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Yesterday I played ~50 SnGs, and it was frakin' awful.

My EV was flat at the beginning, then just dropped quite a lot, obv I was getting coolered all day. Meh.
First I was running pretty hot above EV, but then came the downfall. Actually, I'm still not complaining, but it was a very sudden and big fall, so it was a bit hard to take it mentally.

Also, the most frustrating is that it has happened when I started playing 9 tables again. Maaaaaaaaan.... It's bad to think that there is a possibility that my game deimproves so much when I increase table number.

And there were also quite a few regs, I'm used to softer tables in those hours.

So now I'm gonna review my hands. Today I either play very little or nothing at all. Thursday I intend to do a similar grinding like yesterday, possibly even more (yesterday I had to stop to avoid tilt... twice :P), and another biggish grinding on saturday.

I really want to get platinum this month, need to look into a couple of vids ♠_cool:

how many tables do you play?

Originally posted by ulairiiii
how many tables do you play?

9 was standard but decresed it to 6-7 when I moved up to $30. Planning on returning to 9 tables again. Thing is that I can't mix limits (getting staked for half the action) and I can't always get 9 tables to load anyway. Yesterday evening was good trafficwise.

I'm not increasing table numbers because legal situation in my country is unstable. If they don't make a law against poker this autumn I'm buying table ninja and increasing table number to 12.

I'm not planning on increasing it more than that for now. I want to maintain a game that's playable while university is on, that's priority. After that, we will see.

Originally posted by akrammon

Originally posted by ulairiiii
how many tables do you play?

9 was standard but decresed it to 6-7 when I moved up to $30. Planning on returning to 9 tables again. Thing is that I can't mix limits (getting staked for half the action) and I can't always get 9 tables to load anyway. Yesterday evening was good trafficwise.

I'm not increasing table numbers because legal situation in my country is unstable. If they don't make a law against poker this autumn I'm buying table ninja and increasing table number to 12.

I'm not planning on increasing it more than that for now. I want to maintain a game that's playable while university is on, that's priority. After that, we will see.

i believe someone stakes you to show profit.You can discuss with the staker to re arrange some things

Originally posted by ulairiiii

Originally posted by akrammon

Originally posted by ulairiiii
how many tables do you play?

9 was standard but decresed it to 6-7 when I moved up to $30. Planning on returning to 9 tables again. Thing is that I can't mix limits (getting staked for half the action) and I can't always get 9 tables to load anyway. Yesterday evening was good trafficwise.

I'm not increasing table numbers because legal situation in my country is unstable. If they don't make a law against poker this autumn I'm buying table ninja and increasing table number to 12.

I'm not planning on increasing it more than that for now. I want to maintain a game that's playable while university is on, that's priority. After that, we will see.

i believe someone stakes you to show profit.You can discuss with the staker to re arrange some things

Hehe, that's true but I don't mind playing like 7 tables continously Can easily put in 40-50 a day like that when I grind in the evenings.

So, I was back to 6-7 tabling to ensure I play my A-game.

9-tabling clearly wasn't the problem, I got hit by a downswing today, -10BI. Yesterday was also big down, around -6, -7.

I'm still ok if we consider how big of an upswing I've had when I moved up to the $30s, it just sucks to loose half of that profit.

I'm running into coolers, so my EV line is in the toilet, so that doesn't help my soul, heh, and I'm also getting unlucky when I'm ahead. Not much to talk about, just the usual. Will get through this.

I'm taking it well from the mental side so far.

Gonna grab something to eat, review a few hands and then probably play some more.

Managed to bring up 'frakin awful' to 'moderately bad'. That's a sort of success too, I guess, -5BI for today. Not a disaster.

Played super-well in my second session imo but reviews are yet to come tomorrow.

Seeya all later!

p.s. I'm gonna post a graph as I'm over 250 SnGs on the $30 limit, but I'm a bit tired now so gonna do it tomorrow.

Hey Akrammon,

i tried to register and unregister to 235 fpp's sng's sunday storm satellites but i just get Fpp's back. Am i doing sth wrong? (i am new on pokerstars so i try to figure out best way to spend my fpp's)
And update blog more frequently (i mean give us graphs hands etc..)

Thx

Originally posted by Gerovit
Hey Akrammon,

i tried to register and unregister to 235 fpp's sng's sunday storm satellites but i just get Fpp's back. Am i doing sth wrong? (i am new on pokerstars so i try to figure out best way to spend my fpp's)
And update blog more frequently (i mean give us graphs hands etc..)

Thx

You need to win the sats (2 out of 6 win) and then you get T$ when u unreg/win seat in 11$ tourney.

Originally posted by Gerovit
Hey Akrammon,

i tried to register and unregister to 235 fpp's sng's sunday storm satellites but i just get Fpp's back. Am i doing sth wrong? (i am new on pokerstars so i try to figure out best way to spend my fpp's)
And update blog more frequently (i mean give us graphs hands etc..)

Thx

Exactly as written above, win the sat and unregister from the sunday storm itself
Actually, if you are already registered the $T automatically gets credited to your account (when you win) so just play as much as you want and unregister in the end.

Originally posted by akrammon

Originally posted by Gerovit
Hey Akrammon,

i tried to register and unregister to 235 fpp's sng's sunday storm satellites but i just get Fpp's back. Am i doing sth wrong? (i am new on pokerstars so i try to figure out best way to spend my fpp's)
And update blog more frequently (i mean give us graphs hands etc..)

Thx

Exactly as written above, win the sat and unregister from the sunday storm itself
Actually, if you are already registered the $T automatically gets credited to your account (when you win) so just play as much as you want and unregister in the end.

how much rakeback do you have this way?

$/FPP is 0,0156 this way, assuming you have no edge and neither do your opponents.

Better than the $1500 cash bonus, worse than the $4000 cash bonus.

Rakeback % highly depends on your VIP status because of the FPP multiplier.

Originally posted by akrammon
$/FPP is 0,0156 this way, assuming you have no edge and neither do your opponents.

Better than the $1500 cash bonus, worse than the $4000 cash bonus.

Rakeback % highly depends on your VIP status because of the FPP multiplier.

I still cant understand this.If you are platinum status it is better to play satellites with fpps rather than buy $ from vip store?

Originally posted by ulairiiii

Originally posted by akrammon
$/FPP is 0,0156 this way, assuming you have no edge and neither do your opponents.

Better than the $1500 cash bonus, worse than the $4000 cash bonus.

Rakeback % highly depends on your VIP status because of the FPP multiplier.

I still cant understand this.If you are platinum status it is better to play satellites with fpps rather than buy $ from vip store?

It's always better to buy into satellites (definitely for STT players), regardless of the VIP level, unless you can buy the $4K bonus (which requires supernova).

$/FPP ratio shows how much $ you get for 1FPP. The lower cash bonuses have horrible ratio, just divide the amount of $ you get with the FPP it costs.

The only time VIP level matters is if you want to calculate how much % rakeback it is, since the $/FPP is not the only thing that matters, but the amount of FPPs you get for $ raked.

I'll get around 21-22% rakeback this month, since I could reach platinumstar super fast. Goldstar is something around 17-17,5 if I remember well, didn't do Silverstar.

EDIT: also don't forget the PokerStars 20% flat rakeback for STT players, hehe

So, I went to the Buda Castle Beerfest yesterday with my gf, it was pretty good. Well, it wasn't exactly cheap, but I didn't expect it to be cheap, so...

We tried a couple of rare and a couple of not-so-rare beers, including some unpronouncable Czech stuff and some english ales and some fine lagers, and I know it's pretty mainstream but somehow I've missed Foster's so far... I don't know how, simply never tried it, even though you can get it in most bigger shops... MAN, that was amazing!!!

Truly Goddamn good! Congratulations, Australia, that was pretty nicely done.

I like your blog

Originally posted by ulairiiii
I like your blog

thanks

hi i would like to sent you 22 hhs to review.I believe it would help me a lot.Is it possible?I ask this because i can never be a clear favourite.I near always push in nash but i always get called by better hands only.Even my QQs are coinflipping.Is it possible to help me?

Moreover what do you meant by even if you are good it isnt possible to have 6-7% roi when you multitable 26 tables?

Originally posted by ulairiiii
hi i would like to sent you 22 hhs to review.I believe it would help me a lot.Is it possible?I ask this because i can never be a clear favourite.I near always push in nash but i always get called by better hands only.Even my QQs are coinflipping.Is it possible to help me?

Moreover what do you meant by even if you are good it isnt possible to have 6-7% roi when you multitable 26 tables?

Yep, just send me the HHs and I will be happy to help you when I get the time I won't promise to do all 22, but I will look into it

Well, I'll take it back, it's probably possible, but I don't think so... When you are 26-tabling you need to pay attention to a lot of tables and will miss a couple of spots, you will also not be able to steal light enough in the early stage, which is pretty +EV, and also you can't table select... I guess you should ask the pros, but I don't think anyone has such a high ROI when mass multitabling.

Obv the point of mass multitabling is to rake a lot, so doing it on higher limits should be better. The $15s are ideal for mass multitabling "autopilot" game imo.

so in your opinion is good for 15$ but not for the 7$?what do you mean but autopilot?I would like to see some 30$ graph.You have some time to post how is your progress