Monday, 31 May 2010

Monthly round-up - May 2010

Well, it's been a good month in terms of profit, so all is sweet! I'll not fart about chuntering on about the tourneys and cash etc, I'll just get straight to the stats...

Cash Games:

Microgaming: 564 hands (LOL) - for $213.50 profit + rakeback $30.25  = + $243.75

No point posting graphs for that many hands.

Tourneys:

Stars: 63 tourneys played for  + $680.98 profit
Full Tilt: 45 tourneys for  $1,783.72 profit + Double bonus +$407.54 = $2191.26
Microgaming: 18 tourneys played for a loss of $225

Overall:

+ $2890.99

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Sunday, 30 May 2010

Big Sunday + results









Tonight I am playin a few of the bigger tourneys to see if I can bink a decent score

So far the schedule is lookin like this:

7pm - Sunday brawl on FTP ($256) 147/3793 (+626.88)
7pm - $42k GTD on FTP ($24) 2250/4054
7pm - $40k GTD on Stars ($11) 5499/9366
7.30pm - $150k UK Freeroll on Stars (freebie) 2657/8906 (+$10)
8pm - $33k GTD on FTP ($24) 1051/3793
8.15pm - $20k GTD ($11) 2425/3720
8.30pm - Sunday Quarter Mill ($11) 2295/30,920 (+27.82)
8.30pm -  Stars Turbo Takedown (freebie) 3093/18,655 (+$95)
9pm - Sunday Million ($215) 3046/7214

Might add a few in here and there depending on how I start in the 7pm games and might try and sat into the $55 stars game

One time and all that.....

****EDIT*** can;t complain - qualified for Brawl with a 3500 FT Points satty and got into SM for about $16.

outlay for tonight: $541
Returns: $759.70
Profit = +$218.70

Thanks for all the good luck comments

Thursday, 27 May 2010

Commentors...

Thanks to everyone who takes time to comment on my posts. I do appreciate it and it least you know someone is reading it!

That said... If you are one of the guys who responds in the comments and then your name is a link to a gaming website or an affiliated link, I wouldn't bother anymore because I will just delete them.

It's obvious you are reading the posts and responding to them, but it's for your own agenda and I hate spammers. So in future politely fuck off.

Thankyou.

Wednesday, 26 May 2010

It's a plan!

So with having been enjoying MTT's recently and having a pretty good run of them, I have come to a decision regarding my poker and basically it revolves around work.

When I am on the night shifts, for that 8 weeks I am up later at nights and have a little more time, so I can grind out some MTT's and maybe throw in some MTT SnG's too.

When I am on days and generally have less time in the evenings and a better sleeping pattern, then I'll grind the cash tables, because it's ideal when you have around 2 hours to spare at night.

This should also stop me from getting bored of one thing and help me focus better on generally improving my game in both areas.

Fingers crossed that this should work well for me.

At the moment I am on the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday nights, meaning that I can generally do a bit of grinding Sun, Mon and Tues nights and I have done this for the last two weeks and so far (touch wood) it's gone fairly well for me, turning a profit of about $2k ish for this month, which is more than my best cash grinding month. Of course it won't be like that every month, but considering it's only a few nights per week I am happy with it.

It's always hard to tell if you are running good or playing well in MTT's, but considering it's across two different sites that I am picking up results I am hoping it's more of the latter. That said, time and volume will tell.

I have found a series of MTT's I like playing and I usualy pre register for around 8 or 9 starting between 7pm and 9pm and then grind away.

I was pretty close to a good four figure score last night, but the tide turned against me as you saw in the last post. I am just feeling good at the moment when I am playing, whether I have a big stack or a small stack I feel I can play them both pretty well. I need to work a bit harder on my mid-stack game as I am putting myself in a few marginal spots sometimes with my 3-betting and post flop play, but I know what I need to do to put it right and the mistakes I was making.

I still put my success down to learning the cash games. I have so much more confidence about reading post flop situations well and when to control pots and when to value bet the crap out of people and that helps so so much.

So ATM poker is sweet, whether it continues to be that way once variance batters me remains to be seen, but I can;t play now for the next three nights so I'll be eager to hit the felt again once the shifts are done.


laters

BM

Tuesday, 25 May 2010

Violated

SICKNESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Just played really good for 7 hours, prolly the best I can remember playing in a single MTT. $7.4k for first and pretty much all four figs for final table.

I then get it in with 15 left out of 5931 players with KK and a guy who jussst has me covered makes the call with AT and binks the fucking Ace. I am totally and utterly gutted ATM.





Monday, 24 May 2010

Arghhh

I am gutted, just came third in the $4 2 rebuy 1 add on, on pokerstars. I ran good in the middle, but pretty much owned the final table until we were 4 handed. I had one guy all in three times in flip situations and he won all 3, which was horribly sick. Until that point I was a comfortable chip leader. I was then last in chips and made a tilty shove over a raise and of course I don't manage a suckout..lol. I am so bitter sometimes:



I also got deep in both the Daily Doubles on FTP, finishing 20th/1394 and 60/1128 respectively, was dissapointed at the payout structure in these, incredibly top heavy. I also cashed in the $20 360 max on stars, finishing 19th/360.

I guess another night that could have been 3 big scores. Way it goes sometimes, at least I am playing well ATM, which feels good.


*****EDIT TUESDAY MORN*******

I won best double finish in the daily double for a nice little boost.. weeeeeeeeeeeee


Thursday, 20 May 2010

Running Bad at Life

lol, so today I find out they have scrapped the HIPS packs, one week after I bought one for £225. sigh. That pisses me off.

Secondly the wife's dad has been in hospital ill and now found out he has to have an operation on the 16th June, meaning he cannot fly and we were supposed to be going to Portugal with him on the 28th June, to his friends villa and as such thats fallen through, meaning I lose my deposit on my flights and car hire. grrrrr. Obviously it cannot be helped, but it's gutting.

Thirdly, I have just realised that Halifax bank have been charging our pretty much dormant second account £31 per month for having an ORGANISED overdraft. £1 per fucking day to be in an overdraft, you have to be fucking kidding me. Greedy bastards. We hardly use that account anymore, so you can imagine the suprise when I saw that.

Fourthly, all this is gonna hit my BR again. Things are tight right now, so I am gonna have to withdraw from my roll to pay off the Halifax overdraft and close the account and then it's also gonna have to pay for us a holiday somewhere, most likely Britain now.

FML!