Last hotels bought from Czech trip - I am going to The Festival Rozvadov next Monday and after 6 nights there decided to take 4 nights in Prague before returning home so took hotels for that period. Looking forward for the trip, travelling alone as all friends are tied for their jobs.
So likely very little online poker. I might play tomorrow and go without sleeping to my flights (leaves 06:20) but next Sunday is skipped. For summer plan is to concentrate on other stuff and play only in Sundays.
Economically this trip is total waste, so why not to take a little trip with Taxi/Bolt alone to see Czech countryside properly? 90€ wouldn't be bad if would have got someone to share.
Well, it was a trip. I need a long vacation.
First I lost my phone after that Bolt trip, and it got to Prague one week earlier than I did. Got it back yesterday after long hunt of lost OnePlus (let's just say that driver didn't speak any English and first time I got contact with him was right after I used google translate to send czech messages instead).
Bought a new phone from nearby (20 km) town, but it was a poor substitute as couldn't log in to my Google account, Facebook account, bank accounts or anything tied to them.
I didn't expect much from Rozvadov, but it was even far more despicable place than I had imagined. Literally nothing else than that casino, which offered nothing else than casino games. Buffet went from mediocre to bad and no other places to eat nearby. At least side hospitality events were nice.
Finished 3rd in the roulette tournament, which actually made my games profitable despite poker running like poker does: main event busted day2 at classic 8x starting stack flip with nut flush draw against top pair button vs. bb. 2-7 triple draw busted at first hand (10bb deep) with me holding 76432 (second nuts) even before last draw just to see that my opponent already hot 75432.
No luck at flips or blackjack tournaments - super value like roulette one though, they played via leaderboard so everyone having a stack after 10 hands / games got added to the leaderboard with their best result so playing at the last possible moment made it possible to have a huge advantage in addition of playing games right. Some people really did their best to lose.
Spent 4 days in Prague after Rozvadov, which was better - nice bars, excellent restaurants and at least cheaper if not better hotel.
Would people like to have more random pictures? For obvious reasons they are mostly on my substitute phone (rest on other phone) and writing this from my computer, and don't care to download too much stuff from discord to my computer and then add here.
Here's a sushi boat from a superb Japanese manga/cat-themed restaurant in Prague:
17 hours of sleep. Let's see where sleep patterns go, but I got lots of sleep deprivation from the trip which must be paid off. For some reason I got no good sleep on hotels during Czech trip - max 7-8 hour sets and even those were usually partially dog sleep.
No wonder if I had continous stress stuff alongside missing phone stuff and were more vexed than usually.
I will check out tomorrow if and when I play depending on the feeling. I might skip GG games completely since there's lots of Sunday games and in addition I got some 100€ tickets to use.
Very slowly getting back to poker. Stars had some promo for me: rake 3$ three times a week and get a 11$ ticket. No luck in Wednesday, but today played 55 NLO8 hyper PKO and 16,5 Banzai Bounty, took a trophy for almost 900$ from first and FT-bubble from second.
Sunday Funday tomorrow, got tickets so this time planning to do a proper session - also got that 100€ ticket @ Unibet which is only good for 3 days or so. And two 109$ tickets for Sunday major at Party, better start using them. Maybe session works now better than last Sunday, was visiting Suomenlinna today and enjoying italian pizza in a restaurant called Via Tribunali.
Bit worried that used all my rungood in Unibet for some EURO2024 centroll flips, as won two of them around week or two ago... for 2€ each.
Pretty much sums my Sunday up.
Lost half of yesterday profits with no chance at all.
Finally some value from blogging.
Gotta put on linkedin: "professional poker blogger".
Haven't got much interest in poker lately - and for other stuff either, so planning to have July as a vacation. Maybe a proper cooldown from stuff is required for a change.
Made over 10k€ profit from games (maybe bit over half of that from poker) April to June (Q2) without any big scores (and actually running super bad at SCOOPs) so still doing profitable stuff. When I just find mojo for playing.
Bought all Europa Universalis 4 expansions which I have been missing so rather grinding it now.
Gotta cut some expenses: Our local grocery store chain sells stuff which is close to best before day at -60% after 9 pm and I occasionally visit for the value.
Food is bit less expensive this way. About 13€ for these.
Haven't been playing much: some freerolling (like free 5,5$ tickets) and some casino/sportsbook basic promos and few hyper speed MTTs. Probably not going to play a lot in July, August is still ??? with Coolbet Open live event late in that month and September likely to play more again.
Yesterday we had 3-person meeting including live stream which was quite fun - with poker (one table from each stream, we were playing at friends place) and food and drinks.. Got 2nd place from 27$ NLO8 hyper PKO for about 380$, but not much else - bit of winnings though.
Vacation goes on, but feels like I am even more tired now. Probably it is a good thing and body+mind are getting bit more relaxed after a long time of too much stress.
Not sure if playing today, might just grab few fast MTTs and check out how it feels.
Small trophy for yesterday, roughly enough to get buy-ins back.
No live package though, flipped AK < JJ 6 left (2 packages + cash for 3rd/4th) for PAF Destination Poker.
Feeling super tired, but let's see if I can find motivation to play something. Not forcing myself to play though so likely just grabbing few hyper speed MTTs or (live) satellites if I play.
I was somewhat tempted to try and grind The Festival Online-series due to leaderboard, but then I watched these structures (4 hours of late reg at the bounty ones which you should play from the start):
https://www.thefestival.com/the-festival-online-streamers + https://www.thefestival.com/the-festival-online-2024
I might still take a shot to streamer challenge. 6 tournaments at 6 different days is certainly doable even with the stream, so I probably play first 1-3 tournaments, check how they go and decide if I am go all-in and play extra point missions as well. Not very valuable with just one package for winner (without travel money) but still good enough to test, I guess?
Mix of bad runs + little interest in poker -> probably like almost 1000€ downswing in 3 gamedays.
On weekdays it is bit problematic with MTT offering being quite meek and some MTTs getting cancelled. I have been playing some (overlay) satellites too alongside regular stuff, but they mix bit badly with concentrating on tournaments like PLO R/A's and NLO8 fast-speed PKOs.
I also have been streaming, which probably make it even less tempting to play when having bad runs. Next time streaming + playing in Sunday, hopefully with better runs and with more joy.
Next time streaming + playing in Sunday, hopefully with better runs and with more joy.
Hey Fin tell me your stream channel pls 
I'll be happy to watch some MTT.
Whish you great results!
It's this one: https://www.twitch.tv/farseerfinland
Online usually during Coolbet Streamer Special and when different promos are up. Or if I am playing much, I sometimes fire a stream when other Finnish poker streamers are off-line (I usually rather watch alongside playing than stream myself).
Originally posted by farseerfin
Gotta cut some expenses: Our local grocery store chain sells stuff which is close to best before day at -60% after 9 pm and I occasionally visit for the value.
Food is bit less expensive this way. About 13€ for these.
Haven't been playing much: some freerolling (like free 5,5$ tickets) and some casino/sportsbook basic promos and few hyper speed MTTs. Probably not going to play a lot in July, August is still ??? with Coolbet Open live event late in that month and September likely to play more again.
check out the app "Too Good to Go" - sells leftovers from restaurants, bakeries and shops. Depending on where you live you can get great deals. strong in UK and Spain, not sure about other countries.
We got similar app called "ResQ" which mostly sells leftovers from restaurants. I sometimes use it, but rarely nowadays as they are often still quite pricey and there are limited amount of participating restaurants nearby.
Gotta try Too Good to Go when I return to Spain (though Torrevieja is quite small place) in autumn for winter quarters.
These -60% evening deals are generally best, though sometimes hard to adjust with poker playing as games run usually during evening.
Coolbet Open is coming up, and got some extra information about it via e-mail. Seems a bit boring schedule without any side activities (boo)... but these tournaments are sort of interesting:
Tuesday
18:00 3 NLH The Coolbet Open Warm Up, Unlimited re-entry €200 + €20
Wednesday
15:00 6 PLO Pot Limit Omaha [8-max], 4 cards only, unlimited re-entry €200 + €20
23:00 9 NLH AcerZiggy's Zapperjam Hyper Turbo, Unlimited re-entry €135 + €15
Thursday
12:00 5 NLH Coolbet Open Main Event DAY 1B, Unlimited re-entry, Day 1 will be played 9 lvls €500 + €50
19:00 10 NLH NLH Single Re-entry €135 + €15
23:00 12 NLH Sycksbe's Rock'n'Roll Hyper Turbo, Unlimited re-entry €135 + €15
Friday
21:00 15 NLH NLH €220, Unlimited re-entry €200 + €20
23:00
17 NLH Jevakim's Friday Fun Hyper Turbo, Unlimited re-entry €135 + €15
Saturday
12:30
18 NLH SAT Satellite to The €1500 Coolbet Open NLH #20 (3x Ticket GTD) R/A €50+10 / 50€ / €50
17:00 22 NLH Coolbet Live Special, Unlimited re-entry €135 + €15
20:00 24 PLO Pot Limit Omaha Hyper Turbo Freezeout [8-max] €135 + €15
23:00 27 NLH Coolbet Farewell Hyper Turbo, Unlimited re-entry €135 + €15
Even going on just for these smaller buy-ins tournaments buy-ins make around 2000€ without re-entries + main event where I have ticket. One thing I don't like at live tournaments: huge variance.
