February wrap up

Im heading out to California for vacation tomorrow so Im going to wrap up the month. It was a small month in terms of volume, but profits were very high. This turned out to be my biggest month of my poker career, and probably for a long time....Anyways heres the #s

262 MTTs Played 62,118 in profit 193% ROI

So I got in some lower than expected volume but I guess thats due to ending the month on the 23rd and slacking here and there - its tough to get in 400 mtts a month especially since I dont have 15 table and play 60% like some of the other high volume grinders, but im happy with my situation. I should of gotten a 2nd triple crown last week when I won the 501r1a AP, 162 on Cake, and the 60k on Tilt, but because the ap had under 100 entrants it didnt count....booo let me get my 2nd triple crown of the month! Overall Im obviously very happy with how the year is shaping up - Im a little under 90k in total profit for the year which is fantastic, but I also understand im running way above expectation so its not like Ill be making 500k this year.....I feel like I have a great grasp on the stakes im playing - I still dont have the chops to cut it with good thinking players, but against your average 109 FO player I feel like my edge is huge.....hopefuly I can continue to improve and take down some more larger fields next month.....Ill also be heading to AC for the WSOPC coming to town - hopefully ship a tourny there or dominate some cash games.....2010 is lookin good :)

Think I won the triple crown?

So this week was ridiculous.....Monday I won the 35k KO on tilt for 9500, Tuesday the 302r1a on Stars for 3800, and Wednesday the 80k Sniper on AP for a chopped 19,200. So this should be a triple crown but since I chopped the AP I dont know exactly how that computes. Pretty sure I am awarded 1st though cuz I had more chips during the chop and got more money. Anyways Wednesday turned out to be very interesting....I had those two ships on mon and tues and went into wednesday with hopes of winning a cake or ap for the triple crown. Its not something im dieing for but a cool little accomplishment I guess, although if you grind MTTs full time eventually you're gonna hit one. I loaded up about 20-25 MTTs on the day and had bricked all of them with 2 min cashes, and literally had the AP 80K as my last tourny to go. I was also pissed after making a questionable 4 bet in the FTP 60K with JJ into QQ, and then I blew a ton of chips in the 30r ftp when I got 77 in against AA on the flop like 60 bbs deep BvB. Anyways I was cruising in the 80k when I ran 99 into a flopped set which brought me down to 15 bbs about 20 away from cashing. At this point I went totally card dead and played the nitty shortstack game for a while...I would double up winning a race and then grind back down......Anyways I eventually got to like 30 bbs when a guy opened, I 3 bet JJ and he shoved 910 and I won...from there the ft came, it was prety nitty overall - when we got 3 handed it was me bbb333 or whatever his name is - a very good player - and a very weak non regular.....bbb wanted to get 17k rather then 15k a piece chopping, so the deal was never made....he eventually got coolered running ak into aa - this was great for me since bbb was easily the best left.....when we got hu he wanted to chop and ended up giving me 19,2 when he got like 17 something.....ill take it

hopefully feb can not go to the shitter after peaking the first week

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