Running Well Playing Well

Step Buyin Progress:
Step 1's - 23 - $172.5
Step 2's - 33 - $891
Step 3's - 1 - $82
Step 4's - 0
Step 5's - 0
Step 6's - 0

W$ Earned - 0
Total Value: $1145.5

Bad morning God mode after

played a bunch of 180 mans in the morning and ran like a paraplegic, then played a set of 12 step 1's and ran like Reggie Bush

Step Buyin Progress:
Step 1's - 32
Step 2's - 29
Step 3's - 1
Step 4's - 0
Step 5's - 0
Step 6's - 0

W$ Earned - 0
Total Value: $1105

Steps Day 3

Step Buyin Progress:
Step 1's - 44
Step 2's - 24
Step 3's - 1
Step 4's - 0
Step 5's - 0
Step 6's - 0

W$ Earned - 0
Total Value: $1060

I suck

Steps Day 2

Played 12 at bcm's house did/ran pretty shitty i think

Step Buyin Progress:
Step 1's - 68
Step 2's - 18
Step 3's - 1
Step 4's - 0
Step 5's - 0
Step 6's - 0

W$ Earned - 0
Total Value: $1078

Steps Day 1

Step Buyin Progress:
Step 1's - 77
Step 2's - 16
Step 3's - 1
Step 4's - 0
Step 5's - 0
Step 6's - 0

W$ Earned - 0

Total Value: $1091.5

WCOOP Steps and PLB Contest

So for some additional motivation and some structure to my play I have come up with the task to grind the steps to the WCOOP events that run until September. I already started playing a few and found them ridic soft. Since I started I have 8 step 2's and 1 step 3. From this point I am going to play 100 step 1's and take them as far as i can go. That's $750 in buyins that I would like to at least double. I plan on getting the cash out of the steps by gaining entry into WCOOP events and selling the W$ and might play a few events as well depending on my schedule. I will track my progress here as well in a spreadsheet of my own.

I also signed up for the 2p2 PLB contest that is about 2 weeks I think starting July 25th or something. We'll see how that goes, it will be done on a draft system and I am going to put in a lot of MTT volume as well.

Step Buyin Progress:
Step 1's - 100
Step 2's - 8
Step 3's - 1
Step 4's - 0
Step 5's - 0
Step 6's - 0

W$ Earned - 0

Total Value: $1048

Back and Better than EVER

Back on the tournament trail with a vengeance! Shipped the Sunday Afternoon 3r on FTP followed by a 2nd place finish in a nightly Daily Double. The roll is bigger and now so are the stakes.

As for today, definitely the biggest Sunday schedule I've ever played totaling $480+ in buyins depending on rebuys that include both miniFTOPS as well as the early KO FTOPS. I'll post interesting hands as the day goes on.

ewwwwwwwwwwww one table turbo satty to the 200k
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4244272

wtf spot, FTP 3r, first hand ive raised in an hour and a half
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4244650

just a really strange hand from the 3r where I'm just pissing in the wind
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4245364

standard whining hand
http://www.pokerhand.org/?4245916

For some reason I like this song a lot.

Edit:

He's BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK

Took down my first 4.40 of 2008 and god damn it feels good! I played very well and patient. I was short stacked most of the way and some helpful flops and situations occurred. It helped sucking out A9>AK AIPF and A3 > KK AIPF but both hands were so standard.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1981220

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1981226

There was one very tricky, interesting hand that i had. I played it passively and I think the only hand at the final table I may have played poorly. My read on the villain is that he has been aggressive and has led into me after a PF raise before and i folded. I called the flop to see the action on the turn, the turn bet made me think A10 or K10, so all of my outs were live. I hit one and couldn't fold with the way i played it.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1981235

I plan to continue playing 4.40s at least until January and I might be playing them for an individual contest come February on pocketfives.com depending on a lot of things (strength of the field, work, girlfriend).

May all your cards be live and your pots be monster!

A little look at how Jan is going

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1975063

this is at a 4.40 FT where i have the player tagged as MR'ing most pots and i dont want to just shove PF. So i just call and get the flop im looking for and what do you know! I'm down 33 buy ins and feel im playing optimal poker.

I invested in PT and PAHUD and go over all my big hands and don't see too many mistakes if any. I am so frustrated ATM but still have confidence in my game. I've made 4 final tables with 3 8ths and 1 3rd so far. I can only hope to get out of this swong soon.

2008 Toughts and Goals

Coming from the 2007 recap post, I have a few thoughts on starting off 2008 the right way. Yesterday, I cashed out down to $440 and have the sole intentions of playing $4.40 180 mans until i feel comfortable with my game again. Mainly closing out tournaments and reestablishing my TAG play. I found myself making too many moves and -EV resteals because of not paying as close attention as i could have. Playing the 4.40's, I will be able to get to bed at a normal hour. I felt too often, especially in the 3r, "I have a big stack, if i keep this up ill be awake til 4am." And i wasn't saying that as a good thing. I spewed away way too many chips in the 5r (which i really wasn't rolled for), the 3r, the 20k, and who knows what else.

I can't really set a time when I'll be comfortable again in big MTTs, its all about how i feel with my game. The reason i cashed out is so i would not be tempted in playing any MTTs because i would not be rolled for anything that interests me. I would like, by the end of the year to maintain a 100 bi average for my bank roll.

Goals for 2008:
1) to maintain a 100% ROI in $4.40s
2) to average $500 a month income or $6k in total profits
3) to win a tournament with over 1k entrants
4) not play cash games except when donking around some PLO
5) to be ranked top 5 in Cleveland and top 50 in Ohio according to p5s sortable rankings page

2007 Year in Review

Starting 2007, I had no clue what the year would hold poker wise, but I knew I enjoyed playing at was pretty good at it. Little did i know, I had a lot to learn. I found myself clueless when facing many decisions so in middle February, I took the plunge and joined Pokerxfactor.com. I joined mainly to get a few questions answered and learn more about the game. As i learned from the sites pro's i saw my game get better and better. Fast forward to today, I look back at how much better my game has gotten and only want to see it prosper even more for 2008, but I'll touch on my next years goals in another post.

Highlights of the year include:
- Winning multiple 180 mans including my first $20 win for $1,080
- Finishing 5th in a 3r for just over $1k
- Getting 2nd and 3rd 1 month apart in the $5 6-max for $900 and $450 respectively
- Not paying the two time i played CC roulette in Turning stone

Lowlights of the year include:
- every final table i bubbled or was disappointed in the result (so many to count)
- every time i played cash games

I am definitely satisfied with how 2007, after playing many different games I've realized to just focus on my NL MTT game. HUSNGS are too tilting, and TSNGS make your eyes bleed eventually, and cash games, well lets not talk about that. To be continued with goals for next year....

Bloody Sunday?

For the second Sunday in a row I get most of the day to play tournaments. No million today, but I do plan on playing more MTTs than last week. The schedule includes:

Stars $5.50 5k guar - Out 705th no cash, reshoved J10os from button, A3s flopped wheel :(

Raised pre b/c had the player tagged as passive, so the raise PF was for value
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1789727
Nothing I could do here
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1789823

FTP $11 FO - Out no cash QQ> KK AIPF

Stars $11 15k 10 min levels - Out 2000ish, AJ > AK AIPF

FTP $26 17.5k guar
Very weird hand, I couldn't just call the flop, I couldn't fold, and I couldn't raise/fold, my only choice was to raise/call for my stack, which brought the worst possible turn card, so i just played position and pot control, i don't see any value betting the river either.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1790260

Stars $3.30r 30k guar (2:15pm)
3pm: Stars $11 100k guar (3:30pm)

Frustrated/quit , deep, or break

To Be Continued

I plan on posting important and interesting hands throughout the day.

Wednesday 12/5

Went 5-2 in 22 HUSNGs and went somewhat deep in the $10 20k for a cash of about 30. I can't believe how bad the 22s are, Its not that the players are passive and huge stations, its that they are overagressive in situations where it is not needed such as this hand:

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to lilOUmikey [Ks Qc]
lilOUmikey: raises 40 to 60
1DanielAllin: calls 40
*** FLOP *** [Qs 2s 6d]
1DanielAllin: checks
lilOUmikey: bets 80
1DanielAllin: raises 80 to 160
lilOUmikey: calls 80
*** TURN *** [Qs 2s 6d] [Tc]
1DanielAllin: bets 200
lilOUmikey: calls 200
*** RIVER *** [Qs 2s 6d Tc] [Kd]
1DanielAllin: bets 1520 and is all-in
lilOUmikey: calls 640 and is all-in
*** SHOW DOWN ***
1DanielAllin: shows [Th 8d] (a pair of Tens)
lilOUmikey: shows [Ks Qc] (two pair, Kings and Queens)
lilOUmikey collected 2120 from pot

sure it was nice hitting my 2nd pair on the river but i just let him do all the betting for me. As far as the 20k went, I was playing really well and had a good read on every table i played. I went out on this hand: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1777084

I made a reshove with some fold equity behind and the BB decides to call a 3 bet not involved with AKos, Just a setup i think, but I don't think i call call with AK there. I guess i would need a read on the player and i had been moving my chips around a lot because of having an effective reshove stack. Nothing i can do.

LHE: Day 1

played 370 hands 6-max 4 tables
$17.75 Profit

= $4.80bb's/100 hands

1338 VPPs til silver

Vomit, puke, throw up, regurgitation

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1762007

Micro Baller Status

Grabbin those jumper cables

Lets fire this bad boy up again. It is the final month of what has been by far my best year playing poker. I have learned a lot and had a ton of success over the past 11 months. Starting with joining pokerxfactor, followed by numberous 4.40 180 man wins. Then I made my first breakthrough by making a few large MTT final tables. A 2.50 2k plus entrants, the $27k on full tilt, the $3r, and most recently a $5 6-max 2k+ entrants to go along with a $20 180 man win.

This month, I have a few goals for myself.

1) to reach silverstar thru playing a variety of games, HUSNG's, $25 NL, and .5/1 LHE, along with MTT's
2) to have a 5%+ winrate in HUSNGs by splitting the 11 and 22s.
3) if possible, actually get my first win in a non 180 man. I know this will be tough, but i think if i stay focuses and play my best, it can be done.

There will be no monetary goal, only to play my best. I am playing the Million tomorrow and hopefully swapping %'s with bcm, phenom, and murph (if he wants to be a superstar). I will post interesting hands from all the MTT's i play on here and am hoping for some constructive criticism. Thats what makes us better players right?

3 rebuy monster leaderboard

results to be posted later

im so bad at poker, out in like 199th on a bubble and cashed for $30, invested $15, not too bad, but im sooooooo bad a poker

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1667017

Challenge time!

Last night i for some reason played a $55 FO which is out of my BR but thought I was able to concur the field. However around the bubble i was sitting with a top 30 stack and went broke c/r'ing a straight flush draw which bricked to villains flopped top two. It tilted me really bad, and i realized that I am not motivated for any purpose so its time to rebuild, the bankroll and a positive mindset.

This challenge will consist of 4.40s on stars, $5 90 mans on FTP and other FO's of $5 and under. I will give myself 60 days in this challenge and would like to build both BR's. I would like to build PS's roll to $1k and FTP's to $600 by the end of the challenge. There is no way i can determine how many sng's/mtt's i can play in these 60 days because of fluctuation of schedule. I will update after every day that i play

Stars BR: $637.27
FTP BR: $385.52

Overdue Update

So recently, I have cooled off a little and find myself a bit unmotivated in playing the best poker, I guess it comes from the two big scores and large bankroll. So yesterday I cashed out down to $800 in my PS account, and i have about $530 in my FT account. I plan on spending some of the cashout on a digital camera and some other things to "treat" myself for the good play recently.

I made the decision to decrease my BR because I invested $70 in the 5r the other day and did not even make it out of the rebuy period. I was so tilted and realized that I am not ready to handle the higher stakes swings. So now i will concentrate on up to $10 FO's, the 3r's, and some $20 180s mixed in. As for full tilt, the daily double, and the 90 mans will be my main focus along with some double stacked $26 fo's.

October is bringing a PXF MTT challenge which will get me back in the swing of things and bring motivation. Somehow i was the 4th pick overall (i forgot about the competition until this morning). I think its 4 player teams, top 20 total scores count, and must have 5 per player, I think.

Here is a little parting gift, possibly the funniest youtube video ive seen.