Week in Detail: Monday

I am bored at work so will try something new. Just a quick recap of the previous night performance.

$22 Party STT - First for a profit of $78
$5.50 Pacific STT - First for a profit of $19.50
$5.50 Headhunter Challenge Tourney on JetSetPoker - out of the money for a loss of $5.50
$22 MTT on JetSet - finished out of money for a loss of $22
$22 Guaranteed MTT on Pokerroom - finished 36th for a profit of $54.50

Profit/Loss for Monday 08/30 is $124.50. Nice start to the week.

Also pushed on the Monday Night Football game as I bet the final score to be under 37 points.....the game landed dead on the number so all bets were refunded.

Torrid

I had one of my most profitable week with STT. Overall, I ended the week up $660. Came in third in a $10 multi on Pokerroom last night for $315. I didn't do so well in the blogger tournament at Pacific. A total of 77 players entered and I finished in 50th position. The most memorable hand of the tournament was when I was all-in preflop and got my aces cracked by Sloejack's nines. Did I mention in a previous post that nines is the worst hand in Hold'em for me or against me?

Also had one of my fantasy football draft last night. Didn't get anyone I really wanted except for Hines Ward....but the other team owners think I have the strongest team....we'll have to see.

I am taking the wife to Destin Florida for Labor day weekend so a nice win this week will go a long way in paying for the trip. No time for blogging....time to hit the table!

Wading into deeper water

Boy have I been running hot on Party STT!!! I had been currently playing at the $20+2 level, but I am now mixing in some $30+3. So far this week, I have played 9 at the $20 level and have made the money in 6 of them, but what is even more amazing is that 5 of those were first place!! How crazy is that??!!?? As for the $30 level, I have played 6 and have made the money in exactly 50% of them with a first, a second, and a third. Players are a little tighter at the $30 level but I think I can still make some money here.

What I do know is that I can no longer win at the $10 level. Isn't that funny? Is it possible to outgrow a level? I definitely think so. I have been teaching my wife to play. She started out playing the $5 single....she has since started to consistently make the money at the $10 level. I couldn't help but to crack up laughing the other night when she remarked that she doesn't know how she ever won at the $5 level after taking a bad beat there. The play level there is so bad that it is scary!

I haven't even sniffed a final table in a MTT this week. Hopefully that will change this Sunday in the Monty Memorial Blogger Tourney at Pacific. Hope to see you all there. My screenname there is Mavdawg. Just look for me at the top of the leaderboard.

Small potatoes

What a waste of a week. I think I logged more hours this week than I have in a long time and I have a $75 profit to show for it. I bet that is probably less than $2 per hour for the week. I guess I shouldn't be complaining since at least I didn't lose. I had a decent week in STT. I also cashed in a few MTT but didn't really have any good final table finish to show. As I explained in my last post, the experiment with the ring games did not go very well. I dropped over $150 there. I guess I should keep my day job until I can post better results there.

Thanks to everyone who gave me feedback on RGP as well as here on ways to improve at the cash games. I know I need a lot more work in that aspect of my games. I read the Poker Chronicles quite a bit and am always amazed at how well the author does with his cash game results. Of course, he also plays at much higher limit than I do. I know that I need to get better there because it will provide for less standard deviation in my results. It's very tough to make a living playing poker if you can only play tournaments.

I am going to try to cut back on the number of hours this week (wife is getting frustated at the number of hours that I am putting in). This will give me a chance to relax and re-energize. I also need to study football a little more since I have a fantasy draft coming up and the college football season is also right around the corner.

Cash games

Lately, I have been tossing around the idea of quitting my job and playing poker full-time. Let me start out by saying that my current job is an assignment that I took on as temporary work that turned into a long-term position. I am definitely over-qualified and underpaid. It has just been tough for me to find a job comparable to the one that I had prior to relocating to Georgia. I am actually making less than half what I was previously earning.

So anyways, I have been doing fairly well playing STT and MTT, but I wanted to experiment with the ring games to provide for another source of income if I am going to be doing this full time. What I learned is that I am not nearly as good as I think I am. I played the $25 and $50 NL table at Party and it seems like people will call you down with anything. I am not very good at the limit game and my game requires that I play No-limit in order to be the most effective. I haven't quite figured out yet what I am doing wrong in the limit game. I know that I have already lost close to $150 this week in the ring games. Fortunately, yesterday, I was 5 for 5 in cashing on the $22 singles tourney with 2 first place finish so I am still up a little for the week.

If anyone has some tips for NL ring games, please leave me a comment. Thanks.

I am a Headhunter

Highlights of this past week included winning a $10 multi tournament on Pokerroom. That was a nice $500 plus payday. Overall for the week, it was another winning week netting a little over $550.

I also signed up for a new poker site called Jet Set Poker. Although, I didn't really need another place for my poker action, I was somewhat intrigued by their headhunter tourneys in which you receive bounties for knocking out your opponents based upon how highly they rank on the leaderboard. I came in second in one of their headhunter challenge and had a blast racking up money with each additional players that I knocked out. I highly recommend this site as they also have a 20% bonus for new players right now. I would definitely like to see more of this type of tournaments on other sites.

For those of you who read my last post, I hope you were able to cash in on the first winner of the NFL preseason that I gave out. I have another one for Monday night....take the Packers and Seahawks to go over the 37 points. I think we will see fireworks in this showdown. Good luck!

My blog was held hostage

I bet all of my readers (all 2 of you) have been wondering whether I have given up this blogging thing since it has been a while since my last post. The truth of it is that Blogger has held my blog hostage. It would not let me log into my account. After numerous email to support, I finally got it straighten out.

Quick recap of last week, I won another $10 multi on Pokerroom for $650 and ended the week up about $550. Did extremely well with Pokerstars $16 turbo single but equally bad with Party $33 multi single. So far this week, I have won another $10 multi on Pokerroom for $550. I was really looking forward to their guaranteed tourney at 10:00 PM last night but their site was down.

Can you believe that football is back? I am so pumped. I will be posting more often throughout football season and will occasionally give out free winners right here so stay tuned. Tonight, the Baltimore Ravens are a 3.5 point favorite over Atlanta. If you wager on football, put a small bet on the Ravens. Atlanta remembers what happens to Mike Vick in this game last year and will not be playing their starters for very long.

Poker Blues

I am going to make this as short as possible. Another losing week. Lost $370 this week.

Here is the need for keeping good records when you play. I felt like I did alright throughout the week and even placed in a couple of multis including one final table. Although, I knew that this weekend was bad....I didn't really know how bad until running all the numbers. I can see how most poker players who do not keep good records think that they are winners when in reality they are not.

If I didn't know any better, I would join the idiots on RGP who claims that online poker is rigged. That's how bad I was running this weekend. No matter how strong my starting hands were or how much of a monster I flop, the river always did me in. The only thing that I have to look forward to today is that I can start a new fesh spreadsheet for the week and forget about trying to climb uphill. Time to regroup!