My Blog So Far

I just wanted to thank everyone for reading this blog and posting comments. I have enjoyed updating it immensely and it has definitely helped me with poker. I hate updating this blog after losing or breaking even, so it gives me more of a motivation to play well! If there is anything particular you want to see or if you have any questions, please leave a comment.

It's pretty amazing that people from 54 countries have read my blog.

I thought I would brag a little and show my lifetime super turbos graph. I figured out a way to add bonuses into the graph (Full Tilt Leaderboards and Rake Races). I definitely want to reach 100k next month. That would be pretty insane. I love SNGs and Super Turbos because of stuff like this. I love stats, looking at leaderboards, finish distributions, close ICM decisions, etc etc. Super Turbos are definitely not for everyone, but I think they suit me really well.

I need to stop looking at results and just play loads and loads. The red line will take care of itself if I put in the volume and play well.



















I will do an end of the month post tomorrow, with March goals. I definitely want to play lots and play well. Thanks for reading!

Weekend Results

Update 24/2: I got 3rd in the rake race for $500. The guy who got 2nd played 27 hours and made $667 in rakeback. It makes me feel really bad that I didn't put in more volume.

It was a good weekend, but I didn't really put in the amount of volume that I wanted to. I played 10 hours, and made around $520 in rakeback plus whatever I won. I am going to play right now, so this will be a very short post.

Graph for the weekend:

And here is entire hand history of a 6-max $169 SNG that lasted exactly 9 hands and 4 minutes, which I got 2nd in!

Day 1 of 2

I played around 6 hours, which is a pretty big fail since I wanted to get $1150 in rakeback in the actual games this weekend. I managed around $300. It wasn't entirely my fault since there were so few super turbos running during the non peak hours. I played a few $335s for the first time ever. I won 2, but ended up down a little overall in them. I will be game selecting those.

It was a good day overall though. I have $850 in rakeback to make today. It's probably not going to happen, but I still want to win the rake race, and put in a decent amount of volume today.

Weekend Challenge

My rakeback site is having a weekend rake race, with $850 for the winner and down to $150 for 5th. I want to win it playing super turbos.

Goals for the weekend challenge:
1. 2,000 in rakeback (850 for the spring, and 1150 through games... which would mean 474 $169s and around 45% rakeback)
2. Make correct decisions, which should show up in my red line.

I will update with graphs after tonight, and after tomorrow, when the rake race is finished.

I have been playing quite a bit of rush as well. I got off to a great start, but then started playing badly after a while. I really really need to improve my ability of playing my A game all the time.

Confusion

It's been a day since I started playing poker again after my break, and I have no idea what to play. I played some super turbos, got off to a good start, then gave it all back. I played some NL200 Rush, and did pretty well.

The thing is - I KNOW I can beat cash/PLO/Rush for a decent clip. There is actually some skill involved. I am not sure about Super Turbos anymore. Everytime I have a losing session (with a losing red line) at Super Turbos, I start doubting myself. My lifetime Super Turbo graph obviously shows that I can crush it, but recently, my red line has had a few downswings.

Here are the graphs from today, first one is super turbos, second one is NL200 Rush.

Obviously, it is a super small Super Turbos sample, but I hate not knowing if I can beat them. Which is again a stupid question if you look at my lifetime graph. Yet, I keep wondering.

I think I will keep playing a bit of both and see how it goes.

Finally...

I have finally completed my grad school applications after around 3 weeks of not playing poker. My 3 main activities for the next few months are going to be poker, golf, and the gym... sounds amazing, if I do say so myself!!

I am excited to play poker again after such a long break. I think I will play whatever I feel like for the rest of the month (Super Turbos, PLO, Rush, MTTs) and then re-assess at some point. I want to get a decent sample in of super turbos to make sure I can still crush them.

OMG I just noticed that 320+15 Super Turbos are out!!! Does anyone know if these run often during peak hours? There are none running now. 50k downswings have got to be possible playing them. I don't think I will play them unless I see a soft lineup. But this is great because the red pros should play them, which would make the 160+9 Super Turbos a lot softer.

I plan on updating this blog quite often with how poker is going. It's time to make lots of money.

40th in the Million Dollar Freeroll

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How do MTT pros do it? For those that don't know about it, Pokerstars holds a quarterly 1 million dollar freeroll for their Supernova players. A little less than 5000 people entered, and I decided to take a break from my break from poker and play it. (Did that make sense?). It's now 8am, and I busted in 40th for 1890. It was 150k for the win. I feel pretty shattered. How do people play MTTs for a living?

It's now back to grad school applications. I am hoping to finish them by Tuesday, then I will start a new poker challenge. It will be something along the lines of 1000 Super Turbos, 10000 hands of Rush Poker, and 10000 hands of PLO. I played some 1/2 PLO today during the freeroll, and won 200, but ran 1000 below EV. I forgot how much fun it is.

My next post will be only after I finish my applications. Then it's time for the new challenge!