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Well for me the month of grinding is over ( I know it"s tomorrow but I doubt I"ll be playing)

First of all results:

Games played: 370
Starting bankroll: $152.96
Finishing bankroll: $124.85
Loss $28.11
No of 1st place finishes: 55  (14.8% of tournaments played, 44.3% of cashes)
No of 2nd place finishes: 29 (7.8% of tournaments played, 23.4% of cashes)
No of 3rd place finishes: 40 (10.8% of tournaments played, 32.3% of cashes)
No of cashes: 124 (33.5%)

Analysis

If I get to the cash, I seem to do ok. If I get heads up, I win a significant amount of them @ 65%. However, if I"m right, I"d need to cash in approx 38-40% of these tournaments to make a profit. I"ll assume someone on here will have the right figures. I also would like to know how many bubbles I had ( it felt a hell of a lot), but as I don"t suscribe to any particular tracking software I"ll have to not know.

Do I feel I"ve run -ve? Definitely. 370 sng"s is a very small sample I know! For example, since the 20th, I"ve had 23 set"s of 8, having 15 losing sessions and 8 winning. The majority of the winning sessions were tiny, and a lot of the losing sessions in comparison were large!

Can I play sng"s? I believe so. As opposed to the previous post, I am going to continue playing on stars for them, purely due to traffic, will make a small deposit after the weekend and move up to the $3.50s. I"ve attempted to play them on William Hill, but they take way too long to fill up. I"ll get my mtt practise in on Will Hill I think.

I will give myself some targets in March, especially as I have some time off.

1) Play 500 in a month. Definitely achieveable, but way more than any other month.
2) Make a profit.
3) Decide to 6 or 8 table. I can tile 6 tables on my laptop, I have to stack or cascade 8 tables.
4) Attempt to play with much less distraction, ie no TV on/xbox on etc to see if it makes a difference.

Thoughts?
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Invest in sngwiz....pokertracker 2 month free trial

Spend a few days using the software..practising....could pay dividends m8

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If you"re going to play volume it"s probs worthwhile you d/l table ninja. Get a free trial too. Then you will be able to stack very easily, can always pull ITM games into another pile to keep your focus on the business end.

The $5 and upwards games on willhill(ipoker) that are 10% rake are probs softer than the ones you currently play and you can get some decent RB on them sites

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Cheers for the feedback...

Downloaded PT3, now to figure how to use it  ::)
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Cheers for the feedback...

Downloaded PT3, now to figure how to use it  ::)


I"ll give you one very, very important tip on using PT3.

Don"t.

Use HEM instead.
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Cheers for the feedback...

Downloaded PT3, now to figure how to use it  ::)


I"ll give you one very, very important tip on using PT3.

Don"t.

Use HEM instead.


LOL now you tell me! I"ll give it a look.
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Yeah I"ve no idea even after reading everything what to do with PT3  ::)

Just had my best set of 8 sit n go"s, which just after moving up to the $3.50"s, is pretty good timing.

Won 3 and 3rd in 2 which is good.

That"s it for now till probably Sunday night.
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Played a few against you last night, have a look on sharkscope and it should tell you how many fourth place (bubbles) you have had

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Very quick update.

Played just the 84 $3.50"s so far and without looking too hard I"m within $5 of starting bankroll. 2 weeks off work now so after chilling today, will spend a day grinding tomorrow as I"ve no specific plans.

I"ve also set myself a target of playing 8 live games before Coventry, I"ve played 2 of those so far. The joyous £15 bounty on Monday, where despite being up to 9k from a 6k starting stack, I was knocked out in 5 hands, facing a river shove on a 9 4 2 A A board, when holding AK. He had 99 meh. Also played the £15 f/out on Wednesday. A whopping 34 runners took part in this, as a combined freeroll at one of the local casinos plus the recent opening of the G in Didsbury has diluted the runners. Happily, I managed to win the tourny which is always good :)

I"ve not fully decided what I"m playing in the next 2 weeks, but am looking at:

Tonight: £10 + £5 rebuy, usually gets 100+ runners.
Saturday 3pm: £10 + £10 rebuy
Tuesday: £50 f/out, again usually above 100 runners.
Wednesday: £15 f/out.

That"s to start with, will decide about next week after Weds I think.
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So I went and played the £50 freezeout last night.Had approx 80 runners which is a little low compared to normal, the effect of having 5 casinos within 10 miles all offering poker is definitely diluting numbers. This is a tournament I"ve always struggled with, never having made the first break in the previous 2 attempts. It seemed to be going the same last night, starting stack of 12k was quickly 5k, looked like one of those nights, I have 99 board comes AKx, I have AK, board comes 9xx etc etc. It did take me a good while to size up my table, and as soon as I did, my chips went in the right direction.

Shoved a K K 10 10 2 board with 77 that took down a 6k pot, then called down a 10 hi board with J 10 against AK, and I was soon up to 18k.

At this point it was the break and then got moved tables. Sit down, first hand into the bb, facing a raise, look down at AA, reraise get shoved on, he had AJ. Thanks for the donation. 4 times in the bb in a row I get huge hands facing raises and each time, my reraise produces folds.... I must have a tell!

We finally get down to 2 tables, and the story of my night is told over 3 hands. In the bb with  8d 2d, see a flop of J 8 2, and we get it in the middle, sb had KJ and turned the K. This leaves me at 40k at 2k/4k. 2 hands later on the bubble I fold my favourite hand Q9 with several limpers. Board comes Q 9 4 and 3 players get it all in. Sigh.

Next hand, find  Ah Kh, facing a min raise, I shove, and the big stack next to me instashoves too. He had QQ and I miss. Enjoyed the night apart from some ridiculous I"ve got a bigger cock banter by one bloke who was knocked out.

On the grinding front, it got to Monday night and my roll was down at $141, which is the second lowest it"s been. Carried on, and slightly changed my calling/raising ranges at different points.

Since then, I"ve played 40, 9 wins, 6 2nds, 8 3rds, and the bankroll is now at $226.11.

Going as planned to the £15 f/out tonight, City tomorrow night and then we shall see.

Here"s hoping the grind continues going well :)
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Sit down, first hand into the bb, facing a raise, look down at AA

*cough cough* deja vu  :P
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Sit down, first hand into the bb, facing a raise, look down at AA

*cough cough* deja vu  :P


It is nice when that happens  ::)

Backed up last week"s win in the £15 f/out with a 4th, eventually going out to the massive CL who called my all in with  6d 5d and binked the 6. Win that flip ( I had overs) and I"d be confident of going HU.

Last night and the game. In the first half the only word I could use to describe City is dreadful. Simple 5 yard passes were going straight to the opposition. The start of the second half wasn"t any better, and it was only when we went 3 up top when Dzeko came on we seemed to spark to life. I was confident we"d get one decent chance and we did, it was a cracking header from Joe Hart considering how much he was getting his shirt pulled, and a good save from an out of position keeper. Fairly agonising but on balance we did not deserve to go through.

Playing the fun Friday night £10 + 1 £5 r/buy tonight, will spend tomorrow watching footy and rugby before working on Sunday. Will continue the grind and then look at playing the new schedule at the G next week as I"m still off.

All nightly tournaments now start at 8pm rather than 9pm which is excellent news for me.

Monday: 7k chips - £20 bounty ( up from £15 and 6k chips)
Tuesday: 12 chips - £50 + 1 optional rebuy ( the rebuy is new)
Wednesday: 15k chips - £15 ( up from 7k chips)
Thursday: 2k chips - free to play, 1st rebuy £20 4k 2nd rebuy £20 6k chips
Friday: 5k chips - £10 + 2 x £5 r/buys ( up from 4k chips and 1 rebuy)
Saturday: 2k chips - £20 r/buy for 90 mins with a 4 guarantee with 80 runners min
Sunday: 20k chips - £25 f/o

Loving the Sunday and Wednesdays :)
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I will give myself some targets in March, especially as I have some time off.

1) Play 500 in a month. Definitely achieveable, but way more than any other month.
2) Make a profit.
3) Decide to 6 or 8 table. I can tile 6 tables on my laptop, I have to stack or cascade 8 tables.
4) Attempt to play with much less distraction, ie no TV on/xbox on etc to see if it makes a difference.

Thoughts?


You know 1 & 2 are achievable mate, 3 whatever you"re most comfortable with, 4 background music FTW  ;)

Going along nicely mate, keep it up!
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I will give myself some targets in March, especially as I have some time off.

1) Play 500 in a month. Definitely achieveable, but way more than any other month.
2) Make a profit.
3) Decide to 6 or 8 table. I can tile 6 tables on my laptop, I have to stack or cascade 8 tables.
4) Attempt to play with much less distraction, ie no TV on/xbox on etc to see if it makes a difference.

Thoughts?


You know 1 & 2 are achievable mate, 3 whatever you"re most comfortable with, 4 background music FTW  ;)

Going along nicely mate, keep it up!


8 tabling quite comfortably now. 262 played and have a lot less on this week so will be hammering the tables I think. Am running up at the mo, but will update at the end of the month, or when I get to 500. ( mainly as I deposited to cover some mtt"s I played last Sunday)
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I will give myself some targets in March, especially as I have some time off.

1) Play 500 in a month. Definitely achieveable, but way more than any other month.
2) Make a profit.
3) Decide to 6 or 8 table. I can tile 6 tables on my laptop, I have to stack or cascade 8 tables.
4) Attempt to play with much less distraction, ie no TV on/xbox on etc to see if it makes a difference.

Thoughts?


You know 1 & 2 are achievable mate, 3 whatever you"re most comfortable with, 4 background music FTW  ;)

Going along nicely mate, keep it up!


8 tabling quite comfortably now. 262 played and have a lot less on this week so will be hammering the tables I think. Am running up at the mo, but will update at the end of the month, or when I get to 500. ( mainly as I deposited to cover some mtt"s I played last Sunday)


..................and your choice of background music?
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