From €15 to €0

I decided to play a satelite with my previously won entry ticket while multitabling at a cash game table. The Satelite played like a freeroll and pretty fast it ended up in a shove/fold or shove/call fest. I didn't finish ITM after 45 mins of play. The cash table didn't go any better. Only mega NITS where playing this evening. Everybody either folds to my pfr or 3-bets. In 45 mins I got to the showdown just once in a pot where I was involved and lost a €1.5 pot. I was just lucky with one hand where I made the nuts (sadly not the hand that went to the showdown) but did however won a decent pot. I only saw one time where there was an allin situation with AK vs QQ with AQ6 on the flop. Well timed bluffs sure work but with pots always that small there's not much to gain. I played well and did not tilt but not much gained in the last hour.

Unfortunately for the blog (but I'm in favor of their policy) Unibet doesn't allow to export hands but here's a visual from my one pot won this session.

Welcome to the BR challenge!
Good luck with your goals - I'd recommend in that hand to simply go all in! You triple what you get from villain compared to just minraising and I doubt he folds more than 1 out of 3 compared to your minraise.

Originally posted by SvenBe
Welcome to the BR challenge!
Good luck with your goals - I'd recommend in that hand to simply go all in! You triple what you get from villain compared to just minraising and I doubt he folds more than 1 out of 3 compared to your minraise.

Thank you. You are probably right especially since we both are not very deep.

I had a rough week. I was building my bankroll up to around €50 again. Then decided to take a shot at the hexapro's and that turned out te be a bad decision. I lost all my profit of the week and more in just a couple of minutes. Some tilt and frustration got the better of me and decided to quit for a day. I came back with clear mind and decided to take another shot, this time at a couple MTT's. One time I ended up at the final table taking €40 with me and used that to to take on some other MTT's and eventually lost the €40 also. The cash tables didn't go really well either, allthough mostly was due to running bad my play was decent. But nothing to do when you got allin preflop with AA and you're opponent hits a flush with AQo these things happened quit a lot and destroyed all profits I made ending the week with

Hands played: 3011
Starting BR: €39.68
Current BR: €30.58
Profit: €-9.1

Update: After a couple break-even sessions at the cash tables I decided to take another shot at the MTT's. It feels good and start to believe there are still possibilities and hard work does pay off. Sadly I wasted most of my profit to join other MTT's where I couldn't make it in the money. Still think I must be on the right path to victory.

Not many cash tables this week because I was busy with other stuff. I did play a few other MTT's and hexapro's in the weekend and I managed to end 3rd place! Boosting my BR nice this week!

My stats during this challenge:

Time invested: ~110+ hours (at the tables)
Total hands played: 31631
Total MTT's played: 109 (includes many freerolls)
Total BR: €110.86
Net profit: €95.86

Things didn't work out well. I lost my BR and had to deposit again. I keep playing and studying so maybe you'll here from me again but unfortunately for now this challenge is failed.

How did you lose it? Tilt or going higher too soon?

I understand your view how you need HUD at stars. Pokerstars tilts me so much 🙂 So many nits and solid players..even on NL5.. it feels like TPTK is nothing and if they call second barrel I feel Im dead already😂😂 I moved to partypoker and suddenly I feel I can breath again. On NL10 I meet so many people with stack bellow 5$. Feels like NL2 on stars. Playing without hud is actually better. One can concentrate more what is villain doing more than stats.

I missed this before...
I had thought that it would be fun to grind a bankroll into dust to see how long I could stretch it out.

The idea would be to play "just a bit" higher stakes than the bankroll should allow, then see how long it would last.
I would only do it with OPM[1] though.

Cheers,
VS

[1] OPM == Other People's Money. For example, my current 888 bankroll started at 20 cents — we could use that. We we'll play solid poker, just at a higher level...

Originally posted by Ihuarraquax
How did you lose it? Tilt or going higher too soon?

Yeah basicaly I went on insane monkey tilt all gone

Originally posted by Ihuarraquax
I understand your view how you need HUD at stars. Pokerstars tilts me so much 🙂 So many nits and solid players..even on NL5.. it feels like TPTK is nothing and if they call second barrel I feel Im dead already😂😂 I moved to partypoker and suddenly I feel I can breath again. On NL10 I meet so many people with stack bellow 5$. Feels like NL2 on stars. Playing without hud is actually better. One can concentrate more what is villain doing more than stats.

Ikr sometimes it's just about outnitting your opponents only to get sucked out on the river. Sadly I can't play at partypoker in my country. The choice for poker rooms is very limited.

Originally posted by VorpalF2F
I missed this before...
I had thought that it would be fun to grind a bankroll into dust to see how long I could stretch it out.

The idea would be to play "just a bit" higher stakes than the bankroll should allow, then see how long it would last.
I would only do it with OPM[1] though.

Cheers,
VS

[1] OPM == Other People's Money. For example, my current 888 bankroll started at 20 cents — we could use that. We we'll play solid poker, just at a higher level...

I underestimated the ride and was not well prepared enough. It's lesson learned.
Oh you mean like kind of like stacking. Interesting thought.

Anyway. I have time to reflect. Adjust my game plan, fix some major leaks and I am ready for a restart: you can follow it here.