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Running horrible in HU SNGs

PlauZee — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:45:43 +0000

Last night I played one of the 1k WCOOP MTT “freerolls” and busted with 2 flips as 133rd worth $2,570. I played a couple of HU SNGs beside and did pretty well until I met “loosasamoose“, most drunken fish ever. He played $570s against another reg, shoved any2 and even called any2 preflop allin (yes, even worse than “i.o.s.“! lol). He moved to 1ks afterwards, played and won the same way before I played him on 2ks. He cracked my Aces preflop twice and won all of those 40% chances. He won five 2ks vs me and could even win some 5ks vs Iftarii before he fall asleep. I’m down 4,5k this month now, but it’s ok. I liked my chances and I can’t complain doing something wrong there at any point. I will be back in the black very soon, just a matter of time.

Don’t forget the $215 HU MTT tonight and make sure to run better as I’ve done in those so far.

Gl all

Supernova Elite 2010

PlauZee — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:51:38 +0000

treezer reached SNE at the weekend. Grats bro!

Now I am there as well. So, finally for both of us the WCCOP does finally start – as freerolls:

“Hello Christoph,

I have issued 4 WCOOP $215, 3 WCOOP $1050, 2 WCOOP $320, 1 WCOOP
$530 tickets, instead of 1 WCOOP $5200.

If you need assistance with anything else, please do not hesitate to
contact us as we will gladly assist you 24/7.

Regards,

William
PokerStars VIP Team“

Btw: I will take the PCA Bahamas-trip 2011 as 1st package and wait until next year to think about taking the MonteCarlo package as 2nd or $10,000 in cash instead.

Thank you all for the grats!!!

Completing SupernovaElite this evening

PlauZee — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:00:19 +0000

I need 1,931 VPPs more to complete SupernovaElite. I will reach it this evening and maybe play some WCOOP Events afterwards, not sure about it yet though.

GL guys,
Chris

HU MTTs

PlauZee — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:27:08 +0000

Does anybody know a website where you can find all upcoming HU MTTs? I miss so many at other platforms, but would love to play way more of those. If there isn’t any site yet I would collect and publish those dates, but hope there is already somebody else doin the work.

Actual upcoming NL Hold’em HU MTTs:

Date	Platform	Time (ET)	Buyin	Special	Guarantee
08-Sep	PokerStars	17:00	$215	2-Day	$200,000
12-Sep	FullTiltPoker	15:00	$55		$150,000
18-Sep	PokerStars	13:00	$530	2-Day	$600,000
18-Sep	PokerStars	15:00	$25,500	High Roller, 2-Day	$750,000

I had a very bad start in September and I’m down 6k at the moment. But I have to grind only 10k VPP more to reach SNE to get the 10k cash. I won’t play before Sunday evening and probably reach SNE on Monday early in the morning.

PlauZee’s WCOOP Schedule

PlauZee — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:44:26 +0000

I won’t have much time to play on weekends during the WCOOP, but chose my schedule for the WCOOP as following (see link for the complete WCOOP schedule):

Event	Date	Time (ET)	Buy-In	Game	Guarantee
03	05-Sep	17:00	$215	NL Hold’em	$2,000,000
05	06-Sep	17:00	$320	NL Hold’em Shootout [6-Max]	$300,000
06	06-Sep	20:00	$215	NL Hold’em [Turbo, Rebuys]	$600,000
09	07-Sep	20:00	$1,050	NL Hold’em [2-Day]	$1,000,000
12	08-Sep	17:00	$215	NL Hold’em [Heads-Up, 2-Day]	$200,000
14	09-Sep	14:00	$265	NL Hold’em [6-Max, Knockout]	$400,000
22	12-Sep	17:00	$530	NL Hold’em [2-Day]	$3,000,000
23	13-Sep	14:00	$215	NL Hold’em [4-Max]	$700,000
28	14-Sep	20:00	$1,050	NL Hold’em [2-Day]	$1,000,000
32	16-Sep	12:00	$320	NL Hold’em [6-Max]	$300,000
45	20-Sep	20:00	$265	NL Hold’em [Turbo, Knockout]	$300,000
52	23-Sep	12:00	$320	NL Hold’em [Turbo]	$400,000
60	26-Sep	13:00	$215	NL Hold’em	$1,500,000

In Total: 13 events with a buy in of $5,175

I won’t have time to play the best event of all: #38, $530 HU MTT with $600,000 guaranteed. It sux a lot, but I guess I would have run as I always did in HU MTTs so far (treezer’s rig philosophy) and I will definitely not complain to play all those events without paying any $ for it. Mbn to be SupernovaElite very soon and to receive 5,200-WCOOP-$.

Gl guys, let’s ship some events and don’t miss PStars’ $100 reload-bonus during the WCCOP.

Let me run like god just one fkn time, pls!

+35,5k in August – Best Month ever!

PlauZee — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:08:12 +0000

In August I made a sick profit of $35,500 and I need only 24,500 VPPs more to complete SupernovaElite. If you know I had even sicker months before you might wonder why I write it was my most decent month ever. I made more profit/month two times before already, true. But I always had sick swings as well and only could make so much profit cuz of a MTT-win in June and cuz I played nosebleeds as well. In August it was all different:
I played almost only 230-570 HU SNGs, had only 5 days with bigger losses than $500 and felt a decent improvement in my game vs random fishes. In August I made about a profit of 41k with HU SNGs with an average buy in of $441 and had a profit of $36/game. I played some MTTs and Satellites as well where I lost about 5k in total. I made 2nd place in a satellite for EPT Vienna just to bust as bubble not receiving the package worth 5,000€. I will play some more of those in future and hope I can play the event at the end of October. Here are the HU SNG stats of August:

I will continue playing in 2 days, won’t play at the weekend and guess I will reach SupernovaElite on Tuesday, the 7th of September. Probably together with treezer flipping at NL2-tables. Hope we can do that, would be a lot of fun. We’ll let u know if it’s gonna be happening.

Thanks once again to all of my readers who motivate me a lot to continue sharing my story. 10,000+ visitors in August is pretty sick. I hope to get some more feedback from you in future. Just leave a comment and let me know what you want to read more about.

Gl guys!
Chris

Inception

PlauZee — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 03:38:21 +0000

Link to trailer

This evening I watched the movie “Inception”. All I can say is: AWESOME! If you haven’t seen it yet, you really should do! And if you somehow think you are kind of good poker player you will realize very soon some similarities. It’s all about levelling the opponent.
The end is best I’ve ever seen in a movie like that. I love it and for me “Inception” is by far best movie of 2010!

At the end of July I decided to play some smaller buyins in August beside bumhunting at 1ks. I sticked to that aim, was able to grind a fkn nice profit out of 230-570s and felt a decent improvement as well. I took my game to a new level while playing fishes and improved my play of potcontrol a lot. In August I didn’t have those huge swings as I had in July anymore and are pretty happy to have only five losing days this month.
FullTiltPoker treated me little better as well, but I didn’t play many games there. My actual profit of August is 28k and I’m sooo close to reach SupernovaElite: 964,000 VPP now.

My daily HU SNG stats (including all platforms and rakeback) of last two months since I track every game with my excel sheet.

When reaching 1M VPP for SupernovaElite you can choose two out of several packages or as the second option one package and $10,000 in cash (read the Pokerstars summary for more information). I’m pretty sure I will take the PCA Bahamas package and the 10k. I will try to win some satellites for live tournaments next year or just buy in to them from my FPPs, both seems reasonable and best choice for me at the moment instead of choosing two packages.

The treezer-Story

PlauZee — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:52:04 +0000

How I met treezer in mid of January 2010 at the $57.50s. A story to inspire:
In December ’09 after few months of playing 115s-345s I decided to block myself from playing for 2 weeks and to cash out the rest of my roll after I tilted pretty hard and lost all my December winnings within some days. It was the 2nd of January 2010 when I reloaded my account for $600 and started playing the $57.50s willing to climb the ladder again, as fast as possible with a very aggressive “Bankroll-Management” (see “Cashing Out and Moving down” for more).

It was the 12th of January 2010 when I played against a pretty big fish on the $57.50s. A fished called “treezer”. A fish who often is called one of the luckiest persons ever. A fish who wasn’t that much a fish and who would become one of best high stakes HU SNG grinders and one of my closest friends in the scene just some months later. And that’s how I met him:

PokerStars Game #38054155371: Tournament #231446144, $55.00+$2.50 USD Hold’em No Limit – Match Round I, Level I (10/20) – 2010/01/12 13:28:46 ET
Table ’231446144 2′ 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: treezer (1450 in chips)
Seat 2: PlauZee (1550 in chips)
treezer: posts small blind 10
PlauZee: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PlauZee [6h 6s]
treezer: raises 20 to 40
PlauZee: raises 100 to 140
treezer: raises 1310 to 1450 and is all-in
PlauZee: calls 1310
*** FLOP *** [5h Th Js]
PlauZee said, “…“
*** TURN *** [5h Th Js] [8s]
*** RIVER *** [5h Th Js 8s] [2c]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
PlauZee: shows [6h 6s] (a pair of Sixes)
treezer: shows [5c 5d] (three of a kind, Fives)
PlauZee said, “wp“
treezer collected 2900 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2900 | Rake 0
Board [5h Th Js 8s 2c]
Seat 1: treezer (button) (small blind) showed [5c 5d] and won (2900) with three of a kind, Fives
Seat 2: PlauZee (big blind) showed [6h 6s] and lost with a pair of Sixes

PokerStars Game #38054182930: Tournament #231446144, $55.00+$2.50 USD Hold’em No Limit – Match Round I, Level I (10/20) – 2010/01/12 13:29:19 ET
Table ’231446144 2′ 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: treezer (2880 in chips)
Seat 2: PlauZee (120 in chips)
treezer: posts small blind 10
PlauZee: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PlauZee [5h 8h]
PlauZee said, “keep sitting me and shoving 55“
PlauZee said, “lol“
treezer said, “keep calling with 66“
treezer said, “ur good“
treezer: raises 140 to 160
PlauZee said, “lot of EV i guess“
PlauZee: calls 100 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (40) returned to treezer
*** FLOP *** [6h Jd Kc]
*** TURN *** [6h Jd Kc] [7d]
*** RIVER *** [6h Jd Kc 7d] [4h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
PlauZee: shows [5h 8h] (a straight, Four to Eight)
treezer: shows [Qd 6s] (a pair of Sixes)
PlauZee collected 240 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 240 | Rake 0
Board [6h Jd Kc 7d 4h]
Seat 1: treezer (button) (small blind) showed [Qd 6s] and lost with a pair of Sixes
Seat 2: PlauZee (big blind) showed [5h 8h] and won (240) with a straight, Four to Eight

We played some more games afterwards until we realized we were pretty much equally – not only in our game strength, but in our gaming style (and chat-tilt) as well. We changed msn adresses and start messaging almost every day.

Some months after we met on the $57.50 HU SNGs we both reach Supernova Elite, we both made decent money, not only in HU SNGs but in MTTs as well and both climbed the ladder faster we ever could imagine.

If someone is talking about sicko treezer and “wanna-be reg” PlauZee , there is just one song people should mention:

“mbn to be treezer” – “mbn to be PlauZee“

“Johan – treezer says:
in the beginning of the year i had 90 days without losing one single day, sicked? yaaah lol“

“Chris says: do u use holdem manager?
Johan – treezer says: nah i dont
some players play with programs i play with feeling”

A story to remember.
I’m looking forward for our Sweden/Vegas/Bahamas-Trip

Day 14: Last Day of Coaching

PlauZee — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:47:17 +0000

Day 14 – Sunday, Author: Tanja

Today’s last day of the two weeks coaching. During last two weeks I kept myself busy with poker some hours every day. I’ve learned a lot. Well, in the beginning I didn’t even know the rules and now I take a look down the board and already know, which kind of combinations are possible and I consider, which strategy is the best to win the pot.

I finally started the $11s and we realized, that most opponents there are pretty much the same like those on $6s.

It’s quite plain to me, that I cannot present to you a big game experience. It’ not not possible to be gained in just 2 weeks. But in spite of having time learning the game by trial and error (as the most of you) I got taught play and strategies by Chris. For me it was pretty difficult to remember all his input and to use and transfer it into real game situations. But in the end I belief I got it!

Now training is over, from now on I have to proof that I’ve learned enough to cope with the $11s. My holidays are over and I’ve to go back to berlin, where Chris can not help me any more. So I’m on my own now – the next two months will show, if it is possible to win the $11s after just two weeks training. To show, if it’s really possible for me to win this challenge!

Author: Chris
Tanja learned a lot during last two weeks and I’m pretty sure she could beat the $6 Heads-Ups in future. But the goal is to beat the $11s what will be pretty hard and close. I’m not sure about the average opponent strength on that buyin and I hope she can reach her goal. 14 days of coaching (about 1,5h per day in average) and self-learning are over. I transfered 50€ in the beginning to play the 1€ and 2€ games and send $50 more when she started playing the $6 HU SNGs where she had a very bad run. Her EV was in the black, but the results were pretty bad in the end. We played four $11 HU SNGs together yesterday just to get intouch with the new level, but didn’t have time for more.
She had $29.86 left in her Cashier and is down $86 in total at the moment at sharkscope. I just increased her roll to $287.50 – exactly 25 buyins. She will start playing $11s very soon and will try to prove it is possible to beat them with just two weeks of hard learning. She will be allowed to play lower buyins as well in case she needs to get more self-confidence in her play or thinks she is tilting. But her games at $11 buyins are which counts to win the challenge.
From today she wants to play at least 250 games at $11 buyins within the next 2 months. The challenge is lost when she won’t be able to win >52.3% of her games (break-even point) or if she will be broke before.

Facts of the challenge:

Two weeks of preparation with absolute zero knowledge before are over
Starting Bankroll: $287.50 – 25 buyins for $11 HU SNGs (no addon allowed)
Goal: Win >52.3% of next 250 $11 Heads-Up matches within 2 months

Gl JoooZee

Day 9 till 13 – $6s Experiences

PlauZee — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:38:38 +0000

Day 9 till 13 – Tuesday till Saturday, Author: Tanja

I conclude the days 9 up to 13, cause they show my development on $6s:

After starting with $6s on day 8 I went on playing them. Unfortunately I got a lot of poor turns. First I lost more than 70% of the games on $6s, then I went on with $2s – just to lose a lot of them, too. I was desperate. Did I really play so poorly? Hadn’t I learned so little or was I just on tilt after losing $6s? I really didn’t know.

Well, I grabbed my laptop, went to Chris and showed various hands I had played to him. Chris analyzed the games and the result was: I had bad luck again. That’s variance, he told me – that’s the game!

For my happiness, bad luck vanished on day 12 and 13 and I finally could go on to repair a big gap in my statistics, so that I’m almost balanced now.

Statistics of the $6s:
Total Games: 65
Won Games: 30
Lost Games: 35