Tomahawk's Poker Challenge: $50 to a house! 3.13% complete

[tomahawk1984]

With some fairly important university exams just around the corner I thought this would be the best time to start playing poker again. I've deposited $50 into my new Pacific Poker account that with an instant bonus of $3 just for signing up and then another bonus for depositing and then after loosing a tiny amount playing $0.01/0.02 cash leaves me with $64.64 to play with. The plan is to play the $2.50 6 man stg's where the top 3 get paid. Basic strategy will be to sit tight for the early part, only making moves on the blinds if they seem passive and obviously when I have bug hands. After 2 people have been knocked out I'll try and take advantage of people being afriad to finish 4th. With this very basic strategy I think I can move up to $5 pretty quickly and then see how it goes from there. I have no plan to withdraw any money at the minute and I imagine I'll move up if I get to $100. So that it, first game is on now so wish me luck :hope Cash Rules I have had a think about some basic rules to my bankroll management. These are subject to change as the levels increase, I will try and outline my thoughts below. 1. The minimum about of roll to move up level is 30 buyins. So if I want to play €0.10/0.20 I need €600. Some articles I have read say 20 is ok but I think a bit of an extra cushion is needed. After €0.5/1 I may up the minimum to about 50 buyins. 2. I will move down level if I drop to 20 buyins. If I do the increase minimum buyins to 50 for the higher levels then I will move back down if I drop to 35 buyins. 3. If I lose 2 buyins in a session for what ever reason then I will stop the session. This will stop me kidding myself that I am running unlucky and playing well and therefore losing more. I hope it will also minimise the chance of tilt. 4. Sessions will be not more than 90 minutes and there will be a good break between any sessions on the same day. 5. At the end of each month hopefully I will be in profit and I will take out a percentage of that profit each month based on the following criteria: i) No profit; take nothing out ii) Profit of 0-5 buyins; take nothing out iii) Profit of 5-10 buyins; take 20% iv) Profit of 10-20 buyins; take 30% v) Profit of 20+ buyins; take 50% Example If I win $300 at $10NL then First $50 take nothing $50-$100 take 20%, in this case $10 $100-$200 take 30% in this case $30 $200+ take 50% in this case $50 This means that I would take $90 from my $300 and the $210 left over would stay in my bankroll.

[GaF]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge Good luck tomahawk :ok :hope I am a little confused though - if you've got important exams coming up - shouldnt starting a poker challenge be the last thing you should be doing :unsure

[tomahawk1984]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge

Good luck tomahawk :ok :hope I am a little confused though - if you've got important exams coming up - shouldnt starting a poker challenge be the last thing you should be doing :unsure

Cheers mate. Think of it as work avoidance! I feeling pretty good about them and I'm off for the next 3 weeks then a week back at uni and then another week so I reckon I've got it covered. During the actual exam period I can't imagine I will be playing (much).

[tomahawk1984]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge Forgot to mention what 1st, 2nd and 3rd win. 1st - $7.50 2nd - $4.50 3rd - $3 If I go bust I will never play again :D

[heniek31]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge Good luck with it mate :hope. You are welcome to join one or two our leagues in January if you get bored with your challenge :ok

[tomahawk1984]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge

Good luck with it mate :hope. You are welcome to join one or two our leagues in January if you get bored with your challenge :ok

Cheers buddy. Leagues sound like a good idea. My exams are the end on January so might be a clash but hopefully it'll work out ok.

[tomahawk1984]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge Table not needed as challenge has started again (see below post)

[tomahawk1984]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge Double Post.

[tomahawk1984]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge I've had to put this on hold. Car is knackered and I need the money to get parts :sad To be continued once I have some money!

[tomahawk1984]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge And I'm back. A mate of mine has an old car that I can steal the parts off which has saved me about £150-200. I have only deposited $50 because for some reason it wouldn't let me deposit anything else. I played 11 games and even if I do say so myself I played pretty well. I ran good as well which was nice.

Tourney	Date	Day	Time	Finish	Duration
1	27-Dec	Sa	8:37 PM	3	0
2	27-Dec	Sa	8:38 PM	3	0
3	27-Dec	Sa	8:38 PM	4	0
4	27-Dec	Sa	8:38 PM	3	22
5	27-Dec	Sa	8:38 PM	1	37
6	27-Dec	Sa	8:38 PM	1	50
7	27-Dec	Sa	8:40 PM	2	70
8	27-Dec	Sa	9:03 PM	1	9
9	27-Dec	Sa	9:16 PM	5	34
10	27-Dec	Sa	9:18 PM	2	53
11	27-Dec	Sa	9:33 PM	3	39

All that means a profit of $12.70 and an ROI of 41.2% and an ITM ratio of 81.8%.

[Samba_SamPa]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge Nice start mate, :hope for the future

[mattywallace121]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge itm ratio of over 80%, keep it up, looks promising, see how it oges, could maybe offer staking you, Gl anyway

[tomahawk1984]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge

Nice start mate' date=' :hope for the future[/quote'] Thanks guys. A very positive start. First impressions are that as long as I can keep up my concentration and stick to the basics then I should be able to do very well at this level. Reading up on some bankroll management stuff and I think $150 would be the least amount to have before moving up to the $5.50 games.

[tomahawk1984]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge I played solid again today. There really is very little descision making until you get low on chips relative to the blinds. I was dealt AA 5-6 times, got beat once for almost all my chips and didn't win much with the rest.

Tourney	Date	Day	Time	Finish	Duration
12	28-Dec	Su	3:57 PM	2	36
13	28-Dec	Su	3:58 PM	6	26
14	28-Dec	Su	4:02 PM	3	59
15	28-Dec	Su	4:05 PM	2	61
16	28-Dec	Su	4:29 PM	2	43
17	28-Dec	Su	4:35 PM	3	10
18	28-Dec	Su	4:49 PM	4	34
19	28-Dec	Su	5:07 PM	3	31
20	28-Dec	Su	5:10 PM	3	28

No wins today and I didn't run as well as yesterday so a few races went against me. Up $0.30 for the day. Overall Profit: $13 ROI: 23.2% ITM: 80% On what I have seen so far I don't think it will take too long to move up. I've got a bonus of $37.50 left to clear from my original deposit that I need to clear by 29th Jan, it might be a close run thing. Might play a bit more tonight, I have an evening of Top Gear and revision planned but you never know.

[tomahawk1984]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge A fair few games played since my last post. I don't think it was my night. I ended up with a small profit but if my luck was a little better I would have been up a lot more. I've tried to add notes, mainly concerned with how I am getting my chips in to try and see if I am picking the right spots and there I think I'm doing ok.

Tourney	Date	Day	Time	Finish	Duration	Notes
21	28-Dec	Su	8:53 PM	5	25	99 lost to 77 all in preflop
22	28-Dec	Su	8:54 PM	5	30	KK lost to 77 all in preflop
23	28-Dec	Su	9:01 PM	2	29	Q5 lost to 73 all in preflop with < 5 BB
24	28-Dec	Su	9:01 PM	3	36	Shoved with rags with 2.5 BB
25	28-Dec	Su	9:22 PM	1	49
26	28-Dec	Su	9:29 PM	4	17	Ran 99 into QQ on JJ8 flop
27	28-Dec	Su	9:30 PM	2	46	A9 lost agains 22 all in pre flop
28	28-Dec	Su	9:39 PM	2	37	KQ lost against 88 all in pre flop
29	28-Dec	Su	9:48 PM	3	44	Pushed with rags against 99
30	28-Dec	Su	10:13 PM	2	40
31	28-Dec	Su	10:23 PM	2	37
32	28-Dec	Su	10:29 PM	5	28	Pushed 75 lost to 23 all in pre flop
33	28-Dec	Su	10:34 PM	3	42
34	28-Dec	Su	11:03 PM	4	29
35	28-Dec	Su	11:05 PM	1	26
36	29-Dec	Mo	12:05 AM	6	31
37	29-Dec	Mo	12:27 AM	4	38
38	29-Dec	Mo	12:35 AM	3	45
39	29-Dec	Mo	12:37 AM	4	49	1010 all In pre flop loses against A7
40	29-Dec	Mo	12:41 AM	1	79
41	29-Dec	Mo	1:23 AM	2	40
42	29-Dec	Mo	1:23 AM	4	45	A8 lost to A2 all in pre flop
43	29-Dec	Mo	2:00 AM	3	37	AJ all in loses to KK preflop
44	29-Dec	Mo	2:00 AM	1	47

There are 3 hands in particular where I lost after getting my money in good and if I'd have won I would have been in a good position to go and and place. All swings and roundabouts. Overall Profit: $17.8 ROI: 14.4% ITM: 70.5% ROI has plummeted but because of the payout structure I think it would be really difficult to maintain anything over 20%. I think I can get my ITM to 75% and keep it there.

[staffy]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge Good going though so far. ROI looking healthy.

[tomahawk1984]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge

Good going though so far. ROI looking healthy.

Thanks. I'd love to push it to 20% but I'm delighted with anything around 15%.

[tomahawk1984]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge Played 10 games this afternoon and made $6.8. I think my bubble play was a little lacking. A couple of games I was a bit short but I think I started pushing too soon and paid the price. Still, according to the awesome spreadsheet I found on here I survive the bubble 2.8% more than normal :loon

Tourney	Date	Day	Time	Finish	Duration	Notes
45	29-Dec	Mo	2:49 PM	4	38
46	29-Dec	Mo	2:53 PM	1	51
47	29-Dec	Mo	2:55 PM	3	19	Lucky on bubble, K7 outdrew JJ all in preflop on the button
48	29-Dec	Mo	2:58 PM	2	37
49	29-Dec	Mo	3:15 PM	4	25	A10 vs KK vs JJ on A,10,5 board J on turn
50	29-Dec	Mo	3:47 PM	4	27	Short stacked ran K5 into KK
51	29-Dec	Mo	3:51 PM	2	44
52	29-Dec	Mo	3:56 PM	1	55
53	29-Dec	Mo	4:01 PM	1	48
54	29-Dec	Mo	4:17 PM	4	27	Bad play, over played middle pair

Games 52 and 53 I'm especially pleased with. Went into heads up the underdog but felt I outplayed my opponents and took advantage of their tight passive styles. Overall Profit: $24.30 ROI: 16.1% ITM: 68.5%

[tomahawk1984]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge Played another 14 games in the last 2 hours or so. Another profit which means I'm yet to have a losing session. I didn't start to brightly but really hit my stride towards the end with some good wins. Again not too happy with my bubble play, I think I could have gotten away from at least one of the hands. Game 58 was a really interesting game, I'm going to put a couple of hands on below, the first one where I think I made the right call pre flop (although no one at the table did) and the second is a crazy hand that killed me because the blinds were so big. Comment/advice on the first hand would be appreciated, the second hand is just one of those hands but if anyone sees anything wrong please let me know.

Tourney	Date	Day	Time	Finish	Duration	Notes
55	29-Dec	Mo	10:13 PM	4	30	Top pair into two pair
56	29-Dec	Mo	10:15 PM	5	23	Horrible play, ran 99 into KK
57	29-Dec	Mo	10:18 PM	2	55
58	29-Dec	Mo	10:21 PM	4	42	Runner runner queens hamstrung me (see hand history #2)
59	29-Dec	Mo	10:40 PM	4	27	910 lost to A10 on 10,7,2 rainbow board
60	29-Dec	Mo	10:45 PM	2	35
61	29-Dec	Mo	11:09 PM	5	38
62	29-Dec	Mo	11:12 PM	1	43
63	29-Dec	Mo	11:15 PM	4	29	97 lost to A7 on 77x board
64	29-Dec	Mo	11:23 PM	1	21
65	29-Dec	Mo	11:48 PM	1	40
66	29-Dec	Mo	11:52 PM	1	47
67	30-Dec	Tu	12:01 AM	3	46	Ran K10 into AQ short stacked
68	30-Dec	Tu	12:04 AM	2	26

I'm a little concerned that my notes only seem to go on about tough beats or badly played hands and doesn't mention hands where I made good plays or got lucky. I don't want anyone thinking I'm whinging about the beats I'm getting, I have definately dished out 1 or 2 in the last few days. Just tend to remember the ones that kill you off. Overall Profit: $31.60 ROI: 16.6% ITM: 66.2% I used to play mostly cash so I tend to think in buy ins won so to make my first 10 buy ins profit is a little milestone. ROI and ITM look to be settling down a bit. Hand Histories #1 Blinds 150/300 Seat 1: thecurries09 ($1910) Seat 2: tomahawk1984 ($2205) Seat 3: jackd69 ($740) Seat 4: to62ra (button) ($2345) thecurries09 posts the small blind of $150 tomahawk1984 posts the big blind of $300 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to tomahawk1984 [:Jd: :7d:] jackd69 goes all in $740 to62ra folds thecurries09 folds tomahawk1984 calls $440 jackd69 shows [:Ac: :5d:] *** FLOP *** [:3c: :9d: :3d:] *** TURN *** [:3c: :9d: :3d:] [:8c:] *** River *** [:3c: :9d: :3d:] [:8c:] [:9h:] ***Result*** jackd69 wins $1630 with two pair 9s and 3s Now the other two players weren't happy, saying I was throwing chips at the short stack. One even went as far as to hint at chip dumping. I'm happy with the call and would defend it to anyone. Its only slightly over another blind and I have enough to still be relatively comfortable if I lose, plus if I win I'm in the money. #2 Blinds 250/500 Seat 1: thecurries09 (button) ($920) Seat 2: tomahawk1984 ($1605) Seat 3: jackd69 ($580) Seat 4: to62ra ($4095) tomahawk1984 posts the small blind of $250 jackd69 posts the big blind of $500 *** HOLE CARDS *** Dealt to tomahawk1984 [:Kh: :Th:] to62ra calls $500 thecurries09 folds tomahawk1984 calls $250 jackd69 goes all in $580 to62ra calls $80 tomahawk1984 calls $80 *** FLOP *** [:5h: :5c: :3h:] to62ra checks tomahawk1984 checks *** TURN *** [:5h: :5c: :3h:] [:Qh:] to62ra bets $500 tomahawk1984 calls $500 *** River *** [:5h: :5c: :2h:] [:Qh:] [:Qs:] to62ra bets $3015 and is all in tomahawk1984 folds jackd69 shows [:Ad: :Qd:] to62ra shows [:Ah: :3h:] ***Result*** jackd69 wins $1740 with a full house Qs full of 5s, $4015 is returned to to62ra. Maybe I should have gone all in preflop and maybe to62ra would have folded and left the two of us to it. If he calls though I bust out. Call on the turn may have been a mistake but I was worried because I think to62ra is a solid player and wouldn't bet out in this situation unless he had a strong hand. Q on the river really scared me and with to62ra's all in I knew I was beat either way so I folded which left me with $525. I really expected to62ra to take the pot down and for me to limp into 3rd but jackd69 had the goods. I got rags for the next two hands and went all in on my big blind but didn't hit. Any comments on the two hands would be appreciated. After looking over them I think the first hand is a no brainer and in a weird kind of way I think did well not to go bust on the second hand. **sorry if the formatting for the hand histories is a little weird. Pacific don't store histories as text files so I've basically copied over one from a Full Tilt cash game.

[GaF]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge

Now the other two players weren't happy, saying I was throwing chips at the short stack. One even went as far as to hint at chip dumping.

That's because they're bad players who dont understand the game :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol Getting 3-1 against a short stack shove, I'm calling blind every time.

[staffy]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge 1st hand you are calling every time. If you dont call there you are going to lose more games than you will win.

[tomahawk1984]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge

That's because they're bad players who dont understand the game :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol Getting 3-1 against a short stack shove, I'm calling blind every time.[/quote Thanks guys. That sharkscope chart made me laugh :lol

[tomahawk1984]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge Played a load today and it started off pretty bad and I shoveled off $20 in about the same number of games but I took a break and came back to finish up for the day and playing really well. I don't know what is happening at the moment but I am starting really slow. I think I mess about while I wait for all 4 tables to start.

Tourney	Date	Day	Time	Finish	Duration	Notes
69	30-Dec	Tu	2:27 PM	4	39	Misclicked call all in. Shit.
70	30-Dec	Tu	2:32 PM	4	19	Flopped striaght lost to flush draw
71	30-Dec	Tu	2:37 PM	5	22	Trips against runner runner flush
72	30-Dec	Tu	2:41 PM	1	42
73	30-Dec	Tu	2:59 PM	4	27
74	30-Dec	Tu	3:05 PM	5	40	JJ lost against KQ all in preflop
75	30-Dec	Tu	3:09 PM	2	56
76	30-Dec	Tu	3:28 PM	4	21
77	30-Dec	Tu	3:31 PM	4	28	AQ all in against AJ lost
78	30-Dec	Tu	3:51 PM	5	22	AA lost to 88 all in
79	30-Dec	Tu	3:52 PM	2	38
80	30-Dec	Tu	4:03 PM	4	50
81	30-Dec	Tu	4:08 PM	4	32
82	30-Dec	Tu	4:17 PM	4	23
83	30-Dec	Tu	4:31 PM	4	15
84	30-Dec	Tu	4:55 PM	1	40
85	30-Dec	Tu	4:58 PM	5	31
86	30-Dec	Tu	5:00 PM	1	49
87	30-Dec	Tu	5:04 PM	3	27
88	30-Dec	Tu	5:34 PM	6	48
89	30-Dec	Tu	5:37 PM	2	23
90	30-Dec	Tu	5:47 PM	1	41
91	30-Dec	Tu	6:08 PM	5	13
92	30-Dec	Tu	7:18 PM	4	21
93	30-Dec	Tu	7:19 PM	1	39
94	30-Dec	Tu	7:22 PM	3	29
95	30-Dec	Tu	7:39 PM	2	40
96	30-Dec	Tu	7:56 PM	1	32
97	30-Dec	Tu	7:59 PM	5	30
98	30-Dec	Tu	8:03 PM	2	54
99	30-Dec	Tu	8:23 PM	1	41
100	30-Dec	Tu	8:31 PM	3	32
101	30-Dec	Tu	10:47 PM	1	45
102	30-Dec	Tu	10:49 PM	4	30
103	30-Dec	Tu	10:51 PM	4	25
104	30-Dec	Tu	10:54 PM	5	26
105	30-Dec	Tu	11:18 PM	1	52
106	30-Dec	Tu	11:20 PM	4	22
107	30-Dec	Tu	11:27 PM	3	34
108	30-Dec	Tu	11:36 PM	1	31
109	30-Dec	Tu	11:45 PM	4	28
110	31-Dec	We	12:06 AM	2	50
111	31-Dec	We	12:14 AM	2	46
112	31-Dec	We	12:14 AM	1	43
113	31-Dec	We	12:20 AM	3	46

35 games played today :loon counting the on below. I also misclicked and joined a game of $5. It started before I realised. Thankfully I won. Overall a profit of $17.00.

Tourney	Date	Day	Time	Finish	Duration
1	30-Dec	Tu	8:33 PM	1	33

I didn't notice any difference at all in the skill level. A lot of players will still making lots of mistakes so I'm feeling good about the eventual move up. I've still got my $37.50 bonus to clear so I'm going to keep a track of that too. Overall Profit: $48.60 ROI: 15.1% ITM: 60.1% Bonus: 25%

[tomahawk1984]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge Wasn't in the mood to play any SNG's but my housemate staked me $100 to play some ring games and I played for about 2 hours at $0.5/1. I told him I haven't played cash for ages and the reason I stopped was because I was rubbish past $0.05/0.1 and didn't fancy grinding but he was too drunk to care! Long story short we just happened to be to the left of a couple of maniacs who were happy to call any bet so we left about $230 up. He gave me $100 and I cashed all but $1.40 of it out because it gives me a nice even $100 bankroll. I still think I'm rubbish at cash. Maybe when I have made a couple of thousand from these SNG's I'll use a bit to get better :D My bonus completion now stands at 36%. Should be able to clear it by the end on January. You may have noticed the change in my thread title. All my mates and I are coming to the end of uni and we were talking about what we are going to do afterwards and how could we afford to buy a house and all the usual big world stuff and they asked if they reckon I could win enough from poker to get a deposit on a house. I said no chance, but then I don't really have any goals for this challenge so why not. THE GOAL FOR MY CHALLENGE Win $15,000 playing STG's to put towards a deposit for a house. At my current level and ROI this will happen in about 40,000 games!!! Hopefully with a couple of moves up it will happen sooner than that. Thats it, I may be a little drunk and could feel a bit foolish about this when I wake up but at the moment I am full of sambuca and big dreams. Percentage of goal achieved: 0.003% :D

[Jaded]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge - $50 to a house! Ambitious, but doable - best of luck mate! :)

[tomahawk1984]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge - $50 to a house!

Ambitious' date=' but doable - best of luck mate! :)[/quote'] Cheers mate. Definately ambitious, especially if my lack of cards continues! I played solid today but was bereft of decent cards once I limped into the money. I only won 2 games from the 13 times I got into the money and one of them was because my opponent was disconnected.

Tourney	Date	Day	Time	Finish	Duration
114	01-Jan	Th	8:05 PM	2	39
115	01-Jan	Th	8:08 PM	3	42
116	01-Jan	Th	8:09 PM	2	39
117	01-Jan	Th	8:11 PM	3	30
118	01-Jan	Th	8:42 PM	5	43
119	01-Jan	Th	8:45 PM	5	29
120	01-Jan	Th	8:50 PM	2	47
121	01-Jan	Th	8:54 PM	3	48
122	01-Jan	Th	9:16 PM	3	50
123	01-Jan	Th	9:30 PM	5	27
124	01-Jan	Th	9:41 PM	4	26
125	01-Jan	Th	9:45 PM	1	41
126	01-Jan	Th	9:59 PM	3	34
127	01-Jan	Th	10:10 PM	3	34
128	01-Jan	Th	10:14 PM	1	51
129	01-Jan	Th	10:29 PM	4	19
130	01-Jan	Th	10:36 PM	3	31
131	01-Jan	Th	11:06 PM	2	40

Overall Profit: $53.60 ROI: 11.6% ITM: 61.8% Bonus: 38% Goal: 0.004%

[tomahawk1984]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge - $50 to a house! Played a lot again today. Eeked out a profit of $9.20 and I reckon in the last session of the day I played the best I have since I started this challenge, if 2 hands in particular held up heads up I would be looking at a very good profit for the day. Also accidentally played another game of $5 and finished 3rd, although I don't see any difference between the levels I really need to concentrate more on the games I am buying into. $2.50

Tourney	Date	Day	Time	Finish	Duration
132	02-Jan	Fr	8:59 PM	1	50
133	02-Jan	Fr	9:03 PM	6	18
134	02-Jan	Fr	9:04 PM	2	51
135	02-Jan	Fr	9:08 PM	2	30
136	02-Jan	Fr	9:09 PM	6	14
137	02-Jan	Fr	9:30 PM	2	34
138	02-Jan	Fr	9:54 PM	5	35
139	02-Jan	Fr	9:57 PM	2	33
140	02-Jan	Fr	10:07 PM	4	29
141	02-Jan	Fr	10:44 PM	3	36
142	02-Jan	Fr	10:48 PM	2	52
143	02-Jan	Fr	10:57 PM	3	31
144	02-Jan	Fr	10:57 PM	3	32
145	02-Jan	Fr	11:24 PM	3	26
146	02-Jan	Fr	11:56 PM	1	35
147	03-Jan	Sa	12:02 AM	1	49
148	03-Jan	Sa	12:06 AM	3	22
149	03-Jan	Sa	12:12 AM	2	52
150	03-Jan	Sa	12:31 AM	5	27
151	03-Jan	Sa	12:35 AM	3	27
152	03-Jan	Sa	12:53 PM	4	45

Profit: $51.40 ROI: 12.1% ITM: 63.2% $5

Tourney	Date	Day	Time	Finish	Duration
2	02-Jan	Fr	9:41 PM	3	46

Profit: $10 ROI: 90.0% ITM: 100% Obviously a tiny sample size! Overall Bankroll: $112.80 Profit: $62.80 ROI: 14.1% ITM: 63.6% Bonus: 42% Goal: 0.007% Bankroll and profit include the $1.40 from cash games but that isn't factored into the ROI of ITM. Goal is bankroll/15000 instead of profit/bankroll in the last post. Not sure if I'm going to hit my bonus. Played for nearly 4 hours today and it only went up 4%. By that reckoning I'll need to play for another 58 hours to get my bonus. If I can get up to $150 then I might play some $5 help out.

[tomahawk1984]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge - $50 to a house! Couldn't sleep so I did some revision. Couldn't sleep after an hour of that so I played some poker. Only 12 games of $2.50 of which 10 were cashes. Really starting to feel confident at this level and reckon I can cash in most games without really having to make any real descisions. I wish Pacific had proper hand histories so I could get poker tracker and really analyse my game. I still think I'm not playing the bubble or heads up 100% and in a few cases I am stumbling into the money so there are leaks to be found and plugged. I read an interesting article on the hendon mob forum called something like "the antithesis of a bad beat story" where someone goes through some of the beats they have put on people and a couple of the amazing flops he has had. Really put me in a positive mood about luck and although sometimes I think I'm getting outdrawn all over the place I have definately put my share of beats in. Anyway, on to this mornings play

Tourney	Date	Day	Time	Finish	Duration
153	04-Jan	Su	2:14 AM	4	28
154	04-Jan	Su	2:20 AM	2	21
155	04-Jan	Su	2:22 AM	2	21
156	04-Jan	Su	2:28 AM	4	16
157	04-Jan	Su	2:43 AM	3	23
158	04-Jan	Su	2:46 AM	2	38
159	04-Jan	Su	2:55 AM	3	16
160	04-Jan	Su	3:00 AM	3	40
161	04-Jan	Su	3:12 AM	2	43
162	04-Jan	Su	3:18 AM	3	36
163	04-Jan	Su	3:27 AM	1	35
164	04-Jan	Su	3:40 AM	1	36

$2.50 Profit: $62.80 ROI: 13.7% ITM: 64.6% Overall Bankroll: $124.20 Profit: $74.20 ROI: 15.5% ITM: 65.1% Bonus: 44% Goal: 0.008% Just noticed that I can cash in my frequent player points. The conversion rate is $0.01 per point so at the moment I only have $1.67 worth but I don't think I'll ever cash it out and see how big it can get. If it starts getting substantial then I might include it in the bankroll.

[tomahawk1984]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge - $50 to a house! No poker today. Did log in but the $2.50 tables weren't filling up and I even registered for a $5 tournament but it was the same there. Since I seem to start slowly I didn't fancy playing at one table, getting bored and throwing my money away. I did watch a couple of $10 tables and some of the play was good awful. I used my 5 free sharkscope searches to look at some of the players and the 5 I searched for were all losing players. One had lost nearly $6,000 in 1,200 games :rollin. Maybe if I'm struggling with the bonus points I will have a look at playing 1 or 2. I won't get to play anywhere near the volume I did in the last week or so. My mate's fiancee is in the hospital and will be delivering triplets tomorrow and one of them will be my 3rd god child so I am going down to London on Thursday to celebrate.

[tomahawk1984]

Re: Tomahawk's Poker Challenge - $50 to a house! Played 5 $2.50 games to get the day started. Won 2 and finished 2nd in another but I'm a bit dissapointed because I reckon I could have won all 5. Over played middle pair to cripple my stack and finished 2nd, got beat when I was 94% favourite on the flop and made a horrible play on the bubble that was rightly punished.

Tourney	Date	Day	Time	Finish	Duration
165	05-Jan	Mo	9:00 AM	2	40
166	05-Jan	Mo	9:05 AM	1	47
167	05-Jan	Mo	9:14 AM	4	27
168	05-Jan	Mo	9:22 AM	4	32
169	05-Jan	Mo	9:44 AM	1	31

$2.50 Profit: $68.30 ROI: 14.4% ITM: 64.5% Overall Bankroll: $129.70 Profit: $79.70 ROI: 13.6% ITM: 64.9% Bonus: 45% Goal: 0.008% My sleeping pattern has been all over the place at the minute. When I'm on revision leave I always end up going to bed at 6am, waking up at about 2pm and just living in my room and eating takeaways because I tell myself I'm too busy to cook but not too busy to play 170 games of poker :lol I didn't sleep at all last night and will be aiming to slog through the day and make it to about 10pm so I can get everything back in order in time for exams. Not sure if I'll play again today.