So far I've played 3 events out of the 18.
First event I got off to a decent start and finished 10th. I was super confident and felt I was the best player but I feel I made a bad mistake though and I 4b from the BTN vs SB wAQs for 25bb and ran into KK. Which is definitely fine but vs the villian I feel I should have folded.
Top 6 made a deal for €2k each which was pretty gutting at the time

Event 2 - £80 game in my local card room, I busted early and never got a stack going, but I late regged with around 30bb which was definitely not a good move and will definitely be trying to avoid this in the future!

Event 3 - My first online event which I took down tonight! Super happy with how I played and already got myself 3/4 of the way out of makeup after 3 events

Event 4 - €120 - 10k gtd game today! 95 runners so far. #letsjustwin

Nice job in event 3 and you may have won it by now, but good luck in event 4 anyway!

What standard of play do you think is prevalent in these games, super soft/soft/a bit tough? Does play get better later into it or are they just a bad as at the start. I used to find the latter stages very difficult, lots of better players than me around by then!

Sadly busted after the dinner break after a flying start! Made a bad mistake in what I thought was an okay spot but I should have preserved my stack after having 2.5x average after 2 hours!

I think its probably soft with a few super soft spots If you gave me maybe 6 months of coaching someone who didn't know the rules of poker a few times a week I'd say they could crush these games. Its be a step-up from home games but the vast majority of players are just playing ABC poker and are making HUGE mistakes.
I could raise 5/6/7 pots in a row and a player goes to me 'I KNOW you don't have it'.. and then they fold. I just smile and then raise the next pot.. lol.

The majority of players are 40-60 year old regs who play in their local room 2/3 times a week and have been playing for the last 20 years. But none of them play online because its 'rigged' or too hard. The standard is basically the same as 10 or 20NL online.

You can instantly work out who the best players are and even then I think they are still playing pretty straightforward poker. (I feel I'm starting to sound like Doug Polk). There's rarely any pros play the games I'm in and I may get unlucky and have 1 of them at my table at any given time.
The problems arise when it's down to maybe 14/15 players and the average stacks are 15-20bb and variance gets pretty big but I still feel I've an edge.

In other news, I made a stupid drunken prop bet with a friend of mine.
He doesn't really play holdem and plays more PLO and after half an hour of arguing he wouldn't playing higher stakes
I didn't realise how long this would take but oh well!

We both have to play 1c/2c NL, 6max regular tables on pokerstars, and it's first to win 30 buyins in the least number of hands and the winner gets £200.
I actually thought about giving him £50 if I could buy out haha. I don't know what a good win rate will be, but I'm aiming for 10-13bb anyway.

Well I started off this bet with a nice little hero call, basically just had a soul read on the player.
$0.01/$0.02 No Limit Holdem/6PLAYERS /PokerStars

Oioiiiiiiii so happy to see you back in the forum buddy and there are not many mtt grinders here so will be sick to follow this!

What do you think are your main strengths in MTTs?

Nice new thread. Interesting to see an MMT grind. GL and hope you crush. Remember seeing your name in a few old vids.

GL in the 2nl prop bet hah!

After watching every single episode of #runitup on youtube I feel I learned so so much by watching Jason Somerville play. I love being able to play marginal hands in marginal spots and I've been told I have a great table presence - raising alot and every hand I play I win.
Putting people on ranges and also I find I'm usually really good at reading live tells and bet sizing tells! People give off so much playing live poker it makes it so easy! It's really a totally different game than online.

Graph for my 2nl prop bet so far below! Off to a bad start but seems to be going grand so far. If I can continue with 14-15bb/100 I think I should win handy enough but my friend hasn't started yet so time will tell.

Good grief, your just showing off now!

Currently chip leader in a €50 online game with €555 FTW! 20 odd left!
Lets doooo this!!



Also if someone said they were winning at 24bb/100 at 2nl I wouldn't get too excited but I'm super happy as I should win the bet unless I get a freak bad run!

Currently chip leader in a €50 online game with €555 FTW! 20 odd left!
Lets doooo this!!




I was the stone cold bubble
Playing another €50 one now, lets run it up!!

You bubbled?

Seems like you are doing well and going deep bud!

I was the stone cold bubble😭
The last 3/4 tourneys I've played I finished in the top 25% of the field and came up short.
Last one I got in 20-25bb with KK vs AK and lost!
That's just tournament poker.

I completed my 30 buyins for the prop bet with a friend of mine! Don't want to put up my graph so far cause he has a pokervip account and has just started!
Pretty happy with how it went, hopefully I'll win a nice £200 on top of the $60😝

Considering if I should jump into this party poker gig and aim for 100k hands - I'd need to start damn soon!!
But still waiting on the micromillions to be announced - if it even happens. I'd rather play it than commit myself to cash games!

Halfway through these events now, played another £80, 3k gtd and finished 13/40 with QQ vs KK

Onto the next one! Going deep in them all, just need to take one of them down!

Just a little rungood at the business end please dealer, just a little ...

Next tournament coming up is a decent one, should be around 8-10k FTW which would be nice to take down! I'll settle for that one

The Micromillions is coming up on the 17th July, it won't be in the client until the 14th. So I guess I'm going to give Party Poker a miss and concentrate on the Micromillions. I'll plan to play all of the Hold'em events and possibly sell a few pieces in the market place if anyone has any interest.
I'll maybe put some feelers out today, but the actual schedule won't be up until 3 days before which is absolutely ridiculous!

You ever looked at what hourly you want from all this and how to achieve it?

Well when I planned this, I was coming to the end of my university degree with no job/plans/money lined up.
So I made this plan up to make sure I could continue playing the main poker events that was coming up while I sorted out a job/bought suits/pay off rent/general life!
So as long as I was continuing to play poker during this transition in my life while hopefully making a nice little profit I was gonna be happy!

Sooooo next event, the same tourney I won a few weeks ago for €600 odd, I got up to 2nd in chips really quick and then lost KK vs AA so back down to a little above average! Would be sweet to take it down again.
Then next weekend is an event I've been looking forward to for months! An 80 euro - 20k gtd event. Last time there was 50k in the prizepool!