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Played some poker with my friends at the manor. Here's some pics.
Thats me writing the blind structure.
The button - position >>>>>> all! BUT managed to bust out early in this high roller 5 handed event, with fishy played AK, from the BU obv. Cant play live, there's no hotkeys nor HUD 
Hi!
Cashed today in one of the pokerstars micromillions event:
Its my 2nd or 3rd tournament i've played with such a large players pool, so i guess i'm ok with the result.
This addition to my bankroll allows me to start grinding 15$ stt-s in pokerstars. I hope i manage to run there as good as i run in 7$.
Its 4:33 at night in estonia, so g'night everyone 
Have played bit less than a 100 games in a new 15$ limit and kinf of a BE.
Cant say that it is particularily tougher if you know who good regs are - it takes couple of hundred games to spot most of them. And regs are better than in 7$, some of them are really good, at least according to stats, like 10 or 20 thousand games with over 10% ROI is pretty good imo. And i also saw 3-4 supernovas, dont know why they're playing such a low limit for a supernova.
And some of the really good reg's (at least according to ROI) style seemed slightly awkward at first, like seeing the flop with very marginal hands in first levels, but then i realized that at least some of the times they're just trying to get involved in a pot with a fish, so they sometimes call raises with like T7s etc. So STT-s are far from a solved game.
Against some players I have reached the equilibrium:
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 15 Tournament, 75/150 Blinds (5 handed) - PokerStars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
Button (t4872)
Hero (SB) (t3175)
BB (t1574)
UTG (t2308)
MP (t1571)
Hero's M: 14.11
Preflop: Hero is SB with 6
, 8
3 folds, Hero bets t3175 (All-In), BB calls t1424 (All-In)
Flop: (t3148) 2, 5, 2 (2 players, 2 all-in)
Turn: (t3148) 2
(2 players, 2 all-in)
River: (t3148) 4
(2 players, 2 all-in)
Total pot: t3148
I knew that BB is a good reg and I knew that bb recognizes me as ok player aswell. If i didnt know the last thing, i'd push this more easily because good regs wont call here against unknowns as loose as nash. But here i tanked before pushing. Is this in nash range or not? Decided to push and bb tanked aswell and called with A4o.
Nash ranges:
SB push 71.3%, 22+ Kx+ Q2s+ Q5o+ J2s+ J6o+ T2s+ T6o+ 92s+ 96o+ 83s+ 86o+ 73s+ 75o+ 63s+ 65o 52s+ 54o 43s
BB call 26.1%, 44+ A2s+ A4o+ K7s+ K9o+ Q9s+ QTo+ JTs
Originally posted by grindtolive
Why you play with nash ranges?Dont you think they are too loose?
It depends. Sometimes they're too loose, sometimes too tight. I use nash against good regs, because any other shove is exploitable. Here i'm looser against unknowns for example because they're not calling wide enough on average.
I achieved my march main goal today: i'm goldstar at pokerstar.
Running a bit bad in 15$ though, but no problem, plenty of bad opponents.
Hi!
Was a nice ~10 hr working day. Not only poker unfortunately. Up at 7 o'clock, gave lessons in school til 13:00, came home, took a nap, reviewed yesterdays hands and posted some comments to the hand evaluations forum (1.5 hr) and then grinded around 3.5 hr (30 games).
Made some bad mistakes HU and i got really mad about myself. I realized that tilt is subtler than i thought. I feel that mostly for experineced players tilt doesnt force spew directly, but rather it occupies instincts and thinking processes such that you're not able to make your A game decisions instantly, you have to take a pause to gain proper perspective, and if you're not taking that pause - you make a mistake generated by tilt.
And i realized that my default A game moves are not that well grounded than i thought they were. Couple of suckouts, maybe a bad call on the river, and in the next push or fold situation i notice that i have to take a second to decide that otherwise would have been an insta decision.
Poker is a really interesting game and i feel that i'm discovering some new things about it. Well not totally new things but i have a feeling that i realize that some things go deeper than they seem at first glance. Especially those psychological tilt issues, self analyse and self-reflection, the process of constantly changing and reevaluating your inner perspective and self-vision - you can learn some surprising things about yourself and maybe about human nature in general. 
Anyway, running BE-ish or even worse, but still nothing to worry about. Plenty of fishes around and i have discovered that some of the mt regs who i see at the tables almost every day make some really bad moves. Some fishy classics:
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 15 Tournament, 25/50 Blinds (8 handed) - PokerStars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com
CO (t855)
Button (t1380)
SB (t1820)
Hero (BB) (t2340)
UTG (t1010)
UTG+1 (t1400)
MP1 (t1370)
MP2 (t3325)
Hero's M: 31.20
Preflop: Hero is BB with A, Q
3 folds, MP2 calls t50, 3 folds, Hero bets t200, MP2 calls t150
Flop: (t425) 9, Q, 4 (2 players)
Hero bets t325, MP2 calls t325
Turn: (t1075) 3 (2 players)
Hero bets t650, MP2 raises to t2800 (All-In), Hero calls t1165 (All-In)
River: (t4705) A (2 players, 2 all-in)
Total pot: t4705
Hmm, what did he have? Worse Q? flush draw? some gutshot? set!? Well, guess again!
Spoiler
6 :heart:8 
G'night everyone
Played 2 VIP freerolls today and managed to cash in both of them: 22.5$ + 52$ = 74.5$
Heading to bed now, tomorrow i'll post a March wrap up.
March 2012
Main goal for March: achieve Goldstar at Pokerstars. [DONE!]
I'm glad that i've managed to move to 15$ and with 359 games played still staying on that limit, although moving back down was close at one moment (see the graph). And that's the downside for March - i'm not really happy how i run in 15$, i'm around 10BI down. But no worries, i think i know most good regs by now and i feel that i've been improving my game steadily last weeks.
Regarding to profit for March, my hm graph is not accurate because there are profits of 23 games missing because my computer crashed couple of times during the session and hm counts those games as unfinished (incl yesterdays 52$ win in a freeroll). So for total profit for March i used topshark data (and added yesterdays freerolls wins cos they're missing from topshark). As for estimated rakeback, i took it 15% (most games for March are played as silverstar (14% estimated rakeback) and couple of hundred are played as goldstar (18% estimated rakeback) so 15% seems fair.
EDIT: added the red line aswell. LOL, seems that i've been lucky as a fish this month.
March 2012
Games played: 957 (mostly 9-man STT, ~10 $3.5-$7 HU, 3-4 MTT-s, 2 freerolls)
Average buy-in: $10.01
ROI%: 6.9%
Ev ROI: 2.4%
Winnings: $786.46 (topshark + $74.5 freerolls)
Rake: $790.07
Estimated rakeback 15%: $118.5
Total Winnings: $904.97
Time played: 132.7 hr
Total $/hr: 6.82 $/hr
Goal for April:
PlatinumStar VIP level in Pokerstars (that is ~1100 STT-s in 15$)
I would like to see the red line from your hem in 9 man.1100 games are not a lot.You need to play a lot in order to see different things and different variance.Moreover you can check the finish box in edit selected from the tournaments and everything will be fine
loool
just surfed around in pokerstars VIP store and found some really nice items to purchase.
I just bought 4 things:
1. candle
2. pokerstars session sandglass
3. voodoo doll for lucky opponents
4. three course meal in a pill
Total cost: 5000 FPP-s
Spoiler
Ok, the point is, by buying those items my account was credited total of $80. Thats 0.016$ / 1 FPP which is a better rate than buying 1500 dollars for 100 000 fpp-s as supernova for example.
Originally posted by grindtolive
Moreover you can check the finish box in edit selected from the tournaments and everything will be fine
Could you specify, where's that? I'm still using hm1 btw...
Added the red line. Yeah, it surprised me how luckily i have been running.
wowowowow about 500$ over EV ..... crazy luckbox gimme some luck plox ^^.
Gj keep up
P.s the surprising thing is that we talk about POKERSTARS!
Originally posted by Luupainaja
loooljust surfed around in pokerstars VIP store and found some really nice items to purchase.
I just bought 4 things:
1. candle
2. pokerstars session sandglass
3. voodoo doll for lucky opponents
4. three course meal in a pillTotal cost: 5000 FPP-s
Spoiler
Ok, the point is, by buying those items my account was credited total of $80. Thats 0.016$ / 1 FPP which is a better rate than buying 1500 dollars for 100 000 fpp-s as supernova for example.
i cant find the sandglasses
the sandglass as a session timer 
This and a candle make a great complect for long-night-hours grinding. Cant wait til they're delivered!
Yeah, running over ev quite a lot, but i've had my share of below-ev-runs aswell, so i dont feel too bad about running good 
I was sure running huge above in near 1k sample.Keep running good,maybe pokerstars take my running good from me and share it in all other players of pokerstrategy I am not ironic or anything,i am making black humor of me running bad