My New Plan

Well November turned out to be a pretty good month. One of my most exciting and stressful months of poker in a while. Massive swings, huge sessions and days I wanted to cry myself to sleep. Overall I'm up about 3.5k in everything this month, with most of my profits coming from HU PLO. I dropped about $600 buying shares of people for the month (not one person turned a profit for me) but also got my foot in the door getting staked myself. I have been able to play a lot of the bigger tourneys that I was under rolled for before by selling some of my action.

FTOPS was disappointing, not a single cash. But was able to get some semi deep runs in Sunday Majors this month, but nothing really worth noting on the tourney front.

I've been trying to figure out my plan for next month and have come up with an idea of what I want to be doing.

Here's my two option
1) Deticate all of my time to HU PLO
- Probably my most profitable game
- Very swingy and stressful
2) Split my time between HU PLO and MTTS
- MTTs have been BE for me as of late
- Being able to play MTTs will make some days less stressful and also I can get staked for some of my tourneys to decrease varience

I decided to go with option #2. I feel if I played strictly PLO I would have the ability to make much more money but with Mini FTOPS coming up and my growing ability to get staked for the majority of my tourneys I play I have decided that splitting my action for now will be best.

So I'm ready to go. Thankgiving was a nice break but I wanna get back to the pokers. I have a fun touney schedule picked out for this evening. So hopefully I can bink one off, sooner rather than later.

Weekend Pokers

Well I'm posting again from work so I don't have any graphs to put up but let me tell you it was one hell of a weekend. I'm pretty sure I'm down a good chunk of money but I haven't had the time to actually sit down and think about where I'm at bankroll wise. Let me just say that PLO HU Deep is a hell of a game.

I had my second 2k downswing in PLO this month. OMG its such an aggravating game. I guess I'm just not used to the swings but they are brutal. It's not so much me flipping bad its just getting into brutal spots or running terrible in 3bet/4bet pots. I feel like my game is pretty solid and I'll be able to work my way out of the hole once again.

I'm still up on the month but it just so annoying when you pull yourself back out of a downswing. Just breakeven, then dump in the next couple session.

Also I've been playing a lot of the weekend tourneys lately. Got a couple deep finishes this Sunday but they were basically just teasers barely breaking even on tourneys for the weekend. I'm just glad I was able to get my backers some money back after getting crushed in the first 4/5 tourneys I was backed for this weekend.

Here's by bust out hand in the 750k for 119th
Also busted AT v 22 for 100ish in the 150k ($163) on FTP

Also if anyone is interested I'm selling pieces of Mini FTOPS on 2p2. Check out this link if your interested or you can AIM me at SeanN042: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/135/staking/miniftops-15-event-package-640420/

Tourneys

After Playing a bunch of the FTOPS tourneys I got the urge to grind out MTTs for a little bit (or a least try to fit a couple into my schedule). I played the following little baby tourneys yesterday to so I could help get the feel for MTTs once again:

18:00 $26 NLHE 27,500gar
18:10 $44 Sat to 75k
18:15 $26 HA PLHE 5k gar
18:25 $26 sat to Sunday Brawl
18:30 $26 NLHE HU 4k gar
18:35 $5.5 NLHE Rebuy ($45 total with rebuys)
19:40 $26 Sat to the 750k
20:00 $26 NLHE 35k gar
21:00 $12 Daily Double A
21:02 $12 Daily Double B
21:15 $26 PLO 5k gar

Here's a couple cool hands/or busto hands from the tourneys:

Busto 5 Re - http://weaktight.com/1709571
- Good Call, Bad Result

I seriously accidently misclicked this one. It was so perfect (note, did not ship pot) http://weaktight.com/1709574

Hand against solid reg in the 35k. Leveled myself into calling the river http://weaktight.com/1709577]

I cashed both daily doubles for:
Daily Double B - 131 of 1200
http://weaktight.com/1709580

Daily Double A - 25 of 1400+
http://weaktight.com/1709582
http://weaktight.com/1709585


Stayed up later than I wanted to and didn't make any money....fucking poker.

Blog Update

Hello everyone,

I haven't been able to update my blog at all lately just because of lack of time. I've been working a "free" internship 30-40 hours a week along while playing poker almost every day to pay my bills and maintain my lifestyle. Basically I will be graduating from college finally this December so I'm going to finally have that monkey of my chest and can move on to bigger and better things.

I've been playing a lot of poker later. I'll post a graph when I get home. Basically I've been running decent. I'm really not going to complain about anything. I've been playing a bit of everything CAP NLHE, 6 max NLHE, HU NLHE and most recently HE PLO. I'm up quite a bit but not really what I'm accustomed because i've been playing lower stakes and haven't been able to put in my usual volume.

I also got a couple stakes for the FTOPS recently which I blanked on :-( Just ran terrible. Busted out of all my tournies rather quickly and didn't come close to the money in anything. Although I did manage to eek out 2/3 FTOPS ME sat wins so that was nice.

So I guess that's that. I'll try to keep this blog updated once or twice a week.

Well I'm back

Well I took a long break from poker basically trying to get my life on track. It's been a nice well deserved break but I've cashed out and spent over half of my poker roll to support my degenerate habits and excessive spending. So I've decided to get back to the grind and try to make a couple bucks this month.
I've decided to return to the game I enjoy the most, shorthanded CAP NLH, but due to bankroll deficiencies I've had to move down to 1/2 and OMG there are so many terrible players here. Its just been a huge mess of shit. Outplaying bitches, scooping tons of pots. I've ran ok, I think I'm 200 below EV on the month and have been coolered a bunch. My first 10k hands was just a terrible grind but I've definately got something going in the last 5k.

I've also recently decided to not check my results while I'm playing. I've had a terrible habit of consitantly checking how I'm doing and how I'm running that it destracts from my game and inhibits me from playing my A game. I really want to check my results only once or twice a week but I'm not sure if I have to will power not to pop up my HEM graph at the end of the day.

I'm hoping to start mixing in some 2/4 tables pretty soon. I should have my rackback soon which is going to be a nice boost. Hopefully I can keep this up.

My return to 100BB poker.

Over the last week I've decided that I got lazy playing NLHE CAP and my biggest profits in the past was on 100BB cash tables. So I decided to make the move back and WOW. That's all I can say. Right after I cash out 5k I go on a huge downswing. Let's just destroy my roll :-(

Run Downs, Coolers, Flipping Bad and Suckouts!


I started my return a little rusty and lost of couple BIs but was able to get it going again for a bit. Then I hit this wall. I didn't play too much last week so I decided to put in a huge session today and it really couldn't have went any worse. I'm pretty sure I lost every flip. I am down $674 with AKs and another 350 with AKo. Here's a couple fun hands this session. A couple winners and a bunch of brutallity.

http://weaktight.com/1319237 - Really thin move by me here. But I end up ahead and can't fade the flush
http://weaktight.com/1319217 - Pretty much the only hand that he could have that owns me when I go for value on the river.
http://weaktight.com/1319222 - Flop a set and villian floats and spanks the nuts.
http://weaktight.com/1319224 - UTG was folding to a lot of 3 bets and I felt like he'd give my raise a lot of respect. I get flatted by the SB and hit a set. I was kind of weary that the villain could have had JJ or QQ, but also thought he could have AA, KK or one of the many draws that were on the board. So I felt like I had to get it in against him.
http://weaktight.com/1319239 - Cooleeeeeeeerrrrrr
http://weaktight.com/1319234 - Well at least I split it...
http://weaktight.com/1319240 - Felt I looked really strong with my river shove. But I overestimate people's ability to fold hands.
http://weaktight.com/1319228 - Coolered in a massive 3 way pot.
http://weaktight.com/1319229 - This one was just sick. Villain was a massive fish and I got him to call off his stack on the turn with 2 outs.
http://weaktight.com/1319231 - The way I played this I had to stack off here. I felt my raise looked really wierd and villian would definately stack off any Q or possiblely even less. I also gave him room to shove draws over me but he had the top of his range.
http://weaktight.com/1319233 - Flop 2 pair in limped pot out of BB and get ran down.

Sunday Donkaments

OMG so I got really deep in a bunch of Sunday donkaments today. Unfortunately I couldn't help but get MONKEY FUCKED everywhere.

Tourney Highlights:
Sunday Warm Up - 264 out of 3884
http://weaktight.com/1299036 - This hand played pretty weird. Looking over it a shove on the flop or turn would have been the best play. But the board ran really stupid for me here.
http://weaktight.com/1299039 - I mean this is a pretty easy call but it was on the exact bubble and making the money cashing in $200 tournaments mean a little to me. Nice to hold here though
http://weaktight.com/1299041 - Sigh. OK that's just wonderful

109 40k (had over 130k in prize pool)
http://weaktight.com/1299043 - Busto early flush v set. Mmmmm run down them quads

50cubed - 20th of 495
http://weaktight.com/1299044 - Huge flip
http://weaktight.com/1299046 - Dominated...sigh
http://weaktight.com/1299047 - GOD DAMN, JUST FUCKING HOLD A DOMINATING HAND. Busto, had a huge prizepool too

163 70k
http://weaktight.com/1299051 - Thats right bitch, gotta love that flop check. I was like WTF on the river raise though. Guess he had me on AK
http://weaktight.com/1299050 - SNAP Call....Busto

Sunday Million - 231 of 7712
http://weaktight.com/1299052 - OK tight top set...left me with 1400 chips
http://weaktight.com/1299053 - Fuck ya. Back to a starting stack
http://weaktight.com/1299054 - Sigh....aces.
http://weaktight.com/1299055 - Now this one felt good. Same guy that just sucked out on me with those fours. But I mean, how do you call here with AT. He snapped me off too...odds? I guess...
http://weaktight.com/1299056 - KOed the 44 guy. And won a huge flip
http://weaktight.com/1299057 - This is a WTF hand. I mean, what was this guy planning on doing here. I looked him up and he seemed like a pretty solid player. So what was his plan to try and outplay me with 5 high, OOP without the intiative. NICE
http://weaktight.com/1299061 - Had a pretty good read on this guy and made an awesome call...so that means I have to be punished right. My demise GODDAMMIT I would have been top 25
http://weaktight.com/1299062 - GG me, gotta lose the flip in the shittist way ever. I mean just give him trips on the flop plzzzz

Well, I'm only down $381.20 over $2016 in BIs. Not to bad for me for a Sunday. The last couple Sundays I've played I've been down over a grand.

So I feel like this expression pretty much represents how I feel right now FUUUUCK. O well gg me, I played very well at least.

Also I've moved most of my bankroll over to pokerstars. Without having rakeback on FTP I just don't see the reason to continue to have my primary roll on the site. I'm going to miss the CAP games on FTP but Pokerstars has a lot to offer and really cool VIP/FPP program. Plus their tourneys are the shit.

July Update

Well I haven't really had anything interesting to post about this month. I haven't played to many MTTs so far and have really just been grinding mid stakes NLHE CAP. The games are so easy and the money is flowing no problem I don't really see why I should be doing anything else. So far this month I've played about 20k hands mostly at 2/4 CAP NLHE with a total profit of over 5k. I plan to grind these games out for the rest of the month because I have some live tourney series to play in mid to late august.

Turning Stone Empire State Championship:
http://www.turningstone.com/game/pokerempire.php
- I'm planning on playing events 1-8 and probably the second chances when I bust out of an event early. I went to a series here last year but only ended up playing one tournament and instead played 30+ hour sessions of 2/5. This year I really want to focus on the tourneys because it will definately be more relaxing and would basically be burning money if I didn't play.
I figure I'll need somewhere in between 3-5k for the trip so hopefully FTP will be quick with their bank transfers (cross my fingers).

Summer Daze Deep Stack Poker Challenge
- My favorite ghetto ass casino. I enjoyed my last trip here for the heartland poker tour. The hotel was very cheap with the poker rate and the cash games were very soft. The series in not posted anywhere on the internet but they sent me a flier with the times and dates:


Event 1 (100+15) - NLHE with bounty
- Aug 26 1pm
Event 2 (100+15) - NLHE with $40 Rebuys and $60 Add on
- Aug 26 7pm
Event 3 (100+15) - NLHE
- Aug 27 1pm
Event 4 (200+25) - NLHE
- Aug 27 7pm
Event 5 (100+15) - PLO
- Aug 28 1pm
Event 6 (200+20) - NLHE with bounty
- Aug 28 7pm
Event 7 (100+15) - NLHE
- Aug 29 1pm
Event 8 (200+20) - NLHE
- Aug 29 7pm
Event 9 (500+25) - NLHE Main Event
- Aug 30 11am

MINUS 2k EV Session

So today I play 7k+ hands of BE poker. OMG it was like the worse fucking thing ever. Just constantly getting outdrawn, losing every flip and endless coolers. This was probably the most torturous thing I have ever done in my life, my I keep playing and eventually was able to get back to even. Just check this graph, every time I was able to get something going I got crushed over and over again.

If I ran even decent I should have been able to make some decent money this session but as you can see by this graph it was just terrible. Check some of these hands:

http://weaktight.com/1285660 - This guy just sticks it in here. Then leaves the next hand
http://weaktight.com/1285661
http://weaktight.com/1285662
http://weaktight.com/1285663
http://weaktight.com/1285665
http://weaktight.com/1285667 - This one was just ridiculous
http://weaktight.com/1285668

So this was my day but plus all the flips and shit I lost. I'm playing a live $225 weekly tourney at motor city casino tomorrow so hopefully I'll be able to grab myself some dollars there or at least get some entertainment out of the live donkeys that are going to be playing.

Bubble Fever and a Massive Swing Session

Took the weekend off to go out to my gfs grandparent's cottage. Had a good time but the jet ski was broken so there went a lot of my fun. Got real drunk, got some sun and had a real good time but its time to get back to work and make some money. This tripped unfucked my sleep schedule though so I started my session today at 10:00AM! Haven't play tourneys in the early morning for a while and needless to say I was in a little funk. Started off real strong but managed to bubble a bunch of tourneys with decent stacks in spazy fashion.

http://weaktight.com/1281557 - My reasoning was just stupid here. Finished 50th - 36 paid.
http://weaktight.com/1281560 - God I'm such a spaz. I was really confident at the time that the villain would fold like 95% of the time here and he SNAPPED me. He had ridiculous stats but I put so much of my stack at risk with 95o. Got some shit for this one from my buddies and defiantly don't know WTF I was doing. Finished 35th - 27paid
http://weaktight.com/1281565 - This one wasn't as bad but SB woke up with KK and I bubbled again. Finished 20th - 18 paid.

So I took a couple hours off and decided to play some cash. Put in 2512 hands of 2/4 and 3/6 CAP and it was a crazy mess. The swings in CAP NLHE games are massive and sometimes hard to deal with. I literly couldn't hold massively favorited hand and lost every flip for a large period of time. Then all of a sudden I couldn't lose a flip and won some sweet hands like AK vs AK.


So on the upside it ended really well for me. Running way above EV for the last 500 hands or so. Always nice to book a four figure day when you have some of the beats that I had today. Probably going to be cutting my tourny volume for some CAP this month. I really like playing tournies but I'm making way to much money on the cash tables right now to justify spending to much time playing tournies. Also planning on cashing out some funds and getting myself a nice toy:

2008 Kawasaki Vulcan 500 LTD

June Review

Well June was a pretty good month. Being my first month playing mostly MTTs I feel that I did pretty well. I ran ok this month, nothing to complain about. This month I did a couple new things including moving my bankroll from full tilt over to Absolute and Pokerstars. Put in the largest volume of MTTs I ever have done and even played my first 1k monday (busted 147th). So here are my results for the month. I've broke it down into MTTs (91+ entrants), SNGs (2-90 entrants) and cash ( mainly 2/4 and 3/6 CAP).

MTTs June

Major Cashes:
2nd - 10k gar ($27.50)on Absolute - $2036.25
4th - 17k gar ($26) on FTP - $1445
5th - 20k gar ($55) on FTP - $1742
5th - 10k gar ($11 cubed) - $788.19
6th - 15k gar ($55re) on Absolute - 1026

Final Tables - 7
Top 3 - 2
ROI - 22.5%
ITM - 14.4%

MT-SNGs/SNGs

1st - Braclet Race ($216) on FTP - $2000.00
1st - $75 45person SNG on FTP - 1179.9

CASH

Yeah I ran like god at the end of the month

Goals for July:
- Want to play at least 400 MTTs
- At least 10k hands of cash
- Review all my sessions
- WIN A FUCKING TOURNAMENT. Enoegh of this coming up short shit. I have to work on my endgame. I seem to tilt really hard at final tables and have zero pateince, sticking it in real bad when I don't have to.

I'm going to focus on the low BI games, from $10-$30. I have a really good ROI in these and I want to build up my confidence/knowledge of MTTs. I have a lot of shit going on this month vacations/concerts and a possible trip at the end of the month to Gary, IN for the Heartland poker tour but I should still be able to get in my 400MTTs if I dont fuck around to much.

CAP NLH

So after finishing my Sunday earlier I realized I had nothing left to do with my night. So I decided to start a quick session of 2/4 and 3/6 NLH CAP which is one of my favorite/most +EV games. So I started off the session losing about 1200 in 700 hands. So my quick session became an all-nighter having to grind out one those stupid sessions were you feel like your wasting your time. It took me 2625 hands to break even on the day and finished the session up about 600 over 3812 hands.

LOOK AT THOSE FUCKING SWINGS.

Fucking Sundays

So I was all excited today to wake up and play a bunch of majors. So much for that, I'm busto in everything averaging about an hour or so in all of the tourneys I played. I run SO FUCKING BAD in tourneys with a BI over $100. Check out these graph of my tourneys this year:

Tourneys w/a BI of 100+ this year

Tourney's w/a BI of <100

I mean. I know that there is tougher competition in the higher BI tourneys and I play mostly the big Sunday tourneys with the massive fields but its so frustrating that every Sunday I play and just get owned. I mean this shit is just so brutal:

http://weaktight.com/1250205 - Sunday mil for 100k pot at 500/1000
http://weaktight.com/1250208 - Sweeeeet

Ran into a bunch of sets today and just stupid cooler spots where I can't help but bust. Well back to the grind tomorrow.

A couple FTs

Well today's session started around 3EST playing a wide range of freezeouts/Rebuys from 5-30$s. The prize pools were pretty massive today and the play was terrible! I saw so many retarded plays today and loved every little bit of it. Got pretty deep in a bunch of my tournies but busted out close to the bubble in most of them. P-stars didn't seem to go to well today but got some nice scores on AB and FTP.

Absolute 15re 4k

- The absolute hands don't say what the villian had so I put it in after the post.

http://weaktight.com/1246502 - This was a key hand in the tourny. Villian played his hand real odd. Villian had A8o

http://weaktight.com/1246501 - Kind of tough call on the river here. He had to be bluffing. But people go crazy when I check the flop. Villian had A2o
http://weaktight.com/1246497- Flip me gold. Villian had AKo

http://weaktight.com/1246494 - BUSTO. Now looking back at this hand, the villians hand seem pretty face up. And I probaly should have folded the flop. Never the less the river was pretty bad for me cuz it made me split with a lot of the hands that I had him on. O well, live and learn. Maybe I'll win one eventually. Villian had AA

FTP 20k

http://weaktight.com/1246509 - Right after the bubble broke I ran into this little dandy for most of my stack. He raise 4.5x in EP then insto shoves his QTo to my mini raise. I mean WTF. It's ok though I doubled up the hand after then sucked out KJ to his QQ a couple hands later.

http://weaktight.com/1246511 - Pretty beast call here for my tourny life. The villian has been playing real tight, but he insto shipped preflop and it just really felt like AK to me.
http://weaktight.com/1246512 - Villian was just a maniac preflop and seemed to be beating up all of the table except me. Just called with the QQ cuz I knew he had the propecity to do something like this later in the hand.
http://weaktight.com/1246513 - Busted him a couple hands later.
http://weaktight.com/1246514 - Just owning donks left and right.
http://weaktight.com/1246515 - The begininning of my deminse. Villian played this hand really wierd.
http://weaktight.com/1246518 - Couple hands later with the same guy. Felt like I was getting ran over. Probaly should have been more patient and just let this hand go. GG me. Another FUCKING 5th. God so many fucking FTs this month and no wins.

Tommorrow looking to be a real expensive day. Planning on play a bunch of the majors so well see how that goes.

Another Monster Session

Well today I decided to grind out a shit ton of MTTs. I won 950.55 over 391.3 in BIs. Play a ton of low stakes tourneys, pretty much every 3, 5 and 10 rebuy on tilt/stars/absolute and every freeze out from $10-$30 in a couple hour span. God these people in these tournies are soooo bad and there is some pretty good money to be made.

Just take a look at this:
http://weaktight.com/1244167 - LIKE HOW THE FUCK DO YOU PAY ME OFF. Haha, it makes me so happy to scoop these sort of pots.

Today I had 4 cashes. 29th in the 5re on tilt. 33 in the 10re on tilt. And two final tables:

5th in the 10 1+1 on Stars

4th in the 1k PLO

Some days are just so brutal

Today I had a fun little session winning $320 over $596 in BIs. Got 12th in the 20re on stars to make the my day feel a little better. But the beats were just horrendous today. I started off playing well winning the pots I was supposed then I lost this dandy

http://weaktight.com/1233523 - 35 left in the 20re was top 9 in chips. Bubble was at 27 and I guess I made the perfect squeeze. But that FUCKING river hit me so hard in the face. I mean come on stars. This would have put me in the number one spot right on the bubble. It was so perfect to hold there.

After this beat I seemed to just bust out of all of my tournies

http://weaktight.com/1233526 - Bubbled the 50 6max
http://weaktight.com/1233527 - Come on now. HE CALLED ME WITH 85s here.
http://weaktight.com/1233528 - Umm ok. Well they are sharing the ace here....o a river ten TIGHT.
http://weaktight.com/1233529 - O look I'm dominating him. And a great flop......BUSTO

These all happened in a 10-15 minute span to. My fist almost went through my monitor. Looking back on the day it wasn't really bad at all. I've lost so much more in a day before but it's just the fashion on the beats that leaves you hating poker for the day.

I'll be taking tomorrow off for my buddy Mike's moving away party. College is done and everyone is fucking moving away for Michigan for jobs. This really blows I've lost a lot of friends recently. Well anyway. I'll be back playing on Thursday given that I'm not to hungover.

Monster Session

Well I finally had some time to myself so I decided to put in a nice session. Won $2100 over $1800 in BIs. I ran pretty good but bubbled out of a couple tourneys including the 75k(163), 20re and 28k(26). All three of these tourneys I lost huge pots at the end.

20re bust 38th - 36 paid - Was mass tabling. Villain was a huge donk but if I noticed how close to the bubble I was might have been able to make a tight fold
75k bust 96th - 63 paid - Was really low on chips from a beat earlier but felt villain's range was wide enough to go for the double with the dead money in the pot
28k bust 174th - 162 paid - We were both pretty big stacked and I felt that this guy was folding most of his range here except AK AA KK and QQ. Felt my bet looked really strong and would fold out most hands and felt like if he called me I was most likely flipping. Pot would have put me top 5 but can't win every flip.

Had two final tables also:

3rd in the HA tourny. Went out KKAx to AAxx.

Had 12BB and went out in a BvB battle with A3s against villains AJ. Sigh.

Key Pots:
Coolered this guy for chip lead with 35 people left.
SEXY RIVER on final 2 tables

Loses:
This one kinda sucked - Villain was a huge donk but I really didn't have him on a flush at the river. Probaly should have bet the turn but I don't think this particular player would have went anywhere.
Busto - Maybe could have found a fold there but thought there was a lot of KQs, KJs and other random hands in his range. Felt like a double up would have put me in too good of a spot on this table to pass.

These absolute rebuys are crazy. A lot of people single buy so you have to play quite a bit different compared to stars/FTP rebuys. Also they have a double rebuy option which gets you really deep and adds to the prize pool.

Currently I'm playing a bunch of the steps on Absolute. Got a bunch of step 7 and 8 tickets. Hopefully I can turn those into some live events. Really want to play in the Aruba tourny.

Absolute Poker!

Well I've decided that having money on just one site will not work for an MTT player. So I've been trying to move some money over too other sites through the 2+2 forums. Transferring money with people you don't personally know is FUCKED up. No one would trade with me because I had never traded on the site before so I decided to do some small transfers to build up my reputation. And of course the first guy that I traded with scammed me for $50. Pissed me off real bad, but its only 50 bucks what can I do. After a while of weeding through scammers I found a reputable person who wanted to trade 1,000 FT$s for Absolute $. So I jumped on it and it worked well.

FTP has been giving me problems this week so I haven't been able to put in to many tourneys on it, but I played a couple on Absolute. OMG absolute players are sooooo bad. I mean, they really have no idea what is going on and I absolutely love it. I cashed in the 25k bounty getting 14th or so for $250 and got second in a $25 tourny. Lost HU to this donk losing out on the 1300 difference between 1st and 2nd (sigh, when the hell am I going to win a tourny) but second place was real nice allowing me to pad my absolute BR a little.

Got a busy weekend ahead with the GF. Going down to the toledo zoo on saturday and probably will miss most of the Sunday tourneys again...(fucking life, lol). But I should be able to put in some good sessions next week. Just finished my last actually class at EMU, so I won't have to sacrifice any of my time doing school work...haha.

Big Money Sundays (aka expensive Sundays)

Finally got to play a Sunday. Forgot how much the Sunday tourney BIs add up to. Spent $1400 and I didn't even get started till 6 with the Sunday Mul. Felt like the bubble champion today. Got right to the money bubble in the Sunday Mul before I was coolered AQ to AK button vs blinds. Also bubbled the 20re shoving a 25BB stack Blind vs blind with A5s against this passive fish who snapped me off with KJo :-/
Got one cash today in the 35k for 80ish place. To bad too cuz the prize pool was massive and would have been nice to bink off.
Saturday was pretty cool though. Got back from a golf outing, took a nap and decided to play a bunch more of those 45man sngs.



This was pretty cool at this point. Was finishing up a string of SNGs which wasn't going particlarly well and went on a run in my final 8. Ended up FT bubbling two of them but still managed to have 4 FTs going at the same time. I got a 7th, 5th, 5th in the 24s and won a 69. So I got to end the day with a smile on my face, which I find a little rare when playing exclusively MTTs compared to the cash games I used to play.
This week I'm thinking about playing a large volume of these MT-SNGs to help pad my roll a little and make a run on the FT MTT leaderboard. So I'll post a graph at the end of the week.

Swingaments

Well today I decided to try out my new set up (new backgrounds and FullTilt Short Cuts) and mass table some Multi Table SNGs. I played a grand total of 54 of the $26 45person SNGs with mix results. I ran pretty bad for most of the session but was still able to own a couple of them. Overall I feel I played ok and really enjoy the ease of the mass tabling with poker short cuts. One fuction I found today that was really cool is I could set it up to automatically register me for sit n goes. So I just have to press one button and it registers me for the SNG I want. Makes mass tabling alot easier. Heres my results from the day:





As you can see I started off on a heater and ended with a bunch of busts. I think I bubbled 5-6 tournaments in that final run :-/ but o well. I ended up on the day even though I didn't run to hot.

I'm not going to be playing to much this weekend. Gotta watch the Detroit Red Wings win the cup tommorrow. Then I have a golf outing to go to this weekend with the girlfreind. Hopefully I'll be able to play some of the majors on Sunday though. I've been sick/hungover the last three Sundays and have slept through everything.

Ok this is from a while back but it makes me happy.

New Set Up

Been fooling around with my Full Tilt/Absolute Set up and this is what I've come up with for now:


Download a bunch of backgrounds and cards from Tiltbuster.com, installed poker shortcuts and am running HEM. I also seem to always forget what tourneys are in the Rebuy period when mass tabling so I have a special background for those.

First blog

Whats up, this is going to be my first blog here. I've had a blog running on pocket5's for a little while but I really like this website's set up so I'm going to move on over here. So first off I'm going to give a brief description of my current outlook on poker.

Over my poker career I've been primarily a cash player. I've been able to make a decent amount of money playing cash and really enjoyed the intricacies of the 100BB+ games. I went on a bad run in March of this year and have decided to make a switch over to MTTs/SNGs. I'm making this change because I find there to be a huge number of people that just play terrible in MS MTTs/SNGs and I want a piece of the pie. I've been playing MTTs/SNGs in a decent volume for the last month and plan to pick up my volume even more in the weeks to come.

I also play a good amount of live poker, both cash games and tournaments. I've played on the heartland poker tour, turning stone deep stacked series, and local tournaments with a significant BI/prize pool.

Over the last couple weeks I have made 2 final tables in MTTs. Taking 7th in the 20k on FT and 4th in the 17k. I've also taken down a braclet race tournament for 2k in T$s and have won a 750k sattilite challenge winning 25 seats in one week.