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smarnijss
Joined: 05.02.2009

Also right now im reading two books:

1. "Napoleon Hill - The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons"
2."The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less"

so hope to finish both of those books as soon as possible and give my "review" or thoughts how good those books are and what i learned in them.


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smarnijss
Joined: 05.02.2009

ehh it seems i kinda hit a small downswing but i also didnt had time to play sngmtts :( yesterday was busy cause of women day, had to help my boss to get all the flowers and other stuff to all the women in the job. Today i can't play much cause i went to the pool with my cousin and also cause anytime i will have to go to airport to pick up my brother and his family(his wife is playing rugby and they had some kind of tournament in Morocco) so yeah, i hope that tomorrow i will have more time to play sngmtts.

progress so far:


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smarnijss
Joined: 05.02.2009

Ok, at least i have some good news... I called that Croupier guy and we chat a little bit and it turns out that they are moving the whole building(with like 1000 employees) to an new part of the city, sooooo, im only going to start working there in June, sooooo, i will have enough time to play poker and do other stuff(like website) and it really made my day. So next week i will have to send him my CV and he will put that CV in queue and as soon as they will start getting new group together i will be first in line.
Damn at least now i can fully concentrate and do stuff that i was intended to do from the start, so it really makes me happy.
But like always not everything can be awesome, so, even if i got some good news in IRL, i've been running like shit in poker, like literally. Can't do anything, went through hands and SNG Wiz and most of my game was decent. But i also learned new stuff about early game and fixed some leaks that i thought i didn't had, so overall i shouldn't be bad or angry cause i've hit a small downswing.
So that's it for now, tomorrow i will only have enough time to play sng and maybe a small sngmtt's sessions cause im meeting my friend, so yeah, gonna leave the big "grinding" for sunday...


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smarnijss
Joined: 05.02.2009

Just an awful week, damn, even if i managed to fix some of my leaks i still couldn't win anything, ANYTHING, pfffff.... Yeah this weak was hard.

2nd Week

Bankroll week 0: $30
Bankroll week 2: $73.04
Tourneys played: 336
Profit: 5.65$
Goal: 1000$


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smarnijss
Joined: 05.02.2009

March so far:


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smarnijss
Joined: 05.02.2009

wow nice, first time im seeing bot a in Stars, i know that few years ago there were a lot of bots in fulltilt and ipoker but never have i seen one in stars,insane.
i just love when the bot has that "waiting" time till he bets 2.5 and folds as soon as you raise him, even if you only have 4-5bb. Also he donk bets every damn flop on HU and as soon as you minraise him he folds

the nick is Phoenix_1935, gonna report it to stars support, cause this is 100% obvious that it's bot.


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smarnijss
Joined: 05.02.2009

got a reply:

At your request, we have conducted a review of this player's profile, and it is our view that this player does not show any indication of being a bot based upon all the information we have available. Of course, we will continue to monitor our games and should evidence of any prohibited program use surface in the future, we will be sure to take the appropriate action in order to protect the integrity of our games.

Weird, i really thought that he was a bot, cause the timing of betting and folding, donk betting was always the same... Ok maybe i made a mistake but im still certain that he was a bot but who knows maybe they will monitor him and will realize later that he is...


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mostlyfolding
Joined: 31.10.2016

He has played 27 games since 27th Feb. Did you not check?


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smarnijss
Joined: 05.02.2009

Originally posted by mostlyfolding
He has played 27 games since 27th Feb. Did you not check?

i checked. But it doesn't matter how much tourneys he has played. Im talking about the way he played. For me it was obvious that he was a bot but maybe i made a mistake. :facepalm:


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mostlyfolding
Joined: 31.10.2016

I think a bot would be playing 100s of games per day


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mostlyfolding
Joined: 31.10.2016

Good work on 'stars looking into it though, good customer service as always


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smarnijss
Joined: 05.02.2009

Originally posted by mostlyfolding
I think a bot would be playing 100s of games per day

Originally posted by mostlyfolding
Good work on 'stars looking into it though, good customer service as always

yeah but maybe he was just trying it out and see how it works but who knows. Like i said maybe i made a mistake or maybe not but Stars support is looking into it so that's a good thing :)


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smarnijss
Joined: 05.02.2009

3rd Week

Bankroll week 0: $30
Bankroll week 3: $103.16
Tourneys played: 329
Profit: 30.12$
Goal: 1000$


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smarnijss
Joined: 05.02.2009

March so far:

Ok this week was kinda okish... Fixed some leaks and also realized that i still have plenty to learn, cause my game is not optimal right now. Still have spots where i have no idea how to push or call other ops pushes. How to cbet and do barreling, how to crush hu(cause there is where you win money the most) etc. etc. etc.
But it's also no that bad cause right now im destroying these current stakes and just need to put more time and effort to play them more if i want to move up, but on other hand it's good that i still play these limits cause it's not that expensive to make mistakes and i don't think that at 1.50$ or 3.50$ the games will be that different, so just need to spend more time studying and just improving my game cause if i will master my game at these 0.50$ limits i think it will be easy to go through/crush other stakes, so yeah, gonna concentrate more on my game/studying and will do my my best mastering at least these 9man sngs. So 11 days left till the end of march, so gonna grind a lot and study a lot and see if i'll be able to get my BR to 200$ at least.


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smarnijss
Joined: 05.02.2009

4th Week

Bankroll week 0: $30
Bankroll week 4: $102.30
Tourneys played: 264
Profit: 0.86$
Goal: 1000$


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smarnijss
Joined: 05.02.2009

OK The 4th week was really bad, i think i even tilted a little bit(i think so) but still couldn't win anything. Dunno it's so weird, that whenever your game improves(and my game has improved a looooot) you start to run like shit, cause at the beginning of March my game was much worse than it is right now but somehow i managed to make more money in the first few days than i could make it at the rest of this month. Dunno but i somehow starting to feel that poker is basically dead and that the only way how to be ahead of other players and win a lot is to play a loooooooooooooooooooooooot, i mean a looooot, cause otherwise you're just gonna be stuck and it will destroy your soul...
Anyway i'm not gonna watch my cashier or HM2 and just gonna grind till the last day of this month and just gonna concentrate on the game, cause right now i feel that my game is really good and i feel very comfortable at the tables and just gonna grind and see how it will go. But still i get depressed cause i though that my BR will be at least 200-250$ already and i would be playing 1.50$ and taking shots at 3.50$ but it seems that i still need to play a lot and learn a lot cause downswing is nothing more than an reminder that your game is still shit and you just need to work 2-3 times harder cause if you run like shit than it's very easy to see your mistakes and it's the best time to concentrate more on learning and studying the game than just mindlessly playing it...


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Tichwich85
Joined: 14.04.2012

:f_thumbsup::f_thumbsup:


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smarnijss
Joined: 05.02.2009

been sick for the past two days, got a virus or flu or whatever but basically my every part of the body hurts, especially my left shoulder it feels like somebody is penetrating my muscles with a small needles every damn second but i really hope to get better as soon as possible...

Anyway March is over and to be honest im realllllllllllly disappointed with this month, god, i was so sure that my bankroll will be at least 200-250$ but yeah in the end im still stuck at these 0.50$ and dunno how long will it take for me to get out of it...

So this month i played 119 hours total and this month i won 82.xx$ and to be honest i just want to kill myself or just withdraw everything and just go to MCdonalds and flip burgers cause i would earn there much more than playing these damn limits. So my hourly rate this month is 0.68$ :D :D :D :D :D. I don't even know what to say..... Even if my game skyrocketed this month and i finally started to feel good at the tables and most of the decisions i made were +ev i still couldn't beat 45man nor have a decent winrate at other formats, ok i'm beating 9man and even if the roi is 13%, it's still is 9man and not 45man, cause with 13% in 45man i would already have enough BR to move up to 1.50$...
But i will continue playing it next month and i know that i will get higher and i know that i will get similar roi in 1.50$ but stiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil, it's pissing me off that im so way off of my goal to have 300$ BR cause right it looks that i will not have 1k$ BR in June....

Ok it seems i will have to grind 2-3 times more next month and just concentrate on the game and check my winnings maybe once per week or even a month and just go through my HH everyday day and just hope that maybe next month i'll have enough luck or whatever to finally move to higher, otherwise in June i will search for my second and third job cause this is a joke, earning 0.68c per hour.

Anyway i'm really pissed and just gonna spend tomorrow and day after tomorrow planning what i need to do to move up and how much time and effort i will have to put into games so that my hourly rate would go from 0.68c to at least 2-3$...

MARCH Summary:

Graph:

All the tourneys that i played this month

My Bankroll


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smarnijss
Joined: 05.02.2009

5th Week

Bankroll week 0: $30
Bankroll week 5: $112.35
Tourneys played: 173
Profit: 10.05$
Goal: 1000$


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smarnijss
Joined: 05.02.2009

Guys remember when i thought that i was playing against a bot, well today i got this:

Hello,

PokerStars has become aware of a situation involving a violation of our Terms of Service, to the potential detriment of other players. You participated in games that were under consideration in this case and as a result you may have been adversely affected.

In a case such as this it is our policy to confiscate the balances of the offender(s) and for PokerStars to add funds where appropriate. This compensation pool is then distributed to players potentially affected in as fair a way as possible.

To confirm your credit, please log onto your PokerStars account, go to the 'Cashier' screen and click the 'History' button. Your share will be shown as "REFUND", followed by the amount of the credit.

The integrity of the games at PokerStars is of paramount importance and appropriate action will always be taken when players operate outside the Terms of Service. PokerStars works hard to police the games in order to pro-actively prevent such instances. However, in cases where it is discovered that rules breaches have occurred, the aim is to ensure that any players affected are compensated appropriately.

We regret that we will be unable to answer questions as to how your specific credit amount was calculated. Likewise, we are not at liberty to identify the specific games or player(s) in question. Suffice to say that the offender(s) have been barred from the site and you will not encounter them again.

Thank you for your continued play at PokerStars. Please let us know if we can help you with any further issues or questions.

Regards,

PokerStars Game Integrity Team

heh, so i was right, anyway i'm happy that stars team is doing something against bots and are not ignoring it like partypoker or ipoker does.


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