great replies, thanks..

to clarify..

I don't 100% rely on my poker winning for life expenses, however I am self employed so I haven't got a stable monthly income either.

My business is in the starting stages, so money is tight and more or less breaking even each month.

I play poker on a part time basis, mainly every sunday, and some evenings mid week.

I did play for a living around 2 years ago, but couldn't handle the swings etc, so thought I'd take a less stressful approach to life and go self employed and pay taxes instead.

Anyway..

@dino1980

I do take quite a few shots at the sats into the bigger events.
I've won seats into the sunday million in the past, but had no joy in the actual event..

binked a cheap feeder tonight, into the 55 euro sat for DTD 500 deep-stack, which plays tomorrow night, so hopefully win a seat for that!

@kinboshi

tried & failed lol

@suuPRlim

When ever I've had a decent bankroll (£1.5k) abi £5-7 - i've always been really good with it, and managed it well.. generally getting really close to doubling the roll if I had laddered a few more spot on final tables etc..

However sometimes the roll just flat lines, and eventually starts going south.
When it gets down to the £750 mark, I start to gamble it up a little and start taking shots, which is obviously a bad idea, and should be doing the opposite and start playing smaller.

So I do like your idea of using the extra amount on top of the initial BR to take shots.

But then @skolsuper makes a good point too!


@cambridgealex

I've been a regular reader of your diary, and your progress has been so sick! maybe one day I'll win a big live tounrey too... better get binking the seats first!

I really thought the last DTD 500 was my time like all of the other day two returning players, but only managed the min cash!


@honeybadger

great post, and great story.
Sounds like you have great work ethic and have solid discipline to get to where you are now, hats off.


Overall I need to think about what I want from poker...

and making a big score is always on my mind as I don't have the hours to grind any more, but can't really afford to take multiple shots all the time too..

I have a roll of around £1.5k, so could grind 200 tounreys, ABI £7.5 games
or take a few higher shots first, then start grinding if it doesn't work out.. humm

There tends to be a pivotal moment in a poker players career where they bink a win/big score to set them up for the future.

Unfortunately this is yet to happen to me, with my biggest win being around £1.5k.

I'm a low stakes online MTT part time grinder, and have been having a lot more success on the smaller euro sites instead of stars, where binks arrive lot less frequently.

Like everybody else in the poker world, I'm looking for that one big score to set me up and thinking about taking a few shots this weekend.

To all the heroes out there on this forum, what was your pivotal moment, and how did you decide to take your shot?

was it a big gamble or a percentage play of your BR?

Watched this a couple of months ago, and remembered it while reading this discussion..

It's long video, but as everyone has put a lot of thought into their posts around this subject, I thought you guys might like it..

very interesting stuff ..

Sick Sat on stars today, 17:00 UK time,

$10, no rebuy, no add on, 10 packages GTD into the PCA main!

it's long shot.. but sick value, get involved!

If you could, what is you thought process throughout the hand?

any thoughts on this, jamming the turn maybe better? or even just calling to hit, and then give up... butchered the hand regardless...

PokerStars Hand #85037368069: Tournament #613010392, $20+$2 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level V (30/60) - 2012/08/21 17:47:08 WET [2012/08/21 12:47:08 ET]
Table '613010392 161' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: Mordeca (9082 in chips)
Seat 2: BUBIDEUCE (3604 in chips)
Seat 3: Velni@Z (3460 in chips)
Seat 4: maxwell_8888 (2465 in chips)
Seat 5: Samlint (1743 in chips)
Seat 6: NutsErryTime (2840 in chips)
Seat 7: doodziek (3597 in chips)
Seat 8: Jim Stark007 (2960 in chips)
Seat 9: Synzaic (2811 in chips)
Mordeca: posts the ante 5
BUBIDEUCE: posts the ante 5
Velni@Z: posts the ante 5
maxwell_8888: posts the ante 5
Samlint: posts the ante 5
NutsErryTime: posts the ante 5
doodziek: posts the ante 5
Jim Stark007: posts the ante 5
Synzaic: posts the ante 5
Synzaic: posts small blind 30
Mordeca: posts big blind 60
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Mordeca [ As]
BUBIDEUCE: raises 60 to 120
Velni@Z: folds
maxwell_8888: folds
Samlint: folds
NutsErryTime: folds
doodziek: folds
Jim Stark007: calls 120
Synzaic: calls 90
Mordeca: calls 60
*** FLOP *** [ ]
Synzaic: checks
Mordeca: checks
BUBIDEUCE: bets 379
Jim Stark007: folds
Synzaic: folds
Mordeca: calls 379
*** TURN *** [ ] []
Mordeca: checks
BUBIDEUCE: bets 500
Mordeca: raises 640 to 1140
BUBIDEUCE: calls 640
*** RIVER *** [ ] []
Mordeca: bets 2040
BUBIDEUCE: calls 1960 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (80) returned to Mordeca
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Mordeca: shows [ As] (a pair of Fours)
BUBIDEUCE: shows [ ] (two pair, Tens and Fours)
BUBIDEUCE collected 7483 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 7483 | Rake 0
Board [ ]
Seat 1: Mordeca (big blind) showed [ As] and lost with a pair of Fours
Seat 2: BUBIDEUCE showed [ ] and won (7483) with two pair, Tens and Fours
Seat 3: Velni@Z folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: maxwell_8888 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: Samlint folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: NutsErryTime folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 7: doodziek folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: Jim Stark007 (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 9: Synzaic (small blind) folded on the Flop

I prefer to raise here,  you will always notice when you shove for this amount like 20bbs your near enough always in trouble when you get called. By being dominated or on a flip vs a PP.

But i would prefer to shove AQ around the 10-15bb mark! Just having slightly less chips always induces a raggy ace or hands like KQ/kj to call in these games

yeh i think I would min raise with AQ if I had around 20bb, but then if we 3 bet, is it an easy fold? effectively if we get 3 bet, they know they are playing for my stack.

Folding? You kidding right?

This is a $3 MTT we have 17bbs and the ante is huge! Never fold this hand here to 1 reshove

just asking questions mate, I personally wouldn't fold to a 3 bet here with my stack.

what about A10 / AJ?

I prefer to raise here,  you will always notice when you shove for this amount like 20bbs your near enough always in trouble when you get called. By being dominated or on a flip vs a PP.

But i would prefer to shove AQ around the 10-15bb mark! Just having slightly less chips always induces a raggy ace or hands like KQ/kj to call in these games

yeh i think I would min raise with AQ if I had around 20bb, but then if we 3 bet, is it an easy fold? effectively if we get 3 bet, they know they are playing for my stack.

Wanted to get peoples opinions on this shove. Stack sizes between 15 - 20 bb semi deep in a tournies always throw me off a little.


PokerStars Hand #82727153939: Tournament #579010517, $3.00+$0.30 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XVIII (1000/2000) - 2012/07/01 23:40:38 WET [2012/07/01 18:40:38 ET]
Table '579010517 142' 9-max Seat #5 is the button
Seat 1: Kam1kazemaus (100648 in chips)
Seat 2: Mordeca (34990 in chips)
Seat 3: leo78rom (52125 in chips)
Seat 4: imponderável (35725 in chips)
Seat 5: archibaldAA (176840 in chips)
Seat 6: WhiteAliii (102055 in chips)
Seat 7: pimmie (58962 in chips)
Seat 8: Hasan1907 (133928 in chips)
Seat 9: Bigotinho02 (57041 in chips)
Kam1kazemaus: posts the ante 350
Mordeca: posts the ante 350
leo78rom: posts the ante 350
imponderável: posts the ante 350
archibaldAA: posts the ante 350
WhiteAliii: posts the ante 350
pimmie: posts the ante 350
Hasan1907: posts the ante 350
Bigotinho02: posts the ante 350
WhiteAliii: posts small blind 1000
pimmie: posts big blind 2000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Mordeca [ ]
Hasan1907: folds
Bigotinho02: folds
Kam1kazemaus: folds
Mordeca: raises 32640 to 34640 and is all-in
leo78rom: folds
imponderável: folds
archibaldAA: folds
WhiteAliii: calls 33640
pimmie: folds
*** FLOP *** [ ]
*** TURN *** [ ] []
*** RIVER *** [ ] []
*** SHOW DOWN ***
WhiteAliii: shows [ Ah] (high card Ace)
Mordeca: shows [ ] (high card Ace - lower kicker)
WhiteAliii collected 74430 from pot
Mordeca finished the tournament in 347th place and received $15.41.
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 74430 | Rake 0
Board [ ]
Seat 1: Kam1kazemaus folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Mordeca showed [ ] and lost with high card Ace
Seat 3: leo78rom folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: imponderável folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: archibaldAA (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: WhiteAliii (small blind) showed [ Ah] and won (74430) with high card Ace
Seat 7: pimmie (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 8: Hasan1907 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Bigotinho02 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

hi,

I'm looking for a tracking software for online tournaments, is there any apart from holdem manager that anyone would recommend? cheers

I play micro stakes MTTs on stars. I'm seeing the donk bet into the pre flop raiser a lot more these days.

Generally I count it as bet thats on a draw (obv on the right board texture) and wants to set his own price.

recently im seeing it alot more with random holdings, which has made me play slighty spewy agasint the donk bet when i myself have sweet f all.

What tends to be your strategy agasint the donk bet?

defo a fold there, hez not raising worse than your hand imo

Viktor is such a beast, couldn't handle is mad swings in his cash games tho, think i would go crazy, anyone binked anything good in the SCOOPs yet?

so many people complaining about the buyin increase on simons fb about this event, don't know why, its great value and great stucture! can't wait.

As it turns out if you bet 32.6k into 41,300 then folded to the river raise then I think you have played the hand near on optimally. Just to reiterate, this is NOT a good spot for someone to be bluffing in, so it is not a good spot for us to be calling in, if he has decided to go mental and bluff in a very bad spot then he's made the mistake making the play, you haven't made a mistake folding. It's a FOLD.


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