Its been over a week or so since I last updated this. I need to update regulary instead of every few weeks. Basically since august 17th I've been running like shit, then run good, then run like shit. I'm up for the month but I've been on 2-3 35+ buy-in downswings. Roughly $300+ losing sessions then come back to even, then back down. I'm playing good just not winning my races or winning with my big hands. Example: 11 left in a $12-45 man. I'm on the button with about 11k and have AA. Blinds are 4/800 w/ante. small stack pushes, hi-jack pushes. i call. I cant even remember what they had, I think 88 and A8 or something, flop comes bricks, then runner runner straight and they split. I was already 1/11 and this would of put me over 23k going into the final table. Other examples are QQ vs AQ, AQ vs AQ, AK vs AJ, just standard shit I'm not winning. I think I would of had a decent month had this not happened. but its poker, what can you do right?
The most important thing I learned about this is I have grown as a poker player. In the past after losing $300+ to some bad beats I would of sat at a cash table or played above my head and lost it all. I moved down when the time was correct and played solid poker and grinded it out thru this breakeven stretch. I've come along way in the last 6-7 months even.
I've run like absolute shit in the $12 180-mans. I wont be playing those until I have around a $2k roll just because of the swings. I've only played about 20 and mini cashed 1 and bubbled 1 or 2 times. I dont want to be bouncing around from $6.50s to $12s because of bad downswings, so for now I'll grind out August and hopefully be ready to play $12-45s and $16-18s in Sept.
The contest doesnt look good, only have about 3 people in so far and only a few days left, so we'll see. I'll post my results here soon on the month/games. Currently I'm around 515 games with 9% ROI...for about a $260 profit on the month...SHITTY.
also i stated incorrectly about the bonus, you need 5k fpps for $50 bonus. I have just over 3k right now, so hopefully I can get 2k more in the first few weeks and get another bonus. Also I'm about 1k VPPs from Gold Star, so pending any huge huge huge downswings(bigger than this one) I should hit it no problem playing next month. When I first started 150-200 games/month was a lot for me, now I'm hitting 500+ each month, I think i can get over 700 in september.
WCOOP will be put on hold unless something crazy happens. I'm planning on playing the miniFTOPS though. There are about 7-8 events I have lined up. I'm going to try and qualify for them because they are low buy ins so maybe get a few hundred in T$ and buy in. Really really really really hoping to play the 2-day event that has a $266 buy in. Just want to get experience in touranaments like this. Most of the ones I have picked out start with 5k chips so it'll be good tournaments to get my post-flop game in full gear. Going to watch some pokerxfactor videos from now until the events and pick up some pointers. I don't want to get a nice stack and then donk off like I usually do.
Thats about it for now, hoping to close out the rest of the month with atleast $300+ profit. I'm hitting about 36% in the 6.50 45s which is pretty good.
Current Bankroll: $1011.xx
Bonus: $50 (included in bankroll)
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