Long awaited update

So the past 9 days have been a up and down. I purchased a monthly subscription to sharkscope to keep better track of my games so I dont have to worry about writing them down and putting them into a spreadsheet. I'll post my results below from August 8th until now.

$6.50 9-man Turbo



So I've vowed to try and never play these again. I was on a terrible downswing and reviewed a lot of HHs. I had made the right plays most of the time and I think these results could have been better. I'm still at around 8% ROI in 312 games, which is terrible at these limits. I would never make it in anything above this limit if this was consistent with my game play. I'd probably just quit and never do it again. Anyways....$6.50 9 mans will NEVER be played by me. I rather die.

$6.50 18-man Turbo


This is also ugly. I've played 206 of these total throughout my poker carrer and have 12% ROI and a $154 profit. Now thats also terrible, but given a lot of the games included were games when I was just playing poker and had no idea what I was really doing. 66 games is not a lot either and the 12-13 buy in downswing is really nothing. But as with the 9 mans, I probably wont be playing these anytime soon. I rather grind $3.40/45 mans and be content.


$6.50 45-man Turbo

Now these are fun! The ROI is probably not sustainable...I'm thinking anywhere from 20-25% in the long run would work. I never really played these but with the recent failures and getting pissed off I've switched to these. I'll keep grinding a bit more of these and mix in the $12/45s, until I can play those and the $16 9 or 18 manners together. Shooting for $1100+ Bankroll though.


$12 45-man Turbo


Nothing crazy here...I played a few of these the other day and was happy with the success I had. Got sucked out in a few big pots but nonetheless I really liked these too.


$16 9-man Turbo


Heres an ugly one. $16 9-man. I've played 260 total since I started this thing and have 11% ROI with $444 in profits. I think the ROI could be higher by a few points but the last 25 games have sucked! I think I bubbled 5 in a row which caused this massive downswing. Low amount of games and I still like to play them. So once I get my bankroll established I'll be putting these in the daily routine for a while. Unless I'm making more money playing the 18 and 45 games then these will get scratched.


$16 18-man Turbo


4 games on these and I played these with the $12. I've played 46 of these since I started the blog with an ROI of 54% and up $398. The best at these limits hit about 15-17%, so I would be happy with 10-13% or so. These will be a daily dose with the 45s and I think running all of them together will help me get my roll up faster.


Overall August 8th-August 17th

Here are the totals for the last 9 days. Minus my terrible downswing in a few, which is about $200, I would be around $330ish. If I would of profited in some more it would be a bit higher. So I'm a little frustrated that I still am on a slight downswing but I think it'll play out.

I played about 7-8 MTTs on friday and mini cashed in 2 I think. That part of my game I really need to look at because I'm decent at getting chips between the 1st and 2nd hour but then I seem to spew everything to somebody else. HUGE LEAK!

Heres a hand that crippled me in the $5.50 2R1A tournament. Now that I look at it, it was an easy desicion on my part. 1 guy raise and 1 guy called, I'm sitting on AK on the button...I pulled a squeeze, and was called by 77 and couldnt win a flip. I would of been top 10 atleast in chips, not sure how many people were left at this point.

http://www.pokerxfactor.com/SH199383/3503_20090817_184319

i also dont know how to embed so just goto the link and watch the hand unfold.

I'm going to ditch the WCOOP sats and events because I dont have the BR to even think about satty into something. I'm going to focus on the 45s right now and mix in $16 9 and 18 man.

I posted a contest on p5s for september- $12 Turbo 45-mans. Trying to have a buy in around $30-$50 maybe higher depending on how many people are interested. I'll proably just do best ROI in 400-500 games. That should be fun and get me some volume in and hopefully some profits. I really need to get this thing going because it feels like I'm stuck. I sharkscoped my whole 2009 year and in SNGs I'm up about $1500 in 1100 games. Kinda sucks because I would be around 2600 or so right now...but if i had that money 2 months ago I might be on my way to $10k soon. But whatever.

Oh and I almost forgot, I cleared my $50 bonus and I'm about 600 FPPs away from 2,500 fpps to get another one. I'm also very far off from making Gold Star but with the addition of playing $12/$16 games I might be able to hit it, if not it'll def be next month.

Current bankroll: $818.70
Bonus: $50 (I will just include this in the bottom and it'll already be added to the top bankroll)