Operation Double-the-Fun

Well, I completed Operation Break Evens (successfully!), right on time. Then promptly hit a downswing. BR is now just over $3500.

For my next goal, I'm shooting to double that by the end of the year. I definitely want to finish with over $5k, but over $7k sounds significantly nicer Smile

. It's a bit ambitious, since I don't get as much playing time in as I'd like, but if I can hit a couple of $1k+ months between now and then, it'll be nearly in the bag (and since I've made my move to SnGs, I've already had one such month; almost went two for two before the swing).

SGNs are the way to do it!

Good luck. You have 3 months!

Thanks! But... 8-31-05 to 12-31-05 != 3 months 4 months to do it in.

Sept Oct Nov DOH!

Exactly opposite my expectations, I've been hella busy lately. Hopefully, that will calm down a bit soon (I'm expecting so).

Anyway, my play has been a bit less frequent than normal. Still, up to $3630 now. Playing another small stakes home game tonight, so hopefully that'll get up to $3650 or so (and either way, expect some pics of the poker table I BUILT soon).

My table: http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18870

I've been having a run of 3rd place finishes. Not something I could complain about much, since I was consistently hitting the money, but not quite what I'd like to be seeing. Just as I'm making this consideration, I take first (and apparently played well enough to have the 2nd place player scared when it got to heads up - he asked to chop 3 times, once even while he had the chip lead!).

So things are going pretty well. I'm currently at $3872, showing $372 progress toward the goal.

Hello there, Jeffrey! I see you are doing pretty well. Although, I just want to tell you, I´m still ahead! Smile

I reached my goal of hitting $5000 today. I´m very glad!

See you around,
Wag

Had a great day today. 4 SnGs (2 $55s and...2 $109s). Moneyed three of them. Won two of them outright. Played some of the most aggro poker I've played in the two I won - once it was three-handed I was eating the table alive in the $55; and it didn't hurt that I was getting slapped in the face with cards. In the $109 that I won, I had to stay very aggressive to stick around, but the fact that there was one big stack and several small stacks ended up helping me make it ITM. Once we were there, another short stack (with only 500 chips) went out on a nothing hand, and I was HU with 1.7k v 11k. I pwned him. After 20 mins, he asked to chop. I agreed initially, thinking "wow, $360." Then I thought about how badly he'd been playing HU. Told him I changed my mind. Then I continued pwning him (he started playing push-fold poker, which was easy as hell to beat). The $450 I got for first made me happy I turned down the $360 chop Smile

Yeah, I know I haven´t been around much lately. That is mainly because I´m writing a diary/blog/whatever similar to this one in a swedish poker forum.

I have been playing fixed limit the last months, and now trying out 3/6 6max (at Empire mostly).

Having a good run moving up to the 109s. Up to almost $4.7k. Way ahead of schedule, and looking at what may be my most profitable month thus far.

Rounding out the month with $5.5k. I'm on an insanely good streak, something close to 19/20 ITM, evenly spread between 1, 2, and 3. This month was by far my most profitable. $2k this month. My next closest was $1.1k last summer, and even then a few hundred of it was from bonuses.

I'm going to start mixing in MTTs when I have enough time to commit.

Streak over. 2 OTM before taking home a first today. Final count 16/17 in a row.

Earned some Bonus money as well as the little bit of profit from the SnGs. Up to $5673.

Bad run this weekend (possibly related to moving toward multitabling? Still not great at dividing my focus). Dropped to $5.2k. Went back to single tabling and won a $109 to bring me back up to the $5.5k mark.

Hey jeffrey!

Out of interest how many hours are you getting in a week on average?

I know you're a student, Ive just graduated myself and now im in full time work its quite depressing how much of a chunk of poker it uses up.. tho i need to work to pay the bills so i can leave my poker BR without havin to cashout. I'd managed to profit~3K 5tabling .1/.2 over 4-5 months but had to spend it all on bills due to being jobless!!! So ive just started over again with a $175 BR (back to square 1 meh!) Im hoping to get 20+ hrs in a week (ontop of my 38hr a week job) and can't wait to hit $1500 TRUE br that doesnt need to be cashed out so i can move to .25/.5 (hopefully in the new year)

Out of interest why did you move from cash over to SnGs when you were profiting at cash... and what stakes cash where you playing at? Maybe you moved to SnG instead of changing to playing cash with a full buy-in?

Keep it up Cool

Hey Sink,
Thanks for the comments, and good luck to you.

I think that multi-tabling is going to be key to my long term profitability (as I'm starting to reach stakes where finding a game can be iffy). If I want to stick to SnGs and continue to increase my winnings, learning to multitable while playing at least nearly as well as I single-table is a must. To that end, I've temporarily dropped down to the $22s while multi-tabling.

I've made some profit since last weekend - back up to about $5.6k. I'm thinking I just may be able to hit my goal a month (or more) early, if things don't slow me down too much.

Still two-tabling the $22s. I'm going to keep this up 'til I have a solid 50% ITM. (Currently I'm in the 35% range). Then I move to three-tabling. Do that 'til I see the same. Then I'll move up and two-table $55s or something.

I had a couple of sessions in which I won both tables, so that helped. I've also suffered from the bubble-bad-beat a couple more times (the latest was when the big stack in the BB decided to try to buy me off his blind - I had AK and he'd been pushing over half the raises that came by him; naturally I called. He turned over 56s, I flopped my A, and he runner runnered his flush).

Up to a tad over $5700 now. At times it's annoying basically breaking even practicing on lower stakes, but in the long run, I'm sure my game will be better for it.

Up to 40% overall ITM, with 52% on my last 25. I may be adding a third table sometime this next week.

Limited play recently due to tons of stuff going on at school and losing the hard drive on my laptop. The results of the few games I have played have been decent, and I'm going to start working on three-tabling the 22s.

I'm going to be following a defined schedule if possible, giving myself specific time to play at least 4 days a week (for 4 hours each day; although one of those sessions will be a micro-stakes home game). Hopefully things will go well once I start that.

I noticed that Bodog handles their bonuses differently than I thought. That boosted my BR a bit (as I'd deducted some for losses I had when I played previously and infact that had all come out of Bonus $$$).

Assuming nothing unforseen comes up, I will break $6k this week.

Something unforseen happened: bad beats for all or most of my stack in 8 of my last 13 SnGs. Something else unforseen happened: I allowed myself to lose focus/become less discplined for a stretch of 10 or so SnGs (all OTMs). Even after clearing a Bonus and toasting a $55 I'm still down to $5860. I'm currently only 36% ITM for my run at three-tabling. Since most of those were 3rds (beats, as above) I'm showing a decently hefty -ROI right now.

Limited play, due to school and holiday travel. I'm currently running around 38% ITM for my three-tabling of the $22s. Sitting at $5973 BR. Should get a decent amount of play in through the end of the week.

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