Note: By pro, I mean that I play for a living, I am not claiming to be a pro level player, not even close 
Anyone who has read my thread in the "Successes" forum will already know this, but for the sake of clarity I will start with a small introduction.
My name is Semesa, I started playing poker on my 18th birthday, June 1st 2008, which is, incidentally, the date I signed up to pokerstrategy.
I spent the first year or so of my poker career short stacking on Ipoker and learning to play 10 man STT's. I never really got very far, and after moving my roll to stars in 2010 after a fairly extended break, I basically moved from game to game trying to find something that really appealed to me. I ended up around break even at all games ranging from HUSnG to 6max cash. I had a few nice wins in MTT's, but lost a lot of that trying to learn NL50HU and running 28BI below EV over 30k hands.
On May 21st I started a stake for 180man MTSnG's on pokerstars. I had no experience at these but was somewhat obsessive about improving, and as a result, went from $2.50's to $15's in about a month.
I started mixing in MTT's about a month ago with some good results. A 4th in the $11r 70k Guaranteed and a 1st in the $162 Nightly 40k Guaranteed has boosted my bankroll significantly. That being said, I'm still playing pretty much the same stakes/games that I always have.
In the first 2 months since I started the stake I have accumulated $35k profit. Of that, I kept around $22k.
This is my graph from May 21st to July 31st:
Unfortunately all is not roses in grindville. Since my first somewhat significant MTT cash, I've hit something of a downswing. Dropping roughly 4k in August so far. A giraffe for your viewing pleasure:
In this blog I intend to post updates daily, but I may forget from time to time.
I will post some interesting hands, explain why I made a specific shove or fold, and hopefully give you guys some insight into how 180's play while also keeping myself on track.
I've decided to remove MTT's for the most part and focus on 180's exclusively as I feel that my 180 game has suffered as a result of me playing too many different game types.
At the end of July, I was playing 30-35 tables, mixing turbo MTT's, regular speed MTT's, assorted 3x turbo satellites, rebuy 180 man's, and freezeout 180 man's. Each different game type requires a different strategy, and trying to keep up with so many probably caused me to miss a lot of spots that I would not otherwise have.
Anyways, thats all for now, I'm quite tired and I have a student in roughly 7 hours. Eat time, then sleep time. Will update tomorrow after my session.
