I shouldn't really call it Hell week. It was probably the first time I've EVER worked for more than 40 hours in a week though.
A lot of the time throughout, I felt like I was running unlucky. While this was probably true to a certain point, I honestly wasn't playing very well. I played a number of hands poorly, even when winning them. I limped with KK in the SB, let J5 see a flop AND turn to get a AQKT board, and then reraised his strength bet all in only to not improve. Doesn't sound that horrible, but it was ugly.
SNG strategy is not really the issue, I don't think. I know enough SNG strategy to fill a book (idea). I think it was that I was playing too many tables!
As many people who tell me "how can you remember what's going on?", I would say it's a set in stone strategy. But then I realized it's really not.
My game is a hybrid between virgin tight and prostitute looseness. And it always depends on the situation, but WAY too often have I been checking in spots where if I were playing 16, I would absolutely follow through with a C-bet.
When I run bad (losing an abnormal amount of crucial all ins), it seems like I am winning a lot of small pots and losing a lot big ones. Need to get back to basics for next week.
$55+5s
SNG 800
BUYIN $44,000
RAKE $4,000 ($1,120 FPPs)
TOTAL $48,000
PROFIT $6,351.00
$105+9s
SNG 200
BUYIN $21,000
RAKE $1,800
TOTAL $22,800
PROFIT ($-309.00)
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HOURS - 42
$/HOUR - $143.86
TOTAL - $6,042.00
Also, I made that $2,000 for my VPP bonus, but I ended up LOSING to jnfpoker - who put up just under 1600 points :. Not only did he take me for $500, he bumped me off the leaderboard! From 15th and $80, to 16th and squat. Ah well. So including bonuses and bets:
WEEK PROFIT - $7,542.00 or $179.57 bucks an hour.
Next week, I really want to make some $ on both leaderboards. I am considering playing the 18-mans to start off the week, as I have absolutely no shot to win the Low Orbit otherwise.
Oh, and some chick at one of my tables last night said she just won her 6th Step 6 ($5k ish). I've played against her before and she's decent, but nothing special. I am quite sure that those Steps will be in my near future, I just have to organize a gameplan for them.
Alright, well it's been a busy busy week but I suppose those numbers make it worthwhile at the end of it.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
Busy Week
I set out this week to play 1,000 SNGs. I was inspired by ZeeJustin, from like 3 years ago. I remember thinking that playing 12 tables was nuts. I play 20 at once now. Badass.
I also started to venture into the $105+9s. I don't know why, but I've always thought the guys who played those were regulars of the $114s, like I have at the $60s. But it's pretty much the same guys, and I feel like I'm better than every single one of them. If nothing else, I'm equally good and therefore the positive ROI will have to be supplied by the fishies.
Whenever I start a SNG, I block the images of all my opponents, just to keep things a little more clear when I have so many going. When I play sessions where I am blocking a lot of images, I am happy. It means it's an opponent I haven't played against.
I have a list in my head of like 400 players who I recognize, and I'm surprisingly able to use that information quickly, and establish a gameplan for each particular table.
I think I have been too over zealous lately about Bubble Play. As a shortstack I don't show as much patience as I possibly should. I think I might have missed out in a couple cashes this way. Oh well, I was still trying to play for first.
It's Thursday night (technically Friday morning) and so far this week, I've played 765 SNGs. I should play a double session to get to 800, but it's late and I've already had a great day. Still have about 10 hours of play to to do. I'll get in 5 hours in the afternoon, and get to 900. Play a big long 100 game session to close off the week Saturday, and see if I can put up a score better than 1386 (ugh).
I made a bet this week with jnfpoker for $500 for the Uranus High Orbit leaderboard, and it doesn't look like he's even going to come close, so thats good news for me. I trust him to pay me, but we'll see on Sunday.
I've also decided that I'm going to hit Supernova Elite next year, and I hope to do it before half the year is over. That will give me FPP bonuses up the ass, and I will be making a sick amount just in points alone. I'm not sure when I'm going to cash the points out, I've been building them for the year.
Although, I did have to spend 50,000 of them the other day to unlock my 200,000 VPP $2,000 bonus. Worked that off tonight and with my 10th place spot on the leaderboard (probably finish 14th or 15th if I'm lucky), I will probably get an extra $80. So my numbers for this week are...
$60s 601
$114s 164
Profit $3,694.50 Hours 34
VPP $2,000 Wage $229.40/Hour
BOP $80
BET $500
FPP $ $1,255
TOTAL $7,799.50
This is going to sound terrible, but I've had the worst week too. The bonuses are just so huge, and the more you play the more you get. You can make an argument for being a losing player at the $225s and still playing them for a profit, from the points.
Anyways, I'm not done. I set out to play 1,000 and that's what I'm going to do. I'll post those numbers and talk about how I ran next time.
Gidds
I also started to venture into the $105+9s. I don't know why, but I've always thought the guys who played those were regulars of the $114s, like I have at the $60s. But it's pretty much the same guys, and I feel like I'm better than every single one of them. If nothing else, I'm equally good and therefore the positive ROI will have to be supplied by the fishies.
Whenever I start a SNG, I block the images of all my opponents, just to keep things a little more clear when I have so many going. When I play sessions where I am blocking a lot of images, I am happy. It means it's an opponent I haven't played against.
I have a list in my head of like 400 players who I recognize, and I'm surprisingly able to use that information quickly, and establish a gameplan for each particular table.
I think I have been too over zealous lately about Bubble Play. As a shortstack I don't show as much patience as I possibly should. I think I might have missed out in a couple cashes this way. Oh well, I was still trying to play for first.
It's Thursday night (technically Friday morning) and so far this week, I've played 765 SNGs. I should play a double session to get to 800, but it's late and I've already had a great day. Still have about 10 hours of play to to do. I'll get in 5 hours in the afternoon, and get to 900. Play a big long 100 game session to close off the week Saturday, and see if I can put up a score better than 1386 (ugh).
I made a bet this week with jnfpoker for $500 for the Uranus High Orbit leaderboard, and it doesn't look like he's even going to come close, so thats good news for me. I trust him to pay me, but we'll see on Sunday.
I've also decided that I'm going to hit Supernova Elite next year, and I hope to do it before half the year is over. That will give me FPP bonuses up the ass, and I will be making a sick amount just in points alone. I'm not sure when I'm going to cash the points out, I've been building them for the year.
Although, I did have to spend 50,000 of them the other day to unlock my 200,000 VPP $2,000 bonus. Worked that off tonight and with my 10th place spot on the leaderboard (probably finish 14th or 15th if I'm lucky), I will probably get an extra $80. So my numbers for this week are...
$60s 601
$114s 164
Profit $3,694.50 Hours 34
VPP $2,000 Wage $229.40/Hour
BOP $80
BET $500
FPP $ $1,255
TOTAL $7,799.50
This is going to sound terrible, but I've had the worst week too. The bonuses are just so huge, and the more you play the more you get. You can make an argument for being a losing player at the $225s and still playing them for a profit, from the points.
Anyways, I'm not done. I set out to play 1,000 and that's what I'm going to do. I'll post those numbers and talk about how I ran next time.
Gidds
Monday, August 25, 2008
Finally Turned The Corner, (Thank God)
I have played poker for about five or six years now, and to be perfectly honest I have never been all that confident about my own game. I know that I am a winning player and that in the long run, I will be a winning player - but I never really totally understood why.
In the last two or three weeks, I have been playing a boat load of poker. Whereas during the first half of '08 I was playing on average 46 hours per month, I am now playing that much per week.
I am now understanding that my theory on the emotional nature of the online poker player isn't all that I thought it was. True, one must always consider ev-er-y-thing at the table (speed, chat, name, picture etc.) I think I was placing too much emphasize on when raising and folding should be done. It's not about feelings at all. It's about the math, plain and simple.
And when I realized that I started to play continous sessions, whereas I loaded up more tables as each table disappeared. I have found that I can play 23 tables per hour, while 16 tabling. Playing in 3 hour sets allows me to get in about 70 games. For example, today I played for 8 hours, 56 minutes and played 205 SNGs.
I put up a pretty good score today, 1413 but I think that might be a 7-10 spot so I'll have to beat that tomorrow. 1600 is pretty much untouchable from what I've seen. I still haven't won the Leaderboard. Twice I was leading with like 5 hours to go in the week, and ended up getting a 2nd and a 3rd. I'm not positive but I think I've made over $3,500 solely from Stars' newest way to make me never get a real job.
Right now, I'm firing away at the $60s whenever I can. I'm going to play 1,000 SNGs this week. I was reading ZeeJustin's blog from way back, and I kind of have to laugh at how much things have changed. I remember reading "8 tabling, then 12 tabling" and thinking this guy was nuts. Now today I was sitting there with 18 tables and still able to see a bit of Family Guy.
Anyways, once I realized that it had nothing to do with feelings - I realized something very important. It had nothing to do with how I was feeling. This is going to sound f*ckin' retarded, but I somehow thought before that if I payed attention to an all in, it would go my favour more often. Rediculous.
Now, I realize that the reason why people get so frustrated is the fact that not all cards are dealt at once during an all in. If all 5 cards were laid down at once, you would see immediately who won and lost. The pauses between the cards being dealt causes people to change the % of the probability of them winning in their heads. This is a flawed math.
AA vs. 77 is going to win something like 80% of the time (or more, doesn't matter). The board will come out a combination of the remaining 48 cards in a sequence from left to right. The ORDER of that sequence (of 5 cards) is what makes people rip their hair out. Understand that those five cards were coming down, no matter what.
If you follow me, put yourself in both the 77 and AA's shoes. For arguments sake, lets say both of the plays are completely justified preflop.
For this example, if the flop comes Axx, turn x, river 7 - no big deal. Nobodies emotions ran high. However, if the board came 7xx, turn x, river A - there would be a tonne of emotion. Feelings of justice and not being able to catch a break come to mind. Deal with the fact that those five cards are coming down, and regardless of order thats the outcome of the hand. Your KK will fall to K2.
I am starting to teach myself different things. I made a wicked call today that I normally wouldn't make but I just felt it after I looked at it for a while. Mostly just took advantage of the usual Sunday crowd who love to donate money to me for my 2nd house.
Numbers for the Day
SNGs: 205
Hours: 8 hours, 56 minutes
Profit: $2,995.50
FFPs Earned: 17, 938 ($287)
FPPs To Date: 597,708
In the last two or three weeks, I have been playing a boat load of poker. Whereas during the first half of '08 I was playing on average 46 hours per month, I am now playing that much per week.
I am now understanding that my theory on the emotional nature of the online poker player isn't all that I thought it was. True, one must always consider ev-er-y-thing at the table (speed, chat, name, picture etc.) I think I was placing too much emphasize on when raising and folding should be done. It's not about feelings at all. It's about the math, plain and simple.
And when I realized that I started to play continous sessions, whereas I loaded up more tables as each table disappeared. I have found that I can play 23 tables per hour, while 16 tabling. Playing in 3 hour sets allows me to get in about 70 games. For example, today I played for 8 hours, 56 minutes and played 205 SNGs.
I put up a pretty good score today, 1413 but I think that might be a 7-10 spot so I'll have to beat that tomorrow. 1600 is pretty much untouchable from what I've seen. I still haven't won the Leaderboard. Twice I was leading with like 5 hours to go in the week, and ended up getting a 2nd and a 3rd. I'm not positive but I think I've made over $3,500 solely from Stars' newest way to make me never get a real job.
Right now, I'm firing away at the $60s whenever I can. I'm going to play 1,000 SNGs this week. I was reading ZeeJustin's blog from way back, and I kind of have to laugh at how much things have changed. I remember reading "8 tabling, then 12 tabling" and thinking this guy was nuts. Now today I was sitting there with 18 tables and still able to see a bit of Family Guy.
Anyways, once I realized that it had nothing to do with feelings - I realized something very important. It had nothing to do with how I was feeling. This is going to sound f*ckin' retarded, but I somehow thought before that if I payed attention to an all in, it would go my favour more often. Rediculous.
Now, I realize that the reason why people get so frustrated is the fact that not all cards are dealt at once during an all in. If all 5 cards were laid down at once, you would see immediately who won and lost. The pauses between the cards being dealt causes people to change the % of the probability of them winning in their heads. This is a flawed math.
AA vs. 77 is going to win something like 80% of the time (or more, doesn't matter). The board will come out a combination of the remaining 48 cards in a sequence from left to right. The ORDER of that sequence (of 5 cards) is what makes people rip their hair out. Understand that those five cards were coming down, no matter what.
If you follow me, put yourself in both the 77 and AA's shoes. For arguments sake, lets say both of the plays are completely justified preflop.
For this example, if the flop comes Axx, turn x, river 7 - no big deal. Nobodies emotions ran high. However, if the board came 7xx, turn x, river A - there would be a tonne of emotion. Feelings of justice and not being able to catch a break come to mind. Deal with the fact that those five cards are coming down, and regardless of order thats the outcome of the hand. Your KK will fall to K2.
I am starting to teach myself different things. I made a wicked call today that I normally wouldn't make but I just felt it after I looked at it for a while. Mostly just took advantage of the usual Sunday crowd who love to donate money to me for my 2nd house.
Numbers for the Day
SNGs: 205
Hours: 8 hours, 56 minutes
Profit: $2,995.50
FFPs Earned: 17, 938 ($287)
FPPs To Date: 597,708
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