[Closed] The Journey is complete. The fun times had. 897's Retired SNG blog.

Well I am very pleased with myself so far.

I did manage to get another session in tonight and I ran HORRIBLY.

If this type of shit happened to me before I would have been writing
here about how I had to stop early because I couldn't take it anymore.

If I was dealt AA, and got any action it would lose postflop...
Once to K6os, which hit a k and a 6 and he called preflop with like 3x bb raise.

Flop is rainbow K6x.. Do the math with what happened next.

Next AA had my raise called preflop by TJos who hit T and J on the flop.

I am so glad that I was unaffected. I am posting the graph just so I can
see it whenever things get worse then this which they surely will.

22 Sngs this session, one first place one 2 and one 4th.

And its actually not even bad, so IDK what was wrong with me earlier that
this used to get me steaming. Maybe starting with a quarter really did help
alot, having the patience to sit there for a few days playing 990 1 cents
with insane all in fests to even see the bubble....

I was asking myself why I am I not bothered now the whole session when things
just kept going south over and over.. I am at another place right now so on
this smaller monitor I can see the races and results of my pushes and plays.

So for 2 solid hours I managed to hang in there with no problems which
I think means I will have the patience to just keep pushing on and
I have to admit I was hesitating to shove... After what felt like a couple
of dozen retarded outcomes in a row, I am sitting there with a pushable hand
and 3 times or so I almost laid the hand down but convinced myself
not to alter my play because then I truly will be doing something wrong.

This post will definately be needed by me to go back and read when
things get worse so I can understand fully then as I do now that this
is the nature of the beast. Especially with 18 man SNGs, you will have
stretches that will take days of playing HOURS to get through of
B/E and downers.

Enough rambling I just want to make sure I have it down on paper...
even if it is E paper, that I have the mindset I need now to give this
a serious try again. And remember that.

Again this graph isnt results orientated thinking in the fact of dwelling
on how unjust the poker gods are to me and blah blah. It is just
so I can see how I reacted to this after spending an entire day on
the receiving end. If I had the graph from earlier today to add here,
it would look even worse which would help me mre to look at but
oh well the last 2 hours wil have to do.

Bubbled out 4 times and one shy of the bubble 6 times but after reviewing
the session, ~90 percent of my plays were correct so I still need work with
ICM of course.

Its due, I was dishing out the ass whoopings since I started these $1s on FT.

Now bring on the long term success please.

.

Much better evening tonight.

What was interesting is there is something else missing when I am playing.
I ended up running very well tonight, and taking down a few firsts and
facing a few suckouts and dishing out a few, but when I was running hot,
the over excitement was not there. I hope this is a good thing to balance
the calm when things go south.

I would not want to keep playing if I had no enjoyment out of it.

I had a great time playing, but I managed to hit a new level of thinking.
Numb isnt the word for it, I guess dedicated is. I just want to keep opening
more games regardless of what happens in the ones I am playing to see
what happens next. I am kind of yeah thats the word waiting.

Waiting to see what 1k SNGs brings, then 10k and so on and so on.

I took a page out of Nick P's book today, back in his blog he explained how
he wrote out all the ranges, and got to know them.

I set the ICM trainer to 9 handed 100% range and just clicked push every time.
I set it to show players ranges and when I saw a table that had 30 percent for
example on any player I copied it to the icm calculator from the table found the
range and wrote it out.

I was frustrated before finding this method because ICM trainers 10 20 30 and
so on percent ranges differ from Holdem Manager and the Wizards idea of the
same percent.

The next step for me is to use the ICM trainer with the % ranges showing
and memorize both what ranges to shove and call with, and what those
ranges are.

I will have to find 1 hour each day to practice this because I figure if I do any
more I wont absorb it.

I just noticed that my 1 year Anniversery just passed woohoo me!.

Untill next time,

Thanks for reading

Hey 897

Everything you say is sounding more and more impressive... and yeah, not getting overly excited when running super hot, more focused and determined is definitely a good thing... it's all about understanding the perspective... I think the real joy in the game comes from a sense of accomplishment one experiences at looking back over a longer period and seeing what has happened and how we have developed... yeah it is fun to win, experience heaters etc... and it sucks going through prolonged downers, but the real enjoyment comes from looking back, seeing the nasty swings and recovering from it... sometimes even months later ♦ not giving up and reaping the rewards in the long run... we always talk about the long term results, and actually seeing them is the best imo...

Know that you will go through periods of 3-4 weeks+ of running like crap, but as long as you continue working on your mental game and keep things in perspective you will do just fine!

Really nice going here man! Awesome mental stuff

Cheers,
Psycho

Thank you PsychoFin, and Nick.

I read through Bokus blog on pokerstars.com and you can say that again about losing stretches...

I mentioned it time and time again but I say it once more, he is going through stretches of
thousands of SNGS running like crap. Thats a few months for me to get through easily.

I can MAX at less than 100 games a day so he goes through it in hours and I sit here for months
blogging about how I am gonna get through this somehow etc etc hehe. Maybe I should
try 50 games at once.

NOT!!!!!

Although I play cg you really got me sucked into the stt/mtt world with nice blog. I now thinking of giving it a shot again.

Thanks for reading Anstaendig. I hope it goes well for you if you do decide to give it another shot.

PLayed a session last night, and I am at just under $100 us.

I was feeling a little sick last night, and I made alot of mistakes. I even shoved on a few tables in a row
by mistake meaning to fold. And I did well overall even with these problems. I came out ahead, and I think
it is time for me to move up to the $3.40 10 man Turbos on stars.

I know its only 30 buy ins, but I am not going to be nitty with BRM just yet. If it was the 18 man $3.40s
I would wait, but I am confident that I can move down when I need to if things go south right away
at the $3.40 10 man.

If memory serves me correctly, they are very similar to the $1.20 turbos on Full Tilt.
You can find yourself 4 handed within 75/150 blind levels quite often.

As a nice side bonus Battle Of The Planets is offering double payouts this week.

I made it nowhere near the leader board on my last 100 game run, but as now,
I was not pushing for it and I did not care. I remember how I used to be though,
and with an awsome start out like I had, I would have been assuring myself I would
make it, because of the sweet easy taste of success right away. Then as My mistakes
increased through volume, IE when I had 8 tables instead of 6, or pushing the
wrong key to shove on tables, I prolly would have blamed it on variance etc etc.....

Last night I looked at the leaderboard and laughed because it is the worst I have EVER scored
and that is with the most volume I have ever put in on stars wihtin a week. Hell after writing this,
I am going to go and read through my old blog because I want to compare what I was then with
what I am now. I think I may have even gotten in more games this week between the 2 sites than I
played in my entire first month or even two months when I started playing with Poker Strategy last
November.

I think a good long patient read through that old blog will do me good. If I remember correctly it
is quite long, so tea time.....

Anyhow I will post a graph today because I am moving up limits. I am alot sicker today than last night.
I do not want to try and play with a headache and all the other nasty shit a cold gives me. So I will
watch videos and read my old blog and re read through some other favorites like Miskokvo's and Nickparkes,
I just finished reading Waiboys monster from day 1 recently so I will just keep reading his daily updates...

I think I will go through LuborC's blog as well and Hlynkinn's... I read all these over my first year playing,
and I want to see if I see them any differently now, as I feel I am not the same person poker wise
as I was then, which is a good thing IMO.

For anyone else looking for inspiration these blogs have it all. Some of them trail off as my old one did.
None of them quite so nasty as my last lines FUCK THIS FUCKING GAME AND FUCK BLOGGING ABOUT IT....

anyhow here is my total chart and graph.

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Originally posted by 8979687
I just finished reading Waiboys monster from day 1 recently...

You know how it is man.. start out writing a 5 minute update, cue "stream of consciouness" rant, finish 30 minutes later.

*EDIT: BTW backing you man.

Thanks Waiboy, and I actually found one of those rants that I should have listened to buried deep within my
old blog, and right when I started to get a taste of the easy and fast success... Hindsight us 20/20, and I
am even more sure after reading through my old blog from day 1 to when I decidded to hang up SNGS and
try FL, that after starting from .25c, and putting in the higher volume from the get go, I am not affected by
results. At least not so far. Its funny that in my old blog, it took me from Nov11, 2008 untill Jan 6 2009
to make paralell progress in the amount of tourneys played and exactly the same amount of profit as I
got through, and made, within 10 days this Nov 11. Half of those 10 days spent with less than $5 and
they were all Full days of playing.

Here is my own rant that I should have followed !!!

Originally posted by 8979687
Hello again readers,

This volume theory is really working out for me.

I can get through the dry spells pretty fast.

So far thankfully, no huge down swing yet, infact in all the time I have played, I think the
only 3 swings really were of about $100, the $10s got me for like $123 and then 2 swings of
$100 in the $6.50s which is 16 buy ins and it happened twice. I think I can call 16 buy in variance,
and not a swing. Same with the $10s it is only 12 buy ins. I just had a shit run when
I tried them out.

So I will rephrase. So far so good on having not yet had any downswings, and I hope it holds up.

How many buy ins do you guys figure is a downswing?

Anyhow I am getting in an insane amount of SNGs a day compared to before.
I got in 18 during happy hour alone. I managed 33 SNGs in all today, and I am up
5 buy ins and change. $34 on the day.

These $20 releases for my bonus seem like they take forever.
95 SNGs at non happy hour playing to release $20. But if I can keep up 30+ a day,
I may be able to manage unlocking $40 a week.

I am going to go through the FAQ section and see if I can find out exactly how rakeback works.

I know its 27% of rake, but from what day to what day do I get paid for on the Friday I get paid.

I have heard different answers, but I would like to calculate it as I play and know ahead of
time how much to expect the next Friday. I like to count my chickens as they hatch!

I am really very happy with my progress in poker, I wanna take a second to thank you guys
for all your help you have given me again. Without PokerStrategy and without you guys posting
here in my blog to help me out when I am playing poorly, and without the hand evaluation threads
and without the ICM trainer and of course the SNG coachings and last but not least without Chenny888
and his way of playing that totally eliminated tilt from my game, of course some times I even
post that I stopped playing because tilt was comming, but it takes a lot of suckouts to get me to
that point. And the tilt isnt me geting raging mad and stuff, it is now totally different. It is like
FUCK I just lost getting it in right so many times, and I feel my play style is about to be affected by it.

So I quit before I get to that point.

So yeah thank you all and thanks PokerStrategy.

I know my BR isnt even at 1k yet, but when I first joined this site, I thought it would take forever
for me to be able to play 4 SNGs at once and consecutively and be able to hold my own.

It took a few months and honestly for any of you newcommers to SNGs reading this,
or even to you cash game players who are starting out. When everyone tells you BR management
BR management BR managment. You listen. If it wasnt for me patiently playing the $1s and then
slowly moving to $3s then $5s and MOVING BACK DOWN when the $10s owned me, I would
never have come close to where I am today.

Sorry for ranting, but I feel I have just hit a milestone, and that I can really make a profit over
the long run playing, and I am just beaming!!

I highly doubt I will be playing 16 at a time for quite some time, but I can see the $1000
mark being a real possibility for me. I never would have dreamed that when I started out.
Well of course I told myself and people I knew I would but I didn't really think so!!

I better go back and read this post if I ever do get a huge downsing like I have seen in some blogs.

Having a whole month being a losing month would crush my spirits. So to those of you who are
going through it and those of you who held on and made it to the other side, I look up to your
playing and determination and hope that I can be the same when my turn comes.

The bottom has the best of it.

I should have bookmarked it or something and WENT BACK AND READ IT!!!!

oh well, this time is different, lets see how long it lasts.

No poker for a while because I was too sick to think straight.

Feeling better tonight so I threw in a set of $3.40s.

Was a pretty bad night for cards, but in the end only down 11 buy ins.

I ran into QQ 8 times, and AA 3 times and KK only 2.

I say that because with this insane bad luck also came some beautiful suckouts.
Suckouts I would never have been on the better side of before because I most
certainly would have shut down within the first 10 games which had 7 straight
bust outs with 0 pay.

But the tilt test is still going ok, no anger just kept opening games.

I will however have to drop down tommorow.

With $65 left I will have to goto the $2 Sattys to the $11 Tourneys.

I may just go back to the $1 18 mans but I want to mix it up a bit.

I am more leaning to either the $2 sattys or the $1.20 non turbo 9 man.

Just for fun and a diff scene.

I have been offered the $100 bonus on Full Tilt, but I am only going for it if I can find some extra cash...

I refuse to switch rolls back to that site just to chase 1 bonus.

Maybe I will see if I Cant use my rakeback to get started.....

Anyhow thats it for now. Been a fun night.

I am gonna def start posting hands but its too late for tonight.

very interesting. Not very strict BRM... i might consider what you said and just 2 table but then the $1,20 MTT sng's. at around $30 and then just move down when i have too.

That would be better then grinding my brains out at the $0,25 sng i think.

You do seem to be quite lucky tbh finishing second twice in the $1 ST sng. i played them for a while but it was annoying me that i kept breaking even and that's when i started to play worse and from there it went downhill.

i'm sticking to 27-45 player SNG's now though. ahwell.. i'll see tomorrow. getting a bit annoyed that i can't seem to get over $50. to be honest i never had $50. i reached $49,50 or something when i went to the $1 SNG's

Today I am going to play around with a side project.

Full Tilt has emailed me and is dinging at me with this $100 bonus.

I have $1.62 in my Full Tilt Account.

I also have just under 2k FTPs left on Full Tilt.

After Tim64 made a post in the Full Tilt Section about FTPS, my interest in using mine is revived.
I have also figured out finally what pays out in FTPS and what pays out iin $T. Thanks alot Lennonac.

Since I am in no hurry to fly up limits I think I will have some fun today.

If it goes well, I will carry this on in the future to try for this $100 bonus.

Starting today I will 6 table the 50 FTP Sats to get into the daily dollar.
I want to have at least 20 buy ins for the 275 FTP buy in for the 12 $T.

If it is a super fast climb, I may even grind out 50 buy ins.

So there is my new project, I will try and turn some points into $T which I will then use to unlock the $100 bonus.

If it goes to shit, oh well It will be fun trying it.

If it works, then so be it.

Either way its alot of fun bouncing around at the bottom of the barrell again.

Have fun... sounds like it could be a sweet little ride...

There really is something to be said for grinding out Micro limits again,
especially even these FTP point Sattys. I applied myself today as if I Was
grinding out $6.50's full steam. Very easy not to be results orientated when
your not even playing for money yet, just points... I am just kinda working
at the steps of this new fun side goal as they come. So far I am up around 2k
FTP points today.

I had an ironic startout. I busted out of the first string of games fast as hell.
And the reason why is because I was getting dealt monsters that were getting
hit by insane calls and suckouts. Back to back to back.

played on and ended up down almost 700 points that set.

Started the next session an hour and a half or so later, and it
was the opposite. I was card dead for the enitre first half of this
session in all games, and I ended up getting it in behind almost every
time in the push or fold stages, and sucking out.

I really cant ever remember conciously being aware of sucking out on that many people
so many times at once. I was laughing when I was getting called saying to myself
jokingly at first and only half jokingly later, your gonna get rivered man, shoulda folded
them TT's. Or KK is rags against my K6os SB vs BB. Sheesh didn't you know that?

Anyhow during the third and fourth session things pretty much evened out as they usually do.

So all in all, I ended up playing 67 of these Sattys today and getting first place 20 times.
Third place was half this amount comming in at 10 of them. so thats an average of IDK
~%50 ITM.

My HEM graph looks funny because it is just a flat line.. It is not counting the points as currency.
I will add that later when I am playing for the $T. So it will look flat then raise up in spikes.

Anyhow still enjoying this game. I just need to know the secret to keeping this mentality when its
bigger amounts of money on the line again. I truly see this bonus being unlocked.. It will take
me another few days I think to have the buy ins in FTPs to start playing the Sattys that pay thye $T.

But all I need is 1 win of $11, and I am unstoppable. Hopefully if I hit 50 buy ins, or maybe 30 or 40,
I will get paid more then onced, but once is really all I need to start clearing the bonus.

Untill next time, thanks for reading.

Originally posted by 8979687
Anyhow still enjoying this game. I just need to know the secret to keeping this mentality when its
bigger amounts of money on the line again. I truly see this bonus being unlocked.. It will take
me another few days I think to have the buy ins in FTPs to start playing the Sattys that pay thye $T.

Here are my thoughts on not worrying about larger amounts of money... (warning, hijack may be in progress here for a moment :f_eek:)

I remember when a $10 downswing had me wanting to punch walls... and when I experienced the first time I dropped $100 in a couple days... and what was really fun was the first time I lost $300 in a single day... They all sucked... but I don't care as much now if I lose $150 in a day, why? cos we learn 2 things. 1. We can recover and 2. as long as we're not bust it's not a big deal...

So as we strive to move up the limits we deal with larger numbers, and each time the number gets larger we feel that same crappy, depressing, the world is against me, I can't win a thing, everyone hates me feeling... I believe that is unavoidable, so we can a) tilt and destroy our roll or b) take a break, move down, study, whatere, regroup and come back cos months from now this will be normal again... it's a cycle as we move to higher limits...

Now it gets tougher, cos moving up the micros is a lot easier to deal with swings of $10-$50 really, cos what's that? a movie with the wife? a night drinking? not much really, they're disposable amounts.... but as we move into the midstakes where the amount can range from like $800-$3K swings for example we're now talking about average monthly salaries, a month's living expenses... psychologically dealing with the fact that you've just dropped in 3 weeks more than you have ever earned in a month in a real job is tough to handle... These are just examples, but can you see how easily results can completely takeover? Now to deal with this is tricky, and something that I personally am dealing with... I would love to be making enough from poker regularly to not have to worry about the bills etc, but really, even though teoretically I am capable of doing so, I really think at this point in time I am further from it than I once believed... Because I am not in a situation where I can experience a $1K/$2K swing and not worry about it cos everything else is OK means that swings that size will affect me... I'll have to move down, take a step back, regroup and recover... it's all part of the massive learning curve that is poker....

So in order to become accustomed to these larger swings will take longer because, well, they're bigger... and it's probably the area that kills so many hopeful poker players, the whole being so close, but still being so far away aspect, if that makes sense...

Anyway, I think to sum this up, in order to not be concerned with the swings and larger numbers, one thing has to be in place, the $$$ must not matter... we must rely on them, and we must come to terms with thye heaving ocean that is our poker carreer, sometimes flat, sometimes stormy, and sometimes we can ride the wave all the way and love every second...... OK, now I am getting off tangent, but I think I made my point.... OK, 897, you can have your blog back now

Awsome hijack, NickParkes!

I think you are so right about the not worrying about the $ being the key to longterm success. Sometimes I think I am close to that mindset and then I drop $100, like just now and I still find that it affects my mood.

I don't feel angry, exactly, just low - and sort of empty inside.

@8979687: just so I have this right...if you play the 50 FTP satellites to the daily dollar and win, you get an entry to the daily dollar tournament, correct? How do you get from there to having the FTP to entering the sat for the double deuce? Is there some way to exchange the daily dollar entry back into FTP?

Then, for the next step, say you enter the FTP 275 satellite for the double deuce and win. You win an entry into that tournament. How do you turn this into T$? Is it as simple as unregistering for the double deuce tourney?

Thanks in advance,
Tim

@Tim I will reply to you in the second post from this....

@Nick Hijack this blog all day any day.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

I have spent piles of time pouring into others blogs with some of the best
advice I can think of and sometimes it just ends up a bit long. And RARELY
does it feel like it fell on deaf ears.

Now, I loved reading your post Nick, and I have to retort.

I will never, ever and I mean ever be playing with an amount, that if I lose it,
it will hurt me financially. Granted, one day if I keep this up, I will be swinging
along at amounts in the excess of $1k to $3k. By that time however, My BR
will be so huge that I will not worry.

They truly say you must have 6 months of ALL expenses at least put away
before even considering if you are good enough and ready to take a shot
at being a pro.

Instead of dinner and drinks being the case now and a car and a
house later for swings.. I felt a heavy feeling of failure.

So yes everything you said makes sense and I agree %100, but when I am fixated
on monetary aspects with this crazy game we choose to play, it was in a matter of
how long I put in for effort and how little I was seeing results wise.

Take my shot at FL full ring. I poured every scrap of effort and spare time I had
into it. And I played with all my heart. Studied like crazy and I had a very decent
grasp of the concepts and over all rules.

Enter 4 days of playing hours a day at very small increments of profit.
Enter day #5 having a total of like $100 added to your roll from hard work
and losing not only that but another $100 in a fast session that had to end
early. Rinse and repeat this over and over and over.......

The answer to this problem, and to the very one you face yourself is to seriously
detach yourself from the money by.. (and this works for me not for you per say,
but you may find a version..) but by starting with nothing but points on this $100
bonus. and also starting with a BR of .25c, If I think of more I will try them too.

I am going to have to put in hours and hours for this. And seriously any one with a BR
to play as much as the $2 SNGs would think this is an insane waste of time. I could easily
drop in enough cash to clear this bonus but I want it ingrained in my head, that this $100
could just as easily be $10,000 or $1.

It took me a while to get used to the fact of grinding these out at over 60 a day with
6 tabling and sessions of about 2 hours or so each. This is to truly teach me that
it is all one big long session, and when I swing down 700 points it looks like I just
wasted the last couple of hours of grinding, but I just press on and wait to see what
the next 40 or so SNGs bring. I am in shock at how many times I have had AA and KK
and QQ smoked... but I am sure when I put it all in HEM, it will show they are all ahead.
I have not checked yet.

So to try and stay on topic or in focus here, if I was just to go deposit my $360 BR into
FT I could prolly clear this bonus in a heart beat. I would also probably fly up the limits
again and within no time see myself at $12's or even higher. But then when the swing
comes, it will hurt and be a wretch just like you said untill I get used to it again.

But by doing it the opposite way around, and truly being in no hurry to make it there,
and being willing to put in as much work here at the bottom as I would at the top I
finally think I can get rid of the monetary aspect and just play on and look back and
think of how many games I played overall and how well of a player I am and where
my leaks are than to be thinking FUCK I am stuck on these $11s for 3 months now
this shit is going nowhere I give up.

I am a winning player over all. In the last year I have withdrawn and kept for
myself $1,200 US. I still have my last withdrawl sitting in a bank account. We
all have fast runs up through the ranks followed by long plateus and downswings.

Infact I am sure if kept pushing on like I did with my quarter.. which is sitting at
~$60 us right now on Poker Stars, I was going to be playing the $6s in not too
long a span of time.

So this is like stopping to smell the roses and be sure I have the patience and
discipline I need to carry this through this time. Instead of plowing on I am
adding this side goal which will set me back so to speak prolly as long as a week
or 2 if it goes well fast.

But is it really setting me back? or launching me forward in having the right mindsent
for what ever is to come?

I hope my rant here makes sense.....

Thanks alot for writing Nick.

Originally posted by Tim64
Awsome hijack, NickParkes!

I think you are so right about the not worrying about the $ being the key to longterm success. Sometimes I think I am close to that mindset and then I drop $100, like just now and I still find that it affects my mood.

I don't feel angry, exactly, just low - and sort of empty inside.

@8979687: just so I have this right...if you play the 50 FTP satellites to the daily dollar and win, you get an entry to the daily dollar tournament, correct? How do you get from there to having the FTP to entering the sat for the double deuce? Is there some way to exchange the daily dollar entry back into FTP?

Then, for the next step, say you enter the FTP 275 satellite for the double deuce and win. You win an entry into that tournament. How do you turn this into T$? Is it as simple as unregistering for the double deuce tourney?

Thanks in advance,
Tim

For your first question Tim, yes, I enter a 50 FTP Satty to the daily dollar.
When I win one seat, I leave it registered while I am carrying on the session.
What this does is save me time having to unregister each time I win because
once you are allready registered, every time you win a first, you get 200 FTP
added to your points right away automatically.

When I am done the session I goto requests in the lobby and I select registered
in tournaments. Then I double click on the daily dollar that shows up and when
the lobby opens up, I just unregister from it and this gives me another 200 FTP.

For the next step you have it %100 correct. Just unregister from it and the
$T is automaticaly placed in your account.

I am however thinking about trying the 90 FTP 27 player sattys instead. They
also pay out 11 $T and they are cheaper to enter by far. I still want 30-50 buy ins
though before I attempt them. I MUST be ablet to come in first place at least once
within that many times.

Nothing too much to add,

Got myself to the 4k points mark today so I tried 5 of the 275 point Sattys.
I ended up heads up in one of them, and ended up all in with KTs and was
called by KJos.

This would have made me at $20 as my rakeback came in today.

I then opened up 6 $1.20 turbos as I had 8 dollars and I took down 1 first.

So nothing special today, and no serious amount of play, just a few casual
sessions which I enjoyed even when the AA were getting smoked. Most
interestingly was when we went to the flop 5 handed after I raised to 300
chips to cover limpers in the 3rd hand or so of the SNG.

Of course after 3 calls, one guy shoves. So all in we go and I was against
some silly cards. I was curious to know if the runner runer straight or the
runner runner flush was gunna get there first. Por guy who got the str8 did so
with the runner runner flush completing as well.

Fun day and most importantly enjoyable.

Sitting at ~2700 points I think back to the 50 points tommorow.

Got in a few sessions today, running on a hamster wheel with the turning FTPs into $ though.

Not complaining, I knew this would be tricky and boy is it ever. I decided to mix things up,
I will earn 1,100 FTPs and then open 4 of the 275 ftp Sattys at once. I managed to pull this
off twice today.

These 275 FTP Sattys are no cakewalk. It is like a play money crap shoot, and I can always manage
to hang on untill 3 or 4 left easy, but the problem is you are against some MONSTER stacks. These
stacks will call you with anything. This is a very good thing, but in order to win against people like this,
you need to get all in with them many many times, which means playing many many SNGs which
means earning the 1.1k points many many times.

I have to post some of these hands, I feel so different about this game. I seriously should have
posted a long bitching rant by now. But I am not bothered, I don't mind just getting in the volume,
and trying to hit my goal, especially understanding before hand how difficult it will be. I have
played IDK something like ~15+ of the 275 FTP sattys and I have not placed first once.

Only thing I would bitch about is how much FTP sucks compared to stars. On stars, its the opposite way
around. Their 210 point Satty is 20 players big and their 9 man satty is something very low like 50 or 90 points.
So you are paying 275 points for a 1 in 9 shot of $11. Where on stars for 210 points its 6 in 20. meaning people
paid to not paid ratio not how many times you must play to win.

Anyhow I have not posted hands yet so here is some of the most fun ones I have been in. AGAIN, this is
no FUCK POKER IT SUCKS rant because seriously I have taken down many many many of these 50 ftp
sattys by holding up.

This is just a taste of how crazy these things are, and how in the case of the 50 point where 1st AND 2nd get
200 ftp it is much simpler then the 9 man with just 1 player getting paid. The players are like 2 dozen times
worse in the 275 point satty.

What I ike about this hand is EVERYONE'S hand is better than AA. AA turned out to be the worst final hand of all here.

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, Tournament, 30/60 Blinds (9 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

BB (t3860)
UTG (t1015)
UTG+1 (t980)
MP1 (t1430)
MP2 (t1420)
MP3 (t1550)
Hero (CO) (t1110)
Button (t1335)
SB (t800)

Hero's M: 12.33

Preflop: Hero is CO with A♥, A♦
UTG calls t60, UTG+1 calls t60, 3 folds, Hero bets t300, Button calls t300, SB calls t270, 1 fold, UTG raises to t1015 (All-In), 1 fold, Hero raises to t1110 (All-In), Button calls t810, SB calls t500 (All-In)

Flop: (t4155) J♠, K♠, 6♦ (4 players, 3 all-in)

Turn: (t4155) 3♠ (4 players, 3 all-in)

River: (t4155) Q♠ (4 players, 3 all-in)

Total pot: t4155

Results:
Button had Q♦, Q♥ (three of a kind, Queens).
SB had K♥, 3♥ (two pair, Kings and threes).
UTG had A♠, 4♦ (flush, Ace high).
Hero had A♥, A♦ (one pair, Aces).
Outcome: Button won t190, UTG won t3965

I am pretty sure I would never make this call. OF course it did not knock me out but I thought this
was one of the most unique ways to get sucked out on. It made me laugh.

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, Tournament, 80/160 Blinds (3 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Button (t5840)
Hero (SB) (t6106)
BB (t1554)

Hero's M: 25.44

Preflop: Hero is SB with K♥, K♦
1 fold, Hero bets t6106 (All-In), BB calls t1394 (All-In)

Flop: (t3108) 2♥, A♦, Q♦ (2 players, 2 all-in)

Turn: (t3108) J♦ (2 players, 2 all-in)

River: (t3108) 3♥ (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: t3108

Results:
Hero had K♥, K♦ (one pair, Kings).
BB had 2♦, J♣ (two pair, Jacks and twos).
Outcome: BB won t3108

But after playing through so many, my biggest winning hands are of course the monsters.
And mentally, This is hard to believe before you check it out so I think its a good sign of
proof that even if it feels like nothing is holding up, and I have had several sessions where
I was busting out of many in a row including entire sessions of the 275 pointers.

So the timing of their losses sucks ass, but they are winning hands.. heres the chart.
I have including everything above %50 winning.

I don't think I'll have time for more tonight so untill next time, thanks for reading.

This chart is JUST since I started the point grinding on Full Tilt.