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December So Far...12/11/06

December has been treating me pretty well. Or should I say pokerstars is treating me very well. I have to admit, I have been on kinda of a heater on pokerstars recently. I'm winning almost everyday there. It feels good to run great on a site that has so badly kicked me in the nuts in the past.

Full tilt had been sucking recently so I took off all my money off of the site... that'll teach them not ot F* with me. And I should be playing on absolute for rakeback +deposit bonus and make money off of that, but the traffic is slow there that I cant play the games I love to play. And frankly, cash games bore the hell out of me so I can't stay focused on those for very long. Tournament poker is the only thing that gets me going, to want to play, compete, and succeed. idk why, thats just the way I am i guess.

Stats : Since my last update, I've taken a 1st and a 3rd in the $10 180's, won a couple of $215 tickets, and have done really well in $10 18 person sng's. But I am still sucking bad at regular MTT's. Probably the aspect of poker that I really really want to succeed in.

Which brings me to a new goal for december: final table a mtt with over 400 entries and cash it in big. I figure if I can just get to the final table with an average chipstack, I have enough confidence in my game that I can out manuevar and outplay the field into a top 4 finish at least. And if I can hit some hands or catch something great in the process, Top 2. I believe I have taken my game to a new level over these past couple of months... I guess we'll find out in the months to come and see if im just a fluke, or the real deal.

And I would really love to start tomorrow by achieving my new set goal, as I will be taking a shot at the nightly $150 on stars with a $215 ticket I won last night. I promised myself that day that if I won a satellite, I would use that money to play in the nightly 150. I've always wanted to do that ever since I started running good again, So i'm just gonna stop procrastinating and do it already.

I'm not going to expect anything more from myself other than that I play my best game and give myself a chance. If i get sucked out on by a 2 outer to end my tourney, than so be it, I played it to the best way I could. And thats all you can really do in poker.

k well, gl tomorrow.

wow, its been 2 months since my last update

Lets see, where did I leave off. I said I had just got back, made $500 playing $6 turbo sng's & .10/.25 shnl he, just signed up for rakeback, blah blah blah...

Well since then I have been running really well. I'm not going to say running great, because if I were running great, I'd have 20k in my bank account right now, instead I only have aboout.... lets just say not even close to 20k. Its actually a lot closer to 0k. lol

But still, I have been running descent enough to show a steady profit for the past 2 months. Heres where I stand right now

all stats are from Oct 1- Nov 30

Bankroll : $2,046 (YEEEEEAAAAAA, got passed the 2k mark!!! just realized that now)
I also cashed out around $800

cash games : +$805/8k hands/17bb per 100 hands @ .10/25 shnl he

sng's (including 1 table, 2 table, and 180's) : +$902/31% ROI

MTT's (including DS/TS satellites) : +$1,020/148% ROI

total profit : +$2,727



This is actually the first time I am looking at my stats since then, and I am fairly satisfied with my resuslts. Only fairly satisfied because there have been MTT's where I have gone really deep but could not close them out and cash in for the big score. I have numerous finishes for big $10 mtt's ranging from 12th place to 36th place out of 600-1200 entrants. Some bust out's due to bad beats , but also a lot of them due to being blinded out or my bad play. So I have a lot to work on in this department, and i'm going to start off by finishing rereading Harrington on Hold'em 1, then also start and finish #2 again.

I should just be thankful that I am winning again, not losing more money but more importantly, making money. I am for the most part greatful, but I am so competitive that I just don't know if I will ever be satisfied. Maybe the day I bring home a 10K + win, that will be the day I can honestly say I will be satisfied with myself.

Tonight was a pretty sick night. I started playing the $11 and $13 double shootouts satellites to the sunday million and have had my most success there. Winning a $530 seat, and 2 $215 seats, to go along with at least another 3-4 final tables (+35 a piece). Back to my point, tonight I get to the final table and emerge as the chipleader going into the final 3 spots where top 2 get the seats. Of course, every hand I make, somebody has one better higher pair or catches on the river. Not once did I have the winning hand in the 20 minutes we played 3 way. I got murdered and busted out in 3rd place when i shoved the sb with 10 2 into the bb's AKs.

It was a really stupid push on my part, I should have been patient and waited for a better spot. But i wanted to build my stack back up and contend for the seat... I need to stop thinking like that. Its hurting my game in so many ways.

But I still love the $11 turbo sat's, the players are really bad and don't understand how your supposed to play sng's at all and really opens up a huge edge for me. Even when it gets to the final table, only 2 or 3 other players actually have a clue of what there doing. So ima gonna keep on playing these and collecting $T, and maybe one of these days use that T$ to play a $100+ buy in MTT. yeah, once the BR's got a little more cussion, I'll take a shot.

Until then, I just started playing .25/.50 shnl he, $10-$16 sng's, and $10-$20 mtt's/180's. So im moving up come December and I hope all goes well and I get an early x-mas present.

laters all, aloha

1st blog since my comeback

It has now been almost 2 weeks since I started playing poker again with a not so healthy $639 bankroll. I've have been following all of my advice about putting my life before poker and believe that has been the key to my recent poker success. I've been working out more, hanging out with friends, taking my 2 days off a week, and not trying to rush my poker game or wins, but just letting whatever comes to me come.

And so far, I have been very successful when sticking to my game plan. Overall, I am up over $500, thats about 78% of my bankroll from when I first started. I think the biggest portion of that winnings is coming from my $6 turbo sng's and a little bit more from .10/.25nl ring games. Ill post some of my stats from PT here myself so you can see exactly whats going on.

84 sng's total (75 $6 turbos, 4 $16 turbos on stars, and 5 $11 turbos on full tilt)
total profit = $319.90
ROI (return on investment) = 52%

1st place - 19
2nd - 13
3rd - 8
4th and 5th - 18 :(

I guess that happens when you play so aggressively on the bubble, trying to build a big chip lead to put me in contention for 1st place. But I guess I could tone it down a little bit on the bubble and try harder to make the money, But still play to win....kind of contradicting i know... im confusing myself too. whatever

In other news, I just signed up for rakeback from fulltilt through rakebreak.com and got my existing account approved. What I can't believe is that I waited so long to try and get this. It's basically free money for playing on the poker site, I get 27% of whatever rake goes into the pot of any hand I play. At the stakes im playing at right now, I expect to make an extra $70-$100 a month just for playing on fulltilt. Free money is always nice. When I get back to playing $1/$2nl and 5/10 limit +, I should be making a killing just from rakeback alone, proabably a grand a month.

allright, i gotta get back on the grind, peace out all

I was about to quit poker for good...

I was really depressed about one my sickest and longest bad runs yet, and for 1 day I had called it quits for good on poker. I packed up all my books, all my journals and stat books, deleted all poker related software from my computer, and made peace with the fact that I was never going to play online poker again. I even cashed out everything that was in my neteller account at the time and planned to cash out the rest when the trasactions from the poker sites cleared. I felt really shitty about it, putting in so much time and hard work to have to call it quits so soon.

the next day I went to work, and I felt great. I wasn't thinking about poker so much, and you could tell there was something different about me. I was more relaxed and less tense, I felt more confident and for the past week, I have let everybody I know feel the same way aboout me. I have been more chipper and more sociable as of late.

then I thought that maybe I was taking the wrong approach to this poker thing. Devoting all of my time and effort into this game without giving my friends and family the time of day. I forgot what it was like to go out and have fun outside of poker. And this break has helped remind me of the greater things in life that should be prioritized over poker. I had it all backwards.

Needless to say, I think I have the answer to greater poker success. I am putting poker 2nd behind life. I will never brush off another frined or family member because I am too busy playing poker. I will have a set schedule of when and when i cannot play poker. I will take at least 2-3 days off from poker to ensure a health social life. I will also only play for 3-4 hour sessions at most and max 2 sessions a day. On my days off from work before, I would do absolutely nothing but play poker from 9am all the way through 2/3 am, taking breaks only to use the bathroom, or get something to eat or drink... now i can see exactly why I was doing horrible in poker

well, im ready to make my return to poker. I have less than $700 in my bankroll and i'm back on the grind playing .10/.25 nl hold'em. let's see if i can build this puppy into a monster....

laters and gl all

So September's done...

And I have not accomplished any of my goals. In fact, instead of profitting $2,000... I am down $2,000 as far as my bankroll is concerned. Really makes we wonder, How do I win so much money and then blow it all back so quickly... am I profitable winning poker player? I'd like to think so... but it's times like these that can really build your character, and thats exactly what I am trying to get out of this.

bankroll is about $1800 right now. no big cashes in any mtt's to help me out in that department. I got close a few times, but couldn't get myself into the final table where the real money is at. cash games have been up and down... more down than up. but I have had times where I shined and made some good money.

Which all brings me to my goals for October.

1. Play a shit load of hands at 2/4 limit and .50/$1 nl ring games, all 6 max. I feel these are my strongest games that I can try to make money at. Im going to try and play at least 15,000 hands total for the month in both games, and see if at the end of the month, if I have a respectable win rate.

thats it, thats my only goal for Oct. just going to try and make money the best way I know how. I'll play a few tournaments here and there (mostly $20 180 sng's), but I am not depending on them to make me any money. If the big score comes, then it comes. If not, then I haven't let myself down either.

Let October begin

9/26/06 update

Today Sucked.

I played some really good poker today, but couldn't get lucky enough (and when I say lucky, I mean winning hands that are 80%+ favorite to win going into the river) to hold up. I must have played about 10 MTT's today. I think the only one I cashed was 15th in a stars $20 180 sng. I went deep in a full tilt double stack $30 mtt and went out on the bubble when I lost a big race that would have given me a lot of chips to play with.

I also took a shot today in the 35k gtd on stars, and ended up buying in for $60... ouch. but again I went deep in that one and lost a huge race with AJ vs 99. would have been monster chip stack, but instead got ousted on the bubble.

One thing that I am happy about today though, is that I am gaining some confidence back in my game. I am playing aggressive again and pulling off some really good bluffs for nice sized pots. I just need to win some key races and I'll cash in the big one soon enough.

bankroll at the end of today $2,313. On a side note, I'm also getting back into the whole 6 max nl ring games again... prior to last night and today, I made over $400 in 3 sessions playing .50/$1 nl ring games. I was playing great and hitting some hands. then last night and today, I lost all of the $400 to hands were I was at least 80% going into the river... If I win those hands... I'm probably up over $800 right now.

oh well, better luck tomorrow