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I spent a few months playing way above my head and recently lost most of current roll. Been using some reasonable BRM lately playing small stakes tourneys and sats. Here some recent results.

1st in FTP $2r ($6.25 invested) for like $240+. FT same tourney following night along with regular $2 tourney. Total like $270.

$7 super sat for 55T$ on FTP. then a $2r super sat tonight for another 55T$.

7 of 13 Sunday 200K 210fpp sats = 2730fpps into 77T$, or 66T$ and 1 entry leading to a huge score imo.

375 fpp sat to Sunday $1Million Turbo Takedown = 5000fpp buyin, 4000 places paid, mincash=$90, 1st pays like $100K. Bubbled it last month.

lets see if I can't turn this into something.

since I've never posted here...I'll rep some of my biggest retro scores while I'm feeling chatty:

All on Stars: $215 Stud8 or better: 2nd for like $1500, 8th for $500+ (2/3 times I played it), Nightly $33 HORSE $3k guarantee: 1st once for $900+ (several FTs), Nightly $109 HORSE 1st for like $1800+. those were the days.

Was about to pwn the tourney but then this happened and I bubbled shortly after..

Poker Stars $100+$9 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t300/t600 Blinds + t50 - 9 players - View hand 17135
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

UTG: t6785 M = 5.03
UTG+1: t9309 M = 6.90
UTG+2: t7968 M = 5.90
MP1: t25440 M = 18.84
MP2: t22137 M = 16.40
CO: t5858 M = 4.34
BTN: t11062 M = 8.19
SB: t6674 M = 4.94
Hero (BB): t13228 M = 9.80

Pre Flop: (t1350) Hero is BB with 5 7
UTG calls t600, 7 folds, Hero checks

Flop: (t1950) 7 7 7 (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG bets t1200, Hero calls t1200

Turn: (t4350) K (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG bets t1800, Hero raises to t11378 all in, UTG calls t3135 all in

River: (t14220) K (2 players - 2 are all in)

Final Pot: t14220
UTG shows K K (four of a kind, Kings)
Hero shows 5 7 (four of a kind, Sevens)
UTG wins t14220

Is this a common thing in donkaments?

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What do you guys think about donkpushing this hand on the flop btw? I mean an UTG limper will most likely have a pocket there and will call those while not necessarily going broke when an ace hits on the turn.

Sigh, fvcking 9th.

Comments on last hand?? Villain is lagtard who I played w/ earlier and watched him make all sorts of spewy/bad plays. Still, do you SO here??

Poker Stars $150+$12 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t4000/t8000 Blinds + t800 - 9 players

SB: t152237
BB: t911061
UTG: t125848
UTG+1: t213863
UTG+2: t156527
MP1: t294802
MP2: t552777
CO: t195539
Hero (BTN): t169346

Pre Flop: (t19200) Hero is BTN with K Q
6 folds, Hero raises to t20555, 1 fold, BB raises to t80000, Hero raises to t168546 all in, BB calls t88546

Flop: (t348292) 3 7 T (2 players - 1 is all in)

Turn: (t348292) 7 (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: (t348292) 2 (2 players - 1 is all in)

I dont like your allin tbh. You have 20BB left and BB commits himself. He wont ever fold to your 4-bet. Your equity against his range may not even be 50%, even if he has crap. If he does this with 60% of his range you dont even have 60% equity! So why gamble here? I tend to play tight at the beginning of the final table and I wouldnt even push AJ here against a total maniac.

A very small claim but anyway...

I've been taking vacation travelling around New Zealand recently. Turns out to be a nice place

Whilst in Auckland I dropped into Sky City Casino and played a NZ$85+15 tournament. Only 37 starters but that suited me fine.

Totally luckboxed my early game. I had 88 on a K84 flop, got my money in to discover I was behind villain with top set KK and I rivered an 8

Made final table in 3rd chip position, but thanks to some awesome SnG coaching AMT gave me last year I navigated my way to heads up with the chip lead.

Unfortunately heads up didn't go my way but the NZ$790 2nd prize is my best live cash so far.

Thanks AMT.

Shipshippppp!!!!! You are sooo welcome, congrats. Did you have another name on 2p2/ftp/stars/aim because I can't remember coaching you, I've had a lot of students and what is likely a not-so-great memory for names Though I do remember a PM I got from you here on DC at some point, so ship that memory!

edit: that rake sounds brutal, but I know Australia is known for insanely raked games and I'm assuming Auckland isn't much different in that regard....

Did you have another name on 2p2/ftp/stars/aim because I can't remember coaching you

jmcspades on skype, mraussiepoker on aim, Jason from Sydney in real life!

Rake is brutal at Sky City, including their cash games.

jmcspades on skype, mraussiepoker on aim, Jason from Sydney in real life!

Rake is brutal at Sky City, including their cash games.

I remember now

Finished 3rd of 240 in an $8.80. I was chip leader 3-handed and could probably have had a good shot at first, but I think I may have gone too wild with this combo draw (SB is pretty passive):


Full Tilt Poker $8 + $0.80 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t1500/t3000 Blinds + t400 - 3 players - View hand 39158
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SB: t126578 M = 22.21
Hero (BB): t139020 M = 24.39
BTN: t94402 M = 16.56

Pre Flop: (t5700) Hero is BB with 5 6
1 fold, SB raises to t6000, Hero calls t3000

Flop: (t13200) 7 5 8 (2 players)
SB bets t26000, Hero raises to t91500, SB raises to t120178 all in, Hero calls t28678

Turn: (t253556) 6 (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: (t253556) 8 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: t253556
SB shows K K (two pair, Kings and Eights)
Hero shows 5 6 (two pair, Eights and Sixes)
SB wins t253556


Fold pre? Call flop and go crazy if I improve on turn? Problem is, this sort of draw plays a lot better all-in on the flop, because the six on the turn isn't exactly an unscary card.

But he seems to have something he likes. (The minraise from a passive player is a tipoff.) Perhaps ICM dictates avoiding the confrontation until I can beat one pair, and when the flush hasn't come in.

I hate poker.

633 tournaments on stars (not sng's) and no wins. Four 2nds, three 3rds, 15 4-10's and all the bustout hands look like this from last nites 80k gtd $10rb.

Is it wrong to want first? The $2k is nice but I dont feel satisfied!

Party Poker $12500000.00 No Limit Hold'em - 7 players - View hand 40823
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

Hero (BB): $769158.00
UTG: $5361125.00
UTG+1: $507548.00
MP: $1777000.00
CO: $2052288.00
BTN: $1234020.00
SB: $2332861.00

Pre Flop: ($187500.00) Hero is BB with A Q
4 folds, BTN raises to $400000, 1 fold, Hero raises to $753533, BTN calls $353533

Flop: ($1569566.00) T 8 J (2 players)

Turn: ($1569566.00) 7 (2 players)

River: ($1569566.00) 8 (2 players)

Final Pot: $1569566.00
Hero shows A Q
BTN shows 2 A
BTN wins $1678941.00
(Rake: $-109375.00)

AKQJT,

guess it depends if he's done something like that before, but on a monotone flop with nothing of the suit, you very well may be crushed by any hand that a very passive player minraise opens in the sb and 2x overbets the pot on the flop with in the end game on this type of board. This will likely depend on the depth of the last couple of payout jumps, but he will kill some of your combo draw outs with any single club in his hand and it seems highly unlikely that he'd take this line without a club or a flopped made hand that is far ahead of one pair and a straight draw on this board.


Bigfish,

What kind of tournaments specifically? 633 seems like a pretty small sample. Based only on what you wrote here, it looks like you're a bit rattled by making 20 final tables in 600ish 'big-field' tournaments. If this is the case, you may want to take more time to understand profit margins, variance, and statistical trends in NLH tournaments, or if you've done this intricately and thoroughly and still are unhappy, perhaps look into another game to pick up where the variance is less unappealing to you, because it can and likely will get very much worse than this (again, if I'm reading this correctly, which perhaps I'm not at all....)

Bigfish,

What kind of tournaments specifically? 633 seems like a pretty small sample. Based only on what you wrote here, it looks like you're a bit rattled by making 20 final tables in 600ish 'big-field' tournaments. If this is the case, you may want to take more time to understand profit margins, variance, and statistical trends in NLH tournaments, or if you've done this intricately and thoroughly and still are unhappy, perhaps look into another game to pick up where the variance is less unappealing to you, because it can and likely will get very much worse than this (again, if I'm reading this correctly, which perhaps I'm not at all....)

AMT,

yes I'm rattled, frustrated. Specifically almost all of the events I've played are NLHE MTT's. No sng Mtt's (maybe 3-4).
Am I wrong to be a bit rattled by making 20 FT's in 633 big-field events and not taking first in any of them? I'm sure you are right that I dont understand profit margins, variance, and statistical trends in NLH tournaments. But every time I see a dipshit losing player win an event thru sheer dumb ass luck it chaps my hide. Sundays Super Million and the Sunday warmup were BOTH won by player that had losing records and less than 50 (iirc) total tournaments played. the sunday mill winner from Buenos Aires in fact had only played baby buy in stuff. with a $3 avg buy in, and less than 30 of those.

What do you suggest? I'm here to learn!

But every time I see a dipshit losing player win an event thru sheer dumb ass luck it chaps my hide.

This would be a great place to start in fixing your game. It sounds like you have a sense of desert, as in you deserve to win the tournament because you're a better player than the person who in fact won.

Actually I love what Ed Miller writes on this subject at the end of Getting Started in Hold 'em, even though the book is probably too elementary to recommend otherwise.

But in any case, MTTs are high variance. They just are. "Fish" will win them sometimes, and they paid their entry fee and have every right to suck out once in a while. If you can't live with that, play STTs or cash games.