End of January

Today was my last day of playing for the month of January. Heres the results

394 MTTs played 74,583.00 in cashes, 47,889 in buy ins, = 26,694.00 in profit 55.7% ROI

Overall was a very successful month even after my dismal -10k start. I don't think I had alot of wins, outside the 75k early in the month. Just alot of 4-6k cashes. With rakeback that puts me slightly over 27k to start the year, obviously a great start. My ROI doesn't seem that far off from my true ROI - I figure I could atleast do 40% over all the sites - AP/Cake are obviously much higher than Stars and Tilt, and overall on the month I do about half and half of the weak sites with the tougher sites. AP has definitely been getting harder in the past couple months - the afternoon 30r which I thought use to be very soft is now getting tougher sadly - its a small field and I think roughly 20% of the field are winners. I also started mixing in some 50rs and 320s. The 50r is the AP one - definitely a tough field but I figure if I invest 200 on average in it and can do a 20% ROI its worth it. Im also adding the Stars weekly 1/4 million 320 buy in to my lineup. Its a soft field and definitely the softest 320 you can play during the week outside Sundays. I hate playing bigger buy ins with 1k fields, but Im playing for long term profit, so just have to deal with the variance. Last wed I was going to play the AP 1001R1A but after looking at the field I passed. I loaded it up and literally 30 of the first 40 players were winners. Yeh Ill pass :)

Febuary I hope to hit atleast 350 MTTs and hopefully 15k or more profit - If I spend 50,000 in buy ins I shouldn't have an issue turning 15k profit a month longterm, although I think I can turn 20k/mo more likely. Ive had 3 straight months now of 25k+ profit, so things are looking good.

Mid January results

I was thinking the other day of who even reads this blog but I guess ill keep it going - something cool to look back on years down the road.....anyways heres the mid jan update

13,129.00 profit, 51.25% ROI, 213 MTTs

Ive decided to do 400 MTTs a month for the year. With that said I wanna set aside time for going to Aruba, Vegas, and anywhere else I may vacation to this year, so I want to get ahead on that quota to "reserve" time for vacations. I figure if I can do say 20-40 extra per month, build up a month of vacation time to do whatever i want...yea it sounds retarded but whatever i wanna hit this volume goal for the year so i can hit some profit goals as well....anyways the month is looking good thus far - had a huge week with the 75k chop, and then today made 5k ft'ing a couple mtts.....hopefully i can keep my roi at 40% this month but obv variance could careless.....ill be back feb 1st

Shipped 75k Tilt

So I was slumping big time this month - got to about -10k yesterday when I was deep in a couple big ones - stars 100k, Tilt 40k, Tilt 75k, Cake 20k......I was actually like 2/70 or something in the Tilt 40k when we got ITM - everytime I opened I got 3 bet, and obv couldn't get hands....eventually this guy who had been opening a ton of buttons opened again at like 1/2k to 5k, I had Q8ss and decided Id make my stand with 40k.....I reraised to 20k and he shipped me - obv had TT and I couldn't hit. Stars I had been riding a decent stack but getting near the money I fell down to about 9 bb when the sb shoved me in I had K7ss made the call, he had Q4 and binked the queen on the flop....The Cake 20k I actually became CL at the final table when I won a big flip, but eventually I had KJ on a 98QT3 where another guy had the same hand but of hearts so that knocked me way down low pretty quick....I took 5th for like 1300. The 75k was really my last chance - I wasn't that big in it at any point really till we got down to about 30 players - I forget how I got there but eventually I had a 200k stack and decided I'd just relax and play pretty solid, some weak 3 bets but nothing too crazy.......had one hand where this guy opened i 3 bet k9 he called flop came k36, he checked i checked......turn came Ts putting three spades up there, he bet like 10k into a 40k pot or something like that so i called....river came a non spade 9 - he bet half pot for 44k, i called, he had A high.....he wasnt too happy to see me 3 betting him with k9.....it setup the next hand vs him though where he raised and i 3 bet again this time with KK. he called the flop came all blanks, he checked and I made another 50% pot bet where he raised and we got it in. At the final table there were some real good players there - Tmay420 and Miltman were the notables and obv two players I did not want to see get stacks.....I did notice when we got to the FT how nitty alot of the people were playing.....I lost a race 6 handed with TT vs AK for a decent sized pot and fell to 6/6.....I got my hopes down at that point but kept picking up blidns here and there when Tmay opened the button and I 3 bet from sb.....he 4 bet and I got in JJ - he had AJ and doubled me up.....it was great to get a double from the best player at the table as I crippled him and just had miltman who was short left to deal with....I got reshoved by miltman about 7 times lol - sadly had nothing everytime as I was dieing to call him...he eventually busted 4th or 3rd (cant remember).....when we got heads up the ICM chop was 19,6 and I wanted 20k flat - he wouldn't budge so whatever Ill do the ICM chop.....anyways went from -10k on the month to +10k so was an eventful night. hopefully I can have a repeat of it tonight as well

fuck u 2010

getting owned to start off the year.....currently -7100 the year, after 95 mtts....my plan for this blog this year is to cover the highs and lows of grinding midstakes/high stakes MTTs and to show the good, the bad, and the ugly.....Im happy though getting nearly 100 mtts in 7 days into the month - when Im getting owned I tend to play more and work harder.....my average buy in is roughly 120 so not a huge swing but definitely not a fun thing. Another good thing is Ill have to the penny the exact profit I make this year considering Im gonna be tracking via a spreadsheet from the beginning.....Anyways stay tuned - hopefully im not -15k in the hole next week!

2010

2010 has finally arrived.....had a good NYE drinking with some friends and the gf......tomorrow I shall start the quest of domination for the new year hopefully winning the sunday mil and calling it a year :).....I ended up playing 1 day last week and had a couple 1k cashes bringing Dec to a 24k profit and 80% roi....im real pleased with the past couple of months - ive been workin on my game and have seen real good results.......im obv running above expectation the past two months with about 80% roi, prob double my expected roi......anyways tomorow is a sunday and i plan on palying a full schedule - im glad i dont play a ton of sundays for the simple reason that im going to be playing the alot of 215s with huge fields and obviosuly high variance. playing fields of 1k and larger is just absurd in terms of ever hitting a true expectation, so sundays can be huge sucesses or monster failures - for example the 50 fo on stars i play has about 1k-2k entrants between the 3pm one and the 5 pm one - i dont have any final tables in those touranments...getting through a field of 400 is tough let alone 2k....anyways gl to me