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
$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
$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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