So my Sunday started off with the $22 32k guaranteed on Stars at 12:00. I decided to play a lot this Sunday and when all was said and done, I played in a total of 20 MTTs and 1 satellite. I won the seat in the satellite, which was a $5 rebuy to the $55 Sunday Special 125k guaranteed. I played the seat and didn't cash. But besides that satty seat, the day didn't start off too hot.
About 30 minutes into my session, SluggerWV hit me up on AIM. We exchanged phone numbers, don't know why we didn't have each others #'s already, and we chatted for a few. He wished me luck and I told him that I would give him something to write about in his blog because it had been a while. The day started off slow and by 2pm I wanted to quit playing. I had been running like crap the whole day (http://www.pocketfives.com/poker-forums/12/Sunday-standardaments-3392558) and was almost about to call it quits and stop registering for tournies. Something told me to keep going, so like the degen I am, I ended up registering in and playing another 9 tournies. I decided the last 2 I was going to register for were the 23:00 $2.20 2k guarantee and the 23:15 $11 6-max 5k guarantee.
Up to this point in the day, I had cashed in the $5.50 15k guarantee for $24.04 (203rd of 4,806), the $3.30 HORSE for $9.72 (27th of 432) and the $5.5o NL @ 21:00 for $8.03 (120th of 945). Well, to make a long blog, shorter, I ended up winning the 23:00 $2.20 NL which had 2,545 players and took 7 hours and 26 minutes to complete. The final table was pretty fun too. Had a big OT rail and the FT lasted for almost 2 hours. This was my first win in a non 180-man MTT since June of 2006.
PokerStars Tournament #110967155, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $2.00/$0.20
2545 players
Total Prize Pool: $5090.00
Tournament started - 2008/10/05 - 23:00:00 (ET)
Dear SICKTIGHT311,
You finished the tournament in 1st place.A $687.16 award has been credited to your Real Money account.You earned 682.15 tournament leader points in this tournament.For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site athttp://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/leader-board/
Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.
Funny story to go along with this whole day. To start the day, I had $900 in my PokerStars account. After the first half of my day, when I was contemplating quitting for the day, I made a withdrawl request for $600. Money is getting a little tight around the house since I'm not working right now and I decided that I'd leave myself with $175 in my account and grind it back up. I've done it before, I can do it again. Well after this win at the end of my 18 1/2 hour session, my account is right back where it is when I started the day with $900 AND I have a check on the way for $600. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
Once again, thanks to everyone who railed. That shit was fun!
<3
Monday, October 6, 2008
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Weee, I reached SilverStar VIP status @ PokerStars
Why on earth would I be bragging about this? I've been playing at PokerStars since May of 2006 and haven't ever achieved it. I play mainly MTTs with a buy-in of $11 or less so it's kind of hard to do but since I'm not working right now, I finally made it.
Another cool goal is almost in reach but it's gonna take a final table or something big tonight. As it sits right now, I'm #1,219 on the Stars monthly TLB with 2,872.52 points. You need to be in the top 1,000 to qualify for a $20,000 freeroll. Probably won't get it this month but it's going to be a goal for me for the last 3 months of the year.
And to end off this brag session, the month of September has been my most profitable month of poker since June 2006. All the hard work is starting to pay off. Thanks to anyone who has ever helped.
Much <3,
SICKTIGHT311
Another cool goal is almost in reach but it's gonna take a final table or something big tonight. As it sits right now, I'm #1,219 on the Stars monthly TLB with 2,872.52 points. You need to be in the top 1,000 to qualify for a $20,000 freeroll. Probably won't get it this month but it's going to be a goal for me for the last 3 months of the year.
And to end off this brag session, the month of September has been my most profitable month of poker since June 2006. All the hard work is starting to pay off. Thanks to anyone who has ever helped.
Much <3,
SICKTIGHT311
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Cashed in my first major on only my 2nd attempt!!!
Nothing great, but I've never played in a Sunday major before today. With those crazy 2x guarantees and huge prize pools I couldn't resist. Friday I sattied into the Sunday (2) Million on my 3rd double shootout attempt. So I was in that tourney for only $35.10 instead of $215.00. I decided then that I was going to play a little over my head this Sunday and experience a Sunday like I often read about on P5's. I slept a little longer this morning than I wanted to so the first tourney I played was the $11 200k guaranteed on Stars. This was my schedule for the day.
12:30pm Poker Stars $11.00 NLHE 200k guaranteed
1:30pm Poker Stars $215.00 NLHE 2 Million guaranteed
3:00pm Full Tilt $26.00 NLHE 16k guaranteed
3:30pm Poker Stars $215.00 NLHE 2nd Chance 400k guaranteed
4:00pm Poker Stars $11.00 NLHE 40k guaranteed
5:00pm Poker Stars $27.50 NLHE 50k guaranteed
5:00pm Full Tilt $26.00 NLHE 32k guaranteed
6:30pm Poker Stars $55.00 NLHE 100k guaranteed
Total buy-ins for the day $406.60 (couning the Sunday Mill as $35.10 cause I sattied in)
Total cashes for the day $506.44
The only tournament I cashed in out of the 8 I played was the $215.00 Sunday 2nd Chance. I bubbled the $26.00 32k guarantee on FTP and really wasn't even close in any of the other 6. I had a huge stack in the 32k on FTP too but one misplayed hand and one bad beat and I bubbled. All in all I'm pretty happy with the day. I played pretty well for the most part, had some great players on some of my tables (RaiNKhAN, atimos, BodogAri, THAY3R, Stoweski, legggggggggy and I'm sure some others) and it was a good experience. I know I can play at that level now. Honestly, a lot of those big buy-in tournies felt just like a $5 MTT.
PokerStars Tournament #94712495, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $200.00/$15.00 2302 players
Total Prize Pool: $460,400.00
Tournament started - 2008/07/13 - 18:30:00 (ET)
Dear SICKTIGHT311,
You finished the tournament in 181st place. A $506.44 award has been credited to your Real Money account. You earned 117.74 tournament leader points in this tournament. For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/leader-board/
Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.
Hope everyone else's Sunday's are going well.
Until next time,
ST311
12:30pm Poker Stars $11.00 NLHE 200k guaranteed
1:30pm Poker Stars $215.00 NLHE 2 Million guaranteed
3:00pm Full Tilt $26.00 NLHE 16k guaranteed
3:30pm Poker Stars $215.00 NLHE 2nd Chance 400k guaranteed
4:00pm Poker Stars $11.00 NLHE 40k guaranteed
5:00pm Poker Stars $27.50 NLHE 50k guaranteed
5:00pm Full Tilt $26.00 NLHE 32k guaranteed
6:30pm Poker Stars $55.00 NLHE 100k guaranteed
Total buy-ins for the day $406.60 (couning the Sunday Mill as $35.10 cause I sattied in)
Total cashes for the day $506.44
The only tournament I cashed in out of the 8 I played was the $215.00 Sunday 2nd Chance. I bubbled the $26.00 32k guarantee on FTP and really wasn't even close in any of the other 6. I had a huge stack in the 32k on FTP too but one misplayed hand and one bad beat and I bubbled. All in all I'm pretty happy with the day. I played pretty well for the most part, had some great players on some of my tables (RaiNKhAN, atimos, BodogAri, THAY3R, Stoweski, legggggggggy and I'm sure some others) and it was a good experience. I know I can play at that level now. Honestly, a lot of those big buy-in tournies felt just like a $5 MTT.
PokerStars Tournament #94712495, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $200.00/$15.00 2302 players
Total Prize Pool: $460,400.00
Tournament started - 2008/07/13 - 18:30:00 (ET)
Dear SICKTIGHT311,
You finished the tournament in 181st place. A $506.44 award has been credited to your Real Money account. You earned 117.74 tournament leader points in this tournament. For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/leader-board/
Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.
Hope everyone else's Sunday's are going well.
Until next time,
ST311
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Hey everybody. Time for an update on my life.
What's up party people? It's been a while since I've made a new entry in my blog so here is an update on what's been going on with me for the last month and my plans for the future.
As some of you might know, I was the vault manager at the Long Beach convention center for 10 years. Quite a fucking grind. I was working 50-60 hours a week at times and I was a salaried employee which means that my paychecks were the same every two weeks regardless of how many hours I put in. Well, May 23rd was my last day. I finally got tired of it and decided to resign from the company. I had no other job lined up at the time, I just decided that I'd had enough and it was time to do something else.
For the last 6 weeks I'v just been playing a lot of poker. Well, a lot for me anyways. I've played about 250 MTTs and 225+ SNGs in those 6 weeks with some cash games mixed in as well. I joined a training site to help with my game and have been putting in some good work. I'm seeing some improvement already and have had some close calls in some pretty good tournies. Most of you know that I live in freakin' micro land (my average buy-in over the last 2 years is $6) but I've been moving up the chain a little bit. Actually, just yesterday, I cashed in both the $27.50 50k guaranteed and the $33 20k guaranteed on Poker Stars. Before those, the biggest buy-ins I'd ever cashed in was a $26 on Full Tilt and a $16.50 on Stars. Now time to FT some shit!
As for what's been going on in those 6 weeks outside of poker, I'm getting ready to move into a new house in Buena Park next week. It's a nice 3br 2ba house with nice yards, a good size garage and a hella huge livingroom. I'll put up some pics on P5s after we move in and get everything set up. Pretty stoked on that. It will be a nice upgrade from my 2br 2ba condo that I'm in now.
As for the employment situation, I didn't have anything lined up when I turned in my resignation to my previous job. I had no plan either. After thinking about it for a while, I decided that I want to be a poker dealer. Not only will this help my poker game, but believe it or not, I will be making more money working less hours and doing something that I will most likely enjoy. Luckily too, thru some P5s connections, I have a pretty good in at Hawaiian Gardens Casino and will most likely be dealing there. I'm gonna take like another month or so off after I get moved into the new house just to play a bunch more poker before I get started at the new job. I plan to update my blog every night after I move into the new place before I go to bed. I'll just recap my days tournies and any interesting everyday shit that happens and then after I start dealing, I'm sure I'll have some cool stories to tell about that.
That's all for now kiddos,
Greg "SICKTIGHT311" Benoit
As some of you might know, I was the vault manager at the Long Beach convention center for 10 years. Quite a fucking grind. I was working 50-60 hours a week at times and I was a salaried employee which means that my paychecks were the same every two weeks regardless of how many hours I put in. Well, May 23rd was my last day. I finally got tired of it and decided to resign from the company. I had no other job lined up at the time, I just decided that I'd had enough and it was time to do something else.
For the last 6 weeks I'v just been playing a lot of poker. Well, a lot for me anyways. I've played about 250 MTTs and 225+ SNGs in those 6 weeks with some cash games mixed in as well. I joined a training site to help with my game and have been putting in some good work. I'm seeing some improvement already and have had some close calls in some pretty good tournies. Most of you know that I live in freakin' micro land (my average buy-in over the last 2 years is $6) but I've been moving up the chain a little bit. Actually, just yesterday, I cashed in both the $27.50 50k guaranteed and the $33 20k guaranteed on Poker Stars. Before those, the biggest buy-ins I'd ever cashed in was a $26 on Full Tilt and a $16.50 on Stars. Now time to FT some shit!
As for what's been going on in those 6 weeks outside of poker, I'm getting ready to move into a new house in Buena Park next week. It's a nice 3br 2ba house with nice yards, a good size garage and a hella huge livingroom. I'll put up some pics on P5s after we move in and get everything set up. Pretty stoked on that. It will be a nice upgrade from my 2br 2ba condo that I'm in now.
As for the employment situation, I didn't have anything lined up when I turned in my resignation to my previous job. I had no plan either. After thinking about it for a while, I decided that I want to be a poker dealer. Not only will this help my poker game, but believe it or not, I will be making more money working less hours and doing something that I will most likely enjoy. Luckily too, thru some P5s connections, I have a pretty good in at Hawaiian Gardens Casino and will most likely be dealing there. I'm gonna take like another month or so off after I get moved into the new house just to play a bunch more poker before I get started at the new job. I plan to update my blog every night after I move into the new place before I go to bed. I'll just recap my days tournies and any interesting everyday shit that happens and then after I start dealing, I'm sure I'll have some cool stories to tell about that.
That's all for now kiddos,
Greg "SICKTIGHT311" Benoit
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
PocketFives Open Saturday, June 7th @ 2:30pm Eastern time!!!!!
I plan on playing as a blogger in the PocketFives Open. P5s is adding prizes for the poker bloggers out there. The PocketFives Poker Forum is source of the best online poker rankings in the world.In addition, PocketFives has a member list that includes the best players in online poker, including top poker players such as JohnnyBax and ElMastermind.Registered:1896867315
Everybody else come out and play. There are gonna be some WSOP main event seats up for grabs as well as a bunch of other great prizes. If you aren't a member of PocketFives, sign up at www.pocketfives.com
Everybody else come out and play. There are gonna be some WSOP main event seats up for grabs as well as a bunch of other great prizes. If you aren't a member of PocketFives, sign up at www.pocketfives.com
Monday, May 5, 2008
I like the new 180-player sit and go's on Poker Stars
There have been many petitions on http://www.pocketfives.com/ trying to get Poker Stars to bring back the $10+1 non-turbo 180-mans. Well today, they brought them back and also added a $2.20 turbo 180-man. That's cool because a lot of people like to grind the 180's and now there are a variety of stakes to choose from. I played 3 of the $2.20 turbo 180's tonight and on the 3rd one.................
PokerStars Tournament #87236769, No Limit Hold'emBuy-In: $2.00/$0.20 180 players
Total Prize Pool: $360.00
Tournament started - 2008/05/05 - 02:42:02 (ET)
Dear SICKTIGHT311,
You finished the tournament in 1st place.A $108.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.You earned 181.41 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site athttp://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/leader-board/Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.
WEEEEEEEEEEEE. Hopefully my 6 week stretch of running bad is coming to an end. I also went pretty deep in the $11 Midnight Madness on Full Tilt tonight finishing 55th out of 1,529 people for $33. I min-cashed the 2100 $5 NLHE on Stars and as I'm writing this I'm also in possesion of a good stack in a $1 rebuy on Full Tilt. Hopefully I can get rolling again. The past month or so has been very frustrating.
Good luck and happy days to all of you.
**EDIT** Went very deep in the 10 cent turbo @0400 at Stars. LOL. I got AQ sucked out on by AJ all-in preflop and lost. Would have had a 5th place stack with 2 tables left. :(
PokerStars Tournament #87142177, No Limit Hold'emBuy-In: $0.10
1343 players
$50.00 added to the prize pool by PokerStars.com
Total Prize Pool: $184.30 Tournament started - 2008/05/05 - 04:00:00 (ET)
Dear SICKTIGHT311,
You finished the tournament in 19th place.A $0.65 award has been credited to your Real Money account.You earned 45.74 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site athttp://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/leader-board/
Congratulations!Thank you for participating.
PokerStars Tournament #87236769, No Limit Hold'emBuy-In: $2.00/$0.20 180 players
Total Prize Pool: $360.00
Tournament started - 2008/05/05 - 02:42:02 (ET)
Dear SICKTIGHT311,
You finished the tournament in 1st place.A $108.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.You earned 181.41 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site athttp://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/leader-board/Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.
WEEEEEEEEEEEE. Hopefully my 6 week stretch of running bad is coming to an end. I also went pretty deep in the $11 Midnight Madness on Full Tilt tonight finishing 55th out of 1,529 people for $33. I min-cashed the 2100 $5 NLHE on Stars and as I'm writing this I'm also in possesion of a good stack in a $1 rebuy on Full Tilt. Hopefully I can get rolling again. The past month or so has been very frustrating.
Good luck and happy days to all of you.
**EDIT** Went very deep in the 10 cent turbo @0400 at Stars. LOL. I got AQ sucked out on by AJ all-in preflop and lost. Would have had a 5th place stack with 2 tables left. :(
PokerStars Tournament #87142177, No Limit Hold'emBuy-In: $0.10
1343 players
$50.00 added to the prize pool by PokerStars.com
Total Prize Pool: $184.30 Tournament started - 2008/05/05 - 04:00:00 (ET)
Dear SICKTIGHT311,
You finished the tournament in 19th place.A $0.65 award has been credited to your Real Money account.You earned 45.74 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site athttp://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/leader-board/
Congratulations!Thank you for participating.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Dealing with variance A.K.A. running bad for an abnormal amount of time.
So it's nothing huge but I've been running bad since the 9th of April. 3 weeks now. A run that has seen me drop 15% of my bankroll. This downswing occurred during a run of 97 MTTs and 24 SNGs. I've cashed in 21 of the MTTs and 4 of the SNGs. Not far off my normal in the money percentages but I haven't had any nice scores. I've bubbled a couple 180-mans as well as a couple 180-man final tables. I got 25th out of 1,875 people in the Midnight Madness on Full Tilt for $77 when first place was $3,400. Took a very sick beat to get knocked out of that when the pot I lost would have guaranteed me a final table. It's been a lot of that. I'm getting close to some very good scores because I've stepped up my average buy-in a little but I keep getting the door slammed in my face when it matters. Key pots are just not going my way right now.
So far this has not affected my game as far as tilting or playing differently. I'm sticking to my gameplan and what has been working for me which I'm proud of. I just have to ride it out. I've been through an extended bad run before, about a year ago, and I guess you just have to ride it out.
One of the things I'm going to do in the next couple weeks is decrease my volume a little bit and do some other things outside of poker. Like tomorrow for example, I'm playing golf with some friends at 11 in the morning. The weather has been great here in Long Beach, CA lately and when we played 2 weeks ago it gave me a little bit of the golf bug. That combined with the fact that my cable provider finally got The Golf Channel back and I'm really into golf again. I found that after working the Long Beach Grand Prix for 4 straight 18 hour days (in which I didn't play at all) when I finally got around to playing again after 4 days off, I was really excited and focused.
Hopefully it will end soon. I've been getting close to some nice scores and when one of these swing pots goes my way deep in a tournament, the grind will all be worth it.
If anyone has any suggestions or things that they do to try and counteract a bad run, feel free to leave a comment.
Adios,
SICKTIGHT311
So far this has not affected my game as far as tilting or playing differently. I'm sticking to my gameplan and what has been working for me which I'm proud of. I just have to ride it out. I've been through an extended bad run before, about a year ago, and I guess you just have to ride it out.
One of the things I'm going to do in the next couple weeks is decrease my volume a little bit and do some other things outside of poker. Like tomorrow for example, I'm playing golf with some friends at 11 in the morning. The weather has been great here in Long Beach, CA lately and when we played 2 weeks ago it gave me a little bit of the golf bug. That combined with the fact that my cable provider finally got The Golf Channel back and I'm really into golf again. I found that after working the Long Beach Grand Prix for 4 straight 18 hour days (in which I didn't play at all) when I finally got around to playing again after 4 days off, I was really excited and focused.
Hopefully it will end soon. I've been getting close to some nice scores and when one of these swing pots goes my way deep in a tournament, the grind will all be worth it.
If anyone has any suggestions or things that they do to try and counteract a bad run, feel free to leave a comment.
Adios,
SICKTIGHT311
Monday, March 24, 2008
Time for an entry about some other people
So I gotta give some props to my boys. FLB-PUNKER as some of you from http://www.pocketfives.com/ know, is my roommate Ian. On February 11th, he deposited $25 on Poker Stars. 6 weeks later he has just over $400. There are a couple things I think that have contributed to this sweet little micro run. I used to try to give him advice and he'd say something to the effect of "It's cool man, I got it." He wouldn't listen. Now he listens, we discuss hands, we help each other. He rarely visited P5s. Now he's been posting more there, although mostly in OT, but being involved in the community, railing other P5ers and talking to some of them via AIM has certainly helped.
As for how that roll was built, he's won 21 seats to the Sunday Hundred Grand in sattys for those. He got 1oth place in a $3 MTT with 1,455 people. Final tabled a $3 HORSE tournament. Final tabled a $4.40 180-man. Final tabled a $1 RAZZ tournament. He also has been doing very well in $1.10 and $3.25 45-man SNGs. He basically just playing good all around poker.
Now on to someone you guys probably don't know. Ryan Snyder A.K.A. SQUADFATHER. For some reason when he signed up for P5s a few months ago he put his screen name as Ryan Snyder. Oh well, we'll see if we can have Adam switch it. Anyways, Ryan has been best friends with me and Ian forever. Ian and Ryan knew each other since they were like 3 years old. Went to school together, played little league baseball together, yada yada yada. Well they got separated from schools in high school. That is where I met Ian, we joined the golf team and became very good friends. Well, one day whilst playing against Ryan's school, Ian introduced us on the driving range and a trio was formed.
SQUADFATHER has been playing online for a couple years now and he's one of those guys we all know who had bad bankroll management. The classic shot taker. He had some decent scores but always lost his roll. About two months ago I transfered him $25 on Poker Stars. That is now just over $300. We had him join P5s, put him on a bankroll management plan, although once in a while he steps a little bit outside it but not much. He's been pretty good about it. He's been killing the $4.40 180-mans. He has a 1st, 2nd, 5th, 7th and 8th in like 20 tries. In one of his "shots" he played the $5 rebuy on Stars. He got 60th in a field of 2,912 for $86.
The three of us have called ourselves the LBC Squad for a while now. We play HORSE home games and a variety of other games at my house. We are all commited to learning and getting better and I think the 3 of us are playing the best poker we've ever played right now and we expect it to only get better.
SHIP THE YAMS
pz,
ST311
As for how that roll was built, he's won 21 seats to the Sunday Hundred Grand in sattys for those. He got 1oth place in a $3 MTT with 1,455 people. Final tabled a $3 HORSE tournament. Final tabled a $4.40 180-man. Final tabled a $1 RAZZ tournament. He also has been doing very well in $1.10 and $3.25 45-man SNGs. He basically just playing good all around poker.
Now on to someone you guys probably don't know. Ryan Snyder A.K.A. SQUADFATHER. For some reason when he signed up for P5s a few months ago he put his screen name as Ryan Snyder. Oh well, we'll see if we can have Adam switch it. Anyways, Ryan has been best friends with me and Ian forever. Ian and Ryan knew each other since they were like 3 years old. Went to school together, played little league baseball together, yada yada yada. Well they got separated from schools in high school. That is where I met Ian, we joined the golf team and became very good friends. Well, one day whilst playing against Ryan's school, Ian introduced us on the driving range and a trio was formed.
SQUADFATHER has been playing online for a couple years now and he's one of those guys we all know who had bad bankroll management. The classic shot taker. He had some decent scores but always lost his roll. About two months ago I transfered him $25 on Poker Stars. That is now just over $300. We had him join P5s, put him on a bankroll management plan, although once in a while he steps a little bit outside it but not much. He's been pretty good about it. He's been killing the $4.40 180-mans. He has a 1st, 2nd, 5th, 7th and 8th in like 20 tries. In one of his "shots" he played the $5 rebuy on Stars. He got 60th in a field of 2,912 for $86.
The three of us have called ourselves the LBC Squad for a while now. We play HORSE home games and a variety of other games at my house. We are all commited to learning and getting better and I think the 3 of us are playing the best poker we've ever played right now and we expect it to only get better.
SHIP THE YAMS
pz,
ST311
Friday, March 14, 2008
Balls deep
So I've been getting deep in some big fields lately and just overall in general. I used to get a lot of min-cashes and not reach the good money very often. I think a lot of it has to do with my play when I'm shortstacked and also when I'm in between 10 and 20 big blinds. When I have between 10 and 20 big blinds, I'm generally not raising preflop unless I'm really committed to going all the way with the hand. If I fall below 10 big blinds, well then it's time to find a good hand in a good spot and just stick it all in.
If the antes haven't kicked in yet and I'm down to 7-8 big blinds, I'm not shoving crap. You can still be patient, there isn't as much in the pot to win. Once the antes kick in and you are 10 BBs or less, I'm just looking for any spot that I think has potential for one reason or another. Maybe the BB is a nit, maybe you have 2 limpers, maybe it folds to you in middle position and you have J-10ss. Whatever it is, try to find a spot where when you shove, you have a reason for doing so. Don't just blindly shove because you are short. Have a reason for every play you make.
If I'm above 20 big blinds I will make calculated steals based on who is in the blinds and my postition. I'm not going to raise stacks who are very short. I'm looking to pick blinds of the medium stacks. Stacks whos sizes are such that you can fold to a re-raise if you were raising with air. If a shorty shoves and you are priced in it's just spew to be raising their blinds with junk.
Date Buy-in Tournament/Event Place Entrants Winnings
If the antes haven't kicked in yet and I'm down to 7-8 big blinds, I'm not shoving crap. You can still be patient, there isn't as much in the pot to win. Once the antes kick in and you are 10 BBs or less, I'm just looking for any spot that I think has potential for one reason or another. Maybe the BB is a nit, maybe you have 2 limpers, maybe it folds to you in middle position and you have J-10ss. Whatever it is, try to find a spot where when you shove, you have a reason for doing so. Don't just blindly shove because you are short. Have a reason for every play you make.
If I'm above 20 big blinds I will make calculated steals based on who is in the blinds and my postition. I'm not going to raise stacks who are very short. I'm looking to pick blinds of the medium stacks. Stacks whos sizes are such that you can fold to a re-raise if you were raising with air. If a shorty shoves and you are priced in it's just spew to be raising their blinds with junk.
Date Buy-in Tournament/Event Place Entrants Winnings
3/3/08 $3.30 NL Hold em 20 1338 $14.05
3/3/08 $1.10 Razz 14 216 $3.56
3/4/08 $4.40 NL Hold em 180 5 180 $46.80
3/4/08 $0.50 NL Hold em 16 3652 $5.48
3/4/08 $2.20 NL Hold em 21 2087 $10.44
3/10/08 $11.00 NL Hold em 6 621 $263.93
3/14/08 $4.40 Pot Limit Omaha 7 463 $70.38
Those are my deep finishes for the month. Hopefully I can keep it rollin.
F beanie
Monday, March 10, 2008
One of the most screwy tournaments I've ever played
Tonight/this morning I played the $11 NL on Stars at 0300. I had only 1,670 at the first break. Barely more than my starting stack. Then in the 75/150 and the 100/200 levels I went on a nice run and got up to 12,000. When we were approaching the money bubble (top 90 paid, we were down to about 105) I got disconnected from Stars. My internet was working. I was posting on www.pocketfives.com. I don't know what the hell happened but 30-40 minutes later when it finally let me back on I had blinded down to 4,600 at the 400/800 level and we were in the money with 53 people left.
Well, I tripled up shortly after and then doubled that on the next orbit. Before I knew it I was in 4th with 22 remaining. I went pretty card dead and my steals weren't working and I started getting short again. I made it to the final table in 8th place out of the 9.
On the 3rd hand of the final table I get disconnected again. This time for only about 10-15 minutes. When I got back on we were 8 handed and I had 20,000 chips at the 2000/4000 level. I doubled that and doubled again later and somehow managed to take 6th place for $264.
Who knows what would have happened had I never got disconnected. Maybe I take a bad beat somewhere along the way and never make the FT. Maybe I make the FT with a lot more chips. I'll never know but it was an interesting ride for sure.
Later days
Well, I tripled up shortly after and then doubled that on the next orbit. Before I knew it I was in 4th with 22 remaining. I went pretty card dead and my steals weren't working and I started getting short again. I made it to the final table in 8th place out of the 9.
On the 3rd hand of the final table I get disconnected again. This time for only about 10-15 minutes. When I got back on we were 8 handed and I had 20,000 chips at the 2000/4000 level. I doubled that and doubled again later and somehow managed to take 6th place for $264.
Who knows what would have happened had I never got disconnected. Maybe I take a bad beat somewhere along the way and never make the FT. Maybe I make the FT with a lot more chips. I'll never know but it was an interesting ride for sure.
Later days
Friday, February 29, 2008
Micro Satellites
My roommate recently deposited $25 on Poker Stars and started the process of trying to build a bankroll. He does well in the 45-man SNG's so I told him to grind the $1.10 45-man turbos on Stars. That's been going well for him but we also just found a nice little bankroll builder for micro stakes. The $2.20 satellites to the Sunday Hundred Grand.
They pay out 1 seat for every 5.5 people in the prize pool. That's 18.18% of the field. If you win the seat 1 out of every 5 times you will break even +FPP's. If you win the seat 2 out of every 5 times you will have 100% ROI +FPP's. Currently my roommate and I are both running right around that 40% mark. That means our EV for these is $2.20 for every 1 played. Play 100 of them in a month, that's $220! Not bad for micro land.
My roommate has turned his $25 roll into $100 in just over 2 weeks playing almost nothing but these and the 45-man turbos.
PM me at www.pocketfives.com if you would like some strategy advice on how to play these. My screenname there is SICKTIGHT311.
And remember, only YOU can prevent forest fires!
They pay out 1 seat for every 5.5 people in the prize pool. That's 18.18% of the field. If you win the seat 1 out of every 5 times you will break even +FPP's. If you win the seat 2 out of every 5 times you will have 100% ROI +FPP's. Currently my roommate and I are both running right around that 40% mark. That means our EV for these is $2.20 for every 1 played. Play 100 of them in a month, that's $220! Not bad for micro land.
My roommate has turned his $25 roll into $100 in just over 2 weeks playing almost nothing but these and the 45-man turbos.
PM me at www.pocketfives.com if you would like some strategy advice on how to play these. My screenname there is SICKTIGHT311.
And remember, only YOU can prevent forest fires!
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Up to #4 in the Long Beach rankings!!!!!!!!!!
I've been doing decent lately at MTT's. I'm starting to get really comfortable 4-tabling and I feel like I know what to do in almost any situation. Shoutout to everyone at www.pocketfives.com for all the help over the last year and a half. It's only gonna get better but I'm gonna have my work cut out if I want to get to #1.
Username
Points
Biggest Score
Average Score
1. srenshaw
855.56
(120.19)
(30.56)
[Recent scores]
2. FI5HMAN
750.43
(89.79)
(18.76)
[Recent scores]
3. Weapon X
656.09
(107.02)
(32.80)
[Recent scores]
4. SICKTIGHT311
336.03
(46.65)
(9.33)
[Recent scores]
5. adjayscent
330.75
(53.66)
(10.02)
[Recent scores]
6. halohalo
266.66
(72.03)
(24.24)
[Recent scores]
7. JanVanOranje
264.89
(67.96)
(11.04)
[Recent scores]
8. holmes304
248.21
(61.13)
(11.28)
[Recent scores]
9. kxywrx
246.38
(77.15)
(10.27)
[Recent scores]
10. ActionEJ
162.29
(20.82)
(7.06)
[Recent scores]
11. gsronrnrs
117.15
(14.24)
(4.88)
[Recent scores]
12. Ryan Snyder
116.23
(27.60)
(12.91)
[Recent scores]
13. billybuster
87.79
(17.23)
(9.75)
[Recent scores]
14. DCF in SoCal
81.62
(36.88)
(9.07)
[Recent scores]
15. avagadia
65.92
(11.37)
(8.24)
[Recent scores]
16. Jackalslayer
60.76
(7.72)
(2.53)
[Recent scores]
17. ChanceH
58.65
(26.41)
(6.52)
[Recent scores]
18. rudinho
56.63
(18.18)
(7.08)
[Recent scores]
19. ma1n3v3nt8
39.68
(17.81)
(7.94)
[Recent scores]
20. masman21
29.38
(12.92)
(9.79)
[Recent scores]
Username
Points
Biggest Score
Average Score
1. srenshaw
855.56
(120.19)
(30.56)
[Recent scores]
2. FI5HMAN
750.43
(89.79)
(18.76)
[Recent scores]
3. Weapon X
656.09
(107.02)
(32.80)
[Recent scores]
4. SICKTIGHT311
336.03
(46.65)
(9.33)
[Recent scores]
5. adjayscent
330.75
(53.66)
(10.02)
[Recent scores]
6. halohalo
266.66
(72.03)
(24.24)
[Recent scores]
7. JanVanOranje
264.89
(67.96)
(11.04)
[Recent scores]
8. holmes304
248.21
(61.13)
(11.28)
[Recent scores]
9. kxywrx
246.38
(77.15)
(10.27)
[Recent scores]
10. ActionEJ
162.29
(20.82)
(7.06)
[Recent scores]
11. gsronrnrs
117.15
(14.24)
(4.88)
[Recent scores]
12. Ryan Snyder
116.23
(27.60)
(12.91)
[Recent scores]
13. billybuster
87.79
(17.23)
(9.75)
[Recent scores]
14. DCF in SoCal
81.62
(36.88)
(9.07)
[Recent scores]
15. avagadia
65.92
(11.37)
(8.24)
[Recent scores]
16. Jackalslayer
60.76
(7.72)
(2.53)
[Recent scores]
17. ChanceH
58.65
(26.41)
(6.52)
[Recent scores]
18. rudinho
56.63
(18.18)
(7.08)
[Recent scores]
19. ma1n3v3nt8
39.68
(17.81)
(7.94)
[Recent scores]
20. masman21
29.38
(12.92)
(9.79)
[Recent scores]
Saturday, February 9, 2008
I won my first $4.40 180-man last night!!!
I've probably only played about 50 of them but I always run like shit and got to hating them. I know a lot of people that crush them and I know they are full of dead money but I just kind of avoided them. Well last night I_BLADE_U and JRoth15 were talking about playing one as we were railing an OT tourney. I said "f it" and signed up. Got off to a bad start and lost half my stack on the 4th hand. I was shortstacked the whole first 2 hours of the thing and was the shortstack when we were down to 8. Long story short, I took it down. I really think it was one of, if not the, best tourney I've played start to finish. I had a buddy upload it to PokerXFactor.
http://www.pokerxfactor.com/servlet/pxf?a=mv&handid=113519&t=myhand2&fn=19024_20080209_15322919024&time=1202620030108
Check it out if you like. I think I played pretty damn solid. Might be good for some people who don't play many of them.
pz lil
http://www.pokerxfactor.com/servlet/pxf?a=mv&handid=113519&t=myhand2&fn=19024_20080209_15322919024&time=1202620030108
Check it out if you like. I think I played pretty damn solid. Might be good for some people who don't play many of them.
pz lil
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Found a nice little soft game
I've been playing the $3.25 six-handed SNG's on Poker Stars lately. They are rediculously soft. It's seriously a joke how easy they are. My results show that too. I've played 13 of them, won 6 of them and got 2nd place 3 times. 9/13 cashing, LOL. $42.25 in buy-ins, $89.10 in cashes for a profit of $46.85. That's like 110% ROI. WTF. Might not be substainable but I'm sure somewhere around 60-75% might be in these things, the play is that bad.
In other news, my company is doing catering and concessions in the plaza outside of the Super Bowl. I'm leaving Thursday morning to go out there and I'll be coming home Monday. I doubt I'll get to go inside the stadium or anything but we are gonna be catering to people in the hospitality tents and shit right outside. Should be fun.
Pz lil
In other news, my company is doing catering and concessions in the plaza outside of the Super Bowl. I'm leaving Thursday morning to go out there and I'll be coming home Monday. I doubt I'll get to go inside the stadium or anything but we are gonna be catering to people in the hospitality tents and shit right outside. Should be fun.
Pz lil
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Up to #6 in the Long Beach rankings.
Username
Points
Biggest Score
Average Score
1. srenshaw
1,126.95
(160.25)
(37.56)
[Recent scores]
2. FI5HMAN
738.21
(89.79)
(18.46)
[Recent scores]
3. Weapon X
442.15
(107.02)
(34.01)
[Recent scores]
4. adjayscent
355.98
(53.66)
(11.12)
[Recent scores]
5. JanVanOranje
327.12
(101.94)
(13.63)
[Recent scores]
6. SICKTIGHT311
296.94
(46.65)
(9.00)
[Recent scores]
7. kxywrx
287.99
(102.86)
(12.00)
[Recent scores]
8. halohalo
287.71
(72.03)
(26.16)
[Recent scores]
9. holmes304
162.81
(36.16)
(7.75)
[Recent scores]
10. billybuster
125.97
(22.97)
(12.60)
[Recent scores]
11. gsronrnrs
117.81
(14.24)
(4.91)
[Recent scores]
12. Ryan Snyder
109.73
(27.60)
(13.72)
[Recent scores]
13. rudinho
74.54
(24.24)
(9.32)
[Recent scores]
14. avagadia
67.17
(11.37)
(8.40)
[Recent scores]
15. Jackalslayer
52.51
(7.72)
(2.50)
[Recent scores]
16. DCF in SoCal
39.48
(13.40)
(6.58)
[Recent scores]
17. ChanceH
36.25
(7.88)
(4.53)
[Recent scores]
18. masman21
33.33
(12.92)
(11.11)
[Recent scores]
19. ma1n3v3nt8
24.63
(17.81)
(8.21)
[Recent scores]
Just a month ago I was sitting at #12. It's been a decent December and beginning of January for me. I'm starting to see some positive results from all the work I've been putting in. Shout out to threeven, sandler1860 and pokerjamers for helping me out with hand discussions and different things. My goal, although a little lofty, is to be #1 by the end of the year and crack the top 100 in the state of California. I feel like my early stage play and my shorthanded/end-game is solid but I really need to work on my middle stage play (bubble play up until the final table).
Points
Biggest Score
Average Score
1. srenshaw
1,126.95
(160.25)
(37.56)
[Recent scores]
2. FI5HMAN
738.21
(89.79)
(18.46)
[Recent scores]
3. Weapon X
442.15
(107.02)
(34.01)
[Recent scores]
4. adjayscent
355.98
(53.66)
(11.12)
[Recent scores]
5. JanVanOranje
327.12
(101.94)
(13.63)
[Recent scores]
6. SICKTIGHT311
296.94
(46.65)
(9.00)
[Recent scores]
7. kxywrx
287.99
(102.86)
(12.00)
[Recent scores]
8. halohalo
287.71
(72.03)
(26.16)
[Recent scores]
9. holmes304
162.81
(36.16)
(7.75)
[Recent scores]
10. billybuster
125.97
(22.97)
(12.60)
[Recent scores]
11. gsronrnrs
117.81
(14.24)
(4.91)
[Recent scores]
12. Ryan Snyder
109.73
(27.60)
(13.72)
[Recent scores]
13. rudinho
74.54
(24.24)
(9.32)
[Recent scores]
14. avagadia
67.17
(11.37)
(8.40)
[Recent scores]
15. Jackalslayer
52.51
(7.72)
(2.50)
[Recent scores]
16. DCF in SoCal
39.48
(13.40)
(6.58)
[Recent scores]
17. ChanceH
36.25
(7.88)
(4.53)
[Recent scores]
18. masman21
33.33
(12.92)
(11.11)
[Recent scores]
19. ma1n3v3nt8
24.63
(17.81)
(8.21)
[Recent scores]
Just a month ago I was sitting at #12. It's been a decent December and beginning of January for me. I'm starting to see some positive results from all the work I've been putting in. Shout out to threeven, sandler1860 and pokerjamers for helping me out with hand discussions and different things. My goal, although a little lofty, is to be #1 by the end of the year and crack the top 100 in the state of California. I feel like my early stage play and my shorthanded/end-game is solid but I really need to work on my middle stage play (bubble play up until the final table).
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)