No News is Bad News

Nothing good going on in my poker game right now, except that I've cashed in my last two 45 player S&G's. I have not had many opportunities to dedicate over 2hours to play a 45 player tournament, so I have not played many. I am under the impression that it will take 2 or 3 huge tournament finishes (in tourneys with hundreds or thousands of players) for me to acheive my goal. That's how Chris Ferguson did it; after several months there was a breakthrough tournament that gave his bankroll a huge boost to work with.

I did, however, make about $40 at the Polish Poker Parlor on a recent snow day. I had to plunk down $90, but ended up at $131.

I am quite pleased to see a comment posted, and it leads me to believe there might be someone out there accepting the $10-10,000 challenge.

Can't wait to hear about Vegas, and I hope to get down to the boat soon - maybe Spring Break.

Boy, I Needed That!

It looks like I have a history of getting lucky, peaking, and playing badly the next night. In this case, I hit $50 and then went on a slide. After not doing much at the .01/.02 tables today, I decided to enter a 45 player S&G. I won the tournament, which paid $14. It was a good way to finish a frustrating 2 days. Saturday I tried to go to Argosy but I-71 was closed and I had to turn around and go home. This morning, I drove down for the $115 88 player tournament, but it was sold out when I got down there. The wait was way over an hour for a seat at a cash game, so I went home with no poker for the second time in 15 hours.

Maybe I'll try more 45 player tourneys; when my bankroll was smaller, it didn't seem to make sense. I'm ready to give it a try more often. Maybe some time away from the ring games will do me some good. I'm happy to have figured out how to include my dates on the graph; I'd been working on that for a while.

Benchmark!

Alright, poker fans, I finally finished a night over $50. I'm trying to put this achievement in perspective. While it is a huge gain over my December 31 $2.76 shown above, and to think that on this third and final buy-in (I had dropped to below $1 and had to use some of my FFP's in mid-December to earn enough money in freerolls to get enough to have $1 so I could afford to buy into a cash game) it feels like quite an accomplishment. I was literally under a buck; in fact, check out my entries from December....

I was determined to not have a 4th buy-in, so played the FFP freerolls to get back up to minimum buy-in range. Here are some more recent entries from this week...

Wow this was going to be just a short entry...

Yes, on one hand it is quite an accomplishment. But I have so far to go. Or do I? I have grown my bankroll by a factor of 97 since December 7. If I can repeat this feat in the same amount of time, I would be almost half way to my goal ($4,985.80) by April. It is true that as my bankroll (and therefore buy-in) increases, my rate of changes increases much faster.

One other thing to consider....the level of play. I am still at the .01/.02 tables. Perhaps when I move up in the limits I will meet with resistance from superior players. But after all, poker is poker, right?

The longer I'm at this, the more convinced I am that I will make it to $10,000. It's good to be naive!

OK, Not So Boring Tonight...

A Long, Snoring Blog?

Was that a typo last night?

The Long, Boring Slog...

Here is my last week session by session...I'm stuck right now between $28 and $38. Getting rivered a lot. Pretty much sick last week, but did get more sleep than in weeks before. Feeling much better now, and look forward to more rest and exercise this week. Off to bed, it's 11:00 now, bedtime!

NBCT99

What does tilt look like?

Here is what I've been up to since Jan. 26. The goal I set New Year's Day (.30-.50 profit each day or $18 by Jan. 31) was met, but since I got greedy last week, things have not gone as well. The two graphs above represent session by session and day by day for the last week or so. The bottom one is as of Saturday, Feb. 2.

I'm pretty sure that I got so excited about this experiment that I actually went a little overboard and played way too much. Synonymous' post expressing concern about 3:00 a.m. posts says a lot. Poker fans, I've run up a sleep deficit. Now I'm actually achey and sick.

The remedy? I'm going to bed by 11:00 5 nights per week in February. (Don't larugh, I know it is nearly midnight - I'm cleaining up after a Super Bowl party.) As for poker, less is more. I'll be playing fewer sessions, and probably just about everyday, but I expect the quality of my play to improve as I get proper rest. I have not been rested lately, and I plan to become more effective in my all my various roles. I've also vowed not to get too greedy in February.

Thanks for checking in....You can check back here to see what impact proper rest has on poker.

By the way, if you are reading this, shouldn't you take the $10 to $10,000 Challenge?

If you see Chris Ferguson, let him know how I'm doing.