My first big tourney for the challenge

Just sitting here waiting for the 17k gtd 26$ nl hold em tourney. Its supposed to start in about 40 minutes so i decided to update my blog. Today I havent been home for most of the day so I didnt play. Then when I got on I decided to do some cash games and 3.30 satty to midnight madness, lost the satelite but made plenty of money on cash games. Then I decided to try satty my way into a 26$ tourney since my br is big enough for that. I won a token and now im waiting for the tourney. I feel confident playing it and have a good feeling i will go deep hopefully.

Current BR: 422.79 Full Tilt Points: 1065.95

Running Good!!!

For the last couple of days I been playing a good solid game and running fairly good and going deep in a lot of tourneys. Today i won two 3.30 90 mans, in the first one I got a bit lucky heads up and after I was able to take it down but the second time I had a nice chip lead and was easily able to win it, so thats 6.60 investment to get $144 which is amazing and feels great. I did lose about 5 or 6 though so its about $125 profit. Running good in poker is definitely great and lets hope i can keep this up. Also about a week ago I made a video on a 2$ sit n go and it was to big but with a help of a friend it got fixed and I will be talking a little bit more about it in detail in my next post.

Current Bankroll: $370.33 Full Tilt Points: 892.30

Time to talk a little more about my challenge

In my last couple of posts, all I have been doing is bragging and bragging about my achievements last couple of days. I find it great but I still have to be focused on my goal and now work even harder in higher games to achieve it. Yes I was very excited, but its time to let that go and move on. After two weeks of playing I have $254.00 after starting with $0 , which I find amazing and really good. Little Tip to beginners: I do not suggest multi tabling 9 tables of 1.25 9 man sit n gos if you ever try this challenge. I suggest taking this nice and slow because you don't have the experience I do. The goals I have are very reasonable and can be accomplished over time. There is no need to rush anything, nice and slow is good. Always play what your br can properly afford and once again I will repeat myself do not rush your goals and your br. Well I think its time to play some more pokah and return to my mission!

Whats more sick? Quads followed by Quads or Winning two tourneys in a row?

The other day one of my good friends named April got quad Kings and then the very next hand she gets quad 6s which I think is very sick. Then day after that happens I get a royal flush and I also win two tourneys back to back. To tell you the truth I really don't know whats more sick. I think her case might of been more luckier, but I think mine involved more skill. Anyways what do you think?

1st place in 2.25 6 handed tourney

This is the tourney I won right before the 2$ rebuy. This tourney was actually a lot easier to win than the rebuy. I got a nice chip lead and then i was able to boss around everybody and actually i made quite a few bluffs. At one point when I was stealing some guy re raised me all in with 24 and showed it to me. I'm like wow you are good, nice read sir. He goes ya its easy to read a donky that steals every hand. I go I dont steal, I only borrow and using my stack to my advantage, but of course yes I'm a donk. Next thing you know I take him out and win the tourney.

My Quads getting paid off by a calling station

I get AA in bb, i get all excited and everybody folds but sb. Blinds are 200/400 ante 50 so i raise it up to 1172 and he calls me. Then i flop quads and he just bets it all the way for me with 10Q and calls my all in on river, very simple :) lol, i love getting paid of by calling stations.

I took 1st place in a 2$ rebuy

I have been having a hard time uploading my screen shots and it finally worked. I only rebought once in the beginning and added on in this tourney so its a nice profit. I played pretty good overall I think and was able to take it down. I was a little unlucky heads up, first hand A8 vs 98 he doubled up by hitting 9. Then after 44 vs 4kh he hits a flush on river. And he rivered me again in a hand later dont remember what happened, but anyways i get A8 flop comes K J 6 then A he bets big i pushed all in he calls me with 67c and missed his flush and i was able to win it all!!!
Since that i haven't been playing and ready to win some more.

My royal flush

I limped in with 10Js and flopped a royal flush. I didnt get paid much because another spade came on turn and the other player told me he had A5, no spade. I didn't get paid much but still very happy.

Patience always gets rewarded!!!

Wow I'm so excited right now, I dont even know how to express my excitment. Last couple of days I wasn't running very good and came very close to making couple of final tables, but the luck wasnt on my side. My hands would get rivered, I would lose coin flips and stuff like that. I was being very patient, even though I was a little upset after getting 10th, 14th,12th place in tourneys. I mean when you are that close its kind of depressing. I didn't feel like updating my blog at all just because of how crappy it felt After bubbling 2$ rebuy tourney, which i got a royal flush in. Anyways today I won two tourneys back to back and I have screen shots to post. Took first in 2.25 6 handed and first in 2.25 rebuy tourney, very proud of myself and also very excited. I'm up 200$ for today, which is amazing wooot woot!!!. I also sent 12$ to a good friend of mine so thats ok. Well I better start posting my pictures because i got quite a few to share :)

Current Bankroll: $254.00 Current Full Tilt Points: 803.10

Being able to handle downswings?

Ok my last couple of days I just been having terrible luck. Bad beat after bad beat is all I'm thinking about. I have been trying to play some 2$ tourneys, haven't played many but I havent had any luck in a single one. I made itm in one barely but got very lucky in the end. My AK after i flop A gets beat by runner runner 66 for a flush, ok I get most of my chips back, by then blinds are big i get A3 in sb and I raise 3x times, basically what happened was As Js 3c comes on flop. I lead out and bet he min raises, After thinking i figured out he was on a flush draw. Turn J I push all in i had 20k him 14k on turn he insta calls me, and river is obviously a spade. Yea he is a 2$ "wont call him a donk but a bad player" basically a calling station. Afterwards i get 66 and triple up vs AQ and K10. Ok I'm thinking Thank God, now i got some chips to work with. Later i get 77 vs 66 and we split. QQKKJ on board. Then next hand i get 55, another calling station calls me with 10Jc he only had 3k more than me. He was proud of his call, lol way to funny. Anyways I was pretty mad yesterday so didnt feel like being on computer after those hands. Just now i lost AQ to Q4c after flopping Q 2 3 no clubs, he just pushed all in out of position i felt like had QK or AQ so i called, turn 2 and river 4. I think tourneys are not working out for me so I'm going to play sit n gos for now and we will see if I can make some $ there, if not I', done for today. I think thats enough whining about my bad beats for now :) time to rock!!! and kick some ass in some sit n gos. Git-r-done son. Lol as you can see i got some sense of humor sometimes....nah NOT all the time!!!

Weeeee Step 2 is succesfully complete :) Step 3 here I come

Great newsssss. I finally managed to pass that 60$ mark. Thank you poker Gods, my skills, bad players that donated chips to me, and good players that got unlucky against me, last but not least thank you full tilt. hehe. Ok that was me just being a smart a$$ lol. I'm very excited and I personally think next step is going to be very easy at 2$ level. I'm going to play some tourneys and some more 2$ sit n gos. I don't think this will take me long. I'm gonna say 2 or 3 days until I'm on next step but I'm in no hurry so its all good. So far I feel like I have been playing good poker for most part and I'm very proud of myself. Before time I used to always be worried about getting unlucky and going broke with br under $100, this time i wasnt even close to being broke and I think starting at $25 was a great idea since I had some room in case i got unlucky or made mistakes. Time to move to next step woot woot!!!!.


Current Bankroll: $65.68 Full Tilt Points: 719.10

Please Poker Gods let me win 12$ more so I can move to next step

I'm on a roller coaster, lol. Keep going between 40 to 48. Right now I'm sitting with $48.03 so I need to win $12, ok 11.97 if you wanna be more specific :P. Anyways Full Tilt treating me ok, I get unlucky then couple of hands later I get lucky and going back and forth. Thats about it so I'm getting back to 1$ sngs. GL me

Today, I run like God...seriously

The title says it all. I have been running amazing today. I doubled my br plus $4 lol :p. I started out today 4 tabling 1.25 9 mans until i reached 35$ then i decided to try and 8 table since i will be using 10$ which is all profit of orinigal br, I knew it wasnt a bad idea. Also there was no way I could lose all of them, unless i got very very unlucky. Anyways I'm taking a little break before i start playing again and watching my friend. Hopefully if everything works out alright, i should be on next step soon. I mean only $16 to go which feels like not to far to go. Thats about it for now, I will update again soon.

Tommorow is another day

I think this is going to be my best decision for me right now. I just can't catch a break in these 1$ games, I mean I have lost about 7 or 8 hands when i was 60/40 i lost my last 6 or 7 coin flips. Also just lost a hand when i had these 2 donks dominated, AA vs AJ and K8 3 4 5 6 7 comes up i mean thats just ridiculous, neither of them had a flush draw either. Anyways i just can't handle this anymore, I think if I continue to play I will start making bad decision or will just get unlucky again. I can wait till tommorow and start off fresh. Down $5 for the day, which isn't bad since I still got plenty of $ to work with but kind of dissapointing and hopefully i do better tommorow.

Current Bankroll: $20.68 Points: 247.65

Ok time to work on step 2

I mentioned in my last post that I finally hit $25 and I'm finally going to start playing 1$ sit n gos today woo hoo. I will definitely will need luck with my hands holding up because I'm sure about 80-90% of the time I will have best hand at this level. Also will need luck with coin flips, so here i go. Also here is a screen shot of me sitting at a full tilt table with my $25.

Finally WEEeeeeeeeeeeeeee Step 2 here i come

Ok i have been working my behind off playing and playing the stupid freerolls and stuff. Ok i won some money on stars and then luckely had a friend that would trade with me for ftp $ which is awesome and it means i get to move on to step 2 since i just hit $25.58. Cha ching!!!. I'm very excited but I need to go to bed. I will most likely be playing tommorow and probably will start out 2 tabling 1.25 sit n gos and we will see how that goes. So hopefully tommorow is my day in real $. Woot Woot

Been taking a break from full tilt

Lately I have been doing my own personal stuff and taking a little break off full tilt and played a little on stars. I think I will get back on full tilt tomoorow and start working on my challenge again, other than that same old. I'm really tired so I need to go to bed, will continue with this later.

Day 4 and I got some more poker to play

Day 4, umm well nothing new really other than I got some more free rolls to play and the sooner i hit 25$ the better. I'm currently playing a free roll with 45$ for first place and I'm sitting at 5k with a long ways to go. Also one of my friends talked to me about this private 2$ nl omaha h/l tourney with 1$ for each KO I said I couldn't play it do to this challenge. He said he will send me 2$ so I agreed. I will obviously have to send him some % of my winnings if i do win but thats ok this will almost be like a really really good free roll. Oh ya forgot to mention there is 50$ added to the prize pool which is great. So lets see what I can do today, gl to me :). I Will update this at the end of the day.

Current BR $9.38 Points: 203.00

Summary for my last 3 days

Well it's been 3 days since I started my challenge and today been worst day for me so far, I'm not playing very good and getting kind of screwed. I did the 10c rebuy tourney and without any rebuys or add on i was able to get to 30k but i got unlucky on two hands and made a major mistake on sb, First off some donk called my raise on KJ pre when i had 99 and got lucky and hit JJ i was able to let it go but it cost me like 4k. Afterwards I got AT on sb which I hate this hand unless i can see a cheap flop and its suited. This guy either on button or 1 before button made a raise and it looked like a steal so I re raised all in and he had AQ unfortunately. This table was over all crazy and very loose so I blame myself for messing up. I also got unlucky in horse free roll had AA2 in stud h/l ended up with AA22 and 8 low vs 76543 when the guy caught on 7th and I'm positive it was either 6th or 7th street he caught it, pretty sure 7th. I also did razz fr and got screwed in about 5 hands, I lost a huge pot when i had 7 low on 5th st and the donk was calling me with Q K showing and some other small stack was raising me, the guy that kept calling with shit ends up with runner runner 6 low. Also had 6 5 3 2 vs like 8 something and couldnt a card to save my life. Basically I'm just running bad today but its ok, there is always tommorow. My first two days are pretty good since i won $ on a freeroll on 2nd day and over all I'm pretty happy how this is going.

Current Bankroll: $9.38 Points: 203.00

My 3rd day of my poker challenge and having a tough decision

I got home about 2 hours ago, been just chilling out and chatting to my friends and ate a nice soup I cooked myself, lol. Took me 3 minutes to cook it because I'm that good. ( microwave lol). Anyways right now I was deciding whether I should play the 10c rebuy tourney or not. After thinking about it I decided i will but I will not rebuy because that would be bad br management for me right now and i want to hit 25$ before i start playing 1$ games. I think I will treat this as a free roll because they play just as bad, so even if i lose it will only be 10c and don't think 10c will make much difference at this second. There is a possibility that I might have 25$ after I'm done with my horse free roll and my 10c tourney, so here I go. Wish me gl please.

Screenshot of the Horse Fr

Overall I think I played a very good game and I'm proud of myself. I have top 3 finishes in this horse free roll, I have taken 1st and 2nd before so that's pretty good. I'm also glad I'm almost 50% done with step 1

Current BR: $9.48 Points: 202.30

My plan for the mission

At first I was thinking about hitting the fake chips and grind up a lot of chips then play 500k 40$ free rolls, but I thought about it figured out a faster way to make $ in my opinion I think. Since now you can unregister from games on tilt. I'm going to play the 180 man free rolls and try to build up some points then play 275 point game to A or B since its 9 handed and my odds of winning are best there. I'm thinking about playing bunch of free rolls until i hit about 25$ i think that would be plenty to work with at 1.25 level which is 20 buy ins, I think that would be enough for me. I play all of the games (razz,horse,omaha h/l, omaha hi) but i think i will stick to the 1.25 nl turbo nl hold em mostly, At first i will prolly do one or two tables at a time but then move up to 3 possibly 4 if br lets me but definitely no more than 4. I don't want to invest to much of my br in play even though i know how bad most people play in these, because this is all about me learning br management. Also i think i will allow myself play any 1$ tourneys but i want to stay away from tourneys with a low br as much as possible.

I think i will grind at the 1.25 level with my 25$ until i hit 60$ then I will hit the 2.25 games this is about 26 buy ins in to that, and level of play is pretty bad still. At this point i think i will allow myself play some 2.25$ tourneys but mostly stick to sngs. At this point I want to grind until i hit 165$ in order for me to play 3.30 90 mans which I own. I believe my roi in them is about 130% right now. I will have 50 buy ins in to that which I think is plenty for me because i make ft about 1 out of every 4 or 5 i play and usually i get top 4 or so. At this point i will allow myself to do some 3$ tourneys but I still don't want to play tourneys at this level. I think i can make more $ playing the 90 mans which are a lot faster and easier.

At this point i want to grind up to 300$ and do some 5$ and 6$ sit n gos, mostly 6.50 9 mans since I do pretty good in them. Also I might play some 5$ tourneys, prolly omaha h/l limit is going to be one of them. I will still keep playing 3.30 90 mans obviously and do this until i hit about 600-700$ then i want to move up to 11$ 90 mans or do 8.80 token games to play 26$ 90 mans. But i will probably won't be playing 11$ tourneys other than 11$ pl omaha h/l. I will probably use some of my profit of the day to do token games in order to play 26$ tourneys. My first 26$ tourney i want to play is prolly going to be 26$ limit omaha h/l because I'm very good at it and have won it before and 9th place once. I only played this 3 times but i also won 5.50 limit including 2nd and 4th place. Im planning to grind this out to 1000$ and then set some new goals after I complete this challenge. So this is what I plan to do and I think this will take me around 2 months possibly more, depending on how much time I have to spend on poker.

My nice run in HORSE and 3rd place finish

After being down to 3k on an unlucky hand in omaha h/l, i just had to many draws to fold so i called and got unlucky. I ran that 3k to 500k and now im sitting with 306k with 3 left woot woot. I just lost during stud hi, had two pair and the other player caught higher 2 pair on the 7th street. I'm actually very happy with my finish and 9$ which is about 40% of what I need to start my mission or my challenge I should say. Let me tell you guys about my challenge and how I want to get it done.

bob starts his adventure

My name is Bob and I love playing poker, I also enjoy sports but don't really have time to play them anymore. Well I decided to create this blog in order to keep me on track and record my poker and probably some of my regular life on it. I have been playing poker for a while now and have plenty of experience in a lot of games. I do admit I'm pretty bad at my bank roll management which a lot of times gets me in to trouble so I have decided its time to fix that problem. With patience and practice of bank roll management I want to run 0 to 1000$ and more afterwards. I have started on this mission yesterday and not doing to bad so far.

Lately I been running pretty bad on full tilt and just losing just bs hands. I don't really tilt but sometimes I do lack patience. I started yesterday with 48 cents and 62.30 points but i lost 60 points. Afterwards I started playing 180 man free rolls and so far won 2 but haven't played that many either. Currently I'm sitting with 200 points and at a final table of a horse free roll that started with 2400 players, so far I'm 6th out of 6 with 223k and in middle of my favorite game omaha h/l so I will be fine. This is my 3rd final table in this event so I'm excited, Also this is first time i played this free roll in about 4 or 5 months. I will post what place I got after I'm done.