4,000 STTs in 4 months

[Poppet7]

Good Luck... I hope that you and your new lady friend have a happy future together, hope she brings you lots of good luck!

I must say that your work space looks nice and tidy, perfect place to spend many hours of the day! You should see my desk

[b4matt]

what a fantastic thread! thankyou for spending so much time and sharing your experiences tank, its great to read such an honest appraisal, i'm sure your attitude and approach will reap the rewards you seek.
good luck, matt.

[thetank]

Days 35,36 and 37 : Played the 50 tournaments I wanted to on Saturday, so felt like treating myself to a few bevvies on the Sunday night

I played the £40 Superbowl freezeout at Cincinnatis and went out 2 from the money with a bad beat. Got a little more drunk as the Superbowl concluded and asked to get in the cash game. It was fair enough that the boss said no as I'm an employee and that's the rule. Funnily enough they don't change the rules just because you're sozzled. It was quite hard to get my head round that at the time though.

Still, I fancied a small bosch at a cash game before I went to bed (poor plan) I went home and opened up Pokerstars (bad plan) logged on and opened up at a $5/$10 no limit table (worse plan) sat down with $1,000 (terrible plan)

There was only one other guy at the table. Patiently waiting for me perhaps?
Anyway, first hand, I'm in the small blind with J7o. I raise to $30 and the big blind folds.

I'm $10 up, I decide to sit out because I thought it might be funny.

It amused me to the degree that it wholly and completely satiated my need to gamble that evening. One hand, it was all I needed, could have easily been down $1,000 though. Playing when drunk is an example of the highest order of dafty waftiness.

I felt bad about it in the morning as it wasn't really polite on the other guy, bad poker etiquette is not usually my style. After coming to my senses though, I wasn't about to continue sitting there and give some money away. Getting up was the right thing to do. It was the sitting down that was wrong.

Today I've mostly been dikking around setting up a 2nd monitor...
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=6815.0
Dead proud of myself for getting there in the end 

Days 35, 36 and 37 Results : -$16.5 (+$3178.3 total)
ROI : 8.6% (after 618 tournaments played)

A brief note on why I love STT.

Today someone caught perfect on me. A35 flop, I had top set. He moves with Jacks, hits runner runner quads 
Now in a cash game or a MTT that might upset me. In a STT it doesn't at all. If I play enough, this kinda thing will happen. Gladly putting 50p in the bad beat tin, and I'm ready to storm the world of online poker tomorrow.

[BigArmo]

Hmmm u where lucky not to blow some serious $$$ Tank good restraint in the end.

Or not invested the $1 u sent me but my plan is i'll play some $1 s&gs or heads up and we will split the profit (if any) at the next Blonde Bash may be a pint or 2  .

BA

[matt674]

Or not invested the $1 u sent me but my plan is i'll play some $1 s&gs or heads up and we will split the profit (if any) at the next Blonde Bash may be a pint or 2  .

I'd bring your own wallet tank to the next Blonde bash if i were you..............

[thetank]

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)

[Graham C]

 

Glad to see you're getting back on track 

[Poppet7]

Thomas the Tank back firmly on his railroad track... Choo Choooooooo!! Well done and keep it up! x

[Sark79]

Well done. I look forward to reading future posts.

[thetank]

Days 40 and 41 - A scary thing happened in one of my tournaments today. The game was uber-loose and was heads up within 20 minutes. I'd managed to get on the right end of some good pots and had around half the chips.

The blinds were still 50/100, that meant we each had over 60 big blinds...eek. For ages I've been in all-in or fold auto-pilot when it comes down to the last two. I'd almost forgotten how to play real poker. 

Thankfully it, sort of, all came back to me. I think I managed to juggle being aggresive with keeping the pots small and accumulated a healthy lead by the time the blinds had risen to all-in or fold time. There was even a gear change or two in there to keep him guessing. I took down first place and felt really chuffed about it. The first tournament that I felt I had "earned" in quite some time.

Finally, I'm pleased to report that the grand $$$ total is higher than it was on Day 9.

Days 40 and 41 Results : +$927 (+$5,351.8 total) A new peak.
ROI : 12.6% (after 708 played)

My solution to falling way behind my tournaments played target is, when I come back from Aberdeen, to make next week 'Crazy Chicken Week'.

I'm going to live, sleep, eat and breath STT for a week, starting Monday. I'm going to play as if I were going for a record of the most STT played in a week, clocking them off at an anti-social, unsustainable rate. Then, some time next month, I'll have another 'Crazy Chicken Week' and try to beat whatever total I get next week. 

All I have to do is go to work next Thursday, but apart from that, I have no plans. So, hopefully, I'll chalk up 400+ playing like a mad piece of poultry.

I know this seems a bit unbalanced. If truth be told, it is. I justify it by thinking, it's only a week. Working solidly will enable me to do more in future weeks with regard to going out, being normal etc.

The only thing that'll stop me is if I run into a bad streak and it affects me mentally. Then, as always, I'll need to take time off to avoid pissing dosh away needlessly.

[Jim-D]

Glad to see ya ROI and profit both on the increase mate,

Seems that lovely new monitor arriving (taking away the delivery stress) has helped a great deal

good job and good luck.

Jim.

[Liam]

I love this thread, only one question, when does the tanks definitive STT strategy come out? hardback £16.99 he he he

[Newmanseye]

I love this thread, only one question, when does the tanks definitive STT strategy come out? hardback £16.99 he he he

there are those of us in the know that will publish these works for a substantial fee.

[I, Zimbra]

I echo Liam. This is far and away my favourite thread on the forum atm, and always one of the first I check when I'm on.

Keep up the good work, Tank!

 

[Sark79]

I love this thread, only one question, when does the tanks definitive STT strategy come out? hardback £16.99 he he he

When you win the W.S.O.P, you probably will be able to publish these posts. But if you put them into a book ' My Quest to Play 4000 STT in Four Months' will the rights belong to you or are they now the property of Blonde?  :-)