Off To Michigan

well,
Off to Michigan in just a few hours here. The trip to the Birch Run area will take us about 9 maybe 9.5hrs. Not expecting too much trouble from the traffic since we are traveling through the night. That's how I like to roll, can't stand the metro area traffic.

Last few days I've been playing a few MTT's and some short handed LO8. I am acclimating myself to the aggressive style of short handed play, but so far it's going great. I won't even bother mentioning the earn rate right now as it doesn't matter until I can sustain it over a much larger sampling. I did get deep again in an MTT yesterday, it was the $70+5 14.5k gtd KO tourney on FTP. 18th out of 315+ runners, and knocked out 8 people for $120 in bounties. That made the going out in 18th hurt a little less, but I don't feel too terrible. I played well all tourney, and just got in tough spots late with an AQo from bb facing a seemingly obvious fold around raise from the CO. Then with M~8 I made a 2.5x raise from MP w/ TT. Action folded around to SB who shipped in with just enough to cover me. After tanking a minute, I realized that the odds of me being dominated there were pretty slim, and I'd rather go after the final 17 players with an M better than 5 or 6. I called, and he flipped up AJ which was about what I expected. I had just hoped he was < 99. Board brought out Q K 8 5 A.... why does it always have to be the river?! Oh well, nothing major outside that and earning some good dough playing short handed LO8 and a couple of $50 sng wins.

Off we go to Michigan...

FTOPS begins for me on Sunday the 9th!!

P

Update

Hey all,
Basically got tired of running rough in the SNGs yesterday and all but abandoned my 600 tourney goal. I did take some reflection time and look over some statistics for my last 494 $20+2 SNGs. I have an ROI of 8.08% in those, with an ITM of 40.49%. Average finish is 4.22, and I've gotten 1st in 59, 2nd in 75, and 3rd in 66.
I did venture back into some MTT's to start tuning up for my FTOPS run which will begin on the 9th @ 1800est. The FTOPS actually starts Wed the 5th, but I'm only playing in 5 events, the first of which is Sunday. You can follow along with how my backers(40% staked) and I are doing HERE

I ran semi-deep in the 40k gtd on FTP last night, but busted in 33rd with a pretty standard play. IMO villian made an error, or played his hand badly HERE, but maybe my opinion is a bit askew :-) Anyway, not a bid deal, that's MTT's and it felt good to get back into the swing of things and run to 33rd out of 700+ runners. Profit was ~ $100

I'll be on a bit scarce going into this weekend because Stacy and I head to Michigan for the weekend tomorrow evening. Will be the first time meeting her family, so, hopefully things go well. But who couldn't love me!? I'm kidding... or not

Hope the tables are treating everyone well. Good luck out there!

P

Sickly Update

I've fallen way off. Got a terrible fever yesterday and here it is nearly 48hours later and the fever is finally below 101. I just played 2 SNGs tonight to get back online, but that's got me WAY off pace. I'll crash the boards the next few days and hopefully by Wed I'll at least get to 500, but who knows at this point. I'm still enjoying it all, just got sick in a very inopportune time and I refused to play when I felt so awful. Lord knows one bad beat and I might've puked on my keyboard LOL

Challenge Update: 254sngs/ROI 3%/Net$172/ITM 40%

Hopefully this killer fever has passed for good and I can get some more tourneys in this weekend.

Chow for now

JJ? I FOLD!!

Yeah, I lost with over 90% of my JJ hands today, and some were in disgusting fashion. I don't have the energy to explain it all and I kind of hate bad beat whiners. I overplayed them 1 of the 16 times they lost today, that's about all I remember. Outside of that, I'm clearly struggling at finishing in 1st place still. Not one 1st today, but I cashed in over 40% which is pretty normal for me over a long period of time. As far as this challenge goes though, my ROI is now down to just about 3%, the ITM is steady around 40%. I'm not grabbing the rest right now cause I'm tired, irritated, and in general just need to put down the laptop tonight LOL. Oh, and @ 252SNGs played. I do believe I can get to 500 played, but I do not think I'll make 600 by the 5th of Nov. We shall see though... time can only tell.

Goodnight for now though!

I'm Mediocre At Best

That's how I'm feeling these days. But, I've managed to climb back again today, just to be a little over break even. Had a horrible start early, but mostly it was because I kept getting 3rd place when I got ITM. I crushed myself today by getting 11 3rds out of 18 cashes. Seriously bad form, and really bad for the ROI. Anyway, I'm tired so not going to do much but wrap up here.

SNG Challenge: 226 $22 played, ROI 5%, Net$248, ITM 41%, 23/35/35 are my finishing place totals. Damn that's a lot of 3rds!

P

Moving back up hopefully!

Well, as frustrated as I was in that last post, things actually got worse for me on the weekend when I expected to destroy the weekend warriors. I had a ton of things go wrong, and I also played bad at times. I fought back today though, and after losing all profits, and going into the red with my ROI, it's back up today over the line into the black. Sick sick sick dive I took and I'm going to try to add a picture in here now:
That's the dive in picture format. I couldn't believe it, and still can't but what's done is done, and I feel good still today. I never felt like I was playing horrible there, I just kept getting smoked by lesser hands, especially down on bubbles. Tons and tons of times. Hopefully variance has had her nasty ass say and she will leave me alone for a few days now!

Challenge Totals: 186SNGs played, ROI 5%, ITM 40%, Net$202, 20/31/24 placement totals.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

P

Holy Shit Batman

I lost over $280 today and as you can tell, that's a TON at $22 level SNGs. So unreal that I can't possibly begin to continue with my sessions today as I'm just beaten retarded with the beats. I'm not perfect so I'm sure I made some bad plays, but I swear if I had the energy I would show you at least 10 horrific plays made versus me on bubbles, that worked. The last of which was my AA losing to A9 when he flopped two 9s. AI PF of course... on the bubble, of course. Since I can't stand whiners, and I won't be one... that's it. I lost a fuck ton today, and I'm overall frustrated, so there is no way I can keep up my (what I think is) solid play.

Challenge Stats: 144 played, ROI 4%, ITM 40%, Net$126, FTP SNG Challenge Roll $789