Thursday, April 30, 2009

Fading away

It is quite amazing how much of an impact just the slightest offset in mood can have on your overall game. Since my last post, I was feeling good about where I was with my game with the recovery I made through the tournaments, but since then I have not quite been 100% at the tables mentally and it has taken a toll on the roll. I'm feeling very discouraged currently about the game in general as nothing I seem to do works and when it does, I get outdrawn. I can't even think about my opponents lines and hand ranges and it is showing. For some reason, I felt that I could refocus my game by playing some H/U NL which this does do, but it also tends to have huge swings and that hit me for 4-5 buyins at a level I wasn't rolled for. I then decided that I still wanted to play h/u, so I decided to play some sng's. Started at $20 and felt good through 6 losses due to suckouts which led to bad play. At this point, I really started tilting. I have to say I am very lucky to have a bankroll at all at this point because I was on my way to some 200nl games and did sit for a while but sat shortstacked. So I now need to refocus......AGAIN! and need to decide what I want to specialize in. I hate this game sometimes.....

FT: $19.48
Stars: $358.17

Total: $377.65

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

FPP Conversion Complete

Well, after grinding through a whole bunch of fpp satellites, I have completed this portion of my journey...turning my ~20k fpp's into cash. I was able to do that with the following results:

Total Played: 96
Total FPP's spent: 20160
Total Won: 41
$T won= $451
Current $T to spend: $0

Trny's played with $T-

$12 turbo 180 sng= $23.76
$12 turbo 180 sng= $0
$12 turbo 180 sng= $0 77 runs into 99
$12 turbo 45 sng= $0 KK runs into a limp/shoved A6o utg
$12 turbo 45 sng= $22
$5 mtt= $0
$20.80 DON= $0
$10.40 DON= $0
$10.40 DON= $0
$12 turbo 180 = $0
$12 turbo 180 = $0
$12 turbo 180 = $128.70
$12 turbo 180 = $23.76
$12 turbo 45 = $0
$12 turbo 180= $23.76
$12 turbo 180 = $0
$10.40 DON = $0
$5.20 DON = $10
$5.50 MTT = $0
$10.40 DON = $0
$20.80 DON = $40
$10k guar $5mtt=$0
$50k Guar $3r in for $21.30= $38.94
$20 DON=$0
$20 DON = $40
$20 DON = $40
$20 DON = $0
$20 DON = $0
$5 DON = $0


$ won= $390.98

Now we move back to grinding away. My current bankroll now sits at










drumroll......





$526.57 at Stars
$374.93 at Tilt

$901.50 total bankroll


WOOOOT!

Monday, April 20, 2009

Oh yea, I have a blog.....

Well, I hadn't actually forgotten about my blog, but was too embarassed to post anything to it as I was really tilting and just throwing money away in general. After a bit of recovery, I can hold my head high and start posting again. I had pretty much busted totally and was anxiously awaiting my rakeback from Tilt which was a much needed rebuild. I really am not sure if I will ever get to the level that I want to in NL poker. I've always found myself to be a better tournament player overall, but thought I could push my way into the NL world and make a descent buck off of it. I decided to take a bit of a break from NL cash games and set out on a new quest: Turn my 20k FPP's at Stars into a descent amount of cash. I'm playing the 210 fpp satellites to the Sunday 100k which has an $11 entry which gives me T$11 to use in regular trny's. I'm going to be focussing on this primarily until all my fpp's are gone. I currently have 8,412 fpp's left and I stand with the following results:

Total Played: 56
Total FPP's spent: 11760
Total Won: 23
$T won= $253
Current $T to spend: $62.90

Trny's played with $T-

$12 turbo 180 sng= $23.76
$12 turbo 180 sng= $0
$12 turbo 180 sng= $0 77 runs into 99
$12 turbo 45 sng= $0 KK runs into a limp/shoved A6o utg
$12 turbo 45 sng= $22
$5 mtt= $0
$20.80 DON= $0
$10.40 DON= $0
$10.40 DON= $0
$12 turbo 180 = $0
$12 turbo 180 = $0
$12 turbo 180 = $128.70
$12 turbo 180 = $23.76
$12 turbo 45 = $0
$12 turbo 180= $23.76
$12 turbo 180 = $0

$ won= $221.98

Here's hoping it continues well and I can get a couple more final tables going.