May Recap

So today pretty much saved my month. I got lazy and decided not to update during my horrific 40ish buyin downswing at the 24s. To regain a bit of confidence, I moved back down to the 12s - and quickly realized how unbelievably soft they are. Seems like a lot of the good regs moved up. Saturday night, I decided it was time to move back up.....brokeven and lost a bit Sat. night and Sunday (despite a crazy/sick grind day Sunday). Then today was quite simply awesome. 75 games at 50% ROI - $903 profit. Hoping to continue teh run good into June. I also finished 5th on the FTP low limit sng leaderboard so I'm pretty stoked about that.



Challenge Status:
2399 games played
$2847 profit

Roller Coaster Sunday Evening

I didn't play until the evening, but it was no doubt a very up and down evening. Played 62 games tonight...and even though i had a 14 game cash-less streak at one point, i still finished the night with $433 profit (not including rakeback). Thank you sunday fishies. :)

Why didn't I play before the evening? I went to visit my grandma in the afternoon and then went to see my cousin, who had just returned from a month-long trip to Africa. He is a professional photographer and I had a chance to flip through about 3000 pictures with him (he had already whittled it down from 5000!). Obviously we didnt see all 3000, but he was picking out tall the good ones for show. Some absolutely amazing photos, he managed to get great up close shots of most of the animals he wanted to, as well as some breathtaking landscapes. Makes me want to get out and do some travelling haha.

Challenge Status
1712 games
$2872 profit
12% ROI

Challenge 1/4 Complete

As of right now anyway. The challenge stands at $2535 profit after last nights play which I'm pretty stoked about. Still running ok for now at the 24s - continuing to annoy regs that I've already crossed paths with at the 12s and getting the current regs at the 24s to hate me. The more regs hate me, the better chance I have of them staying out of my games - or at the very least, my pots.

Challenge Status:
1577 games
$2535 profit
12% ROI

Probably gonna play some more while during the hockey game....go habs go!

Getting into the staking business

Got into the staking business today - I've taken on a horse by the name of SYLAER, who will be grinding 27/45 man SNGs on FTP for me, with a 50/50 split of profits. The terms of the contract include the stipulation that he must play at least 75 games a week, and he will start at the $5 games. I will decide whether or not to move him up on a week-to-week basis. He played a quick 4 games tonight to start the stake, and in those 4 he already won a 27 man and mincashed another 27 man. I'm really excited about this stake and I have a good feeling that it'll be profitable for both of us.

As for my own games...started the day with a minor downswing, recovered at the end and put the challenge mark over $2k and then some. Didn't put in amazing volume today due to the organization of my staking deal, hopefully I'll be able to get more volume in tomorrow.

Challenge Status:
1340 games
$2065 profit
13% ROI

Should note that I won't be posting every day, but extended upswings/downswings and other events of note will probably warrant a blog post. Posting every day would probably be a bit much, as I'm also posting updates in the 2p2 forum.

Just a fish on a heater honestly...

May continues to be awesome for me. Almost another $500 profit since my first post in this blog. Would've kept playing tonight but my internet was kinda crapping out on me. Was running kinda badly ITM as well today, so it was probably a decent time to quit anyway.

I also had a really solid review session with lessonthree last night, a solid winning reg at the $24s who recently moved up from the $12s. We did a review of each other's hand histories through teamviewer, which was really productive. Since I work on a Mac, I have no access to SNGWiz or any of those lovely little tools, so it was good to work through some close spots with him last night. He also co-owns his own coaching site for micro SNG players, so if you're struggling with your game at the micros I'd highly recommend him. Link to his site is listed to the right.

Current challenge status:
1272 games
$1992 profit
13% ROI

Good luck at the tables everyone!

10k in Summer '10

Welcome to my blog everyone! Probably should've started this blog earlier, but better late than never I suppose. I'm starting my new blog off with a goal that I've already started - a march to 10k profit through any and all poker related profit (including regular play rakeback, staking, live - anything poker-related whether it be a win or loss gets recorded). I'm recording from May 1 to Aug 31. As of right now, I'm at $1540 profit according to SharkScope (inc. rakeback) through the first half of May. Too lazy to post the graph, but look it up on SS if you don't believe me. My goal is at least 2k games in May, and I've got 1134 games under my belt so far this month.

At this point I'm playing the $12 turbos on FTP. I'm actually overrolled to move up to the $24s, but I've decided to continue grinding the $12s until June 1, barring an ugly downswing. So sorry to all you $12 regs, I'm gonna continue raping you on the bubble until June 1. :) I'll post some fun hands here for your enjoyment as well from time to time, and graphs at the end of each month.

I should also mention, if you want the top rakeback deals anywhere, you can also get them through me! Visit http://wasy.pokeraffiliatesolutions.com/ and create a new account. If you're a low-stakes grinder interested in playing on a new site, (one where you don't already have an account), and you are a proven winner in your games - talk to me and maybe we can work out a staking deal.