Hey guys, most of you know me by now, and I fig'd I'd make a seperate challenge thread for August since I'm going to be going for the Merge SNG LB playing $2-5 super turbo's. Here's an overview of the payouts for the top 5 on the LB.
1st 2,000
2nd 1,250
3rd 1,000
4th 750
5th 650
Introduction:
For those who don't know me, my name is Josh and I'm 20 yrs old and have been playing poker for a living since I was 18. I was living in Vegas pre BF and moved home the day after as I had just turned 20 and therefore couldn't grind live games in LV. So I returned home, was playing in some big (but kinda tough) home games and ended up just grinding on Merge again as live wasn't for me.
I don't have a big sample of ST's yet on Merge, but I'm not really worried about that, I've been mostly studying this week and I've got a decent sized sample of ST's played on FTP in the past. The toughest part will obviously be the volume
. According to Rusemandingo, who btw will win the LB this month so I really trust his opinion, congrats Ruse btw
, I'll need to play about 200-225 hours this month to achieve 12k games and I'll also have to hope that someone like JordanEbener doesn't grind hard because he plays way higher stakes and therefore would likely beat me out for 1st
.
I got new shove charts and a new spreadsheet to study last week, and they've really improved my game imo, here's my LOL small sample of ST's since then below; I've been taking a break this week and mostly studying to rest up for August.
jd4wg91 596 $0.17 $2 7% $99 - N/A Merge 7/24/2011 7/28/2011 E6-6 Spd=ST Rakeback65 SNG Only
Setup:
Anyway, I kinda want to talk more about my setup, so here goes in that regards. Basically I'm going to be running StackAndTile and Mergekeys (my hotkeys) together to help make my life easier. SaT truly is awesome, it lets me stack all my tables in my normal stacking spot and it'll only pull out tables to the "grid" if I manually hotkey it there. I'm one who usually just stacks all my tables and doesn't worry about it, but this is a sick program for using on bubble spots when it's actually helpful to see an opponents shoving range or w/e it may be that makes you want to pull the game out of the stack. It's super easy to setup and use, and the way it works in game is so easy, I'd highly recommend it to any grinder out there on any site because afaik, it's setup to work on any site which is one of the best/most unique features about it. And the support is awesome, Greg Nice is very proactive in helping and has helped me out a ton in regards to helping me set it up. A link to the site is
here, which includes a demo video and then a link
here is to the 2p2 support thread...srsly, do yourself a favor and check it out
.
Endnotes:
Well, this should be a fun month, whether I get 1st or not on the LB. I plan to give it my all, hit my volume goal of 12k games and give it my all.
I have the following propbets with friends as ways to increase motivation
-My 12k games against Gimmitheloot's 105k hands in August, $50
-My 12k games against Upgrayedd420's 6k sngs in August (hes behind in SNE pace), $50
-My 12k games at 1.25:1 odds in my favor against MCC2005, his $50 to my $37.50 (straight bet of me hitting the volume)
-My 9k games at 1:1 odds against MCC2005 (he rlly doesn't think I'll get anywhere near the goal
), his $50 to my $50
-Most volume against Aph0ticLife on Merge for August, $50.
I'll try to update after every session during the month as I doubt I'll be playing more than 3 hrs at a time without taking a 20-30 min break.
I'm heading out with a buddy for the day, gotta go sell some tires with him, grabbing some lunch and then gonna grind out some CoD at his house. I'll probably put in a short session tonight when I get home though I may just relax.
Thanks for reading everyone, this should be a fun month imo. Be sure and give feedback/thoughts/etc as I'm usually pretty good about responding to everyone itt, whether its positive or negative feedback.
My other PG&C thread is linked
here
And ofc, gotta end with threadsaver's.