April Recap

Well as mentioned in my last post earlier today, work made it hard to focus on my poker game. I started out the month pretty even carrying over from last month, but then started to go on a heater. I only played on pokerstars because I was getting pretty comfortable there and trying to even out my bankroll on fulltilt, which after my heads up win will have to continue to be the trend I guess. I played a total of 120 games and profited $74. That comes out to about 62 cents profit for every game or a ROI of about 61% since my average buy in is usually $1. I cashed 33 times and got heads up in 9 of those cashes winning 5 of those games. I set numerous records for my monthly tlb points on stars, but also ended up setting my new monthly best at 1056.62 points. My yearly total is already about 500 points higher than last year and I'm still shooting for that 6 k point mark or better.

Those stats to me seem pretty good and I'm really pleased with getting heads up a little under every four games and winning over half of those games. This is still a very small volume sample however so I'm not reading into it too much and just trying to keep making progress and learning something every game. I have yet to play a game in May other than the heads up match, but I hope to get a decent volume going here soon if work allows it.

That's a recap of really my best month to date, even though it really was 2/3 of a month of play. That just shows me I have made some great progress and there is still room for more. Hopefully I'll get some more time to update and start to make these posts a little more humorous and interesting rather than just the blah of statistics. Thanks for reading anyway and good luck out there!

Keep chugging away

Played another 15-20 SNG's last night. Things weren't looking too bright and I thought I was going to follow up my good last session with another slight losing one. Managed to squeak in a couple cashes early on, but they weren't sustaining my buy-ins for the next games so after a bit was down about 4 buy-ins. Took some terrible beats too losing AA vs KK for chip lead in one. I just let that stuff roll off me now and laugh it off because hey, I have been on the other end of it too.

Towards the end of my session I finally started to heat up a bit and built a big stack going into the money in a 90 man game. I felt good and wanted the win bad, but alas lost a coinflip late and busted in 4th. That however put me up a decent chunk for the night. So, even when the poker gods don't seem to be smiling down and deliver some tough beats all night, skill can still prevail.

Ah I remembered another goal I had set that I didn't mention in the last post. Pokerstars gives points for their weekly, monthly, and yearly TLB (tournament leader board) depending on where you finish. This is separate from the SNG leader board so the games are all 40+ fields. Well last year I only managed to pull out close to 2900 points. The big name players have more than that in a week often so obviously that's not too many. But considering the buy-ins I play and low volume I had it is a good starting point. Oh and also they only take top ten cashes for weekly, top 20 for monthly, and top 100 for yearly. I barely had over 100 cashes last year. So leading into this year my goal is to reach 6000 TLB points for the year or effectively double my score from last year. That equates to 500 monthly going towards my score which is easily achievable. So far this month I have almost 800 points in my top 20 cashes and clost to 900 for the yearly. Not a bad start, and room for some improvement for sure! Hopefully with some deep runs in weekend MTT's I can really add to those totals in the months to come.

As you can see from my posts, my game is a work in progress. I am striving towards greatness and every time I play learn something new. This year is going to be a breakout for me, I can feel it!