MTT madness - No BRM, luckboxing, Shot taking, liveplays and health challenge

It sounds like you're in Quebec -- is that correct?
If so, do you ever play on Loto Quebec's site -- I think its called espacejeux.com?

I've played on the BC equivalent called PlayNow.com

All the best reaching your goals!
VS

Hmm from Quebec indeed, I played a bit on espacejeux.com but I didn't like it so I stopped ♦

But what is this man in your signature? "It's 2020, i'm old and have been playing poker for too long."
You're a very very young man! You can live for 60 more years.

When I was 5, 16 was "old",
When I was 16 30 was "old"
When I was 30 60 was "old"
I'm 66 now, and still I am not old.

Though I forget a lot more than I used to do. <sigh>
VS

But what is this man in your signature? "It's 2020, i'm old and have been playing poker for too long."
You're a very very young man! You can live for 60 more years.

When I was 5, 16 was "old",
When I was 16 30 was "old"
When I was 30 60 was "old"
I'm 66 now, and still I am not old

Hah, didn't know this signature would get this much reaction. I guess like in poker sometimes I do have a bad life mindset ! It must be from seeing all the sick people... Anyways, I will try to switch that soon You are right, 30 is young in a way, but I have a feeling that peak of humans in their 20s....after that you just start getting issues with your body and stuff

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First report in my 2020 blog.

Today I played my first session while having this blog, It went ok.
Some things went great some not so much.

One thing I did realize about being a tournament player is that sometimes you get bored even while 4 tabling. I found myself browsing and doing other stuff while playing the game which I think is probably -EV in the long term. THe problem with tournament also is that you really have to put a whole day of work into it specially if you make it deep. So I have to be careful if to which I reg otherwise I won't have time to do things in the evening with the wife....

I also did a couple of mistake or so I do believe so I will go analyse some hands now.

Session highlight
Played my first omaha tournament EVER for 4.40$ ...Finished 20 out of 503 or something for like 15$..still happy of the result..I still feel like a fish tho ♦ :f_biggrin::f_biggrin: but some people are just terrible at this game. (I've seen ppl jamming with such terrible hands)
Made a couple of deeps runs. Sadly no big cashes and most of the deeper runs were in lower $ buyin tourneys sadly.
Notable finish of 25th/ 2297 in the hot 5.50$ tournament...like 34$

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Here's the busting hand which I had doubts on in 5.50$ but now ICMZER told me it was the right play :

https://www.icmpoker.com/icmizer/#QQpnjR

Edit : on a side note, I am quite happy about my push and fold game, it seems pretty spot on after all these years, must be all the SNGs.

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So that's it for online poker today. I will game a bit ...Might consider gym because I'm only at 2x this week and tonight might go play a 100+25$ live bounty tournament.

Next update should be sunday Night late, after I ship the Sunday MIllions half price that I won my sat to I will also play the sunday warm up which I regged today.

No poker on saturday will be busy socializing.

Have a good weekend.

Sunday night update :

Welp, it was a rather disapointing day.
I busted pretty early in the sunday million that I won my sat into.
Then lost most of my flips.
Only made it deepish in the big 22$ ...Made like 64$ but def down for all the other buy ins lost.

I was pretty hang over from hanging out with my friend last night....went a bit crazy there...I guess it made it harder to play.
Anyways, next big session should be tuesday and or wednesday.
Take care everyone.

Monday night/morning surprise update

Came back from work, decided to do a small session before sleeping at 11PM. (Not a good idea considering how long tournament lasts, but I was in the mood.) In this time in Canada I have to say there's lot less traffic on pokerstars server

Good thing I did :

Tonight :
Made it to the sunday million anniversary with a hyper turbo satellite 11$..Finished 1st for my only available entry to the tourney :), I was quite proud of the quality of the push and fold. Shipped a 11$ turbo tournament - Played pretty good on final table but I must say I ran pretty good iwth the cards. On the HUs I was down to 3 BB at some point and came back to win it all. ♠_drink:
Still in the money in the Big 16.50$ - Too excited - 15/34th so far, we will see what happens.

On a side note, it seems like I am doing quite bad in bounties tournaments. I keep losing early-ish. I know the ranges are usually most wider, I am guessing it's only variance....we'll see.

Might do another session tomorrow and / or wednesday...got some medical tests tomorrow hope all turns out ok...

Take care everyone.

Welp, so this happened.
I agreed to a ICM deal while we were headsup. I played a solid final table, it's been a while since I didn't ship a turbo tournament.
Talk about run good..I mostly did the deal because I am so fucking exhausted. (I just shoved every hand after thea deal because I wanted to sleep hah, lost only 50$ on first place that was 700$ so not a problem, think villain might of not done such a good deal or he was scared of my heads up skills)
Some run good ITT.

Good night all.

Congrats!
I once accepted a deal in a PKO before I realized that there was no way to split the accumulated bounties, and I lost a huge amount of value.
Maybe not, though, because I was just too tired to play much more.

So I have been playing a decent amount today and yesterday.

It was quite rough.

I decided to deposit some money on 888 since my account is tracked there and for the lols, but because I don't follow BRM I kinda went busted with the money I deposited there.....Standard tournament variance, when you start losing with all the best hands you know it's time to stop playing there for a bit. (KK losing vs AK, A4 losing vs A3, JJ vs QT, etc...super standard stuff that i've seen very often in the past)

I don't feel like I am playing my A game today as well, I can tell I made 2-3 mistakes that costs me...maybe I should gym before my session sometimes to help with my focus.

The good news is that I am able to put a decent amount of volume for middle stakes tournaments, which mean I should be able to play around 300 to 500 per month if things go well.

I will make some clear goals for March at the end of the week. My graphic on sharkscope is looking much better, volume is helping.

Take care people.

February review

Health goals :

- Kinda failed my goals for the month, didn't go much to the gym and stuff, I will try to do better

Poker :

+3.5k month...yea I doubt that will happens again soon ♠_drink: (well if we include the bink january 29th)
Got back into poker the way I wanted to, been studying some hands, bought PT4 and ICMZER to study hands.

Some more accurate graphs since my comeback :

Since january 29/01

Since february 15th with my new computer PT4 graph :

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Negative aspect of the month : I have been struggling a little bit with losing with the best hands as I always have when it happens to much in a row, I will need to work on my mindset more

Positive aspect : All hope is not lost in my poker game

Live poker :

Didn't do too well in most tournaments I played live, I made a huge mistake in a 200+20$ live 3 days tournament by folding K♠:Q♠: 50 BB deep vs UTG raise because...I'm not sure why..guess I had a brain fart and I was thinking about my range being crushed but being this deep you have to call with that hand...anyways...would of hit the flush and made tons of money...so not too happy about that. I processed to lose the tourney with AJs pre vs 77..meh standard...

March goals

March will be a busier month for me work wise so I might not be able to play a lot of poker.

Goals :

Poker
Play at least 300 MTTs range 3$ - 25$
Not lose more than 500$ (ideally not lose at all?)
Get lucky in the sunday million biggest one that I won a sat into (I took a day off work in case a make it later)
Try to play 3 live tournament and cash into one of them

Health

:diamond:GET BACK IN THE GYM YOU LAZY ASS
CONTROL YOUR EMOTIONS MORE.

Won't be updating much in the next week, I will be busy with real life stuff, and also a bit sick.
I will probably update next week.
Take care everyone.

So this happened while I was playing mid stakes on pokerstars I was trolling with my last 10$ on 888 and binked a tournament lul.
There's hope on 888 again.
After getting some really bad suckouts!

Hello,
just a quick update during my crazy week to talk about my first bounty tournament that I won.
I find them so hard, but I can understand why people like them so much, it's very nice to keep your bounty at the end of the tournament.

I made this hero (crazy?) call at some point during the tournament, felt kinda wrong when being so deep what do you guys think :
PokerStars - 2400/4800 Ante 600 NL - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 5.49 BB
SB: 7.34 BB
Hero (BB): 56.97 BB
UTG: 47.95 BB
MP: 30.39 BB
CO: 20.04 BB

6 players post ante of 0.13 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.25 BB) Hero has Q♥ T♣

UTG raises to 2 BB, fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls 1 BB

Flop: (5.25 BB, 2 players) T♦ 6♥ 2♦
Hero checks, UTG bets 2.99 BB, Hero raises to 8 BB, UTG raises to 45.82 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 37.82 BB

Turn: (96.89 BB, 2 players) K♥

River: (96.89 BB, 2 players) Q♦

Hero shows Q♥ T♣ (Two Pair, Queens and Tens)
(Pre 73%, Flop 85%, Turn 86%)
UTG shows J♥ T♠ (One Pair, Tens)
(Pre 27%, Flop 15%, Turn 14%)
Hero wins 96.89 BB

It was a little crazy but this player was not that tight, saw him open crazy stuff before and theres so many draws out there. I decided to call and got rewarded but it was close. So often he's gonna show and overpair there...You need some luck in everytournament at some points anyways.

111$ first place + 153.63$ + 77$, pretty good for a 3.30$ investment!

Feelsgoodman. :f_thumbsup::f_thumbsup:

Another great things about PKOs is that after you've won a few (usually around 4) bounties, you're in profit even if you don't finish ITM

Sadly it didn't go too well for me today.
I don't think I played bad but lots of standard lost..I will probably post 1-2 hands in the evaluation forums later.

One highlight :
Made it to the sunday million today with a 5$ SAT! It was nice. After that, I made it to the money which was nice. Wasn'T so nice because It was a bounty and I got there very late but still I had some luck to make it ITM so it saved my day a little.

I am putting decent volume, I will have more time this week to play hope I ship another one.
Take care everyone

That's it for now.

Hello everyone,
jsut a quick update.

Been busy with professional life and stuff.
Trying to not get coronavirus from patient coughing in my face :f_o::f_o:

Anyways, today I played a little poker on 888, man that poker room is so fishy, I never saw such horrible calls!

That one in partical :

888Poker, Hold'em No Limit - 300/600 (70 ante) - 8 players
Replay this hand on Upswing Poker

griura (UTG): 4,630 (8 bb)
debzmark2009 (UTG+1): 7,421 (12 bb)
TallesL (MP): 5,801 (10 bb)
stevegold87 (MP+1): 6,650 (11 bb)
pmphmp14 (CO): 8,148 (14 bb)
birdwild1 (BU): 23,585 (39 bb)
lmpcdecc (SB): 17,732 (30 bb)
jabursh (BB): 3,985 (7 bb)

Pre-Flop: (1,460) Hero (stevegold87) is MP+1 with A♥ J♥
1 fold, debzmark2009 (UTG+1) calls 600, 1 fold, stevegold87 (MP+1) raises to 6,580 (all-in), 2 players fold, lmpcdecc (SB) calls 6,280, 1 fold, debzmark2009 (UTG+1) calls 5,980

Flop: (20,900) Q♠ 5♦ 9♦ (3 players, 1 all-in)
lmpcdecc (SB) checks, debzmark2009 (UTG+1) bets 600, lmpcdecc (SB) raises to 1,200, debzmark2009 (UTG+1) calls 171 (all-in)

Turn: (22,442) J♦ (3 players, 2 all-in)

River: (22,442) 8♣ (3 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: 22,442

Showdown:
lmpcdecc (SB) shows 7♣ A♠ (high card, Ace)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 20%, Flop: 10%, Turn: 0%, River: 0%)

debzmark2009 (UTG+1) shows 4♦ 3♦ (a flush, Jack high)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 33%, Flop: 57%, Turn: 100%, River: 100%)

stevegold87 (MP+1) shows A♥ J♥ (a pair of Jacks)
(Equity - Pre-Flop: 47%, Flop: 33%, Turn: 0%, River: 0%)

debzmark2009 (UTG+1) wins 22,442

Wut!

Anyways, if you saw me at the tables today I wasn't really focusing I was studying at the same time so I'm sorry if I didn't make sense sometimes .

No big update for a while, I be working in the next few days and going away for the weekend.
I guess next poker day might not be in a while, wonder if I'll make 300 games this month.
We will see.
Take care everyone.

Hello everyone,
A quick update again,
a lot of things are closed down around me so not much to do but to play poker ! Which is kinda good thing. With the coronavirus I was starting to show flu/cold symptoms so I couldn't go to work as a health professionnal to make sure, I got to stay home and grind...Should be the same way for the weekend. Guess i'm putting myself in a semi quarantine...

Today wasn't that good, made it deep into the Big 7.5$ , busted QQ<AK A on the river, like 23rd place...for 45$..first place 1k...grrr...
Otherwise I guess it's mostly a losing day.

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On a side now, I have been watching Spraggy on twitch a lot and I made it into the Spraggy christmas thing, I was able to complete 9 challenges and now I'm inside a tournament in which I can win a platinum pass...2nd place is like 12 weeks of sunday millions, must be nice.

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I have not been doing well at all on the health challenge, considering everything that is happening around me right now, I am just taking it easy with the gym this month, I have a bike at home I might do some.....But yea, not that much improvement on that.

Take care everyone, you might get more update from me since my trip was cancelled with everything happening here.

Originally posted by stevegold87
a lot of things are closed down around me so not much to do but to play poker ! Which is kinda good thing. With the coronavirus I was starting to show flu/cold symptoms so I couldn't go to work as a health professional to make sure, I got to stay home and grind...Should be the same way for the weekend. Guess i'm putting myself in a semi quarantine...

I quite frequently wake up with sniffles, but it goes away by noon.
I've never worried about it, but nowadays I guess it wouldn't do to be seen in public blowing my nose etc.

I sure hope you don't have the bug, and that you get well soon and that you run good while convalescing!

I hope everyone is doing well,

I am still quite sick, it is quite possible I have the famous virus except they won't let me test for it because I haven't travelled lately and the tests in Quebec are in saturation...I tried explained to them that patients cough in my face everyday..Anyways, once the criterias get looser I'll get tested. In my age group the virus has a 0.2% mortality rate, hope I don't run too bad..at least the ventilators are still open in Canada!

Anyone reading this and thinking this is all a big joke should really consider staying home as much as they can, best way to protect your loved ones.

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In another news, because I have symptoms of the virus I am now isolated for 14 days here with the wife. She likes to play poker and so do I so as long as I am breathing I will be playing.

Did a decent session yesterday, made it deep into a bounty builder and the big 7.5$ event I think, not final table but still ended up the day quite in the positive.

I did a session as well today, was a losing overall but not by much, I have been reviewing my hands and pushes with ICMIZER and i'm really good, each time I'm borderline on a push or a fold I make the right call, so pretty happy about that.

I guess I would need to work a bit on my post flop play overall, been watching a lot of streaming and learning so I feel like im improving as well....Thank god I don't have anymore data on my internet so I can stream as much as want.

with everything happening, I should be able to make my 300 goals of tournaments! Sadly, won't be able to reach much of my healht goal...guess the new goal is stay alive? ♦

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Anyways, take care everyone, and happy st patricks day.

and don't you dare to go out to celebrate it

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