500

Quick note to say the roll is over 500. Only played a little bit this arvo and won about a buy in. Rakeback is adding up fairly nicely as well but i can only withdraw it in $50 intervals so ill have to play a bit more before i can do that. giggity.

a bit swongy but all good.

Played a decent amount. From like 1.1k hands i managed to go from +36 after ~500 hands in, to

-25 after 700, back to + 44.71 after 1087 hands. Decided to leave it there so in total, including rakeback i think i won like 58 or something. Goot!

1st 2k hands at NL20

Overall now

Roll is $476.55

steady

Since last post i've started up at ipoker. Just trying to get used to the new software and my rakeback etc. I decided to use a few of my fpp's on stars to play some of the 210 fpp's sattelites. Managed to get in the top 6 in 2 out of the 4 i played which i then traded for ~$20 real money. Parlayed that up to $51 playing some random sit and goes so if i throw that with my ipoker money my overall roll is ~$430 now.

Bout' tree fiddy

The grind continues to go well. Im even running well in finding money! Checked an old moneybookers account and found a left over $20 us so i decided to throw that in the stars mix. Played a small sesh today and won a bit over 4 buy ins. Roll is at $348 (bout tree fiddy).

Will probably transfer my roll to ipoker in the next few days and start a goot rakeback deal. Commence dabblings at nl20 as well. Hopefully the run good continues.

Mission successful!

Managed to play 4160 hands today. My biggest day ever i think! Overall i won $65.85 in 4.48 hours which is handy. Probably could played bit better in spots, especially after about hand 2.5k where i experimented with 15 tabling + talking to friends on msn. Not a good idea. Apart from that it was generally just 12 tabling and decent pokers! Roll is now $257

FK OFF SUNDAY MILLION!

Just played and got donked out of the sunday million. Used points i had made at nl50 to buy entry and sold half my action to a mate. Needless to say i run like shit when it matters: http://www.pokerhand.org/?4245824

Villain was one of 3 table uber donks, playing like 55/10. I was playing 4/4 after 85 hands but my 3 bet obv didn't register with him as a sign that i had something superior to 10's. Naturally he flops the 2 outer and im left screaming FML! at 7:45am on a standard monday morning.

Last hand before break too which is a real fuck. Oh well back to nl10. YAY!

Edit: Played some more NL10 and logged some more praaaawfit:

The plan tomorrow is to play 4k hands. Goal is to win $50. If i can do this i will be happy. Roll is currently $208

The grind

I've continued the grind today and have run up my roll to $172.59 which is +$102.25 overall according to hem. Mixing it up between 12 - 14 tabling so i can get in some good volume. When you play fairly nitty at micro stakes its not too hard to play a lot of tables.

Hopefully things continue travelling in this direction. Minimal stress and easy money.

A new beginning

Using the same picture that i used on my first blog post. I had a flick back and read a few of my early posts and realised that im in pretty much the same position now as i was then. Definitely going to use the micro success i achieved during those early days as motivation.

Anyway my new venture has started fairly well and from the $7 buy ins at nl10 im +$58. Its good to see that theire are stil plenty of donks on the tables.



I'll start buying in for $10 when i hit $150. When i get to $200 i think i will transfer my roll to the ipoker skin and start getting some decent rakeback happening.

Big changes!

Big changes since last post. I decided enough was enough with the NL50 grind and threw in the towel. Mentally i think i was just too drained from running bad and this was affecting my play. I ended up somewhere in the vicinity 23 buy ins below ev. Lots of people say that you should ignore ev because its meaningless in the long run, but for me, in the last few months over a 105k hand sample it was just too powerful a reminder of how shit i've been running and eventually broke the camels back.

I sent my staker back his money and his wasn't too fussed because he made some decent coin over the entirety of the stake. This left me with 33k fpp's and some grand plans: I played a step 3 sng but unfortunately busted in 6th. Played a bunch of 210 fpp satellites, cashed in a few, sold the $T for real cash and withdrew it. Bought about $190 worth of the may "instant cash bonuses" and me and a mate are playing the sunday million this week. Following this i will go in the porsche tournament which is 2k fpp's and which should set me back to almost 0 fpp's.

I've realised that i need something to keep me motivated with poker. Following from this, i was looking at some of my old graphs/ blog posts and realised that my best success came when i gave myself the mission of grinding a decent bankroll out of a small start. I thus deposited $70 on stars and will start at NL10 buyin in for $7 initially. Obviously this is an aggressive strategy but if i drop to $50 i will go back to nl5. I certainly won't be dedicating the hours to poker that i have been recently but hopefully i can get to something like $250 by the end of this month.

gogogogogogo!

continuing to run bad.

Can't really be bothered typing too much. Played yesterday for about 30 mins, ev wise i should have been up 40 according to hem but as per usual i lost 180. Thinking about leaving stars very soon! Got a good rakeback deal lined up at ipoker so when i eventually hit 44k FPP's i think its good bye stars!

May is swongy

Well started May in pretty shit fashion. Decided to drop ~ 7 buy ins within a day and a half which was fun. Most coolers etc but a bit of bad play as well. Fortunately i've had good days today and yesterday and have made it all back plus 2.5 buy ins. Ship ship!

On the FPP front i've now amassed 30k, so only 14k more needed till i can buy the voucher. Im still waiting on a hoodie as well that i ordered on the 26th of March so it looks like stars postage generally takes like 6 weeks. I've been throwing around the idea of grinding the 210 FPP 100k satellite, where top 6 out of 20 get an $11 entry. If i could manage to make the top 6 in 40% of these (fairly optimistic?) that would equate to total winnings of like $928 USD which would be 1.25k AUD even during the current shitty exchange rate. Something to think about i guess.

Currently the roll is $1035

FPP: 30k