Time for some 2010 goals

It's been a while since I threw together a little poker blog Fulltilt is down tonight for some reason so I guess it time for a little blog. Since my last post of turning 50 Dollars into 5000 there has been some changes. 1st. I gave up on Pokerstars for now. I have been running bad at the site for months and I needed a change of scenery. I lost the 50 btw mostly because I went off of the plan that I set forth for myself and whenever you do that you will fail 99 percent of the time. The other 1 percent of the time you'll wake up with 20 g's in your account that you will most likely lose in a couple of short days.

So I started searching google for Rackback deals. It turns out I was lucky that I was loyal to pokerstars and I never signed up for a Fulltilt account(people that signed up for FT without RB know what I'm talking about). I remember reading many times on 2+2 that you could get 27 percent RB (Rack Back) from the site plus you get a 100 percent deposit bonus up to 600 bucks.

Here's a linky if you would like to join yourself http://www.fulltiltrakeback.com/ref/11253/

The first month playing at Fulltilt I got back $242.98 bucks in Rack Back only playing a couple of hours a day. Plus I cleared off about half of a 600 dollar bonus. Then proceed to work off the rest of the bonus this month leaving me with about 1200 bucks in my account. I was a bit all over the place starting out with playing 3/6 limit short handed. Some Head's Up Pot Limit Omaha then finally to some SNG's

Short Handed Limit HE. At first I was killing the game but then dumped most of my winnings back in a short period of time. Without getting into a bunch of Details. I use to play a bunch of s/h limit HE years ago but it seems like most people have adjusted to play the game correctly making it a tough game to beat.

Pot Limit Omaha I only played this one day and I think I would have over 2K in my account if I never ventured over. I'll be back some day but for the time being I'm staying away.

Which brings me to SNG's. I use to play loads of Head's up SNG's on Pokerstars and could consistently beat the 55's. My biggest problem is I would make money for a couple of month's st8 and then venture over to some other game out of boredom and get my head kicked in. Next thing I know I'm not properly banked to play the 55's move down and start to run bad or keep running to the games I leak at trying to make back what I was stuck. Which brings me to my newest plan.

My Plan for 2010:

I already cashed out 600 bucks, my initial deposit and left myself about 700 in my Full Tilt account. I also have over 150 sitting in my Rack Back account that I can get at anytime since I'v been a member for over 30 days. I'll use this cash as my safety net for now.

I'v been playing 2 types of SNG's on Fulltilt. The 12 dollar Turbos and the 15 dollar super Turbos but for the purpose of this exercise I'm going to stick to the 12 dollar Turbos.

I fire up 6 at a time and try to play at least 3 racks per day. Let's just say 400 per month. So far in December here are my #'s

EmptyU 354 $1 $9 11% $445 - N/A FullTilt S<=20 Spd=T SNG Only



I know that I'm not going to run @ 11 percent for ever but If I even stay @ 5 I'll be happy. So I'm up 445 playing @ this level. I did take a shot @ the 22's and your going to laugh at these numbers.

EmptyU 17 -$22 $22 -90% -$368 Super Tilt N/A FullTilt S20-30 Spd=T SNG Only

Who runs @ -90 percent????? I guess I do.... Now this is what I short sample size will get you. But I will tell you I don't even want to get into the stories on how you only cash in 1/17 SNG's but it does happen.

Ok, this is 354+(17*2) which = 104.76 Dollars in RB for the month.

Alright I'm all over the place tonight....So I'm going to try and make this simple.

I'm going to play mostly the 12 Turbo's in Jan. if I make it over 1200 bucks I'm going to take another shot at the 22's. If I have time once or twice a week I'll play the night Daily Double. I did double cash in that the last time I played with a FT getting knocked out 8th.

Goals: Some life, Some poker
1.) Stay away from on-line Cash games for now!!!!!!
2.) Stick to my SNG plan. (this is always a hard one for me)
3.) Stay of the the cigs, Been doing great lately- using a e-cig currently - maybe another blog someday
4.) start exercising (yea, like this is ever going to happen but I'm going to try)
5.) Blog more often not just when Full Tilt in down....lol
6.) Get back to studying the game more often. I have like 50 books and I can't remember the last time I picked one up. I did read most of them though btw.
7.) No more crazy shots unless they are planned. - another great idea if only practiced

Next Blog: Live Area Cash Games 2010 maybe even some video...

Rough First night

I think I mentioned in my first post that I did have a chance of going broke. Well, let me tell ya. I have been to my last buyin twice so far but I'm currently sitting on 18.04...A little less than 3 Buy-in's @ the 6.25 level. I'm going to stay @ the 6.25's even thought there is a 50/50 chance of going broke.

It was so bad that I had to sit @ the 1cent 2cent table just to make 14 cents to buy-in one last time. I got lucky for once and I did win that tourney.

I may be short but trust me. I will not play like I'm "Scared Money"

Here are my stats so far:

swanny

30

-$1

$6

-17%

-$32

Let's hope these stats get better or I'm going to be sending some money to Costa Rica via Western Union....lol

Turning $49.08 into 5000 Dollars on Pokerstars

Too make a long story short, I'm not going to lie but I'v been running bad on Pokerstars lately.

It all really started when I left my pokerstars account logged on one night and I had to run out the door. Before I left I had about 800 some dollars in my account and when I logged in the next day I had about 4.88 cents. For sure I thought that I was hacked but after a little research and some help from the peeps at pokerstars support I found out that it originated from my house. Too make a long story short, My 8 yr. old decided to play a couple hands of 40/80 Badugi. LOL, he was discarding cards and all and there goes 800 bucks in 2 hands.

I wasn't really worried about the cash as I did have some cash laying around from some other cash games so I took advantage of pokerstars WCOOP deposit bonus.

This is where I did something that I haven't done since my Paradise Poker days. I came home after about 20 drinks and emptied my account playing 5/10 stud...WTF...I never play stud on the Internet. I would rather poke a hot stick into my eye...

OK...enough BSing here is my plan. And the only reason I'm blogging my plan is I figure. If I can just get one person to follow I will feel obligated to stick to my plan.

50 bucks...Now this isn't really too much to start with. I know Chris F. started with like a dollar and turned it into 10K but I'll admit I'm not Chris F.

I'm going to start playing at least 50 hopefully closer to 100 $6.25 Heads up Turbo per week. I want to grind these until I get to 330 dollars. If I'm going to go broke it will be within the first week. Since I'm starting under 10 Buy-in. I don't recommend for everyone to follow.

At the 6.25 level I have been able to ave. about 1 dollar profit per SNG. This will put my @ 4-6 weeks at this level.

I'll post more as my progress moves along. This is my first blog so please don't beat up on me too badly...

If you like to follow my progress my nick on Pokerstars is swanny.