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Been watching my second favourite tourney the last day and a half, the 1 frame shoot out. Sean Murphy has just made the first ever max break in the tourney, a superb seven and a half minutes of brilliant skill.👍

Guys like Matt Berkey and crew on the Only Friends YT channel regularly discuss win rates and variance and how hard it is to come up with meaningful figures. The simplest figures are BB/100 in cash games and ROI in tourneys but needing pretty big sample sizes to be useful. If your then changing strategies you would need large sample sizes for each one, a much larger task. I'm only a part time rec, there are many better candidates that may be able to help, but Good Luck and welcome to the community. 👍🙂

Day 7 Win 5 Hexas. 🤮 Despite my trepidation and misgivings it worked out much better than I was anticipating, except for one aspect (more later*.) I decided to play the cheapest fastest version, 0.20c Extreme, and to my surprise did quite well, the run good seeming to be above average being a major contributing factor. I won 5/8 🥰 but 4/5 of those were the minimum return of 0.20c, won1/2 at 0.60c and won 0/1 at 0.80c. *1.60 invested, 1.40 returned, a winning by numbers of 62.5%, an roi loss of 12.5%. 🤮 Maybe the sample size isn't large enough! 😬 ☕

Day 6 Not a very happy morning then, but that's poker. I 4 tabled for 105 mins, played (or didn't play) 1505 hands, lost 12.79E but have excuses. I'm unlucky and... well that's it. To be fair I was a bit loose early on but have decided my strategy for the next Banzai session and am actually looking forward to it. 🥰 Seeing the prize I might hop back in after a cuppa. ☕ Only 25 flops to see rather than 300! 🤨

Not very Lordly then, or winning.😬

I would think 6-7 hours is enough for him to do it a dozen times or more, he could probably build stacks on all tables and take it in turns to be Sensei on each one. Luckily we only have to make it to black belt level, all in 50 times, cost 50E (if you lost every one) job done.

I think most of the missions are boring tbh. I found this one quite interesting though, as are any where you can come up with what you hope is an optimal strategy to try and complete rather than sitting around just waiting for something to happen, be dealt a pair of Aces, those are the boring ones.🥱 In the end I was limping even with big pairs as I wasn't interested in playing any hands without a flushing chance. The previous Banzai, seeing flops, was a change from "normal" strategy, although I'm sure many low stakes players will do this anyway. Tomorrow will be playing Banzai again, something I wouldn't usually do, but I can't see any way to change strategy to ease the path to success, you simply have to get your all ins to complete.

More or less the plan I'd decided on except full stacks to start. It didn't start well, all in pre with QQ<AA, 🤮 12 minutes before a decent chance. I literally limped every chance and called a single raise every time. Another all in QQ>AK held, didn't flop any flushes but all 4 made were from flopping 4 to the flush. Biggest win was calling pre with 65, flopped two sixes, turned a 5 then villain shoved, KK. 👍 Actually made very little profit from flushes but the by-products were sweet. Thirty eight minutes, 166 1/2 BB profit, what was I worried about? 😍 And then I noticed it's for Silver Tokens, niiiice! 🤗

Quick update. I've played 1 hour 38 mins, four tabling and not a sniff of a flush... but I have been playing my main ticket for the Santa Flips, with a pretty tight strategy designed to not get me into too much trouble (down 16E on the day so far, so that's going well 🤮.) Sixty flops seen, two more bronze flip tokens gained, time for a break and a change of strategy, chase any two flushing cards. Could be expensive but ho ho ho, let's go. 😍

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I lasted longer @SShcherbyna

I never even considered the Hexas, good cheaper alternative, (and quicker) will remember for next one. 👍

Day 4 Not much improvement really. Five SNG's, 1 win, 1 third and 3 4ths. Bonus from the spins. It's hard being a Missionary. 😂

Nicely detailed report, some run good some bad but that's poker. How do you get so many straight flushes, I seem to be only getting quads just lately. 🙄 I particularly liked this one against a reg tagged red for danger! Starter Tip: With a pack of 1 card there will always be one card in the same position after each shuffle, an average of one.With a pack of two, half the time there will be two cards in the same place, half the time zero, an average of one. Keep doing this for ever increasing sizes of packs of cards, (I bet you don't get to 52,) and you'll see the pattern. 🙂

Day 3 Making two mistakes to start off with doesn't bode well. Mistake # 1. Buying one 🎫 of 2-4 PLO ensures that if you don't have a good start you can't top up so always seem to be struggling. Mistake # 2. Playing one table and finding yourself on an unprecedentedly tight table, when even if you make a hand you can't get paid off. So at one stage I was down to around 35 BB. I'd just decided to leave the table, take the remaining cash and start again, when I doubled, hit another hand and found myself back to around 95 BB. Struggling on but gradually slipping back I gave up the ghost and cashed 60c off the ticket, 2 hours, 132 hands and a loss of 3.60, cup of tea time. 😵‍💫 A short break and back to it, fired up 4 tables and auto topping up, easy game. No, we've all said it but it really was horrible run from hell, couldn't hit a flop and if I did someone else hit harder. It didn't help seeing a community member sat opposite and keep going all in on the flop, hitting every draw and 5 minutes later disappearing with 500 BB. 🤬 Another hour and 11 minutes later after some good old fashioned tilt I finally made it, actually nearly tripling with one hand but not enough to make up for the losses. Three hours 11 mins, 516 hands and a loss of 17.32. 🤮 I completed the 60 flops to bag two Santa Flip tickets, I can chill the rest of the day watching 🏏 ⚽ and 🎱 (snooker actually but there's no emoji for that 🤨) although I'm in the process of trying to finish a 5-10c 🎫 before the New Year.

@HardGain Take it steady, I've just opened 1 table, good luck. 😁

Day 2 I decided to go for the 2E qualifiers for UB Live, without too much success. Three times all in (first one on the bubble) with Ax. There times called by a worse Ax. Three times lose to a worse kicker, once on the turn and twice on the river. Ho hum! 🤨 I have also received the Turbo ticket a day early, Santa must be in a real rush! 😂

Do you even have a bed? 🙄

Correct so far! 🤨

You don't update enough, I don't think any of us do, but nice videos. Bonus question! Shuffle thoroughly and deal a normal 52 card deck of cards and take note of their sequence. Shuffle thoroughly again and take note again. How many cards are likely to be in the exact same place as the first run? Bonus bonus question! If there are 60 cards in the deck are there likely to be more, the same, or fewer cards in the same position? Bonus bonus bonus question! What about a 40 card deck? Or 30? Two paracetamol tablets for the first correct answer!

You don't need sin bins for ref abuse. (To be fair getting a free card for an apology made me 🙂) For years and years there has been the problem of referee abuse by the players, something I've long argued it is far simpler to solve than anyone will admit. Simply follow the example by Rugby Union, only the captains are allowed to approach the referee and enter discussions. Anybody else encroaching receives a card, any further transgressions and another card, if necessary a red one. It'll stop before too long. Simples. Get a yellow card, argue, get a red card, what's so difficult?

Quick update, I must have seen 22 flops on Banzai but they're also counting on the Santa Flips mission. What a Bargain! 👍🍻

Being very old, and actually getting older every day, and having a brain that is not as razor (shovel) sharp as it used to be, I misread the first challenge as having to see 20 Banzai flops to receive 1 Santa Flip, repeating until seeing 160 flops for 8 tokens. It did cross my mind that at 1 table at a time it could be a long day and not all that easy, it could be a tough month, but Ho Ho Ho, let's get cracking. Great start, 3rd hand! Things could only get worse, and of course they did, until... I realised that the objective wasn't to rise in ranks or reach Sensei but merely to see flops, a totally different proposition requiring different tactics, maybe more limping. It paid off. I'd had 4 tables running and lost one, so being up I closed the tables to check where I was and have a cuppa. That's when I saw that the mission was complete. Doh! Happy days. Thirty five minutes and 69 cents profit. Ho Ho Ho indeed! Now onto the cash tables, 31 days to complete my current 5-10c ticket and get some more flip tokens into the bargain. 🍻

Currently the UK Championship on just up the road from me. Watched Mark Selby last night in a great tussle with his mate Barry, Mark eventually winning a nail biting decider. This afternoon Ronnie came through after looking decidedly shaky in another nail biter against Robert Milkins, and a few former champions already through to what looks like some great quarter final action coming up. But... there's a worrying trend taking place. Much as I've admired watching Jimmy "Whirlwind" White over the years he has tended to sport some ever increasingly bizarre "syrups," it looks like the latest incarnation is receding even faster than his natural hairline or even his big breaks. Come on Jimmy, bite the bullet at last and go "au naturele." It'll be cheaper in the long run. Jimmy has just received his latest hairdressing bill.

@marto By my reckoning that's 26 updates you owe.