Good luck Lusite that is a very nice start! Just make sure you're prepared for the inevitable downswings they can be tough on morale. You can lose more than $300 in a row simply due to variance at the $2.50s. So be mentally prepared

I'm worrying about when I have a $1k downswing at the $8s :/ let's just hope it never happens!

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I am lagging behind in volume once again this week. Pretty much breakeven so far. Playing a session now and hopefully far longer ones on Friday and Saturday

Good luck.

Quick Update on this Week so far

Just won an $8 game at the end of a session meaning I won $255 tonight But the 3 previous sessions this week were all losing ones. But I only lost $1, $25 and $40 , meaning I'm up just shy of $200 this week.

The negative comment for the week so far is that I am still struggling to hit 30 hours. I will need to play about 14 hours tomorrow to meet my target. I am quite annoyed at myself for only playing small sessions each day. I need to work on this if I don't start meeting my hours target soon.

I will put in a big day tomorrow but I doubt it will be enough to hit 30 hours.

For now I am only $230 off of adding in some $15s to sessions! Wooooo

Just finished a disappointing Sunday Session. Only got in 6 hours and after winning one of the first $8 games I played, I ended up down $62 :/ I came 10th in 2 $8 games losing a 45kish pots in both AQ to AT

Week 3

Poker Hours = 21 (Very disappointing again)
Gym Sessions = 3 (moving up to 4 sessions once I am fitter, maybe this coming week if I feel good)

Week 3 Games Played = 348
Profit = $128.23

Breakdown of Week:

$2.50 Games Played = 183
$2.50 Profit = -$53.48

$8 Games Played = 165
$8 Profit = $181.71

Overall Total Games Played = 968
Overall Profit = $1209.69
Bankroll = $4209.70
Overall ROI = 25.3%
Overall $/hour = $21.00

Week 3 Graph:



Overall Graph:



Bizarrely I played exactly the same number of games as last week - 348

Anyway, there are 2 points to focus on:

1. I got nowhere near 30 hours, basically due to laziness and doing other pointless things
2. Overall I am still down $174 from 540 $2.50 games (but am fortunately up $1384 from 428 $8 games)

With regards to the latter point, I will not do anything about this as of yet, but I will obviously keep a close eye on it. I do not believe that I am playing sloppier in the $2.50s than the $8s, so for now I will put these results just down to variance. However, this scares me a bit. Imagine if it were the other way round and I was down 70 buyins at the $8s and up 173 buyins from the $2.50s. I would be down $127.50 overall since the start :/ Thankfully this is not the case, but my results at the $2.50s have to start improving.

With regards to the first point: I MUST PLAY 30 HOURS NEXT WEEK or I might as well quit. Why am I bothering to set myself goals and challenges in a poker goals and challenges thread when I don't even stick to them. I love playing poker so it is confusing me where all my time is going at the moment. I have played 25 hours of poker in 1 day before (I think that adds up ), on 3 different occasions! How can I play less than that in a whole week???

At least I am sticking to the gym and food routine and I honestly am feeling the benefits of that. I might start swimming this week too.

Goal for Week 4: PLAY 30 HOURS. If I don't I will give up this challenge and get a job that forces me to work for 10 hours a day for minimum wage

Just played a small session of 48 games and made $153 all from the $2.50s! So I'm now nearly back to break even from the $2.50s and up about $1.4k in the $8s

So annoying though I lost a 200k pot JJ vs 22 to finish 3rd in an $8, so it could have been a highly profitable small session.

Here's the overall giraffe so far:

Awesome thread mate, your progess is incredible! I have been an MTT player for years but very recently switched to cash as I thought itbwould be steady money with less variance. How do you find multi tabling mtts? Do you stack or tile based on the blinds? Will be following, GL at the tables mate!

Nice Thread and nice progress,will follow.
Keep it up!

At the moment, I only have one screen, so I simply tile 16 tables at once (4x4). In the new year, I hope to get a new computer and screen so I could perhaps up the tables to 24 with 12 on each screen.

Decisions in 180s are mostly ICM shove/fold decisions after the first 3-5 levels, so this makes them very easy to multi-table. I have learnt to make most decisions within 5 seconds of seeing the table and quickly glancing at relevant stack sizes and HUD stats. Harder decisions may take 15-20 seconds which is still fine.

I have been learning about correct ICM shoves a lot over the past 2 years using SnG Wizard and by listening to my poker friends who are much better than me. This has enabled me to now be at the point where I am fairly confident of the shove/fold decision quite quickly. It just comes with practice and experience so seeing as I have played several thousand 180-man tournaments in the past year or 2, I like to think I am getting pretty good at it :P (but in reality I still suck )

The only way in which the blinds affect my tables is that I will stop registering to new tournaments if I am currently on 3 final tables or more, so that I can concentrate more on those tables, where the decisions are so so important, due to the steeeeeeeeeeeep prize structure of the 180-mans.

Good luck with your cash I genuinely do suck at cash. Post-flop play??? What the hell is that? I don't want to start a hand with 100BBs! I'll be happy with 10

Nice thread. Good work mate. Not using Table Ninja I assume? What I suggest when you get your second monitor is a program called Placemint. It moves the tables based on a preset program you can write ( or hopefully find someone to help you with.) When I was grinding 180 mans I had 4 different stacks spread across 2 screens. 1 stack for pre ante, 1 mid game, 1 late game and 1 2k BB+. Really helps as you can focus alot more on what you are doing and your tables move automatically for you. Also, TN is great as it shows how many BBs you have making decisions even easier, not to mention auto regging so you don't have to worry about that. Anyways best of luck with your goal, will definitely be following.

Nice results so far!

I'm playing the $8 180 mans and 3r at the moment , pm me your Skype if you want to go over some hands or discuss learning techniques.

Thanks for the advice. Yeah this is definitely something I'll look into in the new year. I actually have got TN installed, but I haven't learnt how to use it properly yet. It isn't that much hassle for me to manually register to games so I don't see it as a huge problem at the moment.

But yeah that Placemint program sounds very useful I usually manually put any FTs or the deepest games at the top of my screen.

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MILESTONE REACHED

I was having a bad week from Monday to Wednesday, but I played a tiny session on Thursday and BOOOOOOOOM $750 profit.

This leaves me up $1871.38 within the first 3 and a half weeks of my challenge. This has exceeded all of my expectations!

The bizarre thing is that I am still down $80 from the $2.50s but up $1950 from the $8s. I analysed this a little bit and simply concluded that I am just running awfully in the $2.50s and running like god in the $8s. My PFR/VPIP are almost identical across both games at each blind level and I have come 9th/10th/11th in the $2.50s a staggeringly large amount of times, running way below EV on the hands that knocked me out in those positions.

Anyway, the point is I can now include $15 games!

I am going to try to play 8 hours later today and my plan is instead of permanently attempting to have 8 $2.50s and 8 $8s open at all times, I will attempt to have 6 $2.50s, 6 $8s and 4 $15s. (If the $15s register slower than expected, obviously I will have to change this to a 7/6/3 split, but I don't think this should be a problem, especially on weekends)

A quick mention of Rakeback

None of the graphs I post include rakeback at all. Before I started the challenge, I only had about 2000VPPs from the year because I had hardly played at all.

Therefore, since the start of the challenge I have earned 3 $10 Stellar Rewards and just over 4000 FPPS. Rather than saving up and exchanging FPPs for the cash rewards in the VIP store, I choose to play the Sunday Storm hyperturbo satellites for 235 FPPs. They have 6 people and the top 2 places get $11 in tournament money.

The reason for this is simple. Even if you are supernova, you can exchange 100,000 FPPs for $1600. That is $0.016 per FPP. I know that I am 'profitable' at the 6-man hyperturbos as they are all about correct shove/fold decisions. Therefore, my EV gain is higher than $0.016 per FPP playing these.

So far I have played 15 of these satellites and I won 6. So this has given me an extra $66 in rakeback. Also this has earned me $0.0187 per FPP so far, but obviously this is a tiny tiny sample.

Long story short, I have currently got $96 of rakeback on top of the graphs I post.

Here is my overall graph so far:



WISH ME LUCK AT THE $15s!

Sick progress mate. Get dem 15s!

Ty Tift!

WOWOWOW Awesome start to the 15s. Just finished my longest session yet - 8.5 hours.

I got in 70 $2.50s, 53 $8s and 33 $15s.

I lost ~$50 from the $2.50s. I lost ~$200 from the $8s. I won ~$750 from the $15s!

I also got very unlucky during this session. I was one card away from winning both of the $15s that I ended up coming 2nd in.

My EVBB/100 for the session overall was 6.5, with the actual being only 1!

Feels fantastic to get the $15s off to a good start But more importantly, I need to play 7.5 hours tomorrow to meet my 30 hour target.

This session also unlocked the first $50 Stellar Reward for me, so that was a nice bonus. Also I am nearly gold star for the month

Overall graph now with a lovely $/hr of $29.79! :

excellent work !! hopefully you can keep crushing - phase out the $2.50s completely and reach the $35 level.

Sunday went very badly (I lost $350) and I was too depressed to do my weekly update last night I ran very badly and this is backed up by my BB/100 stats, especially for blinds>t1000. Chin up though because it was actually a very very good week for me! And I need to get used to higher variance now I am playing the $15s too

Week 4

Poker Hours = 30 (Yay met my target!)
Gym Sessions = 3

Week 4 Games Played = 513
Profit = $830.47

Breakdown of Week:

$2.50 Games Played = 243
$2.50 Profit = $162.66

$8 Games Played = 198
$8 Profit = $315.22

$15 Games Played = 72
$15 Profit = $352.59


Overall Total Games Played = 1481
Overall Profit = $2040.16
Bankroll = $5040.17
Overall ROI = 25.4%
Overall $/hour = $23.28

Week 4 Graph:



Overall Graph:



Good news is that overall my $2.50s are only down $11 now! Nearly back to break even! And I crushed the $15s to start with as well as still crushing the $8s

Bad News: I seriously need to work on my heads up game though as I come 2nd twice as often as 1st! Maybe it is just variance but in all honesty I never feel like I am going to win, even when I have 4:1 chip leads!

More good news: My girlfriend is back from a cruise that she has been on for the past 2 weeks, so I'm going to see her Friday to Sunday this week

This, along with the fact that England are playing Poland in world cup qualifier on Tuesday (I actually went to Wembley for the Montenegro game on Friday) means that I can't expect to get thaaaaaat much poker in this week, so I won't set any major goals. I will just play as much as I can when I feel like it. I'll make sure I get good volume in week 6 though

Note:

It's amazing how one bad session can bring my mental poker state right down and I start thinking things like 'maybe I am not actually that good'. Looking at the big picture, I have just made $2k in under a month, which is an incredible start to my challenge! I am still very scared of going on a $1k downswing, but I logically know that this is very feasible, so I need to be prepared for her and get through such occurences.

subbed crush hard

Subbed. Very good results Are you playing turbos or normal speed?

I only play turbos I don't think anyone can get a decent hourly at normal speeds even with massive multi-tabling. Plus turbos are more fun. Plus I hate playing with anything more than 10BBs preflop. It's too deeeeeeeeeeeep!

I am just playing a tiny session regging for 2 hours from now and then watching the England game!

I went casino last night with brother to play a free entry + £10 rebuys tournament. Came 5th to profit £55! Woooo lol I had a third of the chips in play with 20 people left and then lost KK to QJ, AJ to QT, AJ to K7 and 33 to 99 and gg was fun though

Wow I just lost $350 in 50 games..... Barely cashed anything. EVBB/100 is 16 while actual is 0. Awful start to the week

crushing mate whats a sustainable roi u reckon? for each stake

Hardly crushing yet :/ I know from my previous challenge that I can sustain 20% at the $2.50s so I'd hope I can also sustain that at the $8s, but from what I've seen of the $15s so far, they are a LOT more reg infested so anything from 10-15% I'd be delighted with.

Week 5

Poker Hours = 6
Gym Sessions = 2

Week 5 Games Played = 100
Profit = -$400.86

Breakdown of Week:

$2.50 Games Played = 37
$2.50 Profit = -$20.13

$8 Games Played = 36
$8 Profit = -$258.29

$15 Games Played = 27
$15 Profit = -$122.44


Overall Total Games Played = 1581
Overall Profit = $1639.30
Bankroll = $4639.31
Overall ROI = 18.6%
Overall $/hour = $17.53

Since it was such a fragmented week, due to doing a lot of other things, I won't post graphs or comment too much on the results. Disappointing to have my first losing week, but as I say it was hardly much volume so no matter.

I am only $100 above the $4.5k required to keep the $15s so one more losing session means that I would have to drop them.

I will play a small session soon to start this new week off and I will target for 30 hours as usual.

Nooooo Had a -$250 session yesterday meaning I am below $4.5k and have to drop the $15s for now. Despite the fact that I am actually up $300 from the $15s

Need to get the $2.50s into profit and stop the $8s from dowswinging. I'll post separate graphs of each stake soon. They look very bizarre. I cannot beat the $2.50s but I'm crushing the $8s. Anyone got an explanation?

Weeeeeeeeeee just had a +$550 session. The $15s are back!

Here's my overall graph now: