Was gonna be going for Silver Star this evening, but couldn't find many games which weren't regged to the hilt. Didn't want to play bad games just for the sake of getting the last 50 games tonight, so I settled for a short set of twelve, where I had seven cashes for a min profit.
Only managed a total of 30 games today, which is a little disappointing, but I guess that being up 10 BIs is pretty decent.
Silver star will be tomorrow I guess.
Games 626
Wins 349
ITM 55.8%
Profit $234
ROI 7.2%
Thursday, 28 January 2010
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Back on track
Well after yesterday's performance I felt a bit down, and today I nearly went on a very tilty "play-something-else-instead-of-stupid-DoNs" kind of thing. I did actually reg for a couple of the scheduled MTTs but of course I got sucked out on horribly in them by some megadonks.
In one it was A♣Q♣ losing to J♠8♦ all in on the turn with the board
A♦ Q♥ 4♣ 9♣, so I had top two plus nut flush draw against a gutshot straight only. Bam, he hits his 3-outer. In the other JJ < QTs aipf, villain called my 3bet shove, which was plenty big enough for him to fold such a poor hand. So sick, especially after yesterday. I then nearly went and multitabled the 45mans at 3.25 and 6.50 too, but managed to avoid giving in to temptation.
Cooled off a bit instead, then reviewed some of yesterday's games. I did play like a bit of an idiot in the first half of the session, so probably deserved to spew off at least some of the 18 BIs that I dropped. Still a bit of runbad in there though, but changed a couple of little things to tighten it all up. Just had a mini session of 18 games, very happy with my play, and managed 14 cashes for a $46.40 profit, so nearly cancelled out yesterday's losses already. Still want to moan about KK<77 aipf though. If that held I would have been 15 out of 18 and completely covered yesterday's losses.
So, here's how it looks
Games 614
Wins 342
ITM 55.7%
Profit $227
ROI 7.1%
I'll get to Silver Star with another 50 games, which should be done later today. Sharkscope leaderboard looks a little further off right now though, because I've gone nowhere over my last two days and 100 games, while the pack has moved further ahead; 20th is currently sitting on $423. Can catch this up though, it will just take a bit of grinding.
No target date yet for moving up to the 10s, that will have to be judged on the finances.
In one it was A♣Q♣ losing to J♠8♦ all in on the turn with the board
A♦ Q♥ 4♣ 9♣, so I had top two plus nut flush draw against a gutshot straight only. Bam, he hits his 3-outer. In the other JJ < QTs aipf, villain called my 3bet shove, which was plenty big enough for him to fold such a poor hand. So sick, especially after yesterday. I then nearly went and multitabled the 45mans at 3.25 and 6.50 too, but managed to avoid giving in to temptation.
Cooled off a bit instead, then reviewed some of yesterday's games. I did play like a bit of an idiot in the first half of the session, so probably deserved to spew off at least some of the 18 BIs that I dropped. Still a bit of runbad in there though, but changed a couple of little things to tighten it all up. Just had a mini session of 18 games, very happy with my play, and managed 14 cashes for a $46.40 profit, so nearly cancelled out yesterday's losses already. Still want to moan about KK<77 aipf though. If that held I would have been 15 out of 18 and completely covered yesterday's losses.
So, here's how it looks
Games 614
Wins 342
ITM 55.7%
Profit $227
ROI 7.1%
I'll get to Silver Star with another 50 games, which should be done later today. Sharkscope leaderboard looks a little further off right now though, because I've gone nowhere over my last two days and 100 games, while the pack has moved further ahead; 20th is currently sitting on $423. Can catch this up though, it will just take a bit of grinding.
No target date yet for moving up to the 10s, that will have to be judged on the finances.
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Not a great start, and encountering an old villain from the 1.10s
So, my new found motivation for poker has taken an early pounding. I just put in about four and a half hours, and although I played pretty solid as usual, I ran like pretty much the worst I've ever run for basically the first half of the session. It was a total nightmare. I could barely win an 80/20. And as for a race? Forget it! Add in some of the most retarded calls in ages, plus shoving into the top of everyone's range and the result was that after 38 completed games I had only managed a measly 11 cashes, so I was down just under $90.
One moment was particularly hilarious, in a perverse kind of way. There's been some debate over the last couple of days about an account with the screen name 'rs03rs03'. For about the last six months this account has been grinding away every day in 16hour nonstop sessions at the 1.10 turbo DoNs, racking up 1200+ games per day, while playing 60 tables at the same time. The debate has been about whether the account is actually a bot, because lets face it, 16 hours a day while 60 tabling would surely be enough to drive anyone mad, while at the same giving them a serious case of RSI. Last year it made Supernova status just from the 1 dollar DoNs.The account has a 1% ROI, but over something like a bazillion games it actually adds up to a fairly decent total profit when you add in the Supernova rewards.
The argument was that if it isn't a bot then why hasn't it moved up the buyin levels? Then suddenly I see that it's sitting at one of my tables! In a 5.20. Really odd that we'd only just been confirming, amongst ourselves at least, that it was a bot which was only capable of beating the 1.10s because the players are so retarded down there. Anyway, it was always an ATC shove on their BB because it's probably only gonna call with aces.
So, the moment comes round. At an appropriate time in the middle of the game I shove, yet to my horror and disbelief it calls. Has it finally loosened its calling range as it's now playing at the nosebleed heights of $5? No, of course it hasn't, it just flips over AA. Boom, another tourney gone down the drain! I thought there were only four aces in the deck, but it seemed every shove there was someone waiting with a pair of them waiting to take me down.
The second half of the set ran truer to form and I picked up a much more respectable 24 cashes from the remaining 40 which left me a shade over $55 in the hole for the session. A decent recovery, but still over 10 buyins behind where I started the day.
I still feel pretty positive about the session, I think I mainly made about the same good decisions as usual, and that's what counts. Maybe I was just doomswitched for not grinding up enough FPP earlier this month to buy the $50 bonus from the VIP store at the sale price of 3000FPP.
At least I'm nearly at Silver Star, which was one of my goals, but the other goal of a Sharkscope leaderboard spot has slipped a little further into the distance for now.
2010 so far:
Games 596
Wins 328
ITM 55.0%
Profit $180
ROI 5.8%
Not tilted though, despite this setback. I know that it's just part of the game. I was actually having a play with the ROI simulator to get a feel for how strange the results of variance can look, I guess I'm getting an early taster for real. Tomorrow is another day.
One moment was particularly hilarious, in a perverse kind of way. There's been some debate over the last couple of days about an account with the screen name 'rs03rs03'. For about the last six months this account has been grinding away every day in 16hour nonstop sessions at the 1.10 turbo DoNs, racking up 1200+ games per day, while playing 60 tables at the same time. The debate has been about whether the account is actually a bot, because lets face it, 16 hours a day while 60 tabling would surely be enough to drive anyone mad, while at the same giving them a serious case of RSI. Last year it made Supernova status just from the 1 dollar DoNs.The account has a 1% ROI, but over something like a bazillion games it actually adds up to a fairly decent total profit when you add in the Supernova rewards.
The argument was that if it isn't a bot then why hasn't it moved up the buyin levels? Then suddenly I see that it's sitting at one of my tables! In a 5.20. Really odd that we'd only just been confirming, amongst ourselves at least, that it was a bot which was only capable of beating the 1.10s because the players are so retarded down there. Anyway, it was always an ATC shove on their BB because it's probably only gonna call with aces.
So, the moment comes round. At an appropriate time in the middle of the game I shove, yet to my horror and disbelief it calls. Has it finally loosened its calling range as it's now playing at the nosebleed heights of $5? No, of course it hasn't, it just flips over AA. Boom, another tourney gone down the drain! I thought there were only four aces in the deck, but it seemed every shove there was someone waiting with a pair of them waiting to take me down.
The second half of the set ran truer to form and I picked up a much more respectable 24 cashes from the remaining 40 which left me a shade over $55 in the hole for the session. A decent recovery, but still over 10 buyins behind where I started the day.
I still feel pretty positive about the session, I think I mainly made about the same good decisions as usual, and that's what counts. Maybe I was just doomswitched for not grinding up enough FPP earlier this month to buy the $50 bonus from the VIP store at the sale price of 3000FPP.
At least I'm nearly at Silver Star, which was one of my goals, but the other goal of a Sharkscope leaderboard spot has slipped a little further into the distance for now.
2010 so far:
Games 596
Wins 328
ITM 55.0%
Profit $180
ROI 5.8%
Not tilted though, despite this setback. I know that it's just part of the game. I was actually having a play with the ROI simulator to get a feel for how strange the results of variance can look, I guess I'm getting an early taster for real. Tomorrow is another day.
Sunday, 24 January 2010
The year so far
This blog is the second step I've taken to motivating myself to get my grind on - the first one was joining a DoN discussion group set up ten days ago with some of the DoN oriented members of the twoplustwo STT forum by fellow DoN player Dirdirdirty. Big thanks to Kevin for inviting me in. Just knowing that there are others grinding away at the tables out there in cyberspace will keep me on the right path when the going gets tough. I had a tough (i.e. losing) start to the month, but in those ten days since joining I've found a little bit of momentum, turning $260 in profit at almost a dollar a game, which at $5 DoNs is heading towards a 20% ROI over that small sample! Obviously the boomswitch won't stay on forever, but I'm happy while it lasts.
So let's just have a quick look at what I've done so far this year.
Games 518
Wins 293
ITM 56.6%
Profit $236
ROI 8.8%
GOALS
- Another 150 games to make Silver Star this month, should be able to do this by end of Tuesday and push on past 1000 before the end of the month.
- Get onto sharkscope leaderboard for $5 DoNs. 20th spot is currently at $374, by the time I catch up I will probably need another $200 profit. Again, before month end should be enough time to do this.
Gogogogogogo
So let's just have a quick look at what I've done so far this year.
Games 518
Wins 293
ITM 56.6%
Profit $236
ROI 8.8%
GOALS
- Another 150 games to make Silver Star this month, should be able to do this by end of Tuesday and push on past 1000 before the end of the month.
- Get onto sharkscope leaderboard for $5 DoNs. 20th spot is currently at $374, by the time I catch up I will probably need another $200 profit. Again, before month end should be enough time to do this.
Gogogogogogo
Gotta start somewhere.....
.... so here's my first entry. Hi everyone, I'm Dave and this is my blog. I'm doing this to document my progress as I attempt to do a convincing impression of a poker player. My reasoning is that if I write about it I will be more motivated to put in the hours I need to, because right now I'm struggling to spend even a couple of hours a day actually at the tables.
I play the Double or Nothing games (DoN) on Pokerstars under the name TeamTrousers, and it seems made for me. It's a single table tournament. Ten people sit down and put money in the prize fund. We play poker until five players have lost all their chips - the five guys remaining get double their buy in back as their prize for surviving. Low reward, yes, but also low risk. Not even real poker, some say. After all, I only have to outlast five idiots, right? How hard can it be? Well, we'll see as time goes by, but it's not always as simple as it sounds
I started from the lowest level and want to work my way right up. I played the $1 games for quite a while, getting used to the mechanics of the game, practising assessing my equity very quickly, and generally getting a handle on how to massively multitable these bad boys. Plus it was easy as hell to win at them and slowly build a bankroll. The amounts were small though. My hourly was probably less than minimum wage. But like the low-paid bar jobs and restaurant jobs many students take to get through university, hopefully the effort down there will pay off in the long run.
From the $1 games I built a bankroll to move up to the $5 games, which is where I currently find myself playing.......
I play the Double or Nothing games (DoN) on Pokerstars under the name TeamTrousers, and it seems made for me. It's a single table tournament. Ten people sit down and put money in the prize fund. We play poker until five players have lost all their chips - the five guys remaining get double their buy in back as their prize for surviving. Low reward, yes, but also low risk. Not even real poker, some say. After all, I only have to outlast five idiots, right? How hard can it be? Well, we'll see as time goes by, but it's not always as simple as it sounds
I started from the lowest level and want to work my way right up. I played the $1 games for quite a while, getting used to the mechanics of the game, practising assessing my equity very quickly, and generally getting a handle on how to massively multitable these bad boys. Plus it was easy as hell to win at them and slowly build a bankroll. The amounts were small though. My hourly was probably less than minimum wage. But like the low-paid bar jobs and restaurant jobs many students take to get through university, hopefully the effort down there will pay off in the long run.
From the $1 games I built a bankroll to move up to the $5 games, which is where I currently find myself playing.......
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