Goal:Beat my brother to 1 million dollars net worth
08-01-2016
, 01:16 PM
About two years ago, I made a bet with my brother on who would be the first person to one million dollars net worth. If he wins, I owe him a Rolex. If I win, he owes me a Rolex's value worth of WSOP buyins. I figured I'd use this thread to not only track my own progress, but to give him a way to see how much I'm kicking his ass while he is deployed in Cuba.
When the bet was made, my brother had a roughly 20K value versus my -20K (student debt). I've managed to up mine to about 45Kish versus his 30K. While I've been able to catch up quickly, he has some solid money coming in over the next couple years, between deployment cash and potentially a pretty big raise when he gets back. I'm figuring if I can get there by 2030 I should be in decent shape. My goal is 2025 but we'll see.
Poker background
I have a fairly typical poker story. I started almost immediately after I turned 18. I donked off a couple hundred bucks, but, thankfully, I had a home game with some friends where I'd take their weekly paychecks playing guts and acey duecey. Easiest money I ever made. Eventually, I stumbled upon 2+2 and my game took off. I didn't post more than a handful of times, but I devoured the material. I also eventually got staked for a short period (truthfully can't remember by who-awful with names) and that helped me concentrate on the task at hand.
I typically played 18 man SnGs and MTTs on stars and had some decent success (about 100Kish profits, most of which was either blown or went to my backer) . When Black Friday hit, I went cold turkey on poker. I just couldn't do it anymore.
Since then, I have worked odd jobs before finding the one I'm currently working at. I'm a supervisor at a manufacturing company working 12.5 hour shifts 7 days every two weeks. Over the course of the last two years, I have worked a massive amount of overtime (3,878 hours in 2015, including not having an opportunity to work OT in October). I have built up a decent bankroll and decided to start playing again at the end of June instead of working OT.
Since then, I've had middling results. I've made about 3K playing mostly SnGs and MTTs on Bovada and ACR. Included in that is 2K worth of losses trying Spin n Gos and trying to learn Omaha, each of which was an awful idea. I should've just stuck to what I knew/know. Going forward, that's exactly what I plan on doing. I also have had limited success on ACR (probably because people have stats on me and I'm willing to play like 50/49 at times and occasionally refuse to adjust
)
I'm not 100% sure what my current poker bankroll is but it's atleast 20K. Like everyone, I've had a bunch of issues with Bovada over the last week and I'm pretty sure I'm short >1K. I'm going to go through all of my records tomorrow morning and hopefully I get compensated appropriately. Once I get that settled, I will post both poker bankroll and total net worth numbers.
As stated, I will be playing SnGs and MTTs. The SnGs that I typically play are the 25-100s hypers and the 215 turbos on Bovada. The 215s only go off about once an hour outside of Sundays. I'll also be playing MTTs. I'm not sure to what buyin level, though. On ACR I'm keeping it to nothing over 60s, but Bovada I'm still debating. The fields are typically small/soft, and I can redeposit as need be, so I'm not sure what I need bankroll wise to play the 215s. I'll play anything from 10s-75s for sure. I'm thinking I'll probably play most/all 109s (definitely on Sundays), and possibly 215s on Sundays. I'll also be playing anytime they have events at any buying level (and expecting crashes).
I'm not sure what else to add for now, but hopefully someone finds this atleast somewhat readable.
Possibly unrealistic August goals:
[ ] 10K profit
[ ] don't play anything outside of what's listed above
[ ] 100K buyins SnGs
[ ] 20K buyins MTTs
End of year goals
[ ] 50K profit
[ ] 500K buyins SnGs & MTTs
When the bet was made, my brother had a roughly 20K value versus my -20K (student debt). I've managed to up mine to about 45Kish versus his 30K. While I've been able to catch up quickly, he has some solid money coming in over the next couple years, between deployment cash and potentially a pretty big raise when he gets back. I'm figuring if I can get there by 2030 I should be in decent shape. My goal is 2025 but we'll see.
Poker background
I have a fairly typical poker story. I started almost immediately after I turned 18. I donked off a couple hundred bucks, but, thankfully, I had a home game with some friends where I'd take their weekly paychecks playing guts and acey duecey. Easiest money I ever made. Eventually, I stumbled upon 2+2 and my game took off. I didn't post more than a handful of times, but I devoured the material. I also eventually got staked for a short period (truthfully can't remember by who-awful with names) and that helped me concentrate on the task at hand.
I typically played 18 man SnGs and MTTs on stars and had some decent success (about 100Kish profits, most of which was either blown or went to my backer) . When Black Friday hit, I went cold turkey on poker. I just couldn't do it anymore.
Since then, I have worked odd jobs before finding the one I'm currently working at. I'm a supervisor at a manufacturing company working 12.5 hour shifts 7 days every two weeks. Over the course of the last two years, I have worked a massive amount of overtime (3,878 hours in 2015, including not having an opportunity to work OT in October). I have built up a decent bankroll and decided to start playing again at the end of June instead of working OT.
Since then, I've had middling results. I've made about 3K playing mostly SnGs and MTTs on Bovada and ACR. Included in that is 2K worth of losses trying Spin n Gos and trying to learn Omaha, each of which was an awful idea. I should've just stuck to what I knew/know. Going forward, that's exactly what I plan on doing. I also have had limited success on ACR (probably because people have stats on me and I'm willing to play like 50/49 at times and occasionally refuse to adjust
) I'm not 100% sure what my current poker bankroll is but it's atleast 20K. Like everyone, I've had a bunch of issues with Bovada over the last week and I'm pretty sure I'm short >1K. I'm going to go through all of my records tomorrow morning and hopefully I get compensated appropriately. Once I get that settled, I will post both poker bankroll and total net worth numbers.
As stated, I will be playing SnGs and MTTs. The SnGs that I typically play are the 25-100s hypers and the 215 turbos on Bovada. The 215s only go off about once an hour outside of Sundays. I'll also be playing MTTs. I'm not sure to what buyin level, though. On ACR I'm keeping it to nothing over 60s, but Bovada I'm still debating. The fields are typically small/soft, and I can redeposit as need be, so I'm not sure what I need bankroll wise to play the 215s. I'll play anything from 10s-75s for sure. I'm thinking I'll probably play most/all 109s (definitely on Sundays), and possibly 215s on Sundays. I'll also be playing anytime they have events at any buying level (and expecting crashes).
I'm not sure what else to add for now, but hopefully someone finds this atleast somewhat readable.
Possibly unrealistic August goals:
[ ] 10K profit
[ ] don't play anything outside of what's listed above
[ ] 100K buyins SnGs
[ ] 20K buyins MTTs
End of year goals
[ ] 50K profit
[ ] 500K buyins SnGs & MTTs
08-01-2016
, 01:51 PM
08-02-2016
, 05:27 PM
08-05-2016
, 06:49 AM
Another pretty ****ty day. Misplayed a handful of spots, including shoving 2 overs and a straight draw in an awful ICM spot on the bubble of a $55 9 max on ACR.
Results from 8-4 (15.1 HRS)
MTTs played 47/ $1,387.45 buyins/$1,376.04 prizes
SnGs played 68/ $9,436.47 buyins/$8797.5 prizes
Total: -$650.38
I did manage to final table the $11 6 max on Bovada again. This time, I had 10/13 of the chips in play when the table decided to crash. That was the only table that wasn't loading. I ended up blinding out in 2nd for $225, I talked to Bovada support and they gave me $50 plus my $11 buyin back. Less than first would have been (less than ICM as well) but I guess it's better than nothing?
I also took 1st in the $11 3K for $645. Ran well obviously to take it down but I think I played pretty well. Final tabled the $20 hyper on ACR for $260 but no idea what place I took. That's probably not a good thing.
Also had massive chip lead in the $60 4K on ACR with 15 left. I spewed into a fish when I thought he was playing back at me, in reality I'm pretty sure he was just bad. 1.2K up top, too.
I did manage to bubble 9 of 29 $214 6 maxes I played on Bovada, so that's exciting!
Is there a way to upload a graph without downloading the picture online somewhere?
AUGUST RESULTS:
MTTs: 94 played/ $2,869 Buyins/ $1,817.58 prizes (-$871.42)
SnGs: 205 played/ $20,870.08 Buyins/ $19,413.3 prizes (-$1,456.78)
I may have set my goals a little bit low for SnG/MTT buyins. Maybe I should focus on beating my profit goal
Results from 8-4 (15.1 HRS)
MTTs played 47/ $1,387.45 buyins/$1,376.04 prizes
SnGs played 68/ $9,436.47 buyins/$8797.5 prizes
Total: -$650.38
I did manage to final table the $11 6 max on Bovada again. This time, I had 10/13 of the chips in play when the table decided to crash. That was the only table that wasn't loading. I ended up blinding out in 2nd for $225, I talked to Bovada support and they gave me $50 plus my $11 buyin back. Less than first would have been (less than ICM as well) but I guess it's better than nothing?
I also took 1st in the $11 3K for $645. Ran well obviously to take it down but I think I played pretty well. Final tabled the $20 hyper on ACR for $260 but no idea what place I took. That's probably not a good thing.
Also had massive chip lead in the $60 4K on ACR with 15 left. I spewed into a fish when I thought he was playing back at me, in reality I'm pretty sure he was just bad. 1.2K up top, too.
I did manage to bubble 9 of 29 $214 6 maxes I played on Bovada, so that's exciting!
Is there a way to upload a graph without downloading the picture online somewhere?
AUGUST RESULTS:
MTTs: 94 played/ $2,869 Buyins/ $1,817.58 prizes (-$871.42)
SnGs: 205 played/ $20,870.08 Buyins/ $19,413.3 prizes (-$1,456.78)
I may have set my goals a little bit low for SnG/MTT buyins. Maybe I should focus on beating my profit goal