On a SNG Hiatus

So race cards came to an end on the 16th and I've been playing solely MTTs since..Its been a nice change and I think I'm going to try this out atleast for July. My hourly this year has been satisfying but without race cards I'm sure its more near 90/hr....90/hr is still great but my goal is to make more money and the way for me to do that is MTTs....Ive done decent in them in the past (think Im +40k or so overall), so its not like im jumping into this without an idea. Also my bankroll is way overrolled for 100-200 avg stake, so I should be fine in terms of that. I think MTTs are the way to go in terms of long term goals - I dont really improve my poker game playing SNGs so really Im just grinding out and never improving...MTTs will allow me to work on my game and become better, and eventually move to higher stakes where I can make 200/hr+....so as of now Im playing up to 200 FO's and 50r's......Im playing Cake/FTP/AP, but mainly FTP - they have a ton of MTTs with amazing structures - Cake has the worst structure of them all but the fields are super soft so I will definitely stick around on that site. Overall I believe Im +6k or so since I started this experiment, but Ill figure out the correct numbers once June ends. In July my goal is to play atleast 300 mtts, and hopefully with say a 50% ROI that would be around 15k....I might try to do more than 300, but I figured 300 would be a decent goal I could set on a 40 hour work week. July should be very interesting and Im excited to give this a go. Ill update the end of the month so I can get exact figures.

Done with race cards finally

So its Friday and the race cards promo runs till midnight on Monday but I'm taking the weekend off and definitely wont have anyone pass me unless they go nuts this weekend. I had a nice run in the 25k sniper last night, taking 3rd for 3k......I picked up a huge stack with like 50 left - think I had 64k at 400/800....It seems though everytime I get a monster stack early I never seem to get far - maybe the positive variance catching up? Anyways I played pretty aggro and got all the way down to like 25k.....from there blinds had gone up so I tightened up and built back up....at the final table things were up and down....I lost QQ to 44 4 handed which was definitely a blow to my stack...after that I won QQ to AK but then made a move with an open ended srt draw 3 handed with an overcard and ran into the nuts. oh well...


Anyways here's the breakdown to the best of my ability - it really is a bitch trying to figure the exact profit and where it all came from. here we go

+11,000 Race Cards Bonus
+6500 in MTT profit
+9400 in rakeback
+3k credits for cash
+3300 rakebreak rake races
+4000 500k credits for gift cards
+6900 in reloads
-1600 in staking
+3430 in playing 6 mans/9 mans/ 100 HU UT's (where the real skill is)

+45,930

So there's the stats. I fell pretty far down the race towards the end as guys were pushing alot harder than I expected. I could of gotten higher but whatever - Im not going to kill myself for it...Ended up playing not as many hours as I expected - 313 total hours.....comes out to about 140.7/hr which easily was my highest hourly rate over any race.....For the rest of the month I'll prob take it easy and definitely lay off SNG's and play more mtts....I put some money on FTP to play MTTs there and plan on playing more of em from now on....heres some yearly stats

2009 stats

Total profit 86,248.36
Hours played 799.5

Hourly rate = 107.8


EDIT - had to play 7 more hours on Sunday to hold my position - ran like god in 100 HU UT's, so I had a nice profit. figures are updated.