Overall I believe April was a below par month for MTT's but it was pretty nice for heads ups, mainly the last 2 weeks in 220s, I did very well. Here's a graph to show how I did the last 14 days just in $220 2 mans....
http://i43.tinypic.com/34q6a1s.jpg
MTT's have been real rough lately, I’ve been consistently getting stacks in mainly the $50 70k, the Nightly 100k, and the Weds 1/4 mil this past Weds, and just running bad. Haven't played as many MTT's this month as March, but in May I plan on playing many more, shouldn't be too hard since school is almost over. Here is my April Goal Review:
+$5000(not including rakeback)
-Thanks to a late surge, I was able to make this goal and a little more. And in addition to that I hit the 90k VPP mark so I collected all $1000 of my stellar rewards, and cashed that out as well.
27,000 VPPS
-Ended the month with roughly 28,400 VPPs.
Talk less in the chat(mainly less "run better" or "Well played sir")
-I feel like I have improved in this area a bit, but not as much as I would have liked, going to try to lessen the talk even more this month.
Play more standard vs. fish, instead of making hero plays.
-Basically the same thing here with this goal, I have played a tad more standard, but there's room for improvement.
Note Taking
I believe I have achieved this goal, especially note taking vs. regular fish in the 110 and 220s.
One thing that I think has helped my heads ups, is the environment that I play in now. I used to play in my room, with my laptop, sitting on my bed, watching TV. Now I sit at the kitchen table, with no TV, and just some music playing. It's more relaxing, and comfortable.
The Heartland Poker Tour is going to be at Turning Stone for the next couple weeks, and I plan on going for at least 1 event as of now, not sure if it's going to be a $300 tournament, or the main event for $1500. I’m basically using Turning stone to improve my live game/warm-up for WSOP. Here are my goals for May:
+6,000(again, not including bonuses)
Discuss more hands played in MTTs, with other MTT regs.
Watch a couple of Bfizz11's videos
Make top 200 TLB for May
Make at least 1 Final Table in the $50 70k
That's it for now.
PS- I turn 21 in about 7 weeks!!!
-Pomp
Friday, April 30, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
FT $10 Rebuy, deep runs in Sunday Million
I've been semi lazy/busy lately with updating my blog, so I'm going to try to update more often. About 10 days ago I made the FT in the $10 rebuy, finished 6th for roughly $2400 if I remember correctly. Also, the passed 2 Sundays were very dry for me, besides the Sunday Million in both weeks. 2 Sundays ago I made a deep run and finished 230 something vs a fish who couldn't lay down A7. Then yesterday, I made a deep run again. Was playing real solid, and was a rock. I lost with AKsuit all in preflop vs Q10os, for a pot of about 1.5-6 mil, that would have put me at 3.8mil 30/60k blinds, and in top 5 with about 50 left. Not too much later heres how I go out...
PokerStars Game #43202501307: Tournament #307020010, $200+$15 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXIX (40000/80000) - 2010/04/26 0:35:11 ET
Table '307020010 622' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: tmb_bulevar (1851584 in chips)
Seat 2: Zelwi87 (679514 in chips)
Seat 3: Domer (1944960 in chips)
Seat 4: PompYouUp (1567220 in chips)
Seat 5: cwalsh6 (1180324 in chips)
Seat 6: kaju85 (3057954 in chips)
Seat 7: bleu329 (1842880 in chips)
Seat 8: DrEskilstuna (1376891 in chips)
Seat 9: gremlinn (1675848 in chips)
tmb_bulevar: posts the ante 8000
Zelwi87: posts the ante 8000
Domer: posts the ante 8000
PompYouUp: posts the ante 8000
cwalsh6: posts the ante 8000
kaju85: posts the ante 8000
bleu329: posts the ante 8000
DrEskilstuna: posts the ante 8000
gremlinn: posts the ante 8000
cwalsh6: posts small blind 40000
kaju85: posts big blind 80000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PompYouUp [Kd Qs]
bleu329: folds
DrEskilstuna: folds
gremlinn: folds
tmb_bulevar: folds
Zelwi87: folds
Domer: folds
PompYouUp: raises 94400 to 174400
cwalsh6: folds
kaju85: calls 94400
*** FLOP *** [2d Qh 6d]
kaju85: checks
PompYouUp: bets 205500
kaju85: calls 205500
*** TURN *** [2d Qh 6d] [7h]
kaju85: checks
PompYouUp: bets 341100
kaju85: raises 932400 to 1273500
PompYouUp: calls 838220 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (94180) returned to kaju85
*** RIVER *** [2d Qh 6d 7h] [5h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
kaju85: shows [5s 6s] (two pair, Sixes and Fives)
PompYouUp: shows [Kd Qs] (a pair of Queens)
kaju85 collected 3230440 from pot
beck_AA [observer] said, "good line 56"
really sucks to go out like that, but what can you do. Congratulations to 147_star for winning the milly and shipping 258K. And another congratulations to me being a big moron, and not doing a % swap with him, since we had similar stacks many times during the tournament. And lastly, 42nd was worth $3200. Thank you to everyone who was railing me, appreciate the support.
Other than that, it seems like March and April were opposites. March MTTs were good, and heads up were bad. Now in April, Mtts haven't been overall rough, and Heads ups have been pretty good. Hopefully in May both can be good!! I'm pretty excited for the SCOOP to start soon, I will be playing most of the Hold Em low and medium buy ins, with some Omaha mixed in. One thing that does suck, is that I'm not going to be able to play in the first couple Heads up events on the 4th because of a school final I have. I'm not going to dwell over it though, since there's nothing I can do about it.
One thing that I don't realize how I have forgot to mention, is that my parents finally gave in with work, and they let me quit. Last week I worked 2 last days and now I'm done there!!! I also loaded another $8,000 into my mutual funds, and they have been doing pretty well lately, making consistent money. That's it for now.
good luck
-pomp
PokerStars Game #43202501307: Tournament #307020010, $200+$15 USD Hold'em No Limit - Level XXIX (40000/80000) - 2010/04/26 0:35:11 ET
Table '307020010 622' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: tmb_bulevar (1851584 in chips)
Seat 2: Zelwi87 (679514 in chips)
Seat 3: Domer (1944960 in chips)
Seat 4: PompYouUp (1567220 in chips)
Seat 5: cwalsh6 (1180324 in chips)
Seat 6: kaju85 (3057954 in chips)
Seat 7: bleu329 (1842880 in chips)
Seat 8: DrEskilstuna (1376891 in chips)
Seat 9: gremlinn (1675848 in chips)
tmb_bulevar: posts the ante 8000
Zelwi87: posts the ante 8000
Domer: posts the ante 8000
PompYouUp: posts the ante 8000
cwalsh6: posts the ante 8000
kaju85: posts the ante 8000
bleu329: posts the ante 8000
DrEskilstuna: posts the ante 8000
gremlinn: posts the ante 8000
cwalsh6: posts small blind 40000
kaju85: posts big blind 80000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to PompYouUp [Kd Qs]
bleu329: folds
DrEskilstuna: folds
gremlinn: folds
tmb_bulevar: folds
Zelwi87: folds
Domer: folds
PompYouUp: raises 94400 to 174400
cwalsh6: folds
kaju85: calls 94400
*** FLOP *** [2d Qh 6d]
kaju85: checks
PompYouUp: bets 205500
kaju85: calls 205500
*** TURN *** [2d Qh 6d] [7h]
kaju85: checks
PompYouUp: bets 341100
kaju85: raises 932400 to 1273500
PompYouUp: calls 838220 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (94180) returned to kaju85
*** RIVER *** [2d Qh 6d 7h] [5h]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
kaju85: shows [5s 6s] (two pair, Sixes and Fives)
PompYouUp: shows [Kd Qs] (a pair of Queens)
kaju85 collected 3230440 from pot
beck_AA [observer] said, "good line 56"
really sucks to go out like that, but what can you do. Congratulations to 147_star for winning the milly and shipping 258K. And another congratulations to me being a big moron, and not doing a % swap with him, since we had similar stacks many times during the tournament. And lastly, 42nd was worth $3200. Thank you to everyone who was railing me, appreciate the support.
Other than that, it seems like March and April were opposites. March MTTs were good, and heads up were bad. Now in April, Mtts haven't been overall rough, and Heads ups have been pretty good. Hopefully in May both can be good!! I'm pretty excited for the SCOOP to start soon, I will be playing most of the Hold Em low and medium buy ins, with some Omaha mixed in. One thing that does suck, is that I'm not going to be able to play in the first couple Heads up events on the 4th because of a school final I have. I'm not going to dwell over it though, since there's nothing I can do about it.
One thing that I don't realize how I have forgot to mention, is that my parents finally gave in with work, and they let me quit. Last week I worked 2 last days and now I'm done there!!! I also loaded another $8,000 into my mutual funds, and they have been doing pretty well lately, making consistent money. That's it for now.
good luck
-pomp
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Update, Goals for April
Lately I've been more on the heads up grind, and not the MTT grind. For 2-3 weeks, I ran into a large negative variance of heads ups. Which cause me not to be on my A game. Finally things turned around, and as of a few days ago, I've really been in the zone while playing heads ups. Finally starting to profit again in heads ups, and it feels good. It would be nice to maintain the pace I'm currently on.
Last month I finished 67th on the monthly TLB, which was good for a $100 bonus, which is pretty cool. Since then, I've sort of been MTT'ed out, and since then just been taking it slow. One thing that is frustrating, is that I have been running very bad in sunday majors for the last couple months. Just one setup hand after another, and one bad beat after another, hoping to snap out of that soon. For the yearly TLB im curently in 291st, and peaked at 230 something, but like I said before, I have been taking it slow so I've fallen behind a bit.
Last week I reached 250k fpps, so I bought the $4000 bonus asap, and am currently 3505/28000 vpps of the way there. I hop to unlock that sometime during the SCOOP. I have made a few goals for the month of April. I know it's already the 13th but I made these goals at the start of the month, and I have not updated this blog since March, so this is the first time you're seeing my goals. Some of them are fairly standard, but this is my first time making a list of monthly goals, so I will improve.
Goals for April
+$5000(not including rakeback)
-At the beggining of the month felt like this goal would easily be in reach, I'm at school so I dont have my excel spreadsheet, but I think I'm about half way there.
27,000 VPPS
-Trying to gain some ground on my yearly goal of 300K VPPS, and this will also get me my bonus quicker. currently at 11,209 on the month.
Talk less in the chat(mainly less "run better" or "Well played sir")
-It really doesn't do anything to say these things to them, as 95% of them don't even respond.
Play more standard vs. fish, instead of making hero plays.
-not saying I can't make a good read vs a fish here and there, but I think I tend to try to get very tricky vs fish sometimes, in my opinion, you can play so standard vs fish and still be very profitable.
Note Taking
-Take more notes, both in MTTs and HUs They don't necessarily have to be in depth notes on EXACTLY how they play. Even if it's just a hand history showing a unique way they played a certain hand, put it in their notes.
I will check back on these goals at the end ofthe month and see how I did.
Good luck
-Pomp
Last month I finished 67th on the monthly TLB, which was good for a $100 bonus, which is pretty cool. Since then, I've sort of been MTT'ed out, and since then just been taking it slow. One thing that is frustrating, is that I have been running very bad in sunday majors for the last couple months. Just one setup hand after another, and one bad beat after another, hoping to snap out of that soon. For the yearly TLB im curently in 291st, and peaked at 230 something, but like I said before, I have been taking it slow so I've fallen behind a bit.
Last week I reached 250k fpps, so I bought the $4000 bonus asap, and am currently 3505/28000 vpps of the way there. I hop to unlock that sometime during the SCOOP. I have made a few goals for the month of April. I know it's already the 13th but I made these goals at the start of the month, and I have not updated this blog since March, so this is the first time you're seeing my goals. Some of them are fairly standard, but this is my first time making a list of monthly goals, so I will improve.
Goals for April
+$5000(not including rakeback)
-At the beggining of the month felt like this goal would easily be in reach, I'm at school so I dont have my excel spreadsheet, but I think I'm about half way there.
27,000 VPPS
-Trying to gain some ground on my yearly goal of 300K VPPS, and this will also get me my bonus quicker. currently at 11,209 on the month.
Talk less in the chat(mainly less "run better" or "Well played sir")
-It really doesn't do anything to say these things to them, as 95% of them don't even respond.
Play more standard vs. fish, instead of making hero plays.
-not saying I can't make a good read vs a fish here and there, but I think I tend to try to get very tricky vs fish sometimes, in my opinion, you can play so standard vs fish and still be very profitable.
Note Taking
-Take more notes, both in MTTs and HUs They don't necessarily have to be in depth notes on EXACTLY how they play. Even if it's just a hand history showing a unique way they played a certain hand, put it in their notes.
I will check back on these goals at the end ofthe month and see how I did.
Good luck
-Pomp
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