Unfortunately, I just found this thread and was very sorry I missed the opportunity.
I hope whoever could start at the EPT got a good result.

Congrats on a very good run in this tournament , let's not forget that the elite of regs and pros played there Congrats , you represented the forum very well , cards and luck ddn't give you ITM result this timr , but you will have many other opportunities in the future , and wishing you good luck .

Originally Posted by gabryyyel31

Thank you CC team from the bottom of my heart for the opportunity and all of you guys for the warm support, I hope I did not disappoint anyone. It was something incredible, an unforgettable experience. It's pretty weird, I'm a little upset but also happy at the same time. Indeed, the way I was eliminated was quite painful, but I know this is poker and it happens that sometimes things don't go the way we want. Unfortunately I didn't have a stack that would allow me to do too much on the Day 2, I hoped but it wasn't to be this time. I have to accept and look forward with confidence to what will follow.

Well done Gabryyyel

You won in many ways and I hope you learn from this experience for next time.

Bravo

Damo

Originally Posted by Martin

Congratulations gabryyyel31, I know you'll do us and yourself proud, good luck in the game and let us know how it goes. I'm also curious how many Stars chests that buy in will get you and what you get from them.

Hi Martin. I owe you this clarification. I received 3 blue chests after entering the main event, accumulating a total of 60 StarCoins, a ticket for Saturday's 5K weekly freerolls and 4 Spin Rewards tickets worth $ 0.50 each. I find it quite funny thinking about how much rake the buy-in generated in the main event.
We all know that the rewards program has suffered major discounts in recent years on the platform, at least for low and medium stake players and even at such a buy in you can't expect any too significant reward by opening those chests.

Congratulations Gaby and good luck, I'm so sorry you didn't make money

Yeah, that's unfortunate. PokerStars "rewards" are junk now.

It's ridiculous what the prizes offers PokerStars for such a huge buy-in

Originally Posted by gabryyyel31

Thank you CC team from the bottom of my heart for the opportunity and all of you guys for the warm support, I hope I did not disappoint anyone. It was something incredible, an unforgettable experience. It's pretty weird, I'm a little upset but also happy at the same time. Indeed, the way I was eliminated was quite painful, but I know this is poker and it happens that sometimes things don't go the way we want. Unfortunately I didn't have a stack that would allow me to do too much on the Day 2, I hoped but it wasn't to be this time. I have to accept and look forward with confidence to what will follow.

Very well played mate,unlucky last hand.

Nice hand gabryyyel31.
You played well, the end was unfortunate.

Congrats on such a good run, don't let it knock you to bad. Just think you made day 2 against all odds!! Well done

Originally Posted by gabryyyel31

There was little time left until the beginning of this incredible adventure. I feel all your positive energy. I will definitely do a recap at the end of this day. Until then, I will try to focus very well only on the game and make the best decisions. <3 <3 <3

Mate,you got a great experience and I am very happy for you that you played in such tourney.It was a wish for many people but I think everybody supported you and glad that one of memeber of our community got such a chance!GG

1. I think I could create a poker team to commit to the major leagues, as well as give you the same advantages in all countries of the world and not just leave some freeroll tournaments to some countries chosen by you.
2. I think I should win the ticket because I was playing all week that Poker stars gave a freeroll to go from satellite to satellite until I reached the entrance, and I managed to win the prize of 250 dollars, in the satellite of the entrance of one thousand dollar.
In that satellite poker stars distributed 15 tickets and 17 came out winning that prize.
I think that's why I can be well positioned to play the $ 5,200 tournament.

WOW! I missed this one.. What a fabulous opportunity Congrats to the winner, and the best of luck! I'm so excited for you lol I'll be rooting for you Sunday. Woot Woot!!

edit: I see that's it's already been played.. sorry! I'm sure you gave it your best shot. I would have been SOOOO nervous..

Very good.

You made it to day 2 of the $5200 EPT-Online Main Event i think that`s an impressive achievement considering how strong the field was and you got your chips in good in the end nothing you can do when variance strikes GG and lots of safe boards in the future

hello everyone, I watched this event, two guys came on the second day when there were 387 people left, with late registration, took 10th and 4th places, amazing guys,
PANIC.PLAYER, -10. and the Fin who was leading tikidii-4,
1 Swede WhatlfGod is a lucky guy,
2 Canadian Tim0thee is even more fortunate.
3 MissOracle, as I understand it, a woman from New Zealand.
5 unlucky guy he was unlucky from Russia VdV1990.
6 Brazilian Bozzano JNR.
7 from the Netherlands daskalos20.
8 Canadian apestyles
9 Kazakhstan vip25459.
I watched the hands of the last 24 players, and the final table, and I understand that the high roller game is very profitable for them, it's a pity our guy didn't manage to do a miracle!

BOZZANO
took 190k, Incredible how Brazilians reach the final tables, we are improving ... beauty

Originally Posted by gabryyyel31

Hi Martin. I owe you this clarification. I received 3 blue chests after entering the main event, accumulating a total of 60 StarCoins, a ticket for Saturday's 5K weekly freerolls and 4 Spin Rewards tickets worth $ 0.50 each. I find it quite funny thinking about how much rake the buy-in generated in the main event.
We all know that the rewards program has suffered major discounts in recent years on the platform, at least for low and medium stake players and even at such a buy in you can't expect any too significant reward by opening those chests.

Thanks for posting that gabryyyel, that is poor I would have expected at least a few dollars for you.

By the way I watched some of your first day and have to say I'm impressed with your play, I think and hope a big win is in your near future.

You did so well gabryyyel! I'm proud that you were representing us. Sorry that those rewards were not so great. :/

Originally Posted by nikolaevich87

3 MissOracle, as I understand it, a woman from New Zealand.

'MissOracle' is David Yan - - regularly plays in high stakes MTT's but his main focus is cash games and is a reg. on the 500nl ZooM tables.
Yan's first recognition came in the 2013 EPT London MainEvent while holding the chip lead in final 18 players at just 19 years of age!
He also won the 2017 EPT Malta 'High Roller' (25,000 euro buyin) for close to 1/2 million.

Yan coaches at UpswingPoker

I did not read this thread until now, very impressive run to get to day 2 and you almost hit the jackpot!

Guys I wanna know your thoughts about this hand the one that gave me the biggest headaches in the main event.

Unfortunately Pokerstars no longer has the Boom replayer option of the hands played as you probably know, and I use a Holdem manager version for micro and medium stakes, so I played this event without HUD, and I can't show you the action visually street by street, but I'll explain every bet line to let you understand how the hand was played.

"ZinkAA" did the min open in hijack, I made 3bet 6.5BB in cutoff and he calls.
On the flop he cheks, I checked back, on the turn he leads big 11.5BB, I decided to call and wait to see what will happen on the river, and on the river he goes all in for about 24BB and put me in on a hard decision, after I thinking very well I decided to fold.

Reanalyzing my hand, maybe I could have taken the initiative on the flop and made a small cBet to test what he would do, but I thought that his range is much more coordinated with that flop and I could have faced a chek raise. What do you think ? Any advice and opinion are very welcome.

Originally Posted by BentleyBoy

Of course the answer is totally subjective and one that relies on their being a genuinely reliant method of determining 'the best'. You already claim top spot as the Worlds #1 Poker Community.

However, the single biggest thing that you can do to become truly the worlds # 1 Poker Forum is to take ownership of a huge competitor and monopolise the market. Imagine, if you bought 2plus2. That would certainly appear to be the biggest thing that you could do to seal the deal! (You didn't say it had to be achievable - but maybe it is/may be?)

No, please, no. Monopoly destroys everything. When sites compete, it makes sites better and better. It is better for sites, better for visitors. While with monopoly no sense to improve the site, listen to their visitors. What stock market has taught me is when big company buys small company - small company become worse and worse. They can't do or create anything, they do only what main company wants. And when small company is finally separated from big firm - they become better and better again. They can do and create anything they want. You don't believe stock market? Ok, let's look what happened to FullTilt when they has been bought by PokerStars. Or what happened to PokerStars when new owners have come.

Originally Posted by gabryyyel31

Guys I wanna know your thoughts about this hand the one that gave me the biggest headaches in the main event.

Unfortunately Pokerstars no longer has the Boom replayer option of the hands played as you probably know, and I use a Holdem manager version for micro and medium stakes, so I played this event without HUD, and I can't show you the action visually street by street, but I'll explain every bet line to let you understand how the hand was played.

"ZinkAA" did the min open in hijack, I made 3bet 6.5BB in cutoff and he calls.
On the flop he cheks, I checked back, on the turn he leads big 11.5BB, I decided to call and wait to see what will happen on the river, and on the river he goes all in for about 24BB and put me in on a hard decision, after I thinking very well I decided to fold.

Reanalyzing my hand, maybe I could have taken the initiative on the flop and made a small cBet to test what he would do, but I thought that his range is much more coordinated with that flop and I could have faced a chek raise. What do you think ? Any advice and opinion are very welcome.

For me easy fold on river. Maybe even on turn. I would be interested how fast he called on pre-flop and raised on the river (instantly?). You could test by re-raising on the turn but it's too costly.

Originally Posted by gabryyyel31

Guys I wanna know your thoughts about this hand the one that gave me the biggest headaches in the main event.

Unfortunately Pokerstars no longer has the Boom replayer option of the hands played as you probably know, and I use a Holdem manager version for micro and medium stakes, so I played this event without HUD, and I can't show you the action visually street by street, but I'll explain every bet line to let you understand how the hand was played.

"ZinkAA" did the min open in hijack, I made 3bet 6.5BB in cutoff and he calls.
On the flop he cheks, I checked back, on the turn he leads big 11.5BB, I decided to call and wait to see what will happen on the river, and on the river he goes all in for about 24BB and put me in on a hard decision, after I thinking very well I decided to fold.

Reanalyzing my hand, maybe I could have taken the initiative on the flop and made a small cBet to test what he would do, but I thought that his range is much more coordinated with that flop and I could have faced a chek raise. What do you think ? Any advice and opinion are very welcome.

Too many draws for villain and you made the right decision on my mind. May be you need to reraise more on PF?

Originally Posted by 1sunchin

Too many draws for villain and you made the right decision on my mind. May be you need to reraise more on PF?

I thought about this variant but I generally use the same sizing when I do 3bet with premium hands but also with semi-bluff hands ... and if I had grown with a blind or two or more the size of the 3bet in this case, would have meant that I should have adjusted the size in all the next 3bet pots so as not to become predictable. That means I trying to minimize losses in eventuality that the villain makes a 4bet reraise over me and I need to fold.

Originally Posted by cheeeer

For me easy fold on river. Maybe even on turn. I would be interested how fast he called on pre-flop and raised on the river (instantly?). You could test by re-raising on the turn but it's too costly.

He took his time but I can't say that he thought too much to pay that 3bet preflop. On the river he stayed for about 15-20 seconds until he goes all in. I can say on all streets he used about the same amount of time to take decisions.

Originally Posted by gabryyyel31

Guys, I want to know what you think of that hand that gave me the biggest headaches in the main event.

Unfortunately, Pokerstars no longer has the Boom replayer option of hands played as you probably know, and I use a Holdem Manager version for micro and medium bets, so I played this event without HUD and I can't show the action visually by street, but I'll explain each bet line so that you understand how the hand was played.

"ZinkAA" opened the min in hijack, 3bet 6.5BB in the cutoff and he called.
On the flop he checked, I checked, on the turn he led big 11.5BB, I decided to call and wait to see what would happen on the river, and on the river he goes all-in with around 24BB and puts me in a difficult decision, after thinking it over I decided to give up.

Reanalyzing my hand, maybe I could have taken the initiative on the flop and made a small cBet to test what he would do, but I thought his range is much more coordinated with that flop and I could have faced a chek raise. What do you think ? Any advice and opinion are welcome.

Gabryyyel, you did well to quit. The only observation I make on this hand is that you should have made a continuation bet on the flop. Maybe 4 or 5 BB. You had AK. It would intimidate him if he had nothing on hand. Maybe he would let go. Maybe he wouldn't bet hard on the turn after you showed strength on the flop. And if he paid you would have an idea of ​​the strength of his hand.
But when we're at the table, it's different.
You represented us very well, friend. We are all proud of you!

Originally Posted by gabryyyel31

I thought about this variant but I generally use the same sizing when I do 3bet with premium hands but also with semi-bluff hands ... and if I had grown with a blind or two or more the size of the 3bet in this case, would have meant that I should have adjusted the size in all the next 3bet pots so as not to become predictable. That means I trying to minimize losses in eventuality that the villain makes a 4bet reraise over me and I need to fold.

As I said above you played well. But may be you need to change you PF strategy? For example, try to change raise and reraise PF between 2.5x and 4.5x. So if you get premium hand you can raise or reraise max as you want. For me premium hands is ones I need to shove anyway. In tournaments with big BI I think it's AA, KK, sometimes QQ. If you consider AK as premium in $5,2k BI tournament, would you call if the villain 4bet all-in PF? If yes you should have done 3bet all-in or min half your stack PF to force villain to fold. If no you played well.

I think one of the things who need improve is the idiom, we know the english is the language international official in the world but unfortunately not all people speak english, in Brazil we have a great community i believe idiom is a barrier for brazilians enjoy the Cardshat, i purpose one space for community in portugues language.
And i have to participate to this tournament because i know who i can win xD.

I really like how people still try to win the ticket for a tournament that has been played...

Originally Posted by gabryyyel31

Guys I wanna know your thoughts about this hand the one that gave me the biggest headaches in the main event.

"ZinkAA" did the min open in hijack, I made 3bet 6.5BB in cutoff and he calls.
On the flop he cheks, I checked back, on the turn he leads big 11.5BB, I decided to call and wait to see what will happen on the river, and on the river he goes all in for about 24BB and put me in on a hard decision, after I thinking very well I decided to fold.

A c-bet would have been good... A fold to a re-raise would have cost you less than the fold on the river, but maybe you would have won the pot on the flop.

The fold on the river is good... Especially with your stack size. There is a bunch of options for him to have you beaten. His betting pattern fits well with holding 10 J, maybe even diamond suited...

Sad you didn't win more, but i hope you enjoyed the experience of playing in such an expensive tourny anyway