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

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.

won a 75 buy in on tilt

shipped the 24k gtd on tilt for 8k on tues, along with a 2k chop of the ap afternoon 30r, and had my stakee go 3rd in the ap 20k for another 1k in profit that day. I think my 3 day week so far went -1k monday, +8k tues, -1400 today.......the 24k was a real weak tournament when we got down to the final two tables - I don't know if people were trying to move up in the money or what, but they were very tight and made it easy for me to chip up.......at the final table everyone was super nitty - people folding down to 4 bbs trying to move up payouts it was hilarious....thats the good thing about hitting bigger scores atleast mentally for me - of course everyone says they go for the win and dont think about the money, but if your dealing with a 1st place prize thats larger then uve ever hit itll definitely effect you. With this case it was 8k so it had zero effect on my play. I never look at payouts when Im deep in a tournament or at a final table - I hate knowing how much Im going to get outside of first and really any payout outside of first is a failure. I ended up winning some showdowns and got HU with like 70% of hte chips in play - we got it in pretty quickly preflop with me holding ATs vs his AKo but I flopped the flush and it was all over. Ill try to get the HH from the tournament - had a interesting hand with 12 to go that I wanted to post up.

thats it for now - im definitely gonna continue the grind for the month even with the great profit.....Im also going to try to watch some more PXF videos - ive been lazy about it but I gotta put in some more time learning the game. Alot of people when they run good think its because they played great but the reality is its alot easier to play good poker when you have easy decisions and your winning flips nonstop. Thats the problem with success - you dont learn anything from it, if anything success is bad for improving your game. You get lazy, over confident, and lose touch with reality. Some people might even move up to higher stakes when cards are running their way being blinded by luck. I know where my game stands and thats why you dont see me in 1ks, 100rs,etc where you have to play against real good players. I do well vs idiot fish but against good thinking players its alot tougher. So count me out of those MTTs for a while :)

Chopped 60k Tilt

Chopped it for 17.7k....We got HU where I had a little more chips then him, so according to ICM I got 17,701 he got 17,300.....I probably could of squeezed another 1k out of him but I had 7 other MTTs going at the time and was new to the chopping software so I just wanted to end it quick and get some extra guarneteed money. 2ND was 13k first 23k, so not in the mood to play HU for 10k. Its great finally hitting a big score and it'll help my play next time I make a FT with a 20k first place payout...Ive had so many missed opportunities even to hit 10k+ payouts so finally breaking that feels real good. I dont think I had any monster suckouts outside of beating AA with JJ at like 150/300 level for a big double. After that I ran good in terms of winning 4-5 flips, and was able to make some hands and have em hold. Either way obv have to run real good to win a 600 man tourny....Hopefully theres more nice scores like this to come

Oct wrap

October has come to an end and I had a great run towards the end....I ended up making 14,359.00 over roughly 250 tournaments - 27k in buy ins, 41,408 in cashes, resulting in a 53% ROI....the big help was a +8-9k day on the 28th - I won the 501r1a on AP, took 9th in the 60k on tilt, and then 4th in the 80k on AP for 6500...overall I was happy with how the month went - only one win but a ton of deep finishes....I think im finally out of my dry streak that lasted from sept to mid-late October. For Nov my plan is to get in 400 MTTs - I think I should be doing 100 mtts a week and any less is just me being lazy - 100 mtts is about 40 hours of work so its not like im pushing myself to do something I can't obtain. Hopefully all goes well

Im also looking around at new/used cars.....I have an 02 Corvette Z06 which is alot of fun in the warmer months, but when it rains and snows the car is useless. I've been looking around at other things but can't seem to find something that really gets me interested. Im trying to sell the z06 and only spend another 10-15k on a car so my options are somewhat limited - I still want a sports car feel with some luxury and AWD, but the prices are too high for what I want....The Audi S5 really interests me but getting a used one with low miles is gonna cost mid 40s...I can easily afford that but I just cant justify selling my car and then spending another 25k on a car. I like the Infiniti G35 Coupes as well but those only come in RWD. Same goes for used M3s and alot of other sports cars....I guess if I want to get sports car/luxury/ and AWD in one car im gonna have to shell out....Maybe I can ship a monster this month and just buy it outright :)