WOW, it has been a while since I have typed here and I apologize. I have lots to say because quite a lot has happened this past month. Where do I start? June started off rough.
After my first 500 sngs I was dead even. I was probably up 10 cents, woohoo! What a discouragement that was and I needed a break from the $1 45mans. So I started to dabble in the KO 9mans. These were great! So easy. Loaded ten $1.40 KOs up and won 4 of them, took 3 seconds, and 1 third only busting with a bad beat in one and coolered in another. What’s great about these is the KO part. Why would anyone even sign up for a regular 9man costing $1.20 when you can sign up for a $1.40 KO and win bounties of 25cents. It’s already cheaper stake wise because you should always go in or enter tournament with the mentality of a win. If you take down the tournament you win your own bounty and the guy who went out second. That’s $.50 right there. $1.40-.50= .90 < $1.20. No one should ever play regular 9mans if KO is an option. My record was getting 7 bounties with an average of 3 per tourney. So these are definitely profitable. After I played maybe 100 of these I got an email at the end of the week with Pokerstars telling me that I was a leader in Mercury division and they credited me some monies. I’m not gonna lie, it was definitely a good feeling and I was surprised because I didn’t even know they did this for low stakes. Hopefully I can have a repeat performance soon.
With new found confidence I loaded my regular $1 45mans again but this time variance was on my side and I was tearing it up. So much so that I was able to move up to the $3 45mans a little earlier than I thought. Still not balla status like all Rainman staff but I am steadily moving on up and with patience I will get there. No real moments of tilt this past month except for when the microwave was in use at the house. For some reason it felt like someone in the house was using the microwave every 15mins when I was deep in mtts or had 10 sngs running. Who knew high powered microwaves blocked wireless router signals? I had to look it up to make sure I wasn’t going crazy that I lost internet when I heard the microwave on. There are tons of articles related to kitchen microwaves blocking router frequencies. I timed out so many times or had to run across the house closer to the router so that I wouldn’t disconnect. Definitely not a fun experience being at 3 final tables and timing out before realizing the microwave is in use. HA. Sucks. Funny now, but not at the moment.
I also watched great documentaries on some successful poker players after listening to one of the radio links from the guys at
www.pokerstatic.com Anyone who likes poker or even has heard of poker would be interested in viewing them at
http://robustothemovie.com/I have more to add but I think this has been enough info for now. I’ll post in the next couple days with more. Good skill guys.
