So the month has came to an end - ended up around 13k in profit - the worst month since September....the funny part was I was at like 4k on Monday then had a +9k tues to get me up there......anyways as you can tell im off to a huge start in 2010 more than I could of anticipated......with that said im going to stop posting financial figures in my blog - I actually had a wierd situation wtih selling my car where a guy found info on me and didnt want to buy it, so goin to try to limit how much information I give out over the net.....Ill def talk about my wins or losses, but wont get into the #s
I also recently sold my corvette z06 and bought a 2008 335xi - found a great deal on one for 30,750 and picked it up last week....been loving the car too much! looking forward to good weather to full enjoy it..
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Anyone want some coaching?
Well I was on 2p2 looking at coaching threads and thought, hey I could see myself doing that. I'm obviously not the greatest at MTT/MTT SNG play, but a proven winner at mid stakes/some high stakes games over a decent sample. Now I don't even know who reads this blog but I figure I'll post this up anyways. I'm looking to coach small stakes/midstakes MTT/SNG players, whether that maybe be reviewing HHs, reviewing HHs via skype, sweating players, or any other form of coaching they may want. My sharkscope results show the following for MTT play
YouGotBeat 1,022 games played, 80,198 in profit, 73% ROI
Z06Fanatic 764 games played, 75,106 in profit 92% ROI (never counted my 80k win)
Richard Gere 432 games played 30,655 in profit 64% ROI
Stars is about even so I wont even post :(.......anyways my sample isn't that large for results via tracking sites, but thats over 200k in profit dating back to June. Why do I want to coach? I enjoy the game of poker and enjoy talking about it on a more indepth level and like to see people succeed(sp?).....I had one student already for a session over skype that went well...anways my rate will prob be around 80/hr - my hourly in MTTs is probably higher but this is variance free and atleast I can do an hour and stop....anyways if you're interested reply here otherwise I'll post back when those figs double and hopefully garner some interest!
YouGotBeat 1,022 games played, 80,198 in profit, 73% ROI
Z06Fanatic 764 games played, 75,106 in profit 92% ROI (never counted my 80k win)
Richard Gere 432 games played 30,655 in profit 64% ROI
Stars is about even so I wont even post :(.......anyways my sample isn't that large for results via tracking sites, but thats over 200k in profit dating back to June. Why do I want to coach? I enjoy the game of poker and enjoy talking about it on a more indepth level and like to see people succeed(sp?).....I had one student already for a session over skype that went well...anways my rate will prob be around 80/hr - my hourly in MTTs is probably higher but this is variance free and atleast I can do an hour and stop....anyways if you're interested reply here otherwise I'll post back when those figs double and hopefully garner some interest!
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
50r win and some thoughts on how becoming complacent can be the devil
first off, i won the 50r ap 2nite for 5k and change....i came into the ft 3rd or 4th in chips - ended up chipping up here and there - when we got 4 handed i donated alot of chips to pokerho when i got 88 in the bb vs his button open with 30 bbs or so - we got it in he had kk.....I then chipped back up and lost anotehr big race to him , but eventually won a big race and had 4-500k in chips 3 handed.....we got hu and eventually i 3 bet qj pre, flopped the nuts, and buried every street till i got paid off by k8 for like a 80 bb pot on a 89T93 board
Ok now a little bit about complacency in poker.....you see it alot - people get good at one form of poker, grind it for hours on end and save up the money, never thinking about the future.....at the same time, they dont improve their skillset, thus just grinding out their hourly and praying that the hourly will always be there....well we've seen how much tougher games have gotten, especially SNGs, and people have to realize mindlessly grinding and never improving is a recipie for long term failure - yes you can still make plenty of money, but the games continue to get harder, so if you're not ahead of the average pace you're losing money slowly.....SNGs have been the big example of this - SNGs back in 2004 were ridiculously easy and extremely profitable - big winners were making 500k+ plus for sngs! its pretty amazing to think about compared to todays profits....I think after looking on SS for 2009 the biggest winner had 80k or so in actual profit? Now thats now bad with bonuses - I mean its still possible to make 100-150k with SNGs but nowhere near where they use to be, and in 2010 the games will get harder.....MTTs too aren't the toughest thing to beat - the 109s and under don't require amazing poker skills to beat - playing 20-30 bb stacks isn't that tough, but its still very profitable....anyways the point is to always improve your game if you plan on playing this game for a long time - you see alot of players come and go and very few are still playing for a living over a 5+ year period - just realize if your not improving daily your losing money
Ok now a little bit about complacency in poker.....you see it alot - people get good at one form of poker, grind it for hours on end and save up the money, never thinking about the future.....at the same time, they dont improve their skillset, thus just grinding out their hourly and praying that the hourly will always be there....well we've seen how much tougher games have gotten, especially SNGs, and people have to realize mindlessly grinding and never improving is a recipie for long term failure - yes you can still make plenty of money, but the games continue to get harder, so if you're not ahead of the average pace you're losing money slowly.....SNGs have been the big example of this - SNGs back in 2004 were ridiculously easy and extremely profitable - big winners were making 500k+ plus for sngs! its pretty amazing to think about compared to todays profits....I think after looking on SS for 2009 the biggest winner had 80k or so in actual profit? Now thats now bad with bonuses - I mean its still possible to make 100-150k with SNGs but nowhere near where they use to be, and in 2010 the games will get harder.....MTTs too aren't the toughest thing to beat - the 109s and under don't require amazing poker skills to beat - playing 20-30 bb stacks isn't that tough, but its still very profitable....anyways the point is to always improve your game if you plan on playing this game for a long time - you see alot of players come and go and very few are still playing for a living over a 5+ year period - just realize if your not improving daily your losing money
Monday, March 8, 2010
chopped up the 40k tilt
Last Wed I chopped the tilt 40k for 9800 or so......I got heads up and had 1.6 mil to about 500k and icm dictacted he'd get 1k over 2nd place but he wanted more.....since he had nitted most of it and hadnt shown being that good I declined and said take icm or we play....we ended up playing and i ended up losing a race to him....eventually we got to about 900k in chips a piece and decided to chop it up - blinds were high and even if i had an edge it wasnt that big at that point.....I think its definitely been to my advantage to have all these scores over the past 6 months - when I get to the ft's with 10k+ 1st place payouts I dont think about the money whatsoever....i remember back in August id make a ft with first being 8k and worry bout it - now first can be 30k and it doesnt influence me...its definitely helpful as you can see others tighten up trying to move out the payouts which makes it insanely +ev to chip up off of them
anyways its a nice little start to the month.....I want to get in some good volume in march, but its tough being motivated lately.....its really a grind but i gotta toughen up and get in my games.....we'll see how march pans out
anyways its a nice little start to the month.....I want to get in some good volume in march, but its tough being motivated lately.....its really a grind but i gotta toughen up and get in my games.....we'll see how march pans out
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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 :)
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 :)
Thursday, February 4, 2010
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
hopefully feb can not go to the shitter after peaking the first week
Friday, January 29, 2010
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.
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.
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