February 2011

February was decent, could have been better though. Had a 90 Buy in downswing at the start of the month where I ran awful and a 70 buy in downswing at the end of the month but that's expected I guess when the SnGs are Super Turbos and are full of regs. Anyway, there were some pretty good bonuses on offer which made up for the downswings.

Feb 2011 Summary:
8410 SnGs played over 173 hours
Total February Profit: $11500
Total 2011 Profit so far: $24000

So I've made a pretty decent start on my target of 100k for the year. I hope to be able to get at least halfway by June as our 3rd child will be born then. I'd like to be able to take a couple of months from poker when the baby comes.

In other poker news I have signed up to HUSNG.com to try and improve my HU part of my game, Watched a couple of vids by Mersenneary so far and they seem pretty good. I'm gonna try and play about 500 HU sngs per month starting at the 5$ or 10$ level, working my way up once I've beaten each level for 100 Buy Ins, so I'll see how that goes.

Away from poker, I've been taking my daughter to swimming lessons at the local swimming pool. She has been doing amazingly well at the swimming and has been moved up from the seahorses to the turtles. She's pretty chuffed with that and it's good for me too as I get some time away from the PC and some exercise in the big pool while she has her lessons.

Big game tonight with Celtic Playing Rangers again! Hopefully the Bhoys can get another win as good as the last game as that was pretty sweeeet. Let's gogogogogogogooo :)

Hail Hail!

May results - Rakeback pro FTW!

I broke all sorts of personal records this month:

Biggest winning day: +1.6k
Highest number of SnGs in a day: 346
Worst month ever pre-bonuses and rakeback: -3.9k
Largest winning month including rakeback and bonuses: 10.2k$ (my first 5 figure month, yay!)

May 2010 Total: 10210$
2010 Yearly Total: 29960$

Obviously, I'm pretty happy with the month. I played 2152 SnGs which was an equal split of Super Turbos, Turbo DoNs and Jackpot SnGs. With the rake on these you are never going to expect a long term positive ROI 9 tabling these, especially at the 55$ SnGs and above. The rake on the super turbos is ridiculous, 10% rake for a SnG which last on average 9 minutes is really taking the piss, especially when compared the rake on the super turbos at Full Tilt (4% at the equivalent level). Jackpot SnGs are raked at 18% and the turbo DoNs are raked at 10%. I broke even on the Super Turbos and Jackpots but sustained heavy losses on the DoNs in the first half of the month.

Garf:

April results

April was a bit of a mix, on the whole I'm pleased with the results but disappointed with the last half of the month where i ran like a sausage, tilted and played bad. However, 6.6k for the month makes it my best month to date for grinding sngs. Hopefully, Ill eventually have that elusive 10k month this year. Really thought it would be this month but oh well, guess I can't really complain!




April Profit: 6600$ (Inc. Bonuses & Rakeback)
Total 2010 Profit: 19750$

March Results

Just a quick results update for March 2010:

Played 1180 SnGs, mixture of 55$ and 109$ DoNs, plus some other regular 50$ sngs.

Profit $3245
Bonus $1050

$4.3k

Total 2010: $13.15k

Placemint setup for iPoker

Placemint is a windows positioning tool, it allows you to set up predefined slots for windows anywhere you like on your screen space.

See the 2+2 thread for more detailed info - http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/45/software/placemint-window-positioning-tool-251893/

Below is a set up guide specifically for turbo sngs on ipoker.

Once the software is installed, you will need to configure Slots and a RegEx (Regular Expression) code.

First step is goto the Configure option in the Tools tab:



Next, Add a new group using the Add New Group button on the Configure Window Groups window:



Rename the Group Title to something more meaningful.

Tick the Custom check box for the regular expression (or you can add a regular expression using the Edit RegEx List menu)

Paste the following expression into the empty white box space.

^"Turbo"\s

The next step is to set up your window slots.

On the Slots tab, set up the first slot, enter the table size and then tick Show Sample slot.

Then hit the clone selected slot button and again tick the show sample slot, move Slot 2 window into the desired place using the arrow buttons on the Slot 2 window.

Repeat the above step until you have all desired slots filled.

Remove the Sample slots on all slots by deselecting the Show Sample Slot tick box on every slot from the configure window groups window on the Slots tab.

Save the config and close the Configure Window Groups window and you are ready to go!