Samba

Real bad sunday. Woke up full of punter's guilt. Bricked everything.

No Day 2s

4 chiplead stacks dusted off and no ITM finishes.

I 3b non all in with AKo for 20bbs eff and ended up losing to the QTs. PURE SHOVE

I 4b all in JJ for 70bbs eff after opening from +1 after facing a BB 3b. PURE CALL

I flat KJs  OTB vs CO open 15bb eff. PURE SHOVE

Putting in 6 hours of work in the lab before i go back to the tables since I haven't woken up feeling guilty for how bad I played the day before in a long time.

Blog Profit: £7750

❤️ Sam

1 hour ago, Iceman said:

I just want to add, that I respect Dara, I especially recommend his first book for satellite players

Haha I'm sure he wouldn't mind... He may have even ran the spot vs population tendencies and it came back as a +EV play vs min open.  Gl to you too!

Qualified in for the €50 6 max turbo but lost a pot for the chip lead vs Dokey. I snapped off with 88 after i 2x BU and he insta jams 40 eff from BB. He was literally spamming all in before it even got to him. Not a spot I get put in a lot, but my table had 2 good regs and it's a turbo so I guess run with it. Also timing tells?

Who insta jams 40 with AA and calls themself a poker player? Noone. So I think he is capped at TT (which still wants to induce) and then all the broadway and offsuit aces with some smaller 3bs from some of the AKs AQs Ax Kx stuff that realises equity better.

Not too sure on that hand still though..

Only other interesting hand is my bustout from the 6max Low where i open jam 12bb from BU with a <5BB stack in the HJ and lose to BB KQ.

Considering the leaderboard point jump from a 5th to a 4th finish is worth ~10 leaderboard points I think I should have folded pre and played insane polar ladder nit game based on the leaderboard strat.  The leaderboard points are worth 100s where the difference between 5th and 1st was €40....

Lesson learned.

Shipped the Mid though!

Was worried I was playing a crusher HU since I had seen the name all over the place that day but managed to cooler them off in on of the first hands.

Game #1837966287: Table SPC #14-M: €1,250 6-Max Turbo - 18000.00/36000.00 - No Limit Hold'Em - 22:28:40 2023/03/04
*** Seated players ***
Seat 2: StigRB (1468896)
Seat 3: 5amba (1471104)
*** Blinds and button ***
StigRB has the button
StigRB posts ante 4500
5amba posts ante 4500
StigRB posts small blind 18000
5amba posts big blind 36000
*** Hole cards ***
Dealt to 5amba [5c 2c]
Dealt to StigRB [Qs Qd]
*** Preflop ***
StigRB calls 18000
5amba checks
*** Flop *** [2s 5h Th]
5amba checks
StigRB bets 36000
5amba raises 180000 to 180000
StigRB raises 432000 to 468000
5amba raises 1250604 to 1430604, and is all-in
StigRB calls 960396, and is all-in
Uncalled bet returned to 5amba: 2208
*** Showdown ***
*** Turn *** [2s 5h Th] [8c]
*** River *** [2s 5h Th] [8c] [Kd]
StigRB shows [Qs Qd], A Pair of Queens
5amba shows [5c 2c], Two pairs, Fives up
5amba wins 2937792
StigRB finished the tournament in 2nd place, and won €292.01
5amba finished the tournament in 1st place, and won €408.62
*** Summary ***
Total pot 2937792
Seat 2: StigRB: bet 1468896 and won 0, net result: -1468896
Seat 3: 5amba: bet 1471104 and won 2940000, net result: 1468896

Blog Profit: £8050

❤️ Sam

You're the best HU player I've played against in an MTT for a long time. WP bro

A few final table bubbles and 9th places but overall still profitable.

Managed 2nd place in the "€10 SPC 11 Title Fight" which was good for 70 leaderboard points and €350. Gutted I lost the HU because the difference between 1st and 2nd was €600.

WP to the victor CAN1SMAJOR1S

A good run for the next couple weeks and I have a chance at earning some juicy bonuses from the leaderboard so fingers crossed.

Blog Profit: £7550

❤️ Sam

So after the 30k hand breakeven stretch and month away I made a really bad decision when I came back and started off with a shot take. Don't do this, if anything play lower.

My logic was that I am fresh and have been studying and will commit to just not playing higher if it goes bad.

Standard pre, perhaps I should open smaller. 3x instead of 3.5

 I have 2 sizes on this flop but this hand class in this spot is pure 25%

Nice

Not nice

Add to that a week of bricking 90%+ of MTTs and it wasn't the comeback I was looking for.

So I've been studying a bit more and working on spots at 60bb 30bb and 20bb for MTTs. Now that I am getting more accurate with frequencies I am going to start experimenting with the use of an RNG to control my flop cbet (unless I choose to exploit the opp because they're bad) I won't be using it for preflop or river calls just yet.

I plan to play the L and M events in the SPC and hope to satellite into some H.

Still grinding the 25 tables but mainly studying

Gl to all playing

Blog Profit: £7200

❤️ Sam

Self banned

35k+ hands this month so far for ~£100 profit

I have started feeling anxiety before I load tables since I get stacked at the start of the session within 1 orbit every day since the last update.

I couldn't bring myself to open the tables until about 3pm today and it happened again.

How the fuck am I going to hit 1,000,000 XP this quarter if this is how it starts.

Cathartic rant over.

I hope everyone else isn't running so bad, apart from the people I am playing against (you can DIAGF)

Blog Profit: LOL

❤️ Sam

How much have you raked this month playing ~8k hands per day? Happy Birthday

The fact that Valueheavy with a double starting stack gave me the send off emote when I bubbled and then also bubbled. looooooool

gl

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Feeling inspired by some of the insane volume I see others playing so I am going to go for a higher target than the pathetic 33k hands from last month.

JANUARY GOALS XD

2k Profit

Don't get any nicknames deleted

Post better blogs and not just moans or brags

45k hands

A few things to focus on to increase profitability (in order of importance)

1. Accuracy - Correlation to how an engine would play the same spot.

2. Perception - Taking into account opponent tendencies to modulate frequencies of your play. Mixes turn into pures, calls turn into raises for value etc.

To give an example outside of poker this is often used in the chess world when choosing a specific opening vs another player who has shown weakness in the past vs the same opening. I like to use the chess comparison as the game is solved in the same way as poker and people use engines at the highest level to improve their play. (just like poker)

And now, for a short lesson in the dark arts:

3. Emote spam the flying fuck out of the tiltlord badregs - This one is dangerous, you have to be careful with your targets on this one so you don't come off as a massive douche. You don't want to target the mega whales who can't spell flush and count their straights on their fingers, they're losing enough. They are your mates. You want to throw your competition off their game. If you are not currently timed out from your emotes after one of the regs is on tilt, you're doing it wrong.

Yes I am serious. Do it in live games too, just have some class and don't be too mean (unless they are a sociopathic grinder) those ones are fair game. EZ money

I'd focus on the first 2 though. 😉

Pretty good start to the month so far, 7k hands and + 20 BI

Biggest win (all in pre)

Biggest loss (all in pre) max pain runout after I am essentially freerolling him on the flop

Blog profit is a rough estimate at the moment and will come up with the actual numbers for the next update.

Blog Profit: ~£7650

❤️ Sam

3 minutes ago, Farseer said:

poker is much more consuming than most other work (no breaks, extra stress etc.)

Hard disagree. Do you know how many people lie in bed in the morning dreading to have to go into work? Especially after the holidays. We just have to take beats and deal with it. You're blessed.

Ain't no way unless it's a shared account (which does seem pretty common from looking at the rakeback leaderboard)

P.S. I'm just a bitter old man gl op

3/3 just go all in every hand and u dont have to play for long

2/3

1rd

gl sir

1/3

I've only played one session since my last update and played my D game, had some family issues and have been very stressed out which affects my game so gonna start up again in January. To sum it up my elderly dad is very ill and my brother is a junkie.

Stats for December:
Hands played: 33000

Profit: £1800 (£600 MTTs and £1200 cash)

I hope you all have a wonderful xmas holiday and new year.

❤️ Sam

Why are you taking your money off? GL

No luck in the deepstack challenge,  with 4 minutes left playing vs someone who was open shoving ~50% of hands for the last 15 minutes I called off his jam. Felt bad since I am not rolled to be playing these stakes if it is going to play like that. The guy is just trying to win the challenge so I don't even hate his play (I don't love it either). NH sir congrats on the win.

3 hours ago, fish8one said:

Hi,

How do you calculate EV at Unibet, please?

thx!

The old fashioned way! Calculator and manual hand history review. On the bright side.. It will get you into a habit of reviewing your sessions more.

Blog Profit: ~£7500

❤️ Sam

This bothers me way more than it should (APPARENTLY this is the guy who consistently uses racist screennames & cried on 2+2 about getting his name banned) Not just the fact that he gets his name there even though I won, he probably got an automated payment for £100 too which he shouldn't get.

I hope he is there tonight to defend his fake title so I can crush him. I'll be playing until the table drops so he can't abuse the system again. Looking forward to a nice long HU match where I am a 20bb/100+ favourite.

On a lighter note, I hit my monthly goal of £2k profit for the month. Only managed 2/3 of the monthly goals after arguing with some bozos in the banzai thread. C'est la vie

Tried transposing some of the cashgame exploits I've been studying vs population and regs in the early levels of MTT. Over the moon with how well they perform, makes me want to start playing NL MTTs again since I feel like I am playing in 2008.

Blog Profit: ~£7500

❤️ Sam

2 hours ago, Purps said:

"Hunter" is a Russian/Ukrainian living in Finland apparently.

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=57958510&postcount=29661

What an idiot though... 🙄

Excellent find, good to see some of his other nicknames too, I know a few more but I won't say incase it's against terms or something. I've been destroying this guy for the last 2 weeks he will be leaving soon anyway.

Completed one of the monthly goals and shipped the PLO main for 190 + 230 in bounties so a very good result.

❤️ Sam