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Message: [QUOTE="miklcct, post: 7298471, member: 1058426"] I always bust out at the final steps before a high stake tournament which I can never afford, then I get tilt and start to shove once I have a less-than-average stack, the SPR ratio becomes low, and believe my chance is more than 50%, and eventually the board won't come in my favour, losing 60%, 80% or even 96% flips and get busted. And now I am losing patience playing those £0.20 tickets given out daily. If I just want to win money, I am not going to play any satellites, but to play single table sit & gos instead with my £100 bankroll. My poker dream is that I want to enter a live event in London (as I live in London) but without using any of my own money (since I can never afford it). PartyPoker's welcome offer included a £25 Round 4 ticket which eventually led to a £1K package (£500 buy in + £500 cash for expenses for a live event) after Round 5. If I could get a seat there, it would mean that I would be paid £500 to play in a live event just a £1.5 train ride away from home. I qualified for Round 5 (no direct buy-in, and my chips were worth £137.73 after Round 4 qualification), and once reached the top of the leaderboard there, I thought I could stop playing anything but premium hands but I was caught up and dropped to the edge of the bubble, still having a long way to burst, not willing to play for large pots. I eventually busted out at that final stage. Then I started a cycle of playing all the tickets given by the promotion - PartyPoker has a daily offer of 2 x £0.20 Round 1 tickets which are given out when $0.01 rake is paid, and most importantly, rake paid by tickets also count. That means that, once I use the ticket for a raked tournament, I receive 2 Round 1 tickets, which if I use it to enter a raked Round 1 MTT (the Round 1 S&G is rake free) the next day, I will receive another 2 Round 1 tickets again for me to use. These Round 1 tickets expire after 24 hours. There are a few routes I can follow, to the £500+£500 main event, to the £150 mini event, to the £1K high roller, or to the £500 PLO Masters. As there was a large supply of tickets although I aimed for the £150 mini event, I also spent some tickets to play for the PLO as well. But the experience of busting out at the bubble or even reaching ITM with 0 stack for the next stage (these rounds are best-stack carrying qualifiers) is too stressful for me, and it takes too much time to play those £0.20 tickets every day which starts with 50 BB (S&G) or 100 BB (MTT, although I can late-reg it at the last second, the tournaments do not always start at a convenient time for me to play) just to reach Round 2 then Round 3 and get bust at the bubble. And I still have to reserve a block of time on the Sunday evening for the final round every time I decide to play a ticket, and if I am not available on that Sunday evening, I will have to find another tournament before the ticket expires which give me another ticket instead of a direct seat, which may not always be possible for my target. Now I have already played all my tickets and, after some thought, I registered for a £5 satellite to the final step (no direct buy in) to the £150 mini main event using the P$ given in the welcome offer (although it was an irrational thing to do, I comforted myself for that because "it was not real money"). Then I went bust after losing a 80% and another 96% flip. I closed the poker client immediately. Maybe that London poker dream is not for me. [/QUOTE]

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