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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Irony

On Tuesday I bought a very nice used truck, A black Chevy S-10. Its puuurty.

I paid for it with cash, poker money (brag obv :)

On Thursday I found out my drivers license was getting suspended for six months.

Neat.

Apparently I had a few speeding tickets and went over my point limit. It also didn't help that I've had my license suspended a couple times before and that I've had seventeen speeding tickets since 2001 ha. Its nothing to brag about but if there were an award for most speeding tickets 9 to 14 MPH over the speed limit I'd be the winner. Just to be clear I've never had a DUI or any kind of reckless driving ticket. In fact I've never even been in a wreck. I'm a pretty safe driver to be honest I'm just a magnet for countless minor speeding infractions.

My lawyer says theres a small chance he can get this thing repealed or some legal term but he doesn't sound too confident so I'm not holding my breath.

I'm trying to view this as a positive thing. I'm trying to take the "Whenever one door closes another one opens" approach. This is how I'm seeing this situation:

In the past whenever I've had success online with tourneys I would get burned out and not feel much like playing anymore. I'd take a week off or I would go play live games around town or just mess around at night and not play poker. I was wasting so much potential online success. Well the "opportunity" here is that I'm pretty much stuck at home for a long time and this forces me to play poker online. This has got to be +EV given my success in MTTs and 45-man SNGs.

I would like to set some kind of goal to accomplish in online poker between now and August 24th (when I get my license reinstated). I'm open to suggestions.

Nothing much else going on. I'm planning on going back out to Vegas in early April for the next Venetian Deep Stack Series. Between now and then though, for the month of March, its gonna be a serious online grind for me.

Well thats it. I should be posting pretty frequently now that I'll be home and playing a lot. I hope its all good news :)

glglglglgllglglglglgl

Airports

I'm at the airport in Salt Lake City waiting for four hours for my plane so I can fly home to Colorado. God I hate airports and I hate flying. I'm not sure exactly what it is about aviation travel but I know standing in massive lines at McCarren Airport in Vegas and being hearded around like cattle is no picnic. Anyway...

I ended up making nearly 5K in Vegas playing 1/2 and 2/5 cash and a small tourney win. Thats not bad for four days of play. I played for nearly three days straight and it was an absolute blast. I can't wait to go back again. The Venetian is running the Deepstack events again in April and I'm prbly gonna be heading out for a full two weeks and playing 10 or 12 tourneys.

I met tons of awesome poker players and made a few online contacts so it'll be cool running into them online after having played live with them.

Tonight I've got a poker league tournament but starting Saturday I'm excited to get back to grinding online MTTs again and making FTs. There is nothing like the thrill of playing in high pressure money situations where you can sense your opponents hesitation and put the pressure on full throttle.

My birthday is Sunday also. I'm not sure how I feel about turning twenty-seven. All I know is I'm definitely not getting any younger and there are certain things I want to have accomplished before I'm thirty. Oh well more on all that later.

glglglglgl

Vegas Update

It's been a very fun trip so far. I got in late Monday afternoon and didn't have time to do any tourneys @ The Venetian so I played the little $65 buy-in @ The Sahara where I'm staying and took it down for $1600ish. Ninety-two players. Was definitely a blast. Then I played the $330 Deepstack @ The Venetian yesterday and bustod in like level nine with QQ < JJ aipf AQ9108 (so gay) for a monster pot. There were 300 players and first paid just over 26K. Sigh. I am going to hit one of these someday.

Anyway afer that I played the 7pm $120 tourney with 151 players and bustod 10th. Following that I played 1/2 NL for 14 consecutive hours all thru the night and walked with 2K. I was so exhausted that I couldn't even play the deepstack tourney @ noon today and had to come back to my hotel room for some sleep. Oh well.

I'm playing some incredible poker right now and my reads and my aggression and my confidence are all at the right levels. I'm considering extending my trip for a few extra days but I'm not sure yet. Hope fully all continues to go well.

Also I've been meeting some sick sick good poker players who couldn't be any cooler. Last night I played with this guy Adam whos the same age as me and also makes his living playing online poker. We joked around for hours and talked poker strategy on the cash table. I really enjoy playing live more than I enjoy playing online but I wouldn't give up online poker for the world. Its so good to get out from in front of the computer and interact with "real" players.

Well hopefully theres more to update soon. Glglglgllglglglgl everyone!

Can't Sleep

My flight leaves for Vegas in like 6 hrs and I can't sleep. I hate flying and usually can't sleep prior to the day of flying. I've just been up messing around online.

FTOPS was pretty horrible for me. I played most of the NLHE freezeouts events except for the shootouts. I only cashed the 109r. The ME was ridiculous as was everything else. Oh well. These monster tourneys are supposed to be ridic 99.9% of the time.

I'm looking forward to playing live in Vegas.

Why can't I stop watching this?