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November 24, 2013
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Hey guys. I tend to go up and down with tilt and bankroll management. I also have a problem with sticking to games and formats which suit me. As I get bored and tempted to play higher buyins.
After watching the recent big dog video series on 180 mans I wonder if anyone fancies joining me in playing 100 180 mans $2.50 turbos to try and build a bankroll.
I will be perfectly honest. I have $103.91 in my stars account at the minute. I no its not enough buy ins for this level. But il reload if I crash during this challenge.
I plan on playing 100 of these over the next 2 weeks. Let me know if any other micro player wants to join me. Thought we could post any interesting hands on the forum to try and keep motivation up.
cheers
Tom
January 3, 2014
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I’m in! 100 $2.5 180 man SnG’s it is!
November 24, 2013
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November 24, 2013
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sorry mike. tried to screen shot my balance,but failed. Starting the challenge tonight. $103.91 is my starting balance. Good luck mate.
April 26, 2013
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As soon as I am back from my vacation in the US, I'll join the challange. Not to create a bankroll, but to get some constant income from a lower variance format and to get some SNG experience. Will play the $8.00 180 mans.
Unfortunatelly this won't be before october, hope you'll still be there.
GL to you!
January 28, 2013
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Im in!
Was a regular grinder of the 2.50s and 8 180s but due to real life uni, job and my computer crashing on me I havent properly grinded in a good while. Have gotten my computer back fully opertaional now.
November 24, 2013
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hey guys thought this was an interesting spot with 23 folk left in a 180 man. Let me no if you would have called or folded here. Villian was 30 27 on the hud but that was just over 30 hands. So make of that what you will.
Poker Stars $2.28+$0.22 No Limit Hold'em Tournament – t500/t1000 Blinds + t100 – 7 players – View hand 2565641
TournamentPokerEdge.com Hand History Converter
drone91 (BB): BB = 7.3, t7322
Dickee Mint (UTG): BB = 6.5, t6546
prolanda (UTG+1): BB = 8.8, t8805
Alex21Pro (MP): BB = 14.9, t14946
TheGreatAdik (CO): BB = 16.6, t16611
Bese8 (BTN): BB = 23.7, t23738
Hero (SB): BB = 9.0, t9031
Pre Flop: (t2200) Hero is SB with Q
K
4 folds, Bese8 raises to t23638 all in, Hero calls t8431 all in, 1 fold
Flop: (t19562) 7
8 J (2 players – 2 are all in)
Turn: (t19562) 5 (2 players – 2 are all in)
River: (t19562) T (2 players – 2 are all in)
January 28, 2013
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He has a big stack, loose stats from the small sample we have on him and should be shoving really wide here. We are ITM and need to chip up to make a run into the top 3. I think this is a fine, standard call but it would just about be the bottom of my range.
April 26, 2013
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Started the challange today, played 11 $8.00 180turbos so far for a ROI of -92% with one amazing min-cash. I played a little rusty first and when it mattered my QQ didn't hold vs KQ, AA lost to 44 etc. With this small sample I am confident results will change soon enough.
If I manage to play 25+ this session I'll post results.
And I agree with Kalculater, this is a snap call for me, given stack sizes, I don't care about villains image. With his stats: even better.
August 4, 2013
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god i wish i could play on pokerstars
August 25, 2014
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Keep the TPE community updated with graphs and updates guys. All of us degens love a good sweat 😀
November 24, 2013
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Hey guys a few days in and ive managed 20 of these. Best finish was a 4th place for a tad over 30 bucks. I had a 21st for a min cash as well. So all in all im down to 86.93 . So being down 16 bucks is no major drama.
On a side note i need to to stay out of tpe chat when playing 4-6 of these at 1 time. As im only playing on a laptop, there are just to many misclicks and timeouts when im in the chatroom.
Hope you guys are good. I heard mike is on the up in the challenge which is good to hear 🙂
July 29, 2014
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Hey,
Sorry Tom i fear it was me distracting you in the chat. This challenge is a great idea and I am starting it now only in the $1 180’s. I’ll let you know how it goes.
November 24, 2013
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Its all cool mate, I dont have to log in to the tpe chat when im playing. Its my fault.
Challenge update: 30 games played . Bankroll $83.46 . So more bankroll destroying than building . But im sticking with it.
In fairness i took some bad beats in the last 10 i played and lost some big flips also. Which is the nature of turbos i guess.
Im going to post some hands below. if anyone wants to comment on any of them feel free. Hope all you guys are doing better than me. I will probably post again after the weekend grind.
November 24, 2013
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PokerStars – $2.28+$0.22|800/1600 Ante 150 NL – Holdem – 7 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
SB: 2.78 BB (VPIP: 13.19, PFR: 11.11, 3Bet Preflop: 3.33, Hands: 92)
Hero (BB): 18.58 BB
UTG: 18.69 BB (VPIP: 8.11, PFR: 8.33, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 37)
UTG+1: 7.29 BB (VPIP: 14.29, PFR: 12.50, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 14)
MP: 17.47 BB (VPIP: 20.31, PFR: 8.62, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 64)
CO: 3.91 BB (VPIP: 0.00, PFR: 0.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 3)
BTN: 3.9 BB (VPIP: 7.14, PFR: 8.33, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 14)
7 players post ante of 0.09 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 2.16 BB) Hero has 7
6
fold, fold, fold, [color=red]CO raises to 3.81 BB and is all-in[/color], fold, SB calls 2.19 BB and is all-in, Hero calls 2.81 BB
Flop: (10.98 BB, 3 players) 8
2 8
Turn: (10.98 BB, 3 players) 4
River: (10.98 BB, 3 players) A
Hero shows 7 6 (One Pair, Eights) (Pre 27%, Flop 4%, Turn 10%)
CO shows 3 3 (Two Pair, Eights and Threes) (Pre 30%, Flop 8%, Turn 5%)
SB shows 8 T (Three of a Kind, Eights) (Pre 42%, Flop 89%, Turn 86%)
SB wins 8.73 BB
CO wins 2.25 BB
November 24, 2013
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PokerStars – $2.28+$0.22|1500/3000 Ante 300 NL – Holdem – 6 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
BTN: 26.26 BB (VPIP: 12.74, PFR: 10.00, 3Bet Preflop: 5.45, Hands: 158)
SB: 15.35 BB (VPIP: 15.49, PFR: 12.31, 3Bet Preflop: 3.85, Hands: 73)
Hero (BB): 8.9 BB
UTG: 16.98 BB (VPIP: 6.90, PFR: 8.00, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 30)
MP: 18.87 BB (VPIP: 19.05, PFR: 15.79, 3Bet Preflop: 12.50, Hands: 21)
CO: 3.64 BB (VPIP: 12.09, PFR: 12.35, 3Bet Preflop: 7.14, Hands: 92)
6 players post ante of 0.1 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 2.1 BB) Hero has 3 A
fold, fold, fold, [color=red]BTN raises to 2 BB[/color], fold, [color=red]Hero raises to 8.8 BB and is all-in[/color], BTN calls 6.8 BB
Flop: (18.7 BB, 2 players) 6 Q K
Turn: (18.7 BB, 2 players) 4
River: (18.7 BB, 2 players) 3
Hero shows 3 A (One Pair, Threes) (Pre 57%, Flop 16%, Turn 7%)
BTN shows T K (One Pair, Kings) (Pre 43%, Flop 84%, Turn 93%)
BTN wins 18.7 BB
November 24, 2013
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PokerStars – $7.34+$0.66|1000/2000 Ante 200 NL – Holdem – 8 players
Hand converted by PokerTracker 4
BTN: 28.15 BB (VPIP: 19.05, PFR: 14.29, 3Bet Preflop: 14.29, Hands: 22)
SB: 24.98 BB (VPIP: 16.22, PFR: 13.89, 3Bet Preflop: 0.00, Hands: 37)
Hero (BB): 18.61 BB
UTG: 20.91 BB (VPIP: 18.18, PFR: 20.00, 3Bet Preflop: 11.11, Hands: 23)
UTG+1: 10.37 BB (VPIP: 20.59, PFR: 16.67, 3Bet Preflop: 16.67, Hands: 69)
MP: 14.82 BB (VPIP: 17.39, PFR: 19.05, 3Bet Preflop: 11.11, Hands: 23)
MP+1: 10.37 BB (VPIP: 16.85, PFR: 15.66, 3Bet Preflop: 2.63, Hands: 90)
CO: 6.8 BB
8 players post ante of 0.1 BB, SB posts SB 0.5 BB, Hero posts BB 1 BB
Pre Flop: (pot: 2.3 BB) Hero has K T
fold, fold, [color=red]MP raises to 2.03 BB[/color], fold, fold, fold, fold, Hero calls 1.03 BB
Flop: (5.36 BB, 2 players) 3 2 4
Hero checks, MP checks
Turn: (5.36 BB, 2 players) 7
[color=red]Hero bets 1.66 BB[/color], MP calls 1.66 BB
River: (8.69 BB, 2 players) K
[color=red]Hero bets 2 BB[/color], [color=red]MP raises to 7.45 BB[/color], fold
MP wins 12.69 BB
November 24, 2013
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Morning everyone. Good news 🙂 i binked one of these last night for the 123.31 top prize . Bad news is looking through my HUD im sure its missed some of my tourneys. Because going through my numbers all morning and they dont add up to my bankroll.
Im currently on 185.66 , im sure ive played 30 games as i have been recording results on a word document. The hud claims ive played 28 and my current balance should work out at 181.41. as its only sligtly off im not to worried.
So im moving forward on the basis of 30 games played in 6 days. With a current bankroll of 185.66 from the 30/8/14.
Not sure how to put photos on to here so if you guys want graphs or photos i may need some help.
You can follow me on twitter by the way @ShowBizTom30
January 3, 2014
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Heyas all,
Sorry for the confusion Tom, the one I won was a sat to Sunday Million and not part of this challenge.
This isn’t going great so far, but I’m sure I will show profit, even if small one when this challenge is over 😛
August 18, 2013
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I've played about 20ish of these $2.50 180 mans so far and only managed about 3 or 4 min cashes. Lots of bad beats, the variance is horrendous in these. Anyone have any idea what a realistic ITM% should be for a reg 180 player?
January 28, 2013
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Not sure about the cashing % in these.
Good results at $2.50-8s is 15-25% ROI whereas the really good regs can get up to about 30%. Due to the short stacks and push/fold nature of these games ROI is quite capped.
November 24, 2013
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58 games played , current br 149.54 took a pokerstars bad beat hammering today. But this challenge really helped me not go on tilt and play zoom or heads up cash. Money saved actually feels almost as good as money won 
January 3, 2014
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Ok, so I was also curious about the cashing and ROI etc in those. I did pull out my stats and fiddled around with filters and noticed my sample size was too small. So I did put in all my SnG 46-180man. That means some random < 180mans 2.5 180man, 3.5+r 180 mans and some 8 180 mans and got a bigger sample size to work with.
(can’t get this to line up nice :/ )
PrizesWon Net Profit ROI Average Buy-In Average Field Size R/A ITM/Played ITM
$26,788 $9,802 58,00% $3.66 167 19,00% 567/4642 12%
This is not a brag or anything, I was just curious about numbers. And I guess all this tells me I should stick to sit n go really.
As of the challenge. I did end up with a small profit over 100 games played, +$16. But as I said, I think 100 games is a bit small size to work with as variance and FT bad beats makes a huge variance on end profit.
November 24, 2013
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Nice one mike. Good to know your a winner accross all mtt sit and goes. They are just a real grind though.And its tough not having the freedom to make moves later on in them. I have fell behind on the challenge . Family and baby stuff over the past few nights. I will try and wrap it up soon. Im hoping not playing on Stars for a few days that they will give me some run good when i log back on.
January 27, 2014
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Hey Guys,
So I have have been playing these on off for a while, although I missed the start of the challenge. I have made a few final tables over the last 2 days, although didn’t make the top 3 where the money is. I tend to enjoy the $1 180 man hypers. They only last 30-40 mins and there’s so many
January 27, 2014
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Cont – players not calling correctly etc. I’m not sure if you guys have finished your runs but would be up for the next challenge.
On a separate note I seem to be doing well on the 18-45 man sngs with ($1.50 – $3.50) with 2 first place and 1 second place this morning. So I’ll probably keep trying these less variance and pretty soft.
Anyways good luck and run good
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