What´s happened this month:
[x] I have improved my game a lot, especially my deep game.
[x] I have no fear at all for the money at this level
[x] I have no fear for my opponents (except a handful of good regs)
[ ] I am not loosing a lot of money in non-SD situations
All in all I can say it has been a really nice month. I have played decent (except for today maybe) where I´ve found a lot of situations to VB in and spots where I can abuse players. Its nice to finally be a NL400 reg!
My plan for September is to continue playing/running good at NL400 until the 17th when I am going with dusty, pinball etc to Prague to play the Unibet Open. This will be my first big live tournament so I am excited about that! I am really hoping to see some of you there!
I will also try to put in some more hands in September then this month..
Another goal for September will be to have a large enough bankroll to start taking shots at NL600. If I play as good as I am right now I feel I have a decent chance for it to be successful!
[x] Be rolled for NL50 before school starts
[ ] Play 25k hands
[x] Have fun while playing poker
[x] Run good
[x] Rely on rakeback -_-
Goals for September:
- Only play longer sessions of poker when I can absolutely afford the spare time. Hurrah for school.
- Play 25 days out of 30 for the Take Two FTP promotion
- Watch one poker video a week
- Stay at NL50.
kinda frustrating day, ran 800 below EV. 7082 hands for $591. shoulda played more but kept having to take breaks after getting crapped on by the RNG. d'oh.
Played way too many tables, I had 19 at one point. Its too much for me, too much stress. I need to cut down to 15 max at a time. Really on Sundays I should really pick my favourite tournaments. So, I was thinking about cutting out Party Poker tournaments and just play maybe two on that site. The structure of their tournaments is just so shit, I can't stand it. Also, when they move you to another table the window pops up on my other LCD top right corner and it bothers the shit out of me... LOL
The rest of the week I have off, I'm going camping to Tobermory with a bunch of people. I'm very excited to go back. I was there in the beginning of July to start my summer and there's pics of it on the site. It'll be good to start my summer camping and end it with camping. Hopefully, there won't be very many mosquetoes...
Well take care readers, and good luck on the felt and I'll be posting pics on Saturday.
Very disappointed with my August. Didn't get to play that many hands (a lot of that is primarily HU), ran terrible with a lot of frustration as well, and also didn't last very long in the APPT Macau main event (I was prob like 180th place out of 429 or so). Next month I've definitely got to step it up :|. I blame baccarat though, I'm down like 2k on there lifetime. F table games.
1.3k Online, 2.1k Rakeback, 1.1k Live = 4.5k
Not much else to say. Macau is a GREAT city if all you care about is sex and gambling, but besides that the city is so empty. I spent my 21st birthday here a couple nights ago though, and had a blast just being w/ my homies etc.
I'm leaving Macau in 2 days, back to Taiwan. After that it's going to be Macau AGAIN for the Macau Poker Cup late October, then APPT Cebu, Philippines in November.
Four more months to go, I'm at roughly +70k on the year so I gotta make ~7k a month to get to 100k+. Wish me luck
So that's $969 in buy ins. It's not a lot at all, but I'm still going to try selling some action because I'm having some cash flow problems right now and need to cash out a big chunk of my roll (rent, bills, TEXTBOOKS =[, more bills, etc).
I'm going to probably sell up to 90% of my action in these, with no markup (so buying 10% would cost $96.90). Here are my stats since starting to play MTTs seriously, which was in April of this year:
I've been playing about 30-36 MTTs a day ranging from $2 to $55 buy ins recently in the last few weeks, and I've been posting a shitload of hands while playing if anyone wants to check those out. If any of you are interested then PM me or whatever and we can work something out. Thanks!
GL all,
Joe
P.S. - It would also be cool if I could just get some kind of long-term backing deal with someone, because now that I have to cash out this money that won't be coming back I'm going to be stuck in micro and low MTTs again, which I would not like to do if I don't have to. The only problem with my volume is that I can really only play sundays for the most part because I have 8am class 5 days a week and 18 credits that I need to do really well in, but 35 tourneys each week is still about 140 tourneys a month. If anyone is interested in something like that it would be awesome - just let me know. Thanks again!
Swingy month, but ended well. Spewed a few BI vs river fish, but still managed to pay the rent
Cleared half of the $300 stars bonus as well, so no complaints
Thanks to all previous posters on the hands I put up, very helpful!
Chemistry time.
Peace LP~
I'm b/e ONLINE for the month right this second if you include rakeback. I've hardly played live since the first week of august where I busted all of my cash (almost.. expenses have been eating into the tiny remainder). God what a rough month this has been...
Hoping to post a good result next month at live & online. Hopefully playing well online too.. gonna need to get some sweats n stuff.
I accidentally registered for a HU sng deep no blind increase. The guy I played was 20+tabling these. The thing is, he only played AA. He literally folded everything else. Maybe he was playing KK, dunno. HH:
PokerStars Game #32238613179: Tournament #191327476, $21.25+$1.00 USD Holdem No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (5/10) - 2009/08/30 14:00:20 ET
Table 191327476 1 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Hero (3210 in chips)
Seat 2: #1Ultratight (790 in chips)
Hero: posts small blind 5
#1Ultratight: posts big blind 10
Holecards(Odds) Dealt to Hero
Hero: raises 60 to 70
#1Ultratight: raises 80 to 150
Hero: calls 80
Showdown #1Ultratight: shows (a pair of Aces)
Hero: shows (a flush, King high)
Hero collected 1580 from pot
Summary Total pot 1580 | Rake 0
Board
Seat 1: Hero (button) (small blind) showed and won (1580) with a flush, King high
Seat 2: #1Ultratight (big blind) showed and lost with a pair of Aces
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