gl. posts ss's of ur setup

My thread is very similar to this. Gl with your 2011 grind!

-koded

I have 2 21" monitors that I use. I tile with overlap on the left one to the smallest scale, with 4 rows of 5 columns of tables and have stars/tableninja/itunes/hem/firefox etc open on the other. I also have tableninja set so that I have my four arranged slots on the right hand screen, when I make a FT the table gets put to 1 of these 4 slots.
will do, just of left screen unless you want right screen?
Yeh I thought that, cept you're starting higher and making it quicker

This is my actual left screen, it looks way more confusing than it is I promise, if you have any questions feel free to ask.

First report
To start with I wanna state I dont want this to be a whinging thread. Therefore I am not gonna post numerous hh's on final tables where I run bad etc, I will merely try and make an honest brief interpretation of how I run for the session.

Ok so first session done, played 49 in total, 20tabling was fine, I started off by loading up to 10 45s whilst loading unlimited 180s, because I didnt want to wait for all 2.20s as that would prob take 30mins and lower my hourly $. Once I had 20 going I then changed TN to only reg me to 180s from there onwards and I stuck with that for about an hour or so. I then changed to jst regging for 45s for 40minutes, because 180s r about 40mins longer than 45s and i want my hourly to keep up.
Then I let the games roll out and played them out.
Anyhow thats the description of how I'll be playing every session in future, the only difference being the length of just 180s in the middle.

Anyhow I really enjoyed the session and was amazed to see how soft the games were, from first view they look even softer than when I played maybe 18months ago, but obviously I cant get a true impression from 49 sngs!
I'd say that I played well throughout, no real hh's I have too many questions about, a few spots I need to tweak up on how loose/tight I should be calling ICM but thats it.
I think I ran ok for this mini session, good in 45s, bad in 2s, but as long as I play well that is fine.


Session Begin Bankroll: $300
Session End Bankroll: $345.65
Session Profit/Loss: $45.65
Seission Graph:



Overall Profit/Loss: $45.65
Overall Hourly: $17.01

Off to bed now, started playing at like half 1 and its 4am now, so only a v small grind, but got all my settup perfect and ready to run this town

in on thread with amazing potential. lets see you crush this goal in 6 months OP

On the contrary, I started at $100 but I was/am staked, so technically it's infinite money

Anyways, best of luck again. If you ever want someone to talk HHs or general poker with, shoot me a PM with your skype or w/e you use. It's nice to see someone in a similar goal.

-Koded

GL and hope it works out

Sounds good, I'll pm you my skype some after this session, if i dont remember pm me.
Thanks

Got some free time so gonna put in a shortish session now.

All the best with your goal, that's serious discipline after such a sick ftops score!

Subscribed.

gl mate!

Mavo

GL man. I'll be checkin this thread out for uber progress : )

Thanks, although it was only a $2k score which isnt big in relation to past ones, it was the fact that I was so frustrated about it - because in all honestly I don't currently have the bankroll to be playing in $100 mtts etc, I've not got that much liquid cash available, tho I have some that I have invested that I can access in a year. So I decided to avoid the crushing feeling being as bad, I would make sure next time I played higher I would have a proper roll.

I mean for about 2 months in a row every sunday I was buying about $3000-4000 worth of mtts, when my roll was only about 15k, pretty degen etc and longterm the risk of ruin is so high this way (though i coulda been lucky and binked).

Cheers mate, I thought that was you I seen a few of your other posts around mate, hope you're well and stuffs turning around.
Thanks hopefully there will be


Session 2 Report

First test of not tilting/ranting. Ran bad this session, thought I played really well throughout, was a bit of a longer session than yesterday, but not too long as its now 4:30AM.

Session Begin Bankroll: $345.65
Session End Bankroll: $343.42
Session Profit/Loss: -$2.23
Seission Graph: [IMG][/IMG]



Overall Profit/Loss: $43.42
Overall Hourly: $7.62

I should be able to start putting in decent sessions and volume from Friday after 5pm as thats when the last of 2 essays is due. Theres almost no chance I can play before then, as one due in on Thursday 1500 words and one on Friday 3000 words.
In a really good mood about this so far, really motivated for it and I've got my hunger completely back, I keep on just wanting to get back to playing and moving up to the 12s then hitting mtts again, the drive to get back to mtts is massive already.

Anyhow I've decided that every 500 tournies I'm going to post a cumulitive graph, since if I post both a session graph and a cumulitive graph every time it'll be a bit overkill imo. Along with the cumulitive graph at 500 I'll post up my ROI and Profit $ for both the 45s and the 180s to try and tell where I need to improve. And obviously I'll post my cashier screenshot, so people can see I'm not somehow making the figures up.

Thanks and goodnight.

to make this thread even more epic i think you should regularly post vids/ pics of urself eating all that mouldy/out of date food that u eat.

that would make me very happy.

hory shet thats a lot of tables.

good work man.

Good luck bud, What happend to your bad till end of year though lol you big tilt head haha.
Hope you can crush these like you did before!
I was actually watching you in the miniftops that was one sick hand although calling k9 out of the sb was questionable.. but still sick sick river card.

lol i did that the other day actually, 1month old chicken ftw
Thanks.
I was playing out of my bankroll and hit standard variance, was playing lots of $55 cubed so $150+ buyins etc and ran really bad in them near bubble and deep.
RE that hand, I dont think it was that close, think a call was good because the first limper had been limping A LOT, and was super spewy/agressive postflop multiway so knew I could call him down light.
Obviously to run full house into str8 flush that late is beyond horrific, and on the river when he bet out I was thinking about just calling, but then figured 66 is possible for underfull and i think a big part of his range Is AdXd for nutflush which I beat.

lol I just re read my post that first line wasn't supossed to say that got was so hungover when I posted that lol.
I was ment to say.

Good luck bud, What happened to your ban till the end of the year lol you big tilt head haha.

Maximum self ban was 14 days, hence the return. And I was more annoying myself because I was posting angry rants etc about beats when I should just accept them and not let them affect me if I'm playing in my bankroll. Dont think I was actually 'tilting' when I was playing much.

gl on your grind sir.

just a quick question; do you tile 20 manually? cuz i got a 21" too and if I tile using PS software I can only tile 15 tables max. (and thats with 50% of a window overlapping the other 50% of another window)

I prefer to tile aswell cuz when I stack I make stupid mistakes and miss cbets and forgot how I got in that hand on that spot etc..

also; do you listen to music or something? I find it hard to stay focused throughout 8hours of mtt'ing

Thanks
Nah I dont tile manually, I have tile assigned in tableninja, which I believes uses the tile function in place in the pokerstars client - it always works for me fine. Appart from that I have my 4 different positions for final tables set up so I can focus extra on them. I agree re stupid mistakes, so I dont see myself changing to stacking/cascading in the near future.

Yeh I always listen to music, I tried putting on TV shows etc but then I dont pay enough attention to the tables and it affects my ev. So I just usually listen to a really long mix I've got lined up and then a couple of albums when that finishes. I think grinding silently is pretty hard on the head.

yup. Also wanted to edit my post but saw you already replied to it.

but what does your hud look like? And do you really base a lot of decisions on it? cuz generally you don't really have too large of a sample on players to make a good assumption on how theyr playing.

i remember when we were playing in some tournies and u bought alot in the marketplace, then u suddenly disappeared :/

now i know what was going on , so gl with this blog and ur 2011 run.

one question, why dont u consider staking?

fresh

your ptr is impressive under 10 dollars and if you keep to them u should havent a problem killing any stake just need not jump up to fast

I'm a massive massive fan of the HUD. I base loads of decisions on it, which some people hate, probably because they have a more natural talent at poker. However I think it is very very important in assigning ranges, I mean if I'm 20tabling its going to be hard to notice if someone is 3betting 15% or 2%, i just check the HUD and go with it the vast majority of the time. Obviously variance can lead the stats to be skewed, but I really think it is a massive help if you're playing lots of tables.
If you were only playing say 6tables I think you wouldn't really need one as much if at all as you'll have the stats almost in your head.

Yeh I had loads of uni work on, ran bad at playing and ran even worse at staking, which tbh i was probably getting addicted to and in all honestly its probably marginally -EV and the risk is huge also.
I dont want to be staked because I have enough that I could grind 12 180s and mtts at the moment if I wanted to, but its more about proving something to myself and improving my game long term (by showing I can have more self-control and grind from the micros).
I also believe that most staking is bad for the person being staked tbh.

Thanks for the kind words - it deffo won't be a fast jump this way, but a gradual rise with any luck.

hey im a little late to this thread but def in...gl wit your challenge and im sure ill b seing you tons at the 2's til one of both of us move up...is your name on stars the same as 2p2?