I'm two weeks underway in my new job. I'm enjoying it. I'm not used to working 8 hours a day, but it's a lot more relaxing than I had imagined. The newspaper I'm working for has given me an apartment, but unfortunately it's a real dump, lol. I don't think it's even worth it to post pictures of this place. But I finally have a car. I didn't buy one. It's sort of a lease/rent thing. I'm renting it for two months. I'm picking it up tomorrow. It's not gonna be the most baller car in the world, but at least it's new and shiny.
Poker is going well, at least the last couple of days. I started the year by dropping 3k quickly. I then moved down to 1/2 and have been grinding back steadily there. I think I will stay here for a while again. The swings at 2/4 are so brutal, and 1/2 is such stress free money. I withdrew a chunk of my roll, which is now $12.1k. I certainly don't need more to play 1/2 anyway. At the end of the month I'm getting a couple of paychecks, so I might refill my roll. We'll see. :-)
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
2009 Results, 2010 Goals
Disclaimer: This is a long post, with a lot of different topics.
December results
So this is my graph from December. I'm happy with the way I played and my results. But the number of hands is not good enough. I was busy with exams the first week of the month. Then I spent some time playing tournaments mid-month and then I went to my parents for christmas. So less time for cash games. I also keep my sessions somewhat shorter now that I play 2/4, so I can stay on my A game for the most part. Anyway, I made about 2k profit in tournaments and 700 rakeback, so total for the month was +$6.7k I'm definitely not unhappy with that, especially considering the low volume.
2009 results
Unfortunately I can't post a graph for the whole year as I simply don't have all the hands in my database. But here are my approximate numbers for the year:
Cash games: ~$25k
Tournaments: ~$15k
Live (cash and tourneys): ~$3k
Rakeback: $5k
Total: ~$48k
I am very happy with those results. In my post of January 26, I stated that "my immodest goal for 2009 is to win $50k at poker". At the time I didn't really think it would happen, but I almost reached that goal.
Current affairs
During christmas I played low - 0.5/1 for the most part. I didn't want to go on a big downswing and let that ruin my mood. I did have my best cash game day this year a few days earlier. A couple of friends I don't see very often was stopping by and they wanted to see me play, so I pulled up Full Tilt on our 46 inch TV for them to see. I won 1.4k, so I guess they were pretty impressed. :-)
In recent days I've been back playing 2/4. It's going well so far. Yesterday I had one of my swingiest sessions ever. I was 6-tabling 2/4. At one point I was running 1.6k below EV. A lot of that was due to losing a 1.1k pot when I got it in with the 57 vs. 66 on 346 and he spiked quads on me. But I managed to fight my way back to a positive results in a session that included 7 pots that were $800+. The biggest pot was $1,350. I won that when I flopped a set against an overpair. I had another good session today. In fact it was my 8th straight winning session at 2/4. I'm pretty excited about continuing my success there. My current bankroll is $17.3k
The reason why my bankroll is slightly lower than last time is that I went shopping today. My parents got me a new watch for christmas, but I decided to exchange it for something a little more baller. Unfortunately they bought it in a really cheap store. I got one of the most expensive watches they had there, and it was still less than $1k. Anyway, it is a Seiko Chronograph and it's really cool, so I'm happy. I didn't get the Armani suit I talked about in one of the previous posts, because they didn't have it in my size :-(. Instead, I bought a Tiger of Sweden suit that was really stylish as well. I did, however, buy a really nice Armani shirt and some other nice clothes. For New Year's Eve I got a bottle of Dom Perignon. That shit is really expensive. $200 for a small bottle. But it's only New Year's Eve once a year, right. So now that I spent around $3k on luxury items that I didn't need anyway, I'll probably lay low for a while.
2010 plans
On the 4th of December I'm starting in a new job, working for a newspaper for 10 weeks. I have to move to a different city where I don't know anyone, but it'll be a good learning experience I think. After that I'm working the next 10 weeks for a different newspaper, but this time in my home city of Stavanger. This is all part of my education. I will be payed. Not a lot, but a paycheck is a paycheck. I'm also receiving scholarship from the Norwegian government at the same time, so I will have a lot of money. More money than I've ever had before. During this time I plan on grinding 2/4 daily. If I have continued success, I will probably start taking shots at 3/6 when my bankroll is around 25k. It will be easier to build my bankroll with all that money flowing in. My ultimate goal is to be able to finally buy a car. Cars cost a fucking fortune in this country.
My plan for the summer is to go on an American road trip with a couple of buddies, starting in NYC and ending up in LA. We will be hitting Atlantic City and Vegas along the way (obviously). Hopefully I can be in the Vegas for the World Series. We'll see. However it turns out, I'm sure it will be a great summer vacation.
My goal for the entire year is to win $100k at poker. Not a modest goal this year either, but I think I'm actually being more realistic than I was a year ago. I've come a long way with both my skills and my bankroll, and I think this is perfectly doable, even with a full time job.
Happy New Year!
December results
So this is my graph from December. I'm happy with the way I played and my results. But the number of hands is not good enough. I was busy with exams the first week of the month. Then I spent some time playing tournaments mid-month and then I went to my parents for christmas. So less time for cash games. I also keep my sessions somewhat shorter now that I play 2/4, so I can stay on my A game for the most part. Anyway, I made about 2k profit in tournaments and 700 rakeback, so total for the month was +$6.7k I'm definitely not unhappy with that, especially considering the low volume.
2009 results
Unfortunately I can't post a graph for the whole year as I simply don't have all the hands in my database. But here are my approximate numbers for the year:
Cash games: ~$25k
Tournaments: ~$15k
Live (cash and tourneys): ~$3k
Rakeback: $5k
Total: ~$48k
I am very happy with those results. In my post of January 26, I stated that "my immodest goal for 2009 is to win $50k at poker". At the time I didn't really think it would happen, but I almost reached that goal.
Current affairs
During christmas I played low - 0.5/1 for the most part. I didn't want to go on a big downswing and let that ruin my mood. I did have my best cash game day this year a few days earlier. A couple of friends I don't see very often was stopping by and they wanted to see me play, so I pulled up Full Tilt on our 46 inch TV for them to see. I won 1.4k, so I guess they were pretty impressed. :-)
In recent days I've been back playing 2/4. It's going well so far. Yesterday I had one of my swingiest sessions ever. I was 6-tabling 2/4. At one point I was running 1.6k below EV. A lot of that was due to losing a 1.1k pot when I got it in with the 57 vs. 66 on 346 and he spiked quads on me. But I managed to fight my way back to a positive results in a session that included 7 pots that were $800+. The biggest pot was $1,350. I won that when I flopped a set against an overpair. I had another good session today. In fact it was my 8th straight winning session at 2/4. I'm pretty excited about continuing my success there. My current bankroll is $17.3k
The reason why my bankroll is slightly lower than last time is that I went shopping today. My parents got me a new watch for christmas, but I decided to exchange it for something a little more baller. Unfortunately they bought it in a really cheap store. I got one of the most expensive watches they had there, and it was still less than $1k. Anyway, it is a Seiko Chronograph and it's really cool, so I'm happy. I didn't get the Armani suit I talked about in one of the previous posts, because they didn't have it in my size :-(. Instead, I bought a Tiger of Sweden suit that was really stylish as well. I did, however, buy a really nice Armani shirt and some other nice clothes. For New Year's Eve I got a bottle of Dom Perignon. That shit is really expensive. $200 for a small bottle. But it's only New Year's Eve once a year, right. So now that I spent around $3k on luxury items that I didn't need anyway, I'll probably lay low for a while.
2010 plans
On the 4th of December I'm starting in a new job, working for a newspaper for 10 weeks. I have to move to a different city where I don't know anyone, but it'll be a good learning experience I think. After that I'm working the next 10 weeks for a different newspaper, but this time in my home city of Stavanger. This is all part of my education. I will be payed. Not a lot, but a paycheck is a paycheck. I'm also receiving scholarship from the Norwegian government at the same time, so I will have a lot of money. More money than I've ever had before. During this time I plan on grinding 2/4 daily. If I have continued success, I will probably start taking shots at 3/6 when my bankroll is around 25k. It will be easier to build my bankroll with all that money flowing in. My ultimate goal is to be able to finally buy a car. Cars cost a fucking fortune in this country.
My plan for the summer is to go on an American road trip with a couple of buddies, starting in NYC and ending up in LA. We will be hitting Atlantic City and Vegas along the way (obviously). Hopefully I can be in the Vegas for the World Series. We'll see. However it turns out, I'm sure it will be a great summer vacation.
My goal for the entire year is to win $100k at poker. Not a modest goal this year either, but I think I'm actually being more realistic than I was a year ago. I've come a long way with both my skills and my bankroll, and I think this is perfectly doable, even with a full time job.
Happy New Year!
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Vacation
Christmas vacation is already underways for me. As mentioned earlier, I had my last exam this year on the 8th. In the new year I will work for a couple of newspapers. I'll write more about that later.
I'm using my extra free time to play in some tournaments, mainly the mini-FTOPS series. I finished 5th in event #3, which was a NLHE triple shootout. That was good for 2k. I also knocked out Scott Fischman, so ship the t-shirt! :-)
As far as cash games go, I have played very little so far this month. I've put in about 5k hands, almost all at 1/2 6-max. But I'm crushing the game at a rate of 15 BB/100. That means that I'm up 3k. One change I've made is that I've started using a HUD (Heads Up Display) while playing. I changed from using Pokertracker 3 to using Hold Em Manager as my primary tracker. The hud in HEM is a lot better, and I already feel very comfortable using it, although I've hardly ever used a HUD before. Since I have been adjusting to that, I have hardly played any 2/4, but I will soon be at the point where my bankroll is large enough that I can confidently deal with the swings at 2/4.
Current bankroll: $18.0k
I'm using my extra free time to play in some tournaments, mainly the mini-FTOPS series. I finished 5th in event #3, which was a NLHE triple shootout. That was good for 2k. I also knocked out Scott Fischman, so ship the t-shirt! :-)
As far as cash games go, I have played very little so far this month. I've put in about 5k hands, almost all at 1/2 6-max. But I'm crushing the game at a rate of 15 BB/100. That means that I'm up 3k. One change I've made is that I've started using a HUD (Heads Up Display) while playing. I changed from using Pokertracker 3 to using Hold Em Manager as my primary tracker. The hud in HEM is a lot better, and I already feel very comfortable using it, although I've hardly ever used a HUD before. Since I have been adjusting to that, I have hardly played any 2/4, but I will soon be at the point where my bankroll is large enough that I can confidently deal with the swings at 2/4.
Current bankroll: $18.0k
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
November Results
This is my graph for November. 9.6k profit + 1.2k rakeback + 400 at Carbon poker for a total of 11.2k profit, which is my best cash game month ever. The last few days I have been taking my first real shot at 2/4 and it's been going great so far. As long as I keep winning I will play 2/4. If I have a big losing session I will re-evaluate. But mostly I am just playing my rush now and trying to get my bankroll over 20k, which I feel is a good bankroll for 2/4. I withdrew some money today to pay rent and also for an new suit. I have looked at an awesome dark blue Armani suit that I'm probably buying. Anyway, my bankroll now is still the biggest I've ever had.
Current bankroll: $15.6k
Friday, November 27, 2009
Heater
On tuesday I had a pretty bad day. I was tired, ran bad and started tilting. I chased my losses at 2/4, lost two flips and turned what had been a $400 profit early in the day into a $1,200 loss. However, the last 3 days I have won more than $1k each day. Most of my winnings this month has been at 0.5/1 HU, but this week I mostly made my profit at 1/2 6-max. I also took a couple of new shots at 2/4 the last days that were more successful. In addition to that, I made a 1k deposit on Carbon poker and played a little 0.5/1 6-max there, winning about 500.
The next week I probably can't play that much cause I have to concentrate on my exams. But after the 8th of December I'm free for the rest of the month, and I plan on putting a lot of time into poker. My goal for next month is to get my bankroll over 20k and make a permanent jump to 2/4. I've basically achieved my goal for this month already, which was to win 10k. I'll post a graph when the month is finally over.
Bankroll: $14.4k
The next week I probably can't play that much cause I have to concentrate on my exams. But after the 8th of December I'm free for the rest of the month, and I plan on putting a lot of time into poker. My goal for next month is to get my bankroll over 20k and make a permanent jump to 2/4. I've basically achieved my goal for this month already, which was to win 10k. I'll post a graph when the month is finally over.
Bankroll: $14.4k
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Back on the Grind
I haven't posted anything here since summer, and it's about to become winter. So what has happened since then?
Well, first of all, I moved into a new apartment. I'm really happy about the place. Here is my new setup:
And here is the view from my room:
I also have a pretty nice setup in the living room with a 46 inch HD TV and PS3.
But on to poker. After I made 25k in May and June combined, I didn't play much for the next couple of months. As long as I'm a student, the state of Norway gives me money as well, so I was pretty much well covered. I went to a couple of chess tournaments, and as mentioned, I moved into a new apartment (which I'm renting). But it was empty. So the first two weeks in the new apartment, I bought all kinds of cool stuff to put in it. Which means that most of my money disappeared!
At the start of november I started putting in a lot of poker hands again (and by a lot I mean about 30k hands so far, that's a lot for me anyway). It's been a good month. I started out with a 6k bankroll, playing mostly 1/2 6-max. As the month progressed, I also played quite a bit of 0.5/1 HU, where I am absolutely crushing with a 19.7 BB/100 winrate. Whenever I feel like relaxing, I may play 0.5/1 or even 0.25/0.50 6-max. I'm being really conservative with my bankroll, and I think that's paying off. I'm gonna wait with moving up to 2/4 until I have a 20k roll. My goal for the month is to make 10k solely off cash games for the first time in my career. With 7.3k in earnings so far, I am well on my way to reaching that goal.
Bankroll: $13.3k
Well, first of all, I moved into a new apartment. I'm really happy about the place. Here is my new setup:
And here is the view from my room:
I also have a pretty nice setup in the living room with a 46 inch HD TV and PS3.
But on to poker. After I made 25k in May and June combined, I didn't play much for the next couple of months. As long as I'm a student, the state of Norway gives me money as well, so I was pretty much well covered. I went to a couple of chess tournaments, and as mentioned, I moved into a new apartment (which I'm renting). But it was empty. So the first two weeks in the new apartment, I bought all kinds of cool stuff to put in it. Which means that most of my money disappeared!
At the start of november I started putting in a lot of poker hands again (and by a lot I mean about 30k hands so far, that's a lot for me anyway). It's been a good month. I started out with a 6k bankroll, playing mostly 1/2 6-max. As the month progressed, I also played quite a bit of 0.5/1 HU, where I am absolutely crushing with a 19.7 BB/100 winrate. Whenever I feel like relaxing, I may play 0.5/1 or even 0.25/0.50 6-max. I'm being really conservative with my bankroll, and I think that's paying off. I'm gonna wait with moving up to 2/4 until I have a 20k roll. My goal for the month is to make 10k solely off cash games for the first time in my career. With 7.3k in earnings so far, I am well on my way to reaching that goal.
Bankroll: $13.3k
Monday, June 22, 2009
Chopped a live tournament
On friday me and two good friends went to the local poker club and played the weekly tournament. I got heads up with one of my friends with a 2 to 1 chiplead. We decided to chop most of it and flip for the rest since we are friends after all. Of course he won two straight flips to take it down. :-)
That was a lot of fun, though. There's an ongoing ranking where the top finishers throughout the season gets entries into a big live event. This season just started, so I'm planning on playing a lot there. Next time will be on wednesday.
Sunday is tournament night online, and I endulged in the craze this night as well. I won an entry into a $500 satelite to the WSOP Main Event, where there were 150 seats guaranteed. I decided to unregister and just keep the T$s instead. That was a little nitty on my part, but 500 is a bit too much to spend on one tournament for me right now. I did play the Sunday Million, however, but went out before the money. In the Sunday Quarter Million, which is a $10 buy-in with 250k guaranteed (!) I went sort of deep, but didn't win any significant money. I also went deep in the $26 pot limit 6-max on Full Tilt, but had my aces cracked by tens in a very big pot with 15 players left.
Another tournament I played was the 6-max $55 super turbo, where you start with 300 chips and blind levels are 3 minutes. Out of 1276 participants I finished 10th, which was good for a little over $800. The way I went out was a little frustrating though. On blinds 1200/2400 I had 33k, which is a lot in that tournament. I picked up AQ UTG and didn't find a better option than just open-shoving. Unfortunately I got snapped off by the only player at the table who had me covered, and he had aces.
Cash games have started to go a little better. I was playing 2/4 this weekend, since weekends are so much softer. And even though I lost a lot of flips and quite a few 70/30s as well, I somehow managed to come out ahead. I also won a bit in razz and mixed games. No spectacular wins though. I'm gonna go back to grinding 1/2 and the smaller tournaments this week and then I'll take it from there.
Bankroll: $15.1k
That was a lot of fun, though. There's an ongoing ranking where the top finishers throughout the season gets entries into a big live event. This season just started, so I'm planning on playing a lot there. Next time will be on wednesday.
Sunday is tournament night online, and I endulged in the craze this night as well. I won an entry into a $500 satelite to the WSOP Main Event, where there were 150 seats guaranteed. I decided to unregister and just keep the T$s instead. That was a little nitty on my part, but 500 is a bit too much to spend on one tournament for me right now. I did play the Sunday Million, however, but went out before the money. In the Sunday Quarter Million, which is a $10 buy-in with 250k guaranteed (!) I went sort of deep, but didn't win any significant money. I also went deep in the $26 pot limit 6-max on Full Tilt, but had my aces cracked by tens in a very big pot with 15 players left.
Another tournament I played was the 6-max $55 super turbo, where you start with 300 chips and blind levels are 3 minutes. Out of 1276 participants I finished 10th, which was good for a little over $800. The way I went out was a little frustrating though. On blinds 1200/2400 I had 33k, which is a lot in that tournament. I picked up AQ UTG and didn't find a better option than just open-shoving. Unfortunately I got snapped off by the only player at the table who had me covered, and he had aces.
Cash games have started to go a little better. I was playing 2/4 this weekend, since weekends are so much softer. And even though I lost a lot of flips and quite a few 70/30s as well, I somehow managed to come out ahead. I also won a bit in razz and mixed games. No spectacular wins though. I'm gonna go back to grinding 1/2 and the smaller tournaments this week and then I'll take it from there.
Bankroll: $15.1k
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