I'm now staked to play online poker at a private site that only accepts new players via invitation. Starting bankroll was $100 three days ago. Current bankroll is $181.40. Wheeee. I'm currently only authorized to play no limit holdem MTTs at or below $5. The stake is young.
My manager wishes to remain anonymous. Thus any inquiries into his identity or information requests will simply be ignored and perhaps even deleted by a moderator.
I think the added structure of having a manager will be great for me and I'm grateful for his guidance and wisdom.
I landed this gig by sharing my overall MTT results from swcpoker. Here are some stats that I think helped me get my foot in the door:
721 games / 9.3% return on investment = overall stats for all MTT game types over a two year period.
I played a $3 tourney this afternoon but finished in fourth place with only two spots paying. The payouts at this site are particularly steep. If there are from 9 to 25 players, only three spots pay. If there are from 6 to 8 players, two spots pay. 5 or less, only one spot pays.
The schedule for tonight looks like this:
8pm est: $50 gtd freeroll
8pm est: $1 - $100 gtd rebuy
9pm est: $3 - $25 gtd
10pm est: $2 - $25 gtd rebuy
12am est: $5 - $50 gtd rebuy
8pm est: $50 gtd freeroll zero
8pm est: $1 - $100 gtd rebuy zero
9pm est: $3 - $25 gtd 1st place paid $16.50
10pm est: $2 - $25 gtd rebuy 1st place paid $21
My maximum allowed buy in went up. I'm now authorized to play the $6.08 + .60 tourney at 10pm est. It's a funny format. No late reg. Winner take all $100 gtd. $6.08 bounty on last nights winner and a bonus if you win it twice in a row. Sounds fun right? I'm gonna wait till gametime to decide if I want to play it depending on the number of entrants. The lower the number, the more likely I am to play it.
Some didn't run and I skipped the $6.08 tourney because the winner take all format and 14 entrants = massive number of games needed to realize my expectation.
The 10pm $2 tourney was fun. The heads up battle lasted quite a while. At two points I had my opponent all in when I had the favorite preflop, but I was unable to finish him. I was down to 1.5 or so big blinds at one point, but I came back to regain the chiplead. Then the blinds got sky high and it was time to gamble. GG.
I failed. Decided to give this tourney up for now unless I'm feeling very awake. Due to the tiredness factor, I think those that live further west have an advantage here.
Standard schedule today. I just busted out of a $3 freezeout. There are many consecutive zeroes in my win column, but lucky for me I ran hot at the start of this adventure, which puts the bad run into perspective.
Played three tourneys and a freeroll last night. I won one for $12.5, bubbled the $100 gtd in fourth place, and finished well out of the money in the last. I made the final table in the freeroll but was unable to get anything going there.
