888 Bankroll recovery

Well, we did not make it using my $5.00 ticket, but I also had a $1.00 blast ticket, and I took that one down after a loooonnnnggggg see-saw battle in the All-In phase

       Item  Amount  Qty 
    Bal Fwd   19.04      
   Big Fish  -31.62    5 
      Blast   52.35   12 
 Lucky Chip   26.05   48 
 Lvl 05 F/R    1.13   23 
 Lvl 10 F/R    2.28    9 
 Lvl 20 F/R    2.05   15 
 Lvl 30 F/R   45.00   26 
 Lvl 40 F/R    7.60   14 
 Lvl 50 F/R    6.00    7 
     Lvl Up    1.55    3 
       NL 2   -0.51    7 
       NL 5   16.87   34 
      Other   49.06   79 
        PLO    2.32    2 
       PLO8   -0.27    6 
       Stud    0.14    1 
    Various    2.31    3 
      Total  201.35      
        Max  201.35      
   Best Win   29.00      
 Worst Loss  -33.50      

A good week -- details later, but a couple of PLO8 DoN wins to the good so total now is $210.66

I may see if they have PLO8 MTTs to try

About time for an update, I think...

Originally posted by VorpalF2F
Once I hit $200 I'll be playing some PLO8 cash and MTTs regularly on 888.

Well we went quite a way past that, so yesterday I played a $3.00 PLO8 tournament -- and lost.
Today I played some PLO8 10 and did OK losing about three bucks.
dropped over 1 buy-in in the first 10 hands getting out-drawn, but recovered (mostly)

So I've dropped a bit -- but we're pressing on!

Once again I won a $5.00 ticket in the daily "Lucky Blast" freeroll.
I would love to use these tickets to play an MTT, but unfortunately, $5.00 only gets you into a satellite, so I end up using it to play a $5.00 blast.
I won a $10.00 prizepool game, which got me to $247.83.
I then played a $3.00 PLO8 Double-or-Nothing from which I profited $2.60 which got me to $250.43

The results so far:

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Happy New Year!

Current max is $251.75
Current balance is 230.05

Could have been worse!

So this effectively erases my losses from NL 5 and some PLO8 DoNs

Here is the current breakdown:

I decided to see what a graph of my progress looked like...

Now to grind it back

Balance is currently $224.93
Join us Monday at 20:00 UTC though, because we have an awesome array of tickets to play.
 16.50 Big Fish Ticket -- Hopefully there is one Monday at around that time
 2 $0.10 Blast tickets -- one of these will have a 10K multiplier I'm sure  A ticket to a $500 freeroll
 A ticket to a $3000 freeroll

Join us at http://bit.ly/maugr1s

I didn't get it all back, but I had some good cashes in freerolls, and I turned some tickets I won into decent money.

Today was the first day I qualified to play the Lvl 60+ freeroll, which has a $6000 prize pool, of which I won $2.40 -- 588th of 9984 players.

Tomorrow starts a new month -- let's see where it goes from there.
This might go faster if I played more.
OTOH, I might lose a lot more <sigh>

It doesn't look like it, but I'm ahead of the last record by $0.30

I've played very little since I last posted but had some success with "Blast" tickets and the Level 50 freeroll
Today's Giraffe:

The two hands:
Hand #1: Desperation Equity...
When dealt this hand I had 1 BB and 2 antes left, with about 20 to go to the money.
I timebanked it until ITM then shoved.

Hand #2: Boom and it's gone on the very next hand...
But at least I got it in good.

I played a $5 blast today and prevailed...
Current Balance: $271.30

congratz ,looking good

Thanks!
Bear in mind that this is over a year and a half.
It is almost all from freerolls, and tickets won in freerolls, where I cashed or won the resulting tournament.

888 has a new freeroll series starting, so we'll probably be playing more there...

In order to win a ticket to a $10,000 freeroll, all I had to do was play $3 worth of tournaments, and win a hand w/ AK at NL 5 or higher.

So I played a $3 PLO8 and I figured I would play Snap hands until I won my ticket, then continue to try to get my tournament buy-in back.
Neither went well -- but I did get my ticket.
Where else can you enter a $10K guarantee tournament for $3.63 --

After being down just over two stacks in NL 5, I pulled it back up...

In a tournament with over 5K participants.

If finished 82 of 11241 (top 0.7%) today.
I got good hands, and won most of my flips -- and this hand helped a bunch
https://forums.pokerstrategy.com/forum/thread.php?postid=3121689#post3121689

Congratz with your results overall.
Doing good!
I wonder about that graphs you post with the blue line where in the horizontal line are the dates and in vertical lines is profit and what looks like you have draw it yourself with blue crayon .
Did you do it yourself with some kind of software, or did you use some kind website for it or is that simply some statistic software.
I just wonder if it is possible somehow to create your poker graph manually. It would be nice to do so when you play on the sites that wont let you use huds. And those graph pictures do see like you have done them manually.
But yea, congratz 1 more time with your results, building a bankroll basically from nothing with free rolls and tickets and getting good results. Thats good.

Hi NextLevel,
Thanks for the kind words.

If you look as some of the earlier posts, you will see some tables of data.
These come from Excel spreadsheets, and after a while I realized that tables of numbers don't tell the story as easily as a graph, so I use Excel to create the graphs.
In Excel, you can save a graph as a picture, and that is what you see.

I've not been able to log in since Apr 18, and have been working with my ISP tech support, and corresponding with 888 support as well. I'm not sure if anyone actually did anything or if the problem went away by itself[1]
In any event, I managed to play this morning's Level 50 Freeroll, and finished in the top 3% for $3.20, so a new record of $280.25

Check the hand of the day, for the "desperation equity" call just after the bubble burst.

So the graph as of today:

[1] Problems that go away by themselves, tend to come back by themselves

Looking good Vorp! I really enjoyed your streams on twitch, your a natural! Keep up the good work!

Thanks!