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December 11, 2013
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Hello TPE,
A little backstory on me:
I'm 25 years old and live on the east coast. I work for a Systems Integration Engineering firm, generally long hours. I play as much poker as I can and would really like to at least turn it into a nice supplemental income and build up a decent bankroll to play some more live events. I played poker off and on throughout college, but never had much success. I generally played 6-max micro stakes cash games during that time.
I took about 3 months off from poker at the beginning of 2013, and in early April I deposited 200$ on Bovada. I started off playing 25NL and started playing more and more tournaments. In about 4 months, I ran my bankroll up to just over 8k, mainly due to some nice tournament wins. After a 3k win online, I played a $365 WSOPc event and a bunch of 1/2 cash at Foxwoods on a weekend trip. I lost about $800 in the cash games and didn't cash the tournament. 2 weeks after the tournament, I was busto. I decided to keep reloading 1k at a time onto Bovada and played 400-1kNL and PLO. After losing my entire bankroll I took several months off from poker. Right around that time I also purchased a 3 month subscription to TPE, which I proceeded to waste. I have probably watched 5 videos in the 3 months.
About two weeks ago I decided to deposit $200 onto Bovada again and I'm gonna grind lots of tournaments! Last year I did very well playing MTTs and spewed money like a monkey flinging shit playing cash games. Since my last deposit, I've been grinding a lot of MTTs and some cash as well. I'm still a spew in cash and I'm planning to stick to MTT and SNGs going forward. I generally register whatever MTTs interest me and fill the blank space on my screen with cash games, but I'm going to instead fill that space with HUSNGs using a 50bi bankroll. I have worked to improve my mental game and have watched and read lots of Tommy Angelo's stuff, it is very good. I also have Jared Tendler's books and they are great too. I take my mental game seriously and really want to continue improving.
2014 Results:
This year I am going to keep meticulous records of all my MTT and SNG play. I have been keeping a spreadsheet for all the games I play, including satellites. I have run well and played well so far and have built up a small roll. Here are my results so far:
# MTTs:68
Total Buyins:$1686.50
$ Won: $4,316.48
$ Profit:$2,629.98
% ROI:155.94
Current Bankroll:$2,491
I had a big win over the weekend shipping a 10k turbo for 2,300. I ran super good in terms of card distribuiton but also feel I played very well, especially short handed and heads up at the final table.
Goals:
My goals are basically to grind a bunch of MTTs and keep a clear head. I also want to work hard at leading a balanced life, working out regularly, and eating well. I think all this is super important and very +ev.
MTTs:avg. 10 per night 6 nights/week = 60 MTT/week = 240 MTT/month
ROI:30%
Life:Work out 3-4 days/ week, Learn something about nutrition, apply said something, read lots of books
Run Good TPE Nation!
December 11, 2013
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Just wrapping up tonight's grind. Played 11 MTTs and bricked them all but one. Still in my last MTT which is a 6k GTD. Currently sitting 3/11. Played a little zone cash 25NL and played well in that. I think if I stick to that with my 100BI roll for now then I can grind cash to fill up screen space.
Played shitty tonight, B game at best. Made some really good plays deep in the 6k now let's ship it!
December 11, 2013
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…And we ship it! HU was tough and the player was the toughest at the final table IMO (including myself very likely). He was to my left and very active, and had the lead most of the FT. I had around a 2:1 lead going into HU which was nice.
Time to catch some Zzz's.
January 27, 2013
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Congrats on the win. Good Luck.
December 24, 2013
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I busted like 15th or something in that 6k haha. Made the tired-mistake of autoassuming a 3b to 15x wasn't AA. I essentially called all in over an mp open of 10bb, a 3b from 30bbstack to 15bb when i had like 22 in rhw ab. I'm getting better at clicking that fold button with good hands no longer relevant (though my AK hand was apparently a mistake), but I somehow still just called all in iwth 22bb. so silly. good run dude!
haha i'm a bad morning person, just reread my mess of a conversation. i had AQs.
10-12bb stack opened, guy to his right 3bet to 15bb, just iso-ing in my eyes with a wide range but still value heavy, just coordinated for a 10bb stack. i didn't even really think about it. i was bummed i clicked it so quickly.
the AK hand i was talking about was a 4b/fold spot that came up the other day. i posted it. i'm not happy with it, esp after playing the same player heads up later in the tournament seeing him 3b/instamin5b/call all in with A9 at like 25bb. i may have just leveled him since action transpired the same way when we were like 35bb deep earlier and i had folded AK (didn't know…his min5b just screamed AA/KK to me since no one really 5bs light on bovada) i haven't seen any heavy aggression preflop past 3b/4b since moving to bovada. it's kinda funny.
December 11, 2013
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Thanks for the support guys! Jacob, sounds like a pretty bad call to me but I make terrible mistakes all the time and being tired and burnt out is the cause very often. GL to you as well!
EDIT: Sorry I read the hand wrong first. I thought you were saying you called off with 22, but you meant you had 22bb. If you had 22bb with AK and called I def. don't hate it in this situation.
There was one key hand 7 handed at the FT where I opened 77 to like 2.2x UTG after being very inactive and a the guy to my left (same guy I ended up being HU with) thought for a bit and 3bet me ~2.6x, folds to me. This guy had been very active and 3 betting quite a bit, but I tanked for a long time and made the fold. Basically I was thinking he was a very good, aggressive, thinking player and would have noticed that I hadn't been going crazy and that I probably had a very strong UTG opening range. I doubt he has many if any bluffs in his 3betting range there and is likely never folding to a 4bet. If I 4bet shove I'm flipping at best and I had a decent stack. If anyone has some input on this hand plllease post!
December 24, 2013
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haha i'm a bad morning person, just reread my mess of a conversation. i had AQs.
10-12bb stack opened, guy to his right 3bet to 15bb, just iso-ing in my eyes with a wide range but still value heavy, just coordinated for a 10bb stack. i didn't even really think about it. i was bummed i clicked it so quickly.
the AK hand i was talking about was a 4b/fold spot that came up the other day. i posted it. i'm not happy with it, esp after playing the same player heads up later in the tournament seeing him 3b/instamin5b/call all in with A9 at like 25bb. i may have just leveled him since action transpired the same way when we were like 35bb deep earlier and i had folded AK (didn't know…his min5b just screamed AA/KK to me since no one really 5bs light on bovada) i haven't seen any heavy aggression preflop past 3b/4b since moving to bovada. it's kinda funny.
December 24, 2013
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not sure of stack sizes, but good fold probably! unless he has a hud that monitors position (i don't think this exists on bovada) and you happened to open more in EP's, it's likely he just had a 3b/c hand.
December 11, 2013
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jacobsharktank said:
haha i'm a bad morning person, just reread my mess of a conversation. i had AQs.
10-12bb stack opened, guy to his right 3bet to 15bb, just iso-ing in my eyes with a wide range but still value heavy, just coordinated for a 10bb stack. i didn't even really think about it. i was bummed i clicked it so quickly.
Ohh OK, so the guy who 3b to 15bb had you covered right? Did I read correctly that you had around 22bb? I would be shoving the extra 7bb and not calling but that's kind of trivial. With AK I would probably shove without thinking about it much quite often here, but AQ makes it a little more difficult. Most of the time I'm probably stacking off there with AQs as well, especially since it sounds like the Iso stack was kind of deep at this stage and he was Iso raising over a small stack. Either way I agree it's a mistake that you didn't take some time to think about it. I'm bad at that too!
Regarding the 77 hand, I don't remember exact stack sizes but villain was chip leader and I was 4th with probably around 25-28bb ish. Pretty sure villain has a 3b/call hand here most of the time, maybe close to always. I probably don't open wide enough UTG in these games, though I do feel like I'm exploiting good steal spots late in MTTs UTG, and I like to think I am also raise/folding UTG fairly well.
Back to work now, hope to put in decent volume tonight.
December 24, 2013
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Douggyfr3sh said:
Ohh OK, so the guy who 3b to 15bb had you covered right? Did I read correctly that you had around 22bb? I would be shoving the extra 7bb and not calling but that's kind of trivial. With AK I would probably shove without thinking about it much quite often here, but AQ makes it a little more difficult. Most of the time I'm probably stacking off there with AQs as well, especially since it sounds like the Iso stack was kind of deep at this stage and he was Iso raising over a small stack. Either way I agree it's a mistake that you didn't take some time to think about it. I'm bad at that too!
not sure if this came out the formatting i wanted…anyway haha. yah i had like 22bb. the opener had 10-12. the 3better had like 30bb total. when i said call, i meant like….because i'm 100% being calle when i shove, it's pretty much the same for me. i did shove the other 7 lol. i did think he was simply iso raising, but an abnormally sized 3b iso should be setting off alarm bells if i don't think he's very good. at least now that it's happened, i think i should be thinking that. i think given that he 3b to 15bb with the nuts, he prob plays a little more straight forward than i readily give credit to. i guess i sort of assumed he was gii with like 77+ KQs AJs+, but it's probably closer to like JJ+ AQ+ or something similiar.
December 24, 2013
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Douggyfr3sh said:
Regarding the 77 hand, I don't remember exact stack sizes but villain was chip leader and I was 4th with probably around 25-28bb ish. Pretty sure villain has a 3b/call hand here most of the time, maybe close to always. I probably don't open wide enough UTG in these games, though I do feel like I'm exploiting good steal spots late in MTTs UTG, and I like to think I am also raise/folding UTG fairly well.
Back to work now, hope to put in decent volume tonight.
December 11, 2013
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Very, very good points in the above post. I agree with it all. The 77 open I wouldn't call a “small pair”, but it probably plays similarly to 33 or 44 with certain dynamics and ranges where the money is getting in pre or we're not seeing a flop. Also, my UTG open is a pretty effective steal against most of the table but I'm not sure 77 is a great hand to open if our intention is to raise/fold or steal; probably hands w/ blockers are much better.
I think the fact that you pointed out that people most likely don't have a clue whether your opening range is polarized or merged or even pure value- yet it is still good to think about these things, is very good. I completely agree with this line of thinking.
December 11, 2013
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Meh, didn't feel very focused tonight. Didn't play great and bricked everything. Had a few gross beats and coolers to bust early in several MTTs, and kinda spewed in others. Might take a night off tomorrow.
December 11, 2013
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Big Snowstorm here in ME means I didn't have to travel to a Job site today so I'm working at home. Gonna head to the gym and go buy a new desk! Mine is completely falling apart from moving and I've finally gotten too annoyed with it to keep using it.
I have this pretty cool situation where I live with my Girlfriend, but she is away at nursing school 4 days/week. This allows me to work all day and play poker all night on those days and on Sundays, and when she's home on Fri/Sat we generally hang out and go out for drinks,dinner etc. If she is free tonight I might go out for dinner and drinks and take a night off. Just haven't felt super focused the last few days despite shipping a 6k. I find that just one day off usually does it for me and brings that fire back completely.
On a side note, just found out my bank is now doing mobile deposits. Now when I start getting sketchy 3k checks from Bovada on a regular basis, I don't have to go see a teller! Icing on the cake.
December 24, 2013
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word ya dude. those guys not thinking about what our range is is in of itself (holy shit word salad) a thing we can adjust to make the most from. if they knew what we had and acted accordingly, we'd act accordingly and readjust. but because they stay fixed/stagnant/whatever on their own hands in the moment, we just seek the maximum return possible, or minimum cost to ourselves. if that means opening a polarized range because it includes blockers to them actually having a hand to call in the first place, then so be it. i'm incredibly tired/out of focus right now so i'm rambling more than i think is necessary. my point was already convuluted lol. good on you for noticing youre out of focus and taking a break. i bought a pair of headphones just now. some lesser version of skullcandys from walgreens. really excited to get into blasting some tunes while shipping tourneys. good luck getting a desk! i saw you messaged me on skype when i ran home for lunch. ill get back to you later today hopefully. i'm definitely gonna try not to play tonight, as i leave for gainesville at 7am to record. i shipped the 10k $55 last night for 4k and i only slept for like 2-3 hours lol. take care dude. ill hit you up later
December 11, 2013
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Sick man nice ship!! I remember you saying you regged it like reeeally late. I think I busted it right before you regged it 
December 11, 2013
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Feeling suuper gross right now. Had a very productive day and got a new desk and monitor, now running dual monitors. Decided to play a session tonight since I had a productive day and my GF was busy. busted everything, and my last 2 MTTs were super gross. Decided to take a bit of a shot and registered the 109 10k. Was top 3 in chips around 45 handed when I spewed most of my stack bluffing a 3rd diamond river with air betting 5k into 8k to put villain all in, thought villain couldn't have much given the way the hand played. He rivered a set of 8's and snapcalled. There were 2 overs to his 88 on the board and I was right that his range was weak, but I have a feeling he would have snapped off anyway with his pair. Was down to 10bb after that and survived open shoving in a bunch of spots and getting folds. Busted shoving 87o on btn vs 2 nit blinds. ~12bb SB woke up w/ AKo and rivered an A after I flopped a 7. After that I was still in the 10K 10 min levels and had a 50bb stack at 500/1k. I opened 88 pre and got 2 callers. I went to cbet like 4.4k on a 276 rainbow flop and accidentally typed in 44k for a shove. Snapepd by 76 and busted.
Feel super gross and tilted; haven't felt this tilted since I started playing this year. Def taking tomorrow night off and probably not playing until Suday, maybe Monday. Trying to focus on the positives and consider the fact that I started like 3 weeks ago with $200.
Current Bankroll: $2,986
December 11, 2013
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Soo Instead of taking the night off I decided to play 13 MTTs. Had a meeting all day for work and killed my presentation. Feeling really good and I know I'm not playing tomorrow night since I will be celebrating St. Patty's with some friends. I played some higher buy-in events including 3 10k's. I feel like I've played reallly well so far tonight. Couldn't win many flips and got it in on a few 80/20's where I lost but ended up taking 6th in the $82 10k for a little over $500. I was shortstack with 6.5bb and utg open shoved for like 8bb. This player had been super active and open shoving a ton, and I called off with KQs. Villain's A7o held. I'm still in a 7.5k turbo and a 4k 6max with decent stacks. If I don't cash either it's a breakeven night for me and I feel like I played very solidly and didn't get tilted or frustrated at all. Back to grinding Sunday, hope to put in a bunch of Tournaments.
December 11, 2013
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Just busted 6th in the 7.5k GTD Turbo. Had like 4bb going into the FT and played it very well IMO. Raised AI witl like 3.5bb with KJs over minrz from chipleader. 12/12 in the 4k 6-max lets work some short stack magic!
Edit: Just busted in 12th in the 4k 6max 3bet shoving 10bb AQo UTG+1 vs UTG 2x open from 28bb. Villain had KK. Feel really, really good about how I played all night. Didn't care about any beats. I generally tilt when I make a stupid mistake and sometimes have a hard time getting over it, but if I get one outed after shoving turn on the FT bubble I am over it very quickly. Feels nice to put together a winning night and I will be ready for a Sunday grind! Let's bink something so we can be nicely rolled for the Championship series!
Edit #2: I got a text eariler today about a 48 hour $1/1 cash game over the weekend at a private club about 45 min. away. The game is right by the pub I'm going to for tomorrow night, so I'm thinking I will probably go play for several hours tomorrow before partying. I'll post an update on that game at some point. I'll probably give myself a 1 or 2 buy-in stop loss for the game.
December 11, 2013
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Started my Sunday grind a little late today. Got very little sleep last night and took a short nap before grinding. Just starting now, adding whatever NL tournaments run today basically. Gonna give myself like 3-4 sattellite bullets in the next hour to try and get into the 100k.
December 11, 2013
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Just finishing up my Sunday grind. Had a pretty meh day and wasn't 100% focused at the end at 2 final tables. Here are some stats for today:
4 Sattelites played
13 MTTs played
Cashes:
15 + 1.50 5k GTD: 4th $491
20 + 2 2k GTD KO SS: 4th $233.62
Won a ticket into the 100k for $20 and never got anything going in it. Busted the 2k in 4th open shoving 10bb AJs and getting called by bb with 23s. Had a 3rd place stack well ahead of 4th in the 5k and called chipleader shove bvb with 55 and 20bb. Villan had AQ. Feel like that may have been a silly ICM mistake, esp. since 4th place was really bad.
These 2 cashes turned my day into a small win so that is nice.
Current Bankroll: $3,849
December 24, 2013
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Douggyfr3sh said:
Sick man nice ship!! I remember you saying you regged it like reeeally late. I think I busted it right before you regged it
ya i regged it at like 1130pm lol. i wanna say they were at 125/250/25 so that's 40bb. as much value as there is playing hands against players that are going to generate you xBB/100, I really just prefer jumping into a stack size that most mtts hover around (20-50bb) where like 25% of the field is gone. it means i need to stay on my A-game for a shorter amount of time, which is something i currently struggle with. i'm really not sure if it's something to combat only for this late reg mentality though, because currently i play short enough session i think. when my desktop gets in i'm gonna have to learn better session structure/game selection though, otherwill ill be pissing in a bottle.
Hey how'd the cash game go?, or wait that's this coming weekend? right. gl gl
December 11, 2013
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Hey man, Didn't end up getting into that cash game just had too much stuff going on. Felt like my Sunday went pretty well, I was out until a little after 4:00 AM celebrating St. Patty's and drove home around 10:00 so didn't get a ton of sleep.
I agree that late regging with that big a stack is totally fine and TBH I will probably start regging that particular MTT later. I have no problem with late regging most non-turbos w/ 20bb+ to start, and I think there are a ton of valid reasons to do it- one big one is to keep the # of tables you are playing at any time to a level you are very comfortable with.
December 11, 2013
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Quick summary for Week 1:
MTTs Played (incl. sattelites): 60
Total Buyins: $2,052.70
Total Profit: $1,216.94
ROI: 59.3 %
Average Buy-In: $34.21
Feeling pretty good about my volume,mindset/gameplay,and results for the first week. Didn't really play tonight; just wan't feeling up to it and busy with work. Plan to put in some volume tomorrow night, time to start winning tickets to the Championship series events!
December 11, 2013
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So what should have been an easy day at work is turning into a frustratingly long night! Going on 13 hours now and if I don’t get out of here soon I might not put in a session tonight. These long days keep the fire burning to crush tournaments so missing a night here and there because of them is probably going to be minor in the long run.
December 11, 2013
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After working 14 hours and feeling pretty tired, I came home and ate a late dinner. I housed a red bull and decided to play some games. Started close to 10:00 and played 7 MTTs and 1 Sattelite. Shipped a ticket to any BDPO Sunday 150k GTD for $22, and also shipped the $12 + 1 7k GTD which had 800 entries for $1872! Feeling awesome tonight. Did spew my decent stack 36 handed in the $82 10k with TP which was super annoying. Also kinda spewed off a ton of my big stack in the 10m levels 10k GTD calling 3 barrels w/ JJ overs on a rivered A 1/4 PSB; villain flopped a boat on 887 after calling my 3.1x 3bet pre. Managed to get just over a min cash in that finishing 31st.
Just requested a 3k cashout from Bovada. I feel great and kind of like I'm freerolling this week now. Also feels awesome that I already have a ticket for the Sunday 150k and don't have to play a bunch of sattelites this Sunday now. Plan to put in as much volume as possible for the rest of this week. Let's crush!
December 24, 2013
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sick congratulations man!! i know youre gonna feel that pain today, but your bankroll took a nice uptick so its cool haha. i need to force myself to go to bed earlier so i'll have a decent amount of sleep and can put in a good session. hope you don't have to be up tooo early today
December 11, 2013
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Thx man! Feels really good. I actually slept in a bit today and am just getting up. Fortunately I finished up my part of the project yesterday and today I'm “on call” in case my coworker needs assistance finishing.
It just hit me a few days ago that you and I both started with a $200 deposit at about the same time mid-February ish. I've got a feeling we're both going to have huge years, and it's going to be awesome. I'll catch you on Skype later?
December 11, 2013
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Played last night when I def. should have just taken the night off. I almost had to prop my eyelids up with toothpicks I was so tired! Somehow managed to bink 7th in a 6k but still had a small losing session. Gonna be taking tonight off to get a good night's sleep before a hard grind at my real job on Friday.
I absolutely 
Bovada! I got a 3k check in the mail this morning after requesting a cashout just over 32 hours ago! That is super impressive, especially in the current online poker climate. Gonna deposit it with mobile banking today and probably open a new acct. soon to keep my poker moneys separate from my main account.
On a side note, I just finished reading Malcom Gladwell's “Outliers” a few days ago and I have started reading “Blink”. I reeally like it so far and I feel like it applies to poker a ton. Also enjoyed Outliers and it's a great book but I think I'm going to enjoy Blink a lot more.
December 24, 2013
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dude please we gotta stay on top of the other regarding our work ethic. when we know we can't play, WE CANT PLAY. im serious haha. i'm so tired and while i get my work done, i feel shitty. we need to go to sleep!!! tonight. no poker dude! don't do it! haha. ill be on skype
December 24, 2013
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sickkkk on the check. i requested 2k on monday so maybe it's there? that would be so awesome. i'm not sure where to deposit mine just yet. i'm a little nervous. i do'nt like confrontation and would prefer avoiding the bank but whateverr. my credit union is really chill and i stupidly asked if they took international checks (they know i play poker…one of them is friends with a pro and doesn't know a lot but loves to hear about it) and i didn't even think that i might be depositing there….i wouldn't have told them anything lol guess we'll see. worse case scenario they turn it down
December 11, 2013
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jacobsharktank said:
sickkkk on the check. i requested 2k on monday so maybe it's there? that would be so awesome. i'm not sure where to deposit mine just yet. i'm a little nervous. i do'nt like confrontation and would prefer avoiding the bank but whateverr. my credit union is really chill and i stupidly asked if they took international checks (they know i play poker…one of them is friends with a pro and doesn't know a lot but loves to hear about it) and i didn't even think that i might be depositing there….i wouldn't have told them anything lol guess we'll see. worse case scenario they turn it down
Haha yeah man I wasn't able to deposit it via mobile app because it was Canadian, so I had to take it to the teller. It was actually kind of awkward. I've deposited 3-4 checks for 2-3k from Bovada, and this was by far the most awkward. Usually they don't really ask anything about what it's from or whatever and it's simple- but today the teller said “Uh-Oh” when I said I had a Canadian check to deposit. She had to have her manager come over and tell her how to do it and they explained to me that it would go to collections and I might have it in a week or so (this may sound bad but it's super standard and not a problem). I said something like “Yeah that's no problem I got one of these last year and did the same thing.” As the teller was entering my info she casually said “So you get one of these a year ha?” And I said “Well it depends, It's for some consulting work but it's stuff I don't do often so I may get a few a year or might not.” That was the end of the conversation and I signed my deposit slip and walked out. If I start cashing out a bunch of checks I might have to make sure I go when another teller is working next time or something, but not really worried about it at all.
Regarding the not playing, YES! Let's try to enforce that on eachother. It's not worth it to get another night of 8-10 games in at like 5% expected to ROI if your normal ROI is like 30% or more and you're gonna feel like shit the next day! Working on my Championship series schedule right now, next post will be that.
December 11, 2013
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Set a tentative schedule up for the Championship series tonight. My criteria was basically any NLHE MTT that was under $109 for freezeouts and $50 for rebuys. Games have to be after 5:00 PM on weekdays and anytime on weekends. The only exception to this is the Main event which I will play if I can sell action or sattelite in and a $150 on April 1 that I'm thinking about taking a shot at for my birthday!
I made a spreadsheet on Google Docs listing all the series events, this might be useful for anyone trying to put together a plan for the series. The link is below. I have highlighted all the games I plan to play on there. Some numbers on the series:
Games Playing: 35 (incl. Main)
Total Buyins: $3361
Average Buyin: $96
My current online bankroll on Bovada is a little after 2k and obviously if I start off by bricking everything and don't feel good about my game I'll probably drop a bunch of these events. I will also be playing the lower buy-in regular daily GTD's which should lower my Average Buyin significantly. Also hope to swap some pieces with some other TPE guys to lower variance a bit. Here is the link to my Google Docs spreadsheet for the series:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtIDENBoV9badF9fV2R4blB2NS1ONURQcllwd09xT1E&usp=sharing
EDIT:
Just booked a 10% swap in the kickoff event with both Jacobsharktank and Jasonchr. Let's go!!
Let's ship some of these events TPE!
February 27, 2014
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Out of interest what are the field sizes in Bovada. I have never played there.
December 24, 2013
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bovada fields vary, but mostly under 400 players I think? does that sound right doug? the nightly big games have more. there's a $35k guarantee that's a $60 buy-in. It was a 25k up until a few weeks ago, and consistently breaks 40k. some games have more than 1k people, but it's always the same stuff. there's an 8k and a 10k $11 every day, and might be another 10k earlier in the day I'm forgetting, obviously those are huge huge fields.
December 11, 2013
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Sounds about right to me. Heading to dinner with my girl and then starting a grind. Just found out I have to work in the AM but like 99% sure I'll be home in time for the kickoff event!
December 11, 2013
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Week 2 Summary:
It was a pretty rollercoaster week this week. Started off strong with a nice ship but then went on quite a downswing the rest of the week. Nearing the end of the day Sunday I was on like a 1.5k downswing in MTTs. I got a few small cashes at the end, and was surprised when running the numbers for this week that I was actually slightly profitable on the week.
I had a HUGE mental game slip-up where I was stupid and decided to play 400NL cash for about 45 min. on Sat. after bricking everything that day. Being results-oriented I did win a buy-in there and felt like I played extremely well, but I just can't jump into midstakes games when stuck risking nearly 10% of my bankroll.
I feel pretty good about my volume over the weekend, was able to get 17 games in both Sat. and Sunday. It was nice having a few TPE guys to sweat the weekend with, shoutout to Jacobsharktank and Jasonchr! Had a semi-deep run in a Turbo BDPO series event and reallly wanted to play that FT but just couldn't get there!
Games Played: 65
Total Buyins: $2630.10
ABI: $40.46
Profit: $203.54
ROI: 7.7%
Prob. taking tonight off. Really excited for the Wed. 30$ turbo rebuy Championship series event!
Edit: I want to start laying out my goals for the upcoming week itt, so here goes:
Week 3 Theme: Patience. I feel like I'm taking spots I really don't need to take and I'm never turning down the chance to flip. This seems pretty bad. With Bovada's soft fields in general and somewhat flat payout structures in many events, I don't need to take every single flip/super close situation. I'm also feeling like I'm forcing the action maybe a wee bit too much. The latest article on “playing to win” vs. patience was really timely for me this week. Other goals: eat better this week, work out 3 times, read 2-3 chapters of Blink, get a lot done at work.
December 24, 2013
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I said it before and I'll say it again. If berating is what we think will be the only way to prevent us from making these mental game slipups, so be it. Stay away from the cash games Douggggiee!! We all do it haha. We gotta not lol. That's so high variance and so bad for our rolls and we're not even sure where we stand in those games to be honest. We might do a lot of things very well, but there could easily be very simple exploitable things we don't even realize that cost us hugeeee bb/100 so stay away!!! 🙂
December 11, 2013
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Completely agree. Even if I could crush the 400NL games today, the simple fact is that I'm nowhere near rolled for playing them. If I continue to play MTTs with good BRM while playing my A game, the results will come. Maybe someday not too far away I will be rolled for taking shots at the midstakes cash games. Until then, taking shots at them is only going to make my Risk of Ruin creep towards 100%. Sounds like a pretty stupid plan to me!
December 11, 2013
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Couldn't resist and 1-tabled the Championship series HU shootout event tonight. Round 1 went very well and I didn't think villain was very solid. Round 2 villain seemed very solid and ranging me well. Got down to 11bb and googled a Nash chart and started playing jam or fold off that. Found a good spot to limp 99 to induce a shove and doubled, got to about even stack and lost a flip when I 3bet shoved 22 over villain's 2x open like 18bb deep. Villain quickly called w/ A7o and rivered the 7. I think villain actually made a slight mistake there vs. a Nash range, but not sure. Thoughts anyone?
December 24, 2013
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i'm not sure what your dynamic was, but heads up if someone competent while shortstack reshoved 18bb over my open i think a mid Ax would be the bottom of my call range. If he minraises and you jam, he's seeing 20:16 or 1.25:1 or 44.4% needed equity to be neutral cEV. i can't see a reason why cEV and $EV wouldn't be the same here due to heads up format or something, so yah. I don't think is all inclusive and doesn't happen every single time you get minraised on with 18 effective necessarily because you know you'll get called say after the 3rd or 4th time, but if he ranges you on something like A2-A5 A9-AK KT-KQ K5s-K7s QT-QJ JT 22-AA, he has 49% equity. And because he has a blocker, a large chunk of your range is behind his hand. Like those Ax hands are still in your range, but because he has one, you can't have it and thus have something else from that bucket.
December 11, 2013
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@VoxPopuli thanks for the insight! Makes sense.
Played 9 MTTs tonight including some high buy-ins. Had a deep run in the 30k Turbo SS series event but busted on a flip just outside the money. Finished 3rd in a 3k GTD for around 370, but still had a small losing night. Bustout hand in the 3k was pretty interesting. Hand before I opened a little over 2x and villain 3bet me and I mucked. Next hand w/ 99 Villain opened and I 3bet and villain 4bet shoved pretty quickly. Before I 3bet I decided I was going to get it in based on dynamic. We were semi-close in chips with villain at around 150k to my 115k relative to the short stack who had about 45k at 3k/6k. I called the 4bet shove and villain had J7s and binked a J. I felt like I played really well tonight and was very clear headed. Gonna have to lower my ABI for a bit unless I bink something and that means missing a lot of the championship series events.
December 11, 2013
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Blahh, last night didn't go well. Bricked everything and made a few bad plays on bustouts. Also had a few cool spots where I picked up some chips when I probably wouldn't have a few months ago. Really looking for more spots to find good double/triple barrels. Had a really nice Triple barrel bluff w/ A hi for huge value, can't remember which tournament it was in. Anyway, my online roll is at like $700 now and I def. gotta drop the ABI down a bit. Reeallly gonna suck to miss out on the championship events I wanted to play, but so be it. I def. don't want to miss the Sunday 150k and will be firing off lots of sattelites to get in. Bubbled a BDPO Main Event satellite which really sucked, but IMO I played well and ran into the top of a 65/45 villain's range when check/shoving flop with OESD + A overcard. Basically my thought was that villain is cbetting near 100% of his range based on previous action and dynamic. I was the only player fighting back at him. I figured a check/shove would fold a ton of his range and with the OESD if I'm wrong we've got decent equity against the top of it.
Got in a really good workout last night before grinding and feel awesome today because of it. Also have been eating better this week and getting decent sleep overall. I've got a ton of work to get done today and hope to get through it in time to go to the gym and put in a session. Def taking tomorrow night off to celebrate my b-day with friends so would be good to get some volume in tonight.
Oh and BTW, my 3k check has gone through collections and is showing in my acct. balance now. AFAIK there was no fee for the processing/collections. Had considered depositing some on another network like WPN but might wait until I withdraw again from Bovada. Would like to have a nice base bankroll in my bank acct. before spreading myself too thin on multiple sites. Let's bink something so I can go to NJ in april for the online series!!!
January 20, 2014
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Hey Doug, just read over your goals. You are a lot better at keeping them updated than I am. I just update mine at the end of every month. Good for you. After reading through yours, I thought of a book that you might like a lot. Maybe you've read it. I read it, and it completely changed the way I think about poker. It's called, “Treat your Poker like a Business” by Dusty Schimdt. He's a cash game player, but you can apply the same principles to mtts.
In there he shows how he became one of the best dollar per hour players in the world. Maximizing your time, managing your bankroll, making decisions automatic (so you don't have to devote energy into thinking), setting goals, record keeping and taxes. One of the big things I got out of the book was, “become a one trick pony.” By only playing one game, you become an expert much faster. If you play Omaha, then NLH, then razz, then MTTs and cash, you are a jack of all but an expert in none. But if you specialize in let's say HU NLH SNGs, you can get really good, really fast. 97% of your decisions become “automated”. You rarely have to think through decisions, freeing up mental space to play more tables and increase your dollar per hour win rate.
I read the book twice, hylighted sections that I wanted to emulate, then wrote them out into detailed goals that I read every morning and night for 2 weeks. Now, those principles are a part of my personality. If you haven't read it, I would really recomend it.
Good job on your goals Doug! Keep it up 
November 17, 2013
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Doug, good to hear you got a little bankroll boost. I'm in the same place too with not playing as many of the championship tourneys as I wanted. Let's have a better month in April!
December 11, 2013
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Thanks for the replies guys! Really appreciated.
SIGABA- Thanks for the reccomendation, I actually have read Dusty's book and loved it! I didn't work as hard as you to learn the material, but it was a great read.
I am slacking on my updates and owe a weekly update for last week. Just been super busy. Probably not gonna happen tonight either, but I'll get it out soon. I'm not busto yet! 
December 11, 2013
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I'm continuing to ride the variance rollercoaster. I was down to my last $100 on Bovada again last night and played really late only to bust 16th in the 35k GTD. That was a little boost so now we're at around $475. Felt I played well but just can't hold in key spots. Kind of on the fence about playing a session tonight, and if I do I will be starting soon and ending early to get some sleep. I've got a big project at work tomorrow and will need to be well rested! Hope to put in lots of volume this weekend but if I bust my online roll I might take the rest of the week off.
December 11, 2013
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Decided to play some live cash tonight. Just got to the casino, jumping in in a few mins
December 11, 2013
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Disclaimer: This is going to be a very long post.
I haven't been updating my weekly results for the past 3 weeks so I'm just going to puke them all out in one post here. The past few weeks have been ~1.5k downswing during the week, win it all back on Sunday, rinse and repeat. I have played a higher ABI and higher variance schedule due to the series on Bovada, and now that it's over I plan to play a 20-30$ ABI schedule and also add in some SNGs. I'm fine with the downswongs and breakeven stretch and glad I went out of my way to play as many events as possible. I really enjoyed playing the series events and had lots of deep runs, just didn't get there.
This past Sunday I had deep runs in both the 150k and 300k GTD, but ended up getting small cashes. The 300k actually had more like 450k in the pool with 82k to first, I had a big stack and was in top 5 for a long stretch and lost a key 3 way all in for 120k pot w/ AQ vs K4 and A8, K4 binked a 4. After that I folded several flops then got AQo in vs 99 w/ 15bb and lost the flip for 77th and just over 1k. I sattied in for $49 so it was a nice score but man I wanted that big one!
Decided to take the dive and get some coaching as well. I had my first session with Danny Noseworthy yesterday and it went very well. We did some HH review for a 10k turbo FT run I had and man I have some glaring leaks to fix! This actually makes me really happy because I feel I already have a big edge in the Bovada tournaments and now I have some leaks to fix which will make me more profitable! On to the results:
Week 3 [3/24-3/30]:
MTT:
Games played- 64
Total Buyins- $2,461.70
ABI- $38.46
Profit- -$485.75
ROI- -19.7%
SNG:
Games played- 5
Total Buyins- $99.75
ABI- $19.95
Profit- $131.25
ROI- 131.6%
Week 4 [3/31-4/6]:
MTT:
Games played- 54
Total Buyins- $2019.80
ABI- $37.40
Profit- $1,427.05
ROI- 71%
SNG:
Games played- 11
Total Buyins- $613
ABI- $55.73
Profit- -$150
ROI- -24.5%
Week 5 [4/7 – 4/13]: COMING SOON
December 11, 2013
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Hello TPE,
Been way too long since I have updated this challenge. Been insanely busy and constantly on the go with Grinding,Work, and enjoying life. Feeling more confidence in my game than I ever have before, by far. I shipped the Bovada 35k a few nights ago while traveling for work and that has kind of motivated me to get this thing up to date. My spreadsheet of MTT results is way behind and I need to update it with the last month+ of games. Once I get it all updated, I will post my cumulative ROI and profit for MTTs and SNGs so far this year. Plan is to get that done before this weeks' Sunday grind.
I'm making big improvements in both life and poker and I feel great right now. I've booked several more hours of coaching with Danny Noseworthy, and plan to purchase some software (Flopzilla, CREV) and to do more off-the-table work. I am going to reduce the # of tables I'm playing to a max. of 6 at any time. I have also been doing some 2-4 tabling sessions and I can feel the difference. The thing is- when I 2 table I am actually working on my game at the same time as playing and it is much more beneficial to learning and getting better. Currently finishing up KidCardiff's advanced preflop series and it is maybe the best MTT series I've ever seen. Not sure what series is next but I find I generally get more value out of theory vids than live sweat/HH review type stuff.
In the near future I will be planning a 5-7 day Live MTT trip and I'm currently trying to decide between a trip to WSOP and a trip to AC for the Borgata Summer Series. Leaning towards the Borgata since it is closer with less expenses and lower buy ins, and on top of it all the fields should be softer with all the best players away at WSOP. Things are looking up TPE!!!
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