2008 Review
RoSeeker, Jan 04 2009
My first hand on Hold’em Manager is dated September 15th, though it’d be unfair to say I started playing at that time. I’ve played for cash since about March, though I’d logged less than 2000 hands for sure, and mostly played SnGs. I was a break-even/slightly winning player from that time to around October/November, and I’m not going to lie.
The poker playing community is generally quite deluded. It’s how the economy works. Basically I luckboxed two tournaments, got a roll, didn’t get into many downswings early in my career, and managed to survive until eventually I became a winning player. Not a good player, mind you, but a winning one.
It was around September that my site got logged into by some friend’s friend, and had half my roll stolen, that sucked but the deposit bonus sort of helped me survive. I had a small but consistent winrate at SnGs, and I multi tabled $5.5 regular 9s.
October was sort of a gray area. I won a lot, but also experienced one of the biggest downswings ever, which was worth more than 600 dollars. On hindsight, I was on a huge upswing and got hit by a minor downswing. I was a pretty bad player at that time. I started playing 6Max Turbos.
November. I was still a pretty bad player, but I managed to not be as bad as the other players. I donked money off very often, but not as often as people donked money off to me. I made around 1k that month, mostly from 6max Turbo SnGs, but almost half of it from short stacking full ring. I was break even/slight winner at 6Max, but I did manage to get Platinum Star.
December. This month. I’m still a terrible player, but I get so lucky. I ran 400 dollars above EV for the first 10 days...
... before variance slapped me in the face and I became break even in EV.
I stopped playing SnGs almost completely, and in fact lost a bit of money playing HU and multi-tabling carelessly, resulting in a horrid graph:
I was on an 18 buyin downswing at SnGs, and have never recovered, and in fact, could not be bothered to try.
My stats changed a lot since October. I became much more of a nit, on one hand, playing as tight as 17/14 in some sessions. For the first time, I started 24 tabling 6Max profitably around late October, though I usually stay at around 16 nowadays. I began 3betting a lot more often, and very profitably. At one point my 3bet was 7.4% over a 12k sample size, but have receded since then.
My AF dropped a lot, also. My WWSF is now 45%. Although my W$SD is a mediocre 50% it is, in context of a 31% WTSD, something I’m quite happy with. Through December, my bb/100 is averaging at 16.88, showing that I have learnt to station/spew quite profitably, resulting in a red line I am very proud of:
Finally, I have moved to 50NL. I have been rolled for it since October, but have never succeeded, being a bankroll nit. I tried on the 29th and 30th, losing 2 buyins in the process due to usual variance and some tilt.
Today, I logged 3000 more hands.
2008 Recap:
Multi Table Effectively
Volume
Consistent 1k Months
Consistent Cash Game Results
NSD Winnings
Platinum Star
Move to 50NL (sorta… 4k~ hands a bit thin).
2009 Goals:
More Volume
Be [More] Profitable at Heads Up
1.5k Months
100NL by April/May
Supernova by June
2k Months by June
4K Bonus
Milestone by End of Year
30K Bankroll
Not Fail College
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First Post
RoSeeker, Dec 09 2008
Hello everyone.
I joined the site at the behest of d.Apollo: http://www.liquidpoker.net/blog/viewblog.php?id=623839, whom I'd known from CnC3. I played CnC3 somewhat competetively, also played SC and WC3 a lot, though not at a very competetive level. I still follow the scene somewhat.
I started playing poker almost a year ago, but only started playing online seriously for a few months to half a year, depending on what you consider "serious". I didn't go on some mad rush from the start and shoot from 2NL to 25NL within a week or anything. In fact it was rather slow, and I'd started with SnGs, which in hindsight didn't really help my growth very much. What it did do is make me more resilient to downswings and by the time I started playing cash games I'd accumulated a decent bankroll from the 50 dollars a friend had lent me.
I play 25NL 6Max mostly, and aim to move to 100NL early next year while getting Supernova status on stars. I'm rolled for 100NL right now, but I'm a bankroll nit, or something. You see, I've taken shots at 50NL twice, both of which ended in faliures, one significantly worse than the other. Significantly worse as in 18 buyin downswing as opposed to 3.
The last months I've been having some crazy swings. Ran at 12ptbb/100 for around 8-10k hands, then lost several buyins within a thousand or two. I was originally planning to move to NL50, but in light of these swings, I've decided to get a slightly bigger sample size in first and plug my leaks before taking shots again; hopefully within a week.
I also play some Stud8, LHE, and HU on the side, as well as some FR50.
I'm also on the 2+2 forums by the same name.
No sick graphs or pictures to show sadly--maybe next time.
I don't know anyone here, but if anyone's interested in discussing poker or doing some sweat sessions, give me a pm/email/whatever. Better yet if you live near Macau, we can go there and own up some live donks...!
And thus ends my first post.
Anyway, this is Seeker.
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