Week 1 of the iPoker DoN Promo

Well, I can't complain about the first week as I have ran hotter than hell, which makes a change :) It feels like I have adapted to the DoNs fairly well but who knows as the sample so far is pretty insignificant:

477 games played in the first week, with a mixture of 55$ and 109$ games.

+1.88k$ From the games
+1.72k$ From Rakeback
+0.35k$ From a projected >20th place in the >50$ leaderboard.

+3.95k$ Total.

Which makes this my best SnG grinding week to date.

Garf below - weeeeeeeeeeeeee!



Next week starts in 15 minutes...gogogogogo!

January Results

January was a bit meh, Started of really well in the first week and the broke even (inc Rakeback) for the rest of the month. +3.1k in total, Graph for January below:



















The sharp increase in the graph was my 104th place finish in the 1 million dollar GT on ipoker. The tumble down at tourneys >800 was my first foray into double or nothings (lol at starting at the 55$ 6 max DoNs!) and the flat line was the 11$ DoNs - where I should have started.

Kinda annoying playing and breaking even for 3 weeks but thats the way it goes and it's not even that bad a breakeven stretch - and I don't have downswings - just long breakeven stretches ;)

January Profit : +3100$

January 2010 - Hello DoN!

Double or Nothing SnGs are ridiculous. I can't stand them. The rake is unbelievable on ipoker for these (10% up to and including the 55$ games) and you need to play like a nit....but I want to master them so I'm gonna try and play as many as possible over the next couple of months.

Earlier this week i gave the 55$ DoNs a bash and jumped right in 9-12 tabling these, looking back now I'm pretty sure I was making a ton of mistakes, as well as running pretty bad (all sng grinders run bad! :P) and I dropped about 20BI. So I've went back to sngWIZ start reviewing my game again, which is something I don't do enough of.

I've spent a bit of time analysing them with SnGWiz and it's ridiculous how tight you need to be on the bubble, so I'm gonna tone down the aggression and try not to spite call other regs on the bubble ( as much! :) ) as I'll just be burning money.

I've also purchased a little add-on for sngWiz which is really cool, WizHUD. It overlays HUD stats onto SnGWiz which really helps to assign ranges when reviewing your sng play. One feature of this program is that you can middle click a hand (or a selection of hands) in holdem manager and it will then load up in SnGWiz, magic - I love it!

WizHUD is the creation of 2+2 STTF'r "Hood" and more info can be found on his site here - sickread - well worth 16$ imo

I'm gonna use this blog to keep track of my winnings this year, as I fail pretty bad at keeping track of this stuff. I have estimates of previous years income from poker but all my hand histories and excel tables are scattered over about 6 hard drives, so I guess if I put here I won't lose the info once my laptop dies / PC fails. Plus hopefully this will motivate me into putting in maximum effort into improving as a player and increasing my volume.

January Profit so far: +3300$
2010 Profit so far: +3300$