A Road of 500 Dreams

Hi guys,

quick update after 2 sessions and 24 tourneys. I decided to sign up at red kings and managed the only worthy finish there: 8/166 in the Mosh Pit Lite. Quite happy with it, as I never got above 20BB for the last 2 hours after running into AA with JJ and yet still managed to get on the FT

Unluckily, quite annoying way to end the final table...

RedKing $10 Buy-in (5,000/10,000 blinds, 1,000 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 8 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 135,876.04 (13.6 bb)
BB: 172,705.68 (17.3 bb)
Hero (UTG+2): 79,501 (8 bb)
MP1: 126,277.51 (12.6 bb)
MP2: 70,713.26 (7.1 bb)
MP3: 407,786.96 (40.8 bb)
CO: 189,372.16 (18.9 bb)
BTN: 521,767.39 (52.2 bb)

Preflop: Hero is UTG+2 with J♦: J♣:
Hero raises to 78,501 and is all-in, MP1 folds, MP2 calls 69,713.26 and is all-in, 5 folds

Flop: (162,426.52) T♠: 4♠: 9♠: (2 players, 2 are all-in)
Turn: (162,426.52) A♦: (2 players, 2 are all-in)
River: (162,426.52) 8♥: (2 players, 2 are all-in)

Overall, not too happy about how I played, for 2 major reasons:

• Need to stop playing more than 6 tables
• Need to stop getting bored in the mid/late early part of a tourney

Happy points :

• Feels good to do hand posting and quick review before session
• Managed to re-focus throughout session

Goals for next session:

• Stay focussed all the way through --- Any tips are very welcome!
• Play 6 tables at a time max

Finally, current status on goals:

• 24/500 Dreams
• Get a positive RoI: BR -5.2%...
• 4/500 Hands posted, hoping to get some good replies
• Stick to my bankroll plan: yes

Plan is to play Friday, Saturday and Sunday

That’s too bad the JJ hand. How was your weekend run go?
Further I wish you all the best to improve your MTT game and bankroll

Cheers,
SDK1987

Hi all,

Thanks for the wishes! The goal of posting regularly seems out of the window...

Anyways, a quick update on where I stand and some thoughts I had during the last few sessions.

Thoughts
I noticed that staying focussed throughout teh whole tourney is quite hard. I also noticed that basically my play becomes a) too robotic and b) I think i bluff too much. Until now I have not found a real solution, but I have tried a few things:

• get some fresh air during breaks and walk a few steps - works quiet well
• "you don't win a tourney in the beginning, you only lose it" - I keep reminding myself, but sometimes too late
• in between hands I take the hand of my mouse - this works surprisingly well, because the second of grabbing the mouse back is enough to give a bit of pause to think
• limit table number to 6 - this definitely helps!

I will focus on my focus more during the next few sessions and I am sure it will help improve results

Results

• 111/500 Dreams
• Get a positive RoI: BR flat
• 5/500 Hands posted, HORRIBLE
• Stick to my bankroll plan: yes

Sofar no win, though 3 final tables: Mosh Pit Lite 5th and 8th, 5th in the 6-max Special One on iPoker and a nice run in the $16.50 Bounty Builder in 51st place.

FT performance has been disappointing though. One time I squeezed in as a mega short stack and the rest just being too aggressive I guess. What do you think bout this hand:

Villian is quite passive, also been able to push him around post flop and take down pots without showdown. Looking back, his flattening of my 3-bet should have give me pause, but still I think the push is +cEV as many of his calling hands should find a fold, but not sure if its good from $EV perspective with quite some pay jumps...

IPoker, $9.10 Buy-in (10,000/20,000 blinds, 2,000 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 5 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

Hero (SB): 344,523 (17.2 bb)
BB: 1,690,221 (84.5 bb)
MP: 2,430,024 (121.5 bb)
CO: 1,020,860 (51 bb)
BTN: 264,372 (13.2 bb)

Preflop: Hero is SB with T♥: A♠:
MP folds, CO raises to 40,000, BTN folds, Hero raises to 100,000, BB calls 80,000, CO folds

Flop: (250,000) 8♣: 8♥: 7♥: (2 players)
Hero bets 242,523 and is all-in, BB calls 242,523

Turn: (735,046) J♦: (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (735,046) K♥: (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Goals Next Sessions

• Stay focussed
• Post 2 hands per tourney
• Post update Monday latest

GL everyone!

Hi all,

just a quick update. Trying my luck at some of the WCOOP-L events and had a nice run in the $11 PKO yesterday. First got lucky hunting for a $28 dollar bounty when next pay jump was only $5 and 100s of places away but then got handed a brutal pay back 45min before end of day 1... Guess it happens, just annoying to happen in these spots...

Poker Stars, $10 Buy-in (8,000/16,000 blinds, 2,000 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 9 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

Hero (SB): 336,016 (21 bb)
BB: 2,316,910 (144.8 bb)
UTG+1: 781,318 (48.8 bb)
UTG+2: 856,575 (53.5 bb)
MP1: 238,378 (14.9 bb)
MP2: 297,186 (18.6 bb)
MP3: 698,156 (43.6 bb)
CO: 225,820 (14.1 bb)
BTN: 1,014,502 (63.4 bb)

Preflop: Hero is SB with Q♥: K♠:
UTG+1 raises to 36,800, UTG+2 folds, MP1 raises to 236,378 and is all-in, 4 folds, Hero raises to 334,016 and is all-in, BB raises to 2,288,000, UTG+1 folds

Flop: (959,210) 8♠: 2♠: 6♠: (3 players, 2 are all-in)
Turn: (959,210) Q♠: (3 players, 2 are all-in)
River: (959,210) 2♣: (3 players, 2 are all-in)

Poker Stars, $10 Buy-in (10,000/20,000 blinds, 2,500 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 9 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

SB: 2,139,044 (107 bb)
BB: 731,563 (36.6 bb)
UTG+1: 467,450 (23.4 bb)
UTG+2: 495,001 (24.8 bb)
MP1: 957,988 (47.9 bb)
MP2: 1,040,094 (52 bb)
MP3: 305,934 (15.3 bb)
Hero (CO): 797,960 (39.9 bb)
BTN: 1,694,071 (84.7 bb)

Preflop: Hero is CO with A♥: A♣:
5 folds, Hero raises to 42,000, BTN raises to 125,800, 2 folds, Hero raises to 795,460 and is all-in, BTN calls 669,660

Flop: (1,643,420) K♥: 3♠: 5♠: (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Turn: (1,643,420) Q♠: (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (1,643,420) 5♣: (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Also nice run in the $12 turbo catfish, busting 3 before FT after these two back to back hands:

Pacific, $11 Buy-in (3,000/6,000 blinds, 750 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 6 Players
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SB: 54,472 (9.1 bb)
Hero (BB): 70,602 (11.8 bb)
UTG: 56,814 (9.5 bb)
MP: 149,484 (24.9 bb)
CO: 65,192 (10.9 bb)
BTN: 187,408 (31.2 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BB with A♣: Q♣:
4 folds, SB raises to 53,722 and is all-in, Hero calls 47,722

Flop: (111,944) T♥: 5♠: 2♥: (2 players, 1 is all-in)
Turn: (111,944) 8♥: (2 players, 1 is all-in)
River: (111,944) 3♥: (2 players, 1 is all-in)

Pacific, $11 Buy-in (3,000/6,000 blinds, 750 ante) No Limit Hold'em Tournament, 6 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.

Hero (SB): 16,130 (2.7 bb)
BB: 56,064 (9.3 bb)
UTG: 148,734 (24.8 bb)
MP: 64,442 (10.7 bb)
CO: 186,658 (31.1 bb)
BTN: 111,944 (18.7 bb)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 7♣: 7♠:
2 folds, CO raises to 185,908 and is all-in, BTN folds, Hero calls 12,380 and is all-in, BB folds

Flop: (41,260) 4♠: 9♠: 8♠: (2 players, 2 are all-in)
Turn: (41,260) 5♥: (2 players, 2 are all-in)
River: (41,260) Q♥: (2 players, 2 are all-in)

Overall, I seem not be able to accumalte a big enough stack in early/mid game often enough to be able to take advantage of it aroudn the bubble. Will look into the early mid game stage now and then I am positive to finally get a win this week ♦

So, I guess BR is going nicely:

Nice one congrats

Thanks a lot. Was quite a run, especially after I started getting frustrated with my results, leading to an even worse study attitude. So this is definitely something to work on... So lets see how we stand and what the points to work on over the next few days are:

• 196/500 Dreams
• Get a positive RoI: 136%
• 9/500 Hands posted, HORRIBLE
• Stick to my bankroll plan: broke the rules in some WCOOC and UCOP events. Will also not play much bigger buy ins after the 2nd place last night, as I feel it is out of my league.

Not sure if I will play again before wednesday, when I got a free ticket for the $3k Tallin qualifier on Red Kings, but the goals over the next week are:

• Look at balancing my 3-bet call/fold/push ranges
• Go through all marked hands and post at least 2/3 of them
• Look into mindset training videos --> suggestions welcome!

Talk soon

First bounty tourney victory

Apart from this I started looking into 3-betting balance, so overall good few days

Nice victories and hopefully this month will be great as well

Hi guys,

just to give a brief update, after being away from teh tables for a bit more than a week and also having to be away again next week, I realize my goal of 500 tourneys until 1st November will not be areachable. Currently I am about half way there. Funny thing is that originally I didn't really have a monetary goal, but now it seems like this is the only thing that will be positive by November...

Let's have a look:

1) play 500 dreams (aka MTTs), hopefully not too many RIPs... --> as I said, not reachable :-(
2) Get a positive RoI --> yes, this will be achieved, currently at slightly more than 200% :-)
3) Post 500 hands in the forums --> my laziness clearly beat me here, pathetic loss...
4) Stick to my bankroll plan --> was sticking to it apart from WCOOP-L and after my 2nd place in the Big 11 I decided to play mostly smaller buy ins than the roll suggested as I didn't feel fully comfortable skill wise.

Additionally I spent some time watching some videos and I worked on 3 and 4 bet ranges. So a bit of studying was done at least :-) I am curious what teh next weeks bring, even though I will only be able to play around 10 days...

Nice ships man, congratulations. Keep up the good work

Excellent start and look forward to reading future posts
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