New Years Update

Hey guys, I've been ignoring this blog for a long, long time. I think my new year's resolution should be to update this goddamn blog a little more often. Lots has happened since my last update here - first and foremost, I quit SNGs in mid-late August in favor of cash games and I am extremely happy with my decision. I just felt like the profit ceiling for SNGs was really limited and the games were slowly dying off. It also allowed me to explore smaller sites (outside of the big two at FTP and stars) and attempt to put my postflop brain to use.

It took a bit of a learning curve, obviously, but this month I am crushing the 50nl games at Merge and Ipoker - including expected rakeback this month, I am up almost 2.5k so far. Pretty awesome start to 2011 imo. I expect to be a 100nl reg by the end of the month.

There are some really great (read:soft) rake races and chases going on at some of these sites this month if you get rakeback through me, so please contact me via skype (wasy80) if you want to go the route I've taken and start exploring some new sites. I'll be more than happy to accommodate you the best I can.

Cheers and may you all have a fun and profitable 2011.

No more chat

Don't wanna do a full update, but I'm letting everyone know that I've turned off chat from now forward. As much as I love chatting, it's really not good for my game and definitely better for me to have it off and focussing on my games.

Will do a larger update soon, I'm getting a coaching from Glitlr this week so hopefully he can plug some of my leaks!

Cheers and good luck all.

Taking the Weekend Off

So things haven't changed too much since my last update, still swinging hard. had a pretty awesome upswing and it looked like i was finally going to make my graph look better - and then stupid ridiculous downswing again. Ran like 1k below ev at the 36s in like 150 games, I just can't seem to run well at all at them. I gotta maintain my low leaderboard spot too at the 24s too, so I'll have to spend some more time there. I would like to cash in on the high limit leaderboard too so I'll get some games in in the second half of the month too. Oh and I'm now halfway through the challenge so far despite running like ass.

Anyways, I'm off to my buddy's cabin in Kenora for the weekend, will try to get some sun and maybe some fishing in. Getting away from the games for a couple days will be nice too.

Challenge Status:
5922 games
$5503 profit

Swongs to Start July

So July has definitely been interesting so far. I started on Canada Day with a pretty ugly $675 downswing at the $24s. $650 below EV. Thoroughly enjoyed it, obv. Decided I should probably return to the $12s to patch up my roll (even still being well over-rolled for the $24s) and regain some confidence. Ran at 40% over 118 games (luck adjusted 23%) at the $12s for $564, ldo. It's sick how much better I run at the $12s than I do the $24s lifetime. I actually found that some of the regs at the $12s adjusted better to me than $24 regs in the short time down there, which was pretty funny. Then ran much better when I returned to the $24s and patched up my redline to be even for the month - well like $5 below but effectively even. Cleared my mid-year bonus during this time for about $225, received my rakebackpros rake race bonus, and woke up to find my June low limit leaderboard bonus in my account this morning. Ship it, bonus whoring ftw. With rb/bonuses, I've already made more in July than I have in June. Cue the downswing for jinxing my rungood.

Challenge Status:
4910 games
$4846 profit

June Recap

What an awful month. Thanks god for rakeback. The whole month has been disgusting runbad. Gonna keep studying and reviewing to make sure im not making too many mistakes. I think I am shoving well and wiz seems to be agreeing with me as long as I am setting ranges right - which i think I'm pretty close. I mean wiz doesnt agree with me on everything, but it shouldn't for me to be playing my best. Not gonna give out too much strat talk tho since I know there are too many players at the 24s reading my blog lol. Put in sick volume the last two days to reach my monthly goal of 2k games and i did that with 2062 games played in June.

Anyways, $225 midyear bonus coming up, plus low limit LB bonus again, and I think i squeaked into the rakebackpros rake race for $50. Which is cool considering its probably the toughest rake race in the world. I'll find out in the morning whether or not I made it.

I have some yeoman's work to do in July to get back on pace for the challenge obv.

July Goals:
[ ] 2k games
[ ] 3k profit
[ ] update my blog more
[ ] stop chasing my goddamn redline and maybe run good?
[ ] post more hands in STTF

Challenge Status:
4462 games
$3803 profit

Cheers to all reading my blog, here's to a good July for all of us. Except deezel. Fuck you deezel.

New Laptop, Downswingaments, etc.

I'm getting lazy with the updating of this blog, so maybe if I update it more I'll run better. A lot has happened since the last update - I bought faarcyde's old backup laptop, it came here last week. As i've been working on a mac the whole time before this, I've never had any access to sngwiz, HEM, table ninja, and all those awesome tools. So now that I do have access to them I'm really excited about improving.

Unfortunately the poker hasn't been anywhere near up to par - been running absolutely awful for all of June. I won't post my EV graph, because I think the EV graph is extremely overrated based on the fact that it doesnt represent the number of times you make the correct play yet run into a monster. Which has more or less represented my month IMO - everytime i shove i seem to run into a monster. Not including rakeback, I'm $-285 in profit for the month over 1365 games. That also indicates that I haven't played anywhere near the volume I've wanted to.

I added a flag counter to my blog yesterday too. Really cool because instead of just a plain hit counter, I get to see all the countries that check out my blog. Fun stuff.

One additional note - I've started table selecting a lot more, marking everyone I come across based on their ROI. There are a lot of regs (I know several that read this blog, I won't call them out here though) that really need to start table selecting instead of just regging in every game in the lobby. Seeing games go off with like 6 winning players is just ridiculous. Plenty of fish for all of us to go around. Secondly, those players (calling out Deezel50 in particular) that berate fish in games need to get their head checked. Seriously, why would you want to discourage fish from playing in your games? I saw Deezel start talking shit to a fish about a hand that he (deezel) wasn't even involved in. WTF?

Anyways, to everyone else that reads my blog, feel free to say hi to me at the tables, I may not respond all the time because I'm scared to misclick with table ninja lol. But often I will respond anyways, just cause I can't help myself. :) gl everyone!

Challenge Status:
3764 games
$3458 profit

Gonna put in a big grind day today, stay out of my games regs!

Slow Start to June

So yeah, June hasn't been particularly fun yet....I haven't put in anywhere near the volume I wanted to, but that's mostly because ive been putting in some hours at a real job this week. The small-town grocery store I've worked at the last three summers asked me to fill in for someone who had to take the week off. Having only worked summers, someone replaced my regular shift and they didn't have regular work for me when I wanted it back this summer. Although its nice to see some of the regulars at the store lately, this week has definitely reminded me that I enjoy grinding SNGs much more.

I've still managed to put in 395 games so far, for a measly $271 (rakeback included) at the $24s. Thats pretty much all from today's work actually. Breakeven stretches blow, but its part of the sng grind. My last shift at the store is a short 4 hour shift tonight, so after that I should be able to put in the volume I want again again.

Oh and after a week FTP finally paid me my leaderboard bonus. so add the $121 to the sharkscope totals.

Challenge Status:
2794 games
$3239 profit