[Completed] Holiday & Tankroll BRMs in Practice: €300 -> €1500 mostly in €10 Twister

A 3bet to 1400 wouldn't have allowed me to reopen the betting after SB's shove, but a 3bet to 1350 would have worked fine and otherwise I agree.

Originally posted by tonypmm
Next Sat & Sun, there's going to be a rare sighting of a Bronzestar sitting at a double-digit number of $3.5+R/5KO/11KO MTSNG tables at peak hours, check that out

Spoiler

The Sunday show is going to feature me as a Chromestar already, though. And I think I'll be loading KOs only because I'm suddenly not good at mixing formats, despite the proper carpet colour coding.

Get Rich or Die Tryin' report

235 tournaments
-€160
€360
9 weeks

(+€480 worth (with rake excluded; €516 nominally) of unplayed Twister tokens )

Audit:

Starting from this week (i.e. the next update), the results (buy-ins and winnings) in scheduled tournaments (except freerolls and tourneys with player points buy-in and an overlay), are excluded from the challenge statistics. (Btw, the rules of the Russian community counterpart of GRoDT require exactly this, for a good reason - big scores, which account for a significant part of the MTT ROI, would be an overkill as they normally exceed the challenge goal, so including them affects the probability of winning negatively.)

Sorry folks, I was busy with the HUSnG championship match vs a $200 HU hyper reg prosvk; now that it's over, I'm going to crunch the numbers of the BR challenge in a little while.

A good news is that I've fixed the Net Won stat in PT4 to correctly display winnings in PSKOs after the audit file is imported

GRoDT report

174 tournaments
+€675
€1035
10 weeks

(+ €39 Twister token equity + some August Boost token equity)

Obviously, most of the profit came from playing the vast reserves of Twister tokens through

Graph:

BIG CONGRATS SIR
wish you weeks like this at least 1 time/ month

Thanks, sir! May you have massive every week too!

Alas I'm no longer going to have such vast reserves of Twister tokens; I have only around 60 cheap ones now

I don't include token equity into the bankroll because I'm superstitious (they need to be played through). So the actual 'bankroll increase' was far from 3x, I simply played the tokens through.

I hope I'm finished with the challenge this week, I'm only a few hundred away from it, and the fields have been ridiculous

Please let me know if you'd like to see more puzzling hands from my match with prosvk than the one I've posted in its thread (it's duplicated below); I've been too lazy to analyse them properly

Early in the match...

Full Tilt - $0.50|10/20 NL (2 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (SB): 480
BB: 520

Hero posts SB 10, BB posts BB 20

Pre Flop: (pot: 30) Hero has T♦ 7♦

Hero raises to 40, BB calls 20

Flop: (80, 2 players) 8♣ T♠ J♥
BB checks, Hero bets 30, BB calls 30

Turn: (140, 2 players) 5♦
BB checks, Hero bets 70, BB raises to 450 and is all-in, fold

BB wins 280

First of all, it's more mandatory to use the usual halfpot sizing here than anywhere else; I sometimes confuse the NLHE and PLO classifications of board textures (having ground cash PLO for over a year); here, there are enough OESDs (9s) to get value from, as well as enough 9s in my range to make Jakub (prosvk) consider stacking off lighter, whereas the flop would be pretty heavy and lockdown by PLO standards (there would be many made straights).

Secondly, I think checking the turn and bluffcatching the river is a better option here as I hate being x/r'ed, and I was surely thinking about it, for so long that he might have picked a timing tell.

Whether to call the x/r is an Equilab puzzle; the problem is that most of his 9s have a decent equity, and some of them are discounted because he didn't 3bet pre, whereas my equity vs his Js+ is rather poor (maybe he takes this line with QT if he flats it pre, but I don't think he likes to extract very thin value here with worse Tx).

It looks like a marginal spot:

personal i check on that flop or if I decide to bet for sure I check the turn because i don't consider to have 2 full streets of value. AT and KT for sure I bet the flop and turn, QT probably half of the combos.

Wow, I didn't think the decision depends so much on the kicker

I was surely considering checks on both streets, but would likely have to face one-two stabs then. I guess the 2PWK was good enough as a bluffcatcher.

In PLO, there's a separate betting purpose called 'preventing opponent's bluff', I'm not sure if it's a valid concern in NLHE at all, at least Balugawhale (in 'Easy Game') didn't think it's a separate purpose.

I'm perfectly aware that I tend to bet/fold too much equity

#Hands4Giggles

iPoker - €4.65+€0.35 | NL (3 max) - Holdem - 2 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (BB): 1,172
SB: 328 (likely female, judging by the SN)

2 players post ante of 8, SB posts SB 40, Hero posts BB 80

Pre Flop: (pot: 136) Hero has 9♦ T♥

SB calls 40, Hero checks

Flop: (176, 2 players) 3♥ 7♣ J♦
Hero checks, SB bets 80, Hero raises to 1,084 and is all-in, SB calls 160

iPoker - €4.65+€0.35 | NL (3 max) - Holdem - 3 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 610
Hero (BB): 330
BTN: 560

3 players post ante of 5, SB posts SB 20, Hero posts BB 40

Pre Flop: (pot: 75) Hero has T♣ A♥

BTN raises to 80, SB raises to 120, Hero raises to 325 and is all-in :f_confused:, fold, fold

Hero mucks T♣ A♥

Hero wins 540

Oops, I've faced a bit too much variance today :f_biggrin:, even though my volume has been terribly low as always - after a mandatory weekly €150 bet (on baccarat this time, which I won; casinoments of course never count into the challenge), I played through only 18 out of the huge (60-ish) backlog of €1 tokens, then found it difficult to start a new session, ended up indulging myself with Chessexplained's Youtube videos for the whole night :f_ugly:, then decided to play a short session at local 10 AM to check whether the fish was still there (it was late Sunday evening already even in Canada). Well, in almost all my games I was facing the same reg, which already wasn't nice. But guess what happened then...

The financial report is coming after Stars' and iPoker's daily all-in shootouts, i.e. at ~9 PM CET (unless I get up later ). I guess I'm at €1200-1300-ish, have been so messed up mentally last week, especially after the first English translation of the German 'Kate & Tony' strategy article series came out, that I didn't find the force to play as much as I wanted.

Heh, I'm done for tonight after this (in a 6x, out of all places).

iPoker - €9.30+€0.70 | NL (3 max) - Holdem - 3 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 405
Hero (BTN): 480
SB: 615

3 players post ante of 5, SB posts SB 15, BB posts BB 30

Pre Flop: (pot: 60) Hero has J♠ K♠

Hero calls 30, fold, BB checks

Flop: (90, 2 players) 6♠ 3♠ A♠
BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: (90, 2 players) 5♦
BB bets 63, Hero calls 63

River: (216, 2 players) 4♠
BB times out and his hand is auto-checked as per iPoker rules,
Hero waits until BB is back, for max value, and bets 108,
BB raises to 307 and is all-in, Hero calls 199

BB shows 2♠ 5♠ (Straight Flush, Six High)
(Pre 33%, Flop 4%, Turn 2%)
Hero mucks J♠ K♠ (Flush, Ace High)
(Pre 67%, Flop 96%, Turn 98%)
BB wins 830

So, had I had air there, I would have won the hand by minbetting when BB was sitting out. Having the third nuts (the first two being improbable) has played a sick joke with me. So intense, in a true iPoker style, wow.

Believe it or not, already on the flop, I had a hunch that a straight flush was coming

#Hands4Giggles

PokerStars - $6.58+$0.42|10/20 NL (3 max) - Holdem - 3 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

SB: 480
BB: 410
Hero (BTN): 610

SB posts SB 10, BB posts BB 20

Pre Flop: (pot: 30) Hero has 7♣ A♦

Hero raises to 40, fold, BB calls 20

Flop: (90, 2 players) 6♠ 8♦ 8♠
BB checks, Hero bets 50, BB calls 50

Turn: (190, 2 players) 8♥
BB checks, Hero bets 90, BB calls 90

River: (370, 2 players) A♠
BB bets 230 and is all-in, Hero calls 230

somehow when flopping nuts at ipoker , rivers changes it to 2nd nuts true ipoker style indeed,, just so sick but nice to see you doing good overall last weeks

just to say that I hope you are ok there tony - don't worry too much about the 'trainwreck' incident mate - if you haven't made an arse of yourself on a public forum, you've never lived imho! - I've done it myself on numerous occasions and nobody really cares that much tbh (you may get talked about/laughed at, for a few days, but then it's mostly forgotten and peeps move on to sommat else) - you'll be lookin back yourself, and pissin yourself laughin at it soon, I bet

(pretty sick beat there btw - ouch!!!)

I don't worry as much as about exposing my own leaks as about showing an exaggerating snapshot of iPoker's field publicly: when recording the video submitted for that review, I ran into someone who got permanently disconnected at 3 tables at once for the entire tourneys, plus the weakest regfish of the stake at two of the tables, plus random recreationals; surely, there's plenty of better regs in the field too, and disconnections happen less often.

On a side note, this is going to eat my time in the two coming weeks

Follow it here. The 2+2 chess mod BobJoeJim has calculated the odds of each player's win in his blog 'Chess by the Numbers' (As you might know, Veselin Topalov and Vishy Anand have been on fire lately - what a brilliant shape for their ages of 40 and 45 respectively!)

I'm not rooting for anyone in particular, just looking forward to good games and Chessexplained's dedicated Twitch streams (watch announcements and records on his Youtube channel).

OK, we've already had Carlsen's double-edged (though surprisingly unspewy) knight sacrifice and Aronian's correct and crushing rook sac, what's happening is so good for chess

Meanwhile, I'm trying to spin up the balance for a play money challenge I've just had an idea to run after this one, but it's really tough (maybe I'm spewing too much) and maybe I'll have to spend $1.99 on the starting 'bankroll' of 350K chips

Edit: no, I won't have to spend money because Full Tilt has jackpot SnGs with the buy-in of as few as 100 play chips

Heh, I've had a fun time grinding a bit of play money HUPLO Zoom nevertheless, something I'd never enterprise for real money (I'm a mere 6-max specialist, HU is too complex and overraked).

GRoDT report

90 tournaments
+€72
€1287
12 weeks

Graph:

A technical notice regarding CPT qualifiers

As the satellite tickets given by promotions are non-refundable, I'll have to play them through; in the rare event of me winning a Punta Cana package (including the €800 buy-in), it will count as +€300 added to the bankroll for the purposes of the challenge, as I'm sure I'll be able to sell at least that much worth of live action.

In other news, I've started trialling tranquiliser pills (specific to Russia, that are believed not to harm focus, which is rare for this group of medicines) combined with hepatoprotector pills mitigating the liver damage from the former

Hmm thats and idea, didnt thought about selling some of my action for MPS

:sfishy::sfishy::f_cool::f_cool::sfishg::sfishg:

Here's the hand that has won the challenge.

GRoDT final week report

2878 hands
+€522
€1809
13 weeks

Graphs:

Congrats on your success :f_drink::f_drink::f_drink::f_drink: