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.

Won 30r - still grinding sngs

So the 30r was interesting today...it was the 10k gtd on saturdays - during rebuy period I had busted my stack and was going to call it a day, but since I had the auto rebuy checked I already got 1500 in chips back so figured id rebuy again and get back on track......funny how many times I was close to giving up good things happened....anyways I had chipped up to roughly 10-11k when I flopped a set of 6s in a 3 handed pot on a board of J65 rainbow - went check check guy fired out, I called, other guy calls and turn brought a 5......I believe at this point I checked 2nd guy fired out 3rd called, I just flatted again...river came a J which obviously killed everything....at this point I was pretty screwed in the hand - I checked, 2nd guy fired around pot for like 10k, 3rd guy goes all in, I fold - 2nd guy shows a bluff, other guy showing AJ.....funny thing is if I push the flop or turn I m probably going busto.....not really a tough fold on the river there just a shitty situation....after that I ended up cracking KK with A4 after shoving like 17 bbs from button....Later on I believe I won 2 coinflips with about 5 left....3 or 4 handed I pick up QQ to RSaleh's 7s which brought me to about 180k going into HU, while the other guy had 400k.....HU was quite interesting - he was making large raises/reraises pre and postflop.....I remember a couple hands at 1200/2400 I raise to 5400 preflop, he pops it straight to 200k - interesting to say the least...anyways I ended up picking up 7s raising pre - he repopped it to something ridiculous like 60 bbs more so I got it in - he had 57o off and I held....he definitely handed me the 1st so ill take some free handouts....

sngs went so so - broke even but I was fine with that.....my goal was to just play my game and let the money go where it may......Im looking forward to the end of the race so I can relax a little and plan some vacation time....

biggest day in online poker thus far

so first of all if you play mtts dont read this, as the number will be laughable, but ended up making 6900 from playing/bonus money today.........Ive had bigger weeks then this but a single day previous record was like 5500, so I was happy........roughly 4500 of it came from SNGs, with the rest coming from a 3rd or 4th place in 20k ( I forget).....the only issue I had was my donking out of the 20k......seems like when Im shorthanded I tend to overshove bvb type situations, which leads to my busting when its not necessary...I had something like 50-60 bbs in the BB vs an sb who opened to 6 bbs - I had 88 and reraised to like 70k commiting me.....the problem with this whole situation is I basically turned my hand into a bluff - 22-77 prob fold out, alot of weaker aces fold - the worst part was this guy was semi tight and hadnt shown anything crazy he would have to give alot of credit to my reraise.....anyways he shoved, i called, he had aces.....I think the best line would be to flat here - granted the flop was 10-8-2 so I might be going broke anyways, but the ridiculous reshove was terrible by me....wish I would think twice before getting 60 bbs in preflop....outside of that hand though I thought I played well - made a couple 3 bet bluffs here and there, some value bet bluffs, etc......Im definitely making a point to not make retard shoves anymore in MTTs - I tend to not think enough when I have alot of SNGs going as well, so these plays are definitely costing me some money.....

as for the rake race, things are going well.....I believe im in 8th right now and have been turning up the heat this month.....50 hours a week for the rest of this race is my goal, so hopefully I can move up to 5th or 6th and pocket around 16k.....gl me

Running like God

For the past month or so I've been on a godlike run mainly in SNGs.....it wasn't so much the start of race cards but the past 2 weeks I've really been tearing it up....Last month I made around 20k with about 7k in bonuses, so 13k in actual play, and this month I gotta be up another 6k or so in playing/reloads....I guess this was due after my year of running bad in SNGs thus far - I think this run is equivelant or better than my run in July when I also ran like god...Ill get exact figures once the race ends as I dont feel like calculating total profits right now....As for race cards Im behind pace in terms of where I thought I would be.....I figured by now I'd be top 6 or top 7 at the very least, but Im stuck in 9th. My goal for the rest of the cards is to do 50+ hour weeks and get atleast top 5 (16k).........Id still be happy with my +40k off this whole race, but considering how good ive ran Im sure it will be more than that. On the staking front, my stakee has been doing real well - he took 2nd in the 20k gtd last week for 3200, and a couple cashes here and there......I played the 535 FTOPs shootout tonight but busted after losing two races....I don't know why SNG players think these shootouts are extremely +ev to them - granted the first table is pretty much like a SNG and theres not too much postflop play, but the 2nd table is pretty deepstacked and theres alot of good postflop players in these things...I remember the last FTOPs shootout I did was a 6 max - I won my first table and came to my 2nd table with 40-50 bbs and a ton of aggressive players....So really a high stakes sucessful MTT player would be much more +ev than any SNG player IMO in these things....Granted you could nit it up but I chose to 4 bet AQ for 35 bbs into AK :(.... oh well....

Anyways Im off to play video games.....I dont know if Ill post till the end of race cards as Im going to wait till then update the exact money figures....stay tuned

people trying to scam under my name

so I know theres a couple people trying to scam under my name....First theres z06fanatic on AIM - thats not even my AIM name...watch out for that and any others - I'd give out the second name but that would reveal my AIM name and don't need scammers trying to make things any worse. I never need money from anyone so just tell them to fuck off if they message you. that is all!

Rake Race IV has started

Things have been going well as of late. Ive had a nice upswing in MTTs/SNGs which has led to a solid start to this rake race/a good month playing wise. I decided to cut my stats through the 15th of this month so I could track stats for the whole rake race. Anyways I ended up playing in those 15 days about 37 hours with 5385.36 in actual profit from playing. Since then I've gone on a 7k upswing so Im sure this month Im around +14k overall....So the rake race started on the 15th and Im barely breaking top 10. So far Ive gotten in a little under 50 hours, somewhat slacking the first week.....I dont really have a goal profit wise during this whole race, but I was hoping for around 40k...Im also playing mtts during this race as well as playing afternoons to somewhat offset the tougher games later at night.....I stopped MTTs in past races which probably cost me a couple thousand a month. Ive also started staking someone in MTTs as of late - hes a very good player whos taught me alot lately, so I figured this was definitely +ev.....so far hes already shipped the 20r for about 2k, so Im thinking this is a good idea. As far as the stocks, I ended up +550 or so then pulling out last sunday...this turned out to be good as monday was a big drop....the bottom line is the market had a huge upswing over hte past couple weeks and i assume is going to come down....I think though I might take the money and run cause really Im probably -ev with the little I know about it. I made a nice return and think I might just wait till I know a little bit more about what the fuck im doing. Oh well thats it for now - expect an update next month

+50k roughly on the year thus far