Originally posted by Harrier88
However: Notice the payouts. As usual in these freerolls, they were negligible, at µBTC 3.40, so the win was more for bragging rights than anything else.
I love Badacey and Badeucey I keep forgetting about that room.
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Originally posted by taavi1337
I think well played overall, yes short term has some variance, keep going!
Yes, the variance is extreme in OFC. A single card can have a huge domino effect that drastically changes the course of a session.
Originally posted by VorpalF2F
I love Badacey and Badeucey I keep forgetting about that room.
Those are great games, and I still carry the faint hope that Pokerstars will one day add them to their lineup, along with Drawmaha.
By now, I think I slightly prefer Badacey over Badeucey, and not just because of the freeroll win. Badacey is just a more straightforward extension of Badugi, where you don't need to worry about filling up straight draws or aces being high, which can lead to some counterintuitive situations.
Have you considered giving OFC a try some time?
Stats Time?
Another month has passed, which would normally be a good time for a stats update. While it is true that there finally has been some poker again, the 100 SNG stats I posted about a week ago are still up to date.
I would have liked to have a look at the Sharkscope leaderboards for last month at least, but forgot to look them up yesterday, and they are not available online anymore. We can still check out the 5CD SNG leaderboard for the entire year, however:
The latest leaderboard of this kind that I posted should have been the one from May. As you can see, my "rival" horacyber, who does occasionally play in the same SNGs as me, got quite busy while I was away. Very much so, in fact - they are not far behind TupuPupuna in 1st place anymore, who mostly seems to play at different hours, though I encountered them at least once this year in one of my games.
Most other players failed to make progress, it seems. Some of them have an identical profit value as in the May stats, implying that they stopped playing during that time too.
Maybe the traffic wasn't good enough for them? Maybe horacyber didn't face much worthy opposition? I can make an effort to fix both of these matters. Things will still be a little hectic for me in the coming days, but not for long - and then it's high time for a proper return to these games. There will be a new sheriff in town...
Stats Time!
Only limited poker stats this month, as I mentioned, but if you are a statistics nerd, I still have quite a treat for you...
I posted about some of my first chess games in spring too, and this project has largely been on a hiatus since then as well. In the meantime, however, I purchased one of the premium subscriptions on Chess.com when it was on a massive sale. One of the perks are the "Insights" they collect about your games - and as it turns out, they collect a lot.
The stats I am about to post here have been collected a few months ago and the pictures kept sitting idly by. All the statistics should still be up to date, however, and I feel like now is a good time to post them. If you are a little annoyed by non-poker content on this blog - I'm sorry, feel free to skip this. But if you don't mind it, then have a good look at this, we have a lot to get to - and those aren't even all the stats they collected, I just picked the more interesting stuff.
Let's start with the results. Over 95 games, a little more were won than lost. Not too bad for a beginner, I guess - though I of course tend to get matched with players of a similar rating (current ELO: 712).
Unsurprisingly, the higher my opponent is rated, the worse I tend to do.
My average move accuracy is rated at 70.48%. Wild fluctuations over time, but no clear pattern of development in either direction. As you may expect, the accuracy in winning games tends to be higher, but not by a whole lot.
The accuracy by move number seems to be broadly similar to my peers overall.
How did these games get won or lost? This graphic shows the full breakdown, with comparisons to similar players (you may have to enlarge it). It looks like I "know when to fold 'em", so to speak - I seem to resign a losing game considerably more than my opponents at these levels, rather than playing on until a checkmate. Meanwhile, roughly half of my own wins were the result of directly checkmating my opponent.
Here are the results by "game shape". Looks like the one "smooth" game didn't go so smoothly for me. At these levels, it's probably expected that the majority of games were considered "wild", "intense", "sudden" or a "giveaway".
It seems like I was a little more likely than my opponents to take my games to the late phases.
While my accuracy is roughly similar, however, it looks like I tend to do a little better in games that end a bit earlier.
Both my results and my accuracy appear to be similar across different times of the day. I don't play in the morning - I'm either working or sleeping at that time.
At least accuracy-wise, I seem to do a little better on weekdays than on weekends, and results-wise, Wednesday in particular stands out quite a bit.
Finally, here are my stats against opponents from all over the world. Note that there are some differences when it comes to the accuracy. For example, while I won 6 out of 8 games against Indian opponents, my average accuracy in those games is 69.9%, while it's 73.5% in my four games against Brazilian players, none of which were won.
Those were a lot of stats... but there are still more coming up.
Originally posted by Harrier88
Those were a lot of stats... but there are still more coming up.
The most impressive to me is the 3rd place on the draw SNG Leaderboard
Now let's talk a bit more about my moves, starting with the openings, playing as both White and Black. Looks like I'm really struggling against the Petrov, maybe I should look into it.
I also seem to do a pretty bad job at spotting pawn forks. On the website, there is even an option to have a look at all of those situations in your games.
I appear to do a little better with pins, at least.
Mates in 1 are at least spotted somewhat competently. With the other ones, it's more or less similar to my opponents.
I left 34 pawns hanging... at least those were the most common victims, compared to more valuable pieces.
When it comes to pieces my opponents left hanging, I should do a roughly similar job of punishing them compared to my peers.
My tendencies to move certain pieces also seem to be comparable, though I may have more of a tendency to get the rooks out compared to bishops and especially knights.
No considerable differences when it comes to move accuracy for any of those pieces, however.
Finally, here is the rating of my move quality compared to similar players. Not much of a gap in general, but the few small differences to be detected are mostly in my favor, I guess that's good.
Again, some wild fluctuations over time.
So there you go, those are my current chess stats. Maybe I will revive that project some time too, if nothing else to get my money's worth, though I guess the stats alone were worth the price of the subscription.
Originally posted by VorpalF2F
The most impressive to me is the 3rd place on the draw SNG Leaderboard
I'm happy with that one, though it has been that way for most of the year already. Maybe it will at least help me to think long term in the inevitable phases when things go not so well anymore.
Originally posted by taavi1337
Impressive stats post! I love those!
I was quite impressed with the stats they collect too, being a bit of a "data hoarder" myself. I also figured that finally posting those stats could motivate me to get back to playing those games, but poker should have more of a focus.
Having taken some Xiangqi lessons by now, I find that game quite fascinating too. Many of the rules seem arbitrarily restrictive at first, but it's fun to find ways to make them work to your advantage. I was actually familiar with most of the rules before, but many of the strategies surrounding them are pretty new to me.
Time for any of these projects will still be limited next week, however. It's going to be a doozy, but more on that later, after my 15 mile run. As you can see, while I'm still short on time, I'm not short on motivation by any means.
Can't say the same about Primrose, I'm afraid. That poor puppy is still really struggling under the heat waves. 
It should be noted that she lives in a valley area, where the weather tends to be a bit more warm and humid than in other places. I'm still eager to see her return to the tables, but especially with all of her gardening on the side, which takes a fair amount of energy too, I expect we will have to wait a few more weeks before our favorite grindette starts crushing again.
This summer surely is no walk in the park, but I remain optimistic for things to come. 
Only about four weeks left until the big marathon race. As usual, it wasn't all that easy, but I made it through another training week.
Did you see the week that is ahead of me? Really crazy... it even bumps up the distance on the medium length weekday runs, which have been constant for weeks. And then there is the huge 20 mile run on Sunday, the longest distance I ever ran - assuming I make it through.
And not only that, there are more things coming up. I am supposed to take a course for a Class II forklift license on Saturday morning, which would allow me to also operate the kinds of vehicles with a fork that can be individually moved back, forth and sideways, like the one pictured below:
So I won't even be able to catch a break on the weekend, and I would still have to squeeze in a 3 mile run later that day. Also, even though I got my Class I license in March already, I have never operated a standard forklift at work since then. There was just too much stuff to do for both me and the people in charge to show me around... and after a while of not dealing with it, you just tend to forget about these things, of course.
It would likely be a good idea to show me that vehicle at work so I can use it already, before sending me to an advanced course for more sophisticated machinery. So we will probably deal with that in the next few days already too.
That's what I meant before, it's going to be an absolute doozy of a week, likely the toughest one of the year. But the good news is, if I make it through it in one piece, it should be downhill from there. The forklift thing should be in the bag, the marathon training will be dialed back, and I should even have more time for meetups with Prim. 
Oh, and the weather is supposed to get milder later next week too, which would be great news for the long distance runs.
What can I say - let's get this behind us...