CuteRaven

Thanks for the advice. 50 buyins sounds like a good plan

I was playing as "ILikeBallzXD"

So now my bankroll is 476.44 € after playing just a few 10€ SnG games: "You played 23 games and won 17 of them. You paid 6.9 in rake and your ROI is 43.39%" Wtf lol. I noticed it really helped to play slower though, to force myself to think of each decision longer when playing 3 tables. Anyway, I should really go to sleep now :P

Some of that ROI was probably from playing me today :D . Did you have a chess themed name (a mutant of two chess legends)? @Dennis_

So today was a pretty terrible day pokerwise. I decided to take shots at NL 25€ HU SnG. It did not go well at all. I probably lost 75% of the all ins that I played, especially towards the end of the session. The last game was pretty indicative of the session. I was up in chips and I lost probably 6 or 7 all ins in a row. My bankroll is now 376.64€. Not the end of the world, I can still grind it back up, but pretty tilting. But I realized a few things about my HU game also when playing against the good regs at that limit: -I need to study limp/push/fold ranges more. I thought I knew the correct Nash ranges, but I could be playing slightly too loose ones (or maybe the bad session is giving me the wrong impression? Idk) -I probably bluff a bit too much in general. Estimating the best bluff frequencies against different opponents for different spots while 3 tabling HU is not that easy, but I need to get better at it -I might have some timing tells, or maybe not. I think my timings tend to depend on if I have big decisions on other tables. So sometimes I act almost instantly, sometimes slower. Maybe I should just slow down in general. -I need to play better against new ultra agressive opponents. If I don't have reads on an opponent yet, it is quite difficult to avoid getting run over by such opponents, because it's hard to tell if they are just running really well or are really bluffy or make very thin and very aggressive value bets (e.g all in with bottom pair). So it's easy to make either too loose calls or too many fold against such players. -Maybe I need a bigger bankroll for taking shots :D. This result is a pretty normal bad run probably. I programmed a quick calculator in Python that can calculate different possibilities for how many HU SnG games were played and won, and other stats, based on the profit/loss of the session (and buyin and payouts for the SnG). I'm too lazy to count while playing :P (so this is the easiest solution if I don't want to constantly bother Unibet employees for the stats). Here is the output: You played 74 games and won 30 of them. You paid 55.5 in rake and your ROI is -21.35% In the unlikely event that someone actually wants to use the calculator, here is the code (just paste in a python interpreter, change appropriate values and run): #HU SnG games amount and games won calculator with ROI and rake paid#Calculator only works if rake 0% < rake <50% of the buyinbefore=771.64 #bankroll before sessionafter=376.64 #bankroll after session. Exclude any profits/losses from rakeback and other gametypes and buy in sizes.buyin=25 #buyin for the heads up sit n go in your currencypayout=48.5 #payout if you win the heads up sit n go in your currencypossibilities=5 #checks the first n possibilites profit=after-beforedef calc(profit,buyin,payout,possibilities,winslist,buyinslist,rakelist,roilist): profit_remainder=profit%buyin rake= 2*buyin-payout n=1 while len(winslist)<possibilities and n<10000: amountW=(n*buyin-profit_remainder)*1.0/ rake if len(str(amountW%1.0))==3 or str(amountW%1.0).count('9')>=9: winslist.append(int(round(amountW))) n+=1 for i in range(len(winslist)): amountG=(payout*winslist[i]-profit)*1.0/buyin buyinslist.append(int(round(amountG))) for j in range(len(buyinslist)): amountR=(rake*1.0/2)*buyinslist[j] rakelist.append(float("{0:.2f}".format(amountR))) for k in range(len(buyinslist)): amountROI=profit*1.0/(buyinslist[k]*buyin) roilist.append("{0:.2%}".format(amountROI))def printer(profit,buyin,payout,winslist,buyinslist,rakelist,roilist): print "After making a profit of "+str(profit)+" in "+str(buyin)+" buyin heads up SnG games with a payout of "+str(payout)+" when won:" print "Possibilites:" for i in range(len(buyinslist)): print("You played "+str(buyinslist[i])+" games and won "+str(winslist[i])+" of them. You paid "+str(rakelist[i])+" in rake and your ROI is "+str(roilist[i])) winslist=[]buyinslist=[]rakelist=[]roilist=[]calc(profit,buyin,payout,possibilities,winslist,buyinslist,rakelist,roilist) printer(profit,buyin,payout,winslist,buyinslist,rakelist,roilist)

Shame about the guinea pig :(. They definately are affectionate, and surprisingly intelligent as well. Awesome creatures

How reggy are the 25€ HU SnG games? I can imagine that most of the better pros and endbosses are lurking on the 25€ level and beyond, but they probably don't care too much for the €10 level.

Played some more €10 HU SnG today. Bankroll is now 770.44€. I was playing and especially running well at the start of the session. Towards the end of the session I started losing focus and tilting slightly and my results were breakeven, but probably would have been better if I was more focused (I slept about 4 or 5 hours last night so fatigue started catching up to me). Yet another reminder not to play too tired, emotional control is so much worse when tired and it's easy to play on impulses instead of logic :D. Anyway, can't be dissapointed with the results!

Nice ROI! How many tables do you play? @Dennis_ Yeah, HU is a good way to get a lot of volume, especially in the browser version where you can tile a maximum of 4 tables.

Thanks @Dennis_ ! Lets hope it lasts

Woah, 2500 in two weeks :o. That's really impressive. What was your starting bankroll?

Bankroll is now at 637,24 € after some more 3 tabling HU SnG. I played quite a lot today. I tried to count approximately how many I played in account history, I think I must have played 139 Sit N Gos and won 80 of them (it matches the exact amount of profit I made). The opposition seems soft enough for the most part (at least in the evenings). But who knows, it's hard to objectively know exactly how good I am at HU from a small sample of turbo Sit N Gos, but for now the direction of the profits is good. I'm not usually a fan of one direction, but this one direction I am definately a fan of :D Today's ROI is 11.65% if I calculated correctly.

Bankroll is now at 475,24€ after a good run at 10€ heads up SnG (and a few 4€ and 2€ HU SnG). I won 34 out of the 57 10€ HU SnG that I played, and I was mostly playing 3 tables. Yeah, I know my bankroll management is a bit aggressive right now (I had a stop loss at 300€, which I luckily did not need to use). Heads up poker is a lot of fun, at least when winning, so it's hard to resist playing those games over some other poker games on Unibet :D

@Brocky Your suggestion of a punching bag might be a good idea actually for bad sessions. Sometimes if I need to blow off steam I stand up, jump around a bit and punch the air. Sitting down and continuing the session like nothing happened seems to just make tilt worse.

I have been playing some NL 10 cash sessions recently. Today I played quite a long session of about 5 hours. I ended up being up about 10€ after a pretty turbulent cash session. I can't really complain because 10€ is still a win but it was a bit frustrating. After the cash games I played two Hexapro's because I had two 2€ Hexapro tickets (because of the gift drops at the cash game tables) and won one Hexapro for 10€. Then I played four €10 heads up SnG games, mostly because I was curious if I would see any familiar screen names. I won three of them and lost one. I played a screen name "Road21K" three times (probably a reg) and then I played a recreational player once. My bankroll is at 365,60€ now.

Thanks @MadAdo ! I was able to find and play one yesterday

So I played a pretty long long session yesterday. First I played some NL 4€ SnG games and ran quite bad (probably lost between about 30 to 40€). After that I played some NL 10 cash games. I was 4 tabling and a lot of the same players were on many of my tables so it was possible to get some pretty good reads. Most of the players were either nitty regs who mostly (or sometimes seemingly only) bet value, or players who called too loose. Because of that I was playing quite loose agressive to exploit the overfolding of the nits, and to get the loose passive players to call me a lot (I would have more value against them than the nit regs). I'm not that happy with some of my play during the session but it wasn't too bad I guess (I was maybe a bit tired towards the end). The cash game session started out pretty badly. I was running into big hands (I lost KK three times in preflop all ins for example, twice to AA and once to AQ), and there were some other coolers too. I was probably 7 or 8 buyins down and (also a clearly bad bluff and a clearly bad call probably cost me almost another 20€). Towards the end of the session though I was playing a better and able to bring it back to relatively even, and I lost about 7€ if I calculated correctly (I had about 70€ on one of the tables!). My bankroll is now at 276,28€. I had a lot of interesting hands, so I will share some of those, and try not to overanalyse them: Hand 1: The most interesting hand of the session imo. This hand was against a seemingly nitty player who would almost never bet anything, but occasionally he would start betting massive. I had been coolered by this player two times already when he was betting big and I never saw a bluff from them. I made a tight fold that might be pretty bad, but I was super deep too. I raise the flop because of my agressive play (normally I would call but I want to fast play more value hands than usual with my aggro image). The turn card is really bad because I think so many of villains value hands are now flushes (villain did not reraise flop either which he might with sets given past action). I also block stuff like AQ (I would rather have 44 or 55 which I might 3bet preflop too). On the river the bet is massive, I block two pair like Q9, flushes exist, 67 exists, and I don't think villain would play a set like this (but I could be wrong). So I make a questionable fold . http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/9860604 Hand 2: This was a pretty hilarious loss against maybe one of the best opponents (lets call them "player A") who was on the tables for a significant amount of time. They were a tight reg who mostly bet when they a) had value b) had a strong draw (that they would give up if it bricked) c) were making a "one and done bluff" (they cbet the flop a lot but gave up on later streets) http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/9860603 Hand 3: A unusual and questionable river bluff by me against the same player A. I do block some two pairs and AT, the river also pairs up KQ and KJ and villains Qx would be in a tough spot. The flop float is because of a high frequency of flop cbets and then turn/river folds. On the other hand the fact that villain quickly just called the hand he had in this spot makes me feel a lot better about the bluff. http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/9860606 Hand 4: A loose call that worked. Villain seemed somewhat tilted (I won a hand against them earlier with my flush vs set) and was not repping much exept flushes. http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/9860605 Hand 5: A hilarious cooler that I actually won (I am "player 3") http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/9860608 I need to adjust some leaks of mine and not play as much tired, but the session was pretty fun at least :D

Hmm...I wonder if it is a false memory then. Just looked really familiar

@Dennis_ Thanks! It is of course a small sample against soft players when I was playing only 4 tables :P

I think I played a deepstacked tournament today but it did not advance the mission (Full tournament schedule -> speed column said it was "deep")? Or is that not what is meant? The only tournament that I can find that has the word "deep" in the name is "deep space". There are very few of those tournaments and they are for higher buyins mostly.

Btw I think I recognise Y_Dafad from somewhere. Maybe you played me in a 4€ HU SnG or something a few times last summer when I was playing those games (with my bankroll of about 100€ or slightly more, completely underrolled, of course :D)? Or maybe not but I have definately seen it before.

Today after a session of maybe 3 or 4 hours my bankroll is at 302,46 €. I decided to try playing the 1€ 5 player SnGs. I have to say the stakes of 1€ feel pretty small with my bankroll so maybe I should play the 2€ SnG if I ever play SnG again :P. I saw some familiar names though. I played @EL_HEFAZO heads up 3 times and @E3STI heads up once. I played 17 5 player SnG games. I won 9, came second 2 times and busted the rest. So I ran pretty hot in that small SnG sample. I also played Banzai but broke even at that (net loss was -0,78€) and I played 8 HexaPro games (profit 1.50€) and I lost one 4€ HU SnG and won a 2€ HU SnG. I got a straight flush twice today, once at an SnG and once at Banzai. The Unibet hand replayer is not working at all right now for me but here is the straight flush hand from Banzai (I am "player 1") http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/view.php/id/9854420 I also played the €300 leaderboard low freezeout. I was running deep (one of the top stacks for a short time) but I busted before the bubble.

It's a bit of a tough spot but I would probably end up calling against most players. It's about a half pot bet (well, slightly less but if you call you are pot commited pretty much) so you only need to be right 25% of the time. The flop bet was also pretty tiny so villain could have some floats maybe (like A high with backdoor FD or a good kicker that did not 4bet pre). The problem is you block heart flushdraws that barrel, some club backdoor FD floats, 79, 89 and A9 that villain might have (depending on how villain plays) but you might still be pretty high up in your range if you bet the flop a lot. But depends on the opponent as well. If it seems like someone tight or ABC that never floats or never bluffs air (and never bets a 5 like some players...) then you can fold of course. It might also be worth playing a check or all in strategy on the flop because it's a bit akward when you get raised all in for such a small amount. But if your opponent raises very rarely then it's quite good I guess. Anyway, those are my thoughts but I could definately be wrong about some things.

Good luck and hopefully you can turn the downswing around! I would imagine at stakes like that where edges are small having a good mindset and feeling sharp can even make the difference between playing +EV and playing -EV? Especially at something as tilting as Sit n Goes :laugh:

@Sparrow473 This seems like a pretty normal way to lose a hand to be honest :) . CACA-de-URS has about 47% chance to win the hand on the flop against AA.