February: Week 2 - The Downswing

The second week of february was very bad. I played 145 tourneys which were:

139x  3.25$/45s  (with about -128$)
1x 8.80$ 40$ Micro Million Qualifier (lost)
2x 5.50$ 40$ Micro Million Qualifier (lost)
1x 2.20$ Rebuy 40$ Micro Million Qualifier (lost) with 1 rebuy and 1 addon
1x 500FPP 40$ Micro Million Qualifier (Won the ticket worth 40$)
1x 40$ Micro Million (busted out of money)

Overall about -154$ this week.

My goal was to play 200 sngs the week but I only played 145
I also didn´t played only 3.25$/45.
I wanted to play the 40$ Micro Million and played Qualifier for 26$ and 500fpp and won the ticket for 40$

The structure of the 40$ Micro Million was very nice. 10,000 chips starting stack and 25/50 starting blinds and 15min blindlevels. I hope Pokerstars will start more tourneys with that structure.

The tourney didn´t went well for me. Until the break I lost 1/4 of my stack in several small pots.
About half an our after the break I had this hand and lost:

Dealt to TaikiYa
 

Preflop: (Pot: $300)

FOLD FunkiMunki
FOLD blueraider71
FOLD ARiGATOUU
FOLD nielske83
RAISE TaikiYa, to $500
FOLD oxygene85
CALL finanto, $400
FOLD alchemik82 

Flop: (Pot: $1,200)

  
CHECK finanto
BET TaikiYa, $800
CALL finanto, $800 

Turn: (Pot: $2,800)

   
CHECK finanto
BET TaikiYa, $1,600
CALL finanto, $1,600 

River: (Pot: $6,000)

    
BET finanto, $3,274 and is ALL-IN
CALL TaikiYa, $3,274 

Showdown:

SHOWS finanto
 
SHOWS TaikiYa
 
finanto wins the pot of $12,548 with a straight, Three to Seven




During this week I also got a Royal Flush in a 3.25$/45 mtt sng:

Dealt to SB
 

Preflop: (Pot: $75)

CALL UTG, $50
FOLD UTG+1
FOLD MP1
RAISE MP2, to $100
CALL CO, $100
FOLD Button
CALL SB, $75
FOLD BB
CALL UTG, $50 

Flop: (Pot: $450)

  
BET SB, $250
FOLD UTG
CALL MP2, $250
FOLD CO 

Turn: (Pot: $950)

   
BET SB, $500
CALL MP2, $500 

River: (Pot: $1,950)

    
BET SB, $2,085 and is ALL-IN
CALL MP2, $1,370 and is ALL-IN
RETURN SB, $715 

Showdown:

SHOWS SB
 
SHOWS MP2
 
SB wins the pot of $4,690 with a Royal Flush 

But that didn´t helped me to win this mtt sng. I busted some hands later with QQ vs Ax or something.

Here is the graph of the first two weeks of february:

My profits in february shrunk to about 23$ after that week.

I hope the next week will be better.

I try to play only the 3.25$/45s and the 1.10$ 40 Special SnGs with 40 players (because in the afternoon the 3.25$/45s don´t start fast enough to masstable)

- Taiki

A not that exciting Turbo Takedown.

I just busted out of the Turbo Takedown in 9572th place out of 21652.

The first hour wasn´t really exciting.
I had always the same stack and played a tight aggressive style, because the others (except the two players which were on sitting out all the time) were extremly loose.

My first good hand I could play was AKo. Some hands before, I got good cards, but only won the blinds.




The next hand after this split pot was again AK against a loose bigstack. I hoped for a call but he folded.
At least I won hin raise and a Big Blind.




Then I was card dead for some hands, and found a spot, I could push first in with about 10BB.
I´m not sure if that push was good.



I hope the next Turbo Takedown will be better.

I won´t play anymore today and complete this month with a loss of 1/4th of my bankroll.
Next month I´m trying to play a bit more disciplined than this and the last months.

- Taiki

Welcome to my Blog

With one month semester break, I decided to start my blog now.
I hope it helps me to play more disciplined than in the past ummm .... 2 years.
Some infos about me: I´m a 23 year old computer science student from germany. (english is not my native language, that is why some phrases might sound strange. :P)

I started playing poker in december 2006 with No Limit Holdem Cash game with free 50$ I got from a pokerschool.
Until late 2007 I was not very successfull, but could boost my bankroll to about 250$.

The year 2008 was at the beginning very successful.

In january 2008 I had 2 big cashes in the 11$ 15k guaranteed on stars (which is now the daily thirty grand).
A third place out of 2700 players for 2,000$ and a 4th place out of 2500 players for 1,500$.
After that I played to many tourneys with bigger buyins and dropped to 1,500$ bankroll until I cashed again for 1,600$ in an 3.30$ Rebuy on Pokerstars with an 5th place out of 2900 players.
I still played to many high tourneys and at the end of year 2008 I was down again to 550$ Bankroll.
What a bad year, but at least I more than doubled my bankroll.

In 2009 I had several Final Tables on big tourneys but was the first or second who bustet at the Final Table.
I played much MTT SnGs (18-180 players), many MTTs and always switched between cashgame and tourneys, what was not very helpful.
I again more than doubled my bankroll by the end of 2009.

In january 2010 until now, I had a small downswing and again played too much tourneys (too much variance).

For the last days of January my goal is to play only 3.25$/45s and 2.20$/180s MTT SNGs and some Fixed Limit short handed cashgame (0.25$/0.50$) until I have the necessary FPPs for the Turbo Takedown Tourney on Pokerstars.

- Taiki