Sunday Majors at Entraction

After I made one more cash these days, I decided to register in the biggest mtt's in Entraction - the monthly €150,000 gtd and the EMOP Online Tournament, both with €200 buy-in. I played solid poker in both tournaments and was one of the big stacks almost all the time in the EMOP. However, I was very short in the other tournament and my play was only push/fold after the first break. In the EMOP I was a level above the random idiots and after this hand I was pretty sure for getting into the final three:
Unfortunately, after kleopl and ch1ll3d got busted, the four guys left seemed very good players and plus the fact I was card dead, I was totally outplayed and finished 5th. In the last hand I picked up pocket fives, which was the strongest hand for an hour, and I pushed vs KQ. Q on the river and I was eliminated, in stead of taking 75k in chips. In the 150k gtd I was eliminated when a random guy pushed from SB for 3rd time in a row where I was BB. I called with around 5M and K7. He showed 44. The board came xxx7 but a 4 on the river finished my survival. In one minute I was eliminated from both tournaments, but still I am happy with my performance.

Santa came =)

Today I couldn't win the 1k freezeout, but finished 3rd, so I registered for the late €2500 gtd with €100 buy-in. You see what happened =). We were playing more than an hour 5 handed because from the 10 alli-ns, where I was never underdog I won only half of them. Fortunately, I was a big stack most of the time and survived. In the end, I decided to make a deal again. My bankroll just can't resist on the variance and I can't afford to play comfortly at the HU. GG and happy holidays to all =).

I'm already in a school break, so I decided to play some MTTs today. I won the Entraction 1k gtd again after making a deal on the HU. However, I didn't make it into the big money anywhere else, so a total profit of €300 just before Christmas. It's still good =). 20% of the task completed - Unibet Open Budapest is closer and closer!

These are the stats from 21st Nov till 18th Dec. Clearly, not enough tournaments but I hope we'll play a lot during the winter school break =). Btw, my friends are playing 45- and 90-man SNGs so I don't think they cannot reach 50 tourneys till the end of the year. They still have some problems so I'm going to see their hand histories these days and I hope they'll start winning soon =).

3 final tables in a row

Yesterday, after losing 10bi in b2b(where I play 20NL, usually 9-tabling for an hour), I registered for the 50€ freezeout. I played solid poker and got to the final table with no problems at all. Then I managed to get into the final three. My stack was only 8k while blinds were 1k/2k and av. stack of 25k. I doubled up two times and then busted one of the players left. I had one opportunity for winning the tourney but after I lost a coinflip I decided to accept the offered deal. I also cashed in the 40€ 6-handed freezeout. Meanwhile, in FTP I won a 45-man sng cashing $170 and registered into two $24+2 tourneys. With 900 players registered I made it to the ft, but lost on the second hand with QQ. Blinds were 5k/10k plus ante and I raised to 28000 from UTG. MP called and we saw a 545 flop. Bet/call - blank turn but I already had the flush draw. I pushed for all my stack and he called with pocket 4s. Ironically, the river gave me the flush =/. I cashed $300 which I consider is too little as the first was paid $4200 and the fifth - $1000. However, I'm still happy as I doubled my bankroll. Will see what will happen tomorrow. The first step to Unibet Open in Budapest is made =).

A lot of 1$ SNGs

Last week I started coaching some of my friends. We started playing some $1 MTT SNGs (45 and 90-man) @FTP. I had $100 in my account and they started with $30. After several tourneys all of them made a nice profit of over $10. However, I'm again at the red line losing half of my bankroll... ahahahaha I also played MTTs from $5 to $10, investing everything i won at SNGs... and little more xD. I hope we're gonna hit the 50 tourneys point till 21st this month and I'll post a graph with our results.

$6+0.50 SNGs

I made a deposit of $100 in my FullTilt account and started playing $6+.50 SNGs both 6-man and 18-man. For 48 tourneys I have 20% ROI and a $61 profit. It's quite normal. I will continue playing them hoping to be on a higher levels till the end of December. I'm gonna try a few MTT tournaments also and maybe a few 1$ donkaments. My goal is to make over 1000 SNGs and 50 MTTs till the end of the year and we'll see how are the results.

Watch out, I'm comin' =)

The last time I posted here was almost a year ago and now I decided to return this blog into life. I'm pretty sure that you know about my problems with the discipline. Unsurprisingly for me, the last year was full of ups and downs. In fact, it was one huge upswing followed by one huge downswing. I made several big cashes in my favorite network - Entraction (a.k.a. b2b network). I was playing good poker for 4 months and the results were ...wow. And when I was able to play comfortably up to 300€ tournaments, the downswing came. Lucky for me, I saved half of my bankroll and spent it with due attention. However, most of the rest went out. I'm ashamed of this, but I haven't cashed more than 1,2k$ in a tournament since April,2009. And I have spent more than 1k$ only at Sunday Warm-ups and Millions at Pokerstars. In the last month I played 50NL cash games, but tilted just before going to 100NL. After the last session, I decided to take a little break and then to continue with 9 man SNGs at Ongame. I'll post after 4-5 days when I will have chosen the skin and the limits. See you soon! =)