Poker & Punkrock - The hard life of a Tour driver...

Yesterday played in Bratislava 77 € (77000 chips) 100k Gtd tournament and qualified to the final day. We had 180 players in my flights. The first 2 hours not happened a big thing, just lifting up and down.
On my table was a guy who played his first tournament in live, so he had no idea about bet sizeing and any other things. He was tight too. Once he limped the small blind raised to 2bb and I called in BB with 7♠:9♠: . Flop was 6♥:5♥:2♠: BB bet 2bb I called with gutshot and the noobie called too. I called them because I know if I hit my 8 then booth of them will pay me out, they just looking own cards. Then camed my magic card 8♣: then small blind goes to All in, I called and the 3rd player called too. Showdown was AA in big blind JJ in cutoff and they was drawing dead. Then I had 290k chips.
After one hour I was a big blind with 6♠:6♣:. From UTG2 the player limped. I thought small pocket pair (22-99) or suited connector. Small blind called and I check.
Flop was 6♥:3♥:4♠: Small blind check I check limper bet 2bb small blind raised to 10bb I just called 10bb and UTG2 after long thank folded. Turn J♣: small blind bet 15bb I goes allin 21bb and he called with 7♦:7♣: he had 6 outs but the river was 6♦: and I won the hand, then I had 770000 chips.
The next 3 levels I got very bad cards and lost half of my stack, then I called 2,5 bb with 7♦:9♦: from small blind and the flop 5d:T♦:6♣: all 5 players checks turn 4♠: and I goes allin, everybody folded.
In a bubble play we had 6 times allin call, but first 5 always won the sortstack but finally outed a guy and reached the final day

Sunday 16:30 start the final day and the blinds will be 8k/16k 16k ante. Hope in the best!

COIN: 455,53 $
GG roll: 453,73 $
PS roll: 556,91 $
ROLL: 1466,17 $ / 1251,85 €
LIVE ROLL: 3575 €

Originally posted by BORT99
Yesterday played in Bratislava 77 € (77000 chips) 100k Gtd tournament and qualified to the final day. We had 180 players in my flights.

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Sunday 16:30 start the final day and the blinds will be 8k/16k 16k ante. Hope in the best!

Good Luck!

Congrats on making the final day! That hand with the 8 on the turn was a dream scenario—getting paid by both AA and JJ is the perfect way to build a stack. It sounds like you read the 'newbie' and the table dynamics perfectly. 770k is a solid starting point for Sunday. Best of luck with the 8k/16k blinds, hope you run hot!

Sunday was not too short but not enough long. The min cash was 157 €, 117 players started from 1246.
Mostly I got completly useless cards, 52o, 62o, 42o, 95s, 75o,
My first usable cards was Q♥:Q♠: on BU. UTG raised 35k UTG2 called and I reraised to 150k, but both of them fold. 533k
Next hands T5o, 33 (fold because 3bet before me)
Table changed. A6s, 96o, K6s,
BB 76o small blind call and checked until the river I won with 7 high flush.
J5o, Q5o, T5o, KTo (tight player raised with AK and won)
A♥:J♦: raised BB call A♠:8♣:6♥: I bet bb fold. 616k
Then long period just fold: T6o, 67o, J8s, K5o, J6o, J5s 84o, J4o, A4s (ugt2 fold) A5s (utg fold) 75o, then camed break. 566k
After the break first hand in SB A♥:K♠: jamed vs utg 2 raise he called with AKo and splitted.
K♣:9♣: folded from BU, because after raise 2 players was allin and this hand was flopp :A 6♣:3♣: sadly I was not in the hand.
K3o fold.
10k/20k 20k ante 9♠:9♦: raised and same player before called 8♣:6♥:8♦: he check, I bet 80k and he called K♠: ch/ch Q♥: ch/ch and he showdown AQo and won the pot. 405k
Folded some card J8s, 75o, A3o,
SB got K♥:Q♦: and CO raised I jamed and won the pot 485k
15/30 30ante A9o fold utg2 raised 120k
CO A♥:Q♦: allin and same guy who played with me AK and 99 hands called with A♠:K♥: and 9 high board made me out of the tournament on 82th place 197 €
Im happy as well played 4 tournament and 4 times ITM.

After played some cash game 1/2€. There was a drunk guy from Ukraine and he played very annoying.
He raised 8 € one call and I had K♥:K♠: reraised 35, he called. T♥:J♥:3♥: he check I bet 80€ long time and called. turn 8♠: he checks I goes allin 75€ he called river 3♠: and show me 7♠:9♣: and won the pot.
Some hands later was straddle I just called with A♥:Q♣: some calls and he reraised 55 € and then I jamed 200 € he calls, because I don't talked with him and he was angry on me. Camed 7 high board and I show my cards he mucked.
After the table getting mad and most of the time players was pre flop allin with 4-600 € pots. The crazy guy won couple of times a big pots and he had ca. 1700 €.
I won some small pot and after this player lost a lot of money I deicided to go home.
All the weekend I made 240 € profit which goes to my Bankroll.
Maybe I to next time 9th january to Bratislava then will be the same tournament 77 € but just 77777 € GTD.

COIN: 455,53 $
GG roll: 457,76 $
PS roll: 563,84 $
ROLL: 1477,13 $ / 1261,21 €
LIVE ROLL: 3815 €

2025 is over. I had very good year with my job and even this year was one of the most disasters with my cars. I had change: turbo, 2 times pulley, 4 injektors, 2 compete gears, clutch, and many more things spent 9500 €. But worked very hard and made a year profitable.
I played some very good tour with my punk band around Europe, had lot of fun and made some money too.

The poker which is now my hobby I also earned some money.
Played on GG poker 154780 hand cash game, 75 tournament with buyin and many freerolls. The bankroll was 20,34 $ at 1th of January and now 476,41 $

On Coin poker 11087 hand cash game and made 29,83 $ profit. There was some withdrawal and deposit, but the end I have 317,68 $

Poker Stars even played 30340 cash game hands and 78,65 $ profit made the tournament I have no idea, but sure played some and made profit too. Started from 415,69 $ and now 549,85 $

Live poker even was profitable at this year, started from 2452 € and now 3915 € standing.

Standing now
COIN: 317,68 $
GG roll: 476,41 $
PS roll: 549,85 $
ROLL: 1343,94 $ / 1143,78 €
LIVE ROLL: 3915 €

Year stat:
start:728,51 $ end 1343,94 $ (615,43 $ profit)
start: 2452 € end 3915 € (1463 € profit)

I hope the next year will be better. Wish everybody good luck and good river and Happy New Year for 2026!

Hi BORT99,

That sounds like a really good year!

…wishing you the very best for a peaceful, prosperous 2026,

2026 starting not very well, but not dramatic.
On GG poker played PLO2 just for fun, but was not that fun. After this session, deicided to play NL10 R&C. This limit make me more rewards for the promotion.

There is a tournament serial on Poker Stars, so why not play some MTT between 2,2$ - 11 $ and paralel some MTT on GG too.
I had some min cash, but yesterday got 2 good run, but sadly the results just OK and not WOW.

I enjoyed this MTT sessions, just need to learn, how to win with KK vs A2s.

So now littlebit lost, but that's it.
This weekend I go to Bratislava and try again the 77 € tournament for 77777 € GTD.

COIN: 315,76 $
GG roll: 405,04 $
PS roll: 596,63 $
ROLL: 1317,43 $ / 1123,99 €
LIVE ROLL: 3915 €

I had very bad session on Poker Stars Zoom NL10. Lost 9 buyins. I was not very happy. I made some mistake, but even my villains got some very lucky cards like 3-5% on the turn and they hit on the river.
I do the challenges on GG poker NL10 R&C and play 300 hand to get WSOP step tickets. I already played lot of step 3 to step 4, but always knocked out somehow.
Today won the free step0 and after won the step1 Allin or Fold and won the Spin & Go and imediately played the MTT step 3 with this result.

I was happy with 30 $ profit, hope in the future can win 150 ticket and play a big tournament.

Yesterday I played some tournaments again. On Poker Stars got 2 tickets 2,2$ and 5,5 $. Booth made some money. On 2,2$ won 5 $ in KO

GG not my friend the last tournaments, but here is one result.

Last 2 days the cash works good, so won back some money.

Friday I go to Bratislava for 77 € and if I reach day2 then saturday play 100 € 20K GTD. If not reached then play saturday 77 € again.

COIN: 315,76 $
GG roll: 425,80 $
PS roll: 585,28 $
ROLL: 1326,84 $ / 1135,60 €
LIVE ROLL: 3915 €

Originally posted by BORT99
I had very bad session on Poker Stars Zoom NL10. Lost 9 buyins. I was not very happy. I made some mistake, but even my villains got some very lucky cards like 3-5% on the turn and they hit on the river.

Ouch!
That sucks!
Do you have a stop-loss limit?
I drop the session if I go down 2 buy-ins. What *really* sucks is having to use the stop-loss 3 (or more) days in a row.

Hang in there…

When you know the bad players still plays, then still possible to winning back. But happened this graph.
Always when I had a chance to win a big pot and getting closer to zero then something happened on the river.
I don't use stop loss, I use when my Girlfriend says go to sleep :f_tongue::f_love:

Nothing changed on Poker Stars. Still Im allin with 90-95% and lose. So I will broke up with Poker Stars before he broke my bankroll. Already lost 20 buyins. Not made cashout options many times because only 2 outs or just backdoor possibility, but they always just won against me.
I have 400 $ there and I just wait until the USD will be better, because now very worst, like 1,173 $ I pay for 1 €. Donald Trump is asshole who ruin all the wolrd not except USA.
After a lot of sad news here is one nice hand to make smile on my face.
https://upswingpoker.com/hand/?hand=clesn9tO

Played some tournaments too and had some paid.

I cashed out 100 € in to my live roll

COIN: 334,67 $
GG roll: 443,37 $
PS roll: 400 $
ROLL: 1178,04 $ / 1004,47 €
LIVE ROLL: 4015 €

Nice results!

Can somebody explain me, what a fuck happened here?
This is NL2 normal tables.

This is 20 buyin under AIEV.

Yesterday played live tournament again 50 € buyin 10k GTD. There was 260 entries and finished 15th place for 190 €. My stack was lifting a lot, and after ITM lost a big pot with QQ vs KK. After I had 0,5bb and won a hand with ATs vs AKo won flopped flush. Finally I was BB with 1,2 bb the CO raised and I called with TJo he turned up T5o and sadly after AT3 flop turn was 5 and river not helped.
Played some online MTT with mincash and cashgame 28100 hand -5 buyin in EV so was not lucky days. With promotion ca break even.

COIN: 335,03 $
GG roll: 449,78 $
PS roll: 388,82 $
ROLL: 1173,63 $ / 995,11 € (US dollar getting worster)
LIVE ROLL: 4155 €

Weeks ago was not here. Last weekend begint my season of work. Monday camed to home 1270 km in 11:45 hours drive. This weekend work again 4 days and after 11 days. From 1st of April work with full gas until end of August.
Played some poker mostly on GG. First 6k hand 4 buyin plusz and 2nd 6000 hand lose 9 buyin and now -2,7 buyin on NL10.
Some little tournament won and even some Leaderboard and other Rakeback made some plus.
I bring my laptop and try to play some poker, depend how long is the distance between locations.

COIN: 335,03 $
GG roll: 482,24 $
PS roll: 393,33 $
ROLL: 1210,6 $ / 1027,94 €
LIVE ROLL: 4155 €

Do you also drive that thing on mountain roads? Some crazy workers here on Gran Canaria are doing that, while we could barely stay on road with our normal car.

Originally posted by taavi1337
Do you also drive that thing on mountain roads? Some crazy workers here on Gran Canaria are doing that, while we could barely stay on road with our normal car.

I have Ford Transit Van is not very good claimbing mountains ♦

This stupid war stolen my good job. Sadly the band from Israel can't come out from there and they have to cancel all the tour. So I will have 12 day without work. Lost like 2000 €, but most important my friends and even all people around this area survive this shit war.

Yeah that sucks. I depend on her rental apartment to go make gamedev workshops, and sometimes the door of the apartment is broken. Two times it got locked so we couldn't get in and yesterday I couldn't get out with my son. Luckily so far I could hold all workshops, but would be really stupid reason to fail.

Not easy to find the best way to earn money in poker. This time I have bankroll only in 3 rooms. GG poker with the leaderboard systeme I don't like so much, but they have most players on fast poker and most biggest pool on MTT-s. I never made profit on table, but got back some money from promotions and rewards, this is a little bit frustrated me. Anyway, I made profit on GG last years. For example current bankroll I made from 0 $ to 478 $.

Poker Stars after bought Full tilt was my main site, was a huge pool and made some profit from table too, but this time tiny pool, no table selection, very bad rakeback systeme. They just cancel my point after month not reached the target. I made rake for them and they don't give me rakeback just because. MTT-s 4 times smaller pool then years before. Here after I cashout all my roll last 2 $ and now 394 $

Coin poker I just find last year and played only 11k hands. The cliens was solid, mostly bad. I found DriveHud2 for tracking, pool was small, but profitable. Now they change everything to be same like other 2 sites. Still table selection works, so better then Poker Stars, finally looks better and hope drivehud2 will work again and Coin let use own hud. Cash game Pool is now bigger then PS and bit smaller then GG. This time 100% rakeback and after 1th april change back to 33% flat. This is the best offer now. MTT-s still small pool, but maybe in the future will be bigger. I will try some maybe at this weekend.

COIN: 364,33 $
GG roll: 478,41 $
PS roll: 394,35 $
ROLL: 1237,09 $ / 1064,80 €
LIVE ROLL: 4155 €