Comments/criticism always welcome. Yes I know. I am a fish.

I’m playing good and patiently for the most part in late-game, closing a lot (inspired by hearing shaun fking deeb’s sick stat of winning >60% of games he final tables.)

Obv I’ve been running okay too – and crushing the nits on tables of boss media. I’m game selecting the best MTTs (€25rebuy €40 deepstack and the €50k) or playing everything (costs ~€300 in buyins for an evening of grinding like 14 mtts- so you just need to final table/win one to breakeven for the evening – but just forget doing anything else if you’re doing this on a laptop with touchpad hehehe. I usually just play 3 or 4..)

Since putting in some solid grind this month, I now have a decent 41% ROI on Boss. Obligatory sharkscope screenshot (Obviously had to take screengrab before i get a grimstarr graph )

My next goal (I guess) is 70% ROI, then it’s time to find a site with bigger buyins, maybe a backer – and a solid rakeback deal.

I had some decent scores this month – a $15,000, a €2.5k, €1k and some other assorted little ones.

I also binked a $15,000 win 2nd in a $109+r on a site which shall remain nameless. wiii.

Transactions on boss last 14 days – more out than in = winning. Not spewing it all at 400nl = also winning.

Although I am doing well again, I’m not tempted to play full-time again. What an antisocial grind that would be. I love life /work / ballin’ too much to be locked in from of a pc from 9am ’till 2am every night!

Boss Media Rebuy Killer Bug:If you lose your stack during rebuy period in a MTT AND if the server decides to move you to a new table (table balancing) – the software moves you to another table before letting you rebuy – so it kicks you out.

I had to request a refund tonight because of this issue.

Please oh please – fix your servers Boss Media. Oh and while you are at it, can you fix the following too? :

Other Boss Media tournament bugs

- Allow instant rebuy in a rebuy tournament (HELLO??!!)
- Allow Double Rebuys
- Allow auto add-on (I mean players currently 5 seconds for an addon.. WTF. Make it last as long as the break period – 5 minutes.)
- Get your hand history viewer to work with CHROME (13% market share)- not just Firefox (which is losing market share). .

I’m sure I left out a load of bugs. I know the cashgame players would love an instant topup option too.

The network has a FUNDAMENTAL FLAW which is counter-productive and actually costing the skins and network money. The Problem? Player retention is nearly impossible – whether you are a pro or an amateur – you will probably want to leave the site. Yes.. Really…

Everleaf Gaming (ELG) Traffic Stats

According to PokerScout.com, everleaf is ranked #27 in terms of traffic, with an average of a measly 400 players online.

Everleaf is Stupid – Why they have no Traffic:

Why is there no game selection or meaningful traffic levels on Everleaf network? WELL… the Eveleaf network people seemingly ignorant of how the poker eco-system works, and oblivious of the fact that people do not want to knowingly play against good players / sharks/ pro’s – whatever you like to call them. To the recreational player, it very quickly seems like the tables are full of sharks, and that they try to avoid each other and concentrate on milking the fish dry…

So how do players know you’re a good player on Everleaf ? Well, sigh. players rate you (right click on avatar-> click rate player-> good/bad/excellent) and then EVERYONE can see your rating, and you cannot remove it!!!!

I found this out to my horror, because after 2 days of winning, I ended up with 5 stars (and a healthy bankroll), but I found it nearly impossible to get much action in heads-up cash-games from players with lesser ratings… Big sigh!

Multi-accounting (playing on multiple accounts on different skins/sites on the network) is not really an option either, as the network payment processor stores your card/bank details, in order to minimise skin-hopping I guess….

Way to ruin your own network everleaf. This feature is very silly and should at least have an OPT-OUT. So what do the fish (bad players) do? they leave – because they are surrounded by sharks and 5 star dudes.

How Everleaf can FIX the problem, and retain players

Everleaf have a number of options:

1. Anonymous Tables – Players could play on special tables which don’t display screennames – this is possible on some Microgaming Skins
2. User could have the option to toggle the visibility of their own star rating – Instant panacea.
3. Remove Star Ratings altogether – another quick fix, requires some coding and a poker client update
4. Allow Screenname Changing after a week / month (just as you can do on Cake poker Network)

My sources tell me that Everleaf has a tactical business reason for these ratings – so I doubt they will change the way things are for at least a little while….

What are your thoughts on this, as a player, affiliate or poker site/skin owner?

If you are a decent player, you will be happy to know that full ring, 4 max and 6max is awash with easy cash and tilty fish. just avoid the d00dz w/ the five stars unless you are competent, and enjoy the free cash IMO, and the 40% weekly rakeback.

maybe stars have rigged the RNG to rape everyone a bit more during rebuy periods in order to get more rebuys to compensate for the missing americans prolly not, but who knows !

PokerStars Game #60956854377: Tournament #416010507, $100+$9 USD Hold’em No Limit – Level I (20/40) – 2011/04/17 19:00:59 WET [2011/04/17][14:00:59][ET]
Table ’416010507 43′ 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: TIPCHIK321 (2060 in chips)
Seat 2: Andre_Hansen (1980 in chips)
Seat 3: Andrey VNIIM (3960 in chips)
Seat 4: joscha45 (2000 in chips)
Seat 5: alexrossUKGF (4000 in chips)
Seat 6: willhelmx (2000 in chips)
Seat 7: snoopy7171 (2000 in chips)
Seat 8: achen (4000 in chips)
Seat 9: dUT73 (4000 in chips)
Andrey VNIIM: posts small blind 20
joscha45: posts big blind 40
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to alexrossUKGF
alexrossUKGF: raises 80 to 120
willhelmx: folds
snoopy7171: raises 80 to 200
achen: folds
dUT73: folds
TIPCHIK321: folds
Andre_Hansen: calls 200
Andrey VNIIM: folds
joscha45: folds
alexrossUKGF: raises 3800 to 4000 and is all-in
snoopy7171: folds
Andre_Hansen: calls 1780 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (2020) returned to alexrossUKGF
*** FLOP ***
*** TURN ***
*** RIVER ***
*** SHOW DOWN ***
alexrossUKGF: shows (high card Ace)
Andre_Hansen: shows (three of a kind, Queens)
Andre_Hansen collected 4220 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4220 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: TIPCHIK321 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 2: Andre_Hansen (button) showed and won (4220) with three of a kind, Queens
Seat 3: Andrey VNIIM (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: joscha45 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: alexrossUKGF showed and lost with high card Ace
Seat 6: willhelmx folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 7: snoopy7171 folded before Flop
Seat 8: achen folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 9: dUT73 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)

PokerStars Game #60958134036: Tournament #416010507, $100+$9 USD Hold’em No Limit – Level II (30/60) – 2011/04/17 19:24:14 WET [2011/04/17][14:24:14][ET]
Table ’416010507 43′ 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: TIPCHIK321 (1660 in chips)
Seat 2: Andre_Hansen (8469 in chips)
Seat 3: Andrey VNIIM (3470 in chips)
Seat 4: joscha45 (3190 in chips)
Seat 5: alexrossUKGF (3681 in chips)
Seat 6: willhelmx (2195 in chips)
Seat 7: 99Jam.Mr (2510 in chips)
Seat 8: achen (3850 in chips)
Seat 9: dUT73 (2195 in chips)
Andrey VNIIM: posts small blind 30
joscha45: posts big blind 60
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to alexrossUKGF
alexrossUKGF: raises 130 to 190
willhelmx: raises 317 to 507
99Jam.Mr: folds
achen: folds
dUT73: folds
TIPCHIK321: folds
Andre_Hansen: folds
Andrey VNIIM: folds
joscha45: folds
alexrossUKGF: calls 317
*** FLOP ***
alexrossUKGF: checks
willhelmx: bets 651
alexrossUKGF: raises 2229 to 2880
willhelmx: calls 1037 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (1192) returned to alexrossUKGF
*** TURN ***
*** RIVER ***
*** SHOW DOWN ***
alexrossUKGF: shows (a pair of Jacks)
willhelmx: shows (a pair of Queens)
willhelmx collected 4480 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4480 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: TIPCHIK321 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 2: Andre_Hansen (button) folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 3: Andrey VNIIM (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: joscha45 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: alexrossUKGF showed and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 6: willhelmx showed and won (4480) with a pair of Queens
Seat 7: 99Jam.Mr folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 8: achen folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 9: dUT73 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)

(fishy, but it’s rebuy period and he has 1 BI)

PokerStars Game #60958491330: Tournament #416010507, $100+$9 USD Hold’em No Limit – Level III (40/80) – 2011/04/17 19:30:52 WET [2011/04/17][14:30:52][ET]
Table ’416010507 43′ 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 1: TIPCHIK321 (1660 in chips)
Seat 2: Andre_Hansen (8231 in chips)
Seat 3: Andrey VNIIM (3440 in chips)
Seat 4: joscha45 (2982 in chips)
Seat 5: alexrossUKGF (3900 in chips)
Seat 6: willhelmx (3910 in chips)
Seat 7: 99Jam.Mr (2780 in chips)
Seat 8: achen (4182 in chips)
Seat 9: dUT73 (2135 in chips)
dUT73: posts small blind 40
TIPCHIK321: posts big blind 80
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to alexrossUKGF
Andre_Hansen: folds
Andrey VNIIM: folds
joscha45: folds
alexrossUKGF: raises 160 to 240
willhelmx: folds
99Jam.Mr: calls 240
achen: folds
dUT73: folds
TIPCHIK321: folds
*** FLOP ***
alexrossUKGF: checks
99Jam.Mr: bets 400
alexrossUKGF: raises 640 to 1040
99Jam.Mr: raises 1500 to 2540 and is all-in
alexrossUKGF: calls 1500
*** TURN ***
*** RIVER ***
*** SHOW DOWN ***
alexrossUKGF: shows (two pair, Aces and Kings)
99Jam.Mr: shows (a straight, Nine to King)
99Jam.Mr collected 5680 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 5680 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: TIPCHIK321 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 2: Andre_Hansen folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 3: Andrey VNIIM folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 4: joscha45 folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 5: alexrossUKGF showed and lost with two pair, Aces and Kings
Seat 6: willhelmx folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 7: 99Jam.Mr showed and won (5680) with a straight, Nine to King
Seat 8: achen (button) folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 9: dUT73 (small blind) folded before Flop

PokerStars Game #60959609864: Tournament #416010507, $100+$9 USD Hold’em No Limit – Level IV (50/100) – 2011/04/17 19:51:23 WET [2011/04/17][14:51:23][ET]
Table ’416010507 43′ 9-max Seat #3 is the button
Seat 1: TIPCHIK321 (1757 in chips)
Seat 2: Andre_Hansen (7826 in chips)
Seat 3: Andrey VNIIM (3288 in chips)
Seat 4: joscha45 (2762 in chips)
Seat 5: alexrossUKGF (3225 in chips)
Seat 6: willhelmx (4093 in chips)
Seat 7: 99Jam.Mr (8998 in chips)
Seat 8: achen (8579 in chips)
Seat 9: dUT73 (2692 in chips)
joscha45: posts small blind 50
alexrossUKGF: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to alexrossUKGF
willhelmx: folds
99Jam.Mr: folds
achen: folds
dUT73: raises 200 to 300
TIPCHIK321: raises 500 to 800
Andre_Hansen: folds
Andrey VNIIM: folds
joscha45: folds
alexrossUKGF: raises 2425 to 3225 and is all-in
dUT73: folds
TIPCHIK321: calls 957 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (1468) returned to alexrossUKGF
*** FLOP ***
*** TURN ***
*** RIVER ***
*** SHOW DOWN ***
alexrossUKGF: shows (high card Ace)
TIPCHIK321: shows (a pair of Queens)
alexrossUKGF said, “joke site”
TIPCHIK321 collected 3864 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 3864 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: TIPCHIK321 showed and won (3864) with a pair of Queens
Seat 2: Andre_Hansen folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 3: Andrey VNIIM (button) folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 4: joscha45 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: alexrossUKGF (big blind) showed and lost with high card Ace
Seat 6: willhelmx folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 7: 99Jam.Mr folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 8: achen folded before Flop (didn’t bet)
Seat 9: dUT73 folded before Flop

so anyway, I went to the london victoria casino, registered (£275) , grinded day 1 managing not to go broke with aces and running over some donks happy to stack off with top pair ace kicker for 200bb pots. Busted some local pro ken wong I think (thanks to the dealer and other players saying his name, I could quickly look him up with my Android phone (yes, fuck the iphone) on the hendon mob database. He opened 6x utg, i jammed QQ, he snap called and I held. wii.

So anyway I got moved tables and ended up with pab on my right (his kk into TT pre. gg ul, enjoy your Amstel) – and table was pretty bad so I chipped up nicely from my 24 remaining BBs to end the day with a 42bb stack.

day 2 later on I moved tables and suckout on TT with my 15bb stack – the guy slowrolled me, so karma prevails. steamrolled table except for young TT guy from the day before who is aggro beyond his years (the new wave of young player .. sigh).

Got my stack up to 115K, then got caught in an obv squeeze spot. Matey raises, young asian chap 3bets in an any 2 spot, so I stick them all in and guy behind me snaps with KK.

Squeezer had ajo and sucks out on us both (I had tens). [] Nice way to lose a pot for 220k when theres only 900k in play.

Left with 2bb and with 11/99 players left and only 8 paid, I obv shortstack ninja’d my q2o’s and shit up to 40bb. lost a flip, busted 8th ITM for £650ish. 1st was £8k. that’s all i can remember.

the $100 cubed paid $9600 and 8th place or whatever in the other 1 paid like 450$ for a nice little $10k session. Thanks to my lucky railers Kennl and Amatay. <3.

Dear alexrossUKGF,
You finished the tournament in 1st place. A USD 7,339.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.
You earned 465.51 tournament leader points in this tournament. For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at bla bla bla..

So I just won the $50 1r/1a (aka $50 cubed). Sick tables at the end with breethe (who i beat headsup) and mement-mori as well as rdcrsn. anyway i run good and played well (or maybe it was my Lucky lolipop avatar). yay

maybe more ftopsing 2mor. gotta do some work too, so that should stop me spazzing out

also I played 2 mtts on stars, losing with AA in both. http://www.pokerhand.org/?5605774

-~$500 in buyins. [] great.