Finished out March like a lamb after a hot start. Ended up making $1,270 mostly in the $22 HU turbo. Basically felt like I owned the $22 level, so I officially moved up to $33s on Stars, hopefully for good. It's cool to move up a level...it really feels like progress is being made. Made Gold Star on stars too, which is kinda cool, but for the time being I'm gonna play alot on Cake because I have $380 in bonus pending on there. Also...they are offering another $300 reload, so I'll probably go ahead and deposit and get that too. So...I guess it will be almost entirely $25s on Cake, and $33's when I play on Stars. Probably take some shots at $55 on Cake too...played a $55 today and won against a good player. Coolered him hard...heres the hand.
Hand#21887E07E7000010 - $55 Heads-up NL Hold'em Turbo T8259559 -- Table 1 -- $0/$10/$20 NL Hold'em -- 2010/04/01 - 20:21:58
Seat 3: WingmanMtP ($1,330 in chips)
Seat 8: john***8 ($1,670 in chips) DEALER
john***8: posts small blind 10
WingmanMtP: posts big blind 20
Dealt to WingmanMtP [Th,Qd]
john***8: raises to 60
WingmanMtP: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [Js,2d,9h]
WingmanMtP: checks
john***8: bets 80
WingmanMtP: calls 80
*** TURN *** [8h]
WingmanMtP: checks
john***8: is all in 1530.0000
WingmanMtP: is all in 1190.0000
john***8: returns uncalled bet 340
WingmanMtP: shows [Th Qd]
john***8: shows [Ad Ac]
*** RIVER *** [Ts]
***SHOW DOWN***
WingmanMtP: wins 2,660 with Straight, Queen high
Not sure how I feel about his shove...I see his rationale for
it, but I cant really see myself calling with many hands he
has beat either. Maybe AJ/KJ I'd call, and TJhh or T2hh I'd
be very tempted, but other than that, I'm folding most likely.
Welll....not much else to report. See you at the "tables"
Final March profit $1270
GL ALL
Wing
Friday, April 2, 2010
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Great news!!
So...I spoke about the bonus I was trying to get in the last post. Well.....I cleared it on the last day!! So, a free $100 is always nice. :-)
More importantly though, the amount of volume that I had to put in to get the necessary VPP's resulted in some really nice results. I ended up playing just
over 500 games in the first 17 days of March, and as of this moment I'm sitting
at +$1,079 for the month to date. I played mostly $22 Hu with some $33 and $11 mixed in. These last 18 days really reinforced something I already knew, but it really hammered home the point. The key to making money in husng's is volume. I dont care how good you are, if your not putting in the volume, your just not going to make much money from this. If you're beating the $55 at an 8% clip, that means you are averaging $4.20/game which is excellent, but if you only play 200 games in a month, you wont even make $1000.
So....my plan is to try to start playing $33s soon, and maintain at least a 600 gm per month pace. At 5% roi, I would make $1000 of clean scope profit then with bonuses and RB, I should be dancing in the $1200-$1500 range. For now, I'm happy with that.
March profit $1,079
GL All!!
Wing
More importantly though, the amount of volume that I had to put in to get the necessary VPP's resulted in some really nice results. I ended up playing just
over 500 games in the first 17 days of March, and as of this moment I'm sitting
at +$1,079 for the month to date. I played mostly $22 Hu with some $33 and $11 mixed in. These last 18 days really reinforced something I already knew, but it really hammered home the point. The key to making money in husng's is volume. I dont care how good you are, if your not putting in the volume, your just not going to make much money from this. If you're beating the $55 at an 8% clip, that means you are averaging $4.20/game which is excellent, but if you only play 200 games in a month, you wont even make $1000.
So....my plan is to try to start playing $33s soon, and maintain at least a 600 gm per month pace. At 5% roi, I would make $1000 of clean scope profit then with bonuses and RB, I should be dancing in the $1200-$1500 range. For now, I'm happy with that.
March profit $1,079
GL All!!
Wing
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Treading Water on Stars
Decided on March 1st that I wanted to make a run at a $100 bonus that I have had
pending since September. As of that day I still needed a few points on a previous $100 bonus, so I finished that up and started crunching a few numbers. I would need 2500 FPPs by March 18th at 6AM to get the $100. I figured it would be a good carrot to get me to actually play some hardcore volume this month. After doing the math, I decided that if I play approx 30 $22's or 20 $33's a day for 16 days, I can get there. So, I decided to give it a shot. If I can play approx 500 $22's during that timeframe, (or the equivalent of 500 $22's with other stakes), and I run at 5% ROI, I will make about $500 in sng profit, and maybe $150 or so in bonus (includes the $100 plus the stellar rewards), and accumulate a bunch of FPP's. So, I can make like $650 in 2 weeks and obv if I run better, I can make more.
So...thats what I've been up to for the past week or so. So far, so good. I'm about halfway there, and at the moment, I'm up $223. It's more games than I'm accustomed to playing, but since volume is one of my leaks, I think its an excellent exercise.
Gotta get back on the grind, but I will
update more on my progess soon.
March profit $223
GL ALL
Wing
pending since September. As of that day I still needed a few points on a previous $100 bonus, so I finished that up and started crunching a few numbers. I would need 2500 FPPs by March 18th at 6AM to get the $100. I figured it would be a good carrot to get me to actually play some hardcore volume this month. After doing the math, I decided that if I play approx 30 $22's or 20 $33's a day for 16 days, I can get there. So, I decided to give it a shot. If I can play approx 500 $22's during that timeframe, (or the equivalent of 500 $22's with other stakes), and I run at 5% ROI, I will make about $500 in sng profit, and maybe $150 or so in bonus (includes the $100 plus the stellar rewards), and accumulate a bunch of FPP's. So, I can make like $650 in 2 weeks and obv if I run better, I can make more.
So...thats what I've been up to for the past week or so. So far, so good. I'm about halfway there, and at the moment, I'm up $223. It's more games than I'm accustomed to playing, but since volume is one of my leaks, I think its an excellent exercise.
Gotta get back on the grind, but I will
update more on my progess soon.
March profit $223
GL ALL
Wing
Monday, March 1, 2010
Feb is in the books
Closed out February on a good note. Played a total of 581 games, 413 HU and 168 DONs. HU average buyin was exactly $20 and 70%+ of the HU games I played were at $20 or greater. Didnt quite meet my goal of 90% but def improved. Speaking of my goals, lets run down the 4 I laid out at the beginning of the month.
90% of games at $20+...not quite, but 70% is better.
$1500 total profit. Made $1321, so again, not quite, but close.
Clear all the remaining bonus money on Cake. Retired $50 of it from Cake and $100 from Stars and received another $300 from Cake!
Full time $33's on stars. Not yet, but soon.
So...thats the skinny. Excited for a big March!!
Final Feb Profit $1321
GL ALL
Wing
90% of games at $20+...not quite, but 70% is better.
$1500 total profit. Made $1321, so again, not quite, but close.
Clear all the remaining bonus money on Cake. Retired $50 of it from Cake and $100 from Stars and received another $300 from Cake!
Full time $33's on stars. Not yet, but soon.
So...thats the skinny. Excited for a big March!!
Final Feb Profit $1321
GL ALL
Wing
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Boring poker is good poker!
I created a "Global Alias" profile on sharkscope to track my 3 accounts in one
search which enables me to look at my SNG results for all 3 sites
I play on in on snapshot. Here are my results for Feb MTD for Global
Alias "Wingpin".
Wingpin 137 $1.52 $20 5% $209 N/A N/A Global Alias 2/1/2010 2/28/2010 SNG Only
I'm actually up $357 in total due to bonuses, rakeback credits, ring, 4 mans, etc.
I've been steady grinding the $22's on Stars and the $25's on Cake, 2 tabling most
of the time which is something I'm just now getting totally comfortable with. I'd say that as of today, I have zero hesitance at 2 tabling at the $22/$25 level. This
is the first time I've been able to say that, so that is pretty exciting. I feel there is a slight sacrifice in my play level 2 tabling...ie, I make an occasional
mistake that I wouldn't have made 1 tabling, but its a manageable amount and
definitely outweighed by the bennies of double the volume.
I've also made good progress on my stakes leak. So far, of the 137
games I've played, 108 or 79% have been at $20+. Not quite where I
want to be, but moving in that direction, and a vast improvement over
last month. I'm very confident that this problem will be 100% solved
this month...I dont even see why I was clinging to the $10's and $11's
now, since I'm steady owning the $20's and above. Problem Solved IMO!!
Feb Poker profit $357
GL All!!
Wing
search which enables me to look at my SNG results for all 3 sites
I play on in on snapshot. Here are my results for Feb MTD for Global
Alias "Wingpin".
Wingpin 137 $1.52 $20 5% $209 N/A N/A Global Alias 2/1/2010 2/28/2010 SNG Only
I'm actually up $357 in total due to bonuses, rakeback credits, ring, 4 mans, etc.
I've been steady grinding the $22's on Stars and the $25's on Cake, 2 tabling most
of the time which is something I'm just now getting totally comfortable with. I'd say that as of today, I have zero hesitance at 2 tabling at the $22/$25 level. This
is the first time I've been able to say that, so that is pretty exciting. I feel there is a slight sacrifice in my play level 2 tabling...ie, I make an occasional
mistake that I wouldn't have made 1 tabling, but its a manageable amount and
definitely outweighed by the bennies of double the volume.
I've also made good progress on my stakes leak. So far, of the 137
games I've played, 108 or 79% have been at $20+. Not quite where I
want to be, but moving in that direction, and a vast improvement over
last month. I'm very confident that this problem will be 100% solved
this month...I dont even see why I was clinging to the $10's and $11's
now, since I'm steady owning the $20's and above. Problem Solved IMO!!
Feb Poker profit $357
GL All!!
Wing
Monday, February 1, 2010
More on January
Wanted to post a follow up to the brief message I made earlier
and elaborate a little bit more on my month. I always like to
put a bit of time into reflection at the end of months and
see if there are ways I can tweek my approach to yield more
profit in terms of percentage (ROI) or more money per
unit of time invested.
In looking at my scope stats for SNG's one thing really jumped
out at me. I played a total of 626 games which is a good number,
but the breakdown is really surprising.
By buyin
$5 64 games
$10-$12 374 games
$20-$25 180 games
$30 and up 8 games
This is actually shocking to me. I was under the impression
that I was mostly playing $20-$25 games, but I have obviously
been deluding myself. 70% of the games I played were $12 and
under!!! WTF...I have a few semi-justifiable reasons for this
like: friends that wanna 4 man lower stakes, late nite hours
on Cake where the traffic is low, practicing multi-tabling,
desire to minimize stress and occasionally wanting to fire up
2 or 3 low stakes super turbos for the hell of it. But....bottom
line, I must keep the games below $20 to a minimum.
So...that's the takeaway from this exercise. No more
low stakes games!!! My ROI in $20-$30 has been in the
6%-12% range consistently for awhile now, so there is
no reason for me to be playing anything below this level.
So...here are my goals for February.
-90% of games at $20+
-$1500 total profit (including RB, bonus, ring, etc)
-Fully retire all remaining bonus money on Cake (now $160...they
gave me another $100...not sure if I should be happy or not)
-Go full time on Stars $33's by months end
I've gotta cure myself of this stakes leak if I wanna start
making the kind of money that I believe I'm capable of!
Cheers and GL ALL
Wing
and elaborate a little bit more on my month. I always like to
put a bit of time into reflection at the end of months and
see if there are ways I can tweek my approach to yield more
profit in terms of percentage (ROI) or more money per
unit of time invested.
In looking at my scope stats for SNG's one thing really jumped
out at me. I played a total of 626 games which is a good number,
but the breakdown is really surprising.
By buyin
$5 64 games
$10-$12 374 games
$20-$25 180 games
$30 and up 8 games
This is actually shocking to me. I was under the impression
that I was mostly playing $20-$25 games, but I have obviously
been deluding myself. 70% of the games I played were $12 and
under!!! WTF...I have a few semi-justifiable reasons for this
like: friends that wanna 4 man lower stakes, late nite hours
on Cake where the traffic is low, practicing multi-tabling,
desire to minimize stress and occasionally wanting to fire up
2 or 3 low stakes super turbos for the hell of it. But....bottom
line, I must keep the games below $20 to a minimum.
So...that's the takeaway from this exercise. No more
low stakes games!!! My ROI in $20-$30 has been in the
6%-12% range consistently for awhile now, so there is
no reason for me to be playing anything below this level.
So...here are my goals for February.
-90% of games at $20+
-$1500 total profit (including RB, bonus, ring, etc)
-Fully retire all remaining bonus money on Cake (now $160...they
gave me another $100...not sure if I should be happy or not)
-Go full time on Stars $33's by months end
I've gotta cure myself of this stakes leak if I wanna start
making the kind of money that I believe I'm capable of!
Cheers and GL ALL
Wing
Jan's done
Tired right now, but just wanted to put my final Jan
numbers on here. Made $1184...ended the month pretty
shitty with an extremely donkish last day. Played 3 $55's
and went 1-2 and played HU cash and ran real bad against
an awful player. Didnt play well in my regular $25's
either. Not sure why, but my focus was off I think.
Oh well....
Final Jan Profit $1184
GL All
Wing
numbers on here. Made $1184...ended the month pretty
shitty with an extremely donkish last day. Played 3 $55's
and went 1-2 and played HU cash and ran real bad against
an awful player. Didnt play well in my regular $25's
either. Not sure why, but my focus was off I think.
Oh well....
Final Jan Profit $1184
GL All
Wing
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