/ Challenge

Well, the personal challenge is over for me. I was well on my way to competing the goal, with ~700 games completed before mid month, but i've made the decision to move up in stakes. 

It's something i needed to do, as i feel my growth is being stunted by staying at the micro's. I still have numerous leaks, but i'm slowly getting it together. I feel that i've found one major leak in my bubble game that has been causing me to enter the ITM as a shortstack, causing me to have a lot of 3rd/2nd placings. So with that on the way to being fixed, the move up will hopefully be a successful one. 

Results wise, it went pretty well. My distribution is looking aweful, but i've uncovered a major leak, so hopefully it will come back to some normality soon.

So with the challenge cancelled, i'm now "free" to move up in stakes and lower the amount of tables i'm playing. I expect my volume to be pitiful for the next week, but it's a marathon, not a sprint.

I have now played just 15 of the 6.50 9 man STT's on stars, and i have to say i'm feeling quietly confident that i'll be able to beat this level. The standard of play is a lot better that the 3.40's, with a lot more players with "reggish" stats. After some adjustment, and game time, i'm sure i will be fine. The game plan is to play 1000 of these and see how i'm going. If i'm crushing the 6.50's on stars, then i'll be confident that i'll be able to play the 6.50s - 12's on full tilt no problems.

A little unwell

Well the past few days i have been quite ill, no need to go into the finer details, but i was firm friends with a toilet bowl for quite some time.

Only being able to play ~30 games in two days has left me behind pace for this months challenge. The response? You guessed it. Another challenge!

In the next three days i want to play 100 games each day. Yes, i know it doesn't sound like much to most of you online grinders, but for me, 12-15 tabling, that's going to take quite a few hours to achieve. Hopefully this will get me back on track to complete the 1500, as i don't have the whole month, i fly out to play in the live tournament on the 28th, so i need the games done before then. Yikes.

Huge brag incoming.

What a difference 48 hours can make. It's been fantastic to say the least. Fan. Tas. Tic.

Talk to me two days ago and I would have been a bit down. But quietly confidant that after 500 games of solid play, the poker gods would reward me. Reward me they did.

A not too shabby ROI. The great thing about it is i finally feel in total control of my opponants and my own game at every stage of the tournament. And running $100 over expectation is always nice too.

To add to that, i finally made it to a sharkscope leaderboard for total profit. It's been a mini goal of mine to keep myself motivated playing the micro's. It feels nice to say that i'm the 19th most profitable player 9 STT turbos in the world. I don't expect to be on there long, but i made my goal, that's what matters.

Finally, to top of what has been a simply awesome two days i decided to enter a small sattlite tournament for $3 into a $11 rebuy. Normally i don't play in these events, but i had two tournaments going that my stack was dwindling away in, so i decided to have some fun playing a super turbo. I got Third in that tournament for ~$9.00. But my gambling thirst was not quite quenched yet. I decided that i'd spend $11 to buy into the rebuy, only planning to have the one shot at trying to accumulate chips. If i knew what it would be like, i wouldn't have entered. The rebuy period lasting for an hour and a half. I managed not to stack off and accumulate a nice stack of chips after the break ended. Then after some luck, and i mean a lot of luck, i managed to win a tournament ticket to the ANZPT adelaide main event.

I can count at least 4 times where i was an 80/20 dog and managed to win somehow. At one point late in the game going runner/runner hearts to take down a big pot, with my tournament on the line. It was loads of fun, i had a blast.

So, thank you. Thank you poker gods, i will sacrifice a goat now in your honor. Or whatever it is you want me to do. Anyways /Brag

To quote the rapper Eminem, i have to "Snap back to reality", fast.

So, tommorow it's back to the e-felt for some more micro action. Hopefully i can move up after this month, with my challenge still going i want to finish this month, then move to full tilt to take advantage of both bad players, and the excellent rakeback system they have. Plus i also have my first bonus deposit, so i should be on ~50% rakeback for a short time.   Sweet.

A shaky start

Well end of week one. How did that go? Not well.

It's not a big deal, quite common to go through breakeven stretches like this. I feel i'm playing quite well, so with a little bit of luck, that green line will translate into green currency next week.

On the plus side, i'm well on the way to completing the challenge of 1500 games by month's end.