Joined: Oct '11
Location: Sweden
Age: 32 (M)
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I'm gonna try to keep some stats of how I'm doing with the SnG Jackpot games. I can't promise it'll be completely up to date but when I do make an update, the stats at that point in time will be the current results.
I won't keep any detailed stats, only if I ended a session with a profit or loss and how much. I will also update my current bankroll here to give you an idea of how far away I am from reaching the higher Buy-In games. My bankroll management is simple. 100 BI needed for each level. When I move up in BI I can lose up to 5 before I move back down again. If I end a session with, for example, 97 BI then the next session will start at the lower level, thus disregarding the 5 BI loss rule.
Current stake: $0.25
Bankroll: $24.72 Number of sessions: 7 Last session profit/loss: $2.25 Total profit/loss: $7.00 Average profit/session: $1.00
If there's anything else you want to know, just ask!
Joined: Nov '11
Location: Poland
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Nice I like to track someone's games
Do you have some goal? Like achieve specific sum of BR? Eg. $100 in 100 days or something? Or you want to share your stats only? It will be nice to add some competition to this sharing. I know, there was be in this forum, thread of a lady who want to build bankroll to take her husband to trip somewhere. I didn't notice that that topic is still updated. So I hope, you will update for longer time.
Joined: Oct '11
Location: Sweden
Age: 32 (M)
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My only goal for the moment is to reach $100 so I can move up in stakes. I cant say any timeframe at all due to my extremely irregular work schedual, I've got an 18 month old daughter and theres tons of overtime at work. This means that Im not able to play more then a few hours each week, if anything at all.
But to make it somewhat interesting, I could say $100 bankroll by the end of the year where I can grow it from both winnings and BRM cashout (2300+ points atm).
------------ This is not gonna go towards my stats but I just made the calculations that during last weekend my profits was as follows:
Joined: Mar '09
Location: Greece
Age: 47 (F)
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It looks you have figured everything out, about your game play. Your "plan" sounds good. Now with some luck all you have to do is to try to achieve your goal. When that happens, try to follow the same rules on your next buy in.
hmmm ... you announced the statistics but you write only the final result ... it's not really interesting .... it would be more interesting to know how many tournaments you played ... how many tournaments you won .... and what were the prize pools ... This is called statistics and not what you wrote
Joined: Oct '11
Location: Sweden
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Its a decision based on the time I have. As I wrote in my very first post, "I won't keep any detailed stats, only if I ended a session with a profit or loss and how much." I work a full time job where Im pretty much required to put in at least 20 hours of overtime every month, and I also have an 18 month old daughter. I barely find any time for myself as it is so really detailed stats is not high on my list of priorities.
I will of course mention if some games stand out from the rest prize wise. But as for detailed stats and analyzis, I just dont have the time nor the energi to do that. I would like to, but the most important part is, after all, if Im making a profit.
All I can say is that if you're not interested in the limited stats that I do share, Im not forcing you to read it.
------------ First post updated after todays session. It lasted for about 1 hour and I had one table with a $1.50 prize that I lost due to a bad beat on the river against the biggest donk. I already had a note on him about how he plays, it was still accurate so I acted on it and sure enough I had him beat on the turn but the river gave him the only card that could help him.
Other then that I had a few more terrible losses as well but all in all I ended the day with a $0.25 profit. If only 1/3 of those bad beats hadn't happened I probably would have ended the day with around $1.50 profit. So even tho this was a winning day for me, I still considder it to be a bad one. That small profit is pretty much the same as no profit really.
I guess it just wasn't in the cards for me today. Better luck next time I guess.
Joined: Oct '11
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First post is updated after todays session. Was a pretty good one even tho I lost a few games due to bad luck. Made a few questionable plays that I need to eliminate from my game to get an even bigger edge.
Noticable prize pools were only one with $1.50 that I won.
I ended the day with a $2 profit. It could have been better but it's only a matter of time before I've perfected my game. Then the profit will be better.
I still have a few things to work on but at least I'm making some profit. Slowly working my way towards the $100 needed to play at the next stake level.
Joined: Jan '10
Location: Indonesia
Age: 60 (M)
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Congratulation for your very good achievement so far. I impressed you won almost everyday, because I know that hyper turbo and very small starting chips. If we do wrong once could be fatal. Good luck .
Joined: Nov '11
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I forgot to ask you, which games you play exactly? SnG I know, but it's SnG turbo? SnG tournaments? SnG 6plrs? SnG 9plrs? Which site? or SnG in general?
And it's nice, that you have goal. I've heard, that if you compete something, you must have some kind of goal, because is much more easier then. And $100 is pretty reasonable, and if you start from $19, and you have profit every day/every session, you'll achieve it pretty easy
Joined: Oct '11
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Posted by Mysik86: I forgot to ask you, which games you play exactly? SnG I know, but it's SnG turbo? SnG tournaments? SnG 6plrs? SnG 9plrs? Which site? or SnG in general?
And it's nice, that you have goal. I've heard, that if you compete something, you must have some kind of goal, because is much more easier then. And $100 is pretty reasonable, and if you start from $19, and you have profit every day/every session, you'll achieve it pretty easy
I'm currently playing the lowest stakes, $0.25 BI. I don't have the funds tio invest to reach the next level so I'll have to play my way there.
------------ I've just updated the first post. I had my very first daily loss today. I lost no more then $0.75 but at one point I was $0.75+ but then I ran into all kinds of trouble. I lost AA to AK, KK to J5, AKs to A3, JJ to 99 and lots of other crap.
Basically I didn't do any wrong plays, I played solid today so long run it's gonna be good but it sucks to end the day with a loss.
I'm happy with the way I played, I only got my chips in when I was ahead but it just wasn't ment to be today. All in all I'm still in profit at least so that's good enough.
Joined: Jan '10
Location: Indonesia
Age: 60 (M)
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Yeah, that's why I hate that game!! Random system like slot machine (?). You have to extra carefully at this moment erru. Usually not just one day that's happen , wish not happen to you and back to good track soon. Good luck.
Joined: May '08
Location: Germany
Age: 51 (M)
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Good luck with your competion, i hope you will reach your target of 100$. But i think this can be hard by the jackpots tournaments to win in a long term. Bye 888 you have only 2min then all go allin,but maybe you have more time by Party i dont know. But you have a good Start, hope your run will continue.
Joined: Mar '11
Location: United Kingdom
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I always think that is a very good idea to keep records on your games. This will really help the way you play in my opinion and we all look forward to regular updates on your progress
Joined: Apr '17
Location: Argentina
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I am halfway there also with the games trying to get as much as possible to the $ 200 to start playing at some better tables, but sometimes I have bad luck and I keep in a fixed amount that I can not spend it never haha
Joined: Jan '17
Location: Lithuania
Age: 66 (M)
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Yes it is.bad situation when you play good poker and your opponent has not so good cards like you but no luck and you lose. Maybe you say good that in long term this loss can be profit, but sometimes it is play on nerves
Joined: Mar '09
Location: Greece
Age: 47 (F)
Posts: 14136
If it is something temporary, then it is not a big deal. It happens in poker. You can lose with any hand at some point But you are still at the beginning, so that wont have any effects on your next game play. Good luck.
Joined: Oct '11
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Well, as I thought it was just a one time thing. I ended this days session with a $1.50 profit. I would have liked to play more but you gotta know when to stop playing and I figured that after yesterdays losses, a recovery of that loss and even more would be a good point to wrap things up today.
No really noticable games, only one $1.50 and maybe two or three $1. Can't really remember how many of them I won and I can't be bothered to check, but say maybe two of them.
In any case, I'm in profit today so that's good enough for me. First post will be updated within a couple of minutes.
Joined: Oct '11
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Just updated the first post. Todays session was pretty good, ended the day with a profit of $2.75 so that's a really good day. Counting Buy-ins, it's a 11 buy-in profit which is really good for one day. Noteworhty prizes was only one $1.50 that I won. Besides that there was maybe three $1 of which I only won one.
All in all I played well and my premium hands actually held up. I made some solid plays and against a guy that I had notes on I ended up folding KK. I based that fold on the J high board and the notes I had on him. I don't know if it was a good fold or not but I ended up winning the table so it really doesn't matter.
Only made a few bad moves but it's getting less and less common. Soon I've eliminated those bad plays all together.
------------ For those who are following this thread, I want to tell you that there won't be any update today or tomorrow due to work. I can't say for sure yet if I'll be able to update anything after that, maybe it'll be two days if I'm lucky. After that my work will take over my life completely for about 8-9 days so I'll be lucky to get any sessions going.
Joined: Mar '09
Location: Greece
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Life catching up again You need too much time to devote into playing poker. That is the bad thing when you work at the same time. And then, some times when you get time off your work, you have many other things to do than stick in front of a screen playing poker.
Joined: Jan '10
Location: Indonesia
Age: 60 (M)
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Congratulation you already recover soon from your lost. Work take over your poker time, that's normal since you aren't poker pro,lol. Hopefully you love your job, if not try to think to be semi pro, you have talent, I think. Anyway stay away from poker for few days/week is not bad (even better)
I like to track someone's games 
hmmm ... you announced the statistics but you write only the final result ... it's not really interesting .... it would be more interesting to know how many tournaments you played ... how many tournaments you won .... and what were the prize pools ... This is called statistics and not what you wrote
