I’ve been playing poker just long enough (about six months) to realize I have a lot of work to do. [I'm a perfectionistic Virgo INTJ - it comes with the territory.] I’m using this blog to track my progress while I learn. I’ve already got a poker library – Sklansky, Harrington, Angelo, Brunson, and others – but I’m moving into video-based learning through Full Tilt Academy and Deuces Cracked.

I’m starting out with tournaments, and SNGs (sit and go) in particular. I like the format, the speed (especially single table SNGs), and the low buy-ins. I also like the bankroll control, unlike cash games. I played cash when I first started and didn’t know what I was doing, so my goal is to grind my way back up to the amount of my first deposits at Full Tilt and Bodog.

633 hands

+$26.35 (16.65BB/100)

+$4.40 (SNGs)

$326.90

I was up a buy-in early in the afternoon’s session. Turning nut flush against a fish who can’t lay down pocket kings. I followed this fish onto another 25NL table. And i proceed to call his river bet on a 5789T board holding a 6. While of course he already has JQ for the nut straight. I knew when he shoved the river that he must at least have a J  but i still couldn’t laydown.

Later i manage to value bet my AQ against another fish who can’t laydown A8, and bet pot on me 3 streets. I was up half a buyin from him. I followed this fish also to a 25NL 6-max table. This was the first time I’m playing a 6-max game, but for the sake of this 54/30 fish, i would try. I soon find the perfect situation to exploit this fish. He limps and i raise it up with AQ in position, he calls. Flop came A x x two diamonds. I bet, he calls. Turn came another low card, another diamond. I bet he calls. River came another diamond, which was kinda ugh. He bet $6 into the $9 pot. There was nothing i beat considering how he check/call, check/call and lead out so big like that. I knew he had a flush. But i couldn’t laydown. He showed AJ, with the Jack of diamonds. I would have had another street of value if not for that diamond!

Fishes pay me off so much and so quick. That i feel like it is worth the effort to chase them around. But instead of taking their stack, i donated my stack to them because i couldn’t laydown when they actually hit something.

But thankfully i manage to eek out a profit for the session despite being down about $10 at one point. I don’t know how, but it was a series of small $3 $4 pots that end up giving me a $12 profit for the 400 hand session. I am not playing 1000 hands like i plan to. But more like 400-600 hands a day. I am happy with this volume. It is enough to get me a Silver Star for this month. I am at 610 VPP right now, 590 more will get me Silver Star. 2390 more will get me Gold Star. I think the rate is about 1 VPP for 10 hands. So far I’ve played roughly 6000 hands at 25NL, so i guess i will take me 5900 more hands for SilverStar and 23900 more hands for Gold Star. So i need to play roughly 590 hands/day for Silver Star and 2390 hands/day for GoldStar. I was aiming for GoldStar earlier, but it seems that it would be a stretch now. Whereas the 590 hands/day for Silver Star seems perfect.

I am confused what to get with the VPP points. However i would lean towards apparel or books. I don’t know if they could ship to Indonesia though… my friend W said you have to buy loads if u want them to ship to Indonesia. He just bought like 8 Full Tilt t-shirts and has been wearing them the last 2 times i met him haha.

Today i also tried to play $1 SNGs for a change. I started playing SNGs, particularly $3.80 super turbos and $2.25 turbos on full tilt. I actually did pretty good on the super turbos and have like $30-$50 profit on it. So I tried playing $1 SNGs to try to get ranked on the Battle of the Planets for the Mercury Division ($1-$2.99). I played 2 SNGs to start, and ran so bad, i didn’t feel like playing anymore. I had AK with the king of hearts, and flop came heart heart heart and low. Loose chip leader shoved on me, I obviously call. He shoved Q7o no hearts. I don’t know what he was thinking. Of course now he only has 4 outs, and he hits the 7. So i was out. I can’t be bothered playing non-turbo SNGs as they are slow and really boring compared to turbos. I played the $1 45man turbo which I won the last time i played. I also fired up 3 more $1 SNGs. I finished 8th in one of them pffff. QK on the limped preflop. flop Q, bet bet bet, guy shows AQ. Another cooler hands i can’t remember, reminds me that i shouldn’t play marginal holdings like KQ and AJ early in a SNG. However, my luck would turn for the better. I started running insanely well in the 45-man, which is what mattered. And also in the other 2 SNGs. Manage to end 2nd and 3rd on the SNGs for $4.50. Examples of cool hands from the 45man are, i raise 3x from the button with Ac7c. Flop came Kc Xc Xc. Guy shoves stack on me, awesome. I call he shows KTo and was pretty pissed at how lucky i was lol. I also limped 88 and flop came A 8 x, first to act shoved, guy next to him shove too, i call obviously. One guy had ace, the other had like a draw, i won the 3-way pot and was 2nd out of like 20+ people. From then on i just folded and folded. Final table came, and i folded every single hand until i busted in 3rd. Cool, $7! So my profit is $11.50 and i spent $1.20*5 + $1.10 = $7.10. Profit = $4.40. It’s actually pretty good money compared to the effort put in. I certainly think that it was easier earned compared to cash games. But of course i ran well in the 45-man to make up for the shitty 9-mans. Need like 450 points to get into top 100 of Low Orbit. So far i am 45 points after 5 games. If i go on at this rate, i am going to end with 180 points after 20 games. Not even half what it takes! 405 points more /15 games = 27 points/game. So i need to finish 2nd in all game i am to play to just get into the low orbit ranking. Not too realistic. I might just give up lol. Focus on Cash Games!

Eu voltei a jogar os sit-n-go de 9 jogadores no Full Tilt. Eu venho explicando que minha situação está precária, então fiz um acordo de stake com o Dexx para o mês de novembro. Não vou entrar em detalhes sobre o acordo, mas é bom para os dois. Na quinta eu comecei  a luta, mas de uma maneira desorientada. A vontade era tanta que abri 10 mesas e joguei 26 torneios de forma contínua. O resultado não foi nada bom. Depois voltei a jogar, dessa vez ser contínou. Vi que não estava tendo sucesso e depois de 45 torneios decidi fazer o mais sensato: parar e voltar ao básico que é estudar e revisar todas as minhas sessões.

Durante as revisões eu observei o quanto eu estava errando. Postei algumas mãos no MaisEv, li vários artigos de estratégia de SitnGo, comprei o Sit-n-Go Wizard e voltei a jogar menos mesas com a intenção de eliminar todos os defeitos e dúvidas que eu tenho. O sucesso foi grande e agora posso dizer que os erros são quase inexistentes. Para isso vou postar alguns gráficos e resultados.

Antes de postar os resultados e os gráficos vou explicar o significado das palavras/siglas que eu uso pro pessoal que vem aqui e ainda não conhece  o poker.

ROI é a abreviação de “retorno do investimento.” Este é um termo de poker que é usado para medir a rentabilidade de um jogador em torneios de poker. O ROI é calculado como (100 * lucro total / total buy-in). Assim, se alguém recebeu um prêmio de 150 dólares em um torneio com buy-in de $ 100 + $ 9, o ROI deste é calculado como 100 * $ 41 / $ 109 = 37,61%.

Buy-in é o valor pago para se participar de um torneio.

ITM é a sigla pra “In the money”, que é quando o jogador termina o torneio dentro da faixa de premiação.

Espero ter ajudado e quando tiverem dúvidas, só postar um comentário que eu tento esclarecer.

Dia 1
Torneios 45
Lucro $-124.20
ROI -23%
ITM 26.7%

Dia 2
Torneios 55
Lucro $92.40
ROI 14%
ITM 45.5%

Total
Torneios 100
Lucro -$31.80
ROI -2.7%
ITM 31.80%

A linha verde é o lucro, a linha azul é o lucro mais o rakeback (quem não sabe eu explico isso outro dia) e a vermelha é a minha “sorte”. Não sei muito bem explicar essa linha, mas vou fazer uma tentativa. Explica quando eu perco que eu deveria ter ganho, e quando eu ganho que deveria ter perdido. Se eu tiver perdido mais vezes quando deveria ganhar a linha vermelha estará acima da verde, caso contrário ela estará embaixo.

Finalizo aqui o post de hoje. Bom fim de semana pra todos.

SRN

Aniversário bem próximo, planos concretizados. Agora é só esperar pra ver os presentes que vou ganhar. O maior de todos será a vitória do Mengão no Mineirão no domingo. Claro que o almoço que eu marquei está programado em torno desse grandiosíssimo jogo. Vai pra cima deles Mengo!!!

Mudando um pouco de assunto, tenho que dizer o quanto o Rio de Janeiro é lindo. E fica especialmente mais lindo quando somos presenteados por dias ensolarados como esses últimos três dias. Ontem e hoje aproveitei um pouco pra pegar uma piscina e ler um livro à beira da piscina. Eu sei que já tenho que estar feliz por conta do meu aniversário que está se aproximando, mas tenho certeza que o sol e essas ‘regalias’ fazem muito bem para a mente e o meu humor.

Acho que vocês querem saber como que eu fui nos torneios de sábado. Nada bem! No 75k perdi um flip de 88 vs AT que me deixou com metade das fichas e capengo. Numa tentativa de roubo, caí. No 100k encontrei AA com KK e o board não ajudou e cai também. Depois disso tudo eu tiltei um pouco e acabei doando um stack muito bom com 99 vs AA. Nesse eu assumo meu erro. Era pra ter foldado pro 4bet allin, mas o tilt não deixou.  Independente disso fiquei muito feliz com a vitória do Mengão. Continuei grindando a noite e consegui um ótimo resultado num torneio de $3r de 180 jogadores. Venci e deu pra dar uma acalmada. Ontem também cheguei em segundo em outro torneio desses. Tá batendo, ainda bem!

Não posso deixar de fazer um mimimi: Eu tinha AKs vs A8 na mão que me fez cair do torneio, ficando em segundo lugar.

Pra galera que gosta de acompanhar, eu coloquei os hand histories dos torneios no card runners.

Primeiro Lugar no $3r de 180

Segundo Lugar no $3r de 180

E pra finalizar, esse mês estarei grindando pesado os sng de $12 no FTP. Então, estarei postando bastante mãos e trocando muitas idéias sobre o assunto.

Bom fim de semana pra todos.

SRN

Before I forget, here are October’s numbers:

• Time Period:  28 days (Oct. 1 – Oct.28)
• Events Played (SnGs & MTTs): 1,578
• Total profit (before split): $1,120

Starting within a few days I am going to experiment with a weekly schedule I have designed to see how it impacts my mood and alertness and consequently my poker results:

Each 90-minute block of green represents a set of SnGs on Poker Stars. Although turbos usually last only 45-50 minutes, I am allotting myself extra time to account for how long it takes for 30-40 SnGs to fill up and completely register, as well as the occasional extended heads-up match. (Note: the constant strip of green on Sunday means I will be grinding MTTs instead of SnGs.)

Exercise will include weight training (squatting, benching, and other compound exercises) and high-intensity interval training, or HIIT. My main goals in this department are to increase my metabolism in order to be more alert during the 9 hours I will be playing poker every day as well as to build muscle and burn fat. I will also stretch at the beginning and end of each workout to avoid injuries and improve circulation (sitting in an office chair all day cannot be +EV for my veins amirite).

“Break” time will actually be used for overflow minutes for any SnGs which take an extraordinary long time to register and/or finish. Of course I will also water my garden during these times. o_0

I was initially concerned that I didn’t give myself enough “study” time in this schedule, but I feel comfortable with my ability to profit from mass-multi-tabling the $16s for right now. Obviously I will at some point study harder and attempt to move up in limits within the next year, but for right now my main priority is to seriously profit and save money for my own apartment.

“Off day” and “sleep” are just that.

If I don’t go insane trying to adhere to the above plan over the next couple of weeks, I will report how I’m feeling and my poker wins/losses. Thanks for reading!

darq

P.S.: I highly recommend the Firefox add-on “LeechBlock” if you want to help yourself be more productive while using the internet.

When Alinghi won the America’s Cup for the first time in March 2003 in Auckland, I admit it, I was thrilled and very proud of what some of my compatriots just achieved in the sport of sailing. The Cup was returning to the European continent for the very first time since the inaugural race in 1851!

Then Ernesto Bertarelli and Team Alinghi put together what was probably the greatest and best sailing spectacle ever. Four years of intense and high-level competitions, four years that ended up with a second victory in a row for Team Alinghi in July 2007 in Valencia, I was speechless and truly impressed.

The Swiss organisation and the America’s Cup model initiated by Alinghi and Societe Nautique de Geneve under the impulse of Ernesto Bertarelli was a real success from which the sport of sailing benefitted tremendously. No one contests this fact.

Since then, the Cup turned out being a legal duel. A legal duel between the America’s Cup Defender, Societe Nautique de Geneve (Team Alinghi) and the Golden Gate Yacht Club (BMW Oracle Racing team) or should I say between two high-profile team leaders and owners: Ernesto Bertarelli and Larry Ellison.

A lot is being said and written about the numerous rounds of litigation surrounding the 33rd America’s Cup, I will not go there, this is not the purpose of this post and I will leave this to lawyers, judges and other clever people who probably enjoy this as much as I hate it.

The purpose of this post is a call, a call for the sake of the sport of sailing.

Ernesto, Larry, Gentlemen: I realize the considerable amount of money involved in your sailing ventures. I even understand that it is difficult not to listen to and follow his amour propre in situations like yours today but please, give our wonderful sport a court break. Stop sabotaging the fantastic aura sailing acquired thank to the America’s Cup’s Challengers and Defenders prior to the end of July 2007. Return to the fundamental rules of the sport of sailing, return to the water to compete with fair play!

America’s Cup News on ISAF’s Web site

Já devem pensar que é outro post sobre Flamengo, e por um lado é. Amanhã tem um jogão no Maracanã as 6:30 da tarde. Infelizmente eu não estarei presente porque optei por ficar em casa jogando alguns freerolls VIPs do Poker Stars. Simplesmente amanhã participarei de um freeroll de 30k, 70k e 100k. Os fields sem dúvida alguma são gigantescos, acho que o menor é de 2000 jogadores, mas mesmo assim não estou podendo passar uma oportunidade dessas.

Estou passando a pior fase desde que me profissionalizei. Sempre tive o descuido com o bankroll, mas o que eu fiz em Setembro é pra nunca mais se repetir. Aprendizado que se eu errar é porque sou burro mesmo. Foda que eu já passei por situações parecidas, e não aprendi. Agora será a última vez mesmo porque não estou ficando mais novo e tenho pessoas que dependem de mim. Esse post é parte desabafo, parte reflexão já que semana que vem estarei completando 31 anos.

Paro pra pensar e fico feliz de tudo que já vivi. Muitas experiências, a maioria boa. Aprende bastante com tudo que eu fiz, mas olhando o meu passado mais recente começo a perceber que estagnei e isso nunca é bom. Estou deixando na mão algumas pessoas importantes na minha vida por causa de colegas ou porque sempre pude viver um estilo de vida muito solto. A realidade é que essa época de loucura já passou e a minha realidade é outra.

Então esse mês de aniversário, Novembro, quero refletir, focar e tentar crescer. Estou analisando algumas mudanças importantes, e o não posso deixar de enfatizar que eu preciso completar o que estou começando nesse início do mês. Um dos meus maiores defeitos é esse: criar uma meta e no meio do caminho enjoar dela e tomar outro rumo.  O mês de outubro foi fraco pra mim no game, mesmo eu não tendo feito nada extra poker. A bad run chegou e não quis ir embora. Pelo menos me ajudou a refletir e recalcular meus objetivos. Outro aspecto é que eu voltei a estudar mais o game, algo que eu tinha parado de fazer. Nesse ponto vi que estava cometendo alguns erros de iniciante.

Já falei demais por hoje. Boa sorte pro nosso Mengão amanhã. A vitória é a unica opção.

SRN

9 sng de 1 + 0.20
Tiempo: 1 h.
Gastos: 1.20 x 9 = 10.8
Premios: 4.5 + 2.7 + 1.8 = 9
Total1 = -1.8

10 sng 1 + 0.20
Tiempo: 1:20 h
Gastos: 1.20 x 10 = 12
Premios: 3 x 2.70 + 3 x 1.8 = 13.5
Total2 = 1.5

Total =-0.3

Esto no esta funcionando, después de dos horas de juego  no tengo beneficios, parece que hoy no estoy jugando bien los headsup ya que no consigo quedar el primero casi en ninguna mesa, migraré al cash para ver si salvo el día.

Pues va a ser que tampoco, despues de 3 horas jugando en cash tengo perdidas de 10$. Creo que ganaría más si me voy al metro a pedir limosna….  Será el desodorante que me ha abandonado? No se si es una racha mala o que no estoy jugando de la forma correcta. La verdad es que he perdido manos all in que me han hecho polvo, en una tenia un trio de 9 con una pareja de mano en el flop, el va all in con su set de 5s (tambien eran pocket) que por supuesto calleo y en el river le sale el poker de 5… todo mi stack a volar…
La otra gran mano que he perdido a sido con AA. Raise el villano, yo le reraiseo y el va all in con AKs de rombos. Al pavo resulta que le sale color y a mi me sale una vena gorda apunto de estallar en la frentaka . Esto se a comido mis beneficios y me ha hecho entrar en pérdidas. Cuando gano lo hago en pequeñas cantidades,( aunque intento fabricar trampas para osos ) y cuando pierdo, pues ya veis, meto todo mi stack pensando que tengo las nuts (y en el momento de ir all in las tengo) y luego resulta que me las como con patatas…. Y NO ME GUSTAN LA PATATAS!!!!!!

I don’t play nearly as much as I used to, but I was able to snag first in a small 27-player SnG today. I only play abut 2-4 hours a month at the most, but I guess time, experience, and lots of thought about poker strategies has made my game a little better than it used to be. It sure felt good to win one.

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PokerStars Tournament #xxxxxxxxxx, No Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: $3.00/$0.40 USD
27 players
Total Prize Pool: $81.00 USD

You finished the tournament in 1st place. A USD 30.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

Congratulations!

I just played a set of 30 $16 SnGs on PS, not listening to music or fapping at any point. My ROI was 43% ($208.50 profit) and my cash rate was 47%. These numbers aren’t sustainable IMO but it felt good to be able to handle such a large number of tables. Thirty seems to be the point at which both my brain and my computer’s CPU start to feel the heat, ya feel me. But with the help of Table Ninja and an AutoHotkey script I use to send tables back and forth between my two monitors, I think multi-tabling at this volume will quickly become easier. My only complaint is that trying to run my HUD (heads-up display) while playing more than ~20 tables really seems to slow down my computer, so I may have to invest in a quad-core processor as a practical upgrade (it was a minor mistake on my part to purchase a dual-core back when I was building my rig, but oh well. Every other aspect of the machine is working excellently).

I’m going to visit a friend of mine for the Halloween weekend, and I think the trip will be a good way for me to relax after working hard to regain my PlatinumStar status this month. Aside from having a good time with a fellow aspiring poker professional, I plan to prevent a burnout (and downswing) similar to the one I experienced in early September after grinding myself out of my mind in August.

So far in October I am +$151.19 with 3,971.50 VPP. My goal is to play 70-80 $16s per day (excluding Sundays) between now and the 27th so I can chill during the last few days of the month. With me luck!

darq

El avance de hoy es simplemente que ya tenemos a nuestros 2 primeros protagonistas funcionales. Sus nombres son Alpha y Láncelot (By Zag xD) y bueno, ya he dado unos paseos por el mapa a su cuenta, a pesar de que aun sean simples bocetos :p.

En cuanto a la demo, va viento en popa, a ver si mañana puedo terminarlo, me quedan un par de cosillas sueltas por resolver, pero es divertido ver como avanza.

Mañana más y mejor ;P

After showing a profit for half a year, I finally had a losing month. Aside from bad play, I attribute the downswing to simply being burnt out from playing so much in August. Reaching Platinum & Ironman statuses while still being in school wasn’t exactly the most relaxing venture, and I never took a day off to recharge before barreling into the next 30 days. But at least I can identify what my problem was and fix it for the future.

September, 2009’s numbers:

• Time period: 30 days (Sep. 1 – Sep. 30)
• Events played (SnGs & MTTs): 941
• Total profit (before split): -$69.83

It’s a shame my plan of playing fewer tables seemed to fail miserably…it’s time to go for Platinum again.

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Es una terminal portátil de comunicación vía satélite diseñada para proporcionar comunicación en casi cualquier región del mundo, no importando las condiciones ambientales bajo las cuales sea utilizado, el material con el cual ha sido fabricada la convierte en una de las terminales más ligeras, transportables y de fácil armado, no es necesario llevar todo un equipo técnico a los lugares remotos ni múltiples juegos de herramienta para realizar el ensamble de la terminal, con Jaba FlyAway VSAT tiene todo eso en una sola maleta, ahora estar comunicado es cuestión de minutos, no importando cual sea su necesidad de comunicación siempre estará en contacto con el exterior en tiempo real desde cualquier parte del mundo.

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Como parte del sistema de configuración y alineación, el pedestal de la antena tipo tripie se adapta a cualquier tipo de superficie y cuenta con un sistema de graduación manual para lograr ajustes exactos que permiten establecer una comunicación rápida y confiable al satélite, el plato reflector está compuesto de 6 pétalos (Gajos) que son ensamblados a presión mediante seguros de sujeción fáciles de instalar, esto representa una gran ventaja cuando se traslada a lugares remotos de difícil acceso. JabaSat Flyaway es una Compact terminal portátil por satélite la terminal está equipado con 1 RJ45 10/100 Base-T puertos y funciona como una LAN normal de correo electrónico, FTP, VoIP y de datos. Es ideal para fácilmente transportarla y en muy poco tiempo instalarse, ideal para Acceso a Internet en sitios remotos (es decir, con fines comerciales), aplicaciones de VoIP,Datos a Alta Velocidad, Cámaras IP, etc Está ideado para que una sola persona pueda transportarla e instalarla;. está equipado con un brújula magnética.

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El sistema permite hasta 1Mbit/s dúplex de transmisión, servicios de datos, voz y video, solución de Radiodifusión, Proveedores de servicios, militar y Agencias de Gobierno, Organizaciones de Rescate, instituciones que requieren una rápida y fácilmente transportable terminal comunicaciones de banda ancha via satélite. El sistema Jaba FlyAway VSAT es compatible con cualquier plataforma bajo los estándares DVB-S, DVB-RCS, TDM, TDMA, FTDMA. modulación CCM, ACM, QPSK, 8PSK, 16APSK y 32APSK que pueden emplearse en enlaces dedicados, compartidos, punto a punto, punto a multipunto, (Red en malla) Clear Channel, SCPC bajo cualquier protocolo de seguridad, también tiene la capacidad para soportar telefonía IP (Voz Sobre IP o VoIP) con los códec H323, G711, G723.1, G729.

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Jaba FlyAway VSAT es uno de los sistemas más versátiles y prácticos para trasmisiones remotas donde sea que necesite enviar información al satélite, ya sea desde un sitio alejado o cuando las microondas o enlaces terrestres no pueden cumplir con el transporte de la señal. Este sistema fue diseñado para transportarse en 2 maletas con un peso total de 55 kilos, el diseño de las terminales puede ser de acuerdo a sus necesidades y exigencias, ya sea desde el color hasta el diseño total de la antena. Jaba FlyAway VSAT está equipada con las plataformas de comunicación más avanzadas en su tipo entregando la comunicación por datos mediante puertos RJ45 10/100 que funciona como una LAN (Local Area Network). Ideal para aplicaciones de correo electrónico, FTP, VoIP, Cámaras IP, envío y recepción de datos a alta velocidad entre otras.

Jaba FlyAway VSAT ha sido diseñada para que una sola persona pueda transportarla e instalarla, el sistema le permitirá navegar hasta desde 64 kbps hasta 1 mbps de descarga (RX) y desde 64 kbps hasta 512 kbps de transmisión (TX). No importa si sus necesidades son enviar datos, voz, video, soluciones de radiodifusión, coberturas de eventos especiales, comunicaciones emergentes, oficinas temporales, ya sea para Servicios Militares, Agencias de gobierno, Organizaciones de Rescate, Estaciones de radio y televisión, Sector privado, o simplemente la necesidad de estar comunicado, Jaba FlyAway es la mejor opción de comunicación móvil-portable.

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Starting in October, when I’m finally finished with school, I plan to saturate my schedule with playing/studying poker and exercise. As an extra incentive to help me with the latter, I bought some new head phones and running shoes:

As a side note, I haven’t been playing nearly as many SnGs as I did in August, evident by the pressure I’m feeling to even make GoldStar on PS this month. In some respects my ego is pushing me to achieve this status as a minimum on a regular basis, but the 2x FPP multiplier represents an actual rational reason to go for it.

For example, 10-person satellites (which pay 4 people) into the Sunday Million run around the clock during the week and cost 5,400 FPPs. As a GoldStar I’d need to play at least 78 $16 turbos per day to accrue enough FPPs to give the satellite a shot once a week. Because the SM entry may be exchanged for T$215, such a plan is extremely +EV since it’s relatively easy to “cash” in the satellite.

I did this yesterday and played four $60 turbos, profiting $470 with solid play and average luck. Despite that, I’m still several hundred in the hole and I’m scrambling to show a profit for this month, but I’ve been in this situation before and somehow I always get myself out of it before the 1st.

P.S.: I’d like to congratulate my friend Josh (“kjoshua” on Poker Stars) for qualifying for a seat in a European Poker Tour event in London on October 2nd. A baller in the making IMO. gl!

SNG is a broadcasting industry acronym which stands for Satellite  news gathering. SNG originally referred to the use of point-to-point terrestrial microwave signals to backhaul the remote signal to the studio. In modern news operations, It can mean anything from a lone reporter taking a single camcorder out to get a story, to an entire television crew taking a satellite truck on location to do a live report for a newscast. In its early days, the term SNG was used by newsroom staff to differentiate between the NG (news gathering) crews that collected TV news with traditional film cameras and the new ENG crews who collected TV news with new electronic analogue tape formats like low band 3/4 inch U-matic

Despite an awful last week of August (almost $700 downswing) I still reached my goals of Ironman status on Full Tilt and PlatinumStar status on PokerStars.

Check it out:

• Time period: 31 days (Aug. 1 – Aug. 31)
• Events played (SnGs & MTTs): 2,232
• Total profit (before split): $1,533

My low point in August was almost -$600, so things could’ve gone worse.

In other news, I built myself a new computer to multi-table more SnGs (and for better performance overall), but this means I can no longer use two monitors until I save money for another screen. Anyway, I am very happy with it so far. Here are the specs:

• CPU – AMD Phenom II X2 545 3.0GHz Dual-Core
• GPU – XFX Radeon HD 4850 1GB
• Motherboard – Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H
• PSU – Antec 550W ATX12V (modular)
• RAM – 8GB (4 x 2GB) DDR2 @ 1066MHz
• HDD – 2 x W.D. 160GB 7200 RPM (in RAID 0)
• DVD – Lite-On 22x DVD±RW
• Case – Antec 300 ATX Mid Tower (3 intake, 2 exhaust)
• OS – Microsoft Vista Home Premium SP1 64-bit

Those items totaled around $800, but pre-assembled setups with identical components can cost hundreds more, so I’m proud I saved a bundle and finally took the leap of building my own PC.

Speaking of which, the process of putting everything together went relatively well since I’d been researching online and I am decently tech-savvy as it is. But I seemed to be grounding myself several times a minute out of nervousness, so I’ll probably invest in an anti-static wristband for next times’ peace of mind (and just to feel cool in general). In the meantime I may explore overclocking…but every so cautiously since 3.0GHz processors don’t exactly grow on trees.

Back to poker (kind of): I used 25,000 FTPs, 10k of which I had to buy with Ironman medals, to purchase a football jersey which I will superciliously flaunt to represent my eternal struggle with the laggy, piece-of-shit rigjob of a site called Full Tilt. o_0 …j/k, I love you, Howard. ^_^

Honestly I am not sure if I will be able to maintain my Platinum status on PS this month without playing significantly fewer games on FTP. I only have one monitor right now and my TableNinja trial (read: crutch) expired, but this may be a good thing since my cumulative ROI (since late February ‘09) fell from 20% at the beginning of August to 12% at the end of August. For the mathematically less-inclined, this means recently I’ve been earning $1.28 less per $16 SnG, and this adds up when you play thousands of SnGs, amirite. The point is that by playing a lower average number of SnGs/day I will hopefully substitute a lower hourly rate with a higher return on investment (stated another way, I will work less for a higher wage). One interesting note is that if I can maintain an average ROI of 10% playing about 50 $16 SnGs per day from now on, I can make $15,000 before April ‘10.

Toning down the heavy multi-tabling might give me more time to play MTTs, but lately final tables are like UFOs: they are elusive as fuck and I seem to get a probe up my ass whenever I get close to one.

On that note, have a good month and ttyl! =]

So this weekend, Full Tilt Poker had their SnG Madness going on. There was a lot of activity during the past 48 hours. In the blink of an eye, a SnG was full with players eager to make their way to winning prizes and to get entered into the $50K Freeroll held next Saturday. The only qualification to get into that tournament was to win at least two SnG tournaments. So I played the low stake SnGs and got into the freeroll with my first two tournaments. I proceeded to play more and build more BR little by little.

• SnG Profit :  -5$
• Volume : 32 SnG
• ROI : -1,3%

On a commencé simple…des 10$+1$ NLHE, pas de turbo,  c’est une mise en route.

Première expérience un peu frustrante…n’ayant jamais grindé, je me suis mis à la recherche d’outils pour m’aider (ceux qui m’avaient servi à une époque, sont maintenant soit interdits, soit obsolètes).

Outils utilisés :

Tracker : Holdem Manager Tracker que j’utilise depuis quelques mois. Je ne m’en suis servi pas en tant que tracking, mais pour l’étude après coup.

SnG Tool : Poker Shortcuts … Je le déconseille. Il m’a couté 4 SnG. (cf plus bas)

Poker Shortcuts est un vrai stress test….Soft buggé, me faisant pop up les tables inactives, et provoquant des missclick.

En gros, ce soft m’a fait perdre 4 sng…une erreur de raccourci me faisant autofold un carré floppé

FullTilt et sa mise à jour récente y sont surement pour quelque chose, mais je suis toujours à la recherche d’un outil pour les SnG efficace et compatible avec FullTilt.

A corriger pour la prochaine session : Mes 7 bulles, même si le volume est insignifiant, ma gestion ICM est pour l’instant…pitoyable.

Pour info , les tournois 15-24 sont la période ou Poker Shortcuts à        choisi de bugger et cliquer partout.

Pour le Day 2 , un seul mot d’ordre : du volume !!!!

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Robe da non credere, da quando ho ripreso a giocare con i tavoli affiancati (4 giorni fa, 3 giorni di gioco effettivi), e posso così seguire il gioco degli altri giocatori, sto vincendo a buon ritmo, ovviamente sto anche vincendo qualche colpo fortunato, è ovvio, non si spiegherebbe un run del genere, però gioco veramente bene e concentrato, anche perchè sono solo 6 tavoli da tener d’occhio.

Quello che fa specie è il grafico dei piazzamenti finali, sto giocando molto molto bene in bolla e itm, pushando il giusto, 32% di primi posti sono utopia ma intanto braggo!

Ora continuo a giocare 6x tile, poi più avanti vedremo come procede il mestiere, anche perchè prevedo un ulteriore ma definitivo trasloco su PokerStars.it, dove funziona l’HUD di Hold’Em Manager, e se il mio eroe Braminc sostiene che sia molto utile, io lo seguo. Scherzi a parte, mi accorgo anch’io della sua utilità quando potrei pushare certe mani su GD ma non avendo info su oppo devo foldare…

BTW, spero anche di vincere la classifica Walker, ho 5 sit in meno del leader attuale e gli sono già davanti, aver runnato al 53% i primi 45 sit aiuta!

On FullTiltPoker.net, I am known under the player name: delinquent1. My current bankroll (BR) is at $125 at this point. The past week or so I have been grinding $30 at the $1.00 6max Sit-n-gos (SNGs). I have been following a strict bankroll management strategy at 30x buyin. So far with my current BR, I have started at the $2.00 6max SNGs. I will only play 2 sessions per day and blogging after each session. Wish me good luck poker world.

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Im Moment Passiert recht viel: MTTs laufen ganz OK, ich hab das Big-Blind.com SNG Leader Board gewonnen und gleichzeitig auch am meisten geraked und jetzt hat Titan Poker auch noch angeboten mich in Online Turnieren zu unterstützen.

Am besten fange ich mit dem SNG Leader Board an. Es haben nur 12-13 Spieler mit gemacht, also super Value bei einem Preisgeld von insgesamt $1.800 für die Top10. Ich habe jetzt $600 für den ersten Platz eingestrichen und nochmal $100, weil ich am meisten gereaked habe. Nimmt man mit, vorallem weil der Aufwand sehr gering war – ich habe ca. 100 SNGs gespielt und dabei Profit von $170 gemacht. Insgesammt habe ich somit ca.  $9/SNG verdient.  Ship it

Anfang letzer Woche meldete sich Titan Poker per Mail bei mir, weil Ihnen mein Blog ins Auge gefallen war. Wir haben uns darauf geeinigt, dass ich diesen Monat mit einem kleinem Sponsorship bei kleineren Turnieren anfange. Wenn es OK läuft, bezahlt mir Titan Poker  jeden Sonntag das Buy-in für das 250K. Da hätte ich natürlich nichts gegen, deshalb muss ich diesem Monat mal etwas konzentriert bei Titan gas geben.

Wenn Titan mir die Chance gibt, kann ich das gleiche tun. Deshalb schicke ich ein paar Spieler mit einem Staking bei Titan Poker ins rennen. Jeder Spieler bekommt $50 von mir und kann davon entweder, Turniere und SNGs mit max Buy-in von $5 spielen, oder NL5 Cash Games. Die einzige Voraussetzung ist, das man noch kein Konto bei Titan Poker hat und sich über meinen Blog bei Titan anmeldet. Bei Interesse bitte einen Kommentar mit einer kurzen Beschreibung deiner Pokerskills hinterlassen, ich melde mich dann bei den Spielern die vielversprechend klingen – ich werde 5-10 Spielern die Möglichkeit geben sich zu beweisen.

Am Freitag hat es mich mal wieder in den lokalen Poker Club getrieben, leider ohne Flaute auf der ganzen Linie. Erst hatte ich kein Glück, und dann kam auch noch Pech dazu. Im Turnier bekam ich keine Karten und nach dem Turnier, saß ich im wildesten NL200 Cashgame, dass man sich vorstellen kann. Und wieder keine Karten. Shit happens.