Goldstar "brag" (or so they call it) + recap

Hit goldstar today, with a full day of rest. Pretty satisfied. Played 25nl deep+50nl deep+ 100nl euro tables drunk today... went pretty well IMO up around in the 100's. I'm pretty satisfied with this month overall. -It being the first month to actually hit goldstar, my biggest winning month, me being able to move up to 50nl+100nl, PLUS I'm right around pace for the summer. Pretty happy about all of it. Not so happy with my play however. I played enough to storm through this Heater, yet I still feel like I've made way too many mistakes. Still need to watch more videos/grind more for next month. And surprisingly I am running within 1 buyin of EV this month. (+1 that is)
Also I'm winning at 50nl, and at 100nl, I'm up about 2 buy ins at 50nl and about 20bb's (LOL) at 100 nl OBV only under a small sample (like 300 hands) but I feel its important to note.

Totals since last post:

Cash hands played: 2492
Profit: 353.62

Tourneys played: 9
Profit: -38.47

Played a few SAT's to the sunday million and lost every single one.. sucks.

Total Profit: +315.15$

Mass spamming my cousin cause I can...

http://www.youtube.com/user/Cdtms92

Tell me what you guys think. He's been really working hard the past 2 years to become a better singer/artist. ( yes i know he is covering the goo goo dolls) If you guys could give some feedback (steve especially w/ your music back round) thatd be great.

Shipping it+ made a venture into 100nl

Played only cash games since yesterday. Heres a hand where I completely out play a villain running 86/20 over 50 hands for 200bb's.

***** Hand History for Game 47390111980 ***** (Poker Stars)
$25.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, July 28, 01:22:10 ET 2010
Table Pollux VIII (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 1: jacove ( $94.03 USD )
Seat 2: n2700 ( $37.73 USD )
Seat 3: Vo1t ( $62.50 USD )
Seat 4: zaxo76 ( $46.35 USD )
Seat 5: tonyj444 ( $62.80 USD )
Seat 6: kl4vs k1nsk1 ( $68.28 USD )
tonyj444 posts small blind [$0.10 USD].
kl4vs k1nsk1 posts big blind [$0.25 USD].
jacove posts ante of [$0.05 USD].
n2700 posts ante of [$0.05 USD].
Vo1t posts ante of [$0.05 USD].
zaxo76 posts ante of [$0.05 USD].
tonyj444 posts ante of [$0.05 USD].
kl4vs k1nsk1 posts ante of [$0.05 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to jacove [ Jh Jc ]
jacove raises [$1.05 USD]
n2700 folds
Vo1t folds
zaxo76 calls [$1.00 USD]
tonyj444 folds
kl4vs k1nsk1 folds
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4d, 3c, 8s ]
jacove bets [$2.00 USD]
zaxo76 raises [$5.25 USD]
jacove raises [$90.98 USD]
zaxo76 calls [$40.05 USD]
jacove wins $47.68 USD
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9d ]
** Dealing River ** [ 2d ]
jacove shows [Jh, Jc ]
zaxo76 shows [3d, Ac ]
jacove wins $91.25 USD from main pot
jacove wins $0.05 USD from main pot


(I'm not exactly sure how to convert hand histories sooo yeah)

Totals:

Sngs played: 0

Cash hands played: 953
Profit: +212.00$

Also side note i played 11 hands of 100nl, because I now have the broll for 100nl, and there was a nice fish in there. The table broke up though :( You better watch out steve, I'm coming for your tables!

Have around 500 fpps and about 520 vpps to go for goldstar

Played a couple 11$'s

Started my venture into the 11's, only played 2 of them, but I was playing mostly 5's and just wanted to mix some in and focus on each decision better. I ended up placing 1st in one 11$ which was really great, I really felt I played close to perfect in that one at least. However I lost every other sng i played ;( I mostly played cash games today because I'm really trying to get goldstar and still have 650 vpps to go in 4 days. I ran 2 buyins under expectation yet won a 200bb+ pot with set over set to end the session. I'm really running well over the past 6k hands (while still at EV) and am hoping it keeps up.

Totals for today:

Sngs played:14
Profit: +13.10$

Cash hands played: 818
Profit: +145.84$

Total profit: +158.94$

Man I cant handle this fucking variance...

This variance is so fucking ridiculous. Sadly I'm running above EV and still tasting the variance :( whatever man, I guess I'll have to keep at it. At least my redline is above 0 meh. Might take a break after this variance filled week. Taste it.

Totals:

Sngs played: 19
Profit: +185.26$

Cash hands played: 1716
Profit: +220.13$

Played a few SATs for the turbo take down +sunday million, busted out of all except 1 280 fpp
Profit: +11$

Total Profit since last post: +416.39

I'm winning!

Didn't play too much this week, running really well at 25nl, (but still only a buy in above ev). I'm generally winning at everything as of late (except PLOLOLOLOmaha), my sng's are going well, cash too, and even in the satellites (except for the SAT's to the turbo takedown :(. )

Totals:

Sngs played: 53
Profit: +52.79$

SATS played: 6
Profit: +11$

Cash hands played:1162
Profit: +152.90$

Rush week bonus: +5$

Total profit since last post: +220.69$

I'm just going to look at my HEM andsee where I'm at as far as for the challenge, It's probably going to be off + or - 10-50$ because I think I missed to add my winnings for some satellites.

After May 17th at 00:00:00

Cash hands played: 10872
Profit: +264.62$
(suprisingly my redline is positive by about 1000 nickels)

Sngs played: 1363
Profit: +1149.66$

Rush bonus +5$

Stellar rewards bonuses: +100$

Micro mania bonus: +6$

Rakeback: +5.55$

(I'm sure I might be missing some bonuses or something)

Total for the summer: +1530.83$

Pace: 2920$
Behind: -1389.17$

So thats pretty neat, even though I'm behind pace I still like how far I've come.

HOLY #%$@ I HIT 69!!!!!

Sharkscope ability results: 69. Taste it monty i got there before you.

Just won a 4$ 180 man for the second time this month...I'm fucking ecstatic lol. I dont care if it's a brag but today was my most winningest day throughout history lol...sadly its only +278.69 (peep the cents). I'm just gunna post the totals since my last session

Totals:

Sngs played:21
Profit:+278.69$

I loaded up 2 4$ 180 man sngs along with my other 5$ sngs, at one point i was at the final tables in both the 180 mans with 20+ bb's and running really hot in the 5's as well.

Tryin to hit goldstar

I've been learning alot on these sng's lately, I watched a series on the maths by VitalMyth. He has a really good series that went pretty deep into the math behind set mining+ suited connector play. I've also as of yesterday figured out one big leak in my game. I had been trying to "survive" in the sngs when I had 5bbs or under, (I have to try harder to not get into these situations as my edge severely decreases when i have no fold equity.)

Other than that I still havent put in enough volume. I need about 1500 more vpps for goldstar, with 14 days left i need to put in just over 100 vpps a day...This should definitely be attainable, but I'd like to maybe take some action for a 1 day volume challenge to get me motivated. Preferably at the cash games if possible. (25nl only please :).

I had only been 6 tabling the 5's at a time to really find some spots to improve on. Plus I had played some rush poker on Fulltilt to get a little bonus money..

Totals since last post:

Sngs played:54
Profit: +18.35$

Cash hands played: 2049
Profit: -7.93$

Saving my fpps for no reason atm lol total: 1726

Total profit: +10.42

Think I'm catching the hang of 25nl 6max..

So, I'm actually starting to profit at the 5's. I've been taking alot of notes lately and have about 4 pages or so of them...I realized i have ALOT of questions about the sngs and even the cash games.

I have been playing a little bit of cash while winding starting/down my sngs sessions. My redline is positive over those hands, so its usually a sign of me playing well (or running hot). Either way I'm satisfied. I would've earned around 100$ at the cash games but i just lost a 30$ pot against a fish who limp over called with aces, I got it in on a 824 6 board with QQ. pretty standard but fuck that guy. Anyways, I think the biggest reason why my redline is positive is because of my overall aggression. Also, I've been increasing my bet sizing against the right opponents when needed to bluff/ get value, add this to the aggression and I think I'd be a winning player.

Back to sng's, I've been kind of stuck with some questions and some spots where i dont know if I should have shoved or not. My overall calling of shoves in the push fold mode has been pretty good though.

-Still need to put in a bigger grind effort at the sngs
-Still need to watch some more card runners vids.

Totals since last post:

Sngs played:131
Profit: +60.70$

Cash hands played: 2008
Profit: +67.51$

+50$ stellar reward woohoo!!

Total Profit: +178.21

I also have been saving my FPP's, I currently have 1450

I could play cash games...and win?

Totals since June 30th:

125 sngs
Profit: +219.92$

Cash hands: 4534
Profit: -108.57$

+6$ Micromania bonus
210 Fpp Sng satellite won for +11$

Totals since June 30th: +128.35$

I still have 666.12 Fpps sitting in my account, I think I'm going to save up/use them to try and make it into the turning stone tournament that Steve told me about.

Heres my cash games rant: As far as cash games are concerned, i had played like 1200 hands of 2nl when i was bored 30 tabling (still profited! -brag). But still, to be down over 100$ in 3k hands just blows. I don't know if it was me being spewy or what. I am running about 2.5 buyins under EV over this downswing though. I'm not sure if I'm a winning player at 25nl yet, the 50bbs tables seem SO soft, yet I'm just not winning at them... There are probably massive leaks some where in my game, I just don't know how to find them. Any suggestions?? (especially for CR videos)

Heres my Sngs rant: I haven't put in a good enough tournaments/day this past week, I'm planning on playing at least 40+ a day when I do play. Besides that, I'm almost absolutely break even at the 5$ Sngs which is ridiculous... Yes I'm probably running really bad, but at the same time I need to do some sort of leak finder/take more notes. Its weird that im breakeven at the 5's and winning at the 3's (20% roi), but I'll figure it out. I won my first 4$ 180 man today! They're so fucking soft its amazing. So far i think I'm up close to 400$ since the start...thats almost half of my profit from this challenge lol. In a couple hours or so, Steve agreed to sweat me while I play the sngs so hopefully my thought process will expand on the game.

Brag of the day: Not only did I get my first win at the 180's, Steve; my hero, was able to watch me take it down.

Beat of the day: I realized how much I suck at cash games today :(