Stars Project Going Well

I'm on a nice upswing in the 18-man and 45-mans on Stars right now. Heres my results over the last 27 days:

























I'm still running only marginally in the $12 45-mans, barely an 11% ROI. I know I can run prbly almost double that. However my $16 18-man ROI is ridiculously high at 33%. I know thats not maintainable but I'm confident it will balance out with the 45-man ROI.

FTOPS is going basically pretty shitty thus far. I've only cashed event #1 so far but I'm playing 15 more events before its over so things could easily turn.

Glgl

Stars Project and FTOPS Update

FTOPS Event #1 was bittersweet. I finished 74th out of about 4,400 players for like $1,250. While this may sound good its really quite disappointing to be 73 players away from 190K and have to settle for 1K.

I'm not happy with my bust hand. I had 22 BBs to start the hand and opened AQo UTG for 3x and was 3-betted by the guy to my direct left (who I thought was a little tilty). I should have folded here but I ended up 4-bet shoving cause I had been so card dead for so long and thought he was kinda tilty. Obv he snaps AKcc and holds. I think the fact that I was already six hours into the tourney (tired) and the fact I was like 62/75 or something I got impatient and shipped when I KNEW I should have stayed patient. Basically it comes down to the fact I wasn't ready for a twelve hour tourney and got impatient. I'm pretty upset with myself but I learned a huge lesson in this tourney for my next deep run in a massive tourney.

The Stars Project has been going well. I haven't been keeping up with my goal of playing fifty games per day but I have been playing consistently and the results have been good. On May 5th I played 30 games. On the 6th I played 18. On the 7th I played 31 and today I played 37 for a total of 116 SNGs since my last post. Heres my results since April 15th:























Looks like I'm pretty well on course to complete my goal by the end of May but who knows. If I hit a nasty downswing it could really set me back. So far I'm only running a 4% ROI in the $12 45-mans and its really driving me nuts. I feel like I should be killing these things and even Boku87 ran an 18% ROI in them while 30-tabling so I should be able to run at LEAST that while only 8-tabling. So I think with a little more time I'll get that 45-man ROI up there where it should be. More to come on this.

Sunday is a big FTOPS day for me as I'll be playing five events so hopefully something good happens there.

Gl folks!

FTOPS and my Stars Project

Its been a while since I've posted. Things have been a little weird w/ my sleep cycle and I've been awake in the mornings and asleep at night when I usually play MTTs on Full Tilt. As a result I have barely been playing on FT and mostly focusing on my little project on Stars. However all that will change with FTOPS on the horizon. More on that in a bit.

This "little project" on Stars involves grinding out small stakes SNGs from a $500 roll into a 4K roll. Since April 15th I've played a little over 600 SNGs with about 1K profit. I'm 8-tabling turbo 45-man and 18-man SNGs. I'm getting more comfortable too. This was inspired by Boku87 and his famous challenge a couple months back of turning $100 into 10K in 15 days playing small stakes only. I was pretty fascinated by it and now I'm doing my own less intense version.

Up until now, however, I haven't been playing daily with much consistency. I'm only averaging 28 games per day. I want to be playing at least fifty SNGs per day until I reach my goal of having 4K profit. Hopefully blogging about it will keep me motivated to keep up with this. Heres what my stats and graph look like since April 15th (about 3 weeks ago) when I started this:

























The players at these levels make so many mistakes its like playing a whole different game than I'm used to. I've had to adjust my style accordingly. Im hoping that if I can play at least fifty games every day I can reach my goal of 4K profit before the month of May is over. This will be my little self-challenge.

Also this month is FTOPS. Yup every three months Full Tilt throws up the circus tents and brings in the exotic animals to kick off another round of huge tourneys with huge fields and huge payouts. Up until now I never really have got caught up in the "FTOPS Fever" but I'm pretty excited this time around. I've gone over the schedule in great detail and at the moment I'm set to play at least 24 events for a total cost of about $3,300 in buy-ins. I determined what events I'll play based on my strength in those games and my bankroll of course. I hate PLO but I'm pretty good at the limit stud and razz games. I'm pretty good at HORSE (though for some reason its HEROS this time around???) Of course NLHE is my strongest game. I may end up playing more events depending on whats going on.

So hopefully by the time May is over I'll have an FTOPS jersey, a significantly larger bankroll, and completed my goal successfully on stars. If not thats ok too. I plan to blog more often (MUCH more often) hopefully daily in fact to keep track of my Stars progress and FTOPS. I feel pretty good about this month.

Glglglgllglgllglglglglglglgl out there everyone!!!

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.