A Post I Made On Pocketfives

Looking for 2009 WSOP Staking

With the WSOP around the corner and all the dead money out there to be made I am interested in participating this year for the first time. However, being that I am a midstakes player and very conservative w/ my bankroll I don't feel comfortable taking shots at $1,500 to $5,000 events.

With this in mind I decided I would make myself available to be staked for WSOP events. I know there are ppl out there looking to invest but I don't know how to get in touch with them. Maybe they can find me.

Here's what I have to offer: Over the last four months I have made twenty-three final tables with twelve of them resulting in top three finishes. Here are all my 1K+ scores since December 1st (click to enlarge):

















Blue scores indicate tournaments on PokerStars, everything else is on Full Tilt Poker. I play 90% of my tournaments on Full Tilt Poker. My full results can be found on OfficialPokerRankings.com under "adamsapple19".

In addition to these MTT results I have also played over one-thousand 45-man and 90-man SNGs in the last four months with an ROI of 39%. I've even made it onto a Sharkscope leaberboard for Total Profit in 2009 (click to enlarge):





I feel like I've been a very consistent winner and have an excellent understanding of multi-table tournament strategy. I play poker for a living online (with no backers) but I'm available to play any events during the WSOP this summer.

If you're interested in working out a staking arrangement please email me at adamsapple1919@gmail.com

Shipped a Tourney... FINALLY

I won the $30 1r on Full Tilt for 3.8K and man what a relief it is. I've put in so much volume over the last few weeks and have been on a nasty nasty downswing (per my last post). This doesn't get me back to good but its a hell of a great way to start turning things around.

Its always a huge load off your shoulders to ship something when you've been running like crap. Hopefully I can build on this and start making some FTs on a regular basis again.

Gl folks.

Downswing

Well I haven't posted in a while and that's because there hasn't been anything good to post about. After four months and a +50Kish run or so I've been on about a 10K downswing over the last few weeks. I've lost so many flips and 60/40s, watched so many disgusting runner runners come, run KK into AA and QQ into KK and then when I catch the AA over KK situation I watch as the K falls. Just nasty. This is something everyone always eventually goes through and this is why I'm always talking about bankroll management as being the #1 most important thing in poker. I'll get through this because I'm patient and smart about my BR and I'll be taking down tourneys again.

45-Mans

Well I haven't been able to get anything done in MTTs for a couple weeks now and the 45-mans were looking grim there for awhile. In fact I was on a pretty nasty downswing but the 45-mans have taken a turn for the better at least. I thought I would post a couple Sharkscope graphs.






The first stat is just my $26 45-man results. I've played 599 of them and am running a 42% ROI. Thats good enough for 8th on the average profit leaderboard weeeeeee.

The second stat is my overall SNG results including when I used to grind single-table sngs. Feels pretty good to be over the 10K profit hump especially considering my average stake is only $18 bucks.

Heres my overall sng graph:



















And heres my $26 45-man graph:


















In both graphs you can clearly see my recent downswing. It was about a 35 buy-in downswing at its worst. I was losing nearly every flip, every 60/40, and every 80/20 possible. This is why bankroll management is by far the #1 most important thing when it comes to being a successful poker player. I wouldn't play 45-mans with any less than a 100 buy-in roll.

Anyway I'm happy to be on the sharkscope leaderboard and proud to say I have one of the best ROIs of any of the $26 45-man grinders on Full Tilt. I hope I can make some noise in MTTs soon cuz I haven't made a FT in almost three weeks now and I'm itching for a good score. I've been playing a lot of Sunday majors lately and have yet to even min-cash anything. Its been an awful run. But after running like God for two months I guess I had to expect things would cool off sooner or later. Oh well.

glglglgl out there!

Quick Update

Running like garbage. Fuck bubbling $163 tourneys after playing amazing for four hours. Fuck 45-mans. Fuck Sundays (don't even get me started on Sundays). But especially... FUCK STARS. I mean wtf? How can I run like complete trash for an entire month over there? I try to stay rational and focused but the non-sense never ends.

I haven't looked forward to playing lately. I finally fire up some tourneys because I have nothing better to do. I know I just won a tourney last week but I can't stand to have so many consecutive losing sessions in a row, especially now that I'm playing higher buy-in tourneys on a daily basis.

Oh well. I know this will turn around it always does. The only good news is that I should be jumping onto the $16 to $35 Average Profit Leaderboard on Sharkscope sometime today. I haven't been eligible for this leaderboard yet because you have to have at least 500 games within the $16 to $35 buy-in range to even be considered for the leaderboard. I have like 489 games right now. I'll pass the 500 mark today and probably qualify for the leaderboard. It will be important to me that I maintain my place on that leaderboard for a long time. I pretty much crush the 45-mans when I'm not running like shit.

I'll leave you with this hilarious, two-minute long video:

Ship the 20r

Shipped the afternoon 20r on full tilt for $5575. Yummy. I was under 5 BBs with fifteen players left but hung in there then caught a sick rush of cards at the FT including AA > QQ and JJ > 99 and a sick gutshot on the final hand where I bluff-committed myself to the pot and hit lol. Ppl will call me a luckbox but I play to win and I play aggressively. We don't have any control over the cards but we do have control over the amount of pressure we apply to our opponents and the spots we pick.

Anyway this was a nice little boost for me to end the month of Feb. I only had two FTs coming into today. Granted I haven't been putting in much volume but its still frustrating to go a while w/o a good score. Back at it tomorrow.

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