I wrote this to mainly to give you the cons of the cash games: constantly evolving thus more tough opponents even at the micros and you have to be very prone to studying, analyzing gameplays and tendencies, working with numerous programs etc. to be one of the 5-10% which could make some profit at the end 😏 I've experienced this not so much with the draw as I play it from the late 80s (as a kid with my parents and friends) and later only had to read few articles and chapters in 2 books and I was more than ready.The rest is learned by playing and I've played few millions of hands from the $0.10-$0.20 to $10-$20(50-100 times bigger than my usual when I ocassionaly spotted few donors mostly during weekend nights). My main game was PL at Merge in the first months as a newbie and I remember that I haven't lost a single all-in(for sure have been extremely lucky as well) in that network (and there were still plenty of americans and many bad players )I quit in 2009 because they scammed me with $2000 from a promo. Then I realized abouth the bonuses and with so many OnGame sites - every month I registered in a new one with ~$500 deposit bonus + few hundreds from play, but they made changes to the software and the draw games died immediatelly, later the network too :annoyed: Then finally I moved to PS despite the more competent players on average. I even switched to FL as it's even more easy to play and the variance is the lowest. I played mainly $0.10-$0.20 and $0.25-$0.50, but multitabling up to 9 tables which is way more harder than non-draw games as you had to constantly click on the cards and to pay attention to how many cards the opponents have drawn. But this only made me prepared to multitable without making mistakes or feeling distracted/tired later 😃 The main reason the cash games lost their main pros is because of the decline of the poker economy in the past decade. There were no more players which simply sit at the table not knowing even some of the rules as for the split pots or why you shouldn't regualary post BB when sitting in just to be dealt immediately and then should sit out accordingly when you quit. But more than anytning the rich guys were no longer entertained by the new modern game or were no so rich anymore and in some cases were even unable to deposit. The bonuses were getting smaller and smaller, the rakeback became a dirty word and the rooms with their far worse loyalty programs just tried to convince the players that nothing has changed 😠 And one of the main reasons the cash games to be so popular among grinders were the bonuses and the rakeback + the loyalty program which made it possible for some players to find a deal which gives them more than 100% cashback :wow: Then you have to grind and not to lose and the "salary" is waiting. The good old times... :cash:🆒 Nowadays the situation is different and unless you have a passion for cash games (which fades away after the 1st few million hands :laugh:) and are very talented and with desire to improve constantly or just simply prefer the hard-earned cash I wouldn't advice someone to become a cash player (or a poker player in general) with little or no experience and lack of fundamental knowledge necessary even at NL 2-4-5-10 in order to be a winner. Just for comparison the same know-how 10 years ago would have been enough to crush NL100 or NL200. So at the end the fun, excitement, the lesser ammount of knowledge and the neverending bad players dreaming for a big win make the tournaments the logical choice for almost every player, but especially for the ones which don't want to waste few more years switching formats or learning NLHE when are years behind the average good winning player at stakes which don't provide much, but require 8hrs 9-tabling the 1st 1 year in order to evaluate the real progress and eventually to begin to earn something more decent, but with even more work. The MTTs provide the same ammount of profit but don't require so much studying( maybe 1to5) until you reach the higher stakes where the ICM and other complex, but simple compared to some cash fundamentals begin to influence the outcome and the gameplays in the tourneys and the profit would be non-existant or too small without knowing in details such concepts. While at the MTTs here you won't experience many difficulties for sure at the lower buy-in ones and even at the higher ones as Milky Way and Supernova(when you are sitted at a good table) your opponents atrocious play (maybe 40-60% of the field) will be enough for you to profit in the long run even without delving too much into theory 😃

Same here @RayL esp. with Heroes of Might and Magic III and Heroes of Might and Magic V 😃

Yes, @psrquack it is not, 10 000 are already more close to it :wow: However it's impossible to acquire adequate result when playing so much MTTs takes an year and only if you are a grinding beast :laugh: During the course of playing so much tourneys it is inevitabily that your results won't represent your real form, as your playstyle changes, the opponents' one too. Many other variables are much different from the beginning too. And the variance could be devastating or beneficial which depends much more on luck than more players are able to comprehend. For example: you win a flip to €10 Supernova Qualifier the 1st time you try this pure luck format. Then register and win the qualifier. And at your first ever Supernova it happens to be tripled up and in the first levels which makes you a almost a chipleader. Later after losing with QQvAK(the other big one)vA6 and down to ~10bb and 105/105 :teardrop: But stealing with all-ins almost every hand at a very passive table somewhat recover you to the point beyond push/fold. Then as you have the image and KK the all-in is a good decision - insta call by the player with equal to your stack and he shows... T2o :wow: the curse didn't work this night and you double your stack to an average size ~10 players before the bubble. Then with stalling, observing the other tables and few non-risky steals you are in the money - €300 from €2 and even bigger than your BR atm. But that's not enough player after player bust and after 1-2hrs the FT and 7of 9 . Playing like a total nit letting the maniacs to bust each other you finish 5th for ~€1400 🆒 Yes it was me at my first Supernova, but it could be everyone with just plenty of luck, nerves and a little poker knowledge 😃 I wrote this mainly to show how the ROI could skyrocket when the right circumstances and the chance are present. Now Imagine the 1000 MTTs with €5 average buy-in without this great result or better the graph which gets as high as possible after the great win which is 5-6 times bigger than your bigger ones(€200-€300) during this 1000 MTTs streak.

The first is below 1000X but is my best in non free-spin mode: And this is my biggest ever on Game of Thrones 234ways 1080x Bad screenshots, but was too excited :Happy:

This time look for a really low-standard one - like SouthWest Bulgaria :laugh: (too bad I'm near the capital) or even better Azerbeijan or Kazakhstan. Thus with few hours of poker daily you'll live a very decent life, not to mention if you climb the stakes and begin to earn €1000-2000... Is it really possible to earn enough money just from online play ??? @SCOBY enough is very broad definition, sometimes it's "too much, but never enough" :laugh: But talking about poker and cost of living - Here In Bulgaria most people work 8hrs for €300-400. In Sofia for ~€800- €1000, in smaller towns and villages even for below min. wage €250. And this is if you are lucky, very good at your profession or have connections at the right places, otherwise - unemployment! The minimum pension is lower than the buy-in of the new daily Comet tourney €50. And this is usually given to disabled and old people that haven't worked enough (40-50)years... So if you manage to make more profit than the given wage figures which is definitely possible even in the "tough poker enviorment" nowadays, so the money should be enough. I'm not saying it's easier than working at office or factory, but I can't really compare :laugh: Of course it depends where you live, do you pay rent or own or share a house with a relative(s). After all there are many great diasporas of poker pros at places where the cost of living is substantially lower and provide good recreation too : Thailand, Cambodia, Costa Rica to name a few. However I think that the Balkan countries to the west of BG:Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro are even better places. The post-soviet countries are great choices too.

I know what are you talking about @4soul - I'm from your even poorest neighbour country . So many friends left for the capital or abroad...:sad: As for the choice of professional starvation - no thanks. I graduated - Applied Linguistics (English and Russian) back in 2008 and we were the first 6 persons with such diplomas in the whole country, but I have 0 days as a worker (technically). Also before the finals I realised that the poker will give me the freedom to live like I want and not to be a servant to some bosses or institutions - Nonserviam 🆒 I know that kind of life is not for everyone, but if the 12-14h working days have drained you after you earned enough, you might consider changing the country again. This time look for a really low-standard one - like SouthWest Bulgaria :laugh: (too bad I'm near the capital) or even better Azerbeijan or Kazakhstan. Thus with few hours of poker daily you'll live a very decent life, not to mention if you climb the stakes and begin to earn €1000-2000...

Didn't know the curse could be in my favour 🆒

Few minutes later...after his 2nd limp and my 2nd shove (1st was KK) he called for 100bb even without covering me :wonder::puking:

It's not over yet 😠

At least the cowboys are recovering :happyshy: nice ah?

And AK are cursed from a long time esp vs weaker broadways :laugh: Bubbled me good :puking: If it wasn't bounty and he chipleader would have called him donk 😠

Is it over :wonder:😀

What a call by NHL to EP shove ~13bb and a call 🤣

@JusThieF It happens even multiway...once in a lifetime :laugh:

No time to wait for better spot in this turbo :

228 :happyshy:

When only KK were cursed it was easy, but now all pocket pairs (higher - the worse) and also the suited connectors are showing such symptoms. I see many world class players at Unibet go all-in only with broadways lately. More precisely they mostly limp or min.raise or just call your 100bb 3-4bet shove with these premium and non-cursed holdings and no matter what the expected outcome suggests, they prove math and probabilities totally wrong :wow: