mico/low MTT: a new hope

Update 1:
starting bankroll: 200$
ending bankroll: 185$
MTT played: 12
ITM: 0

Although the bankroll isnt going in the right direction, I`m happy with how I started.
If I`m process oriented and not outcome, I can say I played well, was able to build up nice stacks in several MTT`s, played agressive but controlled, had several good runs, was the bubble in a sattelite,...

If I keep playing like this the cashouts will follow (i hope)

Some hands: (outcome and my vision is hidden so you can make up your own mind first)

1) Pretty deep in tournament. About 10 places left till ITM.
Didnt have a lot of info on player yet, except I had seen him do some questionable shoves and calls. K7os kinda thing (but on a small sample size)

Yatahay Network - 2400/4800 NL (8 max) - Holdem - 7 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 30.22 BB
Hero (SB): 19.02 BB
BB: 12.5 BB
UTG: 74.52 BB
UTG+1: 9.78 BB
MP: 19.8 BB
CO: 51.83 BB

7 players post ante of 0.1 BB, Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.2 BB) Hero has J:club: A:club:

fold, fold, fold, CO raises to 2 BB, fold, Hero raises to 18.92 BB and is all-in, fold, CO calls 16.92 BB

Flop: (39.55 BB, 2 players) 7:heart: 9:spade: 3:spade:

Turn: (39.55 BB, 2 players) 8:spade:

River: (39.55 BB, 2 players) J:diamond:

2) late game in MT SnG
I`m chipleader at this point (with only 20bb for some reason).

Yatahay Network - 3000/6000 NL - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 19.74 BB
Hero (MP): 20.91 BB
CO: 14.65 BB
BTN: 16.87 BB
SB: 16.17 BB
BB: 11.17 BB

6 players post ante of 0.1 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.1 BB) Hero has Q:spade: Q:heart:

fold, Hero raises to 2.55 BB, CO raises to 14.55 BB and is all-in, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls 12 BB

Flop: (31.2 BB, 2 players) 7:heart: A:diamond: K:club:

Turn: (31.2 BB, 2 players) 9:heart:

River: (31.2 BB, 2 players) K:spade:

3) Still early in tournament, no specific reads

Yatahay Network - 50/100 NL (8 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 218.25 BB
SB: 182.65 BB
BB: 199.6 BB
UTG: 205.2 BB
Hero (MP): 198.1 BB
CO: 196.6 BB

6 players post ante of 0.1 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.1 BB) Hero has A:heart: K:club:

fold, Hero raises to 3.33 BB, fold, fold, fold, BB calls 2.33 BB

Flop: (7.76 BB, 2 players) A:spade: 2:diamond: 3:diamond:
BB checks, Hero bets 5.82 BB, BB raises to 196.17 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 188.85 BB and is all-in

Turn: (397.1 BB, 2 players) 6:diamond:

River: (397.1 BB, 2 players) A:diamond:

4) no reads, mid game of tournament

Yatahay Network - 250/500 NL (8 max) - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP: 32.76 BB
Hero (MP+1): 48.47 BB
CO: 37.4 BB
BTN: 52.5 BB
SB: 153.97 BB
BB: 49.58 BB
UTG: 25.77 BB
UTG+1: 43.87 BB

8 players post ante of 0.11 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.38 BB) Hero has 3:spade: 3:diamond:

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

Flop: (9.38 BB, 4 players) 5:spade: K:spade: 3:club:
BB checks, UTG checks, MP bets 5.16 BB, Hero calls 5.16 BB, BB calls 5.16 BB, fold

Turn: (24.86 BB, 3 players) K:heart:
BB checks, MP bets 13.67 BB, Hero calls 13.67 BB, fold

River: (52.21 BB, 2 players) K:club:
MP bets 11.82 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 11.82 BB

No hero call hands to post, because most times I picked up the pot before showdown or just had a really good hand.

1 and 2: Standard.
3: Fold without strong maniac reads
4: Its fine to just call flop having two people behind. Otherwise I would always x-r flop. Just x-r turn though. River is really awkward with those pot odds. I doubt villain is bluffing often enough.

Originally posted by ghaleon
1 and 2: Standard.
3: Fold without strong maniac reads
4: Its fine to just call flop having two people behind. Otherwise I would always x-r flop. Just x-r turn though. River is really awkward with those pot odds. I doubt villain is bluffing often enough.

Thx for the imput, agree with your assessment.
Maybe because I havent played for so long, but nothing feels really standard anymore...

Update 2:
starting bankroll: 200$
ending bankroll: 178$
MTT played: 23
ITM: 1
Final tables: 1

Dispite getting to a final table I`m still down. Finished 6th out of 170,
So cant complain. Had a little tilt moment in my other tournaments after getting out of this one.
Was second in chips, with 3 players who had <5bb, so things were looking really good.
But they all 3 doubled up against the big stack and before you know it I was last in chips.
Did loads of blind steals with not much to show for it.
Had to shove in the end with J3os because I was below 4 BB and BB woke up with AJs.

K now that I`m done crying, here are some hands I`m not sure about:

1) Lets start with the most questionable one
some extra information. final table and SB has been verry tight.
over sample of nearly 100 hands he has a VPIP of 8 and a preflop raise of 0

Yatahay Network - 20000/40000 NL (8 max) - Holdem - 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BTN: 13.83 BB
SB: 10.56 BB
Hero (BB): 12.71 BB
UTG: 6.15 BB
MP: 29.49 BB
CO: 10.26 BB

6 players post ante of 0.1 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.1 BB) Hero has 3:spade: 3:club:

UTG raises to 6.05 BB and is all-in, fold, fold, fold, fold, fold

UTG wins 3.1 BB

2) Like a fish on land
First of opening raise should have been bigger on my part.
But then on the flop I have just no clue.
On both players I had notes the call Kx or Qx from blinds,

Yatahay Network - 5500/11000 NL (8 max) - Holdem - 7 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

UTG: 7.89 BB
UTG+1: 18.47 BB
MP: 5.34 BB
Hero (CO): 28.38 BB
BTN: 12.52 BB
SB: 22.82 BB
BB: 38.12 BB

7 players post ante of 0.1 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.2 BB) Hero has J:spade: J:diamond:

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 2 BB, fold, SB calls 1.5 BB, BB calls 1 BB

Flop: (6.7 BB, 3 players) Q:spade: K:heart: 3:club:
SB checks, BB checks, Hero checks

Turn: (6.7 BB, 3 players) 4:spade:
SB checks, BB checks, Hero checks

River: (6.7 BB, 3 players) K:spade:
SB checks, BB checks, Hero checks

short update before going to sleep

Update 3:
starting bankroll: 200$
ending bankroll: 165$
MTT played: 42
ITM: 5
Final tables: 1

Had couple decent runs, but nothing deep enough for serieus payouts.
at some point luck just said no and lost just about every draw. (as you can see at the end of the graph)

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What buy-ins are you playing? Just to have an idea...

Originally posted by KoningAlbert
What buy-ins are you playing? Just to have an idea...

I play anything between 1$ and 3$ buy-in with an occasional 4-5$ tournament. But most 1-3$

Update 3:

I would like to start by thanking the gods of poker for giving me the opportunity to practice my anti-tilt skills

starting bankroll: 200$
ending bankroll: 180$
MTT played: 55
ITM: 9
Final tables: 1

I continued on the same path as yesterday. running nicely below EV but got to late stage in 2 tournaments (I`m still in one right now but wanted to vent some frustration)

Was really happy with how I`m playing. Did some nice calls, loads of steal or resteals, graph below shows wins and you can see it perfectly follows Ev because 99% was just steals.

In the end I went out with A8 < A3 else would have been top 10 with 30 some players left.
On the other hand i shouldn`t complain considering I1m actually getting deep several times while only playing again for a couple of day`s, but still

While make a more positive post when last tournament is done with some hands.

edit 1min later: out of last tournament KK<88. Raise - reraises. he calls out of position with a potsize we are both committed and flops the set....

What do you guys do with these kind of hands?

PokerStars - 30/60 Ante 8 NL - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 83.75 BB
UTG: 67.07 BB
UTG+1: 101.97 BB
MP: 77.35 BB
MP+1: 150.1 BB
CO: 70.43 BB
BTN: 78.42 BB
Hero (SB): 85.7 BB

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

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.57 BB) Hero has J:heart: J:club:

fold, fold, MP raises to 2 BB, fold, CO calls 2 BB, fold, Hero raises to 8 BB, BB calls 7 BB, fold, CO raises to 35.07 BB, Hero ?

at these stakes a lot of strange plays can be made, so I find i hard to lay down JJ here, but then again he does show a lot of strenght.
Would put him on AA/KK/AK but thats about it.
Rest of hand + my action is in spoiler.

Update 4:

Had my first positive session :f_biggrin:, nowhere near the big money, closest I got was 54th out of +6k field.
But was only good for 15$ payout.

starting bankroll: 200$
ending bankroll: 165$
MTT played: 75
ITM: 17
Final tables: 1

Graph of today:
Ran really well tilll the first crash. Just couldnt win anything anymore and went out of most tournaments in like the next 15min.
Right before the second arrow my pocket KK held out in a 4way pot so had nice stack in one tournament. and I won a flip and lost an all in flip. blinds got really high and only had like 10 left so. shove citie

Overal graph till now of buy-ins

Tagged a lot of hands in this session but have no clue what kind of hands you guys want to see if any.
Brags, beats, strange hands... or should I just use this blog to update my BR from time to time

Originally posted by Anraxas
Tagged a lot of hands in this session but have no clue what kind of hands you guys want to see if any.
Brags, beats, strange hands... or should I just use this blog to update my BR from time to time
Are you asking what kind of hands to post in the hand discussion forums?
If so, the best hands to post are those hands where you came to a spot where you didn't know what to do.

Brags are cool too.
Strange hands can go in https://forums.pokerstrategy.com/forum/thread.php?threadid=190428&goto=firstnew

Anything you like in your blog!

Originally posted by VorpalF2F

Originally posted by Anraxas
Tagged a lot of hands in this session but have no clue what kind of hands you guys want to see if any.
Brags, beats, strange hands... or should I just use this blog to update my BR from time to time
Are you asking what kind of hands to post in the hand discussion forums?
If so, the best hands to post are those hands where you came to a spot where you didn't know what to do.

Brags are cool too.
Strange hands can go in https://forums.pokerstrategy.com/forum/thread.php?threadid=190428&goto=firstnew

Anything you like in your blog!

Was more wondering what other people would like to see in the blog (if any).
BUt thanks for the respons, I`ll note that brags are cool

Some hands from yesterday:

1) took a risky line here, but didnt want to blow up the pot and thought I had some showdown value.

2) what is the KJ doing in this hand?

3) really light call of him right? or am I missing something?

4) no specific reads, but just didnt think he was representing a lot there

5) input is welcome here. probably should have slowed down a little, but just didnt put this hand in his range form mp+2

6) and finally one bad beat from yesterday when I just couldn`t win anything anymore

Originally posted by Anraxas
Some hands from yesterday:

2) what is the KJ doing in this hand?

Pot odds?
Misclick?
Insanity?

Originally posted by VorpalF2F

Originally posted by Anraxas
Some hands from yesterday:

2) what is the KJ doing in this hand?

Pot odds?
Misclick?
Insanity?

my odds calculator says insanity is most likely

Originally posted by Anraxas
my odds calculator says insanity is most likely
Yeah, if it was a misclick he would have won under the "misclick equity" clause of the variance rules

Update 5:
starting bankroll: 200$
ending bankroll: 147$
MTT played: 109
Final tables: 1

Removed the ITM counter, because that really doesn`t matter and I want to stay focused on shipping a tournament and not just getting ITM.

Besides some coolers I`m pretty happy with how I played (one really fish move after a bad beat, really need to work on this).
But besides that, got deep in several tournament just the key flips didnt go my way. but have faith that if I keep playing like this, it will come.

Graph of yesterday:

The 3 hands I tagged are the following:
1)

Yatahay Network - 3000/6000 NL (8 max) - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

MP: 26.85 BB
MP+1: 21.81 BB
CO: 15.13 BB
BTN: 72.24 BB
SB: 49.27 BB
Hero (BB): 10.32 BB
UTG: 89.57 BB
UTG+1: 100.8 BB

8 players post ante of 0.12 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.46 BB) Hero has Q:heart: Q:diamond:

UTG raises to 2.5 BB, fold, fold, fold, CO raises to 15.01 BB and is all-in, fold, fold, Hero calls 9.2 BB and is all-in, UTG calls 12.51 BB

Flop: (41.68 BB, 3 players) 3:spade: 9:club: Q:spade:

Turn: (41.68 BB, 3 players) 8:club:

River: (41.68 BB, 3 players) A:spade:

2)
Yatahay Network - 4000/8000 NL (8 max) - Holdem - 7 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

BB: 39.16 BB
UTG: 27.28 BB
UTG+1: 20.85 BB
MP: 35.01 BB
Hero (CO): 17.22 BB
BTN: 56 BB
SB: 63.63 BB

7 players post ante of 0.12 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.34 BB) Hero has K:heart: A:heart:

fold, fold, fold, Hero raises to 2 BB, fold, fold, BB raises to 39.04 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 15.1 BB and is all-in

Flop: (35.54 BB, 2 players) T:spade: 8:heart: 6:spade:

Turn: (35.54 BB, 2 players) T:diamond:

River: (35.54 BB, 2 players) 3:spade:

3)

Yatahay Network - 375/750 NL (8 max) - Holdem - 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4

Hero (SB): 84.98 BB
BB: 110.92 BB
UTG: 78.06 BB
UTG+1: 57.38 BB
MP: 91.91 BB
MP+1: 39.05 BB
CO: 67.77 BB
BTN: 66.22 BB

8 players post ante of 0.12 BB, Hero posts SB 0.5 BB, BB posts BB 1 BB

Pre Flop: (pot: 2.46 BB) Hero has T:spade: T:heart:

fold, fold, MP raises to 2.5 BB, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls 2 BB, BB calls 1.5 BB

Flop: (8.46 BB, 3 players) K:spade: A:diamond: T:diamond:
Hero checks, BB checks, MP bets 8.46 BB, Hero calls 8.46 BB, fold

Turn: (25.38 BB, 2 players) K:diamond:
Hero checks, MP checks

River: (25.38 BB, 2 players) Q:club:
Hero bets 19.03 BB, MP raises to 80.83 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 54.87 BB and is all-in

All standard and very unlucky.