my 20$ tourney experiment

for the month of june i am sticking to 20$ tourneys, i will update this post with my progress every once in a while and let you guys know how its going. I made an excel spreadsheet with formulas so it does everthing for me,

this is as of midnite of the 5th, I've only played 4 hours of poker,really cutting back lately. after 3 days i was at 130$ us per hour, but just lost about 70$ so my stats went down a bit, If the other dude is doing the 20$ tourneys for this month wants to post his stats on this thread that would be cool too. get a couple different perspectives.

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updated sunday the 6th

DATE TIME STARTED TIME FINISHED ELAPSED TIME STARTING CASH ENDING CASH TOAL PROFIT NOTES
1-Jun 22:00 22:35 0:35 $404.00 $520.00 $116.00 placed 1st and 2nd
2-Jun 20:00 20:35 0:35 $520.00 $556.00 $36.00 placed 3rd and 3rd
3-Jun 17:15 17:50 0:35 $556.00 $572.00 $16.00 placed 10th and 2nd
4-Jun 13:45 14:20 0:35 $572.00 $588.00 $16.00 placed 6th and 2nd
4-Jun 16:45 17:20 0:35 $588.00 $544.00 -$44.00 placed 4th and 6th
4-Jun 17:35 18:05 0:30 $544.00 $500.00 -$44.00 placed 5th and 6th
5-Jun 22:30 23:05 0:35 $500.00 $516.00 $16.00 placed 2nd and 4th
6-Jun 16:50 17:25 0:35 $516.00 $481.00 -$35.00 placed 6th and 6th and (3rd in a 10$)
6-Jun 22:30 23:05 0:35 $481.00 $537.00 $56.00 placed 2nd and 3rd

Total Time played 5:10 Total profit $133.00

converted hours 5
converted minutes 10
total minutes 310
Rate/hour $25.74
Rate/hour in CAD$ $35.01

Hope it goes well fishstick, if you want me to post any of my stats from last month, feel free to ask. /pt ad In pker tracker, you can set up filters to analyse your play on the bubble or within the first 10-7 and heads up.

Dude, buy this program it will pay for itself, also the less hours you spend on Excel, the more time you play poker, the more you earn.

At those rates, within 2 weeks PT would have paid for itself, not including the leeks you can fix.

i'm at 7 $20 SNG's, 4 4th or 5th finishes, 1 1st and 2 2nds.

so up $68, running about $15/hour. (my lifetime, errrr, which goes all the back to april Smile

for $20 SNG's is about $18/hr)

happy with my play so far - the 4th and 5ths have been due to horrible cards (% flops seen in these games ~10%)

this is funny: yesterday's tourney down to 6 players, BB is 100
-knocked down to 150 by A6 all-in to my raise with AJs (he caught a 6 on the flop).
-clawed my way back up to 400.
-i'm the BB (BB now at 200) with j4 offsuit.
-i go all-in and get 4 callers.
-flop is rag 44 - yeah! Very Happy

-i come back and take 2nd place

i'll keep you guys posted.

good cards to both off you as well.

max - you'll love this:

last night, $20 SNG, the very first hand, i'm the BB with Q2d. 8 callers, i check, the flop is all diamonds T and under. so i bet 120 thinking everyone will fold, and i get not one but two all-in raises! Very Happy

so, i think, hmmm, i'm vulnerable to the A or K of diamonds, and one of the raisers probably has the A or K, BUT, if you had the nut or near nut flush, why go all-in (i didn't)??? hmmm, so i put both of them on a diamond each and call.

no more diamonds fall and i triple on the first hand! i was right, one had the A and the other had the J. interesting raises on their part.

so, i'm thinkin' i'll cruise into the money. NOT. we get down to 4, and the other three are solid players and we stay at 4 players for the next 25 minutes! the BB is up to 500 and threatening our stacks, we're all at ~2000 chips just stealing and trading chips back and forth, and no one's going out. i almost got bubbled a couple of times.

finally, i catch AA, smooth call someone's blind steal, get him all-in, and take him out. i take #3 out a few hands later, and now it's my 6000 chips to #2's 2000. i put him all-in every hand, and finally drain his chips, and take 1st! the win was certainly good for my june numbers.

it was so grueling, i think if we could have, the four us would have split the prize money.

hope it's going well with you.

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nice, i havent been doin so well, lately i seem to make the money regualrly but have trouble getting to 1st, i always go out when blinds get huge i go all in or call an all in and i am favorite but opponent catches something to take me out, so i keep tellin myslef, i had the advantage , eventually it'll go my way

DATE TIME STARTED TIME FINISHED ELAPSED TIME STARTING CASH ENDING CASH TOAL PROFIT NOTES
1-Jun 22:00 22:35 0:35 $404.00 $520.00 $116.00 placed 1st and 2nd
2-Jun 20:00 20:35 0:35 $520.00 $556.00 $36.00 placed 3rd and 3rd
3-Jun 17:15 17:50 0:35 $556.00 $572.00 $16.00 placed 10th and 2nd
4-Jun 13:45 14:20 0:35 $572.00 $588.00 $16.00 placed 6th and 2nd
4-Jun 16:45 17:20 0:35 $588.00 $544.00 -$44.00 placed 4th and 6th
4-Jun 17:35 18:05 0:30 $544.00 $500.00 -$44.00 placed 5th and 6th
5-Jun 22:30 23:05 0:35 $500.00 $516.00 $16.00 placed 2nd and 4th
6-Jun 16:50 17:25 0:35 $516.00 $481.00 -$35.00 placed 6th and 6th and (3rd in a 10$)
6-Jun 22:30 23:05 0:35 $481.00 $537.00 $56.00 placed 2nd and 3rd
7-Jun 21:50 22:25 0:35 $537.00 $553.00 $16.00 placed 2nd and 5th

Total Time played 5:45 Total profit $149.00

Rate/hour $25.91
Rate/hour in CAD$ $35.24

DATE TIME STARTED TIME FINISHED ELAPSED TIME STARTING CASH ENDING CASH TOAL PROFIT NOTES
1-Jun 22:00 22:35 0:35 $404.00 $520.00 $116.00 placed 1st and 2nd
2-Jun 20:00 20:35 0:35 $520.00 $556.00 $36.00 placed 3rd and 3rd
3-Jun 17:15 17:50 0:35 $556.00 $572.00 $16.00 placed 10th and 2nd
4-Jun 13:45 14:20 0:35 $572.00 $588.00 $16.00 placed 6th and 2nd
4-Jun 16:45 17:20 0:35 $588.00 $544.00 -$44.00 placed 4th and 6th
4-Jun 17:35 18:05 0:30 $544.00 $500.00 -$44.00 placed 5th and 6th
5-Jun 22:30 23:05 0:35 $500.00 $516.00 $16.00 placed 2nd and 4th
6-Jun 16:50 17:25 0:35 $516.00 $481.00 -$35.00 placed 6th and 6th and (3rd in a 10$)
6-Jun 22:30 23:05 0:35 $481.00 $537.00 $56.00 placed 2nd and 3rd
7-Jun 21:50 22:25 0:35 $537.00 $553.00 $16.00 placed 2nd and 5th
8-Jun 18:45 19:20 0:35 $553.00 $509.00 -$44.00 placed 4th and 4th
8-Jun 21:45 22:20 0:35 $509.00 $625.00 $116.00 placed 1st and 2nd
9-Jun 22:10 22:45 0:35 $625.00 $701.00 $76.00 placed 2nd and 2nd

Total Time played 7:30 Total profit $297.00

Rate/hour $39.60
Rate/hour in CAD$ $53.86

been a good month so far, add to this about 200$ profit so far at ring games over at Paradise, in about 5 hours play over there, afew lost multis, but i've played alot less poker, and its been alot more profitable than in the past, guess i must be getting better. thanks again FTR

So far you are doing phenominal!!!

These are your stats btw.

1st 2
2nd 9
3rd 3
4th 4
5th 2
6th 5

10th 1

Total 26
Avg Finish 3.7

Total Cost 572
Total Won 860
Profit 288

$$ per Tourney 11.08

ROI 50%

Keep up the good work!

Congrats man. Will be interesting to see how this holds up over a larger sample size.

thanks for the stats there toadsty, am i off with my profit calculation??, i see ours dont correspond. Yeah fnord i am hoping they hold up, we'll see by the end of the month, how it works out., i might then switch it up next month and try something else, 3 25$ ring games maybelike tanaka. anywyas i'll keep updating every few days

I've ignored the $10 tourney and calculated the prizes as $100 for 1st %60 for 2nd and $40 for third . . .

could be wrong i done this at work Razz

ahh i see, nah iots probly right with out the 10$ my caluclation include that

DATE TIME STARTED TIME FINISHED ELAPSED TIME STARTING CASH ENDING CASH TOAL PROFIT NOTES
1-Jun 22:00 22:35 0:35 $404.00 $520.00 $116.00 placed 1st and 2nd
2-Jun 20:00 20:35 0:35 $520.00 $556.00 $36.00 placed 3rd and 3rd
3-Jun 17:15 17:50 0:35 $556.00 $572.00 $16.00 placed 10th and 2nd
4-Jun 13:45 14:20 0:35 $572.00 $588.00 $16.00 placed 6th and 2nd
4-Jun 16:45 17:20 0:35 $588.00 $544.00 -$44.00 placed 4th and 6th
4-Jun 17:35 18:05 0:30 $544.00 $500.00 -$44.00 placed 5th and 6th
5-Jun 22:30 23:05 0:35 $500.00 $516.00 $16.00 placed 2nd and 4th
6-Jun 16:50 17:25 0:35 $516.00 $481.00 -$35.00 placed 6th and 6th and (3rd in a 10$)
6-Jun 22:30 23:05 0:35 $481.00 $537.00 $56.00 placed 2nd and 3rd
7-Jun 21:50 22:25 0:35 $537.00 $553.00 $16.00 placed 2nd and 5th
8-Jun 18:45 19:20 0:35 $553.00 $509.00 -$44.00 placed 4th and 4th
8-Jun 21:45 22:20 0:35 $509.00 $625.00 $116.00 placed 1st and 2nd
9-Jun 22:10 22:45 0:35 $625.00 $701.00 $76.00 placed 2nd and 2nd
10-Jun 21:45 22:45 1:00 $701.00 $668.00 -$33.00 placed 9th in 30 player 30 +3 multi
13-Jun 15:30 16:05 0:35 $668.00 $724.00 $56.00 placed 1st and 5th
13-Jun 20:00 20:35 0:35 $724.00 $680.00 -$44.00 placed 4th and 10th
13-Jun 22:15 22:50 0:35 $680.00 $736.00 $56.00 placed 4th and 1st

Total Time played 10:15 Total profit $332.00

converted hours 10
converted minutes 15
total minutes 615
Rate/hour $32.39
Rate/hour in CAD$ $44.05

Maxx, I dug up this thread because I started playing $10 SNGs at PP exclusively over the past couple weeks.. (I had been getting burned big time in the ring games and needed a break).

I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I've played about 30 SNGs and my profit is about $90, which averages out to about $3/tournament. If I can make it to 50 then I'll try to post my stats here if they're not too embarrasing.

Looking at your stats and per hour rate, I assume you would play two tournaments at the same time?

yeah 2 tourneys t a time i start them at the same time, gets a little intense when you get down to about 3 or 4 on both tables, but thats half the fun. good luck man i would love to see some other stats on this, i think september i will do the sng thing again, and i will post my result i am basically hoping to average 25$ canadian per hour playing 2 20 sngs
if i can do that i will be very very happy

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my avatars ass is better than your avatars ass , soo there Razz

Just thought I'd get in on the asstastic fun...

um, er, well...

Should I expect to be banned shortly?

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