Operation : succeed as a professional poker player

Hi,

I am a 22 year old male from London ENgland who has just made the step from university student with poker as a hobby to full time poker pro - who is hoping to be successfull!

I have been playing around 1.5 years, starting off with an initial deposit of 20 dollars and never needing to deposit again!

I will be playing a mixture of MTT's and cash game poker, and have decided to make this post to act as a blog for me. The reasons i want to create and update this post on a regular basis are two fold:

1, I want to use it to track my own play and make it obvious to myself how successful i am being (i.e. a selfish reason)
2, I want to allow others who may be considering 'going pro' to gain an insight into what that would be like. Espicially on this site, which has helped me a great deal over the last year and a half (i.e. a self-less reason)

In a few months i move into rented accomadation with my girlfriend, and so all being well i will be relying on my poker to pay the bills, a scary but exciting thought! I will try to update this post every few days, giving my results in both the MTT's and in the side cash games. Although i can play PLO and 7 card stud, i will be playing almost exclusively NL hold em - as this is the most exciting form of the game for me.

Anyway, enough of the introductions, hope u enjoy reading my post guys.

I have registered for 25 tournaments today (from 20 to 100 dollars buy in) on ladbrokes, crypto and pacific poker. So hopefully i can be successful in some of these tournaments.

BR at start of this post = $8K. wish me luck.....

good luck!

good luck... I really look forward to seeing your updates and following your success!

Good luck.

MTT's have a lot of varience, so hang in there if it starts out badly. You can become real rich, real quick though. I'll be following your post.

Best of luck!

I have ended up playing around 30 MTT's for the day, i am still in a few and a few have still to start. I am still abit rusty with respect to MTT's having played cash games for two weeks now, and before those two weeks having been travelling round the world for 3 months!

My play today has been decent on the whole. So far my most interesting run came in the 200 man $100 FO on crypto which i managed to get 9th in despite being chip leader with 15 players left. It was one of those occasions where as chip leader - decent raising hands such as KJ from the cut off kept getting reraised all in by someone with qq and having to call for pot odds! so it was fairly bad in that respect. still, i made $500 which may almost cover my expenses for the day.

anyway, this post is a bit jumbled, i will give a more in depth overview of my results for the day in a few hours (when i am out of all my tournies!)

Ok, so i am done for the day, here is the scorecard:

Tournaments entered = Around 30
Number of cashes = 5
Number of final tables = 2 :P
Prize money earned = $804
Entry fee's paid = $1122
Loss = $318

I feel that on the whole i played quite well, although i had a few ten minute peroid where i played below par. However, i am happy (despite the loss at the end of the day) that if i play this way consistently then i will win alot of money in these MTT's. I think today will act as a kind of bench mark for my standard of play, i played ok and dont want to fall below this level on any given day. With a bit more good fortune i think i cud of turned in a nice profit today.

The first tourny i cashed in was the 25k GTD 35 dollar FO on pacific poker. I came 70th out of around 650 in this (70 got paid) for $75. i played quite well in this and ran a bit card dead, as well as missing alot of hands due to technical difficulties with pacific poker on my machine.

My next cash was in the 20k gtd $100 tourny on crypto. I came 9th out of 200 for $500 and was extremely happy with my mid game play (where i dominated on a tight table) but think my late game lacked in that i didnt totally adjust when i got put on a new looser table. O well, i am happy with the result, and i was probably 1 suck out away from being a huge favourite with around 15 people left. never mind.

I was unlucky not to progress further than i did in two other crypto tournies in which i made the money, but not the FT. I bought in $55 a piece from around 18th in both a 20 dollar head hunter tourny and a 50 dollar regular fo.

My second (and last) final table for the day was in the $10 crapshoot on ladbrokes (with around 350 entrants), where i rode my luck and had alot of showdowns. I play these by just going all in alot because the blinds are just stupid as they go up every 3 minutes. This has always been a very profitable tourny for me. I came 8th in this tourny for $120. it also gave me some much needed leaderboard points for the ladbrokes leaderboard (which i intend to make a run at next month). The leaderboard is really good, because every final table u make in a tourny with over 30 people gives u points depending on the buy in, the number of players and your eventual finishing position on the FT. The winner of the monthly leaderboard wins $3000, and it pays down to 50th place. It wud be nice to win the leaderboard in august, although to do this i might have to stop playing on crypto and just focus on ladbrokes.

ANyway, - $320 for the day isnt the best start, i do not expect to be able to play for the next 2 or 3 days due to the fact that i am goig to my girlfriends house. I will then have a few days before i go away on a brief holiday.

Current BR = $11682

Originally Posted by Massimo

Good luck.

MTT's have a lot of varience, so hang in there if it starts out badly. You can become real rich, real quick though. I'll be following your post.

thanks mate, yea i hope to make a few nice cashes and make a load of monies!

Just for anyone interested i will just discuss my history in poker, this is simply so that anyone also thinking of 'going pro' can draw comparisons between me and themselves. It might also make reading this 'blog' or 'operation' more interesting to you guys

As i have already mementioned, i deposited 20 bucks on pacific poker with the thought that as soon as i lost this i would not deposit again ( and i asure u i wudnt of- i dont like gambling when i lose). I played two dollar sit and goes, but quickly lost 17 of my 20 bucks. Then, i entered one final two dollar 5 man sng, which i won! from here i built my bank roll up to $82 over the next month or so. I remember going to use the university computers (because u can play pacific poker without a download) and playing Sit and goes, and remeber even more clearly my first 'big win'. I came first in a 40 man sit and go for $40!

Anyway, when my university yeaar finished i withdrew my massive $82 from pacific poker, thoroughly impressed with myself. I put $36 of this into ladbrokes poker at the start of the summer - the thought again being that if i lose this then i shall not deposit again. I played $2 sit and goes here and built my bank roll up to around $150. Then came my big break, i managed to win a $2 MTT for around $100. This made my BR $250 and also gave me enough weekly leaderboard points to qualify for the ladbrokes weekly leaderboard freeroll! 150 entrants, and the top 30 got paid i think. Anyway, i came about 18th for $350, i was very excited! Then about a week later i entered the ten dollar late night crapshoot on ladbrokes and came 4th for another $400. By the end of my summer holiday i had got my account up to over $1000 and officially had the poker bug.

Back at uni i obviously didnt have much time for poker, and i also was only able to play pacific poker for reasons mentioned earlier. I began to play $50 cash games on pacific poker, and after a bad start i began to win some decent money. i took shots at $100 an $200 games too, and think i made around $1000 during that term. Mainly in spare minutes in between lectures, or (more often) when i was meant to be in lectures! Over the christmas holiday (2005-2006) i made around $7000 playing mainly cash games. By the next term i was plat $600 tables on pacific poker and had made a total of $20,000 by the end of march 2006.

Then (just as i was thinking poker was an endless succession of ups) i hit my first big down. I dropped $6000 in one night at $600 tables on pacific poker on the first day of my easter holidays. Disaster! it wasnt a nice feeling, the next day i went back to $5 sit and goes and ran really well at them. It was then that i began to play about 3 tables at a time on a consistant basis.

Fortunatly, i recovered from my bad first day of the easter holidays to click a $20k profit for the month long holiday. This was mainly at cash games i think? I then took a month and a half long break from poker to focus on my exams, and i managed to get a really good degree. After my exams were finished i was able to play £100 tables on crypto. I approached this by depositing £400 at a time and playing really LAG. This was very succesful and i probably made about $3000 before i left universtiy (as my term was over).

Having finished university, me and my girlfirend decided we would go travelling round the world for 3 months from the end of march to the start of july 2007. This left me about 8 months of which i cud either get a part time job, or continue to try and improve and make money via poker. I choose the later, and am very glad i did.

I broke even for around 2 months till the start of october 2006. I was learning th game still and found it harder to control tilt during these long sessions (whereas at uni i cudnt play long sessions cos there was always something else on!). Then in october i started to play $400 Nl. For the month i made $10k, and this was a huge achievment for me. it put my total poker earnings to around $53k. Then things started to go wrong, and in a big way.

In Novemeber 2006 i tilted back the $10k i had won at high stakes (maybe $1000 tables - sometimes $2000 tables - silly i know). In fact, this regression would be a constant theme for me untill i finally matured pokerwise around feburary 2007. Anyway, from around november 1st to December 14th i lost $20k. Yes that is $20k. At this point it was looking as though i would need to quit poker and get a part time job. I needed money, and all i was doing at poker was losing it. It was on the night of december 14th that things turned around.

On that night i was down another $4k. Things were going very badly, and i was playing $2000 tables being an idiot. Anyway, All in on the turn my Queen 10 sucked out of ace ace on a Q xxx board. I hit the mircle 10 on the river. Again, if i had lost that pot, i wudnt be writing here now. I wud have still have made a decent profit from poker, but i cud not of risked any more of my money that i had won, as i already had plans for this (i.e. my trip round the world and my student loan). That ten which intially turned $1600 into $3200 went along way, as i ended the night up $16k. I was back to about $52k up. Around my peak. VERY good news!

Never again would i risk so much playing poker, i had come out of my biggest low and was ready to progress as a poker player. I treaded water for the next few months where the general trend was grind out a good profit over a week or so and then lose it all (usually around $5k) in one night - ridiculus! By feburary the 1st i was still only up $52k. I had been playing poker full time for about 8 months and hadnt really won a penny. I then made a big mental jump, i learnt to forget about what could of been had i not kept giving money back to the poker community on late night high stakes tilt poker.

I began to follow good bankroll management and play cash games. I quickly got my overall winnings up to about $60k. Then i started a campaign to turn $1200 into $100k in 2 months on cash games whilst never risking more than 5% of my BR on any one table. Obviously i failed in my mission - mainly because when i got to about $30k in a very quick peroid i started going on high stakes tables. I had matured along way, but i clearly still had work to do. Thus after some scary ups and downs (including where i avoided disaster by winning a $20k pot as a 18% chance) i withdrew around $30k profit from this operation. I had finally left behind the 7month break even peroid, and was around $90k up by the time i went on my trip around the world.

On my trip i matured alot more and i knew this would do me good for my poker when i got back. I was itching to prove just how good i am at poker, and the only way to do that is to avoid the regression - or high stakes tilt. On my trip we had a week in vegas where i won $2k.

Upon my return i quickly turned to cash games and grinded my way to $18k profit within a week using good bank roll managment. I then lost this entire $18k in an hour whilst playing too high stakes and being an idiot. Had i really not chanaged?? i was worried about this stupidity.

Fortunalty, the next two week peroid proved that i had changed. instead of playing reckless high stakes poker in an attempt to get my cash back, i simply grinded at lower stakes and took odd shots at big games when i was playing my best game. Good things happened for the next 7 days after my $18k loosing session. I won $34k in that week long peroid. Learning my lesson from times past i was careful never to leave much money in my poker accounts or anywhere online where i can get at it easily!!! And that brings me to the present. To date i am about $125k up from poker, but my BR is only $12k. I want to keep most of my money away from poker, as i believe it is important (when paying the bills as a poker professional) not to be too dependent on how u do at the tables.

Hope u enjoyed reading this little (or long) story, just thought it wud be nice for u all to read this blog and know a little something about how i got to where i am today.

thanks,

zidane18

nice one man. interesting read, although i skimmed thru it.
i also live in london, uk. i'm 18. i'm just moving up to $600NL with a BR of about $21k.

how do you transfer your money around from site to site? do u use a neteller dollar account?
and how do u transfer back to sterling without being charged a small % by banks? i'm going to the bank to open up a dollar account.
currency exchange will cost me a few hundred dollars for $125k it will cost a few g's.

Originally Posted by pokerroomace

nice one man. interesting read, although i skimmed thru it.
i also live in london, uk. i'm 18. i'm just moving up to $600NL with a BR of about $21k.

how do you transfer your money around from site to site? do u use a neteller dollar account?
and how do u transfer back to sterling without being charged a small % by banks? i'm going to the bank to open up a dollar account.
currency exchange will cost me a few hundred dollars for $125k it will cost a few g's.

hi mate, sounds good, what site u play at?

I use visa, and dont have a dollar account although that sounds like a good idea?

Update = played some quite high cash games and lost $5k, disapointing because i played these games when not at my best. However it is only a sixth of what i have won at the same stakes over the last week. i am annoyed bacause i plyed bad though!

ANother thought = at the moment i play basically all day every day which isnt very sociable and means i get too entrenched in poker. I have decided maybe i should set myself more of a routine and have at least 1 day a week off. shall see how it goes. neway, i am gonna go play some cash poker - a bit lower this time as i still dont feel 100% (maybe nl400)

quick update - played some NL$2000 and ran ok, playing very well and hitting some nice hands.

so to summarise so far:

- $300 in MTT's
- $6k last night on crypto Nl $2000
+ $740 today on crypto cash games
+ $350 on pacific Nl600
+ $5.1k on ladbrokes Nl $2000

So overall i am down about $100. Few days off now then i may slip into a routine daily tournament scedule 5 days a week, with two days off from poker completely.... more to come on this soon.

gl to all at the tables,

Zidane18

There's something slightly seat-of-the-pants about these accounts - they're great though, I look forward to reading more! It must suck to be a high-stakes player who suffers from tilt.

Also, am I right in thinking you're playing $2000nl with less than 6 buyins? What happens if you go busto?

Originally Posted by biondino

There's something slightly seat-of-the-pants about these accounts - they're great though, I look forward to reading more! It must suck to be a high-stakes player who suffers from tilt.

^^^ This is correct. It's a little like a slightly less insane version of 88% concentration's blog. Sounds like you could defo make some moolah if ye don't go bust first tho

Originally Posted by biondino

There's something slightly seat-of-the-pants about these accounts - they're great though, I look forward to reading more! It must suck to be a high-stakes player who suffers from tilt.

Also, am I right in thinking you're playing $2000nl with less than 6 buyins? What happens if you go busto?

hehe, my bankroll as i put it is just the amount of money i have in poker sites. My total bankroll is actually around $125k. However, i believe in keep at least 18 months living costs ($30K) away from poker and i have a student loan to pay off ($24k). So my actual bankroll is $70k. WHich is 35 buy in's for this game, so i figured that is well within my bankroll provided that i am playing my best game.

I am not someone who tilts alot anymore, and i am more aware when i am tilting and so quit. In fact, my major problem is playing when tired. This is what happened when i lost my $6k in a night.

Hope to play a few tournies on thursday and friday, after which i go away for about 5 days so no poker then. In august i intend to make a good go of MTT's and see how i do. I really enjoy them. At the moment i am playing every day all day while i am home, which is not sustainable really, so i have decided to have at least 1 day a week off from playing poker completely.

Anyway, i did play out of my bank roll about 6-7 months ago when i knew no better, and i dont intend to repeat those mistakes that so nearly cost me.

good luck at the tables

zidane18

Originally Posted by Zidane18

ANother thought = at the moment i play basically all day every day which isnt very sociable and means i get too entrenched in poker. I have decided maybe i should set myself more of a routine and have at least 1 day a week off. shall see how it goes. neway, i am gonna go play some cash poker - a bit lower this time as i still dont feel 100% (maybe nl400)

how do you manage to play all day?
if i play 5hrs in a day i feel completely exhausted.

i was actually playing my best poker and had an incredible winrate when i was playing 1 or 2 hours a day. most days of the week. but that could also be down to variance and i could possibly have won the same if i had played longer hours.

Originally Posted by pokerroomace

Originally Posted by Zidane18

ANother thought = at the moment i play basically all day every day which isnt very sociable and means i get too entrenched in poker. I have decided maybe i should set myself more of a routine and have at least 1 day a week off. shall see how it goes. neway, i am gonna go play some cash poker - a bit lower this time as i still dont feel 100% (maybe nl400)

how do you manage to play all day?
if i play 5hrs in a day i feel completely exhausted.

i was actually playing my Best Poker and had an incredible winrate when i was playing 1 or 2 hours a day. most days of the week. but that could also be down to variance and i could possibly have won the same if i had played longer hours.

I have done a little bit of research about this, poker is a mental disapline, similar to revising for exams or trying to crack some tough accounts in a job. Now, a (average - of course every1 is different and i do have a longer attenton span than most) persons concentration level peaks around 25 minutes into a session of revision or poker. This then drops off until around 50 minutes into a session where ur concentration is non exsistant. Of course this is very simplified but i wud say that the best thing to do would be to play for around an hour then take a 10 minutes break and get away from the computer. This will reset ur concentration levels and should improve poker results. So, to me, shorter sessions and less play probably maintains a high level of play.

Unfortunatly, playing multiple tournaments at a time sort of prevents u from taking any breaks at all, because the five minute breaks on all the tournaments will not all come at the same time.

this post is a bit jumbled but to answer ur question as how i manage to play like 14 hours a day - i love poker, and i have a very long attention span when compared to ther people. so playing for this long really isnt a problem for me, although i must confess to sometimes playing well below average at the end of a huge long day, and it is when i play high stakes after these long days that i lose big. my problem is not tilt (i am very emotionally controlled), instead it is playing when tired because i just love playing and dont wanna go to sleep as i wud rather engage my tired mind in another game of poker.

This is a problem i am beginning to solve, and i am going to create a cut off time to stop playing poker each day and be slightly more regemented in my poker schedule!

good luck at the tables

Zidane18

that's crazy! 14hrs a day? WOW

why are you playing tournaments when there is so much more money in cash games?

if you managed to reach $2000NL you must be making a few hundred thousand dollars a year playing cash games.

even at $400NL playing 40 hours a week (2000hrs a year) with a winrate of 5BB/100hands and playing 400 hands an hour on average.
you will be making 4*2*5*4=$160 per hr.
and you'll be making 160*2000=$320,000 per year.

and since you play more hrs than this and you play higher stakes (and can presumably beat those stakes) you should be making $500k+ per year playing cash games online.

I knew ur name sounded familiar - u're the guy who never folds AK right?

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...ghlight=zidane

Congrats on your success!!

Originally Posted by pokerroomace

that's crazy! 14hrs a day? WOW

why are you playing tournaments when there is so much more money in cash games?

if you managed to reach $2000NL you must be making a few hundred thousand dollars a year playing cash games.

even at $400NL playing 40 hours a week (2000hrs a year) with a winrate of 5BB/100hands and playing 400 hands an hour on average.
you will be making 4*2*5*4=$160 per hr.
and you'll be making 160*2000=$320,000 per year.

and since you play more hrs than this and you play higher stakes (and can presumably beat those stakes) you should be making $500k+ per year playing cash games online.

i probably should grind at 400nl but am interested in MTT's atm!

Update: playing a ton of tournies today and am not having good fortune despite winning one of the smaller tournies (where i won 17 out of 20 hands from 5 to 3 handed!). So i am probably down for the day so far. I am playing really good though,. my aim is to go out of every tournament via a bad beat or in a set up, which i have manage to achieve alot today. so i am happy, keep doing this and the results will come i am sure, i am coping at the moment with crashing out of tourny after tourny via poor fortune.

Fingers crossed for the rest of the day.

p.s. i think we clashed once on ur stratergy of playing very loose early in a rebuy tourny and trying to accumalate a huge stack. i prefered (and still do) the opposite strat of sitting tight and waiting for a hand to pick off someone employing ur stratergy. And yes, i dont like folding AK :P. which just got me knocked out of a 20 buck rebuy - although i dont think anyone can get away from it when he raises with kk on button late on with 20bb stacks and u have ak on the sb!

Thursday the 19th of july results:

Hours of play : 13
Tournies played : alot
Prize money won : $1364 via 8 cashes
Entry fees paid : $1164
Cash games : -$318
Total loss : -$117

Not bad - i got no luck until late at night when finally my hands started to hold up and i managed to get some stacks together. unfortunatly, i lost two huge 60:40's in my favour - one to get to the final table and one with 5 remaining and being on the brink of the big money.

I am very happy though because i have got my MTT game back and am now confident of putting a good streak together. fingers crossed for tomorrow

good luck at the tables,
zidane18

I have decided to have a defined bank roll which shall be what i am going to use for my poker from now on:

Bank roll = $9365

Fingers crossed for my MTT's today. Hopefully i can build this bank roll up to $20k, and then i will feel comfortable playing in the $100 FO's and $50 rebuys maybe. Anyway, wish me luck today - i cud do with boosting my BR!!

what do is the biggest adjustment to your game when switching from cash to MTT?

i used to play a lot of sngs and a few mtts but now i hardly play tournies and mostly play cash.

New schedule for me:

Ok so i have been messing around for a few days and have been unable to really decide between whether cash games or MTT's are going to be my primary focus. So i thought- why not play both?? hehe, well seen as i suck at both at the same time, i am going to play both, but on different days. SO here is what i am going to do:

My current BR is a little over $9k. So i figure i am rolled for NL$200 and $50 MTT's. SO these are exactly what i am going to play!

Mondays : Tournaments
Tuesdays: Cash games
Wednesdays : Cash games
Thursdays : cash games
Happy fridays : Cash games
Saturdays : Cash games
sundays : Tournaments

ALso, every week i am going to take at least 1 day off (of my choosing) and no more than 3 days off (unless it is for a holiday or whatever). So if i am keen for MTT's i can take off cash game days and visa versa.

Anyway, the tournaments i am going to play are only going to be 10 and 20 dollar rebuys and £20 to $50 freeze outs. Will have to see how this new plan works out as i need some direction in my poker life.

Hi,

been a while since i updated. Firstly the bad news:

I lost about $14k in high stakes cash games. bit of bad play and bit of bad luck later on when i had got other my bad play! not too concerned although it was disapointing, still up nicely from the high stakes cash games this month.

after this i went on holiday for 5 days which was really nice, i relaxed and managed to read a few books on tournament poker to refresh my memory (i havent played hardly any poker over the last 4 months due to travelling round the world).

Anyway, i decieded that just flirting with various sized cash games and various tournaments wasnt going to get me anywhere as a pro poker player. I need more disapline, and i have finally learned what is best to do:

I have made myself an mtt tournament schedule of around $40 Fo's and $10 rebuys which i will play each day with at least one day off from poker altogether a week. So for the last 4 days i have STUCK TO MY SCHEDULE AND NOT EVEN PLAYED ANY GAMES OUTSIDE OF IT. I have also gone to sleep after playing all the tournaments in my schedule down for the day and NOT FELT LIKE I HAD TO WIN IT BACK IN CASH GAMES WHEN I WAS TIRED BEFORE I WENT TO BED.

I cant tell u how big a step forward this is for me, i am confident i now have what it takes to be succefull as an MTT pro poker player . I intend to post updates on here at the very least every week on how my MTT's are going (i only access my results at the end of each week so i dont become too result dependent). This is the first time in my poker life that i feel i have found a true long term way to be succeful in the long run and not take huge swings and be able to do things other than poker when i want.

I am sure i will stick to my schedule, i started off with a BR of just under $10k and will only relook at my schedule to include bigger MTT's when i have got my BR up to $25k which could take some time.

I am also recording all of my results on paper and aim to maintain a ROI of over 25% which will net me $1000 a week playing 4 whole days or 6 part days.

For the first time in around 12 months i feel i have some hope for the future,

gl at the tables,
zidane18

good post, i'd put the rest of the money you have outside of your BR in the money market cuz it seems like you could tilt it all away at any second.

Originally Posted by Pythonic

good post, i'd put the rest of the money you have outside of your BR in the money market cuz it seems like you could tilt it all away at any second.

hehe. yeh that used to be what i wud do. but a light bulb went on in my head while i was away on holiday and i have chaged. it is amazing really, i have finally been able to practice what i preach!

hi, guys.

well my first week of being an effective professional poker player is over and i have had some pleasing results. I have been able to take looses on days with extreme ease, and i feel that i have finally become a mature, level headed poker player who is able to truely look at the long term and not the short term. also, i have not even been tempted to play high stakes games- at all! even after losing days this week. this is the first time this has truely happened for me. before it used to be a struggle to stop myself playing in high stakes games (often after losing days). and needless to say i usually lost thi struggle.

fortunatly, this is a new zidane18!!

hehe, anyway, to the interesting stuff:

I have just finished my first week as a true professional poker player (playing mainly MTT tournies but also a little cash when i dont have time for some MTT's).

TOurnaments played = 119
tournment entry fees = $3992
Prize money obtained = $10047
Tournament profit = +$6055
roi in mtt's = 151%
Cash game results = + $700
starting br = $10410
Current BR = $17165

very good results! anyway, i need to get this bankroll up to $25k before i will start looking at playing some $100 MTT's and some NL$400 and Nl$500. at the moment i am only playing NL$200 cash and MTT's costing around $40.

hopefully i will be up at my $25k target by the end of the month. that is the plan anyway!

zidane18

update:

played alot of NL200 and NL£100 and managed to get my br up to $18.7k, but then i played when tired and played badly and ended up with my br on $17.7k. still not bad i guess, around +$500 for the day which isnt bad.

Wow, 119 MTTs in a week, that's a lot of playing. How many to you play at a time, 20? Good results tho, so you can obviously do it effectively!

funny hand rght at the start of my first session just now!:
eat 1: Laer12021 ($25.24 in chips)
Seat 2: Luckywiz ($179.07 in chips)
Seat 3: Badcall ($304.55 in chips)
Seat 4: Imanedda ($57.45 in chips)
Seat 5: Loser18 ($200 in chips)
Seat 6: Grahamp ($60 in chips)
Imanedda: posts small blind $1
Loser18: posts big blind $2
----- HOLE CARDS -----
dealt to Loser18 [7h Qc]
Grahamp: calls $2
Laer12021: calls $2
Luckywiz: folds
Badcall: folds
Imanedda: calls $1
Loser18: checks
----- FLOP ----- [5s 7d 8s]
Imanedda: checks
Loser18: checks
Grahamp: checks
Laer12021: checks
----- TURN ----- [5s 7d 8s][7s]
Imanedda: checks
Loser18: bets $6
Grahamp: calls $6
Laer12021: folds
Imanedda: calls $6
----- RIVER ----- [5s 7d 8s 7s][Qh]
Imanedda: checks
Loser18: bets $25
Grahamp: raises to $50
Imanedda: is all-in $49.45
Loser18: raises to $75
Grahamp: is all-in $2
Returned uncalled bets $23 to Loser18
----- SHOW DOWN -----
Loser18: shows [7h Qc] (A Full House, Sevens full of Queens)
Grahamp: shows [5h 5c] (A Full House, Fives full of Sevens)
Imanedda: shows [6s 4s] (Straight Flush, Eight high)
Loser18 collected $5.10 from Side pot #1
Imanedda collected $171.35 from Main pot
----- SUMMARY -----
Total pot $179.45 Main pot $171.35 Side pot #1 $5.10 | Rake $3
Board [5s 7d 8s 7s Qh]
Seat 1: Laer12021 folded on the Turn
Seat 2: Luckywiz folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: Badcall (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: Imanedda (small blind) showed [6s 4s] and won ($171.35) with Straight Flush, Eight high
Seat 5: Loser18 (big blind) showed [7h Qc] and won ($5.10) with A Full House, Sevens full of Queens
Seat 6: Grahamp showed [5h 5c] and lost with A Full House, Fives full of Sevens

Originally Posted by kettleofish

Wow, 119 MTTs in a week, that's a lot of playing. How many to you play at a time, 20? Good results tho, so you can obviously do it effectively!

i must say i am alot better at mtt games than at cash, and i prefer them so it makes sense to play them! hehe, well that is actually 119 in 6 days cos i have to take a day off every week at least! I play about 8 at a time! its fun

Update:

BR now is around $20750 as i have won $4k today in NL200 and NL£200 cash games. I also played some NL$500 as i figured i was easily rolled for this. I ran good and played good (after some tilt earlier in the day which had put me in a 5 stack hole!). I have just finished a heads up session and am going to bed now. I am going to resume playing my MTT schedule tomorrow, and hopefully i can pick up a win. I wish i was at $25k for my BR now cos then i cud actually enter some of the big sunday tournaments. i am try and use some of my FPP on poker stars to qualify for the sunday million if i can be bothered!! hehe,

gl at the tables

zidane18

Wow

Congrats on a great first week! If you continue like this, you'll be doing great.

I have been playing a little bit of online poker for a couple of years now. Really would like to see how far I could get. Recently started playing at Titan 0.1/0.2$ no limit cash tables. Increase my BR every day, from 50$ a couple of days ago, up to about 160$ today. About 13BB/100hands so far, I think (own calculation).

But still WAY BEHIND you man. But gotta start somewhere. I won't play higher stakes before my BR is big enough. Playing above my BR as it is now, but got another 200$ being transferred from other poker sites to Titan as we speak.

Looking forward to your next update. Good luck!!