Just a quick update on the Christmas 2009 Full Tilt Poker Challenge. Did fairly well on the 5cent/10cent Ring Games today despite only getting an hour or two in.
Also played the Full Tilt Poker Daily Dollar. Came in 720th place out of 5200 people. It was fun but after 4 hours of play I only made $2.45 which is completely not worth it. I’m actually bored with SnG’s for the moment. I am going to focus mainly on Full Ring Games since thats where the real money is.
Just reporting in. I have been faithfully playing 5cent/10cent tables and not playing over my bankroll which was my downfall before. I have managed to climb back up from $40 dollars to a balance of $89.
$54.11 Up So Far
I attribute this steady climb too all of the studying I have been doing is actually starting to show in my play. My sessions are still relatively short for some reason but I am visiting my parents and they see poker as a gambling demon so I play in a really small window on my desktop over my email screen.
Heres a snapshot of my last 10 sessions and as you can see I am consistently posting a profit which is the goal of all wannabe/professional poker players such as myself.
Consistency Consistency...not a very exciting but good
I attribute this change to small ball + tight aggressive play. I will, of course, keep working at this strategy and studying as usual.
You Can See My "Profit" Bar JUST above the REDLINE
Also my score has increased a couple points:
Behold "Earnings" of $5...I can ALMOST get a Big Mac Meal
This Puts Me @ $97.43+ for the Christmas Challenge
This money was mainly made from playing single table at the 25cent/50cent level. I figured that playing FOUR 5cent/10cent tables = 40cent Rake per hand so if I simply play ONE 25cent/50cent table + stealing and bluffs I figure I will make more.
So far this has been proven correct as I made about $50 today with this strategy, AND unlike the previous time I made alot of money it wasn’t from sucking out and getting lucky.
Played for about 4 hours today. I kept playing .05cent/.10cent because I didn’t want to get cocky, play outside my bankroll and lose it all like kind of did before. So I just put on some Ustream Athene Poker and played for a number of hours.
I would have made 3x as much however I made a few loose call with low pocket pairs with BLATENT over cards on the FLOP that people OBVIOUSLY play.
I am still up but I learned I need to discipline my self more.
In other news my rating went up 6 points in one day.
Its 3am and I just finished playing about 2 hours of .05/.10 stakes poker. I played 4 tables at once. I personally like 4 tables for now at least, because I can still get a feel for the other players and incorporate blind steals as well as solid hand plays.
I did however deposit $30 into my account a few days ago so I could play 4 tables at once as I only had $5 in my account previously. Basically that means my current score is:
(Current Balance) – $35 = Winnings
So basically my score to date is: $31.01US
I believe I am in the lead so far but I haven’t talked to Dustin a few days so I I’m still not sure.
This is a video of me grinding out 4 whole tables and explaining a little bit about the Christmas 2009 challenge between DustinJanzen.com and EthanCainePoker.com.
I played a number of hours of poker and learned that I still make alot of mistakes. So far in the Christmas challenge between DustinJanzen.com I am +$1.63. I would be ahead $10 or so but I made a few common mistakes like:
Overvalueing Top Pair
Bluffing ON the river with NOTHING
Not FOLDing if MAJOR raise against me and I only have a marginal hand.
All in all a very informative day and I will work harder to fix my mistakes so they are not repeated next time.
