Running *so* hot

Things are going very well now. I've been tracking my results on OPR, and I'm now in the top 2% of players on FTP. My recent results in the 10/45 and 24/45s are:

1n1nn5nnnnnnn11nnnnnnn1nnn | nnnnn2nnnn1nn1

Where a number is the position finish, and an 'n' is a non-cash. So I've won 7 of the last forty tournaments. Weird. I've been playing pretty well - but I've just been running so hot on the final tables its untrue.

Results to the left of the '|' are at $10, to the right at $24


This performance is of course entirely unsustainable, so I'll just keep playing at this level for a while and see what happens.

BR a healthy $2750.

I've moved up!

I've finally moved up and am playing the 45-man $24+2 games on FTP. Pleasingly the play at this level seems almost as bad as at the $10+1 games I've come from. I've made two final tables coming in 9th and 2nd - so I've made a little profit already.

Its hard to see me moving back down now. I'm certain I've got a good edge at this level and it would take a spectacularly bad run for me to move back. I initially allowed myself a 10 buy-in loss before I moved down, but I'd make that 20 now.

I've also only been 1-tabling while I figured the game out - but I'll 2-table from tomorrow.

Its been a pleasing few months at the tables.

What is the next stage?

Well I've (virtually) made my first milestone.

I've been donking around the $11/45s with a view to rebuilding my bankroll to a more sensible level ($2k). And I've done it - well, almost. Is $1991 or thereabouts. I'll clear the 2k barrier (no doubt this will take a while now I've said it!) and I'll have to think about where I am going to go.

I've rebuilt the roll by playing the $11/45s on FTP, and I've been doing pretty well - especially lately. My ROI is ~100% this year.

Options include
1) Staying where I am. Its a surprising move but I'm considering giving it another couple of months at this level. The reason being is that I would be very interested to get a more accurate ROI figure for me in these games. Whilst I clearly have a good edge I've been running very well the last few weeks, and so it would be interesting to see what a longer-term average is.

2) Add more tables. I only 2-table ATM. I could probably add 1 or maybe even 2 more tables. The games fill up quite quickly, so I could probably get 3/4 games started reasonably quickly and I'd be in roughly the same stage in all of them. How this would effect my play is anyone's guess. Its worth noting that even when 2-tabling I usually end up doing something else at the same time (messing around with my mp3s on iTunes, or reading bulletin boards somewhere). That would have to go, but thats not a bad thing, and probably indicates my play on the two existing tables wouldn't suffer that much.

3) Move up. Most obviously I could have a crack at the $24/45s (or maybe FTP has $26/45s, anyway ...) and this is what I always assumed I'd do when my roll reached back to these giddy heights.

I'm not sure what I'll do. Firstly I'll get that extra $9 (why?) but after that
I've a decision to make.

Rebuilding the roll

About time for an update.

I've been playing on the $10/45s on FTP for a few weeks - and doing quite well.
The play is pretty bad, but I seem to have adjusted fairly well to people's ranges and am playing pretty solidly. Consequently my bankroll is now swelled to around 1700.

Which is better. I'm certainly ready to have a crack at the $24/45s now which seem to fill up quite quickly, but I won't immediately. I'll probably let the bankroll cross $2k first. Which is daft really - I'm such a bankroll nit, especially as I'd move back down pretty quickly if I ran into a bad patch.

I'll probably move up when I hit $2k, and allow myself to lose 10 buyins before moving back down.


On a separate note I've become a poker mentor! I was looking around on 2+2 for a 'poker buddy' someone to chat about hands and maybe review sessions with - when
I stumbled across the MTT thread where they are pairing mentors with mentees.

I've got paired with 2. One of whom is based in London and is playing poker full-time at higher stakes than me! He's a pretty good player - probably better than me - but there is an element of our skills being complimentary and we may get something out of talking over hands. We've had one sweat session, and may have another tonight.

The other player is an American who is a much weaker player than me. He's doing OK at the 4/180s, but having reviewed his hand histories I hope to be able to make him a better post-flop player. We'll see how that goes - we haven't been able to arrange a sweat session yet. In fact he sent me a HH which I read through, and I should probably comment on it for him.


Anyway, I'm pleased with how things are going on the tables at the moment.