Some thoughts on my game with some results… May 2, 2009

Now that I’m not working I’ve been playing poker pretty much all day every day lol.  Okay not really but I usually have a session in the afternoon and then another one late evening.  Okay, so all day every day lol.

Anyway, I’ve been playing on ft because of the challenges I’ve been doing.  A few days ago I was reviewing my play from recent times and decided that I thought I was on my game and playing well.  I decided to deposit a little more money on ft so I could stop playing $1 and $2 tournaments (unless there was one I wanted to play) and play a little higher (I’m big on bankroll management).  So off I went depositing more money and then went off to play in my favorite $6 turbo nlhe stts that I used to play when I did have a bankroll on ft.  I soon found my bankroll severely lacking hahahahaha.  In the first two days I lost over 1/2 of what I deposited (insert D’oh here).

Soooo, off I went reviewing my notes, blogs, journal again.  I started noticing that I did well in multi-table satellites (either sngs or mtts) and I also did well in multi-table sngs.  Sooooo off I went to start plugging away at all of the above lol.  Slowly I started regrowing the bankroll I’d lost.  I won some money in some satellites (missed the seats but won some money so okay).  Funny enough all the satellites I chose to play were $1.50 or under lol…so much for needing to deposit more money (D’oh).

I decided to try a few $3 ninety player ko nlhe deepstack turbo sngs (yep say that one fast lol).  I used to do pretty well at these and usually if I made the money I’d get into the top 4 or 5 where the money was better.  The first one I tried, went out 3 before the money…second one I tried, went out 3 before the money pfffft.  Third one I tried, won 4 bounties and came in 2nd (yay).  I ended my night like that happy to have gotten back a good chunk of what I’d been losing. (see blog about this below)

Next day, tried a couple of them and one I went out three before the money (hahahahahaha).  I started realizing though that this was a good format for me.  I may not get in the money every time but I almost always won some bounties before going out and I was getting very close to the cash almost every time so I knew I was capable.  I think it is the fact that it is deepstack and when it is multi anything my patience tends to come out to play.  Last one I played last night I collected 4 bounties and went out in 4th place for a decent cash to add a bit  more back to my bankroll.

Tried one again today and went out about 20th or so but not discouraged.  I saw a satellite starting for the $200k double deuce.  It was $.75 + .15 to enter and first got a $20 + 2 seat and 2nd and 3rd got a little bit of cash.  It was a 36 player sng and was 6-handed and a shootout to boot.  No pressure there hahahaha.  I had just been saying to hubby last night that I didn’t feel I did well at shootouts.  It is so hard to come in first on your table multiple times.  Not one to shy away from a challenge though I started plugging away at the first table.

What always happens when I am involved in either a heads up match or a shootout match is my table is almost always one of the last tables to finish.  That was the case with my first table.  By the time I’d won my first table, every other table was done and waiting for me.  The last match started with 6 people so three to the money and 5 to the seat.  We started back with 1500 chips and 15/30 blinds.  The first two people went out quick, one at my hand and one at anothers.  Once we got into the money the short stack soon went out leaving me heads up.  I get in this heads up situation a lot where the prize is a seat and 2nd is a little bit of points/cash and much of the time I end up with the points/cash.

This time I just wore him down and I ended up with the $20+2 seat.  I was very proud of this win, I turned .90 into $22 in tournament dollars.  Yep, tournament dollars as I actually won’t be home tomorrow to play in the tournament.  I just wanted the shootout practice and I wanted to prove to myself that I could do it. On top of it all with the tournament dollars it’s brought my bankroll back up to where I started with my last deposit.  Now I can go back to trying to build my bankroll using my new thoughts about playing only multi table sngs/mtts both cash and satellites.