Just sent on Stars for me and Toddswain.

Good luck

great ty received

ty guys, sold out. it's 8.5% picken ($192.78), Eso 4% ($90.72) and greek 10%

5 Pls.  Can do 5 on stars for toddswain too.  Toddswain, di you have my bank details?

great ty, 22.5% left

5 please. Pm bank ta

sorry, wont be able to take bank transfer (mentioned in OP)

10 pls

ty, 32.5% remaining

2.5% gone, 42.5% remaining

Note I am away for most of the day (trip to a botanical garden to chill), feel free to send over the $$ to confirm (unless %age has gone past 45%).

[The Facts]

The Facts

Hi Guys, I'm looking to sell for the $2,100 Sunday Million which runs tomorrow, up to 45% at 1.08.

10% = $226.80
5% = $113.40
2.5%(Min) = $56.70

The Pitch

My name is Jonathan Gill and my online screen name is Gil3000. I started playing full time about 18 months ago, and for the past 12 months or so I have been backed and coached on a biweekly basis by elmerixx, pads, european and omyg0t. I can't even begin to describe how much my game has improved over this time, I have been playing 5 or 6 days a week every week, working on my game on pretty much a daily basis over that amount of time. I have since been trusted by those guys to become a coach for their smaller stakes stable where although in its early days (running for about 2 months) has proven to be successful to dates and can already see huge improvements in those players that have been recruited.

During this I will be playing no more than 9 tables (more likely no more than 7 tables) to ensure I don't miss spots and focus is at a maximum. Please be aware I may not update this thread at every break due to being busy, using techniques to maintain my calmness to ensure I can play to the best of my ability. I have been advised by my coaches this will be the softest online $2k of the year, with them taking 50% of it on stake.

Graph over all sites over the past 12 months:

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Lifetime stats:

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Please send to Gil3000 on Stars (no bank transfers).

The problem with flatting is that since UTG1 is in the pot, if he's good and as described he will pretty much just have pairs in his range, and any suited broadways, AQo he is peeling your open to, he should fold to the 3bet even when you call. So when you call, he actually won't overcall hands you dominate, and will just have pairs, so you basically need to flop A/K to win the pot.

Not so sure about this, getting a pretty sick price with KQs-J10s, I expect a very select few to make the fold given stacks and sizing.

Yeh agree, although we want JTs, QJs, QTs to fold, so that leaves KQs, KJs, and I guess AQs and AJs as well in the group of hands that we dominate and will continue. And given he will call say 66-JJ (may even be flatting QQ because of ICM and utg vs utg1 vs CL?), combo wise that is 6pairs*6 = 36combos, plus the 12 combos of JTs, QJs and QTs = 48 combos we'd rather him fold vs 16 combos we'd rather him call (KQs, KJs, AQs, AJs), I think overall we'd rather this be heads up than 3 ways. Could be persuaded otherwise, just giving my initial reasoning behind the comment.

yeah makes sense, was more of a marginal reason to peel rather than it being the main reason behind my thoughts.

Think keeping him in should also keep opponent 2 a little more honest, giving us more of a chance to see turns than we normally would do in a HU pot.

Ripping feels a little excessive, even though he has to call with such a narrow range of hands, just seems like a bit of a waste of such a pretty hand and I personally would be more inclined to do so if we had AKo

The problem with flatting is that since UTG1 is in the pot, if he's good and as described he will pretty much just have pairs in his range, and any suited broadways, AQo he is peeling your open to, he should fold to the 3bet even when you call. So when you call, he actually won't overcall hands you dominate, and will just have pairs, so you basically need to flop A/K to win the pot.

Not so sure about this, getting a pretty sick price with KQs-J10s, I expect a very select few to make the fold given stacks and sizing.

Would be happy flatting, being deep in such a high value live MTT.

Would consider 4b/c more so with AKo but AKs definitely plays well enough post flop to peel, hes probably gonna barrel a bunch of A high and K high boards. With us being so deep and in such a sick position to make a good run it feels too high variance to go getting the lot in, even vs a LAG. I doubt even a LAG would be looking to get the lot in vs you super wide here when he's got abso chunks and doesn't NEED to take this sort of spot wide.
This will also keep dominated hands in from opponent 1.

Not really interested in shares, feel like I gamble enough with my money as it is.

The only debts I have are student loan, but good thing about those (personally) are that you only have to pay them back when you are earning x amount and they only charge a %age of what is earnt (meaning I figure I may as well try and fade it whilst I am able to as inflation continues and end up paying it back when it costs the least amount to do so as the student loans don't increase over time). Is this going to give me greater barriers further down the line when I come to look for a mortgage or whatever? (Not sure when that will be, but def not near future).

Am I right in thinking you cant set up a private pension then claim a state pension, in which case it probably isn't worth making NI contributions if that's the road I'm going down?

Nothing to stop you putting £2880 pa into a Private Pension JGill, currently HMRC top this up to £3600, free money's worth getting?

This sounds ideal, any links or ideas as to where is best to set this kind of thing up?

definitely do voluntary NI contributions Jonathan

start here https://www.gov.uk/voluntary-national-insurance-contributions

Makes perfect sense, ty Tighty