100k Profit at MTT's

Hi Monkiki,

This is a pretty gross spot to be honest. Do you have any reads on the villain who flat calls the 3b jam here? Once the mystery bounties come into play, the general rule is if you cover you just hunt the bounty. Lets say this is $750 prizepool. $375 to the main pool and $375 to the bounty pool. The EV of each bounty is 375/9= $41.6667 . The payjump from 9th to 8th is going to be <$5. You're gonna want to gamble a lot. It's like there's an extra 50bb in the middle lol. People play these mtt's really bad imo. Especially if it's a like 100 places paid MB. Then you wanna go ape**** for the bounties. There is a little more icm involved here bc there's only 9 players left so the chips have more value bc of the higher prized up top . Haven't done the exact math on these type of MBounties but I chase quite hard.

This spot is quite sick though. If you fold you will still cover basically everyone else at the table and have many chances at picking up a bounty. So there is some future game stuff going on here. If you jam and lose vs SB it's a nightmare. If you jam and win you will likely win >50% of the entire prizepool. You can basically vpip 100% bc you have odds to call off every jam .... TBH I would have preferred this spot if sb had jammed. i would snap it off. But this call looks super nutted... Really dunno what's the play here. If it's 27 players left, it's slam dunk jam imo. Really not sure. What did you do?

October:

By Month( Challenge started in March)

Challenge Total so far:

8 months into the challenge and the results have been decent. I really only played 6 out out of those 8 months in reality when I take September in Ireland into account(barely played) and some live stops. The volume has been less than impressive but i'm getting more and more used to playing more tables and felt very comfortable this month with 6-8 tables which is a huge improvement. When I factor in another ~100 entries on an untracked site, October has been my highest volume month yet breaking 600 mtt's in a month. 600 is a good target volume wise imo for a pro player. I will continue to keep up the volume for November.

This month has also been my best month with regards to studying. I have joined a new group of players who play in a lot of the same games I do and we do some study sessions ~2-3x per week which is great for accountability. My main focus right now is on shoring up some leaks from my DB. I'm also really enjoying doing some aggregate report work in gtow. I'm starting to make notes on different spots and finding good heuristics to better understand how each spot plays. Screenshotting the ranges and then saving the results in different folders. It's a nice project and hopefully will be able to compile a bunch of material over the coming months.

As always, ICM study is a big priority also. Can never get good enough at these spots. Playing in smaller avg field sizes, I am at ft's pretty much everyday and so am always looking to improve that part of the game. Shoutout to Dean Gilbert (Really good coach I found on this site) who really got me into ICM play. There is a mountain of work to be done in this area of the game.

One thing I have to admit to myself (and have known all along anyways) is that living in NYC as a poker player is not going to work out. Expenses are too high here for a $25abi player... I have ended up taking out some of my bankroll to pay for expenses which is less than ideal and is stalling my move up in stakes. I do have money outside of poker but really dont want to dip into it for now. I just know this would be much more feasible if my monthly expenses were 1-2k less per month. Getting the wife on board with moving is going to be a difficult task 😀 I'm not too worried about that though as this initial challenge was to see if poker will become a more full time thing. After 8 months I am now very confident that I can make this work as a career.

I'm very much looking forward to the coming months and the challenges/fun times it brings. GL to all

Some scores from October:

Thanks for the response - unfortunately I don't have much on villain as I only started playing on Global recently (lack of hud hurting a bit). I agree completely with you that most people greatly misplay mystery bounties still. The biggest consideration for me was two opposing ideas around future game:

- If I fold I still cover everyone, can vpip a ton and will have many opportunities to knock shorties out
- If I call and win I prob take home at least 1/2 if not more of the prize pool

In my mind I thought there could be some dead money here as villain could maybe flat with flips to my hand or worse, thinking I am going to be vpiping a lot and trying to get heads up with the short stack without confronting me but not sure that's the level of thought going on in this mtt. I'm also in a bit of a rough spot because my hand is a good one but shrinks in value on a lot of boards. Fwiw I jammed, villain had KK, busted in 8th shortly after.

Really enjoy reading your posts, I don't really have a lot of resources for study and am kind of just making it up as I go along, so it's helpful to see someone else figure it out (and do as well as you have been doing). I'm in a bit of a similar spot as you, after sinking some cash finding the right BI level for me I've been playing full time and studying for the last two months trying to improve and work my way up the ladder.

Yea sucks villain had KK in this spot. TT sucks blocker wise. I think AK and AQ are much better jams here blocking the nuts but still I don't blame you at all for finding the jam with TT. It's not a spot that's gonna come up often tbh so I wouldn't worry too much about it. I think it's very close and still don't know what i'd do in game. If it was a reg who I knew I would fold. If's it's a tight rec I would fold but if I thought there was any room for some splashy stuff I would happily jam. Thing is SB never has AK AQ here imo. They will 4b jam pre. I think KQs should be a 100% jam also in theory. So sb flatting range is gonna be super nutted or else some call folds with weaker holdings. Saying that, i'm finding it hard to think of hands that want to call/fold here pre in sb shoes. Maybe some ATo, AJo? Tough one

Good start to November:

Boom!!!!
Good ****ing job Namaste!!!

Fitness/Diet related goals for the next week 11/4-11/11:

Walk at least 20 miles
Run at least 10 miles between treadmill/elliptical machine/outdoor running
2x weight sessions
7x protein shakes/protein bars
4x days of eggs and oatmeal for breakfast(no fried crap 😀)
Eat a lot of lean meat for lunch/dinners with salad/potatoes/vegetables
Only 1x cheat meal day in the week(food and some alcohol)

Maybe it's just small sample size but I feel like at the lower buy-ins several times I've seen weaker calls with lower pairs and AJo ATo hands. Also, I haven't done the math so maybe I'm way off here but with the two bounties on the line I must be closer to getting direct odds against an overpair (future game probably complicates this immensely as does it being multiway so probably not). In any case, a good brain teaser, thanks for humoring. I'm sure I'll see you on the felt at some point, GL.

Seeing you a lot more Monkiki. You are really tough and seem to be crushing it so far. GLGL at the tables. If you ever wanna discuss some hands/do some study/solver work hit me up.

Good start so far to the month. Up 2k in everything $55 and below. Can't win anything in the higher buyins. Basically been all the $99 eagle cup stuff on global. Defo plus ev in these games but just can't get a score. Looking forward to the day when I finally make some decent scores in the higher end of the buyin range. Just need one of those nice 5 figure scores to really get the ball moving. Have been deep in a lot of em just haven't won the flips in the late game so far. Recent one that comes to mind is losing a flip bvb to YipYip(a streamer) with 12 left in the $218 blitz on global for chiplead pot(sattied in). Was 7k up top in that one and certainly was one of the biggest equity flips I lost this year. Overall up $1,200 total on the month so can't complain. Going to play an evening session today and really try to grind the higher equity stuff and increase my buyins. Same for sunday ofc. Been looking at my numbers and my weekly buyin numbers are too small for the money i'm looking to be making. Gambuuuul

Thanks man, but you should see my ACR graph 😉

Would love to, tried to send you a pm on here but it's not letting me, looks like I haven't posted enough to be able to send pms or something. Do you have a discord handle I can hit up?

Hey Monkiki. I'd rather not give the discord out here man sorry. I'll try messaging you on here

Had a good sunday yesterday. Ran really hot in a $55 mystery 20k on chico and managed to do an icm deal 3 handed. We all had very similar stacks. Something like 14.5bb, 16bb and 17.5bb respectively. I was shortest of the 3 stacks. Managed to book a $2,582 score. The guy who won managed to also bink a mystery przie for over 2k so very nice for him almost netting 5k on the mtt.

2 Sundays in a row 😀

Played alow volume Sunday yesterday bc I had a really deep run in an untracked site... $55 buyin with almost 5k entries. I ended up in 30-40th position for $500. Really wanted to focus most of my energy on that so stopped regging for 2 hours after I got down to last 100 in that. Althought it sucked to not make a big ft run with 25k up top, my consolation prize was the $55 20k on chico for the second week running. This time I ended up in 2nd place. Was asking for a deal 3 handed again like last sunday as we all had same stacks. But ended up playing it out and lost the HU. Felt like I was getting run over a bit but I think a lot had to do with card distribution....Anyways another good Sunday to keep the challenge rolling.

Current challenge profit: $35,447/$100,000

nice man! GG

"4x days of eggs and oatmeal for breakfast(no fried crap )"

do you have a recipe or how do you make them together for bf?

Hey there. Ah i'm not the best cook at all man 😀 I just scramble up some eggs.Add some pepper. Oatmeal separate bowl with a spoon of peanut butter mixed in and then some blueberries on top. Cup of coffee. Good start to the day. Here in the US it's so easy to just walk out the door and there's 100's of places to get a bunch of fried crap that's not gonna be good for you.

Awesome, thanks for the inspiration! I have started to enjoy the morning grind but my body hasn't adapted yet so I play the first hours of the day without food. Feeling great with this approach until I am getting too hungry. So Oatmeal + Eggs sounds perfect while having the last deep runs of the day. Then Gym and clear mind to prepare for the next day.

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Never mind I figured it out.

BTW how is the MTT offer on Chico. Never played in there.

Hey man, love the blog, love your approach as well, I started MTT's with playing mornig schedule in CET time as well, kinda similar approach. Love every second of it. How so you quit poker before in first place ? and what was your job now for 11 years before coming back.

I subbed for the blogs, Im looking forward to see your posts. GL and HF <3