2/302 in $215 HU Tournament + 7/28500 in the Sunday 200k = $12.5k for me - $4k to stakes....swiiiiish!!

Hi all, title says it all! Managed to sh1p two relatively huge scores in one night, taking home 2nd in the $215 heads up to win 50% of just under $8k, and then a couple of hours later 7/28500 to bring home the comical amount of $4447. All in all, an incredibly sick night!

Can't be arsed with hands etc, but basically I was hitting a lot of cards in the HU, but managing to get paid off against poor hands quite a lot. I ran dead in the last match, and couldn't hit my up and down or one overcard to get back into contention unfortunately. In the Sunday 200k, I rivered a straight with 4 tables left to get back in it, before working up to a dominant stack at the final table. I was big chip lead with 7 left, but JJ < AK and then shoving A3 vs the table aggressor who snapped with AK meant it was a case of what could have been, though I'm not worrying about that!!

Before these two tournies, I had been plugging away up to around $7.7k, so this is a very nice bankroll double up, maybe I'll play a 100/200 table and look for a flip to see if I can do the same again. On the other hand, perhaps I'll book a holiday for me and the girlfriend!!

Anyways, essay time for me, a summative is preventing me from going down to see the girlfriend to celebrate....how bad do I run?!

$4447_7th.

HU + tournies = profit + loss!

Evening, I had a night where I got bored of just heads up, and began testing out the 45-man and 180-man $12 turbos and a couple of SNG's. I think I might have lost my ability here, as I was making some silly calls in spots where I'm good heads up but crushed full-ring.

It's good though and has made poker more interesting for me, which has provoked me to play longer sessions. I have lost every $12 I have played (around 9) with horrific luck in around 3 when I had big stacks and got crushed. I enjoy them though, and as I want to get better at tournaments for the big Sunday ones it's good to spend a little to improve. I have played a couple of larger field $20 tournies and feel good. Haven't gone too deep yet but going to keep playing these medium buy in tournies for experience and to hopefully sh1p a decent amount.

O, and I obv shipped the $11 sat to the Sunday warm-up again. It's so weird that I've shipped 4/5 of these, but long may it continue!! I'm going to play one of the majors Sunday week.

I have also been playing a few $57.50 4-mans. Generally you get one good player here and 2 absolute Gambons. So, if I can play well and beat the good player, I would hope to beat the other fishes and win a decent amount. Haven't had a downswing at these yet so I'm sure that when that comes I might stop playing them so much, but for now I hope they continue to be profitable.

So, I might have more interesting stuff to post if I start playing a reasonable volume of tournies as I may (one time!) have a big win, so that might end the boring drone I put out here!

My roll is at $6,605, including $215 $T. Hope to play a fairly meaty session this evening, including some tournies, so I hope I post later saying I've shipped something!!

L8z,

Ronnie.

Pushing on...but the idea of a return to Uni crushes me!

F1r$t up, 1've d£c!ded 2 bl0ck my Sh@rksc0p£, (FUK CARRYING ON L1KE TH!$ THE WHOLE POST!!) because, though I'm not doing anything wrong, I'm worried/paranoid that if someone scoped me and saw my upswing I might get reported/investigated and my account temporarily suspended or some similar shit that would t!lt me.

Second, happily the upswing has continued. My roll is now $5465. I have made around $860 in the last two evenings. I also played some £1/£2 [or $.01/.$.02 as it is given the conversion rates] at my snooker club and made £75 profit.

So, this means that in 2009 I have made around £900 including some cash exploits, which begs the question, how am I going to get any work done when/if I can earn at this rate? I think I am going to have to grind out some work to stay afloat, which is annoying, but the degree has to be my priority.

No stats as I have no Scope, so the post has to end abrup

2008 Review, 2009 Aims (too long to include this post!!), zzzzzzzzzzzz etc...

Ok, for those who have followed my blog in the last year, thanks a lot. I know it's boring and filled with stats, but it does help me to have an outlet and comments that are made are always appreciated.

Right, now for the 2008 review...!

My year was basically split in to two parts...from Jan-April, where I was mainly playing on FT, and working at the $6.50 9-man turbos. I started off here smashing it up, with an ROI of over 25% and one-tabling or two-tabling managing to win at a very good rate. When I increased the number of tables to around 4, my graph plateaud quite a lot, but that taught me the vital skill of multi-tabling. I started building a proper roll for the first time on FT, but then had a break to get ready for exams so took it all out.

When I came back, after my exams, I felt like I was one of the best at my level. I wanted to live off of poker money in the summer instead of getting a part time job, and put on $200, my biggest ever deposit, to attempt to do that.

June was the month that changed it all around and set me up to earn much more effectively at poker. I won around $1570 in 1500 games, dedicating a lot of time to poker and moving up to 15tabling the 9mans. I had finally started working a roll, and it was around $2k by the end of June after a sat success. Most important of all, I switched to HU SNG's, which is where I have stayed since. I don't know whether this was the most profitable thing to do on reflection, as I had learnt all about 9mans and beaten them without moving up, but I found HU SNG's less of a grind so stuck with them.

July was massively profitable, making nearly $2 a game and winning $1250 overall. I had slowly eased up to the $23 HU SNG's by then.

With profits of around $3.2k, I had hit the wall by August, and a few horrible downswings broke my spirit and I withdrew my roll. I kept away from poker for two weeks, until I deposited $39 on the 31st August to play a couple of tournaments. I was one HU SNG away from busting this and not playing for a while, but I managed to win that and everything today is thanks to that outdraw!!

The amount I could play was fairly disciplined from September to now, with Uni commitments, social life, girlfriend and once or twice work getting in the way. I 4-tabled HU, and did really well at the $11's but continually struggled at the $23's, disappointingly making more $ per game at the $11's.

My stats were these from Sept-Dec (before I played the $57.50s!!)

2,592
$1.23
$17
10%
$3,196

which was a nice bit of profit, and given the immense slide of the ££, earnt me a lot more money than before.

I then decided, after a night of struggling at the $34.50's with good opponents and filthy outdraws, that the game could be made easier with effective table selection.

I began learning who the fish and the sharks are, have the lobby loaded up and ready to register, and snap play if I recognise a fish. The results here so far (touch wood) have been so much better than I could have expected.

75
$20.23
$55
35%
$1,518

So, I have spent the whole year grinding and being happy to earn $1.5 a game, and now I am making $20 a game. I know there will be downswings, but I hope playing against fish the variance will be reduced. Some nights, due to the large volume on Stars, I can't really table select as effectively, so these will be my tournament nights.

So, including bonuses, I have made around $3.2k in my first attempt at building a roll between June-Aug and $5.2k from Sept-now.

I had to withdraw $550 for a rent payment, but currently have a roll of 4.6k and will hope to table select at a decent rate for the foreseeable future. I will look for fish at the $110 games when I get more $$ behind me, but at the minute I'm enjoying it.

I have made around $1.1k from tournies this year at 118% ROI, which is decent, but tournies are long and tilt me so much when I get close but not close enough. I will definitely be buying in to the $55s on tournie nights and hopefully can run good and ship the million!

I can't be arsed to write my 2009 aims here, I'll make a new post with it at some point. I am pleased with my progress in 2008, have made enough to get by without a job, and in the last few months have been on an hourly rate equivalent of a decent job. I still have flaws but I'm working on them and hope to have them fixed soon.

I'll assess where I hope 2009 to take me in my next post, which I promise will be more interesting than this!

tyggwp

2009_star

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