2009 wrap

theres still a couple days left in the month so i figure id wrap up December. I ended up profiting 21,029 with a 76% ROI over 240 MTTs. I peaked at about 18k when I had those two 5k wins, and then dropped down to 12k on the month, until the other day when I shipped the 20k 6 max for 6300 and the 501r1a on AP for 3k. Overall a pretty good month running above expectation. So heres my results on the year since August in MTTs (includes no rakeback, credits for cash, staking)

August
+12,600 31% ROI
September
+545.00 1.62% ROI - YESSSS
October
+14,359 53.09% ROI
November
+25,434 79.22% ROI
December
+21,029 76% ROI

Also included was 2000 in credits for cash, roughly 2000-2400 in rakeback, and about +4k in staking.

As for how I did site to site, I was over 100% ROI on AP for the year - PokerDB shows me up like 60k but theyre missing a 30k win in Aug for 8k and prob some other ones here and there, so Im sure AP profits are around 75k roughly in MTTs. Cake on sharkscope showed me up 14k last time I looked, FTP Im up about 26k in MTTs, and Stars Im probably slightly up, only about 1k-2k at best. In terms of rakeback made on the year during my 6 month SNG run, I beleive I paid around 83k last time I looked, so that would give me 24k or so in rakeback on the year. In SNG profit I was definitely a loser on the year - not sure exactly how much - I know SS showed me -12k but I think it was less then that. Prob a slight loser at -8k over a gazillion SNGs. That was fine though with the massive amounts of bonus money I made off of 2 race cards (I beleive it was like 25k), a TON of reloads, and credits for cash.

Im very happy how the year turned out and Im excited to get '10 rollin....I wanna crush MTTs a little harder next year and hopefully improve in that department. According to what I wrote in my blog and the spreadsheets I have since August I should be around +190k on the year.....200k next year one time? Lets hope so.

Triple crown one time?

Since ive been back from aruba ive been tearing up mtts - obviously running above expectation. I think Im up somewhere in the neighborhood of 60k in that 2 month span.....anyways tonight i ran good again and shipped the 501r1a on tilt for 5k, and the 30r nightly on ap for 5500. Both are somewhat weak field tournaments, with AP being the weaker of the two. The AP ft had no one good at it - piscato was there - hes somewhat solid i guess, but everyone was very tight and trying to move up payouts. I chipped up here and there, got HU, turned 2 pair and got him to ship it in. The tilt one was funny - at one point I was down to 8 bbs for about an hour of the tournament - I was lucky to double up twice and then from there I won 2 flips and a couple 60/40s.....The FT was also somewhat weak - Very little 3 betting going on and generally passive play. The players were defintiely better than AP but nothing amazing. I got 3 handed and eventually took her down....Fri nights have been good to me lately - i guess staying in like a loser pays off in the end....with these two wins tonight I got 2/3 of the triple crown completed - I dont really care to win this - I wont go out of my way by playing every cake/stars tournament with a 10k prize pool for a week straight, but it would be nice if I could achieve this.

One thing thats annoyed me about MTTs is sleeping sucks. I usually go to bed at 3 am - it takes me time to fall asleep and when I finally do I never really get 8 hours....once I wake up at all in the morning i wanna get up and cant fall back to sleep. i remember when i worked a normal job years ago id always sleep real good - i guess not being on a set schedule can do that. oh well i guess its part of the job description right?

Nov - biggest month of the year

November turned out to be my biggest month of the year, with my biggest single cash as well. I had 25,400 in profit during the month, with a 79.22% ROI over roughly 275 MTTs. I made a couple hundred in rakeback and about 1200 in staking, so about a 26.5k month. Overall I was very happy how the month went - I ran way above my expectation which is always nice. Ive been working on some new ideas with my game - been floating alot more in spots I normally use to just give up and have had some good results. BvB or Bv button type of spots usually involve very marginal hands, so really it comes down to outplaying your opponent and setting up certain lines as well.....My handreading has also improved - I think Ive been doing well with combining bet sizing and different lines to put my opponents on more accurate ranges. Overall things continue to head in the right direction - Im glad I made the transition to MTTs but wish I did it earlier - so many months/years were spent on SNGs grinding out basically bonuses which never helped me improve in terms of poker. Its so easy to get complacent in your abilities and never improve, and when your dealing with rake races theres no need to. Now I cant fully knock SNGs - they were key to getting me going in poker - but in terms of getting better theyre a brick wall. The bottom line is you get better at things in life by challenging yourself and facing tougher obstacles - the same applies to poker. The deeper the stacks and the better the players the tougher it is and the more you learn.

Outside of poker I bought a new laptop the other day - my old one was from 2003 and was getting pretty beat up these days. I ended up going with a Gateway I saw that got high reviews on Cnet, and thus far its been working great. Its amazing how much nicer it is over my old laptop and the ease of use/speed is amazing. Its sad I waited this long to buy the damn thing lol. Its so nice to have 10 games going, 4 different poker sites open, aim, a couple websites, and have zero slowdown! Anyways in December I plan on getting in atleast 300 MTTs -I might also be making a trip out to AC for a WSOPC event or two, although Ill probably endu p playing more cash then anything. Live MTTs sound fun but I don't think I want to sit there for hours. We shall see.