Samba

Does anyone know when the tournament called the comet runs? I have a ticket for one but can't find them in the lobby. also: JT is a fold imo

No blog updates as I have been busy grinding + have started managing a League of Legends esports team. Not as much spare time for complaining about how bad I run! 🤣 Biggest pot was an absolute gift, he jammed turn over my pot bet after I x/r flop: wat Biggest punt: after playing exclusively PLO I loaded up some NL tables and first hand I open rip 100bbs instead of raise (PLO tables have pot limit so i just jam for max and click raise). I've now adjusted my default PLO raise to be 3x so this should prevent it from happening again. -€25 Blog Profit: £4260.90 ❤️ Sam

After grinding for a few weeks I have reduced my average daily punt count to below 2. Hooray! Biggest pot, I flat badreg UTG+1 open on button and then 4bet vs a badreg BB 3bet and badreg UTG+1 call. We have ~40% pre vs their wide ranges. Yesterday's punt: I 3b pre and just bet/bet/bet vs yet another badreg. oops. Blog Profit: £4463.86 ❤️ Sam

I spent around €150 trying to get into one of the promotional jackpot hexapros (which I did). As the table popped open my client froze and it took me a good 4-5 minutes to get back in and have all tables open. I had around 16-20 tables open I think? And I have a brand new gaming laptop that can definitely handle the processing so IDK what to say. Don't open 20 tables as it might crash the client? After getting the client back to see AQs vs a BU all in I didn't manage to get the call in time. I finished 3rd The whole experience tilted me to THE MOOOOOOON and I blacked out and the next day I wake up with €300 less in the account. Samlife No MTT action this week for me so far, just a lot of early exits and mincashes. Running at 2/4 in pots over €100 (which is already an improvement on last month!) Biggest cash hand(cash amount) - €153.49: Single raised pot where I 3/4 pot the flop and get called by SB and checkraised by the BB. Not always a fistpump jam, but on this table it was. (We have 49.55% 3way so essentially + 50bb spot in EV) Biggest cash hand(BB amount) - 511BBs I 4bet pre and got 3 callers. All in on the flop gets 1 call. Justice turn card to drop his equity to 10% Blog Profit: £4593.21 ❤️ Sam

NL O8 hyper bounty? Now that is a sick game. grats on the score

February targets: +2000 profit 60k hands 40 hours studying with Odin & other software Blog Profit: £4300.26 ❤️ Sam

0/4 in the final day of the winter series but still managed to come 5th on the leaderboard for 15000 bonus points. I'm very happy with the result considering I bricked all 4 tournaments on the final day. Bonus completed + the leaderboard prize boosts the bankroll for an extra €280. Blog Profit: £4295.88 ❤️ Sam

Only managed 1/4 cashes in the winter series and came 5th for a few points. Holding 3rd on the leaderboard with 1 day left which would be €300 but anything can happen. Biggest cash pot: I 3b pre and opponent donked for pot on flop and turn and shoved 2/3 pot on river. Not the best river at first glance but it actually was the nut river vs this specific opponent. Ez game sometimes. Blog Profit: £4062.12 ❤️ Sam

Welcome and good luck!

*New Blog Rules* No more whiny bullshit. No more complaining about runouts / badbeats / general runbad No more ego I grinded 200 €2 Hexapros before eventually conceding and returning to the cash games. I Made about €40 One annoying spot came up in the Titan just before the bubble, After getting 3bet by a tight guy I went with low frequency 4b jam 20% and 80% call and rolled a jam 40bb eff. Is this bad? Probably lower frequency jam due to ICM. 4 off the money I have 150% avg. Probably getting stacked anyway on that runout. Blog Profit: £3867.99 ❤️ Sam

@P0kerM0nkI think I am just gonna stop moaning and grind through it with hexapros but thanks for the tip! I didn't know that actually

Played some 100PLO since I am not multitabling for my bonus so went for some 1 tabling. No interesting hands and lost £120, final hand: All in pre Laddered from 19th out of 20 ITM to 7th place in a winter series turbo and managed ITM in another to increase my lead to 9 points with 12 tournaments left. I feel more ICM pressure in these low stakes turbos than I ever have before because of this leaderboard dynamic, I love it. The tournaments just feel so much more meaningful! 3 days left to run good in super turbo donkaments and the upswing voucher is mine! VAMANOS! Without the MTT rungood I would be losing about 700 this month. People talk about 20-40 BI downswings in PLO like they are common and to be expected, my winrate is 15bb/100+ at 25PLO over the last 150k hands on Unibet/Party/Sky and 20bb+/100 3 handed or HU. So a breakeven/downswing stretch like this at PLO is something that only happens once every couple of years in my lifetime (thankfully) The playthrough bonus is really mugging me off. Everytime I log in I am reminded about how I am not going to complete it and have 4 days left to try. It really is a smart idea to put them in. I wonder how many poor souls get lured into grinding through downswings and losing massive chunks of money playing their B or C game to clear a bonus. Definitely not + Life EV. At least not for me. Blog Profit:£3635.22 ❤️ Sam

I've decided I am not gonna grind cash for my bonus this week as it just isn't worth it 😉 On the plus side I managed to ladder a winter series with ~3bb and managed to get from 35th ITM to 15th for some lovely leaderboard points. Blog Profit:£3785.42 ❤️ Sam

No interesting cash hands, haven't got deep enough at any of the tables for anything fun, just losing a little. Running good over the last few days in MTTs and managed another 3 cashes in the winter series + win which puts me at first place on the leaderboard with 5 days left. Nice to redeem myself HU after yesterdays display. Fingers crossed! Blog Profit:£3845.79 ❤️ Sam

Well, I moaned it in. ~8 hours at the tables playing everything and I made a little bit of profit in MTTs. Laddered up to a FT on a winter series with no chips and satellited into the €50 Mercury Blue for €4 and got 2nd for €305 My name was very appropriate for my headsup puntformance.. gg wp giliboy Blog Profit:£3646.54 ❤️ Sam

Really can't be bothered to play or update the blog. I'm 1 out of 14 in £100+ pots and brick every MTT I play. Volume suffering, mood suffering, everything is just shit when you can't win at poker isn't it. Gave up on the winter series. The only good thing that has come from this downswing is that I haven't punted at highstakes after losing every day for 3.5 weeks. What a shit game this is. Blog Profit: £3480.36 ❤️ Sam

I hope you realise that what I am saying is direct but not intended to be mean or spiteful. Your preflop hand selection is atrocious. Why are you in a hand with 3568 or J249? These hands are probably folds HU with the rake at micros let alone playing them from MP. You are drawing dead on omaha tables unless they are all whales. In which case you're just playing roulette with cards.

Played 8 hours of cash and 4 hours of MTTs yesterday, -£35 in MTTs and won on the cash games. Biggest pot : I 3b and CRAI'd on the flop. Blog Profit: £3605.36 ❤️Sam

So far this month I am 0/8 in 500+bb pots and 1/10 in £100+ pots. It's hard to win when you lose all your profits in the big flips. Hopefully it isn't as cold at the tables for everyone else. Blog Profit: £3425.84 ❤️ Sam

Still running terribly, Will have to reload the account since I busted it last night. Downswings are all relative, losing £500 over the last 2 weeks sucks but I still feel great. Winter series starts off tonight, perfect chance to rebound. GL all that are playing Blog Profit: £3398.08 ❤️ Sam

Epic giveaway thank you!

Bad day. Biggest hand I played was a real interesting one. I've played about 1.5mil - 2mil plo hands and I don't usually cold call 3bs OOP when I'm super deep - and definitely not 4bets. Unless, there are very specific conditions. I still don't know if my preflop call is OK but vs the extremely AAx heavy range i gave both opponents I think it is +EV. History: I've been playing at the table for about 4 hours, opener is tight, 3better range is AAx and the 4better is a winning TAG reg who is aware of the 3betters range as very AAx heavy so will be expecting to face lots of 5bets if he 4bets and they are not deep enough for him to start 4betting non AAx vs such a strong 3betting range. I definitely could be results oriented and I don't know if my math is accurate in PPT since it does not account for the openers range accurately as he will definitely fold some paired hands that perform poorly all in. Unfortunately I don't know the correct PPT syntax. If anyone does, feel free to share 🙂 *** Hole cards *** Dealt to Hero[7c 4d 5d 6h] *** Preflop *** bingobox raises €0.85 to €0.85 firebolls raises €2.90 to €2.90 2slim4gym- raises €9.90 to €9.90 Hero calls €9.80 Ch1c4g0FiRe folds bingobox calls €9.05 firebolls raises €46.85 to €49.75 2slim4gym- raises €57.04 to €66.94, and is all-in Hero raises €102.79 to €112.69, and is all-in bingobox calls €17.30, and is all-in firebolls calls €6.75, and is all-in *** Summary *** Total pot €217.83 Rake €2.50 Blog Profit: £3484.09 ❤️ Sam

Didn't play much yesterday, I tried to get some hands in but I was playing so bad since I was babysitting my niece I had to stop playing. Made some profit mainly thanks to playthrough bonuses and a max late reg 25 freezout that had some overlay and i managed to ladder. Last hand I played yesterday before i turned the PC off: 3b pot 3way to flop. Flop checked through I check called turn and river. SHAME. In my defense my niece was shouting SAM SAM SAM SAM SAM SAM SAM for the duration of this hand, it had a little bit to do with my actions. Still my fault though. Having an 8 is nice for the bluff and I don't think Q9 is good at showdown vs the action, The other components of the hand actually unblock the pairs so I don't know if this was a good candidate for a bluff or not, I went with it since having an 8 is the most important part as far as improving success % of the bluff since it reduces the FH combos. Game #1617045405: Table €25 PL - 0.10/0.25 - Pot Limit Omaha - 17:03:07 2022/01/12 *** Seated players *** Seat 1: 5amba (€31.94) Seat 2: alien93 (€45.05) Seat 3: EasterMoney (€27.16) Seat 4: James58 (€60.29) Seat 5: rsfcb (€12.50) Seat 6: asi9_ (€27.75) *** Blinds and button *** rsfcb has the button asi9_ posts small blind €0.10 5amba posts big blind €0.25 *** Hole cards *** Dealt in asi9_ Dealt to 5amba [9c 8d Qc 9d] Dealt in alien93 Dealt in EasterMoney Dealt in James58 Dealt in rsfcb *** Preflop *** alien93 raises €0.85 to €0.85 EasterMoney folds James58 calls €0.85 rsfcb calls €0.85 asi9_ folds 5amba calls €0.60 *** Flop *** [8c Jc Td] 5amba checks alien93 checks James58 checks rsfcb checks *** Turn *** [8c Jc Td] [Kd] 5amba checks alien93 checks James58 bets €3.50 rsfcb folds 5amba calls €3.50 alien93 calls €3.50 *** River *** [8c Jc Td] [Kd] [8h] 5amba bets €10.50 alien93 folds James58 folds Uncalled bet returned to 5amba: €10.50 5amba wins €13.58 *** Summary *** Total pot €14 Rake €0.42 Seat 1: 5amba: bet €14.85 and won €24.08, net result: €9.23 Seat 2: alien93: bet €4.35 and won €0, net result: €-4.35 Seat 4: James58: bet €4.35 and won €0, net result: €-4.35 Seat 5: rsfcb: bet €0.85 and won €0, net result: €-0.85 Seat 6: asi9_: bet €0.10 and won €0, net result: €-0.10 In regards to the formatting of the blog I am going to leave the last part for my running totals to avoid confusion. I can see how me posting random amounts of money in my balance all the time could get a bit confusing so now I will just leave it with profit. Easy. I started the blog with an account deficit of -£1188.42 as of this post I am +£2207.27 + current balance of £279.39 Profit: £3,675.08 Sam ❤️

I appreciate the concern but that is just my most recent deposit of £100 that I am trying to spin up at the moment, I guess I should update my overall win/loss stats in my posts like I used to so it isn't confusing. The next blog will have the updated stats. Since starting the blog I think I am up ~£3k and I was rolled for 25PLO before I started it. The days of me playing with 5-10 buyins is long gone thankfully!