Ivano's TSP binkage variance galore

shakinaces · March 2015

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All I got from this post was what a nit you are with money, first the train then the taxi! Hehehehe Just kidding ~ love your stories ivano!
Posted by mrsduck

That's quite an unusual trait for an Outlaw...

Enjoying the read Mr Ivanovic

S7N · March 2015

Thanks for sharing this diary, I have been slowly reading though it and have really been hooked.

Im looking forward to any follow ups.

Thanks again.

F_Ivanovic · March 2015

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All I got from this post was what a nit you are with money, first the train then the taxi! Hehehehe Just kidding ~ love your stories ivano!
Posted by mrsduck

You forgot the water at the casino haha!

mrsduck · March 2015

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In Response to Re: Ivano's TSP binkage variance galore : You forgot the water at the casino haha!
Posted by F_Ivanovic

Tap water I assume?

F_Ivanovic · April 2015

Been a while since I updated and I forgot to finish my update on how UKPC went. I will try and do an update on that soon among some other things, but thought I'd post some interesting Omaha hands in the meantime!

			Amount	Pot	Balance
F_Ivanovic	Small blind		£0.50	£0.50	£286.05
XXbungleXX	Big blind		£1.00	£1.50	£175.24
	Your hole cards	7 A 4 A
lJAMESl	Fold
Ichorydich	Raise		£3.50	£5.00	£449.13
F_Ivanovic	Raise		£11.00	£16.00	£275.05
XXbungleXX	Fold
Ichorydich	Call		£8.00	£24.00	£441.13
Flop
		4 2 6
F_Ivanovic	Check
Ichorydich	Check
Turn
		5
F_Ivanovic	Check
Ichorydich	Bet		£24.00	£48.00	£417.13
F_Ivanovic	Call		£24.00	£72.00	£251.05
River
		5
F_Ivanovic	Check
Ichorydich	Bet		£72.00	£144.00	£345.13
F_Ivanovic	Call		£72.00	£216.00	£179.05
Ichorydich	Show	Q 8 A K
F_Ivanovic	Show	7 A 4 A
F_Ivanovic	Win	Two Pairs, Aces and 5s	£214.20		£393.25

Hand History #901119631 (23:40 26/04/2015)

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
mustmove1	Small blind		£0.50	£0.50	£108.88
CHILLIE	Big blind		£1.00	£1.50	£285.38
	Your hole cards	10 7 J 9
F_Ivanovic	Raise		£3.00	£4.50	£209.12
banjong1	Raise		£10.50	£15.00	£307.71
collin11	Fold
mustmove1	Call		£10.00	£25.00	£98.88
CHILLIE	Call		£9.50	£34.50	£275.88
F_Ivanovic	Raise		£49.50	£84.00	£159.62
banjong1	Call		£42.00	£126.00	£265.71
mustmove1	Fold
CHILLIE	Fold
Flop
		9 A 2
F_Ivanovic	Bet		£57.00	£183.00	£102.62
banjong1	Fold
F_Ivanovic	Muck
F_Ivanovic	Win		£124.20		£226.82
F_Ivanovic	Return		£57.00	£1.80	£283.82

Jac35 · April 2016

Well done on the roller win

How's the pool going?

Had a proper haircut yet?

F_Ivanovic · April 2016

ty for the revive. I was too lazy to look and find it for myself :P

Pool is good. Thursday team going along well in the prem. No second season syndrome after a miraculous Leicester like escape last year. We had a Leicester like start this year but haven't maintained it. Missed out on money in a Wednesday league. Finished 6th out of 28 in a very tough league (bar a few who weren't that good) and we had a knockouts. Went down to a deciding frame and I lost it.

Actually got a haircut the other week! At a really posh place (in comparison to what I'm used too) down the road. Looked good at the time. My hair looks terrible again now though!

F_Ivanovic · May 2016

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Thanks for sharing this diary, I have been slowly reading though it and have really been hooked. Im looking forward to any follow ups. Thanks again.
Posted by S7N

No worries! Glad some people are enjoying it

Anyway, after a mini-revive by Jac it died off again. Prob need to do more updates.

As people will know, I managed to bink myself a Vegas package in the SNG points race promotion. When I first saw the promo I thought it was going to be impossible for me to try and win a seat this time. It would require playing at higher stakes most probably because of there being no high/low tier and at the time when it first came out I no longer had the bankroll to be able to afford to play at higher stakes in case I went on a bad run. On top of that - I still had Monday night pool, an important Wednesday night pool league (where I'd put in £50 at the start of season and finals night was coming up) and Thursday night pool. So I decided I was going to just put in some volume and maybe hope to get lucky and win a seat in the 2nd chance freeroll. However, I really couldn't find any motivation to grind, so that plan went out of the window for the first 2 "2 week" periods.

On the 3rd period of 2 weeks I had a stag do on the last 3 days. So I couldn't do it then if I wanted too (and I still wasn't really going to plan on going for it) - however, I then took down the super roller for £4k on the Sunday. A much needed win after being de-motivated for quite a while. I was thinking at the time I was going to struggle to be able to afford this stag do too. Anyway, when I came back I decided I was going to go for it in the 4th period of 2 weeks.

However, I was undecided on whether to go for cash or SNG. So on the Monday (at midnight) I started off playing a bit of both. Think I had a few Omaha games running and was regged to hyper turbo's. Went to sleep around 3/4 and started the next day around mid-day. Had my mum's dog with me during that week which was good - esp with the weather because I was able to go out for a 20 minute walk mid-session. I quickly decided that day that I was going to concentrate on SNG since I didn't really fancy playing Spin Up's - which is kind of what's needed to win the cash one. It got to about 10oclock and I'd put in a ton of volume - 5k points overall (some of it cash tho) and just assumed I had day 1 locked up so eased off the volume for the last 2 hours. The next day I found out I'd lost to a reg who was mostly playing a ton of turbo DYM's/some regular DYM's.

So on Tuesday I solely concentrated on SNG's - no cash, and again got around 5k points at the end of the day. However, profit wise - I had a disaster. First day I was around £200 up, but that day I think I was down around £800. Mostly down to horrendous run-bad at hyper's. Playing a ton of £30 hypers against a reg and just constantly losing flips. Got up early on the Wednesday and found out at least I'd won that day. But had another bad day - losing around £400-500. That day I also had a mare with my laptop. The internet on it just stopped working. But it was working fine elswhere - took me 2 hours of googling on my PS4 and watching a youtube video trying to find solutions, none of which seemed to work. Eventually I figured out a solution - had to uninstall the drivers for my internet and then reinstall them. It did the trick, but I'd lost that day.

So Thursday, I was 5 points behind this reg. Had to make sure I won that day to keep up with him - but again, it was just a terrible day profit wise. Lost around £900 that day. I knew this could happen when I started. Especially with hyper turbo's. Variance can be just so high in them esp when playing against reg's where any edge is minimal. I was getting pretty angry at it all by around 7/8 that night. I probably wasn't playing my best anymore - but held it together to not full on tilt. At one point I was £1200 down I think. When action dried up a bit later on I loaded up a couple Omaha tables - and managed to make £300 pretty quickly - got a treble up at 100PLO and doubled up twice at 50PLO. Omaha I generally run golden. I wish I could say the same about hypers.

I had around 5.5-6k points on Thursday and had again won that day. So now it was neck and neck - and then I got a lucky break. The reg tied with me just decided to give up. Didn't play a single hand of poker on Friday. As a result, I played a lot less myself. Think I only managed around 2k points that day. I also stopped playing hypers (or only £22's, and didn't play reg's) and was mostly playing turbo DYM's from £5.50 up to £22 when they ran. I started clawing back my losses too and finished the day with about £250 profit. Saturday and Sunday were much of the same - I even played football (which I hadn't done in nearly 3 years) with lots of Uni friends I hadn't seen in ages. Clawed back my losses a bit more too - and then come Monday, I recieved a nice £530ish amount of RB bonus from last week - where I clocked about 25k points. So now, I was "only" down around £1200 since I started it.

It wasn't completely plain sailing the 2nd week. There was a player who was playing a fair amount of RR (at the £55 level if you can believe that) as well as some high level hypers. He wasn't putting in much volume but with the stakes he was getting a lot of points - and as such was finishing 1st pretty much every day whilst I was finishing 2nd. But by Friday I knew I pretty much had the seat won as I was 45 points ahead. I clawed back even more profit this week too and by Sunday I was only down £500 (after I had the months prio bonus paid in) - and then on Monday I was only down £250 throughout the 2 weeks after the RB from the 2nd week.

So, at the end of it - I've won a Vegas package for just £250. Which isn't too shabby considering how much I was down at one point! I've since made that money back too this week playing Omaha (I really do run golden 90% of the time at this game!) I think I'll end this post here, being as it's quite long by now. Can't wait already for Vegas - will be my first ever time after being so close to winning a seat on numerous occasions in the past.