November Goals and The Recap Of October

October Goals:
20,000 hands at 10nl.
Didn't even come close to this. I put in 11332 hands at -5.37 bb/100

5o MTT with at 3-5 FT and a win
I only played 28 but FT 2 never came away with a win though. 4th was my best effort.

roi.. closer to positive and probably was positive for october cant really tell.

November's Goals are simple:

Taking a break for awhile & When I return make a profit.

October Goals

This is something I have been doing a lot more of lately. I want to have a good measure of how I am doing. Anyways I laid out a few goals I would like to achieve this month.

I want to put in 20k hands at 10NL this month. I am trying to figure out the science and art of the cash game. I want to be able to have positive win rate and be able to move up to $25 NL in November.

I want to play 50 MTT this month and final tabling 3-5 of them with a win. I do not think that cashing in 10-12 is out of the question.

My final goal is to get my sitngo ROI into the positives. Just downloaded the free trial of SitNGo Wiz so that should help.

One final note. I have a tournament scheduled for the first saturday of this month. $100 buyin 10 people. First place is looking at $700. Looking to take that down. Its a deepstack event with the family and I think it has my name written on it.

Here I go Again.

So I had seriously considered stop playing poker at one point in the last month or so. However I went to Seneca Allegany Casino and chopped (heads-up) an $120 MTT. I had been wanting to start and account on FullTiltPoker for some time now so I can get rakeback. Finally had the cash and a little extra time to do it.

So I deposited $250 of my winnings onto FullTilt and I Stack Green was ready to go. Started off playing 10 NL max (.05/.1) and $6 sit n gos. Lost a few buy ins and no real end of the downswing was in sight. Until I discovered the $13.75 token heads up tournaments. Way outside my roll but I consider myself to be an above-average heads-up player. I have won 3/4 I played in. So the first one I won I used my entry into FT's 11500 guarantee KO tournament. Finished in 29 outta 712 for 68.35 and collected $16 in bounties ($4 each). The very next night I won another token so I decided to play the 32000 guarantee. Had a very nice run, making the final table, finishing 5th outta 1405 and a cash of $2024. I was in 7 coinflips all night and the only one I lost was the last hand of the tournament. Fitting I suppose because I doubled up the first hand of this tournament on a coinflip.

Plan on withdrawing 1200 to put on my loans and get my car fixed. Roll will stand right around $950 once I get the approval to have FT send me a check. As of now I am playing in $15 MTT, $20 Sit n Gos and 25 max NL. First time I have had a decent bankroll and I am looking to start making decent cash. Could also potentially have a few referrals for rakeback so that helps the account as well.

I am playing some pretty good poker at the moment and look forward to building upon my success.

First Live Results

Ouch is all I can say. I wasnt mad with how I played more shocked at how live poker is so much looser. I have read others accounts on live experiences and guess I couldnt gain a full appreciation for how bad players are until I played. Anyways on to the results.

I played in Mountaineers $60 tournament at 715 P.M. 59 people entered and I liked my chances to make the final 7 (ITM). I finished either 15th or 16th couldnt tell you exactly. I really messed up on what turned out to be my last hand. I called an allin when I meant to push. I had AK and checked down to the river on a pretty harmless board so I pushed allin. Dude hit his A5 on the river to knock out myself and the other allin guy.

1/2 was a trip! Very loose table hit a few hands but nothing major. Miracle rivers knocked me down to next to nothing and it was push and pray time. I know I could make money at 1/2 just bought in for 100 then 75. Thats a game in which you need to BI for the max or pretty damn close. I would have liked my chances sitting on 200 in that game.

All together the night cost me 235 plus gas. I liked my play and I plan on going back with the roommates during the school year.

First Live Experience

Sure I have played in bar tournaments a few times and also while I was in Florida last summer I played a tournament in there cardroom. However today is my first live ring game experience. I am going to Mountaineer Casino in West Virginia and plan on playing 1/2 for anywhere between 150 and 200. I will post a new blog with my results either tonight or tomorrow.

Updating my 10k progress

Over the past two months Ive been extremely busy with finals and working like crazy. Plus I met a great girl so time has been scarce. Anyways here is my progress:

On Pokerstars I have played 106 tournaments with total buyins of 718 and total payouts of 774 for a profit of $56.

Cash game wise I have made $47 over 69 hours and 17 minutes.

Account stands at 113.04

On AbsolutePoker I have played 60 tournaments with $710 and total payouts of 600. A net loss of $110. The highlight was winning a PLO tournament only the second time I played it.

One cash game made $3 over two hours.

Account stands at 281.65

Total: 394.69

10K CHALLENGE

Short and Sweet Version here it goes since March 6.

Absolute Poker: Sent my friend $50 to get $50 on PokerStars. Sent a different friend $10 to play some blackjack. Also have withdrew $225 to buy kegs and food. Account is currently at 378.87.

Anyways played in 73 tournies with total buy ins of 965 and total payouts of 1360. A profit of $395

Cash games I have played in 6 (quite a few more actually but I don't record gains or losses of less than $1) I have lost $69. 40 of this was from taking a shot at .50/1 which obviously is way outside of my bankroll but was feeling dumb that day.

Profit in the last month and a half is 325.60 on Absolute and 7.62 on Pokerstars.

PokerStars: Started with the $50 that my friend sent me. Played in mostly sitngos with a couple MTTs. Have had minor success. I have played in 19 tournaments with buy ins of $62 and payouts of $77 for a profit of $15. I must be missing some number because my account only shows a 57.62 for the balance. Oh well not really concerned about PokerStars that account is mainly for fun.