Just can't stay away from the game.
So after losing my job as a gold buyer I decided to start playing online poker again for the very last time. Deposited 95 dollars into Pokerstars today and started to play. Only difference this time around is, I am going to pay extremely close attention to my Bank roll management and not tilt. I will play daily until I can't play anymore. So today, I started to play some 1 dollar SnGs. Not a huge profit margin in that considering if I win a 6 man tournament, I only profit $3.65, however this means I won't go busto quickly with bad play and tilt play either.
I am also changing my game up a little bit and playing absolutely text-book poker, no more limping in with strong hands, no playing out of position, playing only premium 5 and we'll see how that goes. My goal right now, is very simple, 1 table 6 man Sit n Go's 1.50 dollar buy ins until my Bank-roll hits 150.00.
It's a long grind, it's boring, and the play is extremely soft, but I get to practice smart disciplined poker and making easier and better choices.
To make matters even better, while I have been by myself without support of friends and family in the past, I actually found someone who has taken the de-facto role of being my mentor and potential staker if I prove to him and to myself I have what it takes to crush SnGs online no matter the stakes.
He has been crushing ring games for a while now and a very profitable player so this bout of good
luck definitely benefits me as well.
Well this is just day 1 of my grind and since profit doesn't come easy, I wager the first week or so will be slow but I feel better, I feel better about my choices and I'm slowly noticing that I'm lasting deeper into tournaments and even winning a few of them with minimal effort. I still get the occasional suckout but it's not as rampant as before, namely because I'm not in as many hands.
Hopefully I can continue the grind and notice positive results and grind my way to higher stakes, but for today out of the games I've played these are my stats on an average for today.
I played in 1 Multi Table Tournament, finished 24th out of 90
I also played 27 Sit N Go's today, all at 1.50 buy in. For a Total Buy-in of 40.50
My average placement in the 27 Sit N Go's today was 2.81 and the Top 2 players get paid.
My total gross profit from the 27 games was 56.33
My net profit therefore is 15.83. Which means, every SnG I played, I made 0.59 cents.
Not huge numbers by any means, but it's a start, and we all have to start somewhere.
Bank roll to date 110.83
More poker tomorrow!
I am also changing my game up a little bit and playing absolutely text-book poker, no more limping in with strong hands, no playing out of position, playing only premium 5 and we'll see how that goes. My goal right now, is very simple, 1 table 6 man Sit n Go's 1.50 dollar buy ins until my Bank-roll hits 150.00.
It's a long grind, it's boring, and the play is extremely soft, but I get to practice smart disciplined poker and making easier and better choices.
To make matters even better, while I have been by myself without support of friends and family in the past, I actually found someone who has taken the de-facto role of being my mentor and potential staker if I prove to him and to myself I have what it takes to crush SnGs online no matter the stakes.
He has been crushing ring games for a while now and a very profitable player so this bout of good
luck definitely benefits me as well.
Well this is just day 1 of my grind and since profit doesn't come easy, I wager the first week or so will be slow but I feel better, I feel better about my choices and I'm slowly noticing that I'm lasting deeper into tournaments and even winning a few of them with minimal effort. I still get the occasional suckout but it's not as rampant as before, namely because I'm not in as many hands.
Hopefully I can continue the grind and notice positive results and grind my way to higher stakes, but for today out of the games I've played these are my stats on an average for today.
I played in 1 Multi Table Tournament, finished 24th out of 90
I also played 27 Sit N Go's today, all at 1.50 buy in. For a Total Buy-in of 40.50
My average placement in the 27 Sit N Go's today was 2.81 and the Top 2 players get paid.
My total gross profit from the 27 games was 56.33
My net profit therefore is 15.83. Which means, every SnG I played, I made 0.59 cents.
Not huge numbers by any means, but it's a start, and we all have to start somewhere.
Bank roll to date 110.83
More poker tomorrow!
posted by Patrick Lee at
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