Pokerstars Carnival Sunday grind thread.

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for the past week pokerstars have been running this 'Carnival' festival. increasing the prize pools of the Big tournaments, adding golden sng's and all culminating in a 800 million celebration $1 gtd. tournament in 6 and a half hours. thought it would be a good idea to do a thread for this as, more than ever, it is possible to turn a small investment in to something huge. for example in a Big tournament it is pretty common to win 1000x your buy in with a finish in the top places. pretty huge. however, today instead of the usual Sunday Biggers, which have 12 min blind levels as opposed to the Big's which have 10, they are running the 'Biggest' tournaments. usually these are pretty soft as it is, but with all the promotions and the fact it is a Sunday i expect these to be very soft and hugely profitable.


intending on playing pretty much all of them. the 800 million tournament has replaced Biggest $109. so all of them bar the $162 within my BR. intending on playing $5.50, $8.80, $22, $11, $55(unless things are going bad then i will skip it to ease BR) probably try Sat to $162 although tbh i dunnoo if i will bother because Sunday Mil and 800 mil i would prefer to play tbh. and then maybe $4.40 but doubt it tbh because will have been playing around 10 hours at this point.


also i think they are still running those golden sng's, not 100% sure though. will probably mix in some at the start of my session, which always starts off with $2.20R, Big $5.50, $5.50 R/A, $5.40 ko etc. because at this point there are not a lot of tournaments to play. then will probably mix in some whenever i am low on tables.


also intending to attempt to Satellite for the 800 million tourny and Sunday Million. 800 mil i am almost 100% certain to play. worst comes to the worst i may end up just buying in. i wouldn't be great br management but i have literally never bought in < 100 bi's so i don't think doing it once would hurt. don't expect it to be super tough field either. also i have $9k fpp's so could use them but dunnoo if i wanna. ideally i will Sat in. will likewise try for Sunday Mil, but have figured out those 3x turbo Sat's are not for me, regularly you can start after R period with 3 bb's. i like the 2x turbos will be sticking to them or playing some normal R turbos.


so yeah, today's plan is play all the way from around 2.30pm ( British time) then keep regging up until around the Biggest $4.40. playing all Biggest's bar $162, trying to Sat in to Million and 800 million, and try make some money :D good luck anyone playing today! i will be posting some hands on here and saying how i am getting on throughout the day. this may be hard at times as sometimes i literally get no break as when i get my 5 mins i reg for next hours tourny's. but i will try! would be cool if people posted how they were getting on too, here :) gl!
 
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Yesterday I played in Bigger 120K GTD carneval tour.
Today I will play in Biggest 75K GTD carneval tour. The other cool carneval tourneys starts too late for me. They usually ends at the morning...
 
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Yesterday I played in Bigger 120K GTD carneval tour.
Today I will play in Biggest 75K GTD carneval tour. The other cool carneval tourneys starts too late for me. They usually ends at the morning...

ah fair enough. how did you get on yesterday? i couldn't play yesterday as i was going out at night. good luck for that :)
 
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today i played the the biggest 3.30 carnival , got busted early ,i played bad shouldnot have shoved pocket 9s there ..but my friend got deep run and won some money..
 
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today i played the the biggest 3.30 carnival , got busted early ,i played bad shouldnot have shoved pocket 9s there ..but my friend got deep run and won some money..

some times hard to fold 9's so understandable :) plenty more to play in though ;)
 
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just started playing. got 7 2 2 out of first 3 hands on Big $5.50. sign of things to come? haha.
 
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ah fair enough. how did you get on yesterday? i couldn't play yesterday as i was going out at night. good luck for that :)

I finished around 1000th place, but ITM. :)
I got good stack at today's biggest but after a KK (me) vs AA fight I became short stack and dropped out 5 mins ago. :-/
 
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I finished around 1000th place, but ITM. :)
I got good stack at today's biggest but after a KK (me) vs AA fight I became short stack and dropped out 5 mins ago. :-/

yeah i'm still in that one. just itm, got a good stack.
 
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Only playin' in one of them, the Big$11.
Ran like utter dogsh1t all day. Had ~10 tables up at one point but only one left now... 'The Big $11' Sitting 124th/402. Maybe I'll breakeven today?!?!
 
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I'm kinda glad some monkey in the CC game called me earlier today with K5o in BB (20bb effective vs. a UTG rs & me in MP call).. and sucked out on my AQ Top2 ai on flop... cuz now I'm just smashing it!
sitting in 11th of 230 left in Big11.. weeeeeeee
 
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I'm kinda glad some monkey in the CC game called me earlier today with K5o in BB (20bb effective vs. a UTG rs & me in MP call).. and sucked out on my AQ Top2 ai on flop... cuz now I'm just smashing it!
sitting in 11th of 230 left in Big11.. weeeeeeee

Best of luck to you the rest of the way.

-HooDooKoo
 
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On the rail now dont go to work for a few hours so will be able to watch for a bit gogogogogogo:)
 
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I'm kinda glad some monkey in the CC game called me earlier today with K5o in BB (20bb effective vs. a UTG rs & me in MP call).. and sucked out on my AQ Top2 ai on flop... cuz now I'm just smashing it!
sitting in 11th of 230 left in Big11.. weeeeeeee

nice. how did you get on?
it is amazing, i find it quite often happens when i have been playing a ton of tables all day and just doing terribly, that when i get down to my last one or two i start to go deep in one and from nowhere get a decent score.
the field for the Big 11 was massive haha. i came 67th in it during last week even then i am sure the field was like 13,000 haha.
 
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Went out 57th
(EP raised > I 3bai eMP with AQs, he timed down & called w 99. I flopped NFD & gutter but couldn't get there)
 
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Just played the PS Carnival 100k freeroll, $30 for 15 minutes of playing isn't too bad.
 

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Just played the PS Carnival 100k freeroll, $30 for 15 minutes of playing isn't too bad.
I only won a few bucks in the one I didn't play in, lol. The other two (so far) I won '0'.
 
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I only won a few bucks in the one I didn't play in, lol. The other two (so far) I won '0'.

I guess you were on Pokerstar's special marketing list because I only could get one ticket. Would have been nice to play all five.
 
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I wish that I had not had the opportunity to play in this tournament
 
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That 100k Carnival freerolls were great promotion. I deposited 50 dollars So I should get 2 tickets. After 2 days I still had only 1 ticket, so I contacted support about it, and then after I used first ticket, they sent me other 2 tickets! So I had 3 of them :D Ofcourse I didnt complain on support again that they made mistake :D

Anyway I made some money in all 3 of them. In first 4$, in second 9$ and in last 29$! Like I said, what a great promotion :)
 
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Man i have wanted to play some of this tournements but no ticket no match for me. I dont want to pay for freerolls.
 
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That guy who knocked me out went on to TID for $25k. mbn!

i hate when that happens, always feels worse when the guy who knocks you out/ won most of your chips goes on to win it or get a big score. or maybe that is just me haha
 
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