Sick PC you have ordered <3! Love reading your blog and not so much playing against you (have happend few times :P). I am @ $11 turbo STTs working my way up but most of my progress was caused of MTTs winings + bonuses + rakeback. Hope to not see you on my tables and will keep reading your blog with great interest. Keep the good work!
P.S. post CS addicted (many years ago) and WoW Shattered Halls Eu Horde Belf rogue + many many other! now awaiting for Diablo III 
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hi gramatikovBG,
Im happy people enjoy my blog. i try to make it interesting and informative at the same time whilst demonstrating the joys and frustrations of moving up the STT ladder 
Say Hi next time you see me in FTP.
ps. i was CS addicted about 10yrs ago when i was in highschool, then i moved to DoD/BF1942. then started WoW (big mistake) when MC/BWL were crazy hard to beat. I was a undead mage on an Oceanic server. I was very addicted for 2yrs which caused me to do very poorly at University. Finally I quit and eventually took up poker instead. Its much more profitable and just as fun (most of the time) ♦
I miss the 7hr 40man raids sometimes, but if i had a chance to go back i would have never started playing. sooooo addictive and badddd for you.
Ah, you young kids with your mysterious computing games. When I was a lad, a boomerang and a bag of candy was all that was needed to keep us occupied.
Grumble grumble...
*looks around with straining eyes for mislaid pipe and mouldy slippers*
February 2010 wrap-up
Well this month was the toughest month of poker i have ever had. it was extremely swingy with a lot of +-20 BI swings. I was happy with my play on the 12s up until a few days ago where i think i have been slipping into some bad habits. I ended the month horribly downing 30BIs in my last 250 games running about 15% under ev.
I am still quite proud that i managed to pull a BE month out of my horrid downswing at the 24s. I learnt a lot this month, had a lot of fun sweating with my friends Lennonac and Tim.
Unfortunately with uni going back ill have less time to contribute to poker but i hope with the arrival of my new computer soon and increasing my multi-tabling as a result i can still manage to put in enough volume to hang onto my iron man status. With this goal alone i hope to pull a nice profit for March.
Lets put the horrid month of February behind us and move on.
<3
Statistics
Games played: 897 (693x12$ / 194x24$)
Avg Buyin: $14.56
Length: 77hrs played
Average duration: 30min
Winnings: $65.20 + $293.20 rakeback = +$358.40
Rake: $1086
$/hr: $4.65
ROI: 0.5%
EV$ Adjusted ROI: 4.2%
February 2010 Graph
Review of February Goals!
- [ ] 1k games
- [ ] 5% EV ROI
- [x] maintain silver iron man
- [ ] become confident 10 tabling 24s
I am dead impressed you pulled yourself out of that hole mate, takes alot of guts and belief to do it
Wow, nasty downswing on the 24s, and nice 75 BI recovery!! I wish you good luck in March you deserve it 
Yeah, well done, mate - still waiting for my recovery...
p.s. think your February goals should be 'March' 
Catch you soon.
Tim
March Goals!
- [ ] reach IRON man (~700 games for the month)
- [ ] 8% EV ROI on the 12s
- [ ] become confident 16 tabling 12s
- [ ] make time for sweat partners every week
crazy month <3, good to see you got to the right place in the end. Best of luck with your goals for March, hope to do some sweats with some of you guys soon, although my stakes are lower so it might not be mutually beneficial ;-)
seeing as HEM has another 4hrs or so to import my hands ill post some pics of my upgraded set-up
(specs in previous post if you are interested)
really nice computer there. I was making similar grindbox also last month. I went the ati 3.2Ghz way with almost same psu and the 5850 wich is awesome by the way. Nice blog and good luck getting your goals in march
Originally posted by lessthanthreee
- [ ] reach IRON man (~700 games for the month)
- [ ] 8% EV ROI on the 12s
- [ ] become confident 16 tabling 12s
- [ ] make time for sweat partners every week
Hello, please explain what are the benefits of Iron Man status ?
Thanks and good luck with the goals
you get iron man medals depending on which level you reach and you can buy things from the iron man store (cash bonus etc...) the more months you get of iron man the quicker you get medals.
when you buy things with your medals you get the value deducted from net rake (reduced rakeback) but you are still gaining $ by saving up and buying bonuses with your medals.
its not as good as ps vip but when you combine it with 27% rakeback its little extra bonus.
i just use it as a benchmark for monthly volume goals
Originally posted by chuongdk
how do I know EV$ Adjusted ROI?? I use PT3 and can not see it at anywhere
i use HEM. PT3 doesnt have an EV line for sngs
after tweaking my pc a bit to get it the way i wanted i finally found time to start up a little set of 12 x 12s to see how it runs under a bit of a load.
and WOW!!!!! i love my new toy so much. zero lag, CPU only at about 20% load, running at about 40 degrees C (30C idle). super fast, super clean. got my multi-tabling set-up nicely.
my first 2 games i got busted with KK v AA and AK v AA and i was thinking "oh here we go again"...
but surprisingly the new table-layout ive configured has helped me to not get so tilty when i run bad. My layout is 8 games tiled with 2 under each position.
i was a bit flustered because my sister needed my help and i had to left the game and i was configuring some FT settings on the fly which meant i really didnt get to take my normal amount of notes. but after finishing the set i loaded up HEM and saw a nice 16BI upswing!!!
good to see my luck turning around, i hope i can put in a decent month volume wise now that i have everything set up the way i want. i hope my uni schedule allows me to meet my poker goals as well
<3
oh and with that last set my BR hit 4k for the first time ♦
lol @ being way over-rolled for the 12s.
want to try hurry up and get back in the variance-fest that is the 24s (as gross as that sounds)
Hey lessthanthree, I really enjoy ur blog! keep it up. Im currently 2-tabling 5.25s on FTP. I really like SnGs, although they really do have their swings.
Any advice for a fellow SnGer? (my BR is $304 atm).
All the best,
Joe Burrows