Hey guys,
My goal is clear - to make 25k this year playing $5,5-$11 6max regular speed sngs on Full Tilt Poker.

Giraffe so far:


Some stats:


I dont plan on playing any higher than $11 because i just dont cope well with swings. After black friday i decided that i'm gonna cash out some maney and deposit them on my PS account to grind here as well.

I'll keep u updated, cheers

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gl, but seriously play on PS. FTP's traffic is just so terrible.

Thanks sir Actually my sngs have a pretty good traffic on FTP, there are bout 20 of them running atm. And most importantly ftp has rb which is a huge plus.

gl, but seriously more spoilers!

Dont worry, every bigger post like this one will have one

So i had kinda tough day.. Had so many coolers and bad beats its sick. Run about 10 bis under ev in 59 tournies. Still finished up by about 16 bucks which is really good considering how bad i run.

Interesting hand:
Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t50/t100 Blinds - 2 players - View hand 1286443
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

Hero (BB): t3430 34.30 BBs
BTN/SB: t5570 55.70 BBs

Pre Flop: (t150) Hero is BB with 2 8
BTN/SB raises to t200, Hero calls t100

Flop: (t400) A T 8 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t200, Hero calls t200

Turn: (t800) 4 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t400, Hero calls t400

River: (t1600) Q (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets t1600, Hero calls t1600

Final Pot: t4800
Hero shows 2 8 (a pair of Eights)
BTN/SB shows 2 6 (Ace Queen high)
Hero wins t4800

I think he'd check every draw on the turn, i didnt think he was good enough to barel the turn with just a diamond. On the river he wasnt really polarized at all - i think he's full of **** here everytime. Nut flush is such a huge hand heads up that he'd wanna bet something like 900 to get called. At the same time he is never potting small flushes, because im not calling him with worse that often and he has to fold to a raise, so he isnt gonna commit so many chips. And he's never turning a pair into a bluff imo.

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GL on the goals! what roi do you think you will need to accomplish this? even at about 10% at the 11's you will need to play 20-25k games. even with turbos thats alot of time to invest. if you can do this you be the man! just curious why you are playing reg. speed. i know i personally prefer reg. speeds but have a hard time getting volume in. later!

Hi man, thanks
So far my overall roi is 23% over 1,2k sngs ($1,2 up to $5,5), so i think i can do 15-18% in $11. 6 tabling for about 5 hrs a day (thats 60 sngs) i think i can do it, esp with rb and bonuses. We'll see. But even if i dont make the 25k but "only" like 10k or 15k, i wont be unhappy at all

I think my edge is so much bigger at regular speed sngs, because in turbos you dont have much time to build a stack and you simply have to gamble much more. You cant really outplay anyone 20 bigs deep, you can only rly ship the nickles with AK and hope to crack an underpair

Anyway played some more pokers yesterday, had the sickes comeback in my life - from just 60 chips (15/30 blinds) to winning the sng After this and some more wins i finished the day up $66, not bad.

if you can reach that high of an roi at the 11's that would be sick! i know i could but with a - in front of it!

Thank you guys! Btw these games are really soft, im sure any of you could be a winner here

Just an example of what happened to me today (hand is not fake, this really happened):
Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t30/t60 Blinds - 5 players - View hand 1287958
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

UTG: t1200 20 BBs
Hero (CO): t2970 49.50 BBs
BTN: t930 15.50 BBs
SB: t1745 29.08 BBs
BB: t2155 35.92 BBs

Pre Flop: (t90) Hero is CO with 8 6
1 fold, Hero raises to t150, 1 fold, SB calls t120, BB calls t90

Flop: (t450) 7 4 J (3 players)
SB checks, BB bets t60, Hero calls t60, SB folds

Turn: (t570) 9 (2 players)
BB bets t60, Hero calls t60

River: (t690) 9 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets t240, BB calls t240

Final Pot: t1170
Hero shows 8 6 (a flush, Jack high)
BB mucks 6 5
Hero wins t1170


Anyway had two pretty bad days.. just not much going my way.. its not like i just get unlucky all the time (that too), but i get coolered so much its sick.. yesterday i finished down by 56 bucks (worst day ever, really) today it was better, i finished up by 46 dollars, but honestly it should have been like one fiddy.

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Having a kinda breakeven stretch atm.. but my winnings finally reached 1k which is goooood.

Giraffe so far (this time buyin-wise):

Very nice graph. The 1st hand you posted w/ 82s seems kinda spewy though.

Clearly an ass man judging by theme of spoilers Keep 'em coming!

I used to grind $11, and $22 normal speed FR sngs on FTP. They were so soft, I made a decent amount of $ at about 11% ROI (not as good as yours), but now I've moved to cash because STT grind is so fing boring!

Good luck!

Thanks man, why do you think the first hand was spewy? These suited 6 gappers are the nuts.

Oh yea, but as i see in ur avatar you're an ass man too I'll def keep on posting them, dont worry

11% roi is fricking good, considering the stakes you played. If i can have 11% on $22 i'd be really happy. I dont think sngs are boring, because you get to play with different stack sizes all the time with different number of players, so its pretty challenging.



Anyway, i decided that im gonna cash out all my maney from ftp (2,5k), rub them on my titties and then - $150 goes to ongame to grind micro donkaments and the rest goes to PS to grind sngs.
I have to win a fricking donkament, finally. Even the biggest reverse grinder in the world, scout326, won 90k in a donkament. If he can do it, i can too.

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So thanks to a friend of mine i can finally play somewhere else than only at FTP. I now have 45 bucks on ongame to grind the hot dog stakes mtts (the 1,2 and 2,5 tournaments, its not even cheeseburger stakes). Those donkaments are sooo nice. There are usually about 200-500 players, which is gonna make it so much easier to final table than on FTP or PS.

OK guys so there's my giraffe for april:


Goals for next month:
- Ship $500. I wont have much time to play because of school, so if i ship 500 i'll be happy.
- Finally move my br to stars.

I decided that im gonna try the turbo sngs (3 mins blinds, 1500 stack) on ft, i'll start with the $2,25 and take shots at $6,5 when i feel like doing so.

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God i love Liv soo much

So i finally have some maney on PS ($450ish), thanks to a friend. I still have over 2,1k on FTP which i'd like to get to my bank account. I kinda realized that i dont need to have my entire roll on a site since i dont need to have more than 30 bis on any site imo.

The games are pretty soft here as well.. i really love the ps software, its so much better than FTP imo.

Btw if somebody could do maney transfer with me (i'd ship you 2,1k on FTP, you'd ship me the same amount (i'd leave you $35 as a tip) on PS/MB.

Graph for the month so far:


I'd say its not bad to make $1 per tourney

The most optimistic bluff in the history of poker?
Full Tilt Poker $5 + $0.50 No Limit Hold'em Tournament - t40/t80 Blinds - 3 players - View hand 1301717
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

Hero (BTN): t5115 63.94 BBs
SB: t1526 19.07 BBs
BB: t2359 29.49 BBs

Pre Flop: (t120) Hero is BTN with K A
Hero raises to t200, SB calls t160, 1 fold

Flop: (t480) T A 6 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets t320, SB calls t320

Turn: (t1120) 2 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets t1000, SB calls t1000

River: (t3120) T (2 players)
SB bets t6 all in, Hero says "so sick", Hero says "sure u got me", Hero requests TIME, Hero calls t6

Final Pot: t3132
Hero shows K A (two pair, Aces and Tens)
SB shows J Q (a pair of Tens)
Hero wins t3132


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I spotted a leak: SB bets t6 all in, Hero says "so sick", Hero says "sure u got me", Hero requests TIME, Hero calls t6

don't be that guy.

Yeah, i know its kinda gross.. but i couldnt really help myself here.

what games do you plan to play on Stars?

gl

Hi man,
i plan on playing the same tournies as i played on FTP, that is $5,48 (dont really know why the rake is 48c and not fiddy, but whatever ) 6max regular speed sngs.

Btw i just cashed out my maney from ftp and left myself 25 bucks to gamble it up.. Played HU PLO50 and run pretty hot. The guy run me over, i have never played HU PLO before. But i run pretty hot, take a look at the biggest hands:

Full Tilt Poker $0.25/$0.50 Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 2 players - View hand 1303711
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

BTN/SB: $107.55
Hero (BB): $21.65

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BB with 8 T 3 9
BTN/SB raises to $1.50, Hero calls $1

Flop: ($3.00) 9 T 4 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets $2.50, Hero raises to $7.55, BTN/SB raises to $25.65, Hero calls $12.60 all in

Turn: ($43.30) 2 (2 players - 1 is all in)

River: ($43.30) 2 (2 players - 1 is all in)

Final Pot: $43.30
BTN/SB shows 4 T Q J (two pair, Tens and Fours)
Hero shows 8 T 3 9 (two pair, Tens and Nines)
Hero wins $42.80
(Rake: $0.50)



Full Tilt Poker $0.25/$0.50 Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 2 players - View hand 1303710
DeucesCracked Poker Videos Hand History Converter

BB: $82.10
Hero (BTN/SB): $45.80

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BTN/SB with Q J K 3
Hero raises to $1, BB calls $0.50

Flop: ($2.00) K 7 3 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $1.30, BB raises to $4.50, Hero calls $3.20

Turn: ($11.00) 6 (2 players)
BB bets $7.25, Hero calls $7.25

River: ($25.50) K (2 players)
BB bets $17.50, Hero raises to $33.05 all in, BB folds

Final Pot: $60.50
Hero wins $60.00
(Rake: $0.50)

He told me he folded treys full. Wow.. I dont think i'd ever fold that.

Pokerstars so far:


Games got tougher, today i had a table with 5 players with vpip over 50%. I cant wait to have holidays.. a huge grind. Hopefully i'll print a ton of maney.

Switched to $10,95s on PS.. super soft, no change at all compared to $5,48. Ppl are maybe just a little less ******ed, but just a little. When a guy called of half of his stack with 64s on the bubble, i knew i was in good company. (i obv didnt win the hand tho)

Had a kinda faking day, run about 9 bis under ev which is kinda brutal, at least for me..
Graph:

Played a guy named Martynas, who's a SNE.. beat him: http://playerscope.com/tournaments/d...809F11DB043671. Solid brag imo Anybody knows the guy?

Having a pretty solid time atm, won about 280 bucks in last 6 days. Since PS changed the buyins im playing the $7, $15 seems kinda hi to me.. God why am i such a wuss. So sick, i really felt kinda tilty and was quite shaking when i busted 10 times in a row when playing the $11 last week. I need to work on my mindset A LOT.

I also subscribed to DC for a month, im gonna watch some mindset videos now.

Graph for this month so far:


Couldnt really play much because of school. But i managed to pass the school leaving exams, so it was worth it.

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GL!

Goodluck man, I will definitely be following this closely as I am hoping to pull something pretty similar myself. I'll shoot you a couple questions once I get pm's enabled if you don't mind.

All the best and keep crushing