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
Monday, April 28, 2008
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
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