Update
Date: Fri, Oct 27, 2006 Internet Tournament
I've really been on top of my game lately. Not only have I gotten back on my game, but I'm really enjoying Poker again. Since I last posted, I've been playing a full mix of games including Limit Full Ring, Sit n Go's, and Tourney's. My bankroll is much more comfortable now after winning a satellite to the $530 Sunday Million. I cashed out a few hundred to cover some B-day presents for the Wife, and I'm left with $768.62 currently. I sold the Tournament Dollars to an ITH buddy for the SharkDAQ.
The SharkDAQ is a fund for up and coming MTT players that will be used weekly to stake ITH'ers for the Sunday Million. The purpose would be to give EV+ MTT players money to be able to play in these and get some experience, while also increasing the value of the fund. It's really an amazing idea put together by some awesome people.
Here's the bankroll breakdown:
Total Bankroll
$768.62
Limit bankroll
$314.81
Tourney Bankroll
$189.00
Sit n go Bankroll
$134.81
Staking Bankroll
$130.00
Updates will come more frequently now, I promise...
Switching Gears
Date: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 Internet Tournament
I've decided I can't handle grinding it out at the Full Ring tables and I'm going to go crazy there. Due to this I'm going to hit the Multi-table tournaments hard again. They're so much more exciting. So with my measely roll of about $42 I'm hitting the $1 tourneies on stars and I played a $4.40 180 person sit n go last night and took down 3rd for $85 bucks. Good way to start. So now I atleast have the roll for the $1 tourrnies and I'll throw in some $5 ones even though it is over the bankrol goal of 100 buy-ins.
4 Tournaments played so far
75% ITM
982% ROI :-)
and 1 final table
I've managed the tilt pretty well lately and really feel like I can make a run at building my tournamnet bankroll.
Results to follow.
Switching Gears
Date: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 Internet Tournament
I've decided I can't handle grinding it out at the Full Ring tables and I'm going to go crazy there. Due to this I'm going to hit the Multi-table tournaments hard again. They're so much more exciting.
So with my measely roll of about $42 I'm hitting the $1 tourneies on stars and I played a $4.40 180 person sit n go last night and took down 3rd for $85 bucks. Good way to start. So now I atleast have the roll for the $1 tourrnies and I'll throw in some $5 ones even though it is over the bankrol goal of 100 buy-ins.
4 Tournaments played so far
75% ITM
982% ROI :-)
and 1 final table
I've managed the tilt pretty well lately and really feel like I can make a run at building my tournamnet bankroll.
Results to follow.
Switching Gears
Date: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 Internet Tournament
I've decided I can't handle grinding it out at the Full Ring tables and I'm going to go crazy there. Due to this I'm going to hit the Multi-table tournaments hard again. They're so much more exciting.
So with my measely roll of about $42 I'm hitting the $1 tourneies on stars and I played a $4.40 180 person sit n go last night and took down 3rd for $85 bucks. Good way to start. So now I atleast have the roll for the $1 tourrnies and I'll throw in some $5 ones even though it is over the bankrol goal of 100 buy-ins.
4 Tournaments played so far
75% ITM
982% ROI :-)
and 1 final table
I've managed the tilt pretty well lately and really feel like I can make a run at building my tournamnet bankroll.
Results to follow.
It's been awhile
Date: Fri, Sep 8, 2006 Internet Tournament
Real life tends to get in the way of this hobby of mine quite frequently these days. I withdrew about $420 dollars 2 months ago and there has been no activity in my poker account until 2 weeks ago. I put in $25 dollars at pokerstars, hit the $1.75 turbos hard, won a bunch, went on tilt, lost a bunch, grinded some limit Full Ring tables and won a bunch, and then hit the tilt button again and here I sit with about $53 dollars. I've made a conscious effort as of late to stay away from the tilt thing and excercise some bankroll management.
So this is it, one last chance, I will try to build this bankroll into something meaningful. If I go on tilt and lose it all once more, I've made a promise to myself that I will quit Poker and leave ahead of the game by several thousand dollars.
Every quest needs a goal so here goes: my 53 dollars is split into 2 bankrolls;
a) $30 for .05/.10 limit full ring, which is now $33.20 after a few hundred hands
b) $20 for turbo sit n go's (which I love by the way), I'll start with $1.75's and work upwards. This is playing above the $20 bankroll, but I've never had trouble with these they are incredibly beatable.
By the end of this year I hope to be playing .25/.50, and $6.50 turbo's. Wish me luck.
Free Money
Date: Mon, Jun 26, 2006 Internet Tournament
Free money can apparrently be found daily at the WPEX poker room. Here I was expecting to find extremely tight play because of the great rakeback deal, and instead I find the loosest bunch of fishies I've ever seen. Some of the play there is just rediculous, I highly reccomend checking it out. I receive my $20.00 in rakeback today, what a great deal!
Only played one tournament this weekend, a $10+1 rebuy limit game on stars. Was in the top 20 for the majority of the time, then around bubble time I loosened up and took some hits. Called down my KQ against big slick when a K hit the board. dropped me to about 8k with 600/1200 blinds. 3 hands later I see AA and cap pre-flop against the table chipleader, I re-raise his bet on the flop to put me all-in on a K57 rainbow board and he shows 55. Ugh, re-raising on his 55 pre-flop was pretty questionable play but what can you do. Out in 30th when top 18 make the money. Overall I lost about 30 dollars over the weekend.
I really need to find or schedule some time to play more Poker. 50 hours a week at my real job+time spent with the new baby+6 hours of sleep a night+working in a few hours of poker= approximately 31 hours a day. It's just not working. So I find myself in a predicament; I do too well at poker to give it up, that would just be a bad business decision. However I can't quit the job unless I build up a solid bankroll to work with. Help!!!!!
No poker today.
Date: Fri, Jun 23, 2006 Internet Tournament
Well last night was softball night and its bad enough in the wife's eyes to leave for two hours to play softball, but to play poker too when I get home, forget about it. It was a depressing 12-10 loss after taking the lead into the 7th innning the other team hung up 8 runs in the bottom of the 7th to take us down. However, as always the beer was nice and cold afterwards.
No poker was played last evening, but I hope to hit it hard this evening and over the weekend. It's so much easier to play til 3am when you don't have to get up at 6:00 the next morning. Some thoughts I've been having regarding my game in the offtime: I really think I need to pick a bread and butter game that I play regularly. Lately I find myself jumping around and at any given time I could be playing some $1/$2 limit, A $10 rebuy, a $100 limit tourney, etc... I mean I have positive win rates in all of them, but I feel like I have Poker ADD and I should try to play just one on a regular basis. Also I may be playing above my bankroll. I'm not sure how that works if I'm playing limit and tourney's do I need two seperate bankrolls($600 for limit and a seperate amount for the tourney buy-ins)?