Trying to reach new heights on and off the table

Weekly Update:

It has been 3 days now since my last update. For the future i plan to make a bigger update every week on monday with poker-results, improvements and my goals.

Last week didn't go that good :(. I basically didn't score in any MTT, only had one minor cash. Also i wasn't able to play on monday and tuesday cause i fell sick, so i just played 13hours for the rest of the week.

Not only was i running short on good hands over the week, i was also playing horrible/spewy during the early stages again. It's not a problem with my mental game tho, simply playing bad whats the good point about it. Mainly the bad post-flop-bets, mistakes on the bubble and over-aggressive pushes during lvl1/2 did put down my expectation trastically.

Also only played 134hypers during those 5 days with some shots at the 3,50$ 6-man hypers and total loss of the week was at 30,23$ in the end.

I definately have to improve my ICM and bubble-play now, since i feel like it should be easy to beat the 1,50$ hypers hard, which i'm obviously not doing right now. Session-Reviews and ICM-Training is even more of a priority now! ♠_grin:

Weekly Goals:

- play 175 games (3hours of play on 6 days)
- play 7MTTs or more
- 1:30hours of ICM-Training and detailed analysis
- work on psychological poker-articles
- work on poker-videos
- go cycling 25minutes every day
- cook healthy on 2 days (tuesday/saturday)
- brainstorm important tasks on sunday for next week
- look for a sweat-partner in the forums
- update blog 3 times
- create schedule for MicroMillions and get ready for some grinding

I'm sure i can achieve all of those goals, even tho it seems like a lot. ♠_biggrin:

And here is the winnings-graph for last week (trail for HM2 ended yesterday and i installed PT4 now to check it out):

Graph: 6-man hypers last week

Cheers, Dominik

Hello everybody,

i'm playing the 1,5$ 6-man hypers since 20th of june now and result so far is +27,36$ (+52,71$ EV) after 355tournies. i feel like my game improved quite a lot during the last few weeks, but i still don't feel alright with my ROI. Also i feel like 20hypers per day is just not enough to get volume to make a decent profit.

For the next time during the MicroMillions i plan to play a lot of hyper-satellites, the good thing about them is that i can play way more of them since they only last like 5mins. in my opinion the micro-stakes hyper-satellites are really soft after i played a bunch of them over the last few days and i love the fact that they're basically just about ICM. if everything is going fine i'm also going to increase my number of tables and try to play straight-forward ICM without bigger mistakes. hope i can collect some T$ which will invest in 6-man hypers after the MicroMillions or use it for some MTTs. ♦
the rake for the 1,15$ satellites is only 0,02$ which feels like they can be extremely profitable since most of the players are way too tight-passive. Hopefully i can play 1000hyper-satellites over the next 2weeks and clear my last reload bonus for 10$. when i can reach 7,5% ROI that would be 64,75$, the more the better. ♦

Greets Dominik

MicroMillions 8 Schedule:

I sat down for a bit yesterday and planned the tournaments i want to play during the MicroMillions and here is what i came up with:

002 - 17.07. - 19:00 - 11,00$ 150k GTD
005 - 18.07. - 0:30 - 3,30$ 25k GTD
022 - 19.07. - 19:00 - 8,80$ (Progressive Super-Knockout) 100k GTD
024 - 20.07. - 0:30- 2,20$ 15k GTD
032 - 20.07. - 19:30 - 11,00$ (Sunday Storm Special Edition) 300k GTD
036 - 21.07. - 8:00 - 11,00$ 25k GTD
038 - 21.07. - 12:00 - 5,50$ 25k GTD
052 - 23.07. - 0:30 - 5,50$ 30k GTD
066 - 24.07. - 16:30 - 2,20$ 10k GTD
067 - 24.07. - 17:30 - 8,80$ (Progressive Super-Knockout)
076 - 25.07. - 17:30 - 2,20$ 20k GTD
086 - 26.07. - 18:00 - 1,00$ 15k GTD
098 - 27.07. - 20:30 - 22,00$ (Main Event) 1M GTD
099 - 27.07. - 23:30 - 3,30$ (Turbo) 40k GTD

Besides that i will also grind hyper-satellites massively.
Updates of my results and scores are coming every 2-3days hopefully to track my progress.

Enjoy the football finals everybody :f_biggrin:,

Cheers Dominik

Already played 51 hyper-satellites today and played solid overall.
The switch to the hyper-satellites went really well, in the near future i will put in different limits (since i'm only playing 1,15$ satellites right now) and maybe start playing more than 2 tables. Hopefully i can put in a massive volume over the next 2weeks up to the 3,75$ hyper-satellites.

So far i'm 8,07$ (6,84$ EV) in the plus after 135 hyper-satellites. I fixed my range for suited/off-suited connectors a lot and improved my SB-range overall. Variance plays a huge part, since you sometimes only get 2-5hands and if you lose a flip, well thats it. ♦
Also most of the time i made appropriate calls (still a bit on the tighter side).

On Saturday i cashed in the weekly 30k GTD VIP-MTT for 6$ on rank 858/5792 after my AKo got cracked from A5o for 15BBs Co vs BU pre-flop all-in. Super confident with my play during the whole tournament! ♠_biggrin:

Last weeks goals:

partly done - played 132/175 STTs (only played 5days)
done - played 9/7MTTs
done - 1:30hour of ICM-Training and hand analysis
done - worked on psychological articles
done - worked on 3 poker-videos
partly failed - went cycling 23minutes on average every day (missed 1day)
failed - only cooked on 1/2 days
done - did do brainstorming on sunday
done - opened thread to find sweat-partner
done - updated blog 3 times
done - did set up schedule for MicroMillions

My goals for this week are:

• 600hyper-satellites or more
• 7MTTs or more
• improve ROI in hyper-satellites
• increase bankroll and start playing up to 3,75$ hyper-satellites
• work on 7 or more videos
• update blog 3 times
• 20minutes of reading every day
• 40 or more sit-ups and push-ups every day
• 25minutes of cycling every day
• get more than 6:30hours sleep every day

Greets Dominik

Update:

Already played quite a lot this week and worked on my game (especially hyper-satellite open-shove-ranges). After 12:30hours of playing hyper-satellites i've already down 266. For my last reload bonus i only need 34VPPs now which could be done by the end of this week. This weekend i plan to grind hard like never before and get at least 600hypers in at the end of the week. Unfortunately i won't get SilverStar status this month cause the hyper-satellites don't give as much VPPs (except i would start mass-multitabling which i'm not so confident with). While working with PT4 now for more than a week i feel it suits me better than HM2 cause of it's simplicity and better Tools and HUD (just my opinion ♦).

MicroMillions MTT Results:

MM 001 - 6:00pm - 0,11$+R - 43074/64747 (8442paid):
busting after 4rebuys on lvl5 and didn't rebuy again

Satellite MM02 - 6:32pm - 1,65$ - 118/228 (31tickets):
completely missplayed a set with initiative BvB 16BBs deep and finally busted by 3-bet-shoving 12BBs with 88 and getting called by two

Satellite MM04 - 8:50pm - 50FPP - 47/194 (28tickets):
playing really good during early/mid and hitting important boards for max value; then getting cripled by loosing 64%/36% ahead by calling 5BB-push from HJ with AQo and then had to push my 3BB stack with 72o from un-opened SB next orbit and bb has AJ and did win it

MM05 - 0:30am - 3,30$ (satellited in for 1,00$) - 3553/14620 (2025paid):
started out pretty good and made strong post-flop plays; then a dream spot came up when a 4BB stack open-shoves in front of me, i make a small 3-bet with AA from BU and get a 4- and 5-bet from the blinds (i had 80BB-stack at that time) and call, so we go 4-way all-in to the flop and i can hold against KK, KJs and T9s ♠_biggrin:. so i was up to 180BBs+ i tried to only play comfortable spots and got some nice value and was constantly building my stack. then i had 22 from mid and min-raise with 65BBs, get 2callers behind and hit my set. so i make 55% pot on a wet flop and get 2calls again, turn comes blank and un-suited, i bet 55% again to make draws pay off and the shorter stack flats me (he has 5,8k left with 14,2k pot). then the river comes in third spade, we get the money in and he shows K high flush against my set. (i feel like i should've already bet the flop bigger now, but can't change it ). still had a moderate 27BB stack after and was playing really good. when the blinds were increasing i felt like i had to steal with QJo from un-opened BU with 9BBs against a nit and a lose cannon in the bb with almost 70% VPIP (he was second in chips and was just going crazy every hand he got involved in ♦). so he defs his bb with his 55BBs with J8s and i was happy for a minute and hoped he won't hit the board, but unfortunately he did already on the flop and i busted ♠_mad:. if i would've won this one i probably would've run ITM, but can't change it. still feel like i played one of my best MTTs ever.

Played confident and well over the weekend, but still lost some buy-ins in the hyper-satellites overall :(.

MTT Results:

Satellite MM 022 - 6:45pm - 125FPP - 1/58 (13tickets) - ticket won:
hyper-satellite MTT --> super funny format

MM 022 - 7:00pm - 8,80$ (satellited in for 125FPPs) - 11986/24242 (4950paid):
not getting many hands; failed barreling; getting 3-bet against my steals frequently

Satellite MM 024 - 9:04pm - 30FPP - 29/78 (17tickets):
really slow structure; aggressive table and lots of c-bet-folds from me

Satellite MM 024 - 0:09am - 0,65$ - 1/45 (14tickets) - ticket won:
hyper-satellite MTT

MM 024 - 0:30am - 2,20$ (satellited in for 0,65$) - 1077/14102 (1800paid) - cashed for 5,64$:
good deep-stack play pre-/post-flop; hitting good boards; strong in BvB during late-mid; strong c-betting

Miserable hand in the 2,20$:

PokerStars - $2+$0.20|800/1600 Ante 200 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

CO: 25.76 BB (VPIP: 29.63, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 27)
BTN: 20.22 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 7)
SB: 3.3 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 1)
BB: 40.62 BB (VPIP: 14.29, PFR: 14.29, 3Bet Preflop: 7.69, Hands: 28)
UTG: 132.5 BB (VPIP: 34.29, PFR: 25.71, 3Bet Preflop: 6.25, Hands: 35)
UTG+1: 82.32 BB (VPIP: 34.29, PFR: 22.86, 3Bet Preflop: 10.53, Hands: 35)
Hero (MP): 41.83 BB
MP+1: 66.31 BB (VPIP: 40.00, PFR: 20.00, 3Bet Preflop: 10.00, Hands: 35)
MP+2: 82.17 BB

9 players post ante of 0.13 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.63 BB) Hero has 6♣ 6♦

fold, fold, Hero raises to 2.43 BB, fold, fold, CO calls 2.43 BB, fold, fold, fold

Flop: (7.49 BB, 2 players) T♣ 4♠ 3♣
Hero bets 4.06 BB, CO raises to 23.21 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 19.15 BB

Turn: (53.9 BB, 2 players) 2♥

River: (53.9 BB, 2 players) 7♦

Hero shows 6♣ 6♦ (One Pair, Sixes) (Pre 49%, Flop 15%, Turn 14%)
CO shows 9♠ T♠ (One Pair, Tens) (Pre 51%, Flop 85%, Turn 86%)
CO wins 53.9 BB

Hi guys,
i played poker on 6days last week and decided now to take a break for 3 days until thursday. last week was alright, but had problems with right food and sleeping big time :f_frown:.

Hand from last week:

What do you guys think about a push here, or would you have folded here and waited for another spot in the next orbit?

PokerStars - $1.13+$0.02|25/50 Ante 10 NL (6 max) - Holdem - 4 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 11.9 BB (VPIP: 27.93, PFR: 30.00, 3Bet Preflop: 11.76, Hands: 112)
Hero (CO): 11.2 BB
BTN: 7.9 BB (VPIP: 14.81, PFR: 28.57, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 27)
SB: 29 BB (VPIP: 42.86, PFR: 20.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 7)

4 players post ante of 0.2 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.3 BB) Hero has 6♥ 7♥

Hero raises to 11 BB and is all-in, BTN calls 7.7 BB and is all-in, fold, fold

Flop: (17.7 BB, 2 players) 2♣ Q♣ 8♠

Turn: (17.7 BB, 2 players) Q♦

River: (17.7 BB, 2 players) A♣

Hero shows 6♥ 7♥ (One Pair, Queens) (Pre 39%, Flop 3%, Turn 0%)
BTN shows 8♣ K♣ (Flush, Ace High) (Pre 61%, Flop 97%, Turn 100%)
BTN wins 17.7 BB

Last weeks goals:

:spade:partly done - plaxed 426/600hyper-satellites
:heart:done - played 16/7MTTs
:club:failed - didn't see an improvement in ROI
:club:failed - was only shooting 26 1,9$ hyper-satellites instead of 3,75$
:heart:done - was working on 7 videos
:heart:done - updated blog 3 times
:spade:partly failed - only read 20minutes on 6/7 days
:heart:done - did 47/40 sit- and push-ups on average per day
:heart:done - 23minutes of cycling on average per day
:club:failed - slept 5:00hours on one day and 9:00hours on another

This weeks goals:

• 18MTTs at least
• update blog 3 times
• 20minutes of reading every day
• 46 or more sit- + push-ups every day
• 25minutes of cycling every day
• eat healthy on 4days and only drink water
• 6:30hours of sleep at minimum every day
• self-reflection every day

Thats it for now, have a good one