santostr poker log – $24/$36 SnGs – Page 4

_Anonymous_ · 2011-04-07T13:58:15Z

It's about time to start a blog. I like to interact with the comunity and read quite a few blogs here. Personal stuff: I'm a 24 years old from Brazil and I have a decent 8h/day J-O-B. I have a 6 year relationship with a girl from a diferent city (200km away). Pre-Poker history: In my past job we started playing a weird form of poker once a week, just for fun (it was like $1 buy in). A silly game: pretty much texas holdem, but with antes, no blinds and no pre-flop betting round. After all, you make your hand on the flop, right? :f_eek: We did make one game with pre-flop betting round. I was kicking ass, but the boss wasn't and didn't like it so we switched back. Then in my new job, about 18 months ago, we startet playing home games, still just for fun (but now real NLHE) and I started playing on pokerstars with playmoney. Poker was a fun gambling thing for me, just that. I had no idea one could make serious money from poker long term. So one of my friends introduced me do PS.com and I was a bit skeptical, but as it was free money I gave it a try, got my 50 bucks on FT. Poker history: So I starded playing $1 SnGs, the Daily Dollar and other MTTs, some 2/5 CG, pretty much a bit of everything in NLHE. Was building my bankroll slowly and started focusing on MTTs. Then BOOM: I nail an early double for 1.4k. That was pretty awesome. So I kept on playing MTTs with no real results, losing a little bit of my new BR. So I started to look for something where I could make some money every month. I knew playing like 8 MTTs a day wouldn't do much. CG weren't realy my thing, I got bored very quickly. Then, after reading <3's blog and how good he was doing I decided to go with SnGs. SnGs history: So I started with the $6.5 turbos. I was rolled for the $12, but decided to learn a bit first. Ran pretty good. So I moved up to the $12 and lost a bit, but was confident on my game and kept grinding, tryin new layouts. Got SnG Wiz, witch helped a lot. Learned what a downswing is, whined a lot about it, including on the forums. But eventualy, it passed. So another heater came and I was sitting with about $2k, but wasn't confident to move up yet. ATM I liked playing tiled, but that was hard on a 15' laptop screen, so I cashed out $600 to buy a 22' monitor (yea, Brazil, the thing costed me like $500). So I was realy confident I could beat the $12 by a good margin, kept grinding until I got a 2.5k BR to move up. The $24s hitted me in da face :f_cry:. No big deal standart variance, running a good amount < EV. So I got back at the $12 to regain confidence (and BR), and after the next heater, moved up again. This time the $24s were nice to me and I moved quickly to something close to 3K BR. I was concernd with my volume since it was very hard to table select the $24s. So I decided to take a shot and mix up some $36s to fill my set. I figured if my avg BI was inside my 100 BI BRM it would be ok. I could always move down (I hope I would). But the $36s loved me and I started with a heater. Now: So now here I am, with a confortable BR to the $24/$36. I am a low volume player. It's hard to get 500 games in a month. I still play the live game with my coworkers every monday (we have a ranking system, going for a medal this semester &spades;_cool: ). I see my gf every weekend: no poker. So basicly a play 3 days a week. Sometimes I play Sundays, sometimes I manage to play on fridays, but that's it. Enouth here. Goals, graphs, doubts and other stuff to come.

Tim64

Joined: 03.11.2008

Posts: 8,122

16.05.2011, 14:46 0

Santos, just remember its possible to have 400-500 games where your EV is below zero. Volume is key.

Coaching with Tim64
Blog: Liar Dice
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Twitter: @Timonthestoop

_Anonymous_ Topic starter

16.05.2011, 17:55 0

I have ~1% EV over > 1k in $24/$36 combined.
It is true that my game evolved a bit since I first moved up, so I still need to grind a few months to have an acurate number.

Confidence rollcoaster, hehehe

Thanks for posting, Tim.

_Anonymous_ Topic starter

17.05.2011, 14:44 0

Argh... I played pretty bad in the live game yesterday. However 44 > JJ + 3 flip wins (and some 4-5 handed abuse) made me ITM :f_biggrin:
5 games to go, 2nd place is almost 2 wins behind in points.
gg

Today deciding between basketball action and grinding...
Right now too tired for any of those :f_zZz: ♠_zZz:

_Anonymous_ Topic starter

18.05.2011, 02:55 0

Originally posted by santostr
Today deciding between basketball action and grinding...
Right now too tired for any of those ♠_zZz:

Had to take a stand and do something besides sitting on a chair, working or playing poker. So I played some basketball, almost had a heart atack after running 5 minutes, don't know how to control the ball anymore, but it was pretty cool. Hope it goes weekly now...

Also found some time for poker, but only 21 games. Ran bad, but month is still good.

_Anonymous_ Topic starter

18.05.2011, 12:26 0

I hate those action sports... My knee is killing me.
Poker way healthier IMO.

_Anonymous_ Topic starter

18.05.2011, 23:01 0

Reviewed some hands from past days. I'm impressed with the number of right moves made in game ♠_biggrin:

:spade: Confidence up
:spade: Tables are waiting

_Anonymous_ Topic starter

19.05.2011, 01:03 0

♠_cool: Solid results ♠_smile:

_Anonymous_

19.05.2011, 09:26 0

Originally posted by santostr
♠_cool: Solid results ♠_smile:

Wow nice, over a bit more than 20 tournaments, you finished 1st 50% of the time or w00t?

Duncan737

Joined: 09.08.2010

Posts: 279

19.05.2011, 09:52 0

not bad day, gratz :f_cool:

_Anonymous_ Topic starter

19.05.2011, 18:27 0

@Demonic226: 76% ITM. I think it was 50% 1st at the 24s.
Sickest swing ever.

I was going to try my first 1k day, but tables were so bad after my break, so I just railed <3 for a while and called it a (great) day.

I'll be back today ♠_evil:

_Anonymous_ Topic starter

20.05.2011, 02:49 0

:heart: Fishy Thursdays ♠_biggrin:

Another great day.

Great ev, great run, good volume ♠_cool:

340 out of 500(month goal) games played

stevegold87

Joined: 18.06.2009

Posts: 2,902

20.05.2011, 02:58 0

Very nice graph too
Maybe I will see you on the 24s soon !

My blog : MTT madness - No BRM, luckboxing, Shot taking, liveplays and health challenge

Together, we will get through this.

_Anonymous_ Topic starter

23.05.2011, 02:06 0

Was forgetting what is like to run bad. 21 BI < ev today.
13 games, 0 cashes to end the session :f_eek:
Pretty standart.

Marked som resteal spots today. Have to work on those..

381/500

_Anonymous_ Topic starter

25.05.2011, 03:36 0

sick day, was playing and running into good all in situations, but lost A lot of flips. 60:40s, etc
Ended up BE

But nice volume... Not every day I put in 54 SnGs.
Getting closer to Platinum again ♠_biggrin:

_Anonymous_ Topic starter

26.05.2011, 13:11 0

Felt like I was going to put a lot of games yesterday again, but no motivation to do so.
It's not like I lost fantastic games, there were a lot of regs around, but sometimes I make an effort to find some more games... Not yesterday.

I don't think it has to do with running bad. When I had the $800 sick day I also played only 21 games.
Maybe cause I made some non-standart plays and ran into monsters... who knows..

At least I catched up the reviews, posted some hands... Have a lot of buble spots to correct. In some spots my calling/pushing range is off like 10/20%.

_Anonymous_ Topic starter

27.05.2011, 14:38 0

Basketball action yesterday! It will become a regular thing, so a little less poker I guess.
Still managed to put in some games, made points for my Iron Man (qualified for silver already, going for gold).

Back to the tables maybe on Sunday. Or tuesday only, we'll see.

As for studing, posted some cool hands at the forums and watched the great new video from <3.

_Anonymous_ Topic starter

31.05.2011, 21:00 0

Last day of an awesome and busy month.
I miss grinding alreay. Will be at the tables in ~1h ♠_biggrin:

_Anonymous_ Topic starter

01.06.2011, 01:59 0

So may was a crazy month. Ran amazingly good online, ran super hot live.
And... Real world stuff, I'm buying my place (no, not from poker money yet :f_biggrin: )

Graph

ROI: 10.5% / 2.6%ev
$ = 1584.44 + 339.66 (RB) = $1924.10
Time played: 43h
44$/h

Can't realy ask for a better month realy...

[ ♠_cool: ] > 500 games
Easy when running good: 511 games

[ ♠_tongue: ] Review more
No hand left behind and more hands marked, but still need to review more full games

[ :f_biggrin: ] Stay away from cash games (Rush PLO10 chill outs allowed )
Just PLO 10

So, same goals apply for June +

[ ] Make iron man (bonus time!)

_Anonymous_ Topic starter

01.06.2011, 18:41 0

<<< ---- This is awesome too.

A lot of new videos to watch ♠_biggrin:

_Anonymous_ Topic starter

03.06.2011, 14:55 0

Poker lost a bit of priority this month... New work projetcs.

500 games goal is not going to happen and I'll strugle to make iron man. Probably going for siver and will have to buy some days.

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