Am I good, or just lucky? Profit Challenge #2 - €10k profit!

Originally posted by AgapieGheorghe
Tim what Qualies means ?

With Quallies I mean the qualifier tournaments, the ones you win tickets to other tournaments with!

Originally posted by anduke
What a great journey to follow along. Making me think about trying Unibet again myself too. Keep up the good work, you will reach 10k in no time for sure!
Thanks for the kind words! If you're gonna try it out, you can always send me a message for what kind of games you should play That 10k will be reached for sure, right now I'm on a little downswing but RNGesus teased me today and I think I understood his message: 'It's gonna turn around this week!'

Tim congrats on your success I hope you will reach your goal in no time. I am also contemplating my come back to poker world.

Thanks xxnub! What will you be playing if you make your comeback?

Chas games and I will start at the bottom NL2.

MARCH - Summary

I am not too happy with many things in March.

First of all I played really little the last week. After last weeks downswing I didn't feel very eager to play this week so I didn't.
I did very little studying as well, I think two times less as in february.

Results are okayish though.

MTT results:

However almost all profit from March is in tickets so I really do need to hit in a qualified MTT soon to make some profit. I will keep playing the quallies as my edge is very high there. Even though it's HyperTurbo blind levels.

Cash Results:
I need to request those, so these will be in a different post. But I think I will be up a lot on NL10, down a few bucks on NL25 and up a few buyins at NL20 (although my NL20 results can't be requested unfortunately cause MicroGaming doesn't safe the data/doesn't give it to it's players).
Be sure to tune in this Tuesday to the live coaching session from Lemon as my cash game will be analyzed there!

I changed my bankrolls around a bit, now playing at RedKings instead of BetSafe, cause I want to be tracked to reach gold status. Pokerstars funds are cashed out and waiting to be transferred to PartyPoker however first I need to change my account currency there from USD to EUR and me and support have some problems accomplishing that.

Bankroll:
Unibet: €1649 + €298 in TICKETS
RedKings: €575
Pokerstars: €122
Skrill (waiting to be transferred): €633

TOTAL BR = €2979 + €298 in TICKETS
Change:€54
Total profit: €779 (7,8%)

Two months into the challenge and about 8% done, with a little more work put in that this month... I think I can do it.

APRIL GOALS

> 3 MTT sessions per week
1 or 2 cash sessions per week (1 hour +)
Watch 3-5 strategyvideos per week (80% MTT, 20% cash)
Analyze deepruns, if they are made

wooo
All the Tim fans come join us tonight 8pm CEST at
https://www.twitch.tv/pokerstrategydotcom
The focus will be a lot on MTT players grinding cash!

Originally posted by AgapieGheorghe

Happy birthday Tim !

Thanks Gheorge!!

Originally posted by LemOn36
wooo
All the Tim fans come join us tonight 8pm CEST at
https://www.twitch.tv/pokerstrategydotcom
The focus will be a lot on MTT players grinding cash!

Had the Cash Game Session Review today, was very nice! Most important things I picked up:
Try to record more sessions as I was sometimes amazed with plays I made...

Also needed to have more of a next-street plan after taking some lines that should be auto-profit by it-self, but even more profitable when thinking what my range would look like to villain and acting accordingly!

Was very helpful

APRIL - WEEK 1

The week started really well, made a small loss in the MTT's sunday but a huge profit in the cash games, again a good day monday in the cash games, same for tuesday.

Then there were two days I could not play.

Friday was horrible. Again a huge loss in the MTT's...

This weekend the Maraton was in our city, I helped a lot so made long days and felt too tired to play afterwards. But it didn't matter too much to me as the results haven't been too great lately in the MTT's, and I feel like I should study a bit more before I go full grinding again. I don't believe in bad luck for such long periods so I think that somewhere in my downstreak a (small/big) leak got in my game. I have a session planned with my studygroup where we go over some HandHistories of some MTT's where I blinded out. LEt's hope we discover some leaks!

As for the plan's for next week. They have changed a bit regarding to the monthly goals.

I want to play 2 MTT sessions, and 3-4 cash game sessions of 1 hour +, while I study some midgame stage of MTT's as that is I feel where things go south.

Bankroll:
Unibet: €1678 + €258 in TICKETS
RedKings: €556 + €10 in LP
Pokerstars: €121
Partypoker: €628

TOTAL BR = €2983 + €258 in TICKETS
Change:€4
Total profit: €783 (7,8%)

So the Cash Game profit and the MTT losses turned out to be about equal.

Hey, I come with a quick midweek update.

First of all I want to share a nice story: I made a new record! Tuesday night I played 9 regular MTT's. And I was the bubble-boy on 3 of them! 7th with 6 paid, 13th with 12 paid and 10th with 9 paid. But all these bubbles did give me my confidence in my MTT game back, since I haven't felt so sure about my play since a month. The results will finally come again! I feel it.:f_smile:

CASH GAME RESULTS
For the cash games, I finnally got my updated excel sheet with profits/losses. However it's just from Unibet...

Although 80% of my MTT volume is at Unibet, most of my cash game volume is at MicroGaming, since I mostly play NL20 at the moment.
To track my winrate there is a lot harder since they don't store stats on their servers like Unibet, so I decided to make an excel sheet which guesses my amount of hands and winrate, given the amount of time I played, the amount of tables I played and the amount of profit/loss I made. I made it 2 days ago, so only all stats from then onward will be in there. This is how it looks (I copied it from somewhere on the internet and adjusted it to fit my preferences).

I also made a guess of my winrate of the last 2 months at NL20. I had a little over 3k raked hands (3054) at micro NL20 and made a profit of about €450 before rakeback, so I guess about 1 in 5 hands get raked, which means I had about 15k hands (very rough estimate). Which would give me a winrate of 15bb/100, but this is a very rough estimate as I am guessing my profit and my amount of hands.

No update this week due to exams.

Results were about the same, well in cash games, not so good in MTT... It makes me wonder, should I return to just cash games?

APRIL - WEEK 2&3

Focussed on cash games those 2 weeks, almost no MTT's.

A change has been made in the ticket exchange policy at Unibet which had a big negative impact on the way I can play qualifiers, it won't be able to freeroll the €100 buyin anymore... I have 23 qualifier tickets left, but when they are gone, they are gone. Can't exchange anymore :(.

The cash games at NL20€ have been going greatly! However I recently changed some funds to Natural8 and although I love the amount of fish on the site, I am really running bad over there. Down 2 buyin at NL25$ there and mostly to fish :(, I will come back ofcourse, just look at my results on other sites.

I also recieved a ticket of €10 to play PLO10 with, status right now:

So I will try to get that ticket to €100 with the last 100 flops, that would be a nice boost for my bankroll!

I also cashed out €100 of my profit this month

At the end of the month I will update my winrates etc!

Bankroll:
Unibet: €1498 + €316 in TICKETS + €83 in PLO-Credit
RedKings: €638 + €22 in LP
Partypoker: €623
Natural8: $208 @0.82 EUR/USD = €170
CASHED OUT: €100

TOTAL BR = €3029 + €421 in TICKETS
Change:€47
Total profit: €829 (8,3%)

APRIL SUMMARY

The sun came through this month and that hurt both my poker volume and my university results.
However it's time to summarize the little things I have done this month!

Cash Games
I played about 2.1k hands at NL20 RedKings for a winrate of 32.5bb/100. Nice winrate I think! The results before 11 april are not included however because I didn't track manually by then.

At N8 I played a little more as people seemed extra fishy there, however I didn't have a lot of luck there. Ran very cold...
This is my graph of NL25 there, however it isn't raked yet so you should substract about an extra 2.50 per 100 hands, which means I am not winning there yet.

We will see if my small BR there will survive, right now have about 7BI for NL25 stashed at the site. Their rakeback system is also not what helps a player like me who can't play everyday, as you can't miss a 24 hour window or you'll be downgraded.

At Unibet I only played about 500 hands and made 70€ at NL25 so that's very hot. Will request those results after may as it isn't worth for livechat to go through so much just to send me my 500 hands.

MTT
Last two weeks I didn't play any non-qaulifier MTT. I am trying to fit in one session every week but it has been hard to plan them as I know they take such a long time. Results this month weren't great in them.

Let's hope for some better MTT luck next month if I play them.

Bankroll:
Unibet: €1589 + €307 in TICKETS + €8 in CashGame-Credit
RedKings: €665 + €24 in LP
Partypoker: €623
Natural8: $182 @0.83 EUR/USD = €151
CASHED OUT: €100

TOTAL BR = €3128 + €339 in TICKETS
Change:€99
Total profit: €928 (9,3%)

Good luck on your 10K goal Tim, Is there no May overview?

Hey Poncygainful,

May has just started so no overview yet! But I will ofcourse give an update here after the month ends and at the end of this week!

This week, not too much happened, I think about 20€ profit in total, plus some nice qualifier ticket wins. So no ''official'' update this week.

BAD NEWS

At the moment I am finishing my last 4 university courses and they eat up a lot of time, I find very little time to play poker. Not enough to keep a weekly blog.

I will keep tracking my results and continue posting when I've finished my last courses. Untill then I will sometimes play but not enough to make for an interesting journey!

Ofcourse if something extremely good or bad happens I will post that! But no weekly update for 2 months from now.

Goodluck all!

CASHING OUT
I will cash out about 2k€, I will count it precisely so this challenge doesn't go to waste! But when I return my BR will be about 1k€ which feels about right for my level of play atm.