Yesterday was a kind of exciting day for me. I decided to step out of my normal routine and play the daytime tourneys which I have had good success with in previous experiences. Since being backed, Starting Oct 1. I have not had a ton of success but since I am so conservative with my game selection and I was not buying into as big of tournaments as expected, I had been thinking of getting out of being backed all together. What kind of sense does it make to be backed when I am playing tournaments that I can easily afford to buy-in to myself? It doesn't! So with backing the way it was going I was only making money every little while and when I did, since I am such a nit about what tourneys I play, I was splitting small cashes. Since I didn't want to get stuck in huge in makeup if I had a bad run, It just made sense for me to go on my own and I was just waiting to get the $800 or so I was short in makeup back so that I could just go on my own. Yesterday I was able to do that and took down the $26 12pm 19.5k Gaurenteed on Full Tilt for $5056. Winning that much was nice, the sad part was that I had to give $2115 of that away in backing money. As my final act being a staked player, I was able to transfer back all the makeup and some profit and give myself a small stake to start up with again on Full Tilt and PokerStars.
So with my new bankroll set, I am setting myself structure for the summer.
- Only play the most profitable tournaments
- Play a lot of volume in tourneys $26 and less
- Play all the small stake tourneys like the MSOP on FT
- Play the best events in the FTOPs
- Focus on each tournament like it is the only one
- Hit the forums and read more strategy
- Leave Cash games alone for a little while til my roll is up
- Qualify for everything
- Keep good records
- Make $25k profit before September 1st.
To start my Bankrolls are as such.
PokerStars: $397.56
Full Tilt $1707.17
I am going to attempt to turn this into a successful micro/small stakes grinding session for the summer and see if I can hit a couple decents scores. I am finding the european players that play when it is morning for us to be pretty weak. I am going to play the daytimes for the most part and maybe some of the weak stuff on some nights. I hope to play every Sunday because the value cannot be beat then.
