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I didn't put much consideration into a limp or raise because I felt the villain knew what they were doing and would shove over either so it would have been a waste of chips.


You should definitely limp sometimes with strong holdings like AA to get shoved on and almost guarantee yourself a double-up. To balance your range you could limp suited connectors like 54s as well and bet most flops but in tournaments it’s often less important to play a balanced strategy because most of your opponents will think a limp is mainly weak.

Regarding your QTo shove: It’s totally fine – don’t worry! There are a few factors at play that could make you play tighter than strategy would suggest. If even a mincash increases your bankroll massively it’s reasonable trying to fold into the money. Generally you should play rather aggressive at final table bubbles because you’re playing for the top 3 spots. That will result in you busting more often than tight/nitty players but you will also win the tournament way more often than these guys who will finish in 7th to 9th place most of the time. The ‚playing for the win’ approach doesn’t hold true at money bubbles where it’s still a long way to the final table (although it isn’t that long in most Unibet MTTs) where you should definitely tighten up as a middlish/short stack to make the money. This is a special situation though because the money bubble also is the final table bubble therefore you should be aggressive for sure.

It’s also unlikely that 3 other players will bust before you when you are already in 11th place – so this is a great spot to shove and you just got super unlucky to run in the best starting hand possible.

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Thanks for the replay @GamesDean.

A min cash would have been a 50%ish boost to the BR but I've always been a 'go for the glory' type when it comes to poker so while part of me thought it might be a good idea to wait and try and sneak into the money the rest was saying "I think this is the right play, click the button".

For reference, the flop was K5K, turn K and river 5 so I'm not too sure if I could have got the villain off their hand. They ended up finishing 2nd. 

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I think you misunderstood me. Even if you are trying to sneak into the money you definitely have to take this shoving spot (especially in 11th place) because it’s that good. There are just situations with borderline hands (e.g. ATs or JTs from early position) that you should shove when you are playing for the win. You could fold these type of hands when the bankroll boost is huge for your bankroll. I understand that you are not that type of player but imagine this: With a bigger bankroll the risk of ruin (the chance that you loose your entire bankroll) is much smaller and you can play bigger cashgames/SNGs/MTTs in the future. That’s why it’s worth a thought to fold into the money with a smallish bankroll (relatively to the tournament) – it has nothing to do with being scared or anything. It’s just a smart thing to do and highly recommended, even from the MTT top guns.

It’s obviously no mistake to just take every +EV spot and try to get that trophy – in the long run it’s even better than the sneaky approach.

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An idiots guide to finding leaks in your game when you don't know what you're doing or looking for by me, an idiot /html/images/emoticons/Asset1.png (Part 2)

Ok, so last time out we worked out that I'm too loose from early position, I don't do well against single raises preflop and you should never try to steal my big blind. In part two we'll continue going through the blog post here and see what other mistakes I'm making.

 

Preflop - Blind vs Blind 

This is one of those things you can keep track of while playing on Unibet in a spreadsheet as it only needs a few variables. Did you win or did you lose, that's the basis really. It's also something you can just remember on a game by game basis as it's mostly a situational thing against opponents and/or stage of the MTT.

First up lets look at what happens when I raise out of the small blind.. 129.61bb/100 :wow:. I expect the small sample size is distorting this but it suggests that I'm doing OK in this situation and winning more than I'm losing. I had a look to see what my biggest single win/loss was and the top two were both T9o and both losses. One was a turn shove on a 4359 board that got called by 48 and they hit the 4 on the river and the other was an all in heads up for an MTT win. Take them away and I think we're doing just fine from the small blind.

Last up on our preflop checks for just now is how we do vs a raise from the small blind when we're in the big. It's a pretty miserable -70.82bb/100. Same as above, the results are skewed by the lack of samples. My biggest loss was for 1 million chips in the same heads up as mentioned above (I actually think this is the one I chopped and we just went all in every hand after the deal was done). If I remove that hand then the bb/100 get's cut in half but it's still not a great stat.

** Editors note: I typed the above out before London, the rest will be post London. I've also worked out I can combine hands from every site HM2 will track to improve the sample. It's up to 45k hands which is still tiny but slightly better :)

Post-Flop Leaks

"Quite a few small-stakes  players call too often on the flop turn and river."

This sounds like something I do so let's take a look.

Call PF and Flop: 273bb/100

Call PF, Flop and Turn: -340bb/100

Call PF, Flop, Turn and River: -938bb/100

So from the small sample I'm calling the turn and river way too much and losing a lot. I excluded me being in the small and big blind as I think blind defence will be a section all on it's own.

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Pairs, Ax and Broadway cards appear to be the only thing I'm call/calling with so at least there are no random starting hands in there :) I did some other filtering and found the following things out:-

  • Low pocket pairs where I didn't hit a set on the flop I lose every time I call a flop bet. This is the gambler in me wanting to hit the 3 outer and it's costing me chips.
  • On flops where I have 2 overcards I'm calling the turn bet too often and getting punished.
  • I lose way more calling flop and turn out of position over in position. Positional awareness is something I really need to work on.

There are probably more things I could look at but I don't know what yet, it's a learning process for me too :)

 

"Another area of concern for many players is how they play draws"

 

I don't really know what the best way is to find leaks at this part. The results don't really matter for draws I don't think, it's whether or not you're getting the correct odds to call isn't it. I wish I'd wrote this before London so I could have picked one of the Ambassadors brains about this :Rofl:. I'm going to come back to this at a later date I think once I have more hands and a better understanding of what to look for. If you have any ideas then let me know :)

 

3 or 4-Bet pots

Last thing the post suggests is looking at 3-bet pots to see how you do. First off I looked at how I did when I was the one doing the 3 betting and things appear to be good,  380bb/100. Next I removed all hands that were all in pre-flop. I think this is a good way to remove random shoves when really short and focus on things where there is some post flop play.The numbers improve to 714bb/100 :). A quick look at the hole card chart shows 7 hands where I lost money 3-betting overall. 

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I narrowed down to just the REALLY wide raises to see the results.

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The weirdest one out of that list is the Q8o hand. I've watched the replay and I actually think it was a misclick gone good. I only min 3-bet so I'm pretty sure it was a mistake because I'm not one to make that kind of raise. The rest all appear to be BB defences and just confirm I need to tighten up a little bit.

Next I checked what I was doing when facing a 3-bet and although the bb/100 is positive (423) excluding AIPF situations the same things keep coming up as losing hands. Small pairs and broadways below KQ. Strangely I'm winning more often calling 3 bets with offsuit broadways than suited but that's just down to sample size. We're looking at 1-5 hands per hole card combo.

There were a few other combinations I ran but they give basically the same results, I just need to tighten up :)

 

Hopefully this disjointed and rather rambling look at some of my hand histories will at least give you something to think about in your own game. It's obviously really hard to try and analyse things on Unibet when you can't track anything but I think you could focus on a concept for a week of play and analyse how you get on in a broader level. I've never actually tried it before so whether or know it's just a ball ache to do or not I'll probably never know :) If you have any questions about anything written in part 1 or 2, want to see more stats or situations or want to just tell me what I've written is completely wrong and explain how it should be then please do. I've never done this before so it'll be a minor miracle if it's all correct.

 

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I'll get part two of the London report done before the end of the week.. promise 👼

Before that though I have this for you...

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I signed up for a free account on a training site and one of the free downloads you got were charts for what to raise with if you're the initial raiser for every starting position. I copied them all into a spreadsheet so they were all on the same page and they look like the above. 

My question is, do you think this is too loose UTG? There is no indication on the site as to whether this is a cash game opening range or an SNG/MTT one but to me it feels a little loose for MTTs. Am I being a nit? What would you add or remove if it was your chart? 

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They would have to be for cash since fixed opening ranges for MTTs make no sense given the many situational influences. Nonetheless, they can still provide a good basis for making MTT decisions.

I'm neither a full ring nor an MTT player, but when deep, I think they are ok if the table is not too aggessive with its 3bets and people are positionally aware so they know your range is strong. The advantage of a hand like 98s is that as UTG raiser your bluffs are getting a lot of credit on A or K high boards, while on middling boards you can flop a lot of well disguised equity. Hands like ATs, KTs, QTs, A5s can be dangerous though because of the reverse implied odds: people are going to call you with a strong range, so when you hit your A, K or Q and they play back at you, they will often have top pair with a better kicker.

When more shallow (under 30bb) I would drop all suited hands below AQs, KQs and QJs.

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I like you are posting this. Makes me think :)

Taking initiative on these hands utg seems a bit loose to me. But it really depends on a lot of things - 6 or 9-tabled, stacks, blinds, how deep, hands played before, who is in the big blind.

In most bounty tourneys on Unibet I would in a lot of situations add AJo, KQo, KJo, ATo, 87s and so on.

In almost every other MTT I would remove ATs, A5s, 77 and these kind of hands. But again: depends on the situation at the table.

Cannot wait for your part two from London :)

 

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They would have to be for cash since fixed opening ranges for MTTs make no sense given the many situational influences.


It's for cash game. Here was the sentence. But as a theoretical thought process on MTT it's also a good question :)


When more shallow (under 30bb) I would drop all suited hands below AQs, KQs and QJs.


That's a good point, @MathrimC. MoreTBC wrote it himself in an earlier post. I often make this mistake.

 

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Sorry, should have said the chart is based on 9-max but didn't state the format (Cash or MTT)

I agree that the chart shouldn't be a hard rule for opening but I was compiling a list of things that would try and help me curb my loosey goosey approach to the game and thought it would be a good thing to include. 

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The big ol' Unibet London recap (Part 2, finally)

Saturday 26th February

We begin part 2 of the London recap with a word of warning :Wow:. If you're going to attend a UO at any point in your life I strongly suggest that you make sure you get ample amounts of a) sleep and b) food. I'm happy to admit I did terribly at both and suffered for it. Energy and a full stomach are the two things I wish I had more often during my trip to London.

Anyway, I woke on Saturday to another cancelled alarm for breakfast and a hangover. Not a 'find the nearest vet and put me down' hangover, but one of those ones where you'd like to slither around with your eyes barely open hangovers. Did the usual and caught up on the Community stuff and then it was off to Oxford street to do some shopping.

I did no shopping, I was just playing bodyguard to Shannon as she went rooting around shops that were too bright, too crowded and too hot for my poor dehydrated body. With that out the way we grabbed some lunch and headed back to the hotel. A sensible man would have had a little sleep at this point, recharging the batteries, knowing full well there was the single most important tournament of his life ahead of him and a night of drinking to boot. Not this guy! The rugby was on and Scotland were in fine form. Using their run good to help my own as I sat in the hotel and finished 2nd in a €4 turbo :Cool:. The grind never stops apparently :Rofl:.

Rugby done, I slithered to the casino for the peak of the weekend for all involved, the community side event! Now I'm a man of my word so when I drunkenly said I'd wear a hat shaped like a poo emoji for the side event I damn sure was going to do it. I did not however think about having to walk down a busy London street holding it or having to try and sneak it past the casino security on entry. I imagine drug smugglers must have the same sort of feeling going through airports as I did, it was a stressful time. Obviously what they're doing is on a different scale legally from what I was doing but it was just as important, I had a bounty in my hands!

Safely stored under the table all the community guys were sitting at near the bar, the poo hat had made it. I was cool, calm and collected and the security at the front door suspected nothing :Cool:. I grabbed a refreshing (and hydrating) soft drink from the bar and then we made out way to the same little side room I was in for the sat on Thursday. There was 4 tables in the room, we had two and the other two were being used for a rather serious looking final 18 of the deepstack tourney that had been running since Friday. I can't imagine how off-putting it must have been to see a giant poo bobbing about while you're trying to make a decision for potentially thousands of pounds. Luckily I think they moved the final table to the main room so we were left to make as much noise as we wanted for a while.

There were two tables that made up the Community freeroll, a loud table and a quiet table. I was at the quiet table. The loud table consisted of Andrei, vongrundel/Christian, Vikings AS FOOK, Stubbe, Remco, Davitsche and a few others where as the quiet table had Marco, Uhlen/Espen, BBP, YpresX/Hugo and a hungover me sweating my existence away in the stupid hat. Blinds went up every 7 minutes or so as they were going to need the tables for the bounty tournament later in the evening so play went pretty quickly. In the first level or two Espen turned to me and said..

"So NMPFan, what do you do for a living" :Wow: 

What do you do with that? Here I am wearing a giant :Heart::Hearts::Heart: on my head talking to a young man who I had introduced myself to less than 24 hours before and he thinks I'm someone else. These highrollers eh? :Rofl: After a quick correction and a few laughs it was back to business. The eSports guys decided they also wanted one final game and ended up in the room with us playing a SnG of their own. I didn't know any of them which is probably a good thing considering my headgear.

I'll be honest, I did not pay much attention to what was happening until we were down to the final 3. Espen, Alex[insert last bit of his username here because I can't remember it] and myself were battling it out for €250 of tickets and Espens bounty. The bounty was all I wanted. I wanted revenge for the mistaken identity. I did not get it :( Lost the first flip against him 33 < KQ and then the second to knock me out with 86 < 75 or something similar where he hit a 7 on the river. I went for the glory and got punished. I did take away €100 in tickets though so I can't complain and I could finally take the hat off. The blinds were pretty high at this point so HU did not last long and Espen took it down. 

There was no time to waste, the UK rep Jarle had organised a players dinner that started at 8pm and it was already 5 past so I nipped back to the hotel, had a quick shower and then headed to the bar. There was about 8 of us there and it was a good size to get to have a chat with everyone. I had my first conversation David Lappin, one of the new ambassadors, who told me about living in Malta and I told him how I was in London on a misclick ;) It was good to hear about some of the upcoming projects Unibet has in store with the ambassadors. I'll be honest, I'm terrible with names so I've forgotten everyone elses names. If you read this, I apologise. I worked in clubs for a few years as a manager and developed a reflex for when someone said "Hi, my name is.." my brain would completely shut down. 

After a good meal and some peer pressure to start drinking again (thanks Mr Lappin) we made our way to the club for the players party. It was my worst nightmare :) I've DJ'd now for about 10 years and the one thing I hate the most is functions. You know.. birthdays, weddings etc. As a DJ they are horrible because you're playing exactly the same music every time. The room we were in was like being in a function, or maybe worse, a hen doo. Everyone had whistles and hats on the average age of the regular customer was creeping into the 30's. It wasn't for me. It was however for everyone else, and they were loving it. Don't get me wrong, I had a great time. We were well looked after by Jarle, didn't pay for a drink all night and were around good people... I just didn't like the music :) I'm also not a dancer, it's why I DJ, so I don't have to :) It took a few hours (and several vodka red bulls) before I was pursued onto the floor (thanks again Mr Lappin) and danced away til 3am.

When the club closed, a new adventure began.. getting home. At this point I was running on fumes and just wanted to eat and get into bed. Luckily there was a convenient hot dog stand right outside the club so we had a quick snack with Andrei and Vikings and then set out about working out how to get back to the hotel. We also decided it would be a good idea to try and help Stubbe get back to the hotel, as he was more focused on taking random videos of anything in his path than getting home:Rofl:. We scooped up a (I think Serbian) player we'd met at the dinner who was on his own, Remco and Stubbe and followed David/Davitsche and his girlfriend Satu (SatuNAV) as they seemed to know where they were going. Turns out we were one street away from Oxford street and it was a fairly easy navigation back to the hotel, but it was a long one. 20+ minutes normally I think but it took us nearly an hour :Rofl:

We crossed paths on Oxford Street with Mr Lappin, Dara O'Kearney (another new ambassador) and Daiva/balticblonde. They were on the hunt for chicken, well David was, I thing Dara and Daiva were just looking for a cab :). We ended up adding David to our group and continued the trek back to the hotel. A questionable chicken retailer was found and David took his chances, brave man. Stubbe was also taking his chances, with traffic, as he darted about filming countless MBs of useless GoPro footage. I ended up chewing David's ear off for the last 20 minutes of the walk home about everything Unibet poker while he finished off his food poisoning coin flip. Finally the hotel appeared and everyone headed to bed.

 

Sunday 27th February

I felt surprisingly fresh on Sunday considering the previous nights drinking. We missed breakfast again but that was now normal at this point :) Another top tip for anyone attending their first UO, take lots of clothes. In my cancelled flight panic on Wednesday night I decided I would probably only need one outfit per day and something for the players party, how wrong I was. Needless to say, I needed more clothes so we headed back to the busy streets of London and I picked up some cheap items to cover me until I got home.

The final part of my community package was entry into the Sunday freezeout, a £110 (i think) buy-in with no re-entry and 15/20/40 minute levels depending on where you read the info or if you played the first level. Yes, we played 15 minute blinds for the first level and then it went to 20 while players argued with the tournament staff that one website said 20 minutes and one banner said 40. It was a bit of a mess but to be honest I didn't care. I was half excited to play and half ready to fall asleep at the table. 

You will have read the reports as to what happened already no doubt so I won't go into too much detail about the actual play. I only played a handful of hands on my first table and the two that really counted were both when I had aces. The first one was against a local player where we got it in on a safe looking flop and he turned over queens.

"We could have got it in pre-flop" he said to me.

"I've only played 1 hand so far, thought it might look a bit obvious" was my reply :)

We ended up chatting after the hand and I explained I was freerolling the whole weekend on a misclick and that my Unibet lanyard and badge did not mean I was sponsored or a big deal. It's amazing how important people thing you are if you have an official looking badge on :)

Hand two was about as straight forward as you can get. Early position player goes all in, middle position player goes all in, I go all in. Aces hold against cards I can't remember and that was that. The table broke shortly after that.

I don't remember much else of what happened until my last big hand. I was mostly watching the tournament info to find out either how many players were left or when I could go pee. I shoved UTG I think with less than 10bb with AK suited, big stack just calls and then a third player goes all in. Everyone flips over their cards, big stack as AK suited as well and the third player has AA. I get up thinking it's all over but it turns out he had less than me so I ended up chopping a small side pot with the other AK player. A few hands later I shove with 'any two' and don't win and that was that. Out in 16th with 13 paid, the exact same finishing spot as the sat on Thursday :Smirk:

In hindsight I should have tried to milk the short stack as long as possible that close to the bubble but I'd had enough at that point. I was tired and starving and just wanted to go back to the hotel (I sound so miserable all the time when reading this back, I wasn't, I was having a great time honest :Angel:). Some of the community guys were at the bar and consoled me but a bit like the satellite I wasn't too bothered. I'd made the last 20% of every event I played over the weekend in what is my second live play experience ever, I'd consider that a win. 

In the worst possible timing ever, just as I was away to leave, Stubbe introduced me Andrew, head of poker for Unibet. I've spent close to a year now annoying him (probably) on 2+2 and here about bugs and changes to the product so you never really know how your first live interaction is going to go. Being barely awake and dying for a McDonalds it was a very brief chat and one that started with "Hi, I'm Sleazy P".. not something I say very often :Rofl:. Andrew did offer to by me food so maybe I'm not on the :Heart::Hearts::Heart:list but I politely declined, burgers and bed were calling. 

Sweatpants on, stream on, life was good in the hotel. An amazing weekend of new experiences and new friends had come to an end.

 

Monday 28th February

We made breakfast! It was a bittersweet victory as it was the last time we saw most of the community guys before everyone went their separate ways. We got a group photo next to all the food (which I've not seen yet) and then made our way back to the room to grab our bags and begin the journey back to Aberdeen. It was a much easier trip home but not one without drama. I ended up walking through the security photo booth as my girlfriend, when she tried it failed and they manually updated it but forgot to redo mine. BA then took me off the flight thinking I hadn't gone through security and when I went to board they said I didn't have a seat. That got sorted but they were unsure if my bag would make it. An anxious wait at the portacabin Aberdeen airport is calling baggage claim just now resulted in my bag being first off the belt, phew! What an adventure!

 

That's it, a far too in depth look at what it's like to attend a UO. If you've never been before or are a little hesitant about going to somewhere you know nobody I hope this has eliminated your fears a little :) I have to thank all the community guys again for making my girlfriend feel so welcome, I genuinely think she ended up having more fun than me and still goes on now about how she misses London and all her 'International friends' :) It was a great experience on and off the felt and something I'm already trying to qualify for again (but that's for another post). I only took 3 photos the whole trip so I don't have a lot to show you. It's basically two pictures of chip stacks and a picture of a Unibet CS guy that won a trip to London posing with Isildur. Next time I'll take some more :)

If you have any questions for the first-timer let me know and if not normal blogging will return with the February end of month review at some point in the near future :)

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Some quick admin first..

@MathrimC, how was the Joylent? Does it taste nice?

@Nestabear, good find. Not sure I want to fully integrate poo based items into my life though.. I also don't drink anything hot so I don't have a need for a mug :)

 

Right, let's catch up on the last few weeks shall we..

Friday 17/02/17

After the withdrawal for London I left myself enough to play the MTT league games. None of them went well and the day was a bust. Cashout run bad confirmed.

 

Saturday 18/02/17

I cashed in all my bonus points for tickets and just played with them. Made a small cash in the daily deepstack and a single bounty and made about €4

 

Sunday 19/02/17

Played 6 MTTs and cashed 4 :Cool:. All were min cashes so nothing exciting and profit for the day was about €2.50

 

Tuesday 21/02/17

Just played some cash, no idea why. Lost less than a Euro overall

 

Wednesday 22/02/17

Just played the community league, did not do well :(

 

[insert UO London here]

 

Monday 27/02/17

Busted 9 MTTs in a row. :(

 

Tuesday 28/02/17

Deposited £200 to level up the BR a little and then busted every MTT I played again. Great finish to the month :(

 

** END OF MONTH REVIEW **

  • +/- for the month: -€125.75 (BR Total: €224.75)
  • Days played: 22
  • Losing days: 13
  • Winning/Break Even days: 9
  • Sessions/Games played - Cash: 13, SNGs: 5, MTTs: 123
  • ROIs - Cash: 25.95% , SNGs: -29.45% , MTTs: 8.13% 

 ** FULL RESULTS FOR THE MONTH **

As always with my stats, they're misleading :). My BR may be down for the month but my liferoll is up. The £200 I didn't redeposit at the end of the month skews the figure so it was a winning month, even if the BR doesn't say that. More losing sessions than winning can't be a good thing although most of them were under the €10 mark. MTT ROI is down but still positive which is what I want to see and the other two don't count as the sample is so small.

 

Goals for March

  • Get out the hole and start playing with profit again
  • Blog regularly and post hands for discussion and analysis that will be helpful to the community.
  • Qualify for the Sat Stack/Sun Entitled whenever possible
  • Build UO ticket stack
  • Build UK Tour ticket stack
  • Community League victory!

The BR is back to a stable level and I can now start focusing on building it up again and trying to get back into a profit only BR. The cash in the UO London freeroll has giving me a great start on the road to qualifying for a package with 10x €10 tickets to work with. I 100% want to go to Glasgow for the UK tour stop and will attend whether I get a package or not but it makes sense to try and get in for cheap so I'll be working on that as well over the next few months.

I also feel it's time to try and get back into the big weekend MTTs as a score in one of them would definitely put me fully in the green. I won't go crazy but I think I'm safe now to fire a few sats whenever I have the time to play. The new community league looks fantastic so the final new goal is to compete whenever possible and try and land a big prize.

 

Ok, that's February wrapped up, apologies for the sporadic updates to the main content, UO and my random thoughts have got in the way. I'm writing this in the middle of March so I have some more catching up to do and the next post will probably be a brief summary again and then we'll be back to the fully blown and overdrawn content you all know and love :Cool:

 

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@MoreTBC wrote:

@MathrimC, how was the Joylent? Does it taste nice? 


It's great. I like the banana and chocolate flavours the most. I eat it once or twice a day now, instead of other meals. I also tried Jake, another brand. I like the taste of that even more, it's smoother and greasier, but they only have one taste so I'll keep eating Joylent too.

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Wednesday 01/03/17

Started off the month with some SNG's. Not my favourite thing to play but a promo is a promo and the chances are the fields will be softer this month because of aforementioned promo :) Played 3, got one 2nd. Other than that I only played two MTTs, the €4 Bounty deepstack where I finished 4 off the money and the Daily 4. Remember when I said I thought there might be a possible strategy to max late reg the Daily 4 and make the cash? Well I gave it a bash, played 2 hands and finished 21st with 12 getting paid :haha:. Due to some bad record keeping or some random mistakes I didn't end up too bad for the day. 

Profit/Loss for the day: -€5.76

 

Thursday 02/03/17

Another block of 3 SNGs to start the session. Faired a little better this time as we got a 1st and a 2nd. Played a €10 UO sat, didn't do well. Played the Bounty Deepstack, didn't do well. Played some Banzai to clear a mission, won a buy in. Played some cash NLHE to clear a mission, won a buy in :). Jonny gave me a heads up on a social media freeroll Unibet was running so I hopped into that, finished 8th for €4. Had a €25 UO ticket from the community league last month so fired that and got everyone's favourite cooler AA < KK to bust. Had another crack at the 'max late reg in the Daily 4' thing, finished 19th this time after 3 hands. Cleared a challenge step and picked up a €5 boost and confirm the first winning day of the month

Profit/Loss for the day:  €13.98

 

Friday 03/03/17

More SNGs, no results :( I had got lots of tickets from the community league place so I was firing them so wasn't really trying to be honest. Not the best way to play but at least it didn't hurt the BR. Played some cash to clear a mission and that was that.

Profit/Loss for the day: -€0.93

 

Saturday 04/03/17

I didn't have a gig at night so I buckled in for a big Saturday session. Started off with a little cash, both PLO and NLHE to clear mission steps. Won small amounts in both. Bricked an early turbo and then went on a Saturday Stack qualifier rampage. Played 7 in total (including the flip) and came out with a €5 ticket, a €10 ticket and €100 ticket 🆒. Time to hit the main event!

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I finished 7th for €227.70 :cash:. The first decent cash in what feels like forever on Unibet. Followed that up with a 6th in the Ten-X Bounty for another €28 profit and scooped up my first €50 UO ticket from a €10 sat. Bricked the rest of the evening but I didn't care :)

Profit/Loss for the day: €188.74

 

Sunday 05/03/17

After the excitement of Saturday I was fired up and ready for a big Sunday with more big wins. RNGesus had other ideas. I bricked everything I played apart from getting my €5 back for finishing 2nd in a SE sat. I did however win the SE flip and get to play the Sunday Entitled 🆒. The spot that ended my tournament I've already posted and the general consensus is that I was just unlucky :(. 

Profit/Loss for the day: -€59.62

 

Monday 06/03/17

It was the start of the new community league season so I was determined to focus and play my A game in that. Warmed up by completing some mission steps, a 1st in a €4 SNG and almost breaking even in some cash. It was a bumper turn out for the first league event and with it being a turbo chips were flying. When the dust settled I found myself getting to the final table but finishing 6th. A healthy €25 profit but not the points I was after. Bricked a bunch of the normal €4 MTTs I play but picked up a silver medal in the Ten-X Turbo Bounty for €32. Not sure how but I did not get a single bounty.. yep, finished 2nd without a bounty :Wonder:.

Profit/Loss for the day: €21.88

 

Tuesday 07/03/17

Only played a single MTT on Tuesday and it was in the morning. The €10 turbo bounty that has brought me so much joy in the past. Well it did it again with another silver medal, 4 bounties and €42 profit :cash:. Don't really need to put a win/loss for today :)

 

Wednesday 08/03/17

Played 8 MTTs on Wednesday and it was a mixed bag. Didn't cash the bounty deepstack but collected enough bounties to make a tiny profit. Finished 2nd in the Ten-X Bounty  with 4 bounties for €70 profit and picked up another €50 UO ticket. I'm really enjoying playing these €10 bounties just now, people just love punting off their stacks in them :) Also enjoying the UO sats as they're forcing me to think a little more about my play. Played 4 SNGs for Moving on up and got a 2nd to round off the session.

Profit/Loss for the day: €33.77

 

Thursday 09/03/17

Only played a few MTTs on Thursday, including bricking the second league game and then hit 2 1st place finishes and a 2nd clearing Moving on up. 

Profit/loss for the day: €22.13

 

Friday 10/03/17

Just played to clear moving on up. Another 2x first and 1x second session.

Profit/loss for the day: €15.67

 

Saturday 11/03/17

Won some money on the rugby on Saturday, played my 4 SNGs and finished 1st in two of them. Played two MTTs, didn't do well and then randomly punted 2 buy ins at PLO10. No idea why :haha:

Profit/loss for the day: €20.80

 

Sunday 12/03/17

Sunday was a strange one. I bricked every attempt to get into the Sunday Entitled and basically all other MTTs apart from the UO sat where I won another 2 €50 tickets. I played 5 in total and got my €10 in one so it was a pretty good return. Not so good for the BR though.

Profit/loss for the day: -€66.88

 

Apologies again for the short (in terms of daily reviews) and rather sporadic post. I feel so far behind it's stressing me out and I just want to get caught up. Now that I'm only a few days behind I feel much better :) It's been a pretty good month so far and I've been enjoying playing things I maybe don't normally. I've also been really enjoying Ian's streams and they're great to have on in the background when grinding. Maybe he's given me the run good :) I should be able to get fully caught up tomorrow and then peace and zen will be restored :Angel:

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Monday 13/03/17

I still have dreams of binking the Jackpot MTTs and winning the €2K or whatever it is for running like the sun however I've been slacking and not played it in the while. I was feeling fresh and focused so I fired into both looking for the big bucks. At one point things were looking good as I made the money in both but I couldn't get my small stack to do any work in the €1 and busted in 22nd for a tiny profit. Did much better in the €4 and picked up a 4th and €42 of sweet profit. Not the jackpot but a healthy return.

Next up was the Bounty Deepstack, a real hit or miss tourney for me. Today was a hit, a big one. The gold trophy for the cabinet and 8 heads for the wall, another €72 in the back pocket. Next up I picked up a €50 UO ticket in a €10 sat, 4/4 at this point in MTTs and living the dream   🆒

Of course, all good things have to come to an end and I bricked my next 4 (inc a poor show in the community league) and got my €10 back in the last UO sat of the day.

Profit/loss for the day: €87.91

 

Tuesday 14/03/17

I must have been feeling flush after my previous nights wins as I only entered €10 MTTs on Tuesday. Started off with two in the morning, both were quick exits. Then in the evening I played a UO sat (busted that) and then fired the two Ten-X bounties.  The turbo ended REALLY quickly as I got knocked out by an underpair hitting a set AIPF. The regular speed one was a different stroy though. I was a one man bounty collecting machine! I ended up with 12 when all was said and done and another gold trophy for the cabinet 🆒. €187 for the win and all the bounties was another excellent score and continued an excellent week.

Profit/loss for the day: €155.84

 

Wednesday 15/03/17

A new week of Moving On Up had started so I started the session getting through the 6 (?!) SNGs required to complete the promo. Two 1st and a 2nd to continue my decent run of results in the SNGs. Fired two more UO sats but bricked them both and then hit the bounty streets again in the Ten-X's. I almost went back to back in the regular speed but ended up finishing 9th and did slightly better in the turbo finishing 4th

Profit/loss for the day: €40.89

 

Thursday 16/03/17

Another day, another batch of SNG's. Two 1sts out of the 6 to basically cancel out entering them. Another terrible display in the community event and losing a €10 HU SNG because I was trying to play @DaVitsche while he streamed from Brighton meant I had a losing day. I also fired on some of @AndreiBN's tennis tips as he had crushed it the day before. He didn't do so well on Thursday :(

Profit/Loss for the day: -€33.55

 

So there we go, bang up to date :). It's been a cracking month so far and I'm tickling the balls of €500 profit for the month. SNGs have proved to be profitable so far as I sit on 10% ROI just after the halfway mark and my ROI in MTTs is over 50% which is crazy. As I sit across the virtual felt from @vongrundal in a UO sat waiting for him to bust me again with AK (Edit: he got knocked out before me) I can definitely say I'm having a good month :) I'm also running well in off site action as I tripled my deposit on another site on day 1 with a gold trophy in my second MTT so lady luck is shining bright for this guy.

How long will it last? Probably not long knowing my history but we'll ride the 'run good train' until the wheels fall off :Rockon:. I'll be back next week with all the weekends action and hopefully some more deep runs :)

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Friday 17/03/17

More moving on up and UO sat action on Friday. 2x 1st and 1x 2nd out of 6 SNGs and 2x €50 and 1x €10 out of 4x €10 sats gave m a good haul of results. Lost a bit playing a SE sat and the two €10 bounties to end up slightly down for the day.

Profit/loss for the day: -€6.87

 

Saturday 18/03/17

3x 2nd place finishes out of 6 SNGs to start the day. Then played 3 UO UK sats and busted them all :( Misclick regged a €1 18 man and busted that before randomly playing some cash (probably to complete a mission or test a bug)

Profit/loss for the day: -€20.90

 

Sunday 19/03/17

Fired a bunch of UO sats and SE sats and bricked the lot :( Only cashes came in the two €10 bounties with an 8th in the reg speed and 3 bounties in the turbo to turn a slight profit on the buy in.

Profit/loss for the day: -€45.02

 

Tuesday 21/03/17

Back on the SNG grind on Tuesday and back to my winning ways. 2x 1st and 2x 2nd out of 6. Binked a €50 UO ticket and then busted both bounties. Fired on @AndreiBN's tips and won a decent amount. Good day at the office :)

Profit/loss for the day: €54.23

 

Wednesday 22/03/17

Just played SNGs to complete the promo and went 4x 1sts over 8 games. I wrote on my results notes that I misclicked my entire stack off by accident in one game as well :Rofl:. Fired on Andrie's tips again, dodn't win this time :(

Profit/loss for the day: -€20.85

 

Saturday 25/03/17

Had a couple of days off with the client issues and work. At this point I decided to scrap playing the SNGs for the promo. IT was just too much screen space for too long for too little reward. I just don't enjoy them enough to play them for 4 hours. Only played 2 UO sats, lost one and got my ticket back in the other.

Profit/loss for the day: €1.47

 

Sunday 26/03/17

Tried to get into the Sunday Entitled, failed. Played the Sunday deepstack, failed to the point where I didn't even record my finish.

Profit/loss for the day: -€35.00

 

Monday 27/03/17

Monday was another losing session in all areas. Was definitely not playing my A game at the end of the month and it shows on the last few days results. Really wasn't focused at all.

Profit/loss for the day: -€32.93

 

Tuesday 28/03/17

Small session, continued my brickathon.

Profit/loss for the day: -€9.00

 

Wednesday 29/03/17

Another small session, another fruitless day.

Profit/loss for the day: -€29.88

 

Thursday 30/03/17

Played a €50 UO sat and ended up winning €20 cash for basically bubbling it. Only other MTT was the community league and I didn't do very well.

Profit/loss for the day: €17.35

 

Really quick recap on the month as I've just not been focused at all, not been paying attention and not been playing well. I'll do the end of month tomorrow as it's getting a bit late just now for graphs and stats. 

 

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** END OF MONTH REVIEW **

  • +/- for the month: €358.23 (BR Total: €582.92)
  • Days played: 27
  • Losing days: 13
  • Winning/Break Even days: 14
  • Sessions/Games played - Cash: 12, SNGs: 67, MTTs: 143
  • ROIs - Cash: -15.83% , SNGs: 18.74% , MTTs: 17.94% 

** FULL RESULTS **

 

Good month :). I'm sure @MathrimC will be proud of my SNG ROI this month :Cool:. Really happy with the MTT ROI too as it's a lot higher than it should be considering how badly I've been playing and how little focus I've had. I've had one really big flaw in the last month and it's been spreading myself too thin with regards to poker. I have BRs now on 4 sites and when you have 4 lobbies to look at and only one screen to play on things get crowded and you lose focus. I do not feel like I've been playing well at all and it's because of this. Too many windows open, regging too many things, not being focused :(. Luckily I've got through it on the positive side with two big wins but it's definitely something I'll be stopping going forward.

Goals for April

  • Get out the hole and start playing with profit again
  • Blog regularly and post hands for discussion and analysis that will be helpful to the community.
  • Qualify for the Sat Stack/Sun Entitled whenever possible
  • Build UO ticket stack
  • Community League victory!
  • CRUSH @IanSimpson's BOUNTY BASED SOUL!!

Goals are identical to last month with one extra special new one. I was watching Ian's stream on Sunday and he was talking about the Bounty Badlands promo on this month and how he was thinking about using it as a challenge type narrative for the stream. He didn't seem convinced so I thought I'd give him a little push and suggested a prop bet. Initially I went for a 'Loser buys the beer' scenario but Ian quickly pointed out that Unibet are really good at hospitality (See: printing drinks tokens) so it wouldn't really be much of a sweat. The talk quickly turned to a costume based forfeit and after a quick T's and C's check with the boss we were booked. Whoever finishes lowest in the 'High' leaderboard has to wear a silly costume at UO UK Glasgow.

The bet was booked on the 2nd of April so I was very honest and let Ian know I had a decent head start on him after playing on the 1st but he seemed unfazed by that. I also have the advantage of being able to play every day where as Ian is only playing when he's streaming but he is much, MUCH better player than I am so I'm sure it'll balance out.

This is great for me as it gives me a little extra motivation to play as well as possible and to focus on Unibet tourneys this month. I'm going to be playing well outside BRM this month so I expect it's going to be pretty swingy and could end up being a painful one by the end of April. Previous experience in the €10 bounties suggests I'm not a huge dog in those so If I can be consistent in them I can hopefully cover the daily €25 Bounty. I'm not going to be firing anything higher than €10 in PLO as it'll just be a donation every time but I think I'll be able to scrape some cash in the 10's, expecially with people playing just for the promo.

Full month of MTTs ahead and hopefully lots of bounties. Besides not being humiliated in Glasgow there is €1k for top prize in the bounty leaderboard so there is lots to play for. I'll be more consistent with updates this month so expect the return of long posts and rambling :) Also make sure you follow https://twitter.com/IanSimpsonPoker so you can see my #DailyNeedle while I'm still ahead in the bounty prop bet :) I'm fully aware I'm going to get punished by the karma police for doing it but it'll be fun while it lasts.

I'll be back later in the week with a recap of the action from the first few days of the month and a first look at the Bounty Badlands prop bet leaderboard.

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Some quick housekeeping to start.

I forgot to mention in the end of year report about my UO sat ticket situation. Quick recap, I got 10x €10 UO tickets as my prize for coming 3rd in London and spent last month trying to run them up. It was a mixed bag really. I think at one point I had 4 €50 tickets locked up but every time I fired one I did terribly. Eventually I wound up at the end of the month exactly where I started, converting my last 2 remaining 50's back into 10 x 10 :( Essentially I need to win a 3x €50 tickets for every 10 €10 I play for things to work out and I don't think I've ever had 30% ROI in anything I've ever done in my life 🤣. I'm going to bash on this month though. Now Unibet have released that the UO package for 'the BIG one' is going to be €3300 it has provided me with a little extra incentive to qualify, or at least have a number of chances to qualify when they fully announce the stop.

The other thing I forgot to mention was that I fired on @MathrimC's recommendation of Joylent as a meal replacement. It's weird stuff, I'll be honest. I'm not one for having fluids with 'bits' in it so the grainy texture takes some getting used to. I'm slowly adjusting to it and have started having it as breakfast every day which has been going well. It'll take a few weeks to see if it has any major benefits but it's definitely improving my vitamin and mineral intake which can only be a good thing.

Now, on to the poker..

 

Saturday 01/04/17

I had completely forgotten about the €10 SNG I won during the SNG promo in March but the kind folks at Unibet brought it back from the dead so I made sure using it was the first thing I did that day. Sat down at a 5-man, went about my business, collected a gold trophy :cash:. Considering how I ran during March in SNGs I may fire a lot of them next month if there isn't a good MTT promo. They seem fairly easy to beat (I understand 1 €10 is not a sample size I should be basing that on) so it might be a fun experiment next month.

With that out the way it was time to get the missions completed. First up was a quick double up and run in Banzai for a cool 18 cents profit. After that I started my attempts to get into the Saturday Stack. Attempt one was a €5 sat where I ended up getting my money back. Attempt 2 was a €10 that I did not cash and attempt 3 was the flip where I won my money back. I was in and out the flat a few times during the day so wasn't really firing every sat I could so it was good to have only spend €10 trying to qualify.

With the Bounty Badlands promo starting in April I fired on all my favourite MTTs. First off were the €4 bounty deepstack and early (?) bounty and both were beautiful fails. I did pick up 2 bounties in the early to get my tally going so can't really complain but I would have wanted more. Next up was the €25 bounty. Now I know what you're thinking, a €25 buy in, with your BR? Now I kind of agree with you, it's a bit stupid but I have some method to my madness. I figured a number of the €10 regs would fire the €25 and I am doing fine at the €10 level so how much harder can it be? Also, if I can get top 10 that's €100 which would go some way to covering any losses caused by firing the 25. I'll know at the end of the month if it's a stupid idea and I can always stop playing it if things get really bad and I drop €300+.

Day 1 of the €25 went really well. I ended up finishing 5th and getting 4 bounties for €42 profit. It didn't feel like a tougher tourney which is good and the action was just as wild so I can get on board with that too :) I followed that up with a 6th in the Ten-X bounty, including 5 bounties, for another €30 profit. Also cashed the late €4 bounty in 12th with 3 bounties for €9 and finished 3rd in the Nightly Ten for €30. A pretty great start to the bounty hunting month! I think I was sitting 2nd in the High league so was feeling pretty good about myself.

I also did one other thing on Saturday, I fired on the slots. I know what you're thinking but don't worry, this was a sober and controlled £10 to try and get a win for Slot of the week promotion. It worked thankfully :) I ended up making another €45 profit and won some free spins from the promotion to boot. Using the free money versions of the slots the last few months for the promo has really hit home about how likely you are to lose playing slots and that if you hit and win.. run. Run really fast and really far 😀. I have no desire to play slots outside the promo as I'm completely focused on Bounty Badlands and beating Ian in the prop bet so don't expect another BR nuking any time soon :)

Profit/Loss for the day: €154.03

 

Sunday 02/04/17

Sunday started off in the usual way now, firing SE sats and €10 UO sats. I converted one €5 SE into a 25 but could not win the next one to get a ticket. first cash of teh day was the €4 Bounty deepstack where I picked up 5 heads and a min cash for €14 profit. At this point I think was when the discussion started on @IanSimpson's wonderful Twitch stream about a prop bet for Glasgow. Luckily it was booked before I entered the €10 PLO bounty as I ended up with 7 scalps and a 3rd for €40. Unfortunately I bricked the 25 and the two 10's to end up down for the day.

Profit/Loss for the day: -€23.75

 

Monday 03/04/17

Bounty
Deepstack Bounty
Early Bounty
Ten-X PLO Bounty
PLO Bounty
Bounty
Crazy Deep Bounty
Turbo Bounty
Ten-X Bounty
Ten-X Turbo Bounty
PLO Ante Bounty

 

That basically sums up Monday night 🤣. The prop bet was in full swing so I was fully focused. Some of them are €4 but basically every 10/25 bounty there was on Monday night I was in. I bricked every last one of them :Teardrop:. One single bounty in the PLO and that was it. Thankfully I think Ian did even worse and collected zero heads to leave me well ahead in the leaderboard. Maybe the pressure of the prop bet was getting to me, maybe it was just variance.

Profit/loss for the day: -€65.09

 

Tuesday 04/04/17

Started off the day losing a buy in at NLHE trying to complete the 'win at showdown' part of the missions and then picked up a single bounty in the early €10 bounty before work. I'm still waiting on clarification as to where it counted because I didn't get any points for it as far as I could tell.

After work it was back on the bounty grind. I really need to use the days Ian isn't streaming to keep ahead so I plowed on with another full schedule. For a second day I bricked all the high qualifying MTTs and it sucked :(. I also had a terrible start to the Community league finishing well out the points places. My only saving graces for the night were a 5th in the €4 deepstack bounty with 5 bounties for €30 and binking my first €50 UO ticket of the month.

Profit/loss for the day: -€33.82

 

Wednesday 05/04/17

Played a similar schedule on Wednesday and continued with similar banter on stream with Ian. Another FT in the €4 division with a 6th and 3 bounties in the early for €15 to get things going in a positive manner. Also managed my second cash in the €25 bounty with a 6th place finish and 3 bounties for €38. Some well needed points as Ian had been catching up and actually finished 3rd in the same tourney. By the end of the night the score stood at 24-17 in my favour, he's a little too close for comfort now!

Had a deep run in the Daily 4 (which I've not played in ages and still has a terrible starting stack for a rebuy) but couldn't convert it into a cash and bricked the other bounty tourneys pretty early.

Profit/loss for the day: €16.88

 

There we go, nice and up to date. I'll be firing big again tonight bounty-wise while Ian is off and then I think I'll miss everything for the next two nights with IRL things so It's going to be a big Sunday :)

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