Playing Against Donkeys

It makes me crazy when I am sitting at a table and I see other players criticizing each other based on cards they have played previously, or bet amounts ect.. First of all, how stupid can you be? This is a simple rule boys and girls…..if someone is playing horribly……WHY TELL THEM????? Next time you are at a table and player A says to player B “How can you play that hand?”, you can go ahead and assume Player is a moron and not very experienced in the winning method of poker, and of course Player B is just dumb for playing bad starting hands…but hey, to each, his own.

For you winning sit and go grinders out there, lest you never forget, that while we want to occasionally throw our monitors out of a window when someone has no business in beating us with a inferior starting hand……Golden Rule: If every player at our table was playing correctly, would we really be winning all this money?

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1 Week Complete

I know I haven't written anything in a while, but here are some quick stats for the first 7 days.

Hours: 46.25
Net $ Won: $1,379.23
$29.82/Hr

$8.70 18Man SNG's: 126
Hours: 28.68
Net $ Won: $135
$4.73/HR
ROI: 12.39
In The Money: 41.27%
$26 Tokens Earned: 42

$26 9Man SNG's: 59
Hours: 15.10
Net $ Won: $599.00
$39.67/HR
ROI: 39.05%
In The Money: 50.85%
$75 Tokens Earned: 17

$75 9Man SNG's: 7
Hours: 2.65
Net $ Won: $339
$127.92/HR
ROI: 64%
In The Money: 57%
$216 Winners: 4

***Just for my own personal reflections, I am going to post graphs from each level as well as the total overall******

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Graph of SNG's from August 2nd (When I began this Token Method)

New Sharkscope Graph after HOT afternoon

Day 4

I started this day with an idea of playing at least a couple $75 SNG's because of the heavy traffic, with the FTOPS Event #1 later tonight. First a breakdown of the first two steps....

$8.70 SNG: 21 Played; $13.30 Net
$26 SNG: 8 Played; $74 Net

So I decided to play 4 $75 SNG's which were 9Man and top 3 received entry into tonights FTOPS EVENT #1 ($216) which could be redeemed as soon as you unregister from the tournament......if you aren't familiar with the site, you get tournament $ back, which are the same as cash, only used for tournaments obviously. So I collect these Tournament $'s and sign up for the first two steps...get it..ok good.

Now, played 4 of these tournaments as I explained and did well, cashing in 3/4 which gave me a profit of $348, a nice way to start. I will most likely play another 4-8 $75 SNG's on Friday, but I will assume nothing as anyone could have gotten lucky in 4 tournaments....still, I think I played very well.

August 5 1:16 (Remember, I started with $500 only 4 days ago)
Cash: $428
Tournament $: 648
$26 Tokens: 2
$75 Tokens: 3
Grand Total (Including the tokens): $1353


*An $853 profit for 4 days....YES I STILL KNOW THAT IT IS A SMALL SAMPLE SIZE


*I also got the shark icon back on my Sharkscope stats page, I think I am actually most excited about that!

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Day 3 Overall #'s and Future Goals

While it is still early in my new system, here is an update so far as well as my future plans on how to go about the rest of the week.

STARTED WITH A BANKROLL OF $500*****

Total Hours: 18.82 $24.09/hr
Total Tournaments Played: 95
ROI (8's+26's Combined): 38.09%

Here is what I have in my account (including the 2 $26 Tokens left over from previous system)

Available Cash: $326
$26 Tokens: 4
$75 Tokens: 7

Total (Including the tokens): $955

A $455 profit so far......with the $75 token SNG's yet to be played....so who knows where I could be after that.....I would guess my first attempts would put me......who knows.

Day 3 $26 SNG's

Yes I know it is only relying on a 21 SNG sample size, but hey.... I am pretty damn excited about the "hot streak" I am on as of late. I will still put myself in reality when looking at the big picture here because there will be days when I do not cash in 60% of these tournaments.....that being said, my expected win/cash rate in these are still roughly 45%. However, lets look at the 21 completed so far since I started with the $500 bankroll August 2.

$26 SNG: 21 Completed
Net Profit $: $375
ROI: 69%
4 Hours @ $91/hr

*OBVIOUSLY I KNOW I CAN NOT EXPECT THIS HOURLY RATE!!!!! But hey, nice little start for me and puts me in a good place.

Day 3 ($500 Bankroll Plan) $8.70 Breakdown

So far I have been very pleased with my results in this new system of token SNG's I have tried ever since Sunday. If I were to break down each tier I played.....

$8.70: 74 Played; 15 Hours; $78 Net; $5.13 Hr; ROI: 12.15
Obviously if you look at my net profit in these the standard outrage here would be why am I wasting my time in these tournaments. However, starting with my $500 bankroll which I began this system with, these tournaments prove necessary in practical bankroll management. Two ways I look at my results.....1. I have run horribly, seems as if I could never get good momentum in accumulating the $26 Tokens, but looking at my overall graph (shown above) I have been consitently staying out of the negative regions. 2. Another way to look at these personally is that I still have averaged $5.13 an hour....now while 74 tournament is not nearly enough sample size to predict future income, I can refer back to my previous charts to see that from 270 $8.70 SNG's I am averaging about the same......basically I am comfortable in refering to these past 78 SNG's at this level as "the norm" for me from now on.

Sharkscope Graphs (1st graph is SNG only tournaments; 2nd graph ALL tournaments)

Just when I thought I was done.......

Well, a lot has happened since my last post....much success today, August 2nd 2009. When the clock hit midnight starting this day, I was running terrible. It seemed as if every three outer was being hit against me, my bluff atempts late in the SNG's were being caught by "the coolers", overall....I was mentally exhausted. One thing I leaned back on to give me faith was that poker might as well be called variance. What I mean is, websites aren't out to get you, poker gods are not damming you to bankruptsy....basically the opposite of every whiner's complaints when they think they were a victim in any hand.
I am not going to go over my stats for the ending days of July or even for August 1st. I would like to put that in the past and focus on a fresh start with my ever growing bankroll. Here is the new plan I am working on to make the token tournaments the most profitable for myself.

Bankroll when I began my new plan: $500
1. 50 $8.7's
2. 25 $26's
3. 10-15 $75's

As of 5:30 PM August 2nd:
1. 28/50 $8.7's Completed
---------->Net: +$32; 9 Tokens earned
2. 6/25 $26's Completed
---------->Net: +$201; 3 Tokens earned
3. 3/10-15 Available

Bankroll: 5:30 PM
Cash: $248
Tournament $: $166
$26 Tokens: 5
$75 Tokens: 3
*2 $26 Tokens left over from previous plan
Sum total (including tokens): $769