April wrap

well my april is done - ended around 17k in profits......it was a so so month - my roi was around 35% - a little low but nevertheless 17k is 17k.......I did start to incorporate some 1001r1as into my schedule that I didnt do before - I think im +ev in them - the thing is say my choices are a 1001r1a at 20% ROI or a 20r at 50% ROI - the 100 comes out to 60 dollars profit per game, while the 20r comes out to 30 - with that said my ROI in the 100 might even be higher making it a real easy choice....the 100r has to be played alot differently than a 50 dollar fo would be as well - you cant open as much, you're going to get 3 bet more often, and when you do 3 bet theres alot more people that are capable of 4 betting light.....4 betting light isnt really a tool I use much in my daily tournies - think Ive 4 bet light under 10 times since I started playing MTTs full time - its definitely pretty read dependant in the midstakes...in high stakes its pretty common place so you have to get use to using it....also the postflop play is much better - you can't just barrel away or take your standard lines that you would.......Ive been watching more PXF vids to improve in certain spots - im gonna spend the weekend actually watching vids and possibly taking notes.....yes its boring but I wanna get my game to the next level.....I love the level of competition in the higher stakes - playing a 50 FO is like autopilot - most people are pretty tight/straightforward, 3 bets take things down quite often, etc....in the high stakes games youre playing against intelligent people where you cant just steal their blinds constantly or be able to check down 2nd pair without risking many chips.....hopefully May can be a big one

Im also finishing up my first month of p90x - the program is killer! The first week I was extremely sore but since then Ive felt great and the workouts make me sweat like crazy....I didnt weigh myself when I started so not sure what I weigh, but I can definitely see results already......love handles have shrunk, I got more "cuts" especially around the chest, and I can do alot more pushups then I could before....I cant wait for month 2 to start - it should be real intense but the results should be even better....Im also going to weigh myself to keep track of that, even though muscle gain definitely messes that up....Regardless of anything I feel great and hopefully this next month Ill feel even better

big week

Had a pretty big week, 10k+..........mon I had some small cashes, with a final table in the stars 50k ....tues I ended up getting HU in the 40k tilt and chopping it hu.... I had 1 mil to his 700k HU and after some negotiating took 9k (400 over ICM).....I probably should of played it out as I didnt reallly care about the money jump, but 9k was 1400 less than first so figured I should take it......wednesday was another steady day - won the ap 30r afternoon for 3k, and then took 5th in the 1001r1a AP for another 2500........today I put in another full session and won the 50 buy in on ap for 2100, and then went like 5th in the 75 buy in on tilt for 2200....All in all a pretty good week - the 50 I won today I just steamrolled the whole tournament - the great thing about fields like that is everyone sucks so its very easy to chip up....you never really run into much resistance or people 3 bet bluffing.....the big hand was when we were 4 handed - I had about 100k, hotemogirl who is pretty good had 80k and tw oguys had like 30k a piece at 1250/2500....anyawys hot emo opened the button to like 6k, i had 9s so decided to 3 bet to 17555 hoping for a 4 bet shove......anyways he flatted which was wierd - flop came like Q77 two clubs if i remember correctly - so my logic at this point is his flatting range is pretty polarized - I think 77+ maybe wider he shoves pre, small pairs hes not getting in he folds cause he cant set mine for that many chips, really nothing made sense outside of him flatting say AA.....anyways I bet out half pot with the intention of calling the shove - I cant think of any Queen in his range he flats pre - AQ he gets in, KQ i guess but either way him flatting here outside of AA pre is pretty bad.....anyways he shoved i called the rest - he had 89cc and I held.....from there I just bullied the shorties till it ended.....

gonna take it easy till sunday and grind 4 more days to finish the month up strong....maybe win the sunday mil? would be nice

50r ownage and where I am since making the full time switch

April was off and kickin - Monday was my first day back at the grind and it turned out pretty successful - shipped the 50r AP for around 4800.....I think I also had a cash for 1k so overall about a +3800 day.........Tuesday I bricked, and Wednesday I ended up shipping the same tournament for 6600 this time, due to the bigger Wednesday field. I've felt real good about my game the past month or so - Monday was great because I felt like I made no bad decisions - I remember playing that 50r and not questioning one play - granted running above reality makes things easier when you don't have as many tough spots, but I just felt in control the whole time....On wednesday I had about 250k of the 900k in chips 10 handed, so it was real easy to run over the table and chip up....Ive head plenty of times your big advantage in tournaments in abusing people later on so noticing whos playing tight or just poorly is definitely key....there were a couple players obviously trying to move up the pay scale so I attacked their blinds.....another thing is attacking stack sizes - its great raising the blinds of people with under 15 bb cause they have to think you're calling them alot when they reshove, especially when stacks get to say 10 bbs...because of this they have to pick up a hand so its easy to pick up chips that way.....Another thing I learned in the past month is slowing down vs overaggro players - I got HU actually in the 50r about 3 weeks ago with Tazedspur - very aggro big winner whos been on a hell of a heater as of late so I had to adjust.....My normal raises got owned when he 3 bet, and when I 3 bet he put in the 4th........now its rare I run into people that play like this cause I don't play much HSMTTs, but I realized with a player like this the best basic strategy is to raise garbage and strong hands Im willing to 4 bet, and hands that have some value but not a ton to limp in especially when im position......I ended up losing but it was an eye opening experience

So its been about 10 months since I made the switch full time to MTTs, and in every regard its been very +ev.....Ive made about 230k in the 10 month period thus far, and its amazing how far I've came playing wise....I remember so many basic spots with say 20 bbs early on I'd have no clue how to play - or picking up QQ early on with 100 bb and what the fuck do I do.....now things are alot easier - I actually remember back in say June I was playing the afternoon 30r on AP right after rebuy period - Wisco murray had opened to 250 at 50/100 - I had roughly 7k - I was dealt QQ and it folded around to me? What did I do well I shoved - what was my reasoning? I wanted to overshove to look weak and get him to call with worse - he ended up calling with AA and I sucked out...how terrible that was and the logic behind it....overall though Ive worked real hard on improving my game - countless hours on PXF, looking on the forums, and talking to good players on AIM to get insight...I guess the big thing is if I lose on a certain hand that I misplayed it bothers me through the day and I must find the solution to any situation that I might of misplayed.....Sometimes with MTTs theres alot of spots that are borderline that you just gotta take and when they work its great, and when they dont well that sucks! Either way though I try to analyze plays that are questionable - Id rather not toss losing up to being unlucky but rather bad play.....everyone tries to blame losing on bad luck and while there is alot of luck especially in MTTs, alot of these people especially in higher stakes don't have the edge they think they do. Thats why I stick to what I play - I might be a winner in say 100r's but Id rather take a large edge in a 109 than take a small edge in a 100r.....in regards to variance over my 10 months it hasn't been too bad - heres a quick recap of what Ive experienced

-500 game breakeven stretch
-2 10k downswings
-400 game stretch of running 4 times over my expectation

Overall thats not too bad at all for what I play....while Im running above reality, theres also some things I do to keep variance down. I play smaller tournies on AP/Cake so variance is reduced, I play alot of Cake/AP tournies where my edge is large so variance is also smaller, and obviously I work on my game to constantly get better to increase my ROI.....People who play say Stars only experience the worst variance cause the fields are huge an their edges are small.....to each their own I guess

Anyways thats it for now.....I ended the week up 7500 after losing 8 tournies tonight, so its a great start to April....with the SCOOPs and FTOPS coming up hopefully I can ship big and take a vacation for the rest of the year (well maybe not).....gl to all