First set of 25, not a success

Surprisingly I did not make a profit in the first set of 25. I did had 6 cashes, 3 times I took it down. Still not enough to make a profit, in stead a loss of $0.55 is recorded. The problem is that once I have a decent stack I start playing to defensive. I know I should be more aggressive but ...
When I decided to increasethe aggressiveness I lost every race I had. So in my eyes a lot of misfortune but don't we all say this.

I should try to increase the number of FTs to around 65%. Thats somewhere around 15 FTs out of 25 games if I then can maintain my ITM of 50% when reaching the FT I should make a profit.

Let's see if set 2 will be better.

Cheers,
Dremeber

syndicate

I joined the $11 poker syndicate at RTR. The idea is that everybody plays 5 $11 MTTs. All the winnings will be put into a pot and shared amoung all the members which did play all 5 games.
At the moment I played 3 and did cash in ione. A great 96the place out of 2702 contenders. Good for $40. I'm glad that I could add some dosh to the pot.

Also trying to play a set of 25 games of the $1.75 18 seater. I need to find out what my best play ground is. I did want to try 6 seaters at a lower buy-in than the $3.40 one but there aren't any. So the 18 seater will be a good starting place. At the moment I did finish 8 of them. Cashing in 2, giving my at the moment an intermediate result of a loss of -$0.5. So some improvement is needed.

Cheers,
Dremeber

Here we go again

Didn't play a lot during the past weeks. The weather was to good and I just wasn't interested.
In stead of playing I was searching the net for a new laptop with a blu ray player. To bad for me but my specs made it to expensive. Let's see if I can collect some dosh with Poker. The target stands on $1000.

In the last 3 days I played 6 6 seaters, cashing in 5 of them. Not bad.
Will this be my new play ground? Don't know yet.

Will keep you posted.

Cheers,
Dremeber

Switched to PKR

I decided to it was time to give Stars some rest. So the question was where do I want to play?
After reading some room reviews my eye fell on PKR. For a recreational player, like me, the user interface really is worth a try. Also I did find out that it is a real fish pound.

In my first 5 days I made a profit of $70. Not bad. At the moment I'm trying to clear my bonus.

I would say give it a try. Use the bonus code PKRBONUS to profit from their deposit bonus.
PKR.

Cheers,
Dremeber

Second loosing day in a row! Auch!

Luckily I did manage to win my last SNG I played or the damage would have been much bigger.
Played 12 SNGs yesterday (10 10 seaters and 2 18 seaters). Didn't cash in the 18 seaters, while I should have in one. But a donk move from my side with AK during the bubble did get me eliminated. Very stuped cause I was atm second in stack.

Did cash in 3 10 seaters but the amount won was not enough to cover all my antes of the day. 1 first and two thirds.

I did replay all my major loosing hands of the day and came to the following conclusions:
A few non cashes were simply my own faults but the red line of yesterday that I wasn't capable of hitting the flop and that my Ax never won a race against small pocket pairs. On the other side, none of my pocket pairs held up against their Ax. Add to that flushes being beaten by higher flushes and then you have a perfect poker misfortune cocktail.

PT is giving some indications of leaks but still to early (not enough SNGs available yet) to form some conclusions. On the other hand I have the feeling that I'm playing more focussed. Don't know if it has anything to do with PT.

I'm confident that I can break my loosing streak this evening.

Note to myself: Third places are worthless, third places are worthless.

Cheers,
Dremeber

A fresh start!

I decided to upload some fresh funds to Stars and I'm not planning to throw it away like the previous one. But that is easier written down than done. For the first time since long I had to upload funds cause the previous BR dried up, normally I'm able to cash my deposit with some profit but not last time.

One of my major BR leaks is that I don't build up a bankroll. I to quickly cash some profit or the initial deposit, which isn't a sign of confidence in myself. I will try not to make this mistake again. The deposit was only a miserable $75. Still plenty left in the poker bank account.
To plan is to wipe out my loss of $80. Again easy to write down, more difficult to acchieve but not impossible.

Like written before I tried to analyse my game with the help of SiTAndGo Wizard. But this tool is not for me. I hate the fact that it gives advice and your % of winning chances but that you can't see the outcome of the hand.Now I have downloaded a trial version of PokerTracker. The downside is ofcourse that it doesn't automatically imports the SNG results but with the POP3 import this isn't a problem which can't be overcome. The only hassle is that I need to restart PT3 after importing them otherwise I don't see the results in the tournament tab.
I also decided that I need to step back to the single table SNGs in stead of the 18 or 45 seaters. There is a much more winning percentage in these and I have the feeling that it should be easier to end up ITM in these.

I'll keep you posted!Dremeber

Tilt

The tittle says it all. Lost $60 in the last few days. With one MTT running, the br is standing on the nice round figure of zero!

I don't know what is happening and why I'm loosing. Have to analyze my game. Perhaps I need to starts playing single tables again.
Reaching the FT enough but I just can't get into the money. Loosing each race, running into sets and so on.

I downloaded a trial version of Sng wizard! Maybe that tool can me give me some insight in what I'm doing wrong!

Cheers,
Dremeber