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I'll revive this thread after 5yr break. Still around and after having a nightmare of a year. I think i need to hold mysefl accountable somehow.
My main games are MTTs and I mix in some SNGs to have the table count I feel i'm most comfortable, but I do dabble in cash when i don't have that much time to play. I'll try and keep this thread active and update as much as I can.
2024 was terrible, from June I just started losing and losing in MTTs, on a huge downswing still and it has affected my play a lot.
Cash has been absolute trash last 2 months too, down around 20-25bi.
I'll see how the year ends and how i proceed in 2025, but my goal is to make a little side income. I don't necessarily dream of anything other than $$$. 2024 was really rough and still is, so i'm not gonna expect much.
Will post again when I'm ready to go, have to wrap this year up somehow. Really don't want to play that much tbh, but we'll see how it plays out.

Happy new year to everyone!
Was a little under the weather today after getting home 6am absolutely battered. Have been curing the hangover whole day and decided to play some cash. It turned into playing like 4k hands.
Also sattied into New Year Series 66-L event at Stars a couple of days ago, so i'm playing this on the side and barely hanging in there with a shortstack.
Will post cash graph tomorrow, started off nicely, winning like 3bis, then dropped like 7bi within next 1k hands and found myself down 4bi, however i managed to salvage the session somehow and ended down about half a buy-in.
Will see how i feel in the morning, but kinda want to play first MTT sesh of the year.

Cashed for 65 bucks in event 66-L, last hand AKhh vs JJ and couldn't get there.
Since i couldn't 1-table that, i kept playing cash and ended up playing tad under 6k hands. Finished really late, so no MTTs prolly today.

1 hand too. Could raise flop, but at the time i thought he might fold his overpairs etc on that board and let's keep his barrels in. When he overbets the turn i'm kinda suspicious, never raising though. River looks dreamy, actually thought about just calling, but i think i have to jam for value in these stakes.

$0.05/$0.10Zoom No Limit Holdem
PokerStars
6 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by

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weaktight

$0.05/$0.10Zoom No Limit Holdem | Hand | weaktight

Stacks:
UTG ($8.70) 87bb
UTG+1 ($12.60) 126bb
CO ($10) 100bb
BTN ($11.16) 112bb
SB ($19.29) 193bb
BB Hero ($12.20) 122bb

Pre-Flop: (0.15, 6 players) Hero is BB 6♣ 6♥
1 fold, UTG+1 raises to $0.25, 3 folds, Hero calls $0.15
Flop: 6♠ 9♣ 10♠ ($0.55, 2 players)

Hero checks, UTG+1 bets $0.35, Hero calls $0.35

Turn: 4♦ ($1.25, 2)
Hero checks, UTG+1 bets $1.58, Hero calls $1.58 River: 4♣ ($4.41, 2)

Hero checks, UTG+1 bets $3.16, Hero goes all-in $10.02, UTG+1 calls $6.86

Final Pot: $24.45
Hero shows a full house, Sixes full of Fours
6♣ 6♥
UTG+1 shows a full house, Nines full of Fours
9♦ 9♥

UTG+1 wins $23.35 (net +$11.15)

Hero lost $12.20

13k hands in, graph tomorrow.
Disgusting spot today vs a player, who seemed pretty agro pre + flop, but really tight on turn & river. Felt a lot like AK/AQ:

$0.05/$0.10Zoom No Limit Holdem
PokerStars
6 Players
Hand Conversion Powered by

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weaktight

$0.05/$0.10Zoom No Limit Holdem | Hand | weaktight

Stacks:
UTG ($27.71) 277bb
UTG+1 ($10.42) 104bb
CO Hero ($10) 100bb
BTN ($10.31) 103bb
SB ($14.28) 143bb
BB ($12.55) 126bb

Pre-Flop: (0.15, 6 players) Hero is CO A♣ J♣
2 folds, Hero raises to $0.25, BTN raises to $0.40, 2 folds, Hero calls $0.15
Flop: 7♥ A♦ 9♥ ($0.95, 2 players)

Hero checks, BTN bets $0.91, Hero calls $0.91

Turn: A♠ ($2.77, 2)
Hero checks, BTN bets $2.65, Hero calls $2.65
River: 10♠ ($8.07, 2)

Hero checks, BTN goes all-in $6.35, Hero!?

1st week:

Not much to report. A bit cash and been playing a lot of MTTs past few days. Had some deep runs. Busted 109 Mystery Million KK vs AA, played like 4-5 bullets in 55 phase 1 and busted all without getting much going in any of the bullets. Had some deep runs, last was big 5.5, where i finished 4th after losing CL pot AA vs 66 aipf and villain binking a 6 on the river in classical fashion. Also made another FT in some tournament i don't recall exactly, busted KK vs AA with 5 left. Can't catch a break late in MTTs.
Cash slowing down is partly me being lazy/tired and not wanting to play at that state, but also because the zoom pools have been superdry. I've always been loyal to Stars and have been dabbling elsewhere a bit, but i really think i got to move my cash action to GG.

January cash is actually how it's been lately. Wasn't really motivated to grind in the evenings and didn't run particularly good either. Volume will probably drop even more in Feb as i'm trying to grind more MTTs.

Not sure bout MTTs/SNGs, think i'm up about 600, so off to a great start. I'll try and keep track on BR too, started the year with 500 and am at 1100~ rn. Have got like 6 power path Step 4 tickets too(worth 55$ each).
MTTs & SNGs played according to PTR: 862 and 58k hands, not sure how accurate it is.

Following!
Best of luck in 2025!

Thanks man, same to you! I'll try to update every 2 weeks or so, definitely at least once a month.

Time for February update:

Didn't play much cash. Games are running only in the evenings and most evenings I feel too tired to play. I'm still gonna try and update the cash situation. Not much going on MTTs either, been running really decent early and middle stages of tournaments, but no luck deep in ITM. Nothing worth mentioning, biggest score a tad under 200 I think, in BountyBuilder 4.4 for 4th.
Have satellited to some 27s, 44s, but no luck so far. Playing really cautious, not regging directly into anything higher than 7.5s rn, satties max 4.4. If BR reaches 2k i'm probably gonna start adding higher buy-ins.

Cash:

MTTSNGs:
To be updated.

Bankroll: 1541$ + 7x55 Step 4 seats + 40$ chest unlocked and sattied into 55$ Red Spade Open, which runs tomorrow.

MTTSNGs:
Count 827
Hands 58,8k
Profit: no ***** clue

So I ran really good to start the year compared to the **** i've been through the 6 last months of 2024.
Almost climbed out of the 3k games downswing and now Stars hits me with this:

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Like this is literally the way I run 9 months out of the 12. Can't win an all-in to save my life and running into coolers every semi-decent run I get. Cashing a tournament feels like a huge overachievement right now. Number on the graph is pretty accurate, down like 600 in like a week, feelsgoodman.

This surely can't get any worse? I mean my last big score was in 2024 May for 700sh, since then i've been on 5k+ games BE~ run and it's not ending.
I mean i start my sessions and i'm already tilted out of my mind 2 hours in so i have to stop regging. If i'd have to guess this is like close to 100~bi(wouldn't be surprised if the number is bigger) under EV, since i play turbo heavy schedule and stay away from deepstack tournaments.

Enjoy the graph, i probably have to call it for March soon for my mental health, which is already really fragile.

Time for March update.

Cash:

Pretty satisfied, decent volume and OK result, end of the month fell off tho. Made some mistakes and spewed a couple buy-ins too.

MTTSNGS:

2nd part of March helped me recover a bit.

April cash:

Really **** volume, because traffic is terrible at Stars and can't play at evenings, since i'm beat.

April MTTs:

Count: 929.

April SNGs(took a shot, which failed miserably, lost like 70bi or so):

Overall it's the same **** as always, to be continued...

Just realized i didn't post May update, so here it is:

Cash, ran like **** and played like ****.

MTTs, broke about even if i had to guess.

June isn't going much better, will try to post in time this time.

Cash:

Can't complain, had a -7bi/500 hands run, which hurt and have never ran into so many quads in a month. At least 5 top boat vs quads. All things cosidered it's a decent result.

MTTs:

Probably a small loss. Fired like 8x55$ tickets also, which don't show here and PTR4 has trouble tracking phases and i'm too lazy to find and edit those tournaments.

SNGs:

These have been brutal, after i took a shot and lost like 70bi, i dropped down and have been still running really cold.

Maybe July will be different..

GLGL

I think it would be good to focus only in one game format (sng/spins/mtt/cash)

U still play plo cash or nlhe?

I love MTTs the most, but they take a lot of time. I use SNGs to fill my table count and cash is basically just an evening grind or when i'm super bored.
Definitely true though. I play 18-45man SNGs, so they are pretty similar to MTTs.
NLHE cash only.

Played less in July.
Stars report:

Prolly breakevenish again if i look at the BR.
Biggest score in June was 152.90$, so 2 months with no bigger score than 155$~, kinda hard to be up.

NLHE cash:
Hands: 17.5k
Profit/Loss: -1BI

Overall it was not good and that's why i took some time off. August is underway and not much to report right now, going as usual so far.

August BB:

August chip:

Absolutely ***** shocking month. Biggest score 100$ cash, so over the last 3 months i haven't had a bigger score than 150, sick.
Won 10BI @ cash.
Overall another losing month, mbn.

Cash since September:

MTTs:

Doesn't look that bad, right?

Convert to chip:

I'm not sure how much worse this can get. Good news is that i'm almost broke, November will probably end me and will post when it happens.
GL

October:

Played for 10 days, ran colder than ever, was down over 500$ and then took a 2 week break from MTTs, played some short sessions at the end of the month and it ended up being the worst month of the year.

Cash:

Was also down 10BI at the same time when i was down 500$ in the MTTs and it was looking really bleak. At some point i had everything on the tables and couldn't even top up. Then i made some adjustments to my game and Stars rewarded me with a heater. Really happy with the results.

Overall really bad month and bankroll really fragile. MTTs are absolutely killing me. It just gets worse and worse, November might be the month that wipes my BR.