Thanks.
Man what I'd do to go back to pre BF jeeeeeeeeeeeeebus!! With this much effort back then $200k would be pretty easy at abi $40!!! The $27, $38 and $60 all running well day and night as far as I can remember, $12 180 aswell as $35, running like a tap. Am salivating at just the thought of it. I spent alot of time then playing the 90-mans on FTP, I had the 3rd highest ROI in the world for those aswell and I played much worse than I do now, I could've upped that to 50-55% probably. I remember shark365 or someone similar, made $100k year on year in just 90-mans alone. Hindsight's a massive piece of shit.
Thing's aren't quite exactly "dead" yet, but players are a bit trickier, I guess most of the fish must've decided to want to learn how to play. US stables jealous that they can't play anymore are mostly responsible for a giant portion of the increase in player "skill". I put speech marks around that word because alot of the stables are run by mediocre players who never had close to the top ROI's in the first place, but whilst they're not teaching optimal ways to play, it's still a profitable way thus bringing down profit everywhere else.
I've played full time since 2009 but have always played the laziest (I'm a Leo) hours imaginable and regret that massively now. I did perfectly fine right up until late 2014. I hadn't played much on the year anyway due to gf taking up too much time, but September of that year I joined in a 2+2 180man team comp and we led start to finish, I made about $6k in that month. From that point on I've been on like a 12-15k game break even run give or take and I seriously don't put it down to tougher players whatsoever. As I said there's 2-3 players making the same ROI's in the games I play that most top players made in 2010 so I know it's still just as do-able, especially in 18-man. Those games have a special dynamic and ICM that makes it possible to hit a higher ROI than should be relative to it's higher or lower numbered SnG counterparts. Hard to explain what I mean by that. Let's just say there's lots more room to bully and dominate without risk of ruin than there is in STT or 180-man. But for 180-man check out malimisko. The guy never plays more than 8-10 tables which obviously has some contribution to his exceptional ROI, but that won't be the bigggest reason at all. He's 50% in his last 7kish 180-mans. There's no other reg out there on higher than HALF that. Does he run like god perma?
Today has been hell on earth once again. Started out ok for the first 5 hours, I got 2nd in a $3r 180 that had the highest prize I've seen in months. $540 for first which is really rare now since most regs single bullet as much as they can. This is the hand I lost to win it.
PokerStars Hand #152524077863: Tournament #1550554955, $3.30+$0.20 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXVIII (20000/40000) - 2016/04/27 17:40:19 WET [2016/04/27 12:40:19 ET]
Table '1550554955 11' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 2: carolbelotto (322544 in chips)
Seat 6: RagztoRiches (563456 in chips)
carolbelotto: posts the ante 4000
RagztoRiches: posts the ante 4000
carolbelotto: posts small blind 20000
RagztoRiches: posts big blind 40000
HOLE CARDS
Dealt to RagztoRiches [
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carolbelotto: raises 278544 to 318544 and is all-in
RagztoRiches: calls 278544
FLOP [
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RIVER [
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SHOW DOWN
RagztoRiches: shows [
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carolbelotto: shows [
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carolbelotto collected 645088 from pot
Then tonight I've had the usual insane bullshit. Today's EV. Only 300% below EV, yet miraculously profited $120. 150 turbos, 8 hours.
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Oh forgot to mention one of these new $30 45-man hyper PSKO's went off and I'd regged. Got to the FT and this complete bubble-tard as I like to call them, lost his mind.
PokerStars Hand #152518689155: Tournament #1549497492, $14.30+$14.30+$1.40 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XIII (400/800) - 2016/04/27 15:27:22 WET [2016/04/27 10:27:22 ET]
Table '1549497492 4' 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: MariyaAl (26156 in chips)
Seat 2: pastis4020 (12196 in chips)
Seat 3: Tilt_Avenue (10185 in chips)
Seat 4: 2THEMAX69 (20195 in chips)
Seat 5: DeathcorePkr (5754 in chips)
Seat 6: Paulharvey3 (7343 in chips)
Seat 7: NKmyt (30739 in chips)
Seat 8: RagztoRiches (13636 in chips)
Seat 9: Alien-v300 (8796 in chips)
MariyaAl: posts the ante 200
pastis4020: posts the ante 200
Tilt_Avenue: posts the ante 200
2THEMAX69: posts the ante 200
DeathcorePkr: posts the ante 200
Paulharvey3: posts the ante 200
NKmyt: posts the ante 200
RagztoRiches: posts the ante 200
Alien-v300: posts the ante 200
2THEMAX69: posts small blind 400
DeathcorePkr: posts big blind 800
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to RagztoRiches [
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Paulharvey3: folds
NKmyt: folds
RagztoRiches: raises 800 to 1600
Alien-v300: folds
MariyaAl: folds
pastis4020: folds
Tilt_Avenue: raises 8385 to 9985 and is all-in
2THEMAX69: folds
DeathcorePkr: folds
RagztoRiches: calls 8385
*** FLOP *** [
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*** SHOW DOWN ***
RagztoRiches: shows [
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Tilt_Avenue: shows
(a pair of Eights - lower kicker)
RagztoRiches collected 22970 from pot
RagztoRiches wins $19.66 for eliminating Tilt_Avenue and their own bounty increases by $19.66 to $33.96
Tilt_Avenue finished the tournament in 9th place
This left me 1/8 and I finished 6th thanks to two massive coolers in a row. Think that was and still is the only one that's run and it was at 10:30am WUTTTTTT?
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