Up and Down Week

So my bankroll is now floating around 380, but the week has caused it to fluctuate alot.

At first I was in the 100s due to playing in a cash game I should not have been in continuously chasing "money I had lost", which I realize should never be done. And I hope it was a lesson learned.

I then joined the Sunday Million being that I normally work during the weekends so it was rare to find myself able to participate in the event and wanted to play in a big tourny. I did alright placing 744th out of 8001, so I took a little profit home which basically brought me back to where I was a week ago.

After this fiasco of a week, I started looking up some articles on bankroll management, although I do follow pretty strict guidelines sometimes I break them here and there and realize the importance of that "sometimes" can have some serious affects. 

So hopefully, I stick to the plan although I have a feeling that there will probably be a next time, I mean we are all human and quite frankly, how many people have the bankroll to play, that play in the main event? So in that since I feel I am still ahead of most players. Let's just keep it in the most controlled sense as possible.

Broke Evenish

Well after a long day of playing, basically broke even with a lot of frustrating loses to 3 and 2 outers but well its all part of the game; as Tom McAvoy puts it:

"Your mission is to put yourself in a position to get very lucky"

and well more often or not in the positions, I would of made it so I'm happy with my overall play.

Played a little out of my bankroll, playing in some 180-man $12 turbos, which to me was fine because I think I didn't lose much there, probably would have made a lil profit if I didn't but the couple of time getting close to the top was very well worth it I believe.

As for the SNG Leader Board for last week, I ended up in 27th after a bunch of people all the sudden placed, but still don't mind taking the extra $30, pretty difficult getting on their in the first place so all is well. 

I'm set around $350 at the moment for the bankroll, still grinding grinding, and feeling very good.

SNG Leader Board?

Hey guys!

SNGs have been doing very well for me now that I have adjusted to playing at a little higher level. You can mainly find me nowadays at the 6.50 Turbo 9-man SNGs, and at this moment it time it looks like I will have 450 points for this week in the Venus division (Pokerstars SNG Promotion) placing me at 12th for leader board for a $40 bonus to my bankroll. I think that should be the final standing, I'm not sure if I need to play one more SNG or what but will update when I know.

My bankroll now is floating at $320. (Do those who don't know, I started with $8 on my pokerstars account and grinded up to this point with strict guidelines).

Also, you can kind of keep track of my progress here at:

http://www.pokerprolabs.com/thinkjc/pokerstars.aspx

However that only keeps track of MTTs, SNGs, and Heads-up matches, not any cash games I may randomly play in. *Also currently one of my favorite ranking sites to look at.

Thanks for dropping by!

11.19, updates updates updates

Hey guys,

Been a little bit since I last wrote. So I thought I would give a little update on everything poker related that involves me.

So in terms of my Bankroll, I managed to bump it to currently at $230, playing mainly any sort of $5 buy-ins from MTTs to SNGs and heads-up matches (with the occasional cash game buy-in)

At first SNGs were my main point of profit but I've been having a little trouble transitioning to the $5 buy-in turbo players, and just barely breaking even the last couple of outings.

However, my MTTs play has been doing very will with placing 197th out of 3195 in a $5 Rebuy and 79th out of 3186 in the $5 rebuy the next day(yesterday) taking in approx $65 and $93 respectively. So I have been happy with those, especially since the hands that busted me (or close to it) were hands were I started as the favorite, so nothing wrong with that.

Also from when I first started the blog, my Official Poker Ranking was approx in the 72nd precentile and I managed to bump into the 75.60th pecentile so thats nice too.

I started a Pocket Fives profile, mainly to read articles etc.

Well thats all I can think of for now.

Thanks!

1st in a 45 1$sit-and-go, 3rd in a 180 $2sit-and-go

Had a pretty good outing on two sit-and-goes I played at the same time. For the $2SNG; Sad, but the best way to get out of a tourny. In with the best and sucked out on (Last hand posted at the end of this posting).

This puts my "PokerStars" from scratch bankroll to $147. Feeling pretty good about it =)

PokerStars Game #22024611750: Tournament #120394290, $2.00+$0.20 Hold'em No Limit - Level XIX (3000/6000) - 2008/11/14 2:34:49 ET

Table '120394290 11' 9-max Seat #8 is the button
Seat 5: chabott (90001 in chips) 
Seat 6: thinkjc (38874 in chips) 
Seat 8: Mijojo1 (141125 in chips) 
chabott: posts the ante 600
thinkjc: posts the ante 600
Mijojo1: posts the ante 600
chabott: posts small blind 3000
thinkjc: posts big blind 6000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to thinkjc [Qs Qh]
Mijojo1: raises 6000 to 12000
chabott: folds 
thinkjc: raises 26274 to 38274 and is all-in
Mijojo1: calls 26274
chabott said, "at least is my first day with real moeny and im still here:P"
*** FLOP *** [Td Ad 6h]
*** TURN *** [Td Ad 6h] [4h]
*** RIVER *** [Td Ad 6h 4h] [9h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
thinkjc: shows [Qs Qh] (a pair of Queens)
Mijojo1: shows [6s Ah] (two pair, Aces and Sixes)
thinkjc said, "gg guys"
Mijojo1 collected 81348 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 81348 | Rake 0 
Board [Td Ad 6h 4h 9h]
Seat 5: chabott (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: thinkjc (big blind) showed [Qs Qh] and lost with a pair of Queens
Seat 8: Mijojo1 (button) showed [6s Ah] and won (81348) with two pair, Aces and Sixes

Full Tilt Omaha

I got rather deep in the Omaha Hi Pot Limit free roll. 140th out of 2700. Oh well, but just wanted to do a quick post/update and that its nice to try a different game every now and then =)

Humor at my Heads Up Matches

So I wanted to show a couple of examples of how anything is possible. FYI, both these hands happened in the same heads-up match within 5 minutes of each other. I still won the match but I was starting to believe that this guy just couldn't lose a race lol XD

HAND #1

PokerStars Game #21841724892: Tournament #119038709, $2.00+$0.20 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2008/11/07 17:34:35 ET
Table '119038709 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: thinkjc (2660 in chips) 
Seat 2: DODO1968 (340 in chips) 
DODO1968: posts small blind 10
thinkjc: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to thinkjc [Qs Ah]
DODO1968: calls 10
thinkjc: raises 1300 to 1320
DODO1968: calls 320 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (980) returned to thinkjc
*** FLOP *** [Qd 2h Qc]
*** TURN *** [Qd 2h Qc] [Kh]
*** RIVER *** [Qd 2h Qc Kh] [Ks]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
thinkjc: shows [Qs Ah] (a full house, Queens full of Kings)
DODO1968: shows [5s Kd] (a full house, Kings full of Queens)
DODO1968 collected 680 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 680 | Rake 0 
Board [Qd 2h Qc Kh Ks]
Seat 1: thinkjc (big blind) showed [Qs Ah] and lost with a full house, Queens full of Kings
Seat 2: DODO1968 (button) (small blind) showed [5s Kd] and won (680) with a full house, Kings full of Queens

HAND #2

PokerStars Game #21841765538: Tournament #119038709, $2.00+$0.20 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2008/11/07 17:36:05 ET
Table '119038709 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: thinkjc (2360 in chips) 
Seat 2: DODO1968 (640 in chips) 
thinkjc: posts small blind 10
DODO1968: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to thinkjc [6c Ad]
thinkjc: calls 10
DODO1968: raises 620 to 640 and is all-in
thinkjc: calls 620
*** FLOP *** [Qs Ah As]
*** TURN *** [Qs Ah As] [Td]
*** RIVER *** [Qs Ah As Td] [Jh]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
DODO1968: shows [7h Kc] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
thinkjc: shows [6c Ad] (three of a kind, Aces)
DODO1968 collected 1280 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1280 | Rake 0 
Board [Qs Ah As Td Jh]
Seat 1: thinkjc (button) (small blind) showed [6c Ad] and lost with three of a kind, Aces
Seat 2: DODO1968 (big blind) showed [7h Kc] and won (1280) with a straight, Ten to Ace