i switched from 9 max to 6 max long while ago
made decent money there before the DS
Anyways moved to 9 max going BE for a while now working on my game as well
moved down to 7$ games for a while
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Oh ok cool. Always thought you were playing the 9max tourneys.
Btw - What are your 2014 poker goals?
I am trying out a few different things right now
Will decide on goals by end of this month
Past few days have been good
Have moved back to 9 max moved down to 7s for a while and now back on the 15s
Had a 1400 downer at the 15$ 6 max
Have recovered a lot of it and down like 700 now
Including RB, the 400$ nl100 session and the 260$ in the 2nd place HU tourney puts us BE or slight profit
Ran pretty good last few days up 400ish or so but EV wise i ran 250$ above EV so that still needs to be worked on
I am trying out lot of different formats in order to decide for 2014 goals
Tried cash, hypers, 18,45 mans etc
I somehow dont enjoy cash games online, though i love them live and i am a much better live cash player than online
So online i am going to stick to SNGs/MTTs but which format i will decide by end of this month
Pretty happy with the volume but theres definitely potential to increase volume atleast 3x of the current i put in without a lot of pressure
For the first time i will be platinum on stars this month ♦ 
:D:D:D
Good going! Profit days are back again
One quick psych question: is a 100 BI downswing on a $15 more damaging than at the $7? Consider that either happened while you had a 200 BI bankroll for that particular stake.
It really depends on how much BR you have and how much the money hurts you
That is why i dont recommend to play SNGs or STTs without atleast 200BIs
for MTsngs above 45 mans i highly recommend 400 BIs +
I did a lot of research on DS while i was going through one, and 100 BI swings for STTs are rare but not uncommon for winning players
for BE player 100 BI swings are quite common and at the time of my swing my game had become quite lose and i was playing terrible ICM
Which resulted in the swings being far more brutal than it shouldve been
Wow!!!!!!!!!
My first catch of colluders
Few days ago i was 3 handed in a 9 max SNG and found something fishy with the 2 players, i thought they were colluding
Reported to stars and got confirmation they were colluding
They bumped me to first place instead of 3rd ♦
Players involved were 'Gatto133' and 'Rosian09'
The hand that pissed me off was where Btn raises to 4 BBs SB shoves for 5 BBs and bn folds :O???????
Next hand i shove 6BBs and get called by 64off ?????
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Hello Abhishek,
Thank you once more for your report and apologies for the delay in bringing this case to a close.
Our review of 'Gatto133' and 'Rosian09' is now complete. We confirmed a relationship and found that they did go easy on one another (known as soft play) on occasion. This is a violation of our tournament rule #20 as posted at:
http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/rules/
We have the advantage of being able to replay the games with all cards exposed. We carefully reviewed all events in which at least one of the two finished in the money. As a result of our findings, players who were likely harmed by the unfair play have been advanced and have received credits consistent with their new finish position at the expense of the colluders.
You advanced from 3rd to1st in T#852089791. Your account has been credited $14.16 to reflect your new finish position.
played a long 50 game session
was running pretty meh fish owning with any2 
Still made a massive 1.87$ which is always nice ♦
on a good note i am again ranked in top 100 in SNG BOP high board 63rd right now
Have to get to top 10 soon
Think we get some $$
1st on the leaderboard gets 700$ + entry into to BOP 50K shootout
And I am already out of top 100
Going to play only KOs for a full 100 games as i have a much better ROI, in order to get to the leaderboard
Up about 350 or so
2nd or 3rd hand of yesterdays session
And they say STTs are dead?
PokerStars - $11.28+$2.82+$0.90|10/20 NL - Holdem - 9 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
Hero (MP): 1,430
MP+1: 1,325
CO: 1,745
BTN: 520
SB: 1,400
BB: 1,600
UTG: 1,500
UTG+1: 2,480
UTG+2: 1,500
SB posts SB 10, BB posts BB 20
Pre Flop: (pot: 30) Hero has A♥ A♦
UTG raises to 60, UTG+1 calls 60, fold, Hero raises to 210, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold, UTG raises to 360, UTG+1 raises to 2,480 and is all-in, Hero calls 1,220 and is all-in, fold
Flop: (3,250, 2 players) J♦ 3♦ A♠
Turn: (3,250, 2 players) 7♦
River: (3,250, 2 players) 4♣
Spoiler
UTG+1 shows 6♦ 9♦ (Flush, Jack High) (Pre 19%, Flop 22%, Turn 61%)
Hero shows A♥ A♦ (Three of a Kind, Aces) (Pre 81%, Flop 78%, Turn 39%)
UTG+1 wins 3,250
had a pretty disgusting session today
kept getting 3rd places
keep running into better hands BVB in standard spots
Also didnt play that well
Down 140 for today 100$<EV but not really happy with my play either
Think i played it with a very tired mind and couldnt really focus on anything
Good thing is I am platinum now
Going to take a small break to do some studying which ive been putting on hold in order to get to platinum
played a small session today
only KOs mixed 7s and 15s again loads of 3rd/2nds getting very UL HU
up 60 or so
Also played a small 25NL zoom up 120 in it ♦
Heres a fun hand from the zoom session
The hand is against a friend of mine from the indian skype group
Please tell me what you think about how i shouldve played it and also about his range
I tanked and eventually called putting him on a very narrow range
He didnt raise the flop which makes a small flush very unlikely and i dont see him flatting a lot of weak Axs
He could either have a set and when th turn was a blank he raises it
He couldve flatter a hand like 98s which made 2 pair
When he shoves river i am 100% sure it is not a bluff but hes trying to rep a bluff
I dont see a lot of flushes in his range, a flopped set or 2 pair type hand
PokerStars - $0.25 NL FAST (6 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
BTN: $45.21
SB: $12.60
BB: $16.37
UTG: $38.28
Hero (MP): $41.16
CO: $29.81
SB posts SB $0.10, BB posts BB $0.25
Pre Flop: (pot: $0.35) Hero has 9♠ 9♦
fold, Hero raises to $0.75, fold, BTN calls $0.75, fold, fold
Flop: ($1.85, 2 players) 3♣ 4♣ 9♣
Hero bets $1.42, BTN calls $1.42
Turn: ($4.69, 2 players) 8♦
Hero bets $3.44, BTN raises to $9.20, Hero calls $5.76
River: ($23.09, 2 players) 6♠
Hero checks, BTN bets $33.84 and is all-in, Hero calls $29.79 and is all-in
Spoiler
Dont cheat, analyse hand first then results 
overpairs with 1 club or ax with ace of club mostly Some straight combos also possible but he wont c/r with that and as u said 89 or flopped set
Originally posted by ikkvr
overpairs with 1 club or ax with ace of club mostly Some straight combos also possible but he wont c/r with that and as u said 89 or flopped set
Overpairs would most probably raise preflop itself. Even more if its his friend.
Ax would either raise flop too or call both flop and turn. But it is possible that he play AcX this way.
When someone smooth calls on this flop the easiest hand to put them on is a flopped flush. The fact that he raised turn means that its probably not a high flush.
Another possibility is 88.
Looking at his raise over your strong bet on the turn I think its a raise for value.
So he probably has 88 or some 6 :club:7 
type of hand imo.
Yes its the case of flatting overpair which people do sometimes abhi has agro image I believe