F... it! I quit! From now on I am MTT slave!

Hi Vainis, nice graph, keep on crushing, seeing how much work you are putting in, you must get holdem resources calculator or icmizer (if you don't have them already), your choice, both are good, i prefer HRC, but it's up to you. Sooner you start to work with one of these programs you can prob grow even faster as a player and results should follow. These programs are good to study your push/fold game, just be careful it is easy to get lost in there, put in your own reads and other player ranges as at your limits there will be only few regs that know how to use nash charts correctly, you can also use pokerstrategys video section there should be few guides how to use these programs properly.

Cheers, good luck. With hard work you can go far.

Hy Rufus433. I took your advice and started to work with HRC. I found out that regs are calling much wider than ICM, so I think it would be more +ev to shove a little tigher. Growing as a player is a hard thing, not because you must learn a lot, but self motivation sometimes is in a bad shape. Right now I am facing real bad week. I am not moving with my BR and it sucks. A lot of bad beats, villains hits their runners every single time. I am not doing any crazy moves but in the end it is the same negative results. Question for u guys, how long can u face bad luck, from experience.
So to stay motivated I am looking into my goals. Searching sharksscope found another +EV table for me

I am going bad and still in the 13th place. How?:D
Need some rest after todays bad session. Going to do something away from poker and when back to work

Break even or losing periods can be very frustrated and quite long depending on your volume, just study a lot and try to control what you actually can control, focus on that. For example, i know if i wouldn't have studied my game while i had a downswing it would be way bigger, playing your best allows you to have smaller downswings and bigger upswings, but nowadays it is almost impossible to have that big of an edge in the games to play them without 50+ BI ds/be periods.

All this leaderboard shows is that somewhere in 500 game period you earned 0.27$. after those 500 games ended you can lose next 1k games and it will still show the same result for you.

Gl, keep up the good work.

Good by sunday and hello for new week!

If u guys followed my blog you may know that this week was bad one. Whole week (~300games) I was be. It forced me to put more volume and to go back into 0,5$ mtts. So today I was playing only 0,5$ all miners and it was more fun than grinding only 45man tables. And the best part off it I see profit today So maybe I am back in the right road again. Also I played more micro tournaments because they are really soft and I hope I can ship one for big money.

Talking about whole month I am happy. At the beginning of the month I set some goals and now I have 6 days left for them. The main one was to climb in to 3,5$ with 70BI. It was a little bit optimistic because now I know variation is too big for 70BI BRM So I managed to reach this goal and built 70BI BR but I am not going to play 3,5$. I am too nitty for such an extreme BRM

Month goals
Gold at pokerstrategy (DONE)
Silver at PS (DONE)
start posting hands (working on it )
to reach stellar reward (79%)

and the main goal for $245 BR (DONE)

Hand of the month
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 1.5 Tournament, 50/100 Blinds (9 handed) - PokerStars Converter Tool from http://flopturnriver.com/

MP3 (t1,355)
CO (t1,506)
Button (t2,755)
Hero (BB) (t1,945)
UTG (t1,510)
UTG+1 (t1,435)
MP1 (t1,240)
MP2 (t1,380)

Hero's M: 12.97

Preflop: Hero is BB with K♣, A♣
3 folds, MP3 calls t100, 2 folds, Hero raises to t300, 1 fold, MP3 calls t200

Flop: (t700) J♣, Q♣, Q♥ (2 players)
Hero bets t280, MP3 calls t280

Turn: (t1,260) Q♦ (2 players)
Hero checks, MP3 checks

River: (t1,260) 10:club: (2 players)
Hero bets t750, MP3 raises to t775 (All-In), Hero calls t25

Total pot: t2,810

First RF this year

It is a little bit sad because I am going out to Austria next Friday and it means no more poker for about 1,5 week. But hey who cares poker then you are standing on the snowboard and looking into beautiful hillside. Hell yah, i think i'll survive without grinding atm I have 2 more days to play, so lets grind it!

update for BR challenge
tournaments: 398
bankroll: 232,29$
profit: + $24,68
week 3

And i would like to take holidays for 2 weeks.

Hi Vainis,

Good luck with your goal and wish you until the end of the year to be on 1st place in the leader-board on shark scope ♠_thumbsup:

PS: tx for the updates and we expect more also in the future

Hey guys!

Happened a lot from my last update. So I wanna share all stuff with you.
Two days ago I have came back from my trip to Austria. A little about it. At first it was great to visit such a countries like Czech Republic, German and of course Austria because it was my first meet with thys countries. In Austria we stayed in a little town called Hippach.

In our country there are no hills, so I was very excited to live for a week in such a beautiful city Next day we was ready to give away our souls for the Alps and we did!

Isn't beautiful?:) So it was the best snowboarding I ever had It was a little sad to go back to home but we did...
So after perfect week today I was at my job again. Was siting about an hour and wondering about my job should i quit it or should I pretend I like this job and do it for another years... I took a deep breath and went to my boss. Yes I did it, I have quit! So big changes are coming to my life and I am ready to accept them. At the moment I am very happy I did it and I think it was the best thing I have made in my life

If you are thinking I will try to get rich only playing poker you are wrong I like this game and I'll do my best to be successful in it, but I have another plans too. I and my friend we have business idea and we will try to bring it to the daylight as soon as posible It is not money most important thing it is all about being happy with what you do. This is why I left my job and this is why I am starting a kind of new life

So it was one week, things are happening. Lets take these things to build a better life

Tomorrow I am going to make a schedule to make sure I am spending my time productive. There will be a lot of stuff to put in it

What a view, I imagine myself snowboarding also on that mountains:f_pleased:

I appreciate a lot the people who pursuit their dream and I wish you to success making your dreams reality and to be happy ♠_thumbsup:

We also wait you with updates in the challenge next week if you didn't give up the poker also

Originally posted by teddypoker
What a view, I imagine myself snowboarding also on that mountains:f_pleased:

I appreciate a lot the people who pursuit their dream and I wish you to success making your dreams reality and to be happy ♠_thumbsup:

We also wait you with updates in the challenge next week if you didn't give up the poker also

I'll update next Monday as usual!

Getting used to multitable on mac is not so easy as I was expecting I tried Copilot tracker, it looks very nice and easy to use, but it costs a lot compared with PT4. I think I must look for PC if I want to put volume on poker because on mac I can only play 10 tables. With more tables it is really hard without TN.

Yesterday I made something like schedule for this month. For me it is something new and there are a lot of place to improve There it is

Short update for BR challenge.

tournaments: 678
bankroll: 300,9$
profit: +68,61$
week 4

At last I have some time to make normal update to my blog

So things are going and it is above all. At first some problems I had run into. I am really bad at my time control. As you can see I made schedule for this month. Okey, maybe it self is not well made, because new things happening in my life and I cant follow schedule correctly just because it is made to be followed. But who cares! The main thing is productivity, and I have some other schedule for it in my mind. Second problem: my mac. I like working with it, browsing internet, making videos and all other stuff, but it sucks when you try to play poker. It is 3 days I am trying to make it more friendly with poker stuff. But it does not give a shit. Was wondering about buying pc just for poker, but finally I have made another decision. Tomorrow I am going to put windows inside this beautiful body and to use windows for poker and OS X for another stuff. I ll do it until I earn enough for PC. I think it would be smartest choice

Not all things are going bad. Looking deeper into poker things are going well, I am beating 1,5$ 45maners and I am happy about it. While I can not put my max volume into game I am not playing 180maners anymore. Maybe i ll look into these another time

February is going to the end and I must look into another month. So I made all my goals for this month. It means I must make another ones for March. I think it's gonna be much bigger month!♠_cool:

For usual GRAPH update I am going to put my Poker Copilot graph at the end off this month. So if someone are looking for the numbers stay tuned

Short update for BR challenge.

tournaments: 220
bankroll: 348,4$
profit: +47,5$
week 5

Saliut!

Sorry about being lazy with blog stuff

After today grind it is time to update my poor blog. I think some problems in my life and my poor english influence this blog pause Enough excuses, I am back and ready to work hard again

Little February update:
I had some problems at the middle of the month with my pc. It causes a little stop from poker. As I mention before I had put windows into my mac body and it solved the problem. At the moment I have some problems with it so future purchase is going to be PC. Summing February wasn't big month looking in poker stuff. Anyway without playing much I made a little profit and BR for 1,5$ 45maners. There was no goals for February because of my life changes so no big things to talk about

Today is March 7. And it is a little to late for March goals but I think it is better now than never So I am planning to put much time into poker this month. There are thinks to improve for better play and of course money to take
From now it is 25 days left in the Month. Lets make some goals for it:

1. I am going to play 3000 Mtts
2. I am going to watch 10 sng/mtt videos
3. I am going biuld BR for 3,5$ (safe 200BI)
4. I am going to read all sng articles - bronze, silver, gold (18% done)
5. I am going to read all MTT articles - bronze, silver, gold (50% done)
6. I am going to study poker in other ways 16h
7. I will do my best to finish my 1$K BR challenge (476$ done)

It is more than enough for such a goal getter like me

Thats all for today.

I know I have plenty of space to improve in things so be free to comment because your opinion is very important for me!

Nice to see another MTT player blogging, you've been doing really well. You have an awesome volume also. Just wondering, do you plan on playing any bigger tournaments than the 45 player sit and go's?

Originally posted by LeNNy010
Nice to see another MTT player blogging, you've been doing really well. You have an awesome volume also. Just wondering, do you plan on playing any bigger tournaments than the 45 player sit and go's?

I saw you are going great with your big field mtts too!:) And yes, I am playing bigger tournaments too, but have no deep run yet. My biggest one was something about top 50 players out of ~5k in 0,55$ regular As you know I am not investing more than 1/200 into single tournament

Lets update these two days after my last update. Yesterday I decided to lower my volume and to focus more into villains play, it means I am moving down from 20 tables to 8 and using HUD. I see a lot of regs playing 1,5$ 45maners and it saves me a lot of chips when they are minraising or limping with 5BB In these two days i got realy bad luck. My PP went down against OP over than 80% of the time and it sucks, but nothing to worry about it is new week and I am going to boost my luck some how

I have reviewed some hands in HoldemResources Calculator but I will post these hands latter to ask your opinion.

Get Rich or Die Tryin' - The Bankroll Challenge

Tournaments: ~350 (lost some HH)
Bankroll: 370,2$
Profit: +21,8$
Week 6

Okey I have a problem, I am never sticking to the plan!

It is why I am back to 20 tablening. Today I have found another great Collins video and it inspired me a lot. I think my big leak is that I am consentrating to the results too much. I know that it is posible for everyone to have big downswings but then it happens to me I loss control of my game. That is a reason to play 20 tables because I cant even see my hand wins or losses

Some hands waiting for your opinion

Poker Stars, $1.36 Buy-in (200/400 blinds, 25 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 5 Players

Hero (SB): 4,590 (11.5 bb)
BB: 7,105 (17.8 bb) 15/13 (400 hands)
MP: 9,785 (24.5 bb)
CO: 12,029 (30.1 bb)
BTN: 3,851 (9.6 bb)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 6♠ J♠
3 folds, Hero raises to 4,565 and is all-in, BB calls 4,165

Flop: (9,255) 6♦ 7♥ 8♥ (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Turn: (9,255) K♠ (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (9,255) 9♠ (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Poker Stars, $1.36 Buy-in (75/150 blinds) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 8 Players

Hero (SB): 1,370 (9.1 bb)
BB: 2,437 (16.2 bb) 24/23 (400 hands)
UTG+2: 1,288 (8.6 bb)
MP1: 3,680 (24.5 bb)
MP2: 956 (6.4 bb)
MP3: 1,365 (9.1 bb)
CO: 1,145 (7.6 bb)
BTN: 2,579 (17.2 bb)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 9♣ 8♣
6 folds, Hero raises to 1,370 and is all-in, BB calls 1,220

Flop: (2,740) Q♥ Q♦ K♣ (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Turn: (2,740) 2♥ (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (2,740) 4♥ (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Poker Stars, $1.36 Buy-in (400/800 blinds, 50 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 6 Players

Hero (SB): 10,780 (13.5 bb)
BB: 5,323 (6.7 bb) 18/17 (300 hands)
UTG: 12,128 (15.2 bb)
MP: 10,027 (12.5 bb)
CO: 14,292 (17.9 bb)
BTN: 14,950 (18.7 bb)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 8♥ J♠
5 folds

Another report by my self!:)

Guess my poker week is over and gona come back next week. It was only 3 days but I have some other stuff to do in my hometown. So this short week was the most swingy I ever had. You can see it on my graph.

it is more gamblers graph than grinders I guess Anyway happy to see that wall in the end. Good luck for everyone and see u next week!