Last FTOPS that rolled around, in the summer I believe... I dusted off a few thousand dollars spread over a myriad of events and believe cashed just once in a $535 event for an insignificant sum that didn't put me in the black for the event.
Well, I'll probably suck again this time ago, but at least it won't hurt as much. May 6th-17th is FTOPS XII and they are running a parallel series called MiniFTOPS as well, which are the same tournaments for 1/10th the buy-in.
After sorting out the NLHE events and cross-checking with my schedule, it looks like I should be able to play 8 events in the series.
My MiniFTOPS Schedule:
Event #1
$20+2 6-Max
Wednesday May 6th
Event #3
$50+5 x3 Shootout
Thursday May 7th
Event #8
$24+2 Knockout 6-Max
Sunday May 10th
Event #9
$50+5 Heads Up
Sunday May 10th
Event #10
$30+3 NLHE
Sunday May 10th
Event #15
$20+2 Turbo
Tuesday May 12th
Event #24
$12+1 Knockout
Sunday May 17th
Main Event
$50+5 NLHE
Sunday May 17th
In total I'll be spending $281 on the series. There are a few other events that I could play with my schedule, but I am hesitating because of the money involved. They are the $109 6-Max "Ante from the Start" event, a $33 rebuy, and the $266 2-day event. That would nearly triple by total buy-ins and I just have no idea if I'm comfortable with that. Maybe I'll try sat'ing into a few of them actually. We shall see...
Anyways, anyone interested in swapping %s, a last longer, or buying %s, holla.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
April Review
I put in the most amount of volume in April than I had in a long while. I played roughly 18 days of the month, with the majority coming towards the end of the month. A lot of my time was spent on the new NL5 6-max cash games. I also attempted to play the Daily Dollar everyday and had ok success. Its a crapshoot to be honest. Overall though I won money on the month, almost doubling my roll. I also played the Sunday Double Deuce every week and had fun doing that.
Below is are the 10k hands I played in the month. I think I could have played a lot better but am learning cash games or whatever and need to get better about bluffing less and playing more straight forward overall. I can't bluff guys off TPTK at NL5, lol, so need to focus on just playing purely for value. There are plenty of people at this level that are willing to stack off with all sorts of hands, and I think its optimal to just be patient and wait for the opportunity to take their money.
Anyways, May will probably feature more of the same. NL5 grinding as well as the micro-tournaments. Hopefully I'll have a big score. Oh, and I'll be playing about 10 MiniFTOPS events in May... finalizing the schedule but will post that soon. Good luck at the tables.
Below is are the 10k hands I played in the month. I think I could have played a lot better but am learning cash games or whatever and need to get better about bluffing less and playing more straight forward overall. I can't bluff guys off TPTK at NL5, lol, so need to focus on just playing purely for value. There are plenty of people at this level that are willing to stack off with all sorts of hands, and I think its optimal to just be patient and wait for the opportunity to take their money.
Anyways, May will probably feature more of the same. NL5 grinding as well as the micro-tournaments. Hopefully I'll have a big score. Oh, and I'll be playing about 10 MiniFTOPS events in May... finalizing the schedule but will post that soon. Good luck at the tables.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
FTP down, recent upswing
Meh quick post before I go to bed. FTP just went down.
Since my last post I've gone on a nice little upswing, up 7BIs over about 700 cash game hands. I also shallow cashed the Daily Dollar today for an insignificant sum.
I bought a $26 token with my Iron Man points that I guess I'll use this Sunday for some tournament to go along with my standard Double Deuce.
Tomorrow I fly to visit my old college friends who are weeks away from graduating at the University of Alabama. Flight leaves at 9:25AM tomorrow, so I should try getting some shut eye.
Will try to post again soon.
Since my last post I've gone on a nice little upswing, up 7BIs over about 700 cash game hands. I also shallow cashed the Daily Dollar today for an insignificant sum.
I bought a $26 token with my Iron Man points that I guess I'll use this Sunday for some tournament to go along with my standard Double Deuce.
Tomorrow I fly to visit my old college friends who are weeks away from graduating at the University of Alabama. Flight leaves at 9:25AM tomorrow, so I should try getting some shut eye.
Will try to post again soon.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
I'm still alive...
Sorry for the lack of updates. I'll try to get better about it now that I'm playing a little bit more often.
I'm trying my hardest to grind cash games, currently at the microstake NL5 & NL10 levels. Its quite annoying, and I'm running at some mediocre 6BB/100 over 7k+ hands. I suppose this is a decent BB/100, but its microstakes so I feel I should be killing it for a lot more. Oh well all I can do is keep playing optimally and hopefully thing'll get better. 7k hands isn't quite large of a sample size I've come to realize.
As far as tournaments go, I recently have been playing the FT Double Deuce every Sunday with decent success. Its a soft tournament but extremely large. I'm not really too concerened with bankroll management as far as this tournament is concerned. I have a good paying job and my own bussines, and can afford to put in $88/month if I need to in order to play this tournament weekly. Luckily though I've cashed more than my fair share and haven't had to redeposit in awile. But still, its good to know I can if I need to.
I am however playing the FT Daily Dollar... almost daily. Its a 10k guarantee with about 3k in overlay, which is awesome. Its not quite filling up for some reason. First generally pays about $1.6k which isn't too bad for just a buck entry fee. Its a massive donkfest however so it'll take quite some navigaion to get through it, but hopefully that'll happen one of these days.
That is all for now. Hopefully it won't be a million months before I decide to post again.
I'm trying my hardest to grind cash games, currently at the microstake NL5 & NL10 levels. Its quite annoying, and I'm running at some mediocre 6BB/100 over 7k+ hands. I suppose this is a decent BB/100, but its microstakes so I feel I should be killing it for a lot more. Oh well all I can do is keep playing optimally and hopefully thing'll get better. 7k hands isn't quite large of a sample size I've come to realize.
As far as tournaments go, I recently have been playing the FT Double Deuce every Sunday with decent success. Its a soft tournament but extremely large. I'm not really too concerened with bankroll management as far as this tournament is concerned. I have a good paying job and my own bussines, and can afford to put in $88/month if I need to in order to play this tournament weekly. Luckily though I've cashed more than my fair share and haven't had to redeposit in awile. But still, its good to know I can if I need to.
I am however playing the FT Daily Dollar... almost daily. Its a 10k guarantee with about 3k in overlay, which is awesome. Its not quite filling up for some reason. First generally pays about $1.6k which isn't too bad for just a buck entry fee. Its a massive donkfest however so it'll take quite some navigaion to get through it, but hopefully that'll happen one of these days.
That is all for now. Hopefully it won't be a million months before I decide to post again.
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