Days 4 and 5

I have played sparingly over the last couple of days. I plan on putting in quite a few SnG's tomorrow. Here are my numbers for the last couple of days.

Day 4 (Nov. 1)

8 SnG's played
$7.20 Profit
11.43% ROI

Day 5 (Nov. 2)

12 SnG's played
$53.70 Profit
52.65% ROI

Overall

54 SnG's played
$454 buy-ins
$627.30 winnings
$173.30 profit
38.17% ROI
$3.21 profit per game

$10.53 Rakeback
$20.00 Bonus

$3,000 Goal
$203.83 profit including RB and Bonuses
$2796.17 Difference

Days 1,2, and 3

Well I officially started my challenge on Monday. Here is how the first 3 days have gone so far. I have included today since I will not play tonight when I get home from work. I have just played on Full Tilt so far. I will start playing on Stars in the next couple of days.

Monday 10/29: Day 1

26 SNG's
Profit $24.70
11.18% ROI
Rakeback $5.26

Tuesday 10/30 : Day 2

Did not play

Wednesday 10/31: Day 3

8 SNG's
Profit $87.70
128.97% ROI
Rackback not sure but probably around $1.50.

Totals-

Games: 34
Buy-ins: $289
Winnings: $401.40
Difference: $112.40
ROI: 38.89%
Profit per game: $3.31

Goal: $3,000
Progress: $117.66 including rakeback and bonuses
Needed to reach goal: $2,882.34

3K in 100 days

Well I am starting a new challenge....and hopefully I will finish this one. I am focusing on my Sit n' Go game and I will exclusively play SNG's for the next 100 days and will be looking to make 3k. I will play on both Stars and Tilt and will abide by the 45 buy-in rule on each site. As of right now I will be playing mainly 9 man turbos on both sites ($6 and $11 turbos on Tilt and $6 turbos on Stars). I will post the results everyday I play. I am kinda excited to see how things pan out. I am also going to count my rakeback on Tilt as well towards the overall goal. Let the games begin.

Stagnet

I really haven't played much at all in the past couple of weeks. I had a really bad session last night....the kind that makes you wonder why I even play this game. Then I had a decent couple of sessions today, kind of stopping the bleeding from yesterday. I have tried playing some $.50/$1 heads up and was doing fairly well until one of my opponents decided to hit and run after they got lucky and then I titled a bit. I just need to stick to 4 tabling the $.25/.50 games right now, since I seem to play my best there. I am up $121 this month, so a winning month is a good month. I need to really get my rakeback account set up. I figured that the little bit I have played of the last 2 months, if I did have a rakeback account, I would have earned an extra $72. That all adds up in the long run and it only gets higher the higher stakes you play. Who doesn't like free money?

Good Start

Well I just logged a session, my first one for August and I did fairly well. I played almost 500 hands and was +$121.80. I was involved in and won one of the weirdest hands every. I will post that later.

Monthly goal $500.00
Cash earnings +$121.80
Difference -$378.20

Lackluster End of the Month

I had a bad end of the month in July. At one point during the month I was up almost $600 in cash games. I proceeded to lose almost 4 buy-ins in the last 3 days of the month. Some of it was bad luck, but some of it was also really bad play on my part. Again I need to slow down and take my time to analyze the hand and the action. When I do this I seem to have better results. So for the month I ended up +387.00. Not horrible, but not where I was hoping to be. I continue to play horrible at tourneys, so I think I will scratch them for a while.

My August goal is to make $500 playing cash games and SNG's again. I will be playing the $6.50 turbos on Stars and Full Tilt. I will also try and play about 5k hands in cash games. ( I played about 3.5k in July) I will try and give updates 2-3 times a week on the challenge.

Below are my Poker Tracker Stats from July.

Another Decent Session.

Well I played a pretty long session yesterday deep into the night. I was watching the final table of the WSOP and I think that it affected my performance, taking my concentration away from the games I was playing. I ended up playing 583 hands 3 tabling. It was a complete roller coaster ride. I started out great and was up a little more than 2 buy-ins (somewhere around $105 or so). Then like I said I don't think I was fully concentrating and I made some bad calls/plays, allowing people to catch up or get lucky. I was at a low point of -$80 or so and then finally climbed back to finish the session up $5.55. I need to just get up when I know I am up and find another table to sit and play at. I have tried many times to play long sessions after getting up early and I always seem to manage to loose the money I have earned.

I have read a few things about short stack play in cash games lately so I decided to give it a try today. I normally play $.25/.50 cash games, also known as $50 NL, since this is the max you can buy in for at this game. I always sit down with a full buy-in, usually at 2-3 tables. I decided to play some $1/2, or 200 NL, but only buy-in for $50 or 1/4 or the buy-in and play just really super tight aggressive. I ended up playing 54 hands and was +$131 for the session. I realize this won't happen every time, but it was a good start.

My tourney play of late has been nothing but weak I believe. Mix that in with a little bit of bad time/unlucky timing and you get some really lack luster results. About six months ago I would have said that I was a decent tourney player and a poor cash game player. I think things have changed a bit. I believe that I am right about average in the cash game department and I am heading down hill in the tourneys. One area I haven't explored much lately is SNG's. Andy and I were tearing up the low limit SNGs on Full Tilt about 4-6 months ago. I really haven't played many of them at all since I moved. Maybe I should look at playing 40-50 a week and see how my bankroll can handle it.

Overall I am having an ok month in cash games. I will give a final figure once the month ends.

Good Session

Well I played for about 45 minutes today before work and had a really good session. I was playing decent, get some decent cards and was playing against some people that were will to bluff off all their chips w/ nothing or middle pair.
So I played 199 hands and was +$133.55. Not to bad. You can click on the picture about to see my Poker Tracker Stats for the session. I haven't figured out how to make the picture bigger and clearer. I will work on that for next time.

Super Short Session

I managed to fit in a really short session today before work. I played 101 hands at .25/.50 and ended up $34.65. Not bad at all. I would take these results everyday. I did take about 15 minutes before and set up my Poker Ace Hud to my liking. I think this will really help me out.

First Post

I was really excited about playing on Sunday, which was the first time I had been really excited in a long time. PokerStars was running a $10/100K guarantee. It actually turned out to be a 150K prize pool with first place getting almost 19k. Wow that is nice and all for $10. So my plan was to play in a quite a few tourneys and I was planning on having a big day. Unfortunately it didn't work out. I can't seem to get over the hump in the tourneys. I either play really bad or I get unlucky at terrible spots. I don't even remember what a final table looks like. I got really attached to some hands in spots that I should have laid them down. I need to quit thinking that people are bluffing me all the time.

I played in 13 tourneys and cashed 4 times and none of any significance...blah! Here are the break downs-

Full Tilt:535 out of 540 - I should never go out this early in a tourney w/ a low pp. I think this set the tone for the day.

Full Tilt:24 out of 90

Stars: 7071 out of 15000. This was the 100k guar. It was the largest online tournament field ever.

Absolute:282 out of 504

Absolute: 465 out of 738

Stars: 392 out of 779

Full Tilt: 32 out of 45

Full Tilt: 42 out of 555. (Cashed)

Absolute: 11out of 29

Full Tilt: 27 out of 208 (Cashed)

Absolute: 29 out of 481 (Cashed)

Stars: 223 out of 1775 (Cashed)

Stars: 310 out of 360.

So the night at least ended better than it started with me cashing in 4 of the last 6 tourneys.

So I was -$30.77 in tourneys.

I did also end up playing a little bit of cash games. I was +$20.66. So all in all not a super horrible day, but definitely some major room for improvement.

-$30.77 tourneys
+$20.66 cash

Total for day -$10.11