Tuesday, June 30, 2015

My first HORSE final table

At long last, I achieved my first HORSE final table. Since HORSE tables seat 8 players and 8-game tables only seat 6, you'd think it'd be easier to make a HORSE final table than an 8-game one. For me, at any rate, that isn't the case. I think where I shine in multiple game tournaments is in the fact that I'm decent at every game, and even excel at some. That means that the more games there are, the bigger the advantage I'll have. Since 8-game has more games than HORSE, that gives me more chances to encounter opponents with holes in their play that I can exploit. I've said it before and I'll say it again - I think I've finally found my poker niche, after nearly 7 years of experimentation. It feels good to be home :-)

style flavor buy_in entry players hands place winnings

MTT   8-Game   4500   500       6    70    16     5080
MTT   HORSE    4500   500       8    75     5    22020


delta: $17,100
MTT 8-game balance: $167,960
balance: $9,175,482

Monday, June 29, 2015

Stop-time

In tap dancing, jazz, and blues, stop-time is an accompaniment pattern interrupting, or stopping, the normal time and featuring regular accented attacks on the first beat of each or every other measure alternating with silence or solos.

source: Wikipedia

In poker, stop-time is the moment in a multi-table tournament when the money bubble is just about to burst. In this moment, you should rarely call, and never bet or raise.

source: neostreet

Last night, I didn't take the good advice I give above. We were down to 19 players, and 18 places would be paid. So it was definitely stop-time. However, instead of stopping, I kept playing, and played myself right out of the money. The irony is that I was dancing with the one who brung me; I never would have made it to the final 19 without having made some gutsy bets along the way. So I decided to make one more gutsy bet in stop-time. It's really hard to remember not to play when playing's what got you where you are. It just doesn't feel right. I'll try hard to remember next time I'm in stop-time :-)

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

  4500   500       6    86    19        0


delta: $-5,000
MTT 8-game balance: $167,880
balance: $9,158,382

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Why I prefer 8-game to HORSE

When I'm really short-stacked at an 8-game tournament, there are two poker flavors which routinely save my bacon: no limit hold'em and deuce to the seven triple draw lowball. You can really build your stack in a hurry when playing these flavors. HORSE is missing both of them. That's the main reason I prefer 8-game to HORSE. I won't refuse to play HORSE, but given my druthers, I'll take 8-game.

Last night, I played two 8-games and one HORSE. I didn't come within a country mile of the money in any of them, more's the pity.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands place winnings

MTT   8-Game   4500   500       6    24    52        0
MTT   HORSE    4500   500       8    23    47        0
MTT   8-Game   4500   500       6    60    41        0


delta: $-15,000
MTT 8-game balance: $172,880
balance: $9,163,382

Saturday, June 27, 2015

True blue

Sometimes, it's hard to recognize the truth, even when it's staring you in the face. When the scales finally fall from your eyes, you wonder how you could have been so blind. I've had a poker epiphany. My best poker self is the one which plays MTT 8-games. I played an MTT 8-game last night. I made the money. Not only that, I made the final table. I've now made the final table 9 of the 57 times I've played an MTT 8-game. Last night, my MTT 8-game balance returned to the blue. It's my true blue :-)

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

  4500   500       6   121     4    35570


delta: $30,570
MTT 8-game balance: $182,880
balance: $9,178,382

Friday, June 26, 2015

The best way to get one outed

Last night, on hand 17, I got one outed. That is, I lost to an opponent whose hand only one river card could improve enough to beat mine. I was dealt Kc 6c. My opponent was dealt Kd Kh. The flop came 6s 2h 6d, the turn was 9c, and the river was Ks. My full house of sixes full of kings lost to his full house of kings full of sixes. I was incredibly unlucky to lose the hand. However, I also had some incredibly good luck. My opponent, who had me covered, only made a small bet of $3,500 on the river, and only called my raise to $7,000, instead of reraising. He could easily have gone all in, and I would certainly have called. It's a small miracle I didn't go broke. I ended up only losing $9,500 on the hand, a mere bagatelle :-)

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 109 hands and saw flop:
 - 9 out of 14 times while in big blind (64%)
 - 7 out of 15 times while in small blind (46%)
 - 33 out of 80 times in other positions (41%)
 - a total of 49 out of 109 (44%)
 Pots won at showdown - 5 of 13 (38%)
 Pots won without showdown - 4

delta: $28,518
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $6,286,873
balance: $9,147,812

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Ragged aces considered harmful

Last night, my biggest loss of the session came courtesy of a ragged ace. I was dealt ace four offsuit, and the flop came Tc Js Ad. Rather foolishly, I hung in there all the way through showdown, and ended up losing $22,723 to an opponent who'd been dealt ace queen offsuit. This got me thinking about ragged aces, and what exactly constitutes one. Based on my data, a ragged ace is essentially any ace that is not suited with your other hole card :-) Exceptions to this rule are rockets, ace king offuit, and ace queen offsuit. Here's how I've fared in my cash game no limit hold'em poker career when at least one of my hole cards is an ace:

AJo   $-569,868
ATo   $-286,053
A6o   $-255,139
A9o   $-250,148
A8o   $-189,687
A7o   $-148,710
A3o    $-77,323
AKs    $-66,090
A5o    $-58,615
A6s    $-48,962
A4o    $-38,101
A4s    $-13,653
AQs      $8,925
A7s     $15,250
A9s     $18,566
A2o     $33,592
A2s     $43,187
A3s    $146,731
A8s    $208,092
ATs    $218,034
AJs    $295,876
A5s    $339,787
AQo    $401,643
AKo    $959,689
AA   $2,440,986


If I'd been able to find the will to fold all my ragged aces, I would have saved myself a ton of play money.

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 149 hands and saw flop:
 - 23 out of 28 times while in big blind (82%)
 - 19 out of 29 times while in small blind (65%)
 - 32 out of 92 times in other positions (34%)
 - a total of 74 out of 149 (49%)
 Pots won at showdown - 12 of 22 (54%)
 Pots won without showdown - 11

delta: $-2,367
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $6,258,355
balance: $9,119,294

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Too many flops

There's a wonderful moment in the movie "Amadeus" when Mozart's patron blandly informs him that his work has "too many notes". Mozart is dumbstruck, since as an artist he knows instinctively that music can't be reduced to something as banal as numbers. Poker can't be reduced to numbers, either, but it comes a lot closer :-)

Last night, if I had a poker patron, he would blandly have informed me that I saw "too many flops". For the first time since I returned to cash game no limit hold'em, my seeing the flop percentage exceeded fifty, and I had a losing session. I'll try to keep it under fifty tonight.

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 111 hands and saw flop:
 - 12 out of 14 times while in big blind (85%)
 - 6 out of 15 times while in small blind (40%)
 - 40 out of 82 times in other positions (48%)
 - a total of 58 out of 111 (52%)
 Pots won at showdown - 7 of 19 (36%)
 Pots won without showdown - 5

delta: $-50,000
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $6,260,722
balance: $9,121,661

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

One in a thousand

One of the nicest things that can happen to you at a poker table is flopping a full house. Of course, you can't expect that to happen very often. Of the 57,342 cash game no limit hold'em hands I've played for which I have the full hand histories, I've only flopped a full house 56 times. So this is essentially a one in a thousand occurrence. There's really only one way to play a flopped fatty, if you want to extract the most chips as possible from your opponents. Not surprisingly, you must not bet or raise on the flop. You shouldn't bet or raise on the turn either. You can feel free to go nuts on the river, but even there, it's better not to go all in all at once.

Last night, I flopped a fatty on hand 14. Here are the actions I took on the hand:

pre-flop
neostreet: calls 500
flop
neostreet: calls 1000 

turn
neostreet: calls 2000

river
neostreet: raises 12500 to 25000
neostreet: raises 12500 to 50000
neostreet: calls 819


Of course, I was lucky to have an opponent who did the early betting for me :-) I raked in a pot worth $108,638, $54,319 of which was o.p.m. (other people's money).

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 91 hands and saw flop:
 - 9 out of 12 times while in big blind (75%)
 - 3 out of 12 times while in small blind (25%)
 - 18 out of 67 times in other positions (26%)
 - a total of 30 out of 91 (32%)
 Pots won at showdown - 5 of 8 (62%)
 Pots won without showdown - 2

delta: $78,850
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $6,310,722
balance: $9,171,661

Monday, June 22, 2015

Fwop meister

Last night, in my return to cash games, I was a fwop meister. As a refresher, fwopping is my poker slang for "folding without pain". Obviously, the more painless the act of folding becomes, the more likely you are to fold, and the lower your seeing the flop percentage will be. As it turns out, playing tournaments is excellent fwop training; you must be able to fwop early and often when playing either sit and gos or MTTs. I just ran the numbers and discovered the last time my cash game seeing the flop percentage was as low as it was last night was roughly a year ago. I was underwater all night except for the last hand, when I was dealt rockets. I won a pot worth $68,892 with them, exactly half of which was o.p.m. (other people's money).

During current Hold'em session you were dealt 34 hands and saw flop:
 - 1 out of 3 times while in big blind (33%)
 - 1 out of 5 times while in small blind (20%)
 - 7 out of 26 times in other positions (26%)
 - a total of 9 out of 34 (26%)
 Pots won at showdown - 2 of 2 (100%)
 Pots won without showdown - 1


delta: $18,892
cash game no limit hold'em balance: $6,231,872
balance: $9,092,811

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Career worst nine bagger

I had another big losing session last night. Looking at the numbers, I discovered that I've never lost more money than I have in the last nine sessions I've played. It comes out to a whopping $1,431,460. My sit and go mojo is gone. I need to return to cash games, like a swallow returning to Capistrano :-) My goal for the rest of the year will be to return my balance to the blue, playing cash games, and only cash games.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands place winnings

SNG   NLHE    90000 10000       6    39     4        0
MTT   8-Game   4500   500       6    51    46        0
SNG   NLHE    90000 10000       6    25     4        0
MTT   HORSE    4500   500       6    70    12     8160


delta: $-201,840
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $1,356,800
balance: $9,073,919

Saturday, June 20, 2015

Eighth final table

Last night, I played two sit and gos and three MTTs. In the last MTT, I made the final table. It was the eighth final table of my young MTT career. So far, I'm making the final table one of every nine MTTs I play, which is not shabby at all :-) Every one of the final tables I've made has been an 8-game; I've never made one for HORSE. I have to say, MTT 8-games are a ton of fun. I'll be playing a lot more of them.

style flavor buy_in entry players hands place winnings

SNG   NLHE    90000 10000       6    22     3        0
MTT   8-Game   4500   500       6    40    75        0
SNG   NLHE    90000 10000       6    31     5        0
MTT   HORSE    4500   500       6    56    33        0
MTT   8-Game   4500   500       6   189     3    47380


delta: $-167,620
MTT 8-game balance: $157,310
balance: $9,275,759

Friday, June 19, 2015

Sit and go milestone

With the six sit and go tournaments I played last night, I topped 800 for my career. That's a lot of tournaments! The fact that I've played that many and made a profit bodes well for my future success. Here are my overall place counts:

place    count(*)
1    144
2    160
3    172
4    133
5    122
6    70


Here are my place counts since returning to sit and gos on May 2:

place    count(*)
1    28
2    35
3    39
4    20
5    27
6    5


I have a hankering to play some MTTs tonight, so that's just what I'm going to do :-)

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

 90000 10000       6    45     2   189000
 90000 10000       6    43     3        0
 90000 10000       6    18     5        0
 90000 10000       6    39     3        0
 90000 10000       6    23     5        0
 90000 10000       6    71     3        0


delta: $-411,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $1,756,800
balance: $9,443,379

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Heads up half century

It's a big deal to get a century - 100 or more hands - when playing a sit and go no limit hold'em tournament. It's an even bigger deal to get half a century - 50 or more hands - after getting to heads up play. I hit the heads up half century on the button in the final sit and go I played last night. For the record, I've had 15 centuries in my career, and 13 heads up half centuries.

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

 90000 10000       6    10     5        0
 90000 10000       6    57     1   351000
 90000 10000       6    19     5        0
 90000 10000       6    30     3        0
 90000 10000       6    59     2   189000
 90000 10000       6    90     1   351000


delta: $291,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $2,167,800
balance: $9,854,379

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

An ofer I couldn't refuse

Some nights, you can't win for losing, even when you're coming really close. Last night, I had an ofer session. That is, I went  "oh fer" (0 for) the number of tournaments I entered. When you play sit and gos, you have to accept that these sessions happen; more than that, you have to expect them. About the only thing you don't have to do is look forward to them :-)

The only bright spot of last night's session is that my bubble percentage, 50, was decent.

Just for fun, I went and added up all the play money I've lost in ofer sit and go sessions. The current total is (drumroll, please ...) $5,782,250.

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

 90000 10000       6    13     5        0
 90000 10000       6    33     3        0
 90000 10000       6    46     3        0
 90000 10000       6    26     5        0
 90000 10000       6    37     4        0
 90000 10000       6    38     3        0


delta: $-600,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $1,876,800
balance: $9,563,379

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Hitting for the mini cycle

As I've mentioned before, I call it hitting for the cycle when I play six sit and gos in a session and come in first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth (in no particular order). Last night, I hit for the mini cycle. In other words, I entered four sit and gos and came in first, second, third, and fourth (in no particular order). I've figured out a sure fire way to make a huge profit playing sit and gos; of course, it's much easier said than done. All you need to do is play four sit and gos a night, and hit for the mini cycle like clockwork. At the $90,000 buy in level, that nets you $140,000 dollars a session. If you can consistently do that for a year, at say 250 sessions a year, that gives you a gargantuan yearly profit of $35,000,000. Not exactly chump change :-)

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

 90000 10000       6    50     3        0
 90000 10000       6    65     2   189000
 90000 10000       6    66     1   351000
 90000 10000       6    31     4        0


delta: $140,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $2,476,800
balance: $10,163,379

Monday, June 15, 2015

Another sit and go no limit hold'em century

Last night, I had another sit and go no limit hold'em century; that is, another such tournament lasting 100 or more hands. In 727 such tournaments, I've only achieved a century 15 times. That's just a squeak over 2 percent. Here are my sit and go no limit hold'em century place counts:

place    count(*)
1    4
2    9
3    2


That's a pretty miserable showing for first places. Thankfully, my first place showing for shorter tournaments is considerably better.

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

 90000 10000       6    69     2   189000
 90000 10000       6    24     4        0
 90000 10000       6   108     2   189000
 90000 10000       6    40     5        0


delta: $-22,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $2,336,800
balance: $10,023,379

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Another top 5

Last night, I had an interesting top 5 result. In the first sit and go I entered, my stack reached the fourth smallest size it ever had in a tournament satisfying the following two conditions:

1. the initial stake was $1,000
2. I ended up winning the tournament

At the start of hand 9, I had a mere $220. Luckily for me, play was five-handed at the time, so I could still bide my time for a little bit.

Last night also marked the end of my latest streak of tournaments where I finished better than sixth place (i.e., last); this one lasted 19 tournaments.

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

 90000 10000       6    49     1   351000
 90000 10000       6     8     6        0
 90000 10000       6    23     4        0
 90000 10000       6    63     2   189000


delta: $140,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $2,358,800
balance: $10,045,379

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Bubblicious

Last night, I made the top two in a category. Granted, the category was most money lost in a single session, but still :-) As I've said before, I like to have outlier sessions, even when the outlier is on the losing end. I lost a healthy 5.71% of my overall stack, but that paled in comparison to the biggest percentage loss of my career, which was 36.58%, way back on April 11th, 2009.

Why did I pick "Bubblicious" as the title of this post? For the simple reason that I had the highest bubble percentage of my career for a six sit and go session. I bubbled four times, for a bubble percentage of 66.66... My next highest bubble percentage for a six sit and go session is 50 (three out of six), which I've achieved four times.

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

 90000 10000       6    21     3        0
 90000 10000       6    34     5        0
 90000 10000       6    28     3        0
 90000 10000       6    45     3        0
 90000 10000       6    38     4        0
 90000 10000       6    30     3        0


delta: $-600,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $2,218,800
balance: $9,905,379

Friday, June 12, 2015

Three handed marathon

Last night, although I won the first of the two sit and gos I entered, it was the one I lost which more memorable. After only 9 hands played, we were down to three players. I was then a participant in the longest three handed stretch of my sit and go career, a remarkable 92 hands. In a way, it felt like performance art, with all three players contributing :-) It was a shame it had to end.

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

 90000 10000       6    53     1   351000
 90000 10000       6   101     3        0


delta: $151,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $2,818,800
balance: $10,505,379

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Blue, baby

Last night, for the first time since last August, my balance returned to the blue. This came on the strength of two first places. I really had no business coming in first the first time I did it; when I got to heads up, my opponent had $5,175 in chips and I had a mere $825. The only reason I was able to win was that my opponent just couldn't bring himself to bet, for some strange reason. Players with that big a chip advantage should win almost every time, everything else being equal. I'll take it, though :-)

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

 90000 10000       6    48     3        0
 90000 10000       6    38     3        0
 90000 10000       6    89     1   351000
 90000 10000       6    68     1   351000


delta: $302,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $2,667,800
balance: $10,354,379

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Another sincemillion

In the post "My latest sincemillion", written on April 27, 2013, I gave the following definition:

A sincemillion is a million play dollars earned since a specific point in time.

Last night, I achieved another sincemillion; I've now gained $1,092,240 since switching from cash games to sit and gos on May 2, 2015. I'm very close to getting my overall balance back into the blue. It's so close I can taste it :-)

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

 90000 10000       6    66     3        0
 90000 10000       6    58     1   351000
 90000 10000       6    28     4        0
 90000 10000       6    40     2   189000


delta: $140,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $2,365,800
balance: $10,052,379

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Hats off to Phil Hellmuth

The World Series of Poker is going on right now in Las Vegas. Every year, I miss it more. It's funny how much you can miss something you've never experienced :-) Last night, Phil Hellmuth made more poker history; he won his 14th WSOP bracelet. Hats off to him! For the record, here are his 14 WSOP bracelet wins (source: Wikipedia):

Year    Tournament                                    Prize (US$/EU€)

1989    $10,000 No Limit Hold'em World Championship   $755,000
1992    $5,000 Limit Hold'em                          $168,000
1993    $1,500 No Limit Hold'em                       $161,400
1993    $2,500 No Limit Hold'em                       $173,000
1993    $5,000 Limit Hold'em                          $138,000
1997    $3,000 Pot Limit Hold'em                      $204,000
2001    $2,000 No Limit Hold'em                       $316,550
2003    $2,500 Limit Hold'em                          $171,400
2003    $3,000 No Limit Hold'em                       $410,860
2006    $1,000 No Limit Hold'em with rebuys           $631,863
2007    $1,500 No Limit Hold'em                       $637,254
2012    $2,500 Seven-Card Razz                        $182,793
2012E   €10,450 No Limit Hold'em Main Event         €1,022,376
2015    $10,000 Seven-Card Razz                       $271,105


buy_in entry players hands place winnings

 90000 10000       6    13     5        0
 90000 10000       6     8     6        0
 90000 10000       6   118     1   351000
 90000 10000       6    61     1   351000


delta: $302,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $2,225,800
balance: $9,912,379













Monday, June 8, 2015

Second largest session loss ever

Last night, I lost $411,000, which was my second largest session loss ever. My largest was $1,024,500, on July 21st, 2012. Despite losing such a large sum, though, I think I actually played pretty well. How could that be? For one thing, three of the five times I failed to make the money, I bubbled. For another, both times I came in fifth, I had a "winning percent at flop" value of 80 on the final hand. What that boils down to is that I was correct to have gone all in, even though it hadn't panned out.

I thought I was racking up a pretty impressive burn rate of money wagered lately, but looking at the numbers, my current burn rate pales in comparison to when I first tried sit and gos about three years ago. In the last 10 sessions, I've wagered $2,950,000, but the most I've ever wagered in a 10 session span is more than double that; from July 20th, 2012 to August 19th, 2012, I wagered $6,792,050.

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

 90000 10000       6    34     2   189000
 90000 10000       6    23     3        0
 90000 10000       6    66     3        0
 90000 10000       6    19     5        0
 90000 10000       6    68     3        0
 90000 10000       6    13     5        0


delta: $-411,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $1,923,800
balance: $9,610,379

Sunday, June 7, 2015

Back to the dime

On July 4th of last year, my overall balance topped 10 million play dollars for the first time. For shorthand, let's call that amount the dime :-) On August 31 of last year, my balance fell below the dime. On May 1st of this year, my balance fell below 9 million play dollars. On May 2nd, I switched from cash games to sit and gos. On May 11th, my balance topped 9 million play dollars again. Last night, I got back to the dime. It's good to be back :-)

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

 90000 10000       6    48     2   189000
 90000 10000       6    70     3        0
 90000 10000       6    69     2   189000


delta: $78,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $2,334,800
balance: $10,021,379

Saturday, June 6, 2015

Blue on the year

Thanks to last night's winning session, I'm now blue on the year. That is, my 2015 balance has reached a new zenith, $321,049. This is wonderful news, considering my 2015 nadir came as recently as May 6th, when my 2015 balance hit a low of $-672,391. This turnaround can largely be credited to my decision to return to sit and go no limit hold'em. It's my bread and butter.

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

 90000 10000       6    34     4        0
 90000 10000       6   105     1   351000
 90000 10000       6    68     2   189000


delta: $240,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $2,256,800
balance: $9,943,379

Friday, June 5, 2015

A sit and go magic number

I always like to come up with new magic numbers in poker. In the beginning, they all had to do with cash games, since that was all I played. Later, I started adding sit and go magic numbers. Looking over the stats from last night's session, I've come up with a new sit and go magic number. Drumroll, please ...

It's 75. As in 75 hands. If you can get to hand 75 in a sit and go, you have an excellent chance of making the money. Here are my place counts for sit and gos of 75 hands or more:

place    count(*)
1           36
2           42
3            8


Of course, the only way to get to 75 hands is by playing good poker. There's no shortcut :-)

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

 90000 10000       6    32     3        0
 90000 10000       6    44     4        0
 90000 10000       6    75     1   351000


delta: $51,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $2,016,800
balance: $9,703,379

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Ninepins

Things can happen in a hurry in sit and gos. In the first one I entered last night, opponents were going down like ninepins early on. One player was knocked out on the very first hand, and two more were knocked out on the second. I was an innocent bystander both times. I played the next 23 hands on the bubble, and came in second. Believing this was the earliest I'd ever gotten to three handed play, I checked the archives and discovered I was wrong. Two separate times, I've gotten to three handed play after only a single hand. God bless impatient players :-)

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

 90000 10000       6    67     2   189000
 90000 10000       6    75     3        0


delta: $-11,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $1,965,800
balance: $9,652,379

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

$40,345,080

The title of this post is the amount of play money I've wagered so far in my career on sit and go no limit hold'em. Last night's $400,000 wagered is what pushed me over the $40,000,000 mark. I'm going to see how long I can keep up this burn rate :-)

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

 90000 10000       6    24     3        0
 90000 10000       6    71     2   189000
 90000 10000       6    27     5        0
 90000 10000       6    36     4        0


delta: $-211,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $1,976,800
balance: $9,663,379

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Two sweet

Poker success can never be too sweet. However, it can sometimes be two sweet :-) That's what I call it when I enter two sit and go tournaments in a session, and win both of them. Before last night, I'd managed to achieve this a grand total of once. Last night, I did it again. I got incredibly lucky on one hand in the second tournament; I hit a two outer on the river. Since I've been on the losing end of two outer bad beats before, I don't feel guilty when I'm on the winning end :-)

Thanks to playing at the $90,000 buy in level, my two wins translated to my fourth highest session delta ever. If I could somehow manage to do the same thing tonight, my overall balance would be back in the blue, hey presto.

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

 90000 10000       6    80     1   351000
 90000 10000       6    42     1   351000


delta: $502,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $2,187,800
balance: $9,874,379

Monday, June 1, 2015

Pulling up stakes

I've decided it's time to pull up stakes again. I'm going to move from the $45,000 buy in level to the $90,000 buy in level. If I play as well at the higher stakes as I did at the lower stakes, I'll make twice the profit. Also, my sit and go wagered amount will grow twice as fast. Of course, if I play poorly, I'll lose money twice as fast. I'm willing to lose a ton of money for the sheer thrill of playing high stakes poker :-) That's not to say that I want to lose money; ideally, I want to get my balance back into the blue before the year is out.

buy_in entry players hands place winnings

 45000  5000       6    75     2    94500
 45000  5000       6    22     5        0
 45000  5000       6    53     3        0
 45000  5000       6     8     6        0
 45000  5000       6   102     2    94500


delta: $-61,000
Sit and go no limit hold'em balance: $1,685,800
balance: $9,372,379