MicroMillions Feb 2021

Good luck!

Take em doooown

Good luck sir and the rest of the members who are playing MM events

The Story so far:
Busted the first two, skipped the third ♠_cry:

Hey Vorpal,

thanks for posting this! I haven't seen any Badugi in the last tournament series' so I didn't even check this time. I hope I will find time tomorrow!

Best of luck to you - maybe we see each other at the Badugi FT.

All the best!

Went a bit better this afternoon...
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    Starts (GMT)                                   Event      Gtd  Play   Cost  Bounty    Cash 
 Feb 11 12:34:00          (SE): $3.30 NL 2-7 Single Draw   $1,000     1  $6.60                 
 Feb 11 14:34:00                  004: $1.10 PLO (8-max)   $3,500     1  $1.10                 
 Feb 11 15:04:00      005: $3.30 PKO Zoom, Turbo (6-max)  $10,000     1                        
 Feb 11 20:04:00  015: $3.30 PLO-H/L, PKO, Turbo (8-max)  $10,000     1  $3.30                 
 Feb 11 21:34:00         018: $5.50 Limit 8-Game (6-max)   $3,500     1  $5.50          $16.79 
 Feb 12 12:34:00              (SE): $5.50 Limit Stud H/L   $1,500     1                   
 Feb 12 13:34:00                   (SE): $3.30 PL Badugi   $2,000     1  $6.60                 
 Feb 12 20:34:00       (SE): $1.10 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw   $1,000     1  $2.20          $ 1.28       
 Feb 12 23:04:00       046: $1.10 Omaha H/L, PKO (8-max)   $3,500     1  $2.20                 
 Feb 13 13:34:00                        (SE): $3.30 Razz   $2,000     1  $3.30                 
 Feb 13 20:34:00    068: $5.50 NL Omaha H/L, PKO (6-max)  $12,500     1                   
 Feb 14 13:34:00                  (SE): $5.50 Limit Stud   $2,000     1  $5.50          $11.25       
 Feb 14 21:34:00          099: $3.30 Limit Horse (6-max)   $7,500     1  $1.10                 

I'll update the previous post with results as the happen.
Today I just couldn't get out of bed at 04:00 so I missed the stud hi/lo

I fired two bullets at the Badugi, but busted out when my pat 9 ran into a well-drawn perfect 4-Badugi

Updated the results post: https://forums.pokerstrategy.com/forum/thread.php?postid=3217708#post3217708

Looks like some tournaments had some overlay, but not to crazy.
Maybe the main event of tommorow wil get a decent overlay.
Could be a interesting tournament to play, but it will be a decent mine field.

Originally posted by SDK1987
Maybe the main event of tommorow wil get a decent overlay.

NEVER

Busted out of the $1.10 Razz about 30 places short of the money -- I had a hand that was just too good to fold, but lost on 7th street to an aggro player.
So it goes.

This hand kept me in it avoiding a much earlier bustout
Feral Cow Poker Hand Converter
PokerStars Limit Razz ($2.94+$0.36) t1500/t3000 ante t300 - 8 players

Seat 1: t32,880 [X] [X] T♥:8♥:2♣:3♦:
Seat 2: t18,280 [X] [X] J♦:
Seat 3: t26,555 6♦:2♦:5♠:A♠:4♦:7♥:T♦: (Hero)
Seat 4: t11,050 [A♦: ] [7♦: ] 2♠:6♠:9♠:9♣: [Q♣: ]
Seat 5: t35,140 [X] [X] 4♠:
Seat 6: t30,860 [X] [X] Q♥:
Seat 7: t10,480 [X] [X] T♠:
Seat 8: t10,720 [X] [X] 4♥:

3rd Street: (t2,400) (8 players)
Seat 6 brings, 2 folds, Seat 1 calls t450, Seat 2 folds, Hero calls t450, Seat 4 raises to t1500, 2 folds, Seat 1 calls t1050, Hero calls t1050

4th Street: (t6,900) (3 players)
Hero checks, Seat 4 bets t1500, Seat 1 calls t1500, Hero calls t1500

5th Street: (t11,400) (3 players)
Hero checks, Seat 4 bets t3000, Seat 1 calls t3000, Hero raises to t6000, Seat 4 raises to t7750 and is all-in, Seat 1 folds, Hero calls t1750

6th Street: (t29,900) (2 players)

River: (t29,900) (2 players)

Hero showed, Lo: 6,5,4,2,A
Seat 4 showed, Lo: 9,7,6,2,A
Hero won t30350

I had very few good hands, seeing 4th street only 16% of the time -- 20% is much more normal for this game.

This gave me a stack I could work with so I could put some pressure on other players.
Otherwise, I was pretty much hooped
I've updated the results post

Dont have a cow, heres your converted hand
PokerStars Limit Stud ($4.90+$0.60) t1500/t3000 ante t300 - 8 players

Seat 1: t31,975 [X] [X] 6♠:8♦:2♣:
Seat 2: t36,850 [6♥: ] [4♣: ] 7♣:9♣:T♣:Q♠: [4♦: ]
Seat 3: t15,885 A♥:K♣:K♦:5♠:T♦:Q♦:J♦: (Hero)
Seat 4: t18,735 [X] [X] 5♥:
Seat 5: t48,305 [X] [X] T♥:9♠:5♣:
Seat 6: t16,605 [X] [X] 7♠:8♣:A♠:
Seat 7: t12,605 [X] [X] 3♠:
Seat 8: t41,785 [X] [X] 9♥:

3rd Street: (t2,400) (8 players)
Seat 7 brings, Seat 8 folds, Seat 1 calls t450, Seat 2 calls t450, Hero raises to t1500, Seat 4 folds, Seat 5 calls t1500, Seat 6 calls t1500, Seat 7 folds, Seat 1 calls t1050, Seat 2 calls t1050

4th Street: (t9,900) (5 players)
Hero bets t1500, Seat 5 calls t1500, Seat 6 calls t1500, Seat 1 calls t1500, Seat 2 calls t1500

5th Street: (t17,400) (5 players)
Seat 6 checks, Seat 1 checks, Seat 2 checks, Hero bets t3000, 3 folds, Seat 2 calls t3000

6th Street: (t23,400) (2 players)
Hero bets t3000, Seat 2 calls t3000

River: (t29,400) (2 players)
Hero bets t3000, Seat 2 calls t3000

Seat 2 mucked
Hero showed, a straight, Ten to Ace
Hero won t35850

Originally posted by samni

Originally posted by SDK1987
Maybe the main event of tommorow wil get a decent overlay.

NEVER
It wasn't decent, but still a over lay of $12.260. Off course PokerStars can easy pay the overlay with the rake everyone has paid.

Originally posted by SDK1987

Originally posted by samni

Originally posted by SDK1987
Maybe the main event of tommorow wil get a decent overlay.

NEVER
It wasn't decent, but still a over lay of $12.260. Off course PokerStars can easy pay the overlay with the rake everyone has paid.

Makes NO sense, where is the time that every tournament hit 2x gtd

Originally posted by samni
Makes NO sense, where is the time that every tournament hit 2x gtd

The guarantees may have been lower.
Also, the Micromillions had a lot of tournaments at awkward times.

oh yeah -- I bust out of the HORSE well shy of the money, going for 3 streets of value in Limit Holdem with two pair on a board with a made flush.

Originally posted by VorpalF2F

Originally posted by samni
Makes NO sense, where is the time that every tournament hit 2x gtd

The guarantees may have been lower.
Also, the Micromillions had a lot of tournaments at awkward times.

Are you getting paid by stars or sth?
Point nr 2 had nothing to do with the main event and the 2017 MM main (for example) had a 1M gtd with 22$ BI (and pretty sure it didn't have 5 re entries possible) and it got smashed by 700k.

Edit: come to think of it, there is an argument to why this main didn't reach gtd.. This time it was a marathon, all events pushed into 4 days, lacking opportunities to run satellites for the main..

Could be a reason indeed, but they have changed the VIP system, rake on the micro tournaments and the software the last couple of years. The MTT's like the Sunday Million and Sunday Storm aren't so popular as a few years ago. Sunday Warm-up has only 80k garantueed on the moment and if I'm right it was at least $500k guaranteed a while ago.

For SNG's the traffic decreased a lot as well. I expect on ring games it's the same.

There are so many reasons PokerStars is losing players.

The limit 5-Card Draw tables used to have minimum 5 or 6 tables at FL $0.10/$0.20
Right now there's 3.

The VIP system has hurt, splitting the player pool has hurt, and competition from GGPoker has hurt.

The world changes, and all the complaints in the world won't stop it from changing

That's true for sure, but if most members don't like the changes it hurt PokerStars more and than was GG Poker not a serious competitior most likely. 2 years ago I never heard about GG Poker.