New Years Eve Shenanigans

Had a bit of a session tonight in the mtts

Played:
$11 Deep Stack $10k gaurenteed 733/1459 ;(
Daily $$ 701/3046 Lost a 40k pot aipf with KK v AK then had my 99 counterfeited on river to lose
Early Double A 344/1071
Early Double B 261/856

$3 rb $50k g on stars 2357/4236 APIF AK v AQ :(
$5 hu WTA - 17th - ill do a report on this

$4 $2k g on stars KK loses to AK again

then played 3x $2.20 turbos
150/180 AA loses aipf to 56
150/180 (spooky) AQ loses to 66
3/180 for $42 and change!!

Heads Up Winner TAKES all

i only lasted 2 rounds but noticed how soft this really is

Round 1

the first player last 56 hands, and altho running hot with AQ, AJ, JJ, JJ consecutive hands i had already chipped away at him and managed to close the deal. Found aggression was the best way forward in this so i continued that into.....

Round 2

played a guy called RedFishButt who was nothing short of awful!
managed to chip him down to 900 chips only to get it on with j6 on a j68 board, he had j8 and crippled me
i then woke up with AK aipf vs his JT. board ran out xQxAK, so runner runner sent me to the rail. :( :( :(


180man turbos

after running pretty poor in these i got another FT which i took 3rd, my ROI is now breakeven at this level and i can start to look forward to some serious monies.
3 handed i jumped from Cl to 3rd and back, withthe blinds soo high its a case of raising and bettin flops, hoping they havent connected with your opponanat,
sadly the guy that knocked me out was just open shoving EVERY hand since he was CL after the 5th time i called with QJ, and he had A9. no help for either of us.
really gutted as my ROI woulda been huge if i had taken 1st or 2nd, but at least now i can concentrate on volume and the odd top 3 finishes will make up the shortfall.
I now realise that your aim in these is to merely breakeven and then the odd top3/4 finishes will be where the profit is seen. Knowing this is fine as i have maged to do so with the worst cold deck ive seen in months, maybe years for me. Hopefully that has gone.

Lastly i wanted to treat myself to the Stars Asia Poker Tour/Ept zippie which can now only be brought in the fpp store for 8700fpps in an ept goodie bag. since i only had 3k in fpps i have decided to invest them in the 6 man 280fpps 500 chip tubos.

These are great bankroll boosters and although i only have 30 fpps left my results are the following:

6 handed 280fpp sngs (sat into the sunday $11)
1st = entry
2nd = entry
3rd = 280 fpp

played 9
won 5 seats ($55 tournament dollars)
3rd - 1
4-6th -3

so basically added $55 to my roll

obv atm i am a bronze star so earn them as slow as houses especially only playin small stakes atm but with the new scheme in 2010 and the volume i will be puttin in, i think i will probably use these.

But i will save up 8700fpps for that goodie bag!

How am i not tilting?!

played a cheeky session of 5 more tonight and got deepish in all
finished:
78/180 - K6 v 73hh, all in on a flop of 966 (2 hearts) he hit
48/180 - KK v AK aipf Ace on turn
29/180 - AA v QQ aipf Queen on river
19/180 - QQ v A9 aipf - Ace on flop, then JJ v A3o , makes low straight (aipf) BUBBLE
16/180 - AQ v AJ aipf - jack on turn

Man when my shit as luck disappears i will be cruising these, and i think thats why im not tilting as i see myself edge closer to the $100 starter mark. I honestly can see a string of FT's once this curse is lifted.

All i gotta do is make sure i sont abuse it and play worse, as my spots that im picking are good, and im just losing 80/20's like there 20/80's

Just tralled through PT and seen that:

won 37% of coinflips
won 62% of overpairs vs underpairs

now that is running:
-11% on races and
-18% on overs v unders

imagine how many more cashes and huge chipstacks i woulda had!?

hope it settles down and i see that extra almost 30% of varience go my way, well tech 60%!!!

$$$$$$$$$$$$

Lil Update

About 8 buyins down on the $2.20 180 mans atm, which sucks but i cant complain too much as not once on the last 20 games have i put my money in behind, just had 2 and 3 outers hit against me time and time again. When varience catches back up with me i should run uber hot.

can definatly see an ROI of 20% being acheivable once i stop running like poo.

ROI means nothing until i start uping my volume as all i need is 2 fts and itll sore!
if i win the next one my ROI goes form like -17% to + 137% lol

back a couple of top 3 finsihes and fml ill be screaming,

really confident these will help my cause.

Gonna play the following till end of jan:

200 180 man $2.20 sngs - aiming for 20% ROI = $88 profit
100 90 man $3.25 sngs - 20% ROI = $65 profit
100 45 man $3.25 sngs - 20% ROI = $65 profit
50 18 man $3.40 sngs - 10 ROI = $17 profit
50 9 man $3.40 sngs - 10% ROI = $17 profit

total of 500 games and hopefully about $250 profit in total

In order to acheive this i have to be strict with myself and play o the following guideline,

Midnight Sunday 3rd Jan - completed 75 x 180 mans
Midnight Sunday 10th Jan - completed 150 x 180 mans
Midnight Sunday 17th Jan - completed 100 x 90 mans
Midnight Sunday 24th Jan - completed 100 x 45 mans and 20 x 180mans
Midnight Sunday 31st Jan - completed 50 x 18 man and 50 x 9 man and 30 x 180 mans

180s

played a session of 10 this morning, still left in 1 but the other 9 have been painful

here are my exit hands

KK V A5
KK v QJo
JJ V A6
QQ V 88
AK V 33
89s v 44
AK v A8
AA v K3o
AK v 77

all in all ive put myself in 2 races and lost, plus the other 7 i have been huge fav and not won one!!!

this is gonna be very swingy, but if i dont cash in this last one that means ill actually have a negativge ROI lol

i know a 20 game sample is nothing and i will plough on as vairence soon is gonna kiss me nice, as im generally putting myself in at 65/35 minumum - soon i SHOULD see the benefits and have a hot ass streak!!!

yes please

180 man sngs on Stars - Step 1 - $2 danger

played 10 of these tonight in 2 blocks of 5 and quickly learn you need to get used to bad beats lol

exit hands included
AK V AJ
AK V KT
66 V 55
AQ V Q3

lolaments!

deffo think these will be a decent little earner for the challenge

Cureently i have played 10, cashed in 2, both FT finishes (4th and 7th)

and have a ROI of 88% lol, now obviously thats not sustainable but i think a 20% roi is probably achiveable.

20% would mean i would need to earn on ave $4 every session of 10 games, which is cash in 1/10 games pretty much

if i can maintain 20% ill be chuffed and means i can move up tp the $7 180's in approx 1500 games lol

need to be playing a minimum of 100 a week, as thatll take me to late march, leaving only 9 months left in challenge! Just have to hope i can hold a 20% roi in the $7 dollar ones as well.

Being brutally honest, the $2 require no real thought as its push or fold, for the majority.

Im looking into treating myself to a 19-22" 2nd moniter, so i can multitable more tables, as volume in this challenge is really key - and concentrating not really required espec at $2 level.

i could quite easily 12 table then whereas at the mo im 5 tabling on one moniter.

Things are looking a little more structured now, in stead of just regging for whatever and trying to score big,

I know my big mtt cashes are coming as i am always hanging around the bubble, one time ill run a hot deck, one time.

Really confident now

MrSparkle (Dann)

Gl Stato_1

Just a quickie to say gl to Stato_1 who is currently 7/24/2491 in the $33k gaurenteed FullTilt KO tourny (1st is $10+)
and
2/23/630 in the Stars $50k gaurenteed, with $17k for 1st

2 final tables please!

ill be up grinding these $2 180s and railing hopefully 2 FT's

Tonights Action

Played the Daily Dollar again on Full Tilt but never got going and eventually busted in the middle of the field.
Span my last $14 in $27 to play the $32k gaurenteed, $26 entry on tilt with the last of my roll. Silly i know but felt good.
Nursed a shortstack for a long time, 189 got paid with 1600+ runners
i got deep AGAIN and bust on a cold deck tbh
Exit hand was Q7 v A7 on A Q 7 board. i finished 326th so not far from monies again.

Also with the challenge have been speaking to a few good friends of mine, stato_1 and 147_star, reg what to play.

decided to play a set of 5x $2.20 180 man sngs on Stars.

they are basically shove or fold games but very soft and stato_1 reckons i could realistically jus tplay these and move up levels when rolled and make the $8k quick.

I do know there are leaderboards on sharkscope for these so i have now an aim. to get on that leaderboard for the micros atm

the 1st 3 i finished in last 50 players, but then made 2 FT's finishing 7th and 4th for a grand total of $41.40, so $30.40 profit., atm thats a huge roi!!!!

these are definatly worth a grind, and easy to multitable as there are no real decisions.

Sadly Tilt is empty but i have enjoyed the tournys there so will prob use Jans deposit to put a lil on there to play the Daily $ when i can.
Yes its full of idiots but 1st prize is always around the $1k mark and deffo +EV