Become a shark -> CRUSH -> ??? [MTT & MTSNG Blog]

Good luck! Congrats with the first step.

From baby shark to big shark

Week One 🂡

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BR: $133.33
Rewards: $1
Tournaments Played: 129
Hands played: 10,849
ROI: 19%
Profit: +28.84 USD

Big poker week. Played and studied tons. Lots of learnings.

$1 MTSNGs ROI: 60%

Ran really well which is nice starting out. Tables are super soft, full of donkies and often nit fests and generally very predictable.

$1.10 MTTs ROI: -47% ♠_cry:

I misplayed some badly but they also turned out to be even bigger crapshoots than expected and I was running kinda poorly, but I could expect with perfect play and a bit of luck to make a final table COPIUM. Best so far was 40th out of 2617 players for 9 bucks including bounties. Trying to figure out my weaknesses. I don't wanna give up on this because of my love for the tournament format. Also played some $0.30-0.50 sats.

Learning material:

• read most articles here https://www.pokerstrategy.com/strategy/mtt/how-play-mtt/ ✔️
• talked for hours with ChatGPT about poker theory ✔️
• read lots of MTT GTO charts ✔️
• watched GTO youtube videos by Finding Equilibrium and Poker Giraffe, will watch more ✔️
• watched the basic MTT videos on PS and youtube and will watch more ✔️
• read https://www.pokerstrategy.com/strategy/bss/exploits-auto-profit/ ✔️
• reviewed hands in PT and Equilab ✔️

TODO:

• reread some of the material
• short 5 min workout before every session
• find leaks with PT
• MTSNGs on weekdays, big MTTs on the weekend cuz potentially higher ROI
• study silver content on PS
• order more salads

Hand of the Week ♠_cool:

Misclicked the 3bet 8bb.

Hero (BB): 21.48 BB
UTG: 23.33 BB
UTG+1: 36.49 BB
MP: 18.07 BB
CO: 23.15 BB
BTN: 26.1 BB
SB: 34.97 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.37 BB) Hero has A♠ A♥

fold, UTG+1 raises to 2.3 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 9 BB, UTG+1 raises to 36.37 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 12.36 BB and is all-in

Originally posted by H0witzer
Good luck! Congrats with the first step.

From baby shark to big shark

Thanks! yep it will take a while ♠_smile:

Challenge start: 6th March

Certified best session jams ♠_love:

Welcome and good luck in your challenge Nice start for the first week, keep it going.

Week Two 🂢

BR: $143.86
Tournaments played: 75
Hands played: 6,484
ROI: 15.10%
Profit: +11.87 USD

Concerned myself much less with poker this week. The will was there but my mental state just wasn't right and in hindsight I should've played much less and put that time into theory instead. Can't wait for spring to really kick off. Seasonal affective disorder has been kicking my butt this winter.

$1 MTSNGs

$1.10 MTTs

New PB:

Originally posted by mariussica88
Welcome and good luck in your challenge Nice start for the first week, keep it going.

Thank you so much ♠_drink:

Originally posted by olegunn
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I think you might have mistaken my thread with another one. I didn't win any lottery to my knowledge, but I appreciate you wanting to spread a charitable cause.

Yes you did. Congratulations You won

See your balance in the Payout section of the tell-a-friend

Hehe - congratz also from here. Also welcome to the BR challenge and thank you for having such a nice structure in your posts - it makes it a pleasure to read!

WOW! You guys are completely correct of course. I was looking around after olegunn's post and couldn't find anything so I assumed he must have posted in the wrong thread lol. I'm absolutely thrilled and can't believe how lucky I am. Big thanks to PS.com for running this raffle and everyone here who congratulated me and had let me known about this, I don't know how long I wouldn't have realized otherwise. I will check the frontpage more frequently now ♠_biggrin:

Originally posted by SvenBe
thank you for having such a nice structure in your posts - it makes it a pleasure to read!

That's music to my ears, thanks for the flowers ♠_love:

Week Three 🂣

BR: $126.21
Rewards: T$1.50
Tournaments Played: 59
Hands played: 4,795
ROI: -32.10%
Profit: -19.15 USD

Worst week yet. Ran comedically bad at times but nothing to tilt over, micro stakes are for learning after all. What is indefinitely worse is playing poorly so coming week I want to focus my poker time much more on theory again, especially working through the silver content on PS.com.

$1 MTSNGs

$1.10 MTTs

Just finished a second watchthrough of The Last of Us. As a huge fan of the original first game I wanna say the TV show did it justice and I started to like it even more than the game by the end of it. At first I kinda was put off by minor things like how differently the actors looked compared to the game character designs, but you start to accept them very quickly, they did a fantastic job.

TLOU was awesome, loved every minute of it. I never played the game though.

Pedro Pascal is perfect for these rolls.

Week Four 🂤

BR: $121.76
Tournaments Played: 87
Hands played: 6,938
ROI: -10.88%
Profit: -4.45 USD

Another awful week. Definitely took some hits to my morale at points but it's whatever. I've been basically grinding MTSNGs all this time to then lose all profits by playing MTTs ♠_ugly: I might want to restructure my strategy a little bit and try building more of a bankroll before jumping back into MTTs, just for the psychological effect, but not sure yet. Shipping a big MTT (1k+ players) is generally my main goal.

$1 MTSNGs

$1.10 MTTs

1 month summary graphs:

Originally posted by H0witzer
TLOU was awesome, loved every minute of it. I never played the game though.

Pedro Pascal is perfect for these rolls.

Happy to hear that you enjoyed it that much as someone who didn't play the game, because I'm sometimes not sure with my recommendation to people who haven't. Agreed, Pedro Pascal is really good in this role ♠_love:

Week Five 🂥

BR: $127.02
Tournaments Played: 108
ROI: 5.15%
Profit: +5.26 USD

More of the same.

$1 MTSNGs

$1.10 MTTs

• study silver content ✔️
• stop session when getting tired
• find leaks