Gotta get healthy!
Flu hit me very hard. The last 2 days I had high fever around 40°C and terrible joint pain. I just slept all day. Now it´s getting better fever is going down, but of course the usual stuff: sneezing, caughing, well I´m caughing really hard. Argh! That sucks. Anyway, no idea when my next grind will be but gotta get healthy first!
At least no more fever ...
but feeling totally f*** up! I have a very bad caugh and still a sore throat and clogged nose. Need some time to recover. My next grind will probably be at the end of next week.
Fresh homemade Kimchi is on the way .........
:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:
Kimchi was once described to me as Korean Sauerkraut.
Seems close enough...
Cheers,
VS
Originally posted by VorpalF2F
Kimchi was once described to me as Korean Sauerkraut.
The idea behind it is very similar, the taste isn't.
For one thing, Kimchi definitely goes better with rice (which is important!). And may I point out that I consider Sauerkraut to be quite disgusting, without running the risk of being ambushed by a German lynch mob the next time I'm out in town?
I don't know, let's find out...
No, Kimchi, doesn´t taste like Sauerkraut, I use to put seafood in it. It´s seafood, cabbage, radish, ginger, carrotts, pear, chilli, garlic, green onions. This time I made it really hot! I love hot and spicy food. My kimchi is still fermenting, gonna check on it later.
Finally healthy!
Oh boy, was so tired last week, I slept a lot after work. At the weekend I slept 12 hours per night, now I´m getting fit again. Will do sports today, the first time after 2 weeks with almost just lying around. Spring starts here already and I could do a little bit of gardening at the weekend. I started with planting herbs and I don´t know why I didn´t think about that during the last years but I planted primrose! How could I not plant primrose? 
During the next days I will have pretty high work load (of course - beeing sick doesn´t mean that work does itself). Was too weak to play poker this weekend but I´m going to return to the tables this week.
Play something else!
Health is improving but work load is high at the moment! Besides, I´m getting more and more frustrated playing MTTs. As you know, I´ve been running really really bad for a long time now in MTTs and I cannot find the motivation to hit an MTT-table. That´s why I plan to play something else during the upcoming weeks, maybe some SnGs just for fun or some CG. I´m just tired of loosing and loosing in MTTs so gonna find some nice alternatives in No Limit Holdem. Wanted to test the water in CG anyway before I got sick, so .... why not?
Originally posted by Primrose6789
I´m just tired of loosing and loosing in MTTs so gonna find some nice alternatives in No Limit Holdem.
The thing about MTTs is that even professional players only have an ITM of maybe around 10-15%? At least those were some numbers I could find, and I believe they were based on classic large-field NLHE tournaments. It may be quite different for other types.
Either way, you definitely lose more often than you win in this format, even if you're doing amazingly well. The profit comes from deep runs, not from cashing in and of itself. So don't let any of those "losing streaks" get you down.
That being said, I believe the quicker formats you mentioned like SNGs or cash games would be a better idea for your current situation. It should be a good way to get your sea legs back, especially when your free time is limited. Besides, didn't you have some promising results in PLO cash so far?
Playing CG is good for you. ♠_thumbsup:
Chinese proverb : Give a HUD to a man, he'll exploit one day, but teach him to use a tracker... and he'll complain about his AIEV all his life 
"Si debis pedere, pedis superbe. (If you must fart, fart proudly)" VorpalF2F
Harrier, yes, indeed, even though I´m a total PLO-fish I could win something like 70 or 80 Euros or so?
Floxy: Yaaaay, you wanna see me playing CG? You will!
As for MTTs: Yes, I´m loosing WAY too many hands I actually "should" win according to statistics (running WAY under EV) - that´s very frustrating and that´s why I need something besides MTTs, especially when you are a fun-player. Loosing and beeing unlucky isn´t fun! And I don´t have to focus on one format, I can play several formats and having fun playing ♠_cool:♠_thumbsup:
I played MTTs for few years with abi around $5-$8. 20% ITM and 20%roi with 45%avRoi. And on one site untracked by SS but tracked by PPL I reached 20% itm with 112% avRoi on 5-6€ abi. Main game was superlatereg R/A MTT(reg on addon break). But if you go for the large field MTTs you are most likely looking ar 10-15% itm unless you are a crusher like Elmerixx who has a large sample on Pokerstars megafields 20% itm and $1M+ profit
I don´t look at my ROI, I´m just a hobby-player. The problem is, that I loose most of my hands, even though I get it in right.
KK < AKs
AA < 99
AQ< A9o
QQ< A2o
loosing 90 % of the flips
loosing everytime as 70:30 % favourite
loosing everytime as 60:40 % favourite
getting a lot of suck-outs
and such stuff. Or jamming into better hands like QQ into KK, KK into AA, 88 into 99, AQ into AK, ATs into AK/AQ, getting called by monsters when I jam blind vs blind, set vs set coolers, or getting rivered by some lucky wondercards for Villain.
Often loosing with sets ---> Villain makes his lucky draw or set over set cooler
Loosing with the flopped nut-str8 ---> Villain got it in with 2-pair, gets the full house on the river
Loosing with TPTK ---> either running into a set or getting rivered
Loosing with an FT ---> Villain gets the higher FH on the river
Loosing with K-high flushes ---> always jamming into A-high flushes
or just totally missing the flops (Villain hits, I don´t).
So: no matter what hand: It´s the second best! I loose! And of course getting tons and tons and tons of totally unplayable hands and just folding.
That´s how I run at the moment and I really don´t wanna hear anything about ROI or winrate!
And that´s how I´ve been running for a very long time now and I think it´s understandable that I´m demotivated and totally frustrated.
Hey
Could you please Post results for those premium hands for The MTT games and see how they are doing. Then same results when gone all on of with them. Have My doubts you are loosing 90%
Also 99 is PokerStars nutz So loosing to that is standard 
Well, I've been following for quite some time, and it looks like your frustrations with the game keep on growing. Maybe you'd like to consider focusing on PLO and other non-Hold'em games for a while? The variance in there may be even bigger, but at least the dynamics are different, so you might be able to get away from all those annoying spots you mentioned for some time.
Originally posted by Primrose6789
ALL of them? There are many!
Just Look for MTT hands AA KK QQ and AK
Post bb/100 and evbb/100.As fun as PLO is The variance is Most likely Even More horrible esp. as a New player. If you Have any goals apart being a fun player I would Stick to on format of Poker and one style of play aka. Tourney Poker or cash.
