So this month started out great. I was killing it. In fact, out of my first 35 sessions of the month, only 3 of them were losing sessions. I was up about 12 buy-ins for 5NL and things were going great. I was just about to hit the $200 mark in my account at FullTilt and then... boom 3 buy-in losing session. No big deal though, I have had a bad sessions here and there many times before that I have come back the next day and got it all back. I took a rest that night and came back fresh the next day. My first session of the day was good, I ended that up almost a full buy-in, so I was thinking that I'm back to normal. Later on that day, lost another 2.5 buy-ins. My AA lost to KK 3 times in those two sessions. My sets got rivered out by straights and flushes. Basically, none of my great hands were holding up and I can't figure out what is going on. So far on the month I am still up 3 buy-ins for 5NL, but I am about to the mark where I might want to move back down to 2NL for a little bit. I will know after my next session. I'm not sure when that's going to be though because I have taken a little bit of a break from Full Tilt because I felt like I was just getting tilted playing there because none of it was working out for me. That and I had played every day of the month on there to try to get into the One-A-Day freeroll for IronMan, but I found out that the day that runs I am going to be in St. Louis for a wedding, so I will be unable to play in that anyway, so it wasn't worth blowing my money away on points for something I won't even be able to play.
Here's the graph of FullTilt:
So my play for the last 5 days has been moved to UltimateBet because I have a big enough roll over there that I can play what I want. I started out at 2NL because I haven't played UB for cash games in quite a while, so I wanted to become more comfortable with it again. So far I have only logged 700 hands, but I'm up almost 2 buy-ins, so it's working over there a little better for me so far. I have been having a problem with them giving me my UltimatePoints though so we will see how long I will be over there.
My next move if things stay rough for me might be to move over to PokerStars. They have a ton of players so I know there will always be a game going and they have a great VIP program. Not that FullTilt's is bad, I would just like more of the bonus's and cash than gear or a custom avatar. Also, they have the SCOOP Poker Tournament which is comparable to FTOPS but bigger, so there is something else to think about, even though most of the events are way too high for me right now, even though I'm going to be a balla rolling in the dough by next year ;). The only thing is that I'm not a huge fan of the layout of PokerStars layout. I know it's easy to get new skins and such for the tables, but it's the whole window...I don't know, it's something I'm going to have to get used to.
Anyways, I'm going to get going. I'm playing in the CardsChat tournament on Tilt right now and it isn't going well and then I have the OFC Tournament on Bodog later that I will hopefully make a deep run in, but as of right now there are 1600 players in it and Bodog's payout structure is very narrow paying 135, so only like 8.5%. We'll see how it goes anyway. Good luck all!
2 comments:
as a pro poker player myself, i'm wondering if you're doing this for fun or you're doing this for money?
because i gotta say, games aren't that good any more and they're getting tougher. for fun, ok, great, but if this is something you're doing for money i would say it might not be for you.
i would also say with such a small sum of $ you would do better to have it all on one site and move up in stakes. with $1k you can be playing 10c/25c NL (assuming you're decent), and you'll actually have an easier time because the players still all suck horribly but the rake is a lot lower... rake at those tiny games from what i've seen is just huge, too huge
good luck
Ted, I'm doing it for both. Mostly fun as I have other sources of income that are more reliable for now. I have played higher stakes as well, I used to regularly play 25NL at UltimateBet when I was in college and had more time and had success with that.
Realistically, I could combine all of the cash I have on all of my sites together, but I have left it open just because there will be tiems when I don't feel like playing on one site for a given time and that way it allows me to be more flexible. One thing that I could do is just use my total bankroll when considering my limit, regardless of what site I am playing on(given that site has the funds for it). I would probably do that if I was doing this to build up to the point where I wanted to make it full time, which obviously I would love to be able to do someday, but right now it just isn't in the near future right now.
As far as the rake, yea it definitely is more prevalent at the micro limits, but I have offset a little bit of that by getting rakeback, so that's at least a little extra.
Anyway, thanks for reading the blog, I always like to get input as I know there is always something new to do/learn regardless of how long you've been playing. Take it easy.
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