Thazar on the MTT journey

Originally posted by thazar
I have withdrawn a bit following my win and left $2k to start the new challenge to $10k

GL! Nice job in big 5,5.

Good luck in the 10k challenge and gratz on your win

finished 14/1500 in a $16.5 tournament last night which put me in the green for the evening. Went out on a standard spot. ALl in all I am relatively happy with the outcome because I was far from playing my a-game yesterday.

I am also quite happy to be back in the top 5k on Pocketfives. I just need to be in the top 1k now

big night tonight hopefully

22 tournaments averaging about $15

not one cash... a few KOs but minors... dreadful.. I did not play bad. I made a couple of mistakes but nothing horrendous. The field was also one of the weakest I had seen in a while. I got called by all sort. I did not bluff much, but man, they can hit the board.

Tomorrow will be another day .

I had a really bad week playing. Could not flip to save a life. So lost pretty much every day :(.
I also made more mistake than usual ... I was not on a game. I might take a couple of days off from the tables to focus. but again I might not

97 MTTs
Profit/Loss: `-$658.74
Current BR: $1,341.26
Week 1

Next week will be better

I've heard that some kilofield MTT pros mix MTSnGs or small field MTTs in 'to alleviate the variance', though the risk-adjusted EV is smaller there...

I previously thought that such a strategy was silly (because usually, the game with the biggest risk-adjusted EV should be picked), but now I reckon that it might be actually wise because 1) the softest of MTTs aren't always available (they run on Sundays / special occasions only), 2) mixing in lower variance tourneys makes the overall winnings probability distribution more skew-positive: essentially, the everyday grind gives one some winnings that can be reinvested into the Sunday / reds shot, resulting in a substantial discount on its total buy-in.

I'm talking about e.g. grinding $2.50 turbo 180-mans / $5 PSKO turbo 90-mans during the week and then investing all the winnings (like $300) into a cherry-picked Sunday schedule (like $600 total buy-in, which becomes just $300 after the MTSnG winnings are reinvested) instead of reducing the ABI dramatically.

Thoughts?

Originally posted by tonypmm
I've heard that some kilofield MTT pros mix MTSnGs or small field MTTs in 'to alleviate the variance', though the risk-adjusted EV is smaller there...

I previously thought that such a strategy was silly (because usually, the game with the biggest risk-adjusted EV should be picked), but now I reckon that it might be actually wise because 1) the softest of MTTs aren't always available (they run on Sundays / special occasions only), 2) mixing in lower variance tourneys makes the overall winnings probability distribution more skew-positive: essentially, the everyday grind gives one some winnings that can be reinvested into the Sunday / reds shot, resulting in a substantial discount on its total buy-in.

I'm talking about e.g. grinding $2.50 turbo 180-mans / $5 PSKO turbo 90-mans during the week and then investing all the winnings (like $300) into a cherry-picked Sunday schedule (like $600 total buy-in, which becomes just $300 after the MTSnG winnings are reinvested) instead of reducing the ABI dramatically.

Thoughts?

definitely something to think about .
From today, I will drop the $27 tournaments, and if the loss continue I will keep dropping hte higher buy ins

1025 hands
24 MTTs
Profit/Loss: `-$227.15
Current BR: $1,114.11
Week 2

merry Xmas everyone

Happy new year fellow pokerstrategist!

Originally posted by thazar
Happy new year fellow pokerstrategist!

Cheers and happy new year to.

Let the flips b with you in 2016

Happy New Year and I hope you achieve BM status!

Quite a lot to look forward to when you become one!

Originally posted by kokkie1975

Originally posted by thazar
Happy new year fellow pokerstrategist!

Cheers and happy new year to.

Let the flips b with you in 2016

thanks sir, hopefully 2016 will be good to you too

Originally posted by BrokesoBroke
Happy New Year and I hope you achieve BM status!

Quite a lot to look forward to when you become one!

thanks Hai

probably still have a few years before that happens , may you run above EV this year

first the update:

2230 hands
96 MTTs
Profit/Loss: -$103.18
Current BR: $1,010.93
Week 4

Still not running good. i will not bore you with bad beats stories... let's just say they are piling up . The joy of MTTs

I have also started my marathon training.
I had a 10 miles run on Saturday and a 4 miles run today next 6miles with fartleks tomorrow.

I am also going through every day the Pokerstars Poker Cash Game Quests missions
and so far I have got $8 total

I want to set myself a few goals for 2016 on top of monetary goals.

In no particular order:

1) Read a book a month ( I normally don't read books at all) on topics related to poker, mindfulness, self improvement, management, programming and different IT subjects in general

book for this month:

hopefully I'll find the time to put some review and post some hands in my blogs (I will ask the authors permission before doing so)

2) review 3 hands daily on this site and in the hand review section (can be CG or tournaments) just to keep the thinking sharp.

3) complete the daily mission for the cash game quests on Pokerstars to get each daily bonus. (hoping to bink the 1 / 100000 chance of hitting $100K instant bonus , because why not!

4) play 250 tournament a month ( that's gonna be the hardest to fit with everything else- but still need to aim at it)

5) update blog at least every other day ( i am so bad at it - it's gonna be hard just because most of the time I CBA - but I need to instigate some discipline and that's one of the things that will help)

6) wake up at 5:30 on weekdays and before 9:00 on weekends (ideally around 7:00). I onrder to achieve this, I will need to not go to bed too late unless deep in a tournament.

7) work on mindset, both for poker and life in general. I an normally pretty good on poker mindset although I do tilt a bit after multiple bad beats in a night (which tends to happen a lot playing low buy in tournaments)

8) run 2 marathon this year, I have registered to the London Marathon which is at the end of April and I have started the training. So I want to keep to my training program, run London Marathon, register to another one around September / October time train and run again!

I also have a few goals for me and my family and for my work which do not need to be in here.

finally in case you missed it:

http://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/content/Find-out-how-Thazar-turned-$50-into-$1,000_95053/

2016 is the year!

Nice goals! I hope you succeed in every single one of them!

quick breaks during the day for hand reviews

https://forums.pokerstrategy.com/forum/thread.php?postid=2232003#post2232003
https://forums.pokerstrategy.com/forum/thread.php?postid=2231907#post2231907
https://forums.pokerstrategy.com/forum/thread.php?postid=2232299#post2232299

and read a few pages of the book during my lunch

Originally posted by vonki
Nice goals! I hope you succeed in every single one of them!

thank you. I hope so too. Short term it is easy; the issue is more to keep to them for the whole year or even longer.

Some nice goals! Will follow you and maybe I'll get inspired myself to get off my ass and work harder on me.