888 Bankroll recovery

Today I played 9 (so far) and cashed 3 of them for $0.95
Edit: Played 11, cashed 5 for $1.19
(I also reached day 2 of another one -- but with a v short stack. Had I known were were that close to the cut-off, I would have punted and used another ticket if I lost)

One of the tricks is desperation equity.
Be patient. The opportunity will come, and when it doesn't just win your bust-out hand...

Hand #1 -- 1BB left in BB

Hand #1 -- 1ante left in MP

I also played some PLO8 5 while the tournaments were running...
A typical (for me) U-shaped session graph, with a flat red line

PLO 8 is tough, because to win big, you need to win both the hi pot and lo pot.
Most wins today were in the $0.02 - $0.90 range, but three of 'em were about 1/2 buy-in each.

This was the most satisfying...
Pacific Poker - $0.05 PL Hi/Lo - Omaha Hi/Lo - 7 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: $7.79
Hero (SB): $12.51
BB: $5.00
UTG: $4.83
UTG+1: $2.92
MP: $4.30
CO: $6.98

Hero posts SB $0.02, BB posts BB $0.05

Pre Flop: (pot: $0.07) Hero has 6♥:A♦:Q♣:J♦:

UTG calls $0.05, UTG+1 calls $0.05, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls $0.03, BB checks

Flop: ($0.20, 4 players) Q♦:A♥:5♠:
Hero checks, BB checks, UTG checks, UTG+1 checks

Turn: ($0.20, 4 players) A♠:
Hero bets $0.13, BB raises to $0.26, fold, fold, Hero raises to $0.98, BB calls $0.72

River: ($2.16, 2 players) 4♠:
Hero bets $2.16, BB raises to $3.97 and is all-in, Hero calls $1.81

Hero shows 6♥:A♦:Q♣:J♦: (Full House, Aces full of Queens)
(Pre 43%, Flop 56%, Turn 73%)
BB shows A♣:6♠:4♥:K♦: (Full House, Aces full of Fours)
(Pre 57%, Flop 44%, Turn 28%)
Hero wins $9.60
Rake paid $0.50

I saw you will play $500.000 King Kamikaze FR - Day 2 tonight. Seeing your freeroll results, I hope we won't play on the same table.

Good luck!

Best of luck!
I'm actually rather short stacked in that tournament -- hoping for some desperation equity!

Average is 32,500 I have about 1/4 that.
8880 remaining, 5,000 paid.

$50 min cash, 50K up top.
Not bad for a freeroll

And indeed desperation equity was a factor
I got one walk -- which extended my ability to coast to the money.
Of the other 46 hands, I voluntarily entered 4 other times -- and won 3 of them.
88 held vs AK suited
AKs vs AKo ended in a split -- which added to my stack slightly.
I busted out with A2o in EP with 2.5 BB left and encountered another A2 and an A8 -- I was hoping for a 3-way chop, but not today.

This hand was significant:
Getting the fold from the big stack set me up -- I was then 3000th of 6000 with 5000 paid

Pacific Poker - 1000/2000 Ante 250 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP+1: 12,969
MP+2: 24,561
CO: 75,118
BTN: 42,268
SB: 276
Hero (BB): 11,140
UTG: 8,585
UTG+1: 19,079
MP: 7,443

9 players post ante of 250, SB posts SB 26, Hero posts BB 2,000

Pre Flop: (pot: 4,276) Hero has K♥:J♥:

fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, CO raises to 4,000, fold, Hero calls 2,000

Flop: (10,276, 3 players) 2♥:J♠:A♦:
Hero bets 6,890 and is all-in, fold

Turn: (10,276, 2 players) 9♥:

River: (10,276, 2 players) Q♣:

SB shows 8♥:4♥: (High Card, Ace)
(Pre 32%, Flop 3%, Turn 0%)
Hero shows K♥:J♥: (One Pair, Jacks)
(Pre 68%, Flop 97%, Turn 100%)
Hero wins 7,948
Hero wins 2,328

I did get 🐔 at one point, and folded AKo with about 250 to go to the money.
Way to many big stacks behind me, and I had just read https://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/content/ICM-in-five-minutes_119774/

See previous post for how that happened.
Besides the $50 win I had two other significant cashes for a total of 5.30
ITM of 100% for today.

I realized today that by posting my updates on Monday, I miss the bankroll challenge cutoff.
So this week will be a short one, and include Monday to Saturday.

The results for the week ending October 3 are here: https://forums.pokerstrategy.com/forum/thread.php?postid=3269583#post3269583

Congrats for the score, Vorpal!

Gz man!

Originally posted by LahtiPelican
Congrats for the score, Vorpal!

Originally posted by mardibg
Gz man!

Thanks guys!

It has been a while since I posted the entire graph...
We started 3 years ago with 20 cents

I've started to add some NL 10 to the mix -- a little leery about this, since I don't know hold'em very well, but we'll just play tight and see how it goes.
888 has its fair share of maniacs -- hopefully some of them will spew some my way...

I remember when you started the challenge, it's nice to see you approaching $ 1,000, I wish you luck. I returned to poker after a long break, as 888 can no longer be played from Serbia, I switched to GG, ACR and YA. To brag that I arrived from 0 to a total of 55$ in 2 weeks.

My idea when I first started is that I would play freerolls until I reached $50 then switch to NL 2 and so on upwards
That isn't how it worked out though.

Here is the breakdown of how it actually went...
   Game Type      Won 
     Bal Fwd     0.20 
       Blast   168.50 
       Bonus    56.50 
    Cashback     1.20 
  Lvl 05 F/R     3.76 
  Lvl 10 F/R     4.93 
  Lvl 20 F/R     4.80 
  Lvl 30 F/R    52.20 
  Lvl 40 F/R    19.20 
  Lvl 50 F/R    19.20 
  Lvl 60 F/R     5.40 
  Lvl 80 F/R     2.00 
  Lvl Up F/R     6.18 
       NL 10   -36.17 
        NL 2   -10.41 
       NL 25   -10.42 
        NL 5   -24.34 
   Other F/R   536.69 
      PLO 10   -16.85 
     PLO8 10   -26.22 
      PLO8 2   -42.72 
      PLO8 5  -135.36 
    PLO8 DoN     2.35 
    PLO8 mtt    34.25 
      Sports     3.84 
        Stud     0.14 
        Misc    35.51 
      NL trn    83.12 
 Grand Total   737.48 

I avoid cash games, especially NL2, you can find all kinds of players, especially 888. I play spin & gold 0.25$ on GG ... While I'm still sticking to freeroll in the other two rooms, but I'll start some micro mtt

In 22 hands I had entered 0 pots -- I played one hand that was limped to me in the BB and got one walk

Then this:

So cashed one tier up from the bottom

One of my favourite weekly freerolls...

Pacific Poker - 400/800 Ante 80 NL - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 21.78 BB
BTN: 7.04 BB
SB: 14.44 BB
BB: 15.34 BB
UTG: 14.26 BB
UTG+1: 26.49 BB
MP: 11.68 BB
Hero (MP+1): 16.13 BB

8 players post ante of 0.1 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.3 BB) Hero has Q♣:T♣:

UTG calls 1 BB, fold, fold, Hero calls 1 BB, fold, fold, fold, BB checks

Flop: (4.3 BB, 3 players) 3♣:3♦:5♠:
BB checks, UTG checks, Hero checks

Turn: (4.3 BB, 3 players) 9♣:
BB checks, UTG bets 4.84 BB, Hero calls 4.84 BB, fold

River: (13.97 BB, 2 players) T♠:
UTG bets 8.33 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 8.33 BB

UTG shows Q♠:9♥: (Two Pair, Nines and Threes)
(Pre 27%, Flop 24%, Turn 73%)
Hero shows Q♣:T♣: (Two Pair, Tens and Threes)
(Pre 73%, Flop 76%, Turn 27%)
Hero wins 30.63 BB

I could have done better, but I called off a UTG shove just short of the FT

Results for the week posted to the reporting thread...
https://forums.pokerstrategy.com/forum/thread.php?postid=3270803#post3270803

I found that today's tournament took forever.
Although no-one replied in this thread: https://forums.pokerstrategy.com/forum/thread.php?postid=3270123#post3270123
I found that today over and over people were timing out or nearly timing out each street.
That meant that each hand took almost a minute per street -- worse if it was multi-way.

If this keeps up I may have to play elsewhere...

Missed most freerolls, took a small hit playing PLO8

I had thought that I was getting suckout after suckout, but the graph says I was the one that sucked out...
The rest of the time, I was ahead of EV

The promotion was "hand of the day" -- but I have no idea what hand that was
But it paid 10 bucks, so cool

Current BR 757.30 -- <<< A new record

This is sort of unknown territory for me -- usually when I hit a new record, I go on a downswing.[1]
If you check the graph, you'll see that almost every peak is followed by a sharp drop.

[1] In before downswing. I don't mind the drops, as long as they continue to be followed by a long crawl upwards

helped out by $11 worth of cash rewards.

The weeks official report is here -- https://forums.pokerstrategy.com/forum/thread.php?postid=3272479#post3272479
The astute among you will realize I earned precisely 31 cents all week -- the rest was from the rewards.

Note: Not complaining

I totally misjudged opponents range here -- I thought that the raise was AA, but I have decent equity, and drawing to nut flushes, Broadways and nut low.

Pacific Poker - $0.05 PL Hi/Lo - Omaha Hi/Lo - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 16.2 BB
MP: 78 BB
Hero (CO): 103.6 BB
BTN: 41.6 BB
SB: 57.8 BB
BB: 60.8 BB

SB posts SB 0.4 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 1.4 BB) Hero has T♣:2♥:K♠:A♣:

fold, MP calls 1 BB, Hero raises to 2.4 BB, BTN raises to 9.6 BB, fold, fold, MP calls 8.6 BB, Hero calls 7.2 BB <<< A cold 3Bet at this level is so often AAxx

Flop: (30.2 BB, 3 players) 4♠:T♥:2♣:
MP checks, Hero checks, BTN bets 30.2 BB, fold, Hero calls 30.2 BB <<< although my low hand is counterfeited, the two pair can often hold against AAxx especially if opponent tends to over play them

Turn: (90.6 BB, 2 players) Q♥:
Hero bets 63.8 BB and is all-in, BTN calls 1.8 BB and is all-in <<< Now I really hope he has bare Aces, possibly with a low draw

River: (94.2 BB, 2 players) Q♦:

Hero shows T♣:2♥:K♠:A♣: (Two Pair, Queens and Tens)
(Pre 54%, Flop 50%, Turn 63%)
BTN shows J♦:6♠:3♠:A♦: (One Pair, Queens) <<< so I'm a bit surprised to see him show this down
(Pre 46%, Flop 50%, Turn 38%)
Hero wins 89.6 BB
Rake paid 4.6 BB