A Return To The Virtual Felt

I started on 4-14-2010 with ~$3 in my Pokerstars account, and another desire to build a bankroll by mainly playing limit holdem. I feel that I play it a little better than no limit, and, at least for me, I feel it helps me with tilt control.

Anyways, I have been using HEM and started playing $.02/.04 FL 6max games, and played about 15k hands of .02/.04 while making almost $26. I then started fitting in some .05/.10 games, and eventually switched to just that. Over 15k hands at .05/.10, I made ~$46. By this time, my account has been in the $60-$70 range, and I have been slowly trying to add some .10/.20 limit games, but started with a huge downstreak. AK on a AK84 board vs 88, and many cold decks like this had me staying in the .05/.10 game.

Well May 6 comes around, and I see a $22 FLHE event on the SCOOP schedule for May 8, and I decided I wanted to play, but couldn't afford an entry via direct buyin, so I went looking for FPP satellites. I ended up winning 3 of them, playing in the event, and winning $44 in T$. I was considering using a T$ trading service, but figured I would give the knockout SnGs a shot on stars, and proceeded to play 4 of them, a mix of buyins, totaling $44.60, and ended up cashing for $83.40, boosting my bankroll to ~$145. With that boost, I am taking another shot at .10/.20 FL, and am looking to build. Ultimately, since I multitable, I want to make sure that as I move up the limits slowly, that my BR is big enough. Ideally, I would have liked to have about 1000 big bets before moving up limits in the future.

I hope to keep this blog updated, at least every few days, and hope that my journey may show something that is capable.

Good day

Ran like a champ today. Decided I wanted to go to the local casino and play in the afternoon tournament. $50 buyin, 42 entered, top 5 got paid. A fairly normal event, nothing major. Maybe one or 2 bad beats. The hand I loved is when I flopped a set of fives and got a guy to instacall a HUGE bet before I got it into the pot. I make the final table, then end up taking down the whole thing after getting heads up, losing the cheap lead, coming from behind twice when all in, and then having TT hold up vs AQ. Shipped $600+ my way.

I then hang out with a few friends deciding what to do. I end up having some people that played in the afternoon tournament talk me into playing the evening tournament with my new winnings, so I entered and wouldn't you know, I made the final table, and then was heads up, winning the evening tournament, for $700+ for a $60 buyin.

Two tournaments, $130 in buyings, $1300+ shipped my way. Good day.

I have since got home and the sicko I am, I have two $2/4 tables going to kill a little time, but it is going to be an early night.

A Welcome Back

I am again going to start blogging. Not starting from nothing, but I have had a good week running $60 into $600, and going to attempt to play $2/4 fixed limit and $4.40/180 mans to build a bankroll.