I got it, I got it good. All I can think about for the past week is the World Series Of Poker and winning a ticket to the Main Event.
There are so many options to, playing free rolls on Full Tilt, moving up steps, entry tournaments with small buy ins. Plus the promotion running on PokerVT.com
Today was a day of small gains and huge blunders however. I played in a 35,000 entrants $1 buy in tournament on Full Tilt which paid out 3 $12,000 prize packages to the WSOP Main Event (ME). I ended up getting knocked out around 998. Not fun to make through such a huge field and then go down with nothing but to have the "dream" continue waiting for the next tournament next week.
I also played in a tournament for members of PokerVT shortly afterwards on Pokerstars, it didn't last more than 5 hands and I was the first person knocked out. The winner of this and next month with points totals gets a seat into a Sit and Go (SNG) tournament on Las Vegas versus 5 other members and 3 professionals with the top 2 from that getting seats into the WSOP ME as well. Bummer... good thing the points are based on cash pay outs and bounties, so if I win one of them and get a few bounties I still have a fighting chance for the month.
I should have just called it a day right there, but the SNG weekly members PokerVT tournament started shortly after that. With the winner of that getting a seat to the above named SNG in Las Vegas as well I just couldn't help loading up a few games. It didn't fair well either, I was in dream land and not playing smart, I took 7th, 7th, 6th in the 3 games I played. Which means If I event want a chance at the seat for this month I basically have to win 4 of the next/last 5 SNG's I play for the month. If not then there is still a chance for next month.
Still a chance for the free rolls I have been playing, I have a few round 2 tickets and might get there that way. All said I figure I have at least 12 different chances to win the seat into the WSOP ME, but today kinda eliminated 3 of them.
On other fronts there is a $100,000 tournament package free roll being offered on Full Tilt to the Onyx Cup and I made it to the final game being played on May 1st... which again causes me to "dream the dream" about what could be, only if, etc.
As far as my 3-5 year plan of making it to the WSOP, it is now 2.4 years since I set that goal for myself and feel okay about how I am doing. I am learning more and more every day/week/month and am learning from most of my mistakes. Now if I can just settle down and focus when I am playing the qualifying games to these huge opportunity tournaments I might, just maybe, could possibly get there this year, earlier than I had hoped for originally.
If you want to see what I am talking about for the PokerVT promotions for the WSOP and want to play in the events check this link out;
http://pokervt.com/2011/news/promotions/poker-vt-2011-wsop-promotion/
and give it a think about becoming a member if you aren't one already.
Cheers and best of luck and the tables and in life!!
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
I finally won the monthly sng challenge!
Yes the blog title is true! I did it, I finally did it... Of course it only took like 12 attempts give or take 4 months, meh. A few runner up spots a couple of times, but I finally did it.
Leaderboard (final)
Score Games
falenangel 690 8 ($145)
Bestill7 660 8 ($100)
Punky 650 8 ($57.50)
kwstroud 650 8 ($57.50)
PKJimmmay 640 8 ($20)
dcmaster42 640 8 ($20)
jamesdubec 630 8+1
kinn88 620 8
213v 620 8
oucardkid22 580 8
roxiewells 560 8
sticky 550 8
havemercy 550 8
equity 550 8
Robo2008 530 8
Intuition 520 8
ranchbrat 520 8+1
MxKlptz 510 8
MikeLeeH 510 8
(Of course there were more players entered, but I stopped the list for my blog post at 19 and an old PVT friend Mike)
I imagine this could mean one of many things, either I am actually starting to improve my game a little bit and can start to consider playing a bit higher stakes or I got lucky that everybody else played so poorly.
I do get to have a hand history video review done by Derek, one of the PokerVT pros and get a chance to see if he thinks my play has improved since the last review he did of my play. I also decided to write down all of the different videos that I have "appeared" in on PokerVT and re-watch them a few extra times to see if I can recognize the bad plays I have made in the past more easily now, by pausing the videos every time I get dealt a hand and thinking about, what I would do in each spot if... based on the possible action in front of me.
Either way my confidence is up and I have been breaking even and slightly winning in most sessions of games I have been playing recently and feel I am making a few "smarter" play based on situations. Of course I have also caught myself doing something like deciding if a certain thing happens or plays out in a given hand that I should fold, end up calling, get knocked out, usually in bubble spots, then tell myself "Hay self, I thought we decided we were gonna fold, we new it was a bad call, but then your finger clicked the call button"... What's Up With That!!!! But at least I know it, knew it and should play smarter in the future in turn giving me a better in the money percentage and more money, more money, more money.
I have also put a lot of thought into how much time I have been playing lately, basically not enough. I am simply playing enough to qualify for monthly bonuses on given sites and think that since I want to improve, I want to play higher limits, I want more return out of the game of poker, then I have to give more to get it.
I am also putting serious thought into getting a coach as of late, that being the last few months, however when I finally get around to it, I keep reminding myself that I have yet to even get SNG Wizard and use all of it's benefits first... I am sure that is what any good online poker coach will say to me anyway. So in turn I guess I will need to wait a few more months for the coaching, at least after I feel more comfortable with doing everything I can to improve first before moving on to that next step.
So in a nutshell, I guess I am saying I feel better about my game and decisions, I believe I am playing on a higher level than I ever have before, so goals for the next 6 months include:
1. Increasing my volume of play, back to what it was before 300 games/month in March up to 600 games/month by May and then 900 games/month by July.
2. Purchase and start using SNG Wizard by the end of February, become familiar with it and be able to competently use it by May, and fluent in it by July. Reviewing at least 10% of all of my games played.
3. By July acquire the services of a poker coach to further improve my game.
As long as I can focus on these goals I feel I am providing myself the opportunity to improve my game and make the transition into higher buy ins, as I have been over nitting it up with my bank roll management for way, way, too long.
Leaderboard (final)
Score Games
falenangel 690 8 ($145)
Bestill7 660 8 ($100)
Punky 650 8 ($57.50)
kwstroud 650 8 ($57.50)
PKJimmmay 640 8 ($20)
dcmaster42 640 8 ($20)
jamesdubec 630 8+1
kinn88 620 8
213v 620 8
oucardkid22 580 8
roxiewells 560 8
sticky 550 8
havemercy 550 8
equity 550 8
Robo2008 530 8
Intuition 520 8
ranchbrat 520 8+1
MxKlptz 510 8
MikeLeeH 510 8
(Of course there were more players entered, but I stopped the list for my blog post at 19 and an old PVT friend Mike)
I imagine this could mean one of many things, either I am actually starting to improve my game a little bit and can start to consider playing a bit higher stakes or I got lucky that everybody else played so poorly.
I do get to have a hand history video review done by Derek, one of the PokerVT pros and get a chance to see if he thinks my play has improved since the last review he did of my play. I also decided to write down all of the different videos that I have "appeared" in on PokerVT and re-watch them a few extra times to see if I can recognize the bad plays I have made in the past more easily now, by pausing the videos every time I get dealt a hand and thinking about, what I would do in each spot if... based on the possible action in front of me.
Either way my confidence is up and I have been breaking even and slightly winning in most sessions of games I have been playing recently and feel I am making a few "smarter" play based on situations. Of course I have also caught myself doing something like deciding if a certain thing happens or plays out in a given hand that I should fold, end up calling, get knocked out, usually in bubble spots, then tell myself "Hay self, I thought we decided we were gonna fold, we new it was a bad call, but then your finger clicked the call button"... What's Up With That!!!! But at least I know it, knew it and should play smarter in the future in turn giving me a better in the money percentage and more money, more money, more money.
I have also put a lot of thought into how much time I have been playing lately, basically not enough. I am simply playing enough to qualify for monthly bonuses on given sites and think that since I want to improve, I want to play higher limits, I want more return out of the game of poker, then I have to give more to get it.
I am also putting serious thought into getting a coach as of late, that being the last few months, however when I finally get around to it, I keep reminding myself that I have yet to even get SNG Wizard and use all of it's benefits first... I am sure that is what any good online poker coach will say to me anyway. So in turn I guess I will need to wait a few more months for the coaching, at least after I feel more comfortable with doing everything I can to improve first before moving on to that next step.
So in a nutshell, I guess I am saying I feel better about my game and decisions, I believe I am playing on a higher level than I ever have before, so goals for the next 6 months include:
1. Increasing my volume of play, back to what it was before 300 games/month in March up to 600 games/month by May and then 900 games/month by July.
2. Purchase and start using SNG Wizard by the end of February, become familiar with it and be able to competently use it by May, and fluent in it by July. Reviewing at least 10% of all of my games played.
3. By July acquire the services of a poker coach to further improve my game.
As long as I can focus on these goals I feel I am providing myself the opportunity to improve my game and make the transition into higher buy ins, as I have been over nitting it up with my bank roll management for way, way, too long.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Pokerstars Blogger games are on again!!!
I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! The WBCOOP is a free online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers, so register on WBCOOP to play.
Registration code: XXXXXX 212176
It's that time of the year again for the WBCOOP!!!
Can't pass up the chance to play in some events for free that have way less than 10K entrants per the usual Pokerstars free rolls, that is for suuuuure!!
Okay so I am going to give this event a try, I have been playing alright as of late and have been getting better at the mixed games. If you have a blog and play poker and have an account with PokerStars I highly suggest and recommend signing up for this event. You can also create an account on Stars anytime and if you have a blog sign up for this event.
The field ratio should be small and the payouts huge for ZERO investment.I have been moving away from my addiction to free rolls except when the prize is way worth it.
Cheers and Best of Luck at the tables, I almost missed it, hope I can get in for tomorrow's event!
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