[Closed] Warning, FL inside!

Joined my second WCOOP #3: 500+R FPP Turbo to 215$ FL Hold'em and didn't make it
I used 1500 FPP (500 BI, 500 rebuy, 500 addon) and I finished 8th place.
Until the first brake, I only played 3 hands. KQ from UTG and didn't hit anything, K4 from BB, again nothing and I stole blinds once with J9o. And that was it.
Then I rebought, wait for a break and made addon too.

AK twice, AJ and KQ were enough starting hands to become a chip leader and a final table. BTW, bubble boy was Dippy19 ♦
Like I said, I was chip leader, but I had only 15BB. That's turbo...
I folded quite some hands until I got A9.

Poker Stars
Limit Holdem Tournament
Limit: t600/t1200
6 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
UTG: t629
UTG+1: t3652
Hero: t13114
Button: t2995
SB: t13120
BB: t4180

Pre-flop: (6 players) Hero is CO with A♥ 9♦
2 folds, Hero raises, 2 folds, BB 3-bets, Hero calls.

Flop: 2♥ Q♠ A♣ (6.5SB, 2 players)
BB bets, Hero raises, BB 3-bets, Hero caps, BB calls all-in t580.
Uncalled bets: 0.03SB returned to Hero.

Turn: 5♥ (7.22BB, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: 7.22BB)

River: 4♦ (7.22BB, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: 7.22BB)

Results:
Final pot: 7.22BB
Hero showed Ah 9d
BB showed 2s As

And my last hand...

Poker Stars
Limit Holdem Tournament
Limit: t1200/t2400
8 players
Converter

Stack sizes:
UTG: t5904
UTG+1: t5840
MP1: t18544
MP2: t8045
CO: t10865
Button: t9080
SB: t4988
Hero: t7734

Pre-flop: (8 players) Hero is BB with A♠ 9♣
5 folds, Button raises, SB folds, Hero calls.

Flop: 5♠ T♥ 9♥ (4.5SB, 2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets, Hero raises, Button 3-bets, Hero calls.

Turn: T♦ (5.25BB, 2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets, Hero calls all-in t1734.
Uncalled bets: 0.28BB returned to Button.

River: Q♥ (6.7BB, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: 6.7BB)

Results:
Final pot: 6.7BB
Hero showed A♠ 9c
Button showed :K♦ Kc

Now I lost all FPPs that I have. I think I got only one more chance. Less then 24 days to make ~1500 FPPs again

Because he is a maniac you have to raise everywhere. If he has something you will win a lot, he could even 3-bet bluff you or whatever.

I'm playing for 15 minutes and this is a result and continuation of graph on previous page...

This happens to me everyday...

I'm at -43 already and I'm not tilting
Just losing every possible pot.

PokerStars are so sick for the last month to the low stakes players obviously...just unbelievable

That's just like 50BB, pretty normal. Hang in there, it will go better...

From +50 to -46 is little more than 50BB ♦
Anyway... I got it back to +8$. Not great, but better than nothing.
I had two SICK hands in this evening session...
Here they are...

Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;SB$12,45:22/41/5/5,0/50/0/-/17;MP3$11,50:33/45/26/0,7/42/33/0/50;Hero$19,50:///////;[/tg]
0,5/1 Fixed-Limit Hold'em (6 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: PokerStrategy Elephant 0.58 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is BU with 7♦, 7♥
MP2 folds, MP3 raises, CO folds, Hero 3-bets, SB caps, BB folds, MP3 calls, Hero calls.

Flop: (13,00 SB) 3♥, 2♠, 2♥ (3 players)
SB bets, MP3 calls, Hero raises, SB calls, MP3 calls.

Turn: (9,50 BB) 3♠ (3 players)
SB checks, MP3 checks, Hero bets, SB calls, MP3 folds.

River: (11,50 BB) 5♥ (2 players)
SB bets, Hero calls.

Final Pot: 13,50 BB

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows two pairs, sevens and threes (7d 7h)
SB shows a flush, king high (Kh Th)

SB wins with a flush, king high (Kh Th)

And second one.. 21BB

Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;SB$14,70:76/56/8/0,5/40/20/50/45;Hero$20,65:///////;MP3$14,30:57/32/5/0,7/25/0/100/57;CO$16,35:177/31/11/0,8/46/14/50/42;BU$43,70:83/66/5/1,1/51/0/100/41;[/tg]
0,5/1 Fixed-Limit Hold'em (6 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: PokerStrategy Elephant 0.58 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is BB with 8♥, 8♦
MP2 folds, MP3 calls, CO raises, BU calls, SB calls, Hero calls, MP3 calls.

Flop: (10,00 SB) 8♣, 9♦, 5♠ (5 players)
SB bets, Hero raises, MP3 calls, CO 3-bets, BU folds, SB calls, Hero caps, MP3 calls, CO calls, SB calls.

Turn: (13,00 BB) 4♥ (4 players)
SB checks, Hero bets, MP3 calls, CO calls, SB calls.

River: (17,00 BB) 7♣ (4 players)
SB checks, Hero checks, MP3 bets, CO calls, SB calls, Hero calls.

Final Pot: 21,00 BB

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows three of a kind, eights (8h 8d)
CO shows a pair of kings (Kd Ks)
MP3 shows a straight, nine high (5c 6c)
SB shows a pair of nines (Ad 9h)

MP3 wins with a straight, nine high (5c 6c)

Well,that's FL!
Glad to see that it doesnt affect your play,so goodluck recovering from that(which i'm sure you will do easily).

Bah. I'm so sick at the moment. I just can't believe what hands I lost today. Deja vu? I think I already wrote something like that not while ago

Well, here's the deal...
I cancel my goal about qualifying into WCOOP #3. This is official now
It's nothing more than a waste of time and FPPs. I tried two times and one time NL... Didn't go well, obvious ♦
Maybe next year, if my bankroll will be big enough for direct buy-in I also read that they played like 12 hours until final table... No thank you I'm just not prepared for that. End of story...

About my second goal...
I'm currently at 71% till Gold Star status at PokerStars. This means I have to collect 70 VPPs a day. If I calculate this in hours, that would took me 1.5hours a day... I think I'll make it anyway...

My third goal for this month was 2BB/100. I'm not even close to that Currently 1.11 BB/100, which is OK, but not good enough for my high expectations If I don't get a good run in second half of a month, this number will even decrease.

Here is my today's session, monthly graph and current status:

I also trying reach gold rank, but what are advantages of it?

2x VPP multiplier

Finally a good day. Maybe even too good But I had so many bad beats in last few days that I think I deserve a little upswing too
In only 2 hours session and 400 hands I made 54$ with 13BB/100 (obvious).
The only thing that surprised me was this.
2 tables at the same time with both starting hands QQ. I raised, someone else reraised I capped and one player cold called too.
Both time there was A on a flop, one time even a K, but I won in both hands. I couldn't believe my eyes. Because my motto is: "There is always someone with an Ace. But that someone is not me."
This time I managed to pull it off...

But I'm still not sure. Am I playing good, or am I just lucky enough, to have positive results? Will see on a long run.

BR is at ~870$, I'm 3/4 to a Gold Star, BB/100 is also bigger. I hope I'll catch my goals till August.

Long time no see.
As I can see, I didn't make an update for about a week.
Nothing fancy happened in between.

After this great day I was kinda break even for whole part of a week... One day I made 9$, next day I lose 10$. And I always start good. I have like 20BB+ but then I made few bad calls, get a bad beat and I'm down to like 30BB so I have to struggle, to be break even by the end of the day

I was immune to this sickness only yesterday when I made 40BB. Maybe today will be second day, but I kinda doubt it

By BR is at 933.21$ and I'm close to 1000$ milestone. But I was already twice here (look at graph) and I fall back. So I won't brag for now
I'm almost Gold Star now... I need only 1 day of play Something like 500 hands.
My BB/100 is 1.42. It's not 2.00 as I wanted, but it's more than big enough

So here is my August's graph.

Till next time.

Originally posted by CoreySteel
2x VPP multiplier

Actually it's 2x FPP multiplier

Same?
1VPP = 1 Base FPP * 2multiplier = 2FPP.

Originally posted by CoreySteel
I was immune to this sickness only yesterday when I made 40BB. Maybe today will be second day, but I kinda doubt it

Yep, I was correct. Lost about 100BB in 2 hours.

Originally posted by CoreySteel

Originally posted by CoreySteel
I was immune to this sickness only yesterday when I made 40BB. Maybe today will be second day, but I kinda doubt it

Yep, I was correct. Lost about 100BB in 2 hours.

Awww,too bad

But why don't you come on IRC?

I am there, I just don't talk much ♦

I have to post this hand here, because it's my biggest one so far! ♦
Yay!

It's rigged, obv... But I don't care, tbh ♦

Known players:
[tg]Position_Stack:hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;MP2$27,70:25/44/12/2,5/47/-/-/14;Hero$25,25:///////;CO$17,45:91/26/14/1,3/43/19/25/38;[/tg]
0,5/1 Fixed-Limit Hold'em (6 handed)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: PokerStrategy Elephant 0.58 by www.pokerstrategy.com.

Preflop: Hero is MP3 with K♣, K♠
MP2 raises, Hero 3-bets, CO calls, 3 folds, MP2 calls.

Flop: (10,50 SB) K♦, Q♠, 8♦ (3 players)
MP2 bets, Hero calls, CO raises, MP2 3-bets, Hero caps, CO calls, MP2 calls.

Turn: (11,25 BB) 5♠ (3 players)
MP2 bets, Hero raises, CO 3-bets, MP2 caps, Hero calls, CO calls.

River: (23,25 BB) 3♠ (3 players)
MP2 bets, Hero raises, CO calls, MP2 3-bets, Hero caps, CO calls, MP2 calls.

Final Pot: 35,25 BB

Results follow (highlight to see):
Hero shows three of a kind, kings (Kc Ks)
CO shows three of a kind, queens (Qh Qd)
MP2 shows two pairs, kings and queens (Kh Qc)

Hero wins with three of a kind, kings (Kc Ks)

It's over... Over of a month that is.
I know it's still one day left, but I'll have a free day tomorrow Actually I already played in Sunday and I made ~30BB... Not a bad end of August

So to sum up...
This month I made 369,55$, which is really nice, but I played 30k hands... That's quite a lot is a lot and I don't think I'll play that much in September. Probably around 22k, which should give me Gold Star again.

This month I gave myself a 4 goals.
I reached Silver and Gold Star status (5400 VPPs).
But I failed to have a 2BB/100, actually I had 1.25BB/100 and I'm still satisfied!
And of course, I didn't qualify for WCOOP Event 3#.

So my new goals for September are...
Reach Gold Star again (obvious), but the most important one is to reach 1200$ BR and move to 1/2SH at November 1st.

So my BR is 954.81$ at the moment and here is my monthly graph: