Hello,
Been a while since my last post, the reasoning for this is purely because I had a break from poker in general, I think I was out for 6-8weeks in total.
This was due to running bad & playing bad along with some tilt, but the main reason was actually because I had to withdraw 90% of my roll for a car. This kind of de motivates you to play again because one minute you're moving up in stakes and I was playing up to $10.00 MTT's but I was left with around $50.00 in my account which means I would have to put in more volume and the once boring grind of 25cent/50cent games was back on the cards for me. To be honest, I tried to avoid playing with BR management as it bores me but realisticall I know I need it or I will go busto but to start my grind I blew $20 in MTT's ranging from $1.00-$4.00 leaving me $30.00 and looking for a way to grind it back up without SnG MTT's.
Whilst not playing, I've just been working and watching the odd game of poker here and there to be honest, but nothing much in terms of poker.
Headsup SnG Grind:
I've always liked the idea of HU SnG games because for one, you can grind from mega micro limits, $1.50 (10c rake) and for a $50.00 roll it means I have enough buy-ins to cover the most obvious down-swings in HU because lets face it, they are the most volatile form of poker. Obviously I had to try and educate myself in the HU format because it's indeed very different compared to FR or 6max and playing good hands just doesn't apply in HU. It's more about out playing the other as opposed to what cards you hold and assigning ranges of hands the other holds etc.
I have no idea if I will be a winning player at heads up and the main goal at the minute is just getting a feel for headsup and trying to build a roll to eventually be able to move up in stakes. I'm unsure of if I have the capabilities of doing so, because they are very tilting to play and if your not careful you can blow a BR quite quickly if you go on tilt and I'm prone to tilt at times, when getting sucked out on left right and centre. The difference is, it happen s alot more in HU.
At the minute, I'm beginning to feel more comfortable playing HU the more games I play, I think it improves your overall game by quite a bit and I've played close to 150 games at present with a small profit but obviously I need 1000+ games to determine if I'm going to be a winner.
Wednesday, 7 September 2011
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
Current SnG Graphs
Hello all, these are my current statistics from SnG's since I've started studying the game more in-depth I think I'v managed to develop an "edge" so to speak in the micro limit games. I know it isn't exactly hard to get an edge in the micro's considering people will call of their stack with such marginal holdings so early.
First of, my best game at present with the best ROI% is the 45man's consisting of $0.50 and $1.00 Turbo's on Poker Stars.
This is combined $0.50/$1.00 45man graph:
As I well know, 160 sample is no where near enough to determine a true reading on you skills but I'm confident I can keep up a steady profit margin in these and to be up $88.00 is quite god progress on where I want to be at.
Next up is the 90 mans on stars. Again, small sample but still - I don't think I'm just riding "good" in them all. I do believe over the past few weeks I've made a massive improvement on my game especially the push/fold strategy and hand calling ranges. It seems, even at the 90 man donk levels, when you get towards the end of a tournament, there are actual grinders who understand the push/fold game so the levels might well seem easy but in all honestly poker has evolved and you do even get quite good players who understand the game at the smallest of levels even if only a select few. They certainly ain't all donkeys. Here is my 90man graph:
Again, nothing amazing and the sample size is quite small. However, you can see the swings are bigger as expected with more players in the games. The levels are of three different ones ranging from $0.50 - $2.20 buy-ins.
Next up is the combined SnG graph which includes some 180 $2.20 games which I've just very recently started so haven't done a single graph because the games are just below 20 in total. I did take a third though so far for $42.00 and donked off the rest of them.
So this is my final current SnG graph with around 350 SnG's in total played and it's quite a steady upward spiral which is good. I do believe I can keep this going up and it's just beginning luck (well I hope not) I'm going to hopefully keep grinding and soon get in around 100 SnG's a day and hopefully move up the limits in time. $180.00 profit from 350 SnG's at mainly 50cent and $1.00 games I think is rather good, thoughts on this?
Oh, before I quit I'd like to enter my current total graph from the past 1month which includes big MTT's guarantee tournaments. I binked a decent 2nd place for over $300.00 for a $1.00 investment then 2 days later managed a $73.00 score for a 12th place finish.
First of, my best game at present with the best ROI% is the 45man's consisting of $0.50 and $1.00 Turbo's on Poker Stars.
This is combined $0.50/$1.00 45man graph:
As I well know, 160 sample is no where near enough to determine a true reading on you skills but I'm confident I can keep up a steady profit margin in these and to be up $88.00 is quite god progress on where I want to be at.
Next up is the 90 mans on stars. Again, small sample but still - I don't think I'm just riding "good" in them all. I do believe over the past few weeks I've made a massive improvement on my game especially the push/fold strategy and hand calling ranges. It seems, even at the 90 man donk levels, when you get towards the end of a tournament, there are actual grinders who understand the push/fold game so the levels might well seem easy but in all honestly poker has evolved and you do even get quite good players who understand the game at the smallest of levels even if only a select few. They certainly ain't all donkeys. Here is my 90man graph:
Again, nothing amazing and the sample size is quite small. However, you can see the swings are bigger as expected with more players in the games. The levels are of three different ones ranging from $0.50 - $2.20 buy-ins.
Next up is the combined SnG graph which includes some 180 $2.20 games which I've just very recently started so haven't done a single graph because the games are just below 20 in total. I did take a third though so far for $42.00 and donked off the rest of them.
So this is my final current SnG graph with around 350 SnG's in total played and it's quite a steady upward spiral which is good. I do believe I can keep this going up and it's just beginning luck (well I hope not) I'm going to hopefully keep grinding and soon get in around 100 SnG's a day and hopefully move up the limits in time. $180.00 profit from 350 SnG's at mainly 50cent and $1.00 games I think is rather good, thoughts on this?
Oh, before I quit I'd like to enter my current total graph from the past 1month which includes big MTT's guarantee tournaments. I binked a decent 2nd place for over $300.00 for a $1.00 investment then 2 days later managed a $73.00 score for a 12th place finish.
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