January Report

Well, January overall was a pretty successful but eye-opening to my play and goals.  

Near the end of the month, I learned that my ROI(and hourly profit) would be better served by 6-tabling instead of 9-12.  I went from a 2% ROI at the time of switch to a 7% ROI by the end of the month.  So I'll be doing that from now on, however, it's going to cut into my volume.  I'd rather make more money/hr tho.

MTT's were terrible even tho I showed a profit.  Too many deep runs that were unsuccessful.  I did have the 3rd place finish in the $10r for ~$1100ish, and 6th in the $20k for $870ish, but I struck out in every Sunday major.  I do have a $250k seat locked up for next month though.

SNG's: 491 played, 7% ROI, $891 profit

MTT's: 91 played, 67% ROI, $1,468 profit

Also $387.62 in RB

Pace:

SNG's: 5,892 played, $10,692 profit

Those numbers should change once I move up to $50's and higher.  By Feb 15 I should be playing half $25's, half $50's.  I'm also now supplementing my DU play with $10 45-man SNG's on Tilt(along with my newlyfound 27% RB)  So far I've played 7 of them, won one, finished 2nd and 4th in others.  So that's going very well.  

2nd Week- '09

Well i went on a not so good 70 game downswing right after this blog... went 32-38 in 2 days.

The good news is I've done alot better since!  Went 52-24 in the $25's, played 2 $50's and split them...

I've found that playing these on Sunday is going to be really difficult, which cuts into my numbers quite a bit.  We may have to change some things around, haven't figured out what yet.

I got the new computer and set up the 22's which is exciting, alot more room to work with now both screen-wise and desk-wise.  I do get a draft from the window tho which kinda sucks, gotta fix that.

Sunday went pretty well, I won 2 tournaments ($3 Turbo and $30 NL, fields were only ~110 and 12 I think lol), and finished 2nd in the $12 Turbo.  Also cashed the $55 $10k, but didnt get anything but a min cash.  Missed cashing in the $50k by 30 spots or so, ran AK into Aces with 10bb, nothing I can do.

But my big "victory" was finishing 3rd in last night's $10r for $1150.  That was huge, I got out of makeup and made small profit, nothing crazy.  

After Week 2: 251 SNG's played, $608.64 profit, 6.14% ROI in $27's, 12.15% ROI in $53's (only 5 played)

Pace: 6526 SNG's played, $15,824.64 profit

As you can see, I'm well off pace... I'm also 70 SNG's off pace right now from where I expected to be.  If I can get back on pace, thats $5k I'm picking up in the profit column based on my current ROI.  Got work to do.  Good thing is I got some time to do it, session tomorrow night, and Sat Meg isn't coming til later, so I'll put a good morning/afternoon run in hopefully

First Week of '09

Well, not completely off to the start I wanted... I just haven't put the volume in yet.  I've played 101 DU's so far to the tune of a 6% ROI.  Given me $194 in profit, and another $70 or so in RB.  I'm off pace though, I should have 160 done by now.  I didn't play this Sunday though, and last night I only played 22(and had my best session so far this year, 17-5)

Recently, I think I was shoving too much.  I wasn't getting enough value from my big hands and I was getting crushed when I was behind by doing this, severely hindering my edge.  I got back to keeping it small last night, 2.5-3x raises with 10bb and min-raises very late to accumulate chips.

Another thing I was doing wrong was getting too involved late, esp. on the bubble.  I cut back a little bit on that too, and last night's results show a dramatic improvement (I was in the - for profit for the year before last night).  

Went deep in the $10r after a blistering run, I had 25k at the end of the rebuy period buying in for the minimum halfway through the hour, and 50k at the bubble.  I ran JJ into AK for a 120k pot, but it wasn't meant to be :(  Oh well, I played it very well.

Week 1: 101 SNG's, $263 profit, 6% ROI in $27's, 25% ROI in 53.5's (only 3 played)

Pace: 5,252 SNG's, $13,676 profit 

As you can see I'm obv well off pace, but makes sense.  ROI is 2% under my goal, and I played ~60 less SNG's then I wanted to.  I'll have to make them up somewhere (Saturday morning session prob, or an extended Fri session)  But I've seen by playing Sunday I can easily reach the numbers I set forth, which is good to know.