blonde poker

Day 52 - Another 60 to be marked off the totalizer. (Mental note - I totally need a totalizer. Next time I take a day off, I might get all arts and crafty.)

Quote from: Div on February 21, 2006, 11:25:18 pm
 
Tank sometimes it pays just to turn chat off.
 
I'm doing just that, turning it back on when I'm down to the last tournament of the sesh. (Can't stop me chatting completely)

So far, it seems to be working....

Day 52 Results : +$1,399.5 (+$7,954.3 total)
ROI : 13.6% (after 974 played)

I don't believe that this result was entirely due to turning chat off. However, I'm still buying Div a pint when I see him next.   

A jump of over 1% in the ROI in one day, after playing this many, is a big deal for me. Looking back, I believe this is the single most successful day of the campaign so far. 

Dull statty bit

On Friday I'd managed only 17.7% of my target while 40% of my time had gone. I was behind a whopping 23.3%!

So in 4.2% of the clock I've put in 8.1% of the total tournaments needed.......and I feel fine 

My play is much more regimented and professional-ish now. The structure of my work day is much better too. Play 30, take an hour and a half off, then play another 30. In the last 5 days I've put in 324 tournaments. I've finally started to play like I mean to get there within four months. I think this is largely down to the new, more disciplined, regime.

Before, I'd sleep when I was tired, play poker when I fancied it and had days off on a whim. Instead of 7 sleeps a week like a normal person, I'd have around 10 short ones. Most of the time I wasn't sure what day it was.

I'm still going to take days off (not that mental) but I'll plan when they'll be and adjust my sleep schedule accordingly. Days off will still be  necessary if I feel tilt creep into my game.

Day 53 Results : +$360 (+$8,314.3 total)
ROI : 13.4% (after 1,034 tournaments)

The first batch o' 30 wasn't going too well at all. It finished amazingly stongly though. When I used to play batches of 4 I never ever had a "perfect batch" (four 1st places) Pleased to tell y'all that 1st place money in the last four tournaments before "lunch break" (4am) were all taken down by tigmong.  (That's me  )

New word for your dictionarys, professional-ish : Verb used to describe someone who is serious about their STTs but still munches duck pancakes by the computer and gets plum sauce all over the mouse.

As I was working, only did a half day when I got back. Just the 30 tournaments.

Day 54 Results : -265.5 (+$8,048.8 total)
ROI : 12.6% (after 1064 played)

I like the timing of my day off tomorrow, just after a losing sesh. I'll be back early Sunday morning to tell you how many I played on Saturday, and hopefully, report another win. 
 

I'd like to thank everyone that has wished me well over the course of this thread. There is no doubt in my mind that you guys have hepes me win more money.

On occasions when I was winning for the day, and might otherwise have ended my session, the urge not to dissapoint made me play more and in many cases win more. So a big thankyou to everyone. The Blondpoker forum has done so much for me.

I have news though. Dave Colclough has offered me a job managing Cincinnatis for him and I have accepted. It is a huge commitment and will not leave me any time to play online at the volume that would be necessary to complete this.

So thats the end of this quest for me, unless I get fired after a week. That's not going to happen though as I intend to pour my heart and soul into this new position. It is my sincere hope that what is bad news for fans of this thread will turn out to be good news for the Cincinnati card club. I'm giving this my best shot.

I'll hope to see you all at the BlondeBash, where I'll be wearing my tournament directors hat, (So won't be getting as drunk as I was at the last one) and at the Cincinnati Spring festival (details to follow very soon)

I'm always happy to hear suggestions and answer queries. Please get in touch with me about any Cincinnati related issue, either on the board, or better still by getting yer arse down the club to play, and speak to me in person 

It's a great wee club, but with your help, we can make it fantastic.

Days 38 and 39 : I spent most of Day 38 mucking about with lower limits trying to find a system of multi-tabling that I was comfortable with. I have now settled with continously 6-tabling. For the moment, at least, 8-tabling is a little too much for me. Batching 6 leaves quite a lot of "empty space" on my desktop so I think I've found a happy medium.

Day 39 I put it into practise. I'm feeling good about how it's fairing against the Yankee hordes on Pokerstars so far. There was a point, early on Day 38, where I thought that if things continue to not run so well, I'd need to go back to Party Poker (We certainly don't want that now, do we kids and kiddies?)

Do you remeber the good ol' days in the first week of this thread. Days 2 and 3 when I reported four figured +ve results, it seems like quite some time ago. Thankfully not any more.....

Days 38 and 39 Results : +$1,250.5 (+$4,424.8 total)
ROI : 11.0% (after 669 played)

Well I think I can churn out 50 tournaments using my new method on "workdays" quite easily.

Have to deal tonight (real job), will be able to put in 50 on Friday, but then I'm going away to Aberdeen for the weekend. (Formal dinner/dance on Saturday night that I need to be kilted up for) So it won't be untill next week that you see the tournaments played statistic start to really get moving in an upwards direction.

It'll need to, at the moment 31.7% of my time has elapsed and only 16.7% of my task has been completed. 41 tournaments per day are now needed to get me there. That's pretty much 50 a day allowing for one day off a week. Most weeks I've had two days off, so I'll have to start putting in a little extra effort somewhere.

At least the ROI is back in the realms of respectability. It'll take some doing to get it back to 15%, although it's by no means impossible. (Two more days like today I think'd do it)