Now soon it is New Years Eve, and as many other maybe looking back at the passing year and making goals for the coming one, this is never something I have done. But as far as poker goes - and for the sake of this blog - I will make an exception. Off course I will spare you for my boring life, and only make it about poker.
In my last post I came around my poker up till now, so I will name some long term goals for my sit and go play. I wont be making any really short term goals or volume goals, because I don't want to be committed to play if I don't have the urge.
So here it comes:
- I want to reach level $30+3, maybe with a mix of $50+5.
- Maintaining a ROI of +10% at that level ---OR--- Making a minimum of $16/hour.
- Multitabling 12-16 tables - depending on the affect on $/hour.
- Becoming better at handling variance.
- Finding a sweat partner, or be in a sweat group.
To reach those goals I want to move up in level when I have around 50-60 BI. I don't want to play a certain number of games in one level before I move up, it will be more of a feel of the given level and play that will make me try to move up. I hope to reach level $20+2 in 3-4 months.
At some point I might make another move at the turbos, because sometimes I don't play a set if I only have one single free hour. This may affect some of my above goals, but should only be a matter of the level I will reach.
To finish this post, I will introduce you to a great Danish singer, with a song suitable for christmas/new year:
Happy new year!
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
My journey in regular sit and go.
I first started playing sng in early 2009 and had no idea of ICM (heard of it), handranges, push/fold, multitabling or variance. So I made myself a little challenge; would play 20-30 sngs and see how I would do, and calculate my ROI. Apparently I thought that if I could make some money in those few games, I would be overall winning!?
So I started nice and easy with one table $5+0.50 on Ipoker, and had a pretty good start with one 3rd, two 2nd and one 1st place in only 7 games. Then I tried a single $10+1 and won it! From there on I decided that this was way better than loose your whole stack in cashgame to a 3-outer.
I continued to play the $5 and instead of moving up, I decided to put more tables on. First 2, then 4 and by may 2009 I had played my first 21 $5 games with a healthy ROI of 29.9%. Yes, I know - only 21 games in 3-4 months.
In august 2009 after playing around 100 $5 and still having a ROI of around 30% I tried to move up and play $10 but could not win in them. So after about 150 games I got tired of not getting anywhere, and stopped playing sng.
Then i February 2010 I stumbled over Moshman stake and applied for a stake, playing the 45man turbo. I got a 50/50 contract and had to play 100 games a week. After the first week and a profit off $96, I made my first encounter with the bitch called variance. And after another 60 games, loosing almost everything again, I asked for the stake to end, as I could not deal with the swings, and had to admit that I was not to be a grinder, but had to settle with poker as a hobby.
Somewhat crestfallen, I hiked around in poker-nowhereland not able to decide what to play. Finally in August 2010 - after quite some studying - I made my mind up to start in the $5 sng again, now at FullTilt. Started with 4 tables, then quickly 6- and 8-tabling.
But man these games take sooo long, so I tried shifting to turbos and got hammered:
Quickly back to regular again, and when I looked at my graph of the $5, I decided it was time to move up:
I started my move to the next level with 2 tables at a time, then 4 and now 6 tables. Now when I had my encounter with that bitch called variance again in the turbos, I fell on my knees and apologized to her: I'm so sorry ma'am for calling you a bitch" and now look what happened with my game:
WOW - what a heater! Finally she paid me back from the all the turbo 45s and 9s. So now when I play, I have my ma'am standing next to me. Sure hope she's gonna stay for long.
Now I know i have very few games, but when I look at my EV-adjusted ROI it still is very healthy with 24.5%. Furthermore, the most players in these games are just horrible, spewing chips left and right. But lets see how things develop when things eventually goes for the worse and the green line turns.
So I started nice and easy with one table $5+0.50 on Ipoker, and had a pretty good start with one 3rd, two 2nd and one 1st place in only 7 games. Then I tried a single $10+1 and won it! From there on I decided that this was way better than loose your whole stack in cashgame to a 3-outer.
I continued to play the $5 and instead of moving up, I decided to put more tables on. First 2, then 4 and by may 2009 I had played my first 21 $5 games with a healthy ROI of 29.9%. Yes, I know - only 21 games in 3-4 months.
In august 2009 after playing around 100 $5 and still having a ROI of around 30% I tried to move up and play $10 but could not win in them. So after about 150 games I got tired of not getting anywhere, and stopped playing sng.
Then i February 2010 I stumbled over Moshman stake and applied for a stake, playing the 45man turbo. I got a 50/50 contract and had to play 100 games a week. After the first week and a profit off $96, I made my first encounter with the bitch called variance. And after another 60 games, loosing almost everything again, I asked for the stake to end, as I could not deal with the swings, and had to admit that I was not to be a grinder, but had to settle with poker as a hobby.
Somewhat crestfallen, I hiked around in poker-nowhereland not able to decide what to play. Finally in August 2010 - after quite some studying - I made my mind up to start in the $5 sng again, now at FullTilt. Started with 4 tables, then quickly 6- and 8-tabling.
But man these games take sooo long, so I tried shifting to turbos and got hammered:
Quickly back to regular again, and when I looked at my graph of the $5, I decided it was time to move up:
I started my move to the next level with 2 tables at a time, then 4 and now 6 tables. Now when I had my encounter with that bitch called variance again in the turbos, I fell on my knees and apologized to her: I'm so sorry ma'am for calling you a bitch" and now look what happened with my game:
WOW - what a heater! Finally she paid me back from the all the turbo 45s and 9s. So now when I play, I have my ma'am standing next to me. Sure hope she's gonna stay for long.
Now I know i have very few games, but when I look at my EV-adjusted ROI it still is very healthy with 24.5%. Furthermore, the most players in these games are just horrible, spewing chips left and right. But lets see how things develop when things eventually goes for the worse and the green line turns.
Monday, December 20, 2010
For U'all
Hi there world and everyone. Finally took the jump to blog about my pokercareer, and maybe some other stuff, which most likely will be jokes and music when I stumble upon some good stuff. We Danish Vikings play some gooood poker, but not many small-stakers blog about it - so here's one.
I'm not like most of you young guns who grind long hours day in and day out. I would love to be so, but unfortenately i was born way before poker took off, so I have to deal with poker as a hobby. Yes, as you now guessed, I'm kind of an oldtimer - 46 - but my mind is still going strong, in fact maybe even stronger than ever.
As you can see from my blogtitle, I am one of the relatively few who plays the "slow" speed sng. The reasons are many, but mostly because I get to play some real poker and not only push/fold. Furthermore I dont see so many regs in these games, and I dont need to make a high hourly.
I started playing about 5 years ago. Deposited some $200 and played cash and tournaments. Worked my online bankroll nice and steady to around $2,500 located on numerous different sites. Two years ago I fell in love with sit & go'es after reading Collin Moshmans book.
Now I am kind af a nerd when it comes to mathematics and stuff like that - like gamingtheory. So I wacuumed the internet for every article, blog, video and everything else, and studied my ass off becoming familiar with all the strategies and techniques in these games. And now I finally feel I master these games, playing them well and winning.
Thats all for now - you got to know a little about me. Next post will be more i depth with my sng-games so far.
I'm not like most of you young guns who grind long hours day in and day out. I would love to be so, but unfortenately i was born way before poker took off, so I have to deal with poker as a hobby. Yes, as you now guessed, I'm kind of an oldtimer - 46 - but my mind is still going strong, in fact maybe even stronger than ever.
As you can see from my blogtitle, I am one of the relatively few who plays the "slow" speed sng. The reasons are many, but mostly because I get to play some real poker and not only push/fold. Furthermore I dont see so many regs in these games, and I dont need to make a high hourly.
I started playing about 5 years ago. Deposited some $200 and played cash and tournaments. Worked my online bankroll nice and steady to around $2,500 located on numerous different sites. Two years ago I fell in love with sit & go'es after reading Collin Moshmans book.
Now I am kind af a nerd when it comes to mathematics and stuff like that - like gamingtheory. So I wacuumed the internet for every article, blog, video and everything else, and studied my ass off becoming familiar with all the strategies and techniques in these games. And now I finally feel I master these games, playing them well and winning.
Thats all for now - you got to know a little about me. Next post will be more i depth with my sng-games so far.
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