Confessions of a Button Clicker

Best of luck with your tournaments, Slurpris!

I see you have been around since the early days of Pokerstrategy. Always nice to see one of the "veterans" returning to the forum.

Online poker has had quite the journey since those days, hasn't it?

Thank you Harrier88! It's has been a long time, yes, with a longer break, I have been here and there, although never commited to actively participate in discussions. I kind of never felt my opinion was worth sharing. Lots of things have changed and this for me is somewhat a new begining.
It has been interesting at times, I think when Black Friday happened, I was still playing freerolls. Well, now it isn't like I'm crushing high stakes, but one thing that has happened is I am applying myself and looking forward to work required to 'git gud'.
Cheers!

Originally posted by Slurpris
I have been here and there, although never commited to actively participate in discussions. I kind of never felt my opinion was worth sharing. Lots of things have changed and this for me is somewhat a new begining.

Of course your opinion is worth sharing - especially now that the forum is not as active anymore as it used to be during the heyday of online poker.

I've personally moved on to mixed games by now, which I guess is a little like Hold'em used to be back in the day, with not much material on it, but bigger edges to had for the people who do study the games. But there are still plenty of chips to be grabbed for the skilled Hold'em player who puts in the work.

Micromillions recap.
Got myself into 53 events. Started with lowest buy-ins and took shot at 3$ and few 5$ ones.
Cashed ~17%, with loss of -6.85$ (ROI -5.77%)
On this last day we bricked ALL the Micromillion events. I can’t really believe it myself. It was rough. If I bagged couple more or did not reach the zero line, I might have played couple more. One of the toughest ones was the few satelites I played for the main event. Really wanted to play it this year.

As seen in the graph which includes MM events and regular 1$ tournaments and 25c 45-man SNG, beginning looked kind of promising, but overall I would say runbad was there.
Although loses are big for our bankroll, I did set aside money for it, so it’s not that bad. We managed to break even on tournaments running on Optibet.
Before the micromillions I decided to divide Pokerstars BR for different games I wanted to play. Since most of my profit was from cashgames, I left most for for CG. Now it’s time to rebuild the tournament BR for the next MM series.

Life update
Hey guys!
Not that anyone was excited about my confessions, but it has been a while. And what an interesting time it was. Soon after my last post I went on a vacation in beautiful Austria. It was quite nice, fantastic places, new wildlife and overall great experience.

Well, until last days of the vacation, when I broke my leg. Nothing serious, just a little piece from my tibia. Didn't even hurt that much, but while I was trying to move around with crutches, my leg basically not moving for 4 weeks, thing called thrombus progressed. Main thing everyone should know is that mm. solei (The soleus is a large muscle on the back of your lower leg) are main human venous pumps. If you don't move the leg, there is venous stasis. One day just standing up, I felt dizzy, lost consciousness, but didn't think much of it. My girl though made me go to hospital. After blood work I myself asked for CT scan for lungs. And there it was - pulmonary embolism. Kind of feel like a second chance was given to me. It of course helps, that I'm sill on younger side. Don't know precisely, but quick google search shows "If untreated, acute PE is associated with a significant mortality rate (as high as 30%)....".
While getting better and being on sick leave, I have played some cards. But now almost ready to get back to work, which also means ready for some more Holdem action.
Couple of days ago I made a tournament, MTTSNG day and won 2 trophies!

Meanwhile I'm still trying to get better at cash games. I sometimes feel like I am not ready to take on tournament variance.

Graph is for August- October this year. As it shows it's not going too well. I was thinking I should grind it up to NL10 and buy some sort of course to improve, while also having second thoughts that I should invest now for faster improvement.

Good day everyone!
Do you know what time it is? Yes! It's hunting season

We once again are fighting for the badge. It has been quite a while since my last post. I guess I assumed there would be more traffic on this blog, but naturally you need to invest decent amount to receive some dividends.
To sum it up, I have played a bit of tournaments and cash games, most notably taking the 4th place in mini MicroMillions 3$ Deepstack event for 520$ that happened on April 2023, which is my biggest score.

I shall try this out again, this time more to focus on my thoughts and progress of the MM quest.
I am quite dissapointed that PokerStars have announced this event just as it's about to begin. Those who love to join in on micro stakes tournaments, usually have jobs. Would have loved to take a week off to go on grind mode, but it is what it is. Too late to get vacation now.
Main volume be on weekends, also because the schedule is based on mornings and midday on work days.
I have about laid out the grind days and possible events that I'm interested in and the grand total of buyins might come to whooping 450$ And right at the beginning, the first day is right after a 24h shift. That's not optimal, but what can you do.
Some people play for more in one tourney, but it's more about the hunt for the badge and fun doing it.
I am really looking forward to this and hope some of you will join me in the MM events.

Good luck at the tables!

Best of luck!
I agree that MM is a great series.
The year, I'm even going to enter some Hold'em events

Best of luck VorpalF2F!

Alright, first session in the books and let me tell you, it didn't go well.
After the 24h shift I was wrecked, although I got to sleep for about 4 hours, I felt ok to fire up first 5 events and one rebuy and couple more tourneys.
Managed to win one super small field on Optibet. I feel like I played OK. Also what I sure am proud, I didn't go on full tilt while bad beats/ coolers happened. Something I actually didn't expect because of lack of sleep.

-29.48$ for the day.
We go again on Friday, and quite possibly play everything MM has to offer and some space fillers from Optibet as well.
I was lucky enough to bink huge at the beginning of the miniMM this year, looks like it's going to be harder this time.
Good luck at the tables! Q♣:K♣:

Good day fellow players!
Time for last weekend recap.
I played 3 days. Total of 86 tournamnts of which 26 were MicroMillion events. Well if we count in MicroMillions Sunday Storm edition, then it's 27.
Sum of buyins: 234.30$, Sum of cashes: 171.58$ , which makes us the profit of -62.72$
First day was OK, did manage to get some profit, even bink one tournament on Optibet .
As for Micromillions events, we are -97.44$.
I did feel like I played ok despite being unlucky.
Heart break of the weekend:
22$ Highroller, where I was down to 10 BB early, when ran into bigger full house than mine. After that we managed to get to starting stack until this last hand, I consider myself being unlucky 2 times, one, when we shove into one of the premium hand and the second time, where we can't hold for those 93%. You can probably guess the river

It was not tilting, just a bit exhausting, but that's what tournaments do. For MM I plan to splurge my Pokerstars BR, and after move down stakes to recover.
But hunting season is not over. We still have this weekend to win that MM badge and that is the ultimate goal for now.

Hello poker players!
I have decided to cut the MM short and don't play any events today.
Got absolutely demolished. My hopes and dreams of MM badge this year are dead. And you know what, I feel more incentive to prepare more so I am ready next year.
Stats for this weekend's grind:
Tournaments played: 48
Buyins: 121$
Cashes: 27.27$
Profit: -93.25$
If we look at MM numbers, they are as follows:
Played 45 events
Reentries 16
Buyins 236.5$ , Cashes 80.73$, Profit: -155.77$
Here is a little graph on BB per hands played this month for tournaments.

Hunting season is over! Time to back to work.
For now I will contiunue to play and learn cash games and SNGs mostly. I have set a little challange at micro 9max SNGs, where, I want to pay 5000$ in buyins and see what ROI I can get on those and also have a decent sample to analyze my game. Currently only ~500 games played out of 10k. But with progress on that a bit later..
That's it for now. See you at the tables! K♣:K♥:

Today I really feel gratitude for being in the green for the session.

I did lose a 60/40 flip for a chip lead HU, but in the end it's the +EV I am looking for.
As my vacation approaches, I am looking forward to grinding more and growing BR. And maybe even take a shot at small live tournaments.

GL at the tables! A♥:5♥: