You've probably heard about the 10th anniversary of pokerstars. I think there are 3 events so far that they've come up with, but the one that I REALLY want to play, is the sunday 10M! $215 buy-in with $10,000,000 guaranteed. So I deposited $50 into pokerstars. I'm pretty much a 180-man turbo SNG player but if you've ever played those, you'd know that the swings are brutal. They are $2.50 to buy-in and there is a descent chance that you go broke with only 100 buy-ins in your bankroll. So I had a plan: play $1.50 ST SNGs. Every time I have $2.50 over the original $50, I'll buy-into a $2.50 180 man. Unfortunately the downswing started when on my first sessions
I'm now at something like $12 after 80 games.
But I have $40 on partypoker! ♦ Time to grind those NL2 tables. When I have $1K, I'm going to take it out and put it all in pokerstars to really start making $$$$ lol sorry PP.
Goals:
-Play 3000 hands a day (I really don't know how many hands I can play per day, but I can play full time so I'm guessing that this will be fine :P)
-Don't tilt
-Put some hands up
-Crush the fish! ♠_cool:
I wish you the very best of luck... however, I would recommend you stick to bankroll management. Prevents you going broke so that you can stark making some $$$$
Happy crushing those fish!
Thanks Zareos! Yea I'll keep to safe bankroll management. Except for tonight lol
First session went pretty good
NL2 full ring tables were going dry earlier than I expected. I was running pretty descent so I decided to take a crack at the NL4 6max tables. So I usually have more hands played in the time I played but not as many tables were available. It's only 9:17pm here... US payers really need to be able to play again lol
2228 hands
+$15.03/$EV: +$17.19
+$3.95/hour
New balance: $52.48 ♦ (I registered in a $2 MTT that is coming up in an hour)
Pretty good day
I was getting bored because I was only finding about 4-6 descent tables with fish. So I decided to get back on pokerstars and take another crack at those SNGs!
PS: 72 x $1.50 Fifty50 games = +$12.13 ♦ out of the downswing!!!
BR: $25.45
PP: 915 hands
$3.18/$EV: +3.44
BR: $52.38
Here are some hands that I thought were interesting enough to post
1.Hand converted with online PokerStrategy.com hand converter:
$0.02/$0.04 No-Limit Hold'em (5 handed)
Known players:
[tg]MP3 (Hero)$4.05:///////;CO$3.94:///////;BU$1.08:///////;SB$4.52:///////;BB$4.25:///////;[/tg]
Preflop: Hero is MP3 with J:h, J:s.
Hero raises to $0.16, 3 folds, BB calls $0.12.
Flop: ($0.34) K:s, J:c, 5:s (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $0.28, BB raises to $0.68, Hero raises to $1.56, BB raises to $4.09, Hero calls $2.33.
Turn: ($8.32) 9:c (2 players)
River: ($8.32) 7:d (2 players)
Final Pot: $8.32.
Call the 3B and see a turn?
2. Villain is 17/10/0.8 (VPIP/PFR/AGR)
Hand converted with online PokerStrategy.com hand converter:
$0.02/$0.04 No-Limit Hold'em (4 handed)
Known players:
[tg]SB$3.13:///////;BB$4.19:///////;CO (Hero)$4.30:///////;BU$3.93:///////;[/tg]
Preflop: Hero is CO with A:c, A:d.
Hero raises to $0.12, BU calls $0.12, 2 folds, BB folds.
Flop: ($0.3) 3:c, 2:d, K:c (2 players)
Hero bets $0.20, BU calls $0.20.
Turn: ($0.7) 3:d (2 players)
Hero bets $0.48, BU calls $0.48.
River: ($1.66) K:s (2 players)
Hero checks, BU bets $1.18, Hero folds, BU gets uncalled bet back.
Final Pot: $1.66.
I put him on a king at first, but I guess he could be doing this with an ace also. I just decided to wait for a better spot and fold this hand. Too nitty?
3. Villain is 25/9/1.8
Hand converted with online PokerStrategy.com hand converter:
$0.02/$0.04 No-Limit Hold'em (5 handed)
Known players:
[tg]MP3$4.00:///////;CO$5.93:///////;BU$8.32:///////;SB (Hero)$4.08:///////;BB$4.06:///////;[/tg]
Preflop: Hero is SB with 9:d, A:d.
MP3 folds, CO calls $0.04, BU folds, Hero raises to $0.20, BB folds, CO calls $0.16.
Flop: ($0.44) 2:s, Q:d, 9:s (2 players)
Hero bets $0.28, CO calls $0.28.
Turn: ($1) Q:h (2 players)
Hero bets $0.52, CO calls $0.52.
River: ($2.04) 4:c (2 players)
Hero bets $0.60, CO calls $0.60.
Final Pot: $3.24.
Betting is too little/too much?
I was going to add another goal (get 10SP every day from partypoker to get that extra $20), but I just had a very confident day at the SNG tables! This deserves a graph ![]()
*that drop at the beginning was the run bad first sessions*

These are $1.50 Fifty50s
BR = $54.18 + $10 deposit bonus (I receive every 170VPP) = $64.18
Partypoker BR = $52.91
I don't think I'll be using PP anymore. It just takes too much time to get to 100points only playing NL4. I might play a bunch of $6 SNGs and see what happens lol