As some other blogs have been mentioning, the Chris Ferguson challenge is a great way to control your bankroll. I always seem to be able to get up to $700 or $800, only to head back towards $200/300 during a bad string. Now that I'm up to $780, I want to start employing these three rules taken from Chris' website
"I'll never buy into a cash game or a Sit & Go with more than 5 percent of my total bankroll (there is an exception for the lowest limits: I'm allowed to buy into any game with a buy-in of $2.50 or less).
I won't buy into a multi-table tournament for more than 2 percent of my total bankroll and I'm allowed to buy into any multi-table tournament that costs $1.
If at any time during a No-Limit or Pot-Limit cash-game session the money on the table represents more than 10 percent of my total bankroll, I must leave the game when the blinds reach me. "
So right now, I have $780 which limits me to putting no more than $39 into a SNG or cash table, and no more than $15.60 into a tournament. I was sticking to $6.50 turbo SNG's, but I made the jump last night and played two $16 turbo SNG's. I took third in one, which was devestating because I started 3-handed play with 9000 chips. Doubled both of the other players up on consecutive hands with pocket 10's and 9's. Lost to AQ and AJ each time. Downhill from there culminating with a walk in the big blind with K10. Flopped two pair, got all the money in against pocket queens and he hit one of his two outs on the river. We each had 5000 chips at the time and he won on the next hand. So I lost $3 on the night.
I have a home game tonight, hopefully I'll get to pad my stats there, and I'm hoping to play a ton this weekend since I have no navy reserve activities, or anything for that matter other than watching football.
Friday, September 28, 2007
Thursday, September 27, 2007
More SNG Madness
Got a chance to play a good bit of poker (for me) yesterday. 12 SNG's and two tournaments. The SNG's either ended very fast, or went far. No bubbling, but too many 5/6/8 places. I finished ITM 4 times (1, 1, 2, 3) for a huge $3 profit. Woot. I have a document that I'm working on to track everything, just trying to work out some of the kinks and work in a way to show the T$ and W$. I played in two tournaments which were utterly frustrating.
Played in a $2 rebuy sattellite to an $88 sattellite. Down to 14 with 13 geting the seat and 14th getting $14. I'm in for $10 after an initial rebuy, a double rebuy after busting and the add-on. Both myself and another super short stack (think 1500 chips with 600/1200 blinds and an ante) are all in. I was forced in as the big blind already, the other shorty is all in and three others have called and check down. I've got shit, and don't improve. I have to hope that the other short stack busts too, because I had him outchipped starting the hand. Board is AKJ25, with a flush possible. Shorty has Q10 for broadway and I get $14.
Next tourney I play is $8.80 Omaha Hi/Lo. I was running really well in this one, and we are already in the second tier of payouts down to 17 players. Next bump is at the final table. I raise on the button with KK23 and the BB calling station (has been for hours) calls. Flop is 555 and he checks, I bet and he calls. Turn is a 4. I bet all in and he calls with AA96. River is a 9 making it a Hi hand only and he takes it. Very frustrating. After the hand he had 40K with 600/1200 blinds, and plenty of room to with a lot of mid/shorties still out there. $13.66 profit for my troubles. I like that I've gone deep in a ton of tournaments, but I'd like to step it up to go deep more often, rather than take that initial weak payout. Of course, I shouldn't be complaining too much with the HORSE win and all. Good luck at the tables everyone.
Played in a $2 rebuy sattellite to an $88 sattellite. Down to 14 with 13 geting the seat and 14th getting $14. I'm in for $10 after an initial rebuy, a double rebuy after busting and the add-on. Both myself and another super short stack (think 1500 chips with 600/1200 blinds and an ante) are all in. I was forced in as the big blind already, the other shorty is all in and three others have called and check down. I've got shit, and don't improve. I have to hope that the other short stack busts too, because I had him outchipped starting the hand. Board is AKJ25, with a flush possible. Shorty has Q10 for broadway and I get $14.
Next tourney I play is $8.80 Omaha Hi/Lo. I was running really well in this one, and we are already in the second tier of payouts down to 17 players. Next bump is at the final table. I raise on the button with KK23 and the BB calling station (has been for hours) calls. Flop is 555 and he checks, I bet and he calls. Turn is a 4. I bet all in and he calls with AA96. River is a 9 making it a Hi hand only and he takes it. Very frustrating. After the hand he had 40K with 600/1200 blinds, and plenty of room to with a lot of mid/shorties still out there. $13.66 profit for my troubles. I like that I've gone deep in a ton of tournaments, but I'd like to step it up to go deep more often, rather than take that initial weak payout. Of course, I shouldn't be complaining too much with the HORSE win and all. Good luck at the tables everyone.
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
SNG's
I took some time to play 5 SNG's two nights ago and started out with a 7th place finish. I picked it up after that and finished 3rd, 2nd, 2nd, 1st. I'm trying to create an excel doc now where I can track my results, when I finish it, I'll post it and keep some of these mundane updates to myself :) In other news, I served as an election judge yesterday. It ended up being a boring election, as there were two commissioner chairs open, and only two people signed up. That, as opposed to last year when two seats were open and 7 people were involved. I still didn't get home until after 10. Not fun.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Great Weekend So Far
Friday was a great day for poker. The day started pretty uneventful playing a couple of heads up SNG's. I won two and lost two and wasn't really into it. I played some $.25/.50 limit holdem, but that was not what I wanted to do either. I decided to do a couple of sattelites and tournaments. I settled on a $22 9-person SNG to the $100K that evening and played .25/.50 in the background. I had a massive suckout early against two players all in, which gave me a huge chiplead. I ended up dominating the final table until we were heads up. Second place was $30 bucks, so I wasn't looking to place in this one. I ended up taking it down when he jammed J9 into my AK and it held up. The tournament wasn't until 9, (it was around noon) so I decided to take the T$ and play some other tourneys later on.
I started a $10 HORSE tournament around 630 and a rebuy satellite to the 50/50 at 7. In the 50/50 after the initial rebuy, I had to double rebuy with about 5 minutes left after running AK into AQ when the board ran out AKQQ9. Rough, but I managed to double up before the break to around 8000 and doubled again shortly after the break when I flopped the nut flush and was paid off by a donkey big stack. I love when those guys forget they can't rebuy anymore and still play the same. They paid out 40 places and with 60 people left I had the chiplead. I took it easy for a bit and picked my spots to keep my stack healthy. When we hit 40, and the tourney ended, I was in 5th in chips, very happy with my play. Because I had to get up early the next morning, I decided to take the T$ from that as well.
At the same time, the HORSE tournament was going well. I stayed in the top 15 in chips the whole time, never having a big stack, but never in danger. There were 200 to start, and 24 paid. On the bubble, I lost a big pot in stud, but that only dropped me to 10th place from 3rd. Stud is by far my worst game. Limit hold'em is where I try to play my A game, I tend to crush the Omaha round, and barring a shitload of bricks, I am solid at Razz. Both of the stud games elude me though. I just find it hard to push people out of pots from drawing to two pair. I try to play tight, but to no avail. I ended up winning a couple nice pots in stud, but lost far more than I would have liked to even played.
When we got to the final table, I had 40K in chips and the chip leader had 100K. After knocking out a couple of the shorties we were 4 handed. 4th place was $160, 3rd was 200, 2nd was $350 and 1st was $525. I was the short stack at 100K with 8K/16K blinds. The hand the changed everything, I was dueling with the chipleader villain. He raised UTG, and I called from the SB with 88, BB called as well. Flop was 8AA. I led out, BB called, UTG raised and I reraised. BB called, UTG called. Turn was a 2 and we all got all of our money in. The BB had about 50K more than me, and the chipleader had 150K more. BB had A4 and UTG had AK. River was another 8 to seal the deal. I ended up having a monster stack at that point and was able to run the table over in the Holdem and Omaha parts. After getting rid of 3rd and 4th place, the former chipleader and I went to battle. I had a 6-1 chiplead and we got all in soon after starting heads up in the omaha section. I had A234 v. KKJQ. The board came out K3456 to give me the win and over $500. I ended up playing a hundred or so hands of limit poker during this time and won $6 the first session and $16 the second. I haven't been able to play since then, so I am itching for some more tonight. I have $180 T$ so I'll probably do a few tournaments with some cash mixed in and see if I can keep on my heater.
I started a $10 HORSE tournament around 630 and a rebuy satellite to the 50/50 at 7. In the 50/50 after the initial rebuy, I had to double rebuy with about 5 minutes left after running AK into AQ when the board ran out AKQQ9. Rough, but I managed to double up before the break to around 8000 and doubled again shortly after the break when I flopped the nut flush and was paid off by a donkey big stack. I love when those guys forget they can't rebuy anymore and still play the same. They paid out 40 places and with 60 people left I had the chiplead. I took it easy for a bit and picked my spots to keep my stack healthy. When we hit 40, and the tourney ended, I was in 5th in chips, very happy with my play. Because I had to get up early the next morning, I decided to take the T$ from that as well.
At the same time, the HORSE tournament was going well. I stayed in the top 15 in chips the whole time, never having a big stack, but never in danger. There were 200 to start, and 24 paid. On the bubble, I lost a big pot in stud, but that only dropped me to 10th place from 3rd. Stud is by far my worst game. Limit hold'em is where I try to play my A game, I tend to crush the Omaha round, and barring a shitload of bricks, I am solid at Razz. Both of the stud games elude me though. I just find it hard to push people out of pots from drawing to two pair. I try to play tight, but to no avail. I ended up winning a couple nice pots in stud, but lost far more than I would have liked to even played.
When we got to the final table, I had 40K in chips and the chip leader had 100K. After knocking out a couple of the shorties we were 4 handed. 4th place was $160, 3rd was 200, 2nd was $350 and 1st was $525. I was the short stack at 100K with 8K/16K blinds. The hand the changed everything, I was dueling with the chipleader villain. He raised UTG, and I called from the SB with 88, BB called as well. Flop was 8AA. I led out, BB called, UTG raised and I reraised. BB called, UTG called. Turn was a 2 and we all got all of our money in. The BB had about 50K more than me, and the chipleader had 150K more. BB had A4 and UTG had AK. River was another 8 to seal the deal. I ended up having a monster stack at that point and was able to run the table over in the Holdem and Omaha parts. After getting rid of 3rd and 4th place, the former chipleader and I went to battle. I had a 6-1 chiplead and we got all in soon after starting heads up in the omaha section. I had A234 v. KKJQ. The board came out K3456 to give me the win and over $500. I ended up playing a hundred or so hands of limit poker during this time and won $6 the first session and $16 the second. I haven't been able to play since then, so I am itching for some more tonight. I have $180 T$ so I'll probably do a few tournaments with some cash mixed in and see if I can keep on my heater.
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