Ship UB 30r

for 4.8k. Sweet. About time I shipped something too.















36k profit on the year.

Did Christian Kruel, a red Full Tilt pro, really leave a comment on my last post?

Speaking of Sundays...

I just got done making a post on Saturday about how I've gone the whole year without a Sunday score and how it's affected my pace and finishing the year with 100K profit.

Well just to dick-tease me yesterday I guess, I finished 7th in the Sunday 20r on Full Tilt for 1.5k. My JJ lost to 99 aipf xJQK10. Pretty fucking absurd though. 1st place was worth 12.2k and that was virtually a chip lead pot.

I mean, I'm gonna need those kinds of 10k+ scores if I'm gonna get to 100k. What a completely frustrating result.

And just to put into perspective how effectively worthless the 7th place money is, I was in for 1.1k in buyins yesterday. So all I really did was break even.

I mean, I guess I'm gonna do some bitching and whining and moaning right now so if you don't wanna hear it then this would be the time to stop reading.

I feel like I've been "breaking even" all year long to be completely honest. And while my graph and actual results don't reflect that I can't help but feel it strongly. For the amount of work I've put in so far this year I feel like I should have more profit and be more satisfied with my results.

I've bubbled the FT of the NSG on Stars twice this year. I've bubbled the FT of the Fifty/Fifty on Full Tilt twice this year. Those are my only nightly chances of a 10k+ score.

And then yesterday I'm finally in position for a fantastic Sunday midstakes score and it gets brutally taken away from me.

I realize this is all pretty standard but at the same time I've got my fingers crossed that I run better in key spots in bigger tourneys in the second-half of this year. I mean, I don't see how I can get to 100K profit unless I do.

Ok well I guess I'm done complaining now about how shitty I run ha. I know it's tough for ppl who don't really have any kind of results in poker to read a post like this and think "damn I'd gladly have his results..."

Alright well GL out there and keep your chins up. Good things happen to people who constantly strive for them.

Back From Vegas

So I took a quiet trip to Vegas from Mon the 14th through yesterday, Fri the 18th. I stayed at the Venetian and played one of the $350 Deepstack Events. I played for seven hours and busted long before the money, running KK into AA. You really get heaps of bang for your buck in the Deepstacks.

It was completely weird how I knew the guy had AA too. But it was like my online conditioning just wouldn't let me fold KK. I was kinda disgusted with myself.

Anyway, I was supposed to play more Deepstacks but I ended up playing some cash and really just spending lots of time in my suite. I actually played online Thurs night on my laptop and made a couple FTs ha.

K so I'm back though and ready to get back to my schedule and back to my goal of making 100K this year. I've only logged 180 MTTs this month and I'm figuring I need something like 400 to 500 MTTs/month to meet my goal given the pace I'm currently on. I'm not sure I can manage that without burning myself out or getting too depressed again when the inevitable extended downswing hits.

It's difficult to calculate an "MTT Profit Pace" though really. I mean, I can get a pretty good idea of what kind of profit I can expect from my nightly MTT grind but Sundays are a whole different ball game. I end up spending a decent chunk on those tourneys and because they only come once a week and have heaps of players it's difficult to get a good sample size. I've gone basically half the year without a Sunday hit (totally normal) and that reflects my current pace. I could hit like back-to-back good Sunday scores and it would totally change my pace so...

Anyway GL out there guys and I hope to have some more results posted soon.

Edit: Trying out some new things on my blog here. There are a bunch of new templates to choose from so I thought I'd go for a fresh look. Also added some music. I like it. 

30K

Broke the 30k mark tonight.

May Recap

I put in some good volume (by my standards) in May and had a pretty solid month. Even though it started out like complete shit it rapidly turned around (as is the nature of MTTs).
















I played 304 MTTs in May with a total profit of $6,323.36

Average buyin = $42.68
Average Profit/Game = $20.80

As a whole, I've been very consistent this year so far with my playing/volume. As I've said before, this is the most important thing for me. Simply just getting in there and playing and then the results come.

I hope to carry on my consistency into June and throughout the rest of the year.

gl out there readers.

edit: I've added a Month-by-Month chart to my blog showing the breakdown of each month's data for this year. Click the graph at the top of the page to see it.