Fish on a heater - How to spew money across 24 tables.

Good luck Jônatas with poker, academics and partying hard!

Originally posted by Ramble
Good luck Jônatas with poker, academics and partying hard!

Thank you sir. So far it has been going great in that manner.

So a little update on how far things have been going, in the poker area. Increasing in small amounts the volume of tables I've been playing at the same time in order to get used to the format. — I'm aware of the variance of it, but thought this was the best strategy instead of just jumping directly into max volume.

I can say that the blog title is working at this moment. I'm not sure what to expect on the ROI for this format as I haven't looked too much into that detail, did watch a bunch of videos from Strategy — not only on hypers exclusively — but so far been into an ~15% for a minor sample of about 188 tournaments. Although my heads-up has been very good so far, — doing 24%/13% of finishes — I've found a few spots I should improve ICM wise, so I'll be working on that during this week.

Let's see if the heat goes up, and feel free to ask anything you would like, whether it is poker related or not.

Thanks for your time.

I've updated the first post; included a little bit more about myself; set what are the starting goals of my blog, and added an awesome link to marvelous beaches and girls in bikini.

Thanks for your time.

Yey nathan is back

6m hyper turbos... Oh yey. Hold on to your hat!!!

Def following!! Do you still use skype? If so hit me up, would be nice chatting with you again

Originally posted by vonki
Yey nathan is back

6m hyper turbos... Oh yey. Hold on to your hat!!!

Def following!! Do you still use skype? If so hit me up, would be nice chatting with you again Yea they are a thrill, making a good enough volume of VPPs that will surely put me on Goldstar, so yea, that's nice I guess.

I still have you there, but on a Mac Skype is pretty bad, so I'm only using WhatsApp and FaceTime to talk to people these days, I'll PM you with my mobile number so you can get in touch.

As for a short update, I'm so far with a total of 300 games so far, and by the end of the day over here, — In about 9 hours — will update with how it's going in terms of everything else.

Thanks for you time everyone.

Improved a little on the volume today, and started playing 5 tables. Will probably finish the goal of doing 6 at the same time comfortably tomorrow. So, time to rethink my goals, and update them tomorrow, will ponder adding up to 9, because It's becoming even more obvious than I've predicted, that variance will be big in these, — although no big swings so far, with +-12 buy-ins — which I'm okay with it.

Found some big grinders in the $1.50 games, and scoped their ROI at around 5%, and even though the sample is still small, because I feel it's time already to post some results here they are:
- Total tournaments: 346
- ROI: 11.27%

Thanks for your time people.

Just read your updated intro and have to say that I am very impressed with your range - from romance novels to B.Sc. (Info Sys) to now Civil Engineering... it's an interesting journey your on. I look forward to reading more.

So I'm leaving hypers, for a simple reason: I can't cope with that high of a volume in order to turn a decent profit over time invested. As said I wanted to make some extra money and everything. This week went ok, after 1,8k games my ROI was almost stuck at around 8%, making that number since I reached 1,1k.

It was a good week since I've started the blog, and I know that we need to play what you enjoy the most. Had a lot of fun playing around with ICM at the SNG Wizard (good scores too), and it was a pretty decent week profit wise, a little above $200 after just six days. But it is mentally exhausting multitabling SNGs, it came at some moments I had around 7 or 8 HU at the same time, and although I'm comfortable with my knowledge of NASH ranges, — good enough for micros I'd say — there were times I just had the feeling of spewing chips around and it stopped being fun.

Until around 8 tables it was still fun, but SNGs — especially hypers — are all about the high volume, and I just can't do that for a long period of time, as a challenge, yea I'm fine, do it for a little while. But as my primary form of poker? No. Can't enjoy it that much, will have much more blast on the other form of poker.

So I'm proud to say I'll be back at cash games, which I know and love. Can't decide thought if short-handed will be a good thing on the micro limits, but if I choose full-ring, high volume will definitely be a must, and at cash games I can cope with high multitabling. Will take the weekend off so I can decide more on that, and experiment on what PokerStars has to offer, also will try play a little bit at PKR, to get some strategy points and unlock some articles and videos here at PokerStrategy.

Current Goals
- Get outside
- Have a blast and party with my friends
- Write some novels
- Play at PKR for points
- Decide whether to grind SH vs. FR

Here is a Gorilla doing a high five to a Shark in the air with explosions to compensate your time:

Thanks for your time people.

Originally posted by nathanrenard

Pretty awesome graphic -- Enjoy your weekend!

With the sunday coming to a close here are the progress of my weekend goals and set up, will keep the post simple because there are so many things to still do and the day is almost over.

Weekend Goals
- Get outside - I did, ran 22k on Saturday.
Did an awesome run towards one of the many beaches we've got around here, on my way back I got blessed by the most brutal summer rain ever, and almost slipped on my way back home, but did survived.

- Have a blast and party with my friends - Dear god what to tell about my Friday?
There are no words to express how brutally fun was Friday night. Went out with a friend I've never been to a nightclub before, so didn't knew how it was going to be. Safe to say both of us got lucky, and the music was awesome to dance along, which is pretty rare from this particular place we went. Ended up having the most weird three-way conversation ever, and met a friend who I didn't knew was back at town after a period abroad.

What still bums me though is the immense number of people using their smartphones at the club, it gets so annoying that makes me wonder if people forgot how to be alone at the first place?

- Write some novels - Some good things coming to my main blog
Did some four short stories, and finished two chapters from my future book. Hopefully it will be done by mid-February, as I want to see how the story will end.

- Play at PKR for points - Didn't do it
Just formated my computer this weekend for a fresh install on everything, bought Hold'em Manager, — was using PokerTracker for my entire life — reinstalled PokerStars, and everything. And now basically my computer has only two purposes Poker and Writing, so it's clean as a whistle and running perfectly for my next grinding experience.

- Decide whether to grind SH vs. FR - Full ring it is.
After a time considering, I've topped to play 24 tables, because I can simple as that. I know it will take some adjustments in order to not waste that much money, but I enjoy the action it gives me when I used to did this. So for that, at least for now I won't play shorthanded, because I'm pretty sure I would be bleeding a lot of money in non-optimal play that comes with not getting used to it.

As far as decision making goes, I'm pretty comfortable with, my last work had me involved watching and monitoring a lot of servers, having to make around 35 to 40 decisions per minute. If you can't imagine what that looked like, just picture Tank looking at the matrix screen:

Kinda like this.

So here at my set of goals until the end of the month, hopefully I'll not die trying to achieve them.

Current Goals for January
- Play at least 8k hands daily at NL2.
- Everyday review at least 10 hands from forums and/or my own.
- Reread King Lear from Shakespeare.
- Do a 30k run.
- Invite some friends to a barbecue at my home.

And this was supposed to be a simple post. Well, as usual, thanks for your time.