Let's play Limit Hold'em [Team PokerStars Online]

Originally posted by kavboj84
Maybe your father's acquaintance thought the same as well,like : "omg, not this guy again" and he asked for somebody else to do the job.

Haha, I wouldn't be totally surprised if true ♦

Week 24 of Bankroll Challenge

I think I finally caught up with everything and I'm ready to make a full "come-back" to the tables. Was thinking about Twitch too of course and I probably won't be doing 3 sessions of BR challenge on screen anymore. Most likely I'll go for two, but I'll add some other streams. Not sure what yet, have to yet decide, but I'd like to play some LHE MTTs. There are not many of them available at every moment, so I'll have to find the best day/time to stream and play those, but I'll figure something out. For example Saturday evenings might be interesting playing Daily FL Hold'em ($27) and Weekly FL Hold'em ($82) tourneys. An hour later also $100 Gtd starts, which is Hyper-Turbo and only $2,20 buyin, but still Or maybe, I'll have to learn additional games to play

So here are stats and graph from Week 24
Week 24
Hands: 1214
Week 23 BR: $326,58
Cash game Profit: $5,39
Week 24 BR: $331,97 (+2%)

In other news... Ordered myself the first Garfield comic book and of course I had to make this obligatory Limit cat photo ♦ The resemblance is uncanny!

Hey guys.

Haven't played any micro stakes poker in previous week, so today I'm going to post my overall graph and stats, which I haven't done for quite a while.
So far I've played 59 sessions of Limit Hold'em, stakes from 0,05/0,10 to 1/2 and played 51117 hands.

I these 51117 hands I've made $96,41 in profit at the tables, $223 in rakeback and lost $7,44 in tournament buyins - that's total profit of $311,97, which means my bankroll is currently at $331,97. In terms of Big Bets I'm up 618,6BB, which means 1,21BB/100 winrate. Could be better.
From the start of the challenge I've collected 7403 VPP points and 13264 FPP points. We've spent 8500 FPPs on cash bonuses already (total of $100) and have 4764 FPPs left. (Next bonus is at 6250 FPPs - $75).

Overall $$ Graph

Overall BB Graph

Only 16 days left until the start of WCOOP 2015 and of course I intend to play (at least) two events:
- WCOOP-10: $215 FL Hold'em [6-Max], $75K Guaranteed
- WCOOP-63: $1,050 FL Hold'em Championship [6-Max], $100K Guaranteed

Which means... We need to start preparing for these two right now! Starting today! Well not today, but definitely starting on Saturday I'll be including a new series in my Twitch livestreams, which will be on schedule every Saturday starting at 19:45 CET and it will be called - #MinRaiseMafia Road to WCOOP. So basically I'll be preparing for WCOOP with Weekly and Daily Limit Hold'em tourneys on PokerStars. Weekly FL Hold'em starts at 20:00 CET, has $82 buyin and $1K GTD prizepool. Daily FL Hold'em starts 15 minutes later, has $27 buyin and $750 GTD prizepool. There's actually another scheduled tournament at 21:15 CET, its $2,20 Hyper-Turbo $100 GTD, but not sure if I will actually join in that one. Might do just for fun, we'll see. I know LHE MTT Sit&Goes are running too, will try them out if we can actually fill the pool.

I know lots of regulars are playing these Dailies and Weeklies, hope to see you on Twitch, should be fun stream. And I'm also continuing with Day 60 tomorrow at 14:00 CET!
http://www.twitch.tv/coreysteel111

• Friday, August 21st - 16:00 CET (10:00am ET) - Day 60 FL Bankroll Challenge
• Saturday, August 22nd - 19:45 CET (1:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Road to WCOOP
• Monday, August 24th - TBD - Day 61 FL Bankroll Challenge
• Saturday, August 29th - 19:45 CET (1:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Road to WCOOP
• Saturday, September 5th - 19:45 CET (1:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Road to WCOOP
• Tuesday, September 8th - 22:45 CET (4:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Does WCOOP-10
• Friday, September 25th - 22:45 CET (4:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Does WCOOP-63

Spoiler alert... Finally had a good session Will post results, videos and graph tomorrow, but here's a sneak peak:

Found a perfect villain to do a TRIFECTA against
http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/15612311_FE82759178

Trifecta: The ultimate Sandbagger's accomplishment! Pulling off a successful check raise on the flop, turn and river.

Week 25 of Bankroll Challenge

Finally a good session! Not just good, amazing actually. It can't be just good when you win almost 100BB in one 3 hour session And what do you know... We are again close to making a small shot at $1/$2 once again. Decided to do that at $450 bankroll for 25BB. It's aggressive, yes, but that's how we do it! Did only one session this week but expecting three in the following one, will also stream two (Monday, Wednesday).

Week 25
Hands: 770
Week 23 BR: $331,97
Cash game Profit: $95,67
Week 25 BR: $427,64 (+29%)

Week 25 Graph

Part 1 of Day 60 videos

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If Mondays and Wednesdays are reserved for bankroll challenges, Saturdays are for #MinRaiseMafia Road to WCOOP 2015. Did my first tournament livestream on August 22nd and it was fun. I've joined in four different tourneys - $82 Weekly, $27 Daily, $2.20 scheduled daily tourney and also 36-man $1.50 Sit&Go. Hadn't much luck with the first three, but did manage to cash in the SNG, for a whooping profit of $0,94 But it definitely was a good practice. Will upload videos during the day.

Here's my streaming plan for the following weeks. Starting with Day 61 in just half an hour!
http://www.twitch.tv/coreysteel111

• Monday, August 24th - 11:30 CET (5:30am ET) - Day 61 FL Bankroll Challenge
• Wednesday, August 26th - 11:30 CET (5:30am ET) - Day 62 FL Bankroll Challenge
• Saturday, August 29th - 19:45 CET (1:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Road to WCOOP
• Saturday, September 5th - 19:45 CET (1:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Road to WCOOP
• Tuesday, September 8th - 22:45 CET (4:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Does WCOOP-10
• Saturday, September 12th - 19:45 CET (1:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Road to WCOOP
• Saturday, September 19th - 19:45 CET (1:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Road to WCOOP
• Friday, September 25th - 22:45 CET (4:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Does WCOOP-63

And some non-poker content.
Before the stream on Saturday, I actually had a nice short trip to Kranjska Gora, to see the spring of our biggest Slovenian river and little bit of hiking and later lying on the shores of glacial lake. Sometimes I really can't believe what everything we have in such a small country. I live basically in the middle of Slovenia and have an hour, maybe hour and a half drive to whatever part of our country. Skiing? 30 minutes. Nice cold river? 35 minutes. Lakes? 45 minutes. Sea? 50 minutes. Mountains? 1 hour. Shopping in IKEA in Austria? Hour and half.

I'm looking at pictures now and see that I forgot to take some. Guess I was just enjoying it too much.

#NoFilters

And obligatory Limit cat photo. If it fits, I sits.

Day 61 of Bankroll Challenge
Another winning session! Is it official? Is downswing over? The only way is up?
Wish that poker would work that way Still, we can celebrate a bit. Bankroll is over $500 again and the last time that was the case it was Day 50! Plan was to do a shot at $1/$2 at $450, but making it at $500 is going to be even more comfortable. If I lose 50BB, I'll move down (again).

I also joined the Dream Team Collection promo and started collecting puzzles. So far with JJ got Neymar's hair and his right ear. I think I got JJ 5 times, maybe 6 times during the livestream, so obv doing pretty well so far But I'm not going to count them towards the bankroll. That would be kinda cheap I think

Start of Day 61 BR: $427,64
Profit: $74,93
End of Day 61 BR: $502,57

Day 61 Graph

Part 1 of Day 61 videos

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If anyone is interested in videos from Saturday's #MinRaiseMafia Road to WCOOP livesteam, here they are. But it's more fun if you just join my live session next Saturday (Aug 29th) :f_cool:. Day 62 continues tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11:30.

Part 1 of Week 1

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Day 62 of Bankroll Challenge

Day 61 Quote

Another winning session! Is it official? Is downswing over? The only way is up?

Day 62 Graph

I had one of my worst session EVER on Wednesday. And I'm not talking about this bankroll challenge, but in my whole career Well at least one of the worst hour and a half Not surprisingly it's the worst session since Day 1, money and BB wise. I'm definitely glad that I got this recorded and on YouTube

Start of Day 62 BR: $502,57
Profit: -$174,22
End of Day 62 BR: $328,35

Part 1 of Day 62 videos

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Well... Now it feels like I'm starting from the beginning or something. Back to the grind on Monday, but first #MinRaiseMafia Road to WCOOP Week 2 tomorrow at 19:45 CET!
http://www.twitch.tv/coreysteel111

• Saturday, August 29th - 19:45 CET (1:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Road to WCOOP
• Monday, August 31st - 11:30 CET (5:30am ET) - Day 63 FL Bankroll Challenge
• Wednesday, September 2nd - 11:30 CET (5:30am ET) - Day 64 FL Bankroll Challenge
• Saturday, September 5th - 19:45 CET (1:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Road to WCOOP
• Tuesday, September 8th - 22:45 CET (4:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Does WCOOP-10
• Saturday, September 12th - 19:45 CET (1:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Road to WCOOP
• Saturday, September 19th - 19:45 CET (1:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Road to WCOOP
• Friday, September 25th - 22:45 CET (4:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Does WCOOP-63

BTW if this was one of your worst session then you are a lucky guy. Its only 10BB/100 for 900 hands.

Originally posted by kavboj84

♦
There is no excuse for me. I know what I jumped into, specially with this aggressive BRM

Originally posted by kavboj84
BTW if this was one of your worst session then you are a lucky guy. Its only 10BB/100 for 900 hands.

Well there are several factors. For example, I only played 3 tables and I play more than that during my regular sessions. I was already up $50, so I basically lost ~$225 from the peak. And the biggest factor of all... I have a stop-loss limit during my regular play (which I turn off for livestreaming purposes). That means it would stop me from playing at around -$125 in this case, so I've lost additional $50 or 50BB that I usually wouldn't.

And its like -13,5BB/100, because I moved down during the session

yeah but it's still nothing compared to when you run ~40 BB/100 and you get rivered with the second nuts in every hand you play.

I did run -35BB/100 in the last hour. Does that count? ♦

you see now that -13 BB/100 wasn't that bad and how good I am at fortune telling

Week 26 of Bankroll Challenge

So as you guys already know... After two really good sessions in a row, where I won more than 170BB, I crashed and burned when doing another shot at $1/$2 in Day 62. And it didn't stop there... Even when I moved down I lost additional 75BB or so. Feels like we are on square one, but not really $328,35 in the bank is still okayish and continuing tomorrow, we just need to grind it back to ~$450. I wanted to do a third session on Sunday, but I went to a football match, where we were also tailgating (drinking beers) so didn't feel 100% when I came home.
So only two sessions and here are the stats.

Week 26
Hands: 1867
Week 25 BR: $427,64
Cash game Profit: -$99,29
Week 26 BR: $328,35 (-23%)

Week 26 Graph

http://www.twitch.tv/coreysteel111

• Wednesday, September 2nd - 11:30 CET (5:30am ET) - Day 63 FL Bankroll Challenge
• Saturday, September 5th - 19:45 CET (1:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Road to WCOOP
• Monday, September 7th - 11:30 CET (5:30am ET) - Day 64 FL Bankroll Challenge
• Tuesday, September 8th - 22:45 CET (4:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Does WCOOP-10
• Saturday, September 12th - 19:45 CET (1:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Road to WCOOP
• Saturday, September 19th - 19:45 CET (1:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Road to WCOOP
• Friday, September 25th - 22:45 CET (4:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Does WCOOP-63

And of course I haven't forgot about the pictures!
Here's Limit cat trying to steal our beer for football match.
"Dis in mine nao!"

Pah, you are spewing away your mooniez?
Maybe dat cat brings bad luck ? I got a lucky rabbit at home, his name is Terminator:

lol SvenBe, what kinda monstrosity is that? ♦

Super duper quick update, no time for more than that right now.

Today I'm continuing with Week 3 of #MinRaiseMafia Road to WCOOP. Starting my stream in about an hour.
http://www.twitch.tv/coreysteel111

Whoever was watching the stream on previous Saturday can remember, that there was an earthquake during my live session. Of course I'm also recording all of my livestreams, so here's a little gif ♦

Let's hope earth stays still this time

I can't believe how much problems I have with my internet connection On Saturday I had two disconnects while streaming on Twitch and of course if sitting out at the tables is not tilting enough, everybody had to wait +5 minutes for me to come back live because of Twitch delay. It worked so perfectly for a whole year, no idea what's wrong now. And some of you probably remember my internet story from few weeks back, right? Well this technician should come to my house again yesterday (or maybe today), but he didn't. I think he might be avoiding me.

In other news... Today its WCOOP Day 3 and that means it's my time to shine!

Playing and of course streaming (if everything goes well) WCOOP-10: $215 FL Hold'em [6-Max], $75K Gtd. Wish me luck!
Here's my whole schedule for next weeks:
http://www.twitch.tv/coreysteel111

• Tuesday, September 8th - 22:45 CET (4:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Does WCOOP-10: $215 FL Hold'em [6-Max], $75K Gt
• Friday, September 11th - 19:00 CET (1:00pm ET) - Beer+Spin&Goes #DreamTeamCollection
• Saturday, September 12th - 19:45 CET (1:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Road to WCOOP
• Monday, September 14th - 11:30 CET (5:30am ET) - Day 64 FL Bankroll Challenge
• Wednesday, September 16th - 11:30 CET (5:30am ET) - Day 65 FL Bankroll Challenge
• Friday, September 18th - TBD
• Saturday, September 19th - 19:45 CET (1:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Road to WCOOP
• Friday, September 25th - 22:45 CET (4:45pm ET) - #MinRaiseMafia Does WCOOP-63: $1,050 FL Hold'em Championship [6-Max], $100K Gtd

Week 27 of Bankroll Challenge

And here's an actual update from last week play. And again, because of the internet, I've played only one day. Can't remember what went wrong exactly, but I did record my session of course, so you can see it by yourself on the youtubes.

Week 27
Hands: 746
Week 26 BR: $328,35
Cash game Profit: -$57,79
Week 27 BR: $270,56 (-18%)

Week 27 Graph

Part 1 of Day 63 Videos

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Hey guys, last minute invite!

Starting my Beer + Spin&Goes session and having fun collection #DreamTeamCollection puzzles Feel free to stop by!
http://www.twitch.tv/coreysteel111 <

Week 28 of Bankroll Challenge

Good news, bad news or optimistic news? Which one do you want to hear first?

Well let's start with bad news... Another losing session/week unfortunately. I think someone commented on Twitch that everytime he comes back to my livestreams, I have longer hair. That day I announced that I won't get a haircut until I start winning again! I wasn't 100% serious, but I still didn't have a haircut since then and I haven't started winning either

Optimistic news... I think I've played pretty well the other day and eventually things will turn around But obv I don't play enough with just one session, maybe two per week. If I were playing every day, making 2 session per day, the results wouldn't look that bad.

Last but not least, the good news. I've finally managed to collect 6250 FPPs, so I've bought $75 bonus from VIP store, which actually means I made a profit at the end. I know it's not from the actual play but hey... I'll take it

Week 28
Hands: 1034
Week 27 BR: $270,56
Cash game Profit: -$38,56
Rakeback: $75
Total protif: $36,44
Week 28 BR: $307,00 (+13%)

Week 28 Graph

And in other news...
I was doing some calorie counting about a month ago. I tried to figure out how many (kilo)calories I eat during a normal day and if it's too much, try lowering a bit. I did that for 10 days or so and then stopped because I think that I can guess the number with a pretty good accuracy now, without an actual count.
But yesterday I was cooking some homemade lasagna and while making the sauce I had a newsflash that this might be a "calorie bomb". I'm doing lasagna almost every month, so it would be good to know the precise number of calories for this particular meal.

So I've counted the calories and final number is... 1300 kcal
Well... shaved around 200 kcals from my portion and just put it in my GFs lasagna, so I've probably ate 1100 kcals at the end (and GF had 1500 kcal lasagna :P) Here's a "before oven" picture. Didn't have banana for scale, sorry.

Hey guys.

Didn't play any poker (not just bankroll challenge, but any poker) this week, due to internet problems. I THINK everything should be fine now, I had no problems for 72 hours now so... Crossing my fingers. Will do a bit bigger update during the week.

Just going to bump my thread here with a link for my latest blog for PokerStarsBlog.com: http://psta.rs/1FOGuyo
Talking about my bounty experience. Especially one in my local casino was particular memorable Won't spoil more than that

Today I'm playing two tourneys where there's a bounty on my head. One of course being Red Spade Open ($500 bounty !!!) and the other one is Team Pro Online Freeroll ($25 bounty). Let's see how many hands can I survive today in each of these ♦

Good luck if playing!

Luka, do you also play Hattrick?