July Results

My July was actually only a half month long. I was out of town and did not begin playing until July 15th. I ran a mix of 6 player games all month. I started with $3 then played some $6. I made 7% and 4% ROI respectively. At the end of the month, i switched to 6 player non turbo tournaments. This seems to fit me better, and create less variance. Im looking to do more 6 player standard blinds for the month of August. I played at the local casino this morning. Im looking to play their tournaments every saturday hoping to cash enough to show a profit. The field was very weak, however i was suprised a bit by the new tournament structure. Now we start with 4000 instead of 2500 chips, and antes are introduced after 30 min. So i look for next week to be more prepared for that tournament. My profit was $256.10 and my hours were just over 64. Im looking at staying with $6 tournaments now that i have found my way on these 6 man tables. And of course increase my hours having the full month back. Hopefully good things are to come.
Good Luck Everyone!

DATE GAME P LEFT BLINDS MY POS. MYCARDS MY STK OPP STK MY ACT COR ACT RANGE
6/11/2010 1 5 100/200 SB Q10s 1305 PU775/2160 FOLD PUSH 22,A5,K10,Q10S

Im having a hardtime getting my spreadsheet as a post so forgive me. However, i wanted to show my speadsheet I am using with the SnG Wiz. It may help some of you with your extracting hand historys. My speadsheet covers the Date, Game Number, Players Left in Tourney, Blind, My Position to Act, My Cards, My Stack Size, Opponents Stack Size, My Action, Correct Action (according to SnG Wiz), and SnG Wiz Range of Hands for pushing. I try to fill out this sheet manually after each session. Of course the Wizard has some differences and certainly isnt the perfect ideal move for every decision. However, by doing this work on the side it allows me to print out a sheet and look at all hands in question and get a much better understanding about mistakes I have made in each session. Plus its also a punishment for all my stupid mistakes, im suprised about so many things ive done wrong and not really realized. I feel this sheet has maximized my SnG Wizard purchase. If you guys wish to try it, hopefully it will improve your game as much as mine.
Thanks
Tom

My SnG Wiz Spreadsheet

DATE GAME P LEFT BLINDS MY POS. MYCARDS MY STK OPP STK MY ACT
6/11/2010 1 5 100/200 SB Q10s 1305 PU775/2160 FOLD COR ACT RANGE
PUSH 22,A5,K10,Q10S

Im having a hardtime getting my spreadsheet as a post so forgive me. However, i wanted to show my speadsheet I am using with the SnG Wiz. It may help some of you with your extracting hand historys. My speadsheet covers the Date, Game Number, Players Left in Tourney, Blind, My Position to Act, My Cards, My Stack Size, Opponents Stack Size, My Action, Correct Action (according to SnG Wiz), and SnG Wiz Range of Hands for pushing. I try to fill out this sheet manually after each session. Of course the Wizard has some differences and certainly isnt the perfect ideal move for every decision. However, by doing this work on the side it allows me to print out a sheet and look at all hands in question and get a much better understanding about mistakes I have made in each session. Plus its also a punishment for all my stupid mistakes, im suprised about so many things ive done wrong and not really realized. I feel this sheet has maximized my SnG Wizard purchase. If you guys wish to try it, hopefully it will improve your game as much as mine.
Thanks
Tom

Week June 2nd-8th

Im going to start tracking from thursday to wednesday my weeks. Wednesday is usually my 1 day off from poker. I ended up playing 231 tournaments this week and 14hrs. Im looking to explain to 480 and 24 hrs next week. My ROI ended up being 14.6%, however today lost all my profits for the day at the end. Adding HEM was a great idea, still getting use to the program. Im looking forward to next week i really want to put in the hours and earn some money as i am looking to move very soon.

Quick Update: Solid Start

Only played 6 hours this weekend, but it was a solid start for a new game. I started with just 1 tournament and now have worked my way to 8 games at once. Im struggling a bit with having 3 or 4 tournaments headsup at the same time. I think in time will come to me better, and maybe i will add more tables. Also my headsup game i admit is a little off, mostly because of all the DoN's the last year and a half. I ended the weekend with a 54%ROI with only 40 tournaments. Its a good start, and something to build on. Im going to work on improving my heads up play, adding more tournaments and improving everything even more. Hopefully June will be very promising.
Good Luck to All!

DoN Project Over Next Game

After this months continuous struggles with DoN. I am ending the DoN project as have so many others. However, DoN's have helped me alot, for the first time it gave me a true bankroll. I am planning on returning to 6man turbo sit n gos. These tournaments I did previously at a 29%ROI. That was only 332 games so not a true ROI sample. However, at that time i was a 1 game at a time player. I will need to really be able to learn to play multiple tables at these smaller tables that require faster decisions. I believe I can accomplish this and return a solid ROI%. Plus these games will also allow me to return to the Battle of The Planets Leaderboards. Leaderboards allow me to put money aside and focus on earning pts, and the money plays itself out. I will for sure not bring back this high a return, however I am confident I can bring back solid profitable poker. Right now, that is exactly what I need.
Good Luck Everyone!

Turbo Mania

April was my second straight month struggling. But only with certain games, it didnt produce the results but did show some very obvious trends. First of all, i struggled big at non turbo tournaments, but i did have some solid success in 5.2T DoN, as well as some omaha success. For this month, im looking to build on this and already in 2 days a solid beginning. Im looking at massive amounts of 5.2T DoN's, and throw in some Omaha DoN's during the day on weekends when the traffic for that game is the highest. Its been a tough few months for me, but i feel this month will be much better. I am going to Vegas for a week this month, so that will take away from some of my hours, but the other 3 weeks im going to put in as much time as possible. Some good trends ive been able to key on. I minimize the table when im all in thus not to worry about it, and remind myself how i did the right play. Im also no longer recording my sessions by sets, rather just adding up my tournaments played and checking my email records later to see how many . Today ive played 60 tourneys and have no clue how much money ive won or lost. This is good for me, im prone to quitting after a bad set or stopping early if ive won enough for the day. This will keep my hours up this month.
Good Luck everyone