888poker is starting April off with a big bang thanks to the return of the God of the Arena PKO Series, featuring 33 events and a $200,000 GTD Main Event!
With the success of last year's God of the Arena Progressive Knockout (PKO) Series, 888poker brings you once again their lucrative PKO tournament this month of April!
God of the Arena PKO Series 2020
Duration: From April 5 to 12, 2020
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maragatero , I will also start playing a number of sngs with a specific bankroll , after I will have finished some study , to see whether I will have good results , whether I can play higher buy-in sngs , or else again study and try again later . I will start from the micro bottom , see what I can do . With more successes . more games , tournaments or cash games , will be added in my schedule . But now I have to improve my preflop decisions , raises , 3 bets , 4 bets ... Also my shove-fold hands chart or decisions . I see many leaks , many times lose with crazy way and mistakes . My masochistic patience is over ( ) , now I desire good results , wins !!!!
Joined: Oct '16
Location: Argentina
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I knew this tournament by the worst way. Yesterday, I was looking for the register of one of my loved $ 200 freeroll in 888poker main lobby. There, I open one lobby of a PKO series to check if it was a part of the God of Arena events. Then I register in my tourney, and started to do another things. Suddenly, a strange table appear in my screen...without wanting it I registered to a $11,5 buy-in tourney!
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Lol maragatero , you have to be carefull when youc lick the play game buttons , or else such surprises might come unexpectely sometimes , really disturbing and annoyning , it might destroy your bankroll .
Sometimes I open the Sunday Million lobby , on Sundays , to see how many registered , are playing , the action on some tables etc . I always have the fear I will press accidentally the play/register button and start playing it , with 109$ minus from my bankroll !!
I also have this fear fro other tournament lobbies when I open tjem , but especially for SM , the fear cannot be copared , lol
Ofcourse on Stars , also i other poker rooms , it will ask you twice before registering you in a tournament , sng , or other game , that's very nice , it is a protective tool to save you from unwanted registration , very nice !!!!
Joined: Jan '14
Location: Romania
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Until the next God of the Arena PKO Series we can play The Dragon, Galaxy, Big Fish etc ... I haven't done anything good for me this time and i think it's good if i watch a video lesson with 888poker offered. I like the room and i want some money of course.
Joined: Oct '16
Location: Argentina
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Yes antonis321, I will try to pay attention... It´s something that was happened to me in other times, when I played in Coral poker. But there was not fair a bit, because they don´t confirm your register into a tourney with any message. So you only knows the error whe the tourney was started. Here was 100% my fault. What a KO!
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Today i played in two satellites and even though i made a few chips, i could not get a ticket for big fish. Those tournaments went into clinical death and have to play what's most interesting. A dreadful boredom occurs when players are few and no more register.
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Despite the bad surprise when I discover my error, I did not have such a bad time. I was nervous in the starting of tournament, but then I relaxed a bit and try to make an effort. Is a real bad feelling, because I couldn´t play there by technical definition. I had accumulated $ 50 of bankroll in the weeks of isolation, with the freerolls. So, I never should have spent $ 11 in a buy-in!
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maragatero , it can happen to everyone , it has happenned to me , it will happen eventually one day again in the future . That's why almost always I am very carefull when I open lobbies of tournaments when the late registration is not over and I don't want to play them , but just watch some tables . If I want to play a sat for a tourney , almost always I open the table before the game starts , if possible not from the tournament lobby , but from the main lobby of the poker room That way , the risk is being minimised , almost to zero
Anyway , that ws a good series , now to the next one 888poker has always a nice series of games running , with very nice guarantee money . Ofcourse , there are the usual games and tournaments running every day every week , such as the BIG FISH tournaments , these days with bigger prizes and more value than before , very good and profitable choices GL everyone
Joined: Oct '16
Location: Argentina
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Yes antonis321, I tried all the strategies. But sometimes, after months of be alert, a distracting moment maybe occur. And in a short time I losted my effort of week. At this tournament it buy for me the opportunity to confirm that fishes are in all the levels. I play there near of the end of late register, and I had some good moment when I was in the best ten places.
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I also have such kind of '' distracting '' moments , rarelly , only if I am really tired and sleepy , shouldn't have started then games to play but did it unfortunatelly . Then everything is possible : Register by mistake in games I didn't want initially , more often register in games on purpose I cannot think calmly with clear mind because of tiredness and maybe tilt , thinking I can play more expensive games and then I lose big $$$$ , also I will surely shove aggressively a very long range of cards , even with 50 blinds on crrazy spots , lol .I have lost my bankroll sometimes like this ......
But normally , I am very carefull , I am extremelly tight and mindfull , so these mistakes don't happen when I not tired , stresses or sad Also I try my best not to play tired or stressed , a rule vey important for me for 2 months now and it's ongoing
The dragon, the inferno series coming , the big fish tourneys , the galaxy freeorlls , many other big guarantee tournaments or satellites with many good guaranted tickets . For tournaments , 888poker has always sth very good to show , so as every player to choose the games he likes most , which he has an edge for , and start winning $$$$$
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Location: Argentina
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Yes, tired, sleepy...or without glassses! hahaha! And yes, when this error happen, you feel defested since the starting and makes all kind of no sense moves. I played there about two hours, knocked out two players (that reduces my lost) and had some very good moments (are fishes also in $11 buy-in), but ever feeling out of place. The own mind may be a powerful enemy!
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Yesterday i played three hours in a $ 5.50 tournament and after two hours and 45 minutes i had the 32 k stack. Interesting is that the game starts at 30k. Basically i only won 2 k and that's how it happens in this kind of tournament. It's pretty hard.
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Tell us more CALICUL. Was a Knock Out tournament of this promotion? Had you knock ot anyone? If it is a PKO Series, the late register was finished in two hours and a half (I think), so you might be near the ITM. Tell us how did you finish... In that tourney, I had two coolers that makes me cry. First (when I was in the top of my playing) AJs versus AQo, and in the end TT against QQ
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It was a pokerstars tournament with over 8,000 players. I didn't win too much, just a $ 60-80 profit on a $ 1.10 game. It wasn't a huge win but i would have liked to won more money. The poker room software was not so happy with me to make a huge profit.
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I don´t understand my friend. First, why you told us about a tournament of $ 5,50 when it is not a PKO Series, and is not a 888poker´s promotion in this space? And, second, how your $ 5,50 tourney became in $ 1,10 game? You are a magician of transforming of the tournament!!! I have to give to you one of my freeroll in 888poker to transformer it in a Million Sunday of PokerStars!!
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I said that i played in several KO tournaments in the past and there i eliminated 17 players. It was a knockout tournament not PKO. I can't say anything here if i don't remember well. I don't want to lie and that's the way it is for me. Anyway i really like these games.
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Well, 17 villains killed is a good record CALICUL. And that was the way that you can win $ 60-$80 in a tournament without arriving to the ITM. But you told that you was playing "yesterday" three hours in a $ 5,50 tournament, and then you won in the past $60-80 in a $ 1,10 tourney wich you can´t remember well. Follow you into your temporal continuous is very hard!
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That tournament was in pokerstars several years ago and 888poker is another place where i play. I really liked it, when i played in the past, but now i do not have much patience or concentration to play 6, 7 hours or more. It's time to try shorter games.
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maragatero seems that you are only blind here and that you dont see how he can lie,how he change every post,even if you write to him what a hell are you writing and what he say in last post!ofcourse in next one he will tell that you didnt understand him,that he didnt mean that,that it was "several years ago" and so on!but ok,go on,read his post and believe that this is truth!
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Oh dule-vu, I leave that job to you. I do not believe that BRM resists more than one punisher, that considers the mistakes and weaknesses of others as a sin that must have a sentence. I feel more comfortable in the role of a friend who wants to understand the other's game and play with him. I think it has to do with the different capacities of each one...
) , now I desire good results , wins !!!!
