[Closed] From $0.00 to Sideways 8. (Currently $162.21 as of July 31st, 2008), up $0.00 For August

Originally posted by SoyCD

Yes, Absolute is not a very beginner friendly site at all.

As a member of PokerStrategy you can still take advantage of our Titan Reload bonuses which we have twice a month for 100% up to $500. Otherwise we have plenty of other first deposit offers you could take advantage of when using e.g. Moneybookers. Personally I would try to get your BR up to a certain level at one site first - before trying to go bonus hunting. If you play solid Poker you don't need bonuses to advance your bank roll.

(Have you already cleared your original depositl bonus?)

Best regards,
SoyCD

Are the titan reload bonus done on a regular basis? Do you know the dates of the next one?
I signed up for moneybookers two days ago, and cashed out Everest and Absolute last night, I'm just waiting for the transactions to go through.

I didn't have the original bonus because I had signed up using the bonus code PS150, instead of PSVIP. Do you think they could change it so I could get the first deposit bonus (my first deposit was $55.00)?
Thanks for reading Soy

End of JUNE report:

In addition to daily reports I'm going to try and give monthly updates so that my progress can more easily seen at a glance.
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Financials
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Starting Balances
Titan Poker: $0.00
Party Poker: $0.00
Everest Poker: $0.00
Poker Stars: $0.00
CD Poker: $0.00
Carbon Poker: $0.00
Pokertime: $0.00
Absolute Poker: $0.00
Total in Play: $150.00

Transaction History
Deposit $50.00 from Mastercard to Everest
Deposit $100.00 from Mastercard to Everest
Withdraw $46.96 from Everest to Moneybookers
Withdraw$100.00 from Absolute to Moneybookers
Total Withdrawals: $146.96
Total Deposits: $150.00
Difference: ($3.04)

Ending Balances
Titan Poker: $64.90
Party Poker: $0.00
Everest Poker: $0.00
Poker Stars: $0.00
CD Poker: $0.00
Carbon Poker: $0.00
Pokertime: $0.00
Absolute Poker: $0.00
Total in Play: $64.90

Miscellaneous Expenses
Credit Card Fees: ($5.50)
Currency Exchange: ($3.84)
Total: ($9.34)

Total Profit
$55.56

Total Bankroll
$202.56
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Playing Stats
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July 1st:
HAPPY CANADA DAY!

I was on an upswing today
Which is a fantastic thing, because now I can move up to NL20 (even though my roll is at 250, I was treating as just what was on Titan).
Stats:
Day 01-Jul-08
Amount Won $17.18
Hands 592
Hands Won 45(7.6%)

Graph:

July 2nd:
Stats:
Day 02-Jul-08
Amount Won ($3.79)
Hands 874
Hands Won 61(7.0%)

Graph:

I am not going to be playing tomorrow. I have to go out of town tonight after work. I'll be back in time to start a session on the the 4th.

Today I kept losing those 'coin-flip' scenarios at the end of the session. It was terrible. I posted a couple sample hands hoping to fix some leaks, but it looks like I've been playing well, so it was just bad luck. Hopefully it'll lift after my mini-break

My VPIP and PFR were both really low today, indicating that I wasn't getting cards dealt to me. My VPIP was 5.1 and my PFR was 5.2

July 4th:
I had another crappy day..
But at least I have figured out the cause!
Before I tell you why, I will give you the stats and graph:

Day 04-Jul-08
Amount Won ($13.20)
Hands 257
Hands Won 21(8.2%)

Graph:

So, the cause....
I lost all three hands to the same person (on two tables)
All three hands had me in the late position and him in the early/mid position. When I made my 4xBB bet, he would simply call. Then when the flop did not hit (in all three cases), and I made my cbet, he would either push me in or I would have already done that. Then I lost because he had either a made hand, or a premium hand.
So between the bad cards and his good reads, he took me to the cleaners

Now I had to move back down to NL10, but I should be back at NL20 soon...

My other dilema is that he plays 16 tables at a time (which is all the NL20 plus some NL50 tables), so I can't avoid playing against him...
But now I'll have the read on him, and avoid c-betting my unmade hands.

July 5th and 6th:
On the graph, the two sessions blend into each other because I started playing at about 6pm. So it'll be a double post for me. I played for a little while and was posting some super suck-outs, so I decided to keep playing. I managed to recoup my losses. When that happened, I closed out my tables, and decided to begin operation: "Break BRM to get my little stacks out of the various sites". I am okay leaving the amount on party, because its tracked here so I don't mind depositing there one day.
But I want to get these amounts up to cash out:
CD Poker: $3.00 (Need $10.00)
Carbon Poker: $8.43 (Need $50.00)
Poker Time: $13.63 (Need $50.00)

I won't be able to give any stats because I am too lazy to hook up the hold 'em manager to these sites

Heres my play-by-play though:

Poker Time
Sat down at NL50 with $10.00. Unfortunately, they only have 6-max tables. But that's alright, playing perfectly isn't really my strategy today haha.
I got pocket 8's on the button. Small blind called. Flop was perfect, 10 6 2. I made a cbet of 3/4 pot at $3. He push me in and I called. He had A10
I sat down again at NL10 with $3.63. I payed my blinds and then realized I would be better to play a SNG. So I bought into a $2.50+$0.25 tourny. I like playing SNG's, but so far on titan my winrate is negative, so I avoid playing them unless I am up for the day. Well I won second... Then I thought, wait
why am I doing this? Why don't I just deposit enough money using moneybookers so that I can withdraw? So thats what I'm going to do, haha I'm such a tool. I am still waiting for my $100 to come back from Absolute. In fact, I had to give them another $20 so that I could deposit the entire amount to moneybookers (initial deposit was made with a credit card)

New Balances:
Poker Time: $5.23
CD Poker: $3.00
Carbon Poker: $11.26

I've decided for the time being, I am going to remove these amounts from my BR to simplify it. I will re-add them, if/when I actually get the money from these sites.

I also played a bit on Titan. My losing streak is continuing.

Stats:
Day 05-Jul-08 & 06-Jul-08
Amount Won ($10.11)
Hands 1091
Hands Won 68(6.2%)

Graph:

July 7-9th:
I played so little that I could combine this into one post. My streak continued, but my loses were minimal due to my low volume of play.

Stats:
Day 07-Jul-08 to 09-Jul-08
Amount Won ($14.69)
Hands 586
Hands Won 30(5.1%)

Graph:

I think (I hope) my downswing is finally over!

July 10th:

Stats
Day 10-Jul-08
Amount Won $15.64
Hands 1231
Hands Won 87(7.1%)

Graph:

I also played three SNGs.
In the first I placed third and won my buy-in back. Then I got 1st (won $12, net $9.60), then I lost my last one.

So this has helped to pull my bankroll back up a bit.
I have to next two days off and I want to try to get two 3k days in a row. Hopefully I can break $250 by Saturday. Then I will get my rakeback bonus from Titan on Sunday which should be around $20...
I've decided I'm going to skip NL20 and go straight to NL50 when I have the roll. People on NL20 are too weird to play against, constantly chasing draws, but folding whenever I raise etc. My winrate on NL10 is higher than NL20. If I can't beat NL50 then I'll have to just stick to NL10.

I don't see a reason to stick to NL10 until you reach the BR for NL50, as this way your progress will be way slower.
Don't judge the limit by just the few hands you have played - once you make at least 1-2k hands, I'm sure that you will feel comfortable. The difference with NL10 should not be significant in the common case.
My advise is to stay on NL10 till you reach 400$ and then move to NL20. To reach the 1000$ bankroll for NL50 just by playing NL10 is going to be a pain in the ass for sure

Originally posted by finchybg
I don't see a reason to stick to NL10 until you reach the BR for NL50, as this way your progress will be way slower.
Don't judge the limit by just the few hands you have played - once you make at least 1-2k hands, I'm sure that you will feel comfortable. The difference with NL10 should not be significant in the common case.
My advise is to stay on NL10 till you reach 400$ and then move to NL20. To reach the 1000$ bankroll for NL50 just by playing NL10 is going to be a pain in the ass for sure

Hey thanks for reading
I suppose I haven't mentioned it in a while, but this is all SSS, so I already have the bankroll for NL20, I only have to get to $300 to hit NL20. I am going to give it another shot today actually.
Brian

Edit: And just to let you know I've played about 5k hands in NL20, posting a profit of 0.03BB/100 as opposed to NL10 with a profit of 5.5BB/100... so which one is more profitable haha?

July 11th and July 12th

So on the 11th my computer totally got f*cked... Totally pissed me off. I lost everything...
I'll be totally honest, I was doing (unholy) things on the internet and got a nasty boot sector virus...
I managed to be able to restart into safemode and get my hand histories though! yay!

But I didn't play at all so that sucked...
I did manage to get in about 300 hands at the end of the night tonight...
I played NL20, managed to post a positive EV so I think I can call my cold streak over... Now I just need to recover my losses from the beginning of the month, and I should be able to move to NL50 by the end of July

Oh and I lost my cracked copy of Hold 'em Manger, so I'm back to PT3

Stats:
Day 13-Jul-08
Amount Won $8.69
Hands 322
Hands Won 26(8.1%)

Graph:

July 13th

Well I was up like $9, but then I lost it
Day 13-Jul-08
Amount Won $0.31
Hands 677
Hands Won 43(6.4%)

Graph:

I hope u will reach NL50 soon but u really should avoid SH games since they aren't profitable for SSS

Good luck!

Thanks for reading Zeffke! I hope to get there very soon
Hopefully I'll have a few more days like today and I'll be there quickly hehe.

Day 14-Jul-08
Amount Won $10.41
Hands 1074
Hands Won 73(6.8%)

Graph:

I wish I could have shown you the hand where that caused that big spike in the graph above. But I can't get Texas Grab'em to work with Titan (it keeps saying that hand history is unrecognized...)

Preflop: NL10
I get dealt KQ on the button. Stack of $1.85
UTG, MID+1, MID+2, CO limp.
I raise to 0.80
UTG calls 0.80, MID+1 raises all in (2.25)
MID+2 calls, CO calls, I call, UTG calls (all-in).

Flop comes KKT

MID+2 all-in, CO calls.

Turn Q

River J

So I won with a full house (Kings full of Queens)
UTG shows AA (Straight A high)
MID+1 shows TT (Full house Tens full of Kings)
MID+2 shows QQ (Full house Queens full of Tens)
CO shows JJ (Full house Jacks full of Kings)

So is that amazing or what?
Everyone at the table was totally in shock... I apologize to them all for winning with the worst hand... what a total bad beat!

Check this link for a Titan converter

Very nice hand, and no need to apologize at all

Originally posted by brian997
So is that amazing or what?
Everyone at the table was totally in shock... I apologize to them all for winning with the worst hand... what a total bad beat!

That is indeed amazing how bad your play was there. What is even more amazing is how other guys played. That is just ridiculous. Limp/calling AA in multiway pot? wtf?!?!

Originally posted by Grimzor
That is indeed amazing how bad your play was there.

How do you figure? My play was 100% by the books. In the late position I raised 4xBB+4xBB. Then he reraised. My remaining stack:initial raise was 1.2 (which is much less than 2.5) so I would be a fool not to call.
Did you realize that this is SSS?

Yes, i did realize that it was SSS. I made a mistake. Your play was good, thanks for explaining it and pointing out my mistake. Hehe, i wish i used less strong words in my previous statement ♦ Your opponents played amazingly bad tho, so at least there i am correct

I did make mistake because i thought KQ is not good enough hand to raise with after 3 limpers including UTG. At least i would fold it (i play BSS tho).

Originally posted by Zeffke
Check this link for a Titan converter

Very nice hand, and no need to apologize at all

Hey thanks for that But I can't seem to get it to work for some reason.... Do you use it, could you give me a quick little guide to it haha? I added my DB info to it, but nothing came up after. If I copy/paste the hand history from PT3, it does nothing.
Thanks again for reading, everyone
Brian