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.
I was really interessed in your way of thinking and playing after we met in the 35K GRT last thursday. (Friday in the morning for me, but that doesnt matter ;))
ReplyDeleteAs a standard thing to do I, I look up the stats of the players on the FT. And I noticed you where the only one who knows how to take care of the job. GG sir!
I'm not really sure why I'm posting this, but since 2010 I'm just taking this 'game' quite seriously..
Thanks again, for kicking some players out. But you where sitting on my left for alot of hands so I didn't play back quite well.
See ya around and good luck in the future!
grtz Aero.
(pokeraeropi@gmail.com)
Hey Steve, Thanks for the response! I am so sorry it took so long for me to get back to it. I am happy you had read my blog and hope that you will return in the future!
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