New Challenge - 20$ - 20,000$

nice job man... I am doing the same thing, but I started from $0... and am up at $35.44 right now...

I use the following rules...

I can sit down at cash ring games with 5% of my bankroll, and I get up from that table when my total bankroll plus what I place in the table represent 10% of my bankroll....

I can play MTT and sit-n-gos with 2% of my bankroll...

and I can play in the $1 tournaments no matter what...

the hardest part is getting through the $100 mark, once you do that... you start building momentum...

Best of Luck at the Tables ;-)

Friday Blog - Day 21

Sorry all for missing Wednesday's blog. To make it up to you I making this a special 3 part edition of my blog. Then maybe you can forgive me Anyhow, I played more poker over the last 5 days then over the rest of the life of the challenge or at least close too. It was one of the wackiest times ever with me winning and losing lots of money percentage wise compared with my bankroll. Part of the problem was MTT/Satellite buy-ins were way too much for me. I have decided to define a couple of my bankroll rules more specifically for myself as you will see in part 3 of my blog. At the end of it I had been down to about 30 - 40$ in my bankroll and have been up as high as 250$. Now I stand in the middle. Here is the long long session log. (BTW I think I have caught up)If there is anyting garbled its because I have been keeping horrible records but hopefully it is coherent.


Session Log:

Day 17 - Monday, May 4th

Start Time: 12:38pm
End Time: 1:26pm
Game: PLO
Stakes: .01/.02
Tables: 4
Tally:52.56$

Tournaments: 3
Buy-In: 2.25 + .25 (0), 1.25 + .25 (0), 2.50 + .25$
Prizes: Entry to MiniFTOPS #4

Start Time: 4:19pm
End Time: 6:29pm
Tables: 8
Game: PLO
Tally: 63.21$

Tournaments: 2
Buy-Ins: 2 + .25$ (0), .50 + .10 (0)
Prizes: none



Day 18 - Tuesday, May 5th

Start Time: 5:29pm
End Time: 7:00pm
Tables: 8
Game: PLO
Tally: 56.05

Start Time: 8:41pm
End Time: 12:17am
Tables: 8
Game: NLHE
Tally: 70.84$


Day 19 - Wednesday, May 6th

Start Time: 7:36pm
End Time: 9:07pm
Tables: 8
Game: PLO
Tally: 84.24$

Tournaments: 4
Buy-Ins: 2.25 + 0.25$ (0), 2.25 + 0.25 (0), 1.25 + 0.25, 1.25 + 0.25$
Prizes: 0.25 in bounties

Start Time: 10:42pm
End Time: 12:25am
Tables: 4
Game: PLO
Tally: 73.46$

Start Time: 1:28am
End Time: 2:46am
Tables: 4
Game: PLO
End Tally: 63.20$

Tournaments: 3
Buy-In: 4 + 0.40$, 3.50 + 0.30 (1), 2.50 +0.25
Prizes: None


Day 20 - Thursday, May 7th

Tournaments: 2
Buy-In: 0 (Satellited in), 5 + 0.50$
Prize: 214.16$ (23rd place finish in MiniFTOPS Event #2 - Omaha Hi)

Start Time: 6:30pm
End Time: 7:52pm
Game: NLHE
Stakes: .05/.10
Tables: 4
Tally: 184.58$ (****)

Start Time: 10:20pm
End Time: 12:36am
Game: NLHE
Stakes: .05/.10
Tables: 8
Tally: 223.29$

Tournaments: 1
Buy-In: 2.25 + .025$ (to complete an academy challenge)
Prizes: 30 Academy Credits


Day 21 - Friday, May 8th

Bonus: 11.13$

Tournaments: 2
Buy-In: 0 (Satellited in), 5 + 0.50 (Money added)
Prizes: none

Start Time: 1:31pm
End Time: 2:26pm
Tables: 8
Stakes: .05/.10
Game: NLHE
End Tally: 223.79$

Start Time: 5:06pm
End Time: 5:33pm
Tables: 4
Stakes: .05/.10
Game: NLHE
End Tally: 216.35$

Start Time: 11:15pm
End Time: 12:57am
Game: PLO
Tables: 4
Stakes: .02/.05
Tally: 224.60$

Friday Blog - Part 2

Big Hands

Since I just moved up in stakes and don't have enough hands to cover it I will once again only be showing the biggest hand from each variation.

Holdem

Full Tilt poker game #12107041585: Table Keep (6 max, deep) - $0.05/$0.10 - No Limit Hold'em - 20:18:11 ET - 2009/05/08
Seat 1: Pokerklemi ($21.36)
Seat 2: ristewart35 ($16.05)
Seat 3: xxSpongeBobxx ($7.27)
Seat 4: LordNicon ($20.52)
Seat 5: Ich bin Bereit ($11.09)
Seat 6: WGHarper ($12)
WGHarper posts the small blind of $0.05
Pokerklemi posts the big blind of $0.10
The button is in seat #5
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to LordNicon [Ad Jd]
ristewart35 calls $0.10
xxSpongeBobxx has 15 seconds left to act
xxSpongeBobxx calls $0.10
LordNicon raises to $0.50
Ich bin Bereit raises to $1.85
WGHarper folds
Pokerklemi folds
ristewart35 folds
xxSpongeBobxx folds
LordNicon calls $1.35
*** FLOP *** [5s Jh 7h]
LordNicon checks
Ich bin Bereit bets $4.05
LordNicon raises to $12.90
Ich bin Bereit calls $5.19, and is all in
LordNicon shows [Ad Jd]
Ich bin Bereit shows [Jc 3c]
Uncalled bet of $3.66 returned to LordNicon
*** TURN *** [5s Jh 7h] [7d]
*** RIVER *** [5s Jh 7h 7d] [2s]
LordNicon shows two pair, Jacks and Sevens
Ich bin Bereit shows two pair, Jacks and Sevens
LordNicon wins the pot ($21.03) with two pair, Jacks and Sevens
Ich bin Bereit is sitting out
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $22.53 | Rake $1.50
Board: [5s Jh 7h 7d 2s]
Seat 1: Pokerklemi (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 2: ristewart35 folded before the Flop
Seat 3: xxSpongeBobxx folded before the Flop
Seat 4: LordNicon showed [Ad Jd] and won ($21.03) with two pair, Jacks and Sevens
Seat 5: Ich bin Bereit (button) showed [Jc 3c] and lost with two pair, Jacks and Sevens
Seat 6: WGHarper (small blind) folded before the Flop


Omaha

Full Tilt Poker Game #12113564131: Table Minturn (6 max) - $0.02/$0.05 - Pot Limit Omaha Hi - 3:46:14 ET - 2009/05/09
Seat 1: LordNicon ($4.44)
Seat 3: jimisdumb ($6.22)
Seat 4: WIEST ($10.01)
Seat 6: dre1012 ($9.58)
LordNicon posts the small blind of $0.02
jimisdumb posts the big blind of $0.05
The button is in seat #6
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to LordNicon [2s 7d As Jc]
WIEST folds
dre1012 raises to $0.17
LordNicon calls $0.15
jimisdumb raises to $0.68
dre1012 calls $0.51
LordNicon calls $0.51
*** FLOP *** [Jd 7c 3h]
LordNicon checks
jimisdumb bets $2.04
dre1012 raises to $5.10
LordNicon calls $3.76, and is all in
jimisdumb raises to $5.54, and is all in
dre1012 calls $0.44
jimisdumb shows [5d 9c Qc 7h]
dre1012 shows [Td 6c 5h 4c]
LordNicon shows [2s 7d As Jc]
*** TURN *** [Jd 7c 3h] [Jh]
*** RIVER *** [Jd 7c 3h Jh] [Qs]
jimisdumb shows two pair, Queens and Jacks
dre1012 shows a pair of Jacks
jimisdumb wins the side pot ($3.44) with two pair, Queens and Jacks
LordNicon shows a full house, Jacks full of Sevens
LordNicon wins the main pot ($12.44) with a full house, Jacks full of Sevens
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $16.88 Main pot $13.32. Side pot $3.56. | Rake $1
Board: [Jd 7c 3h Jh Qs]
Seat 1: LordNicon (small blind) showed [2s 7d As Jc] and won ($12.44) with a full house, Jacks full of Sevens
Seat 3: jimisdumb (big blind) showed [5d 9c Qc 7h] and won ($3.44) with two pair, Queens and Jacks
Seat 4: WIEST didn't bet (folded)
Seat 6: dre1012 (button) showed [Td 6c 5h 4c] and lost with a pair of Jacks


Friday Question and Answer

No questions again...


Screen Shot

That mini ftops even boosted you wayyyy up!! Keep up the good work!! I'm enjoying following your progress! I'm doing a similar bankroll builder because I'm bored lol. I need to work on multi tabling the ring games. I have trouble playing more than 2 lol.

Keep Workin AT It!!!

nice job kowboys4... wow.. that MiniFTOPS gave you a nice " boost"....now you can do some proper BRM... gl & keep up the good work

To make graphs can't you just use pokertracker or HEM? They can make the graphs for you. (Although I'm not sure how Omaha works with either of those)

Sunday Blog

I took sunday night, monday and the rest of tuesday off for the most part since I had been playing entirely too much and it wasn't healthy. Will start again on Wednesday with blog too boot.

Well, congrats on doubling your bankroll! Don't get greedy and up the limits too fast. I believe this can be done if you remain disciplined. Keep at it!

Wednesday Blog - Day 26

I ended up taking monday night, tuesday and all of wednesday off instead of the original plan. I had all losing sessions before that except for a 4th place finish in a monday pokertube buyin which was a nice equilizer. I will be putting in the hours again starting tomorrow after school. I need to be back at 200$ by day 30 (which should be relatively easy) and hopefully closer to 300$ to move up to .05/.10 Omaha stakes. I have decided that once I reach there that all games including NLHE will need 30 maximum buy-ins in order to be able to play. You can see my restructured plan below. All tournaments will only be playable if the buy-in (including the fee) is less then 2% of my current bankroll (currently 3.40$).
Revamped Plan
.05/.10 Stakes = 300$ BR = By Day 30
.10/.25 Stakes = 750$ BR = By Day 45
.25/.50 Stakes = 1,500$ BR = By Day 60
.50/$1 Stakes = 3,000$ BR = By Day 75
$1/$2 Stakes = 6,000$ BR = By Day 90
$2/$4 Stakes = 12,000$ BR = By Day 105
$3/$6 Stakes = 18,000$ BR = By Day 120
This gives me 4 months to get to 18k. This will give me a 2 month leniency period to get the additional 2k and also for any problems or setbacks that might occur. As before I will only play NLHE, PLHE and PLO Ring Games. I will be increasing my MTT activity since that seems to be paying off and letitng me jump higher.

You can see my amount of play here in the form of FT Points;

wow this is some really really impressive stuff u got here kowboys

i would def say that ftops event did a little more than boost you lol

dam wish i could do something like this
very inspiring lordnicon

Sunday Blog - Day 30

I have learned more then I could have dreamed in such a short amount of time. First and foremost I believe that I am a much better Omaha player than I am a Holdem player when compared to the different players at different stakes. I make much more profit there to say the least. Secondly, you have to differentiate between regular tournaments and rebuy tournamnets. If you don't you will be in trouble. So from now on rebuy tournaments will only be allowed to have 1% of my bankroll as a buy-in. Again special money added tournaments are exempt. Other then all this the last couple of days were rewarding and I reached my goal. I am sitting pretty at 400$ + and I am hoping that after I get caught up on my school work I can work towards the next level mark.


Session Log

Day 28 - Thursday, May 14th
Tournaments: 3
Buy-Ins: $3+.030 (1), $3 + .30 (0) $3 + .30
Prizes: Entry to MiniFtops Event #18

Start Time: 2:30 pm
End Time: 3:32pm
Game: PLO
Stakes: .02/.05
Tables: 8
Tally: 150.37$

Big Hands (Over 10$)
02689 - +17.78 - vallejo - 2:45pm


Day 29 - Friday, May 15th
Started w/ $206.54 (due to bonus)

Start Time: 12:40pm
End Time: 1:41pm
Game: NLHE
Stakes: $0.05/$0.10$
Tables: 4
Tally: $208.70

Big Hands (Over 20$)
43846 - Sinew - $25.25$


Start Time: 3:00pm
End Time: 3:29pm
Game: NLHE
Stakes: $0.05/$0.10$
Tables: 4
Tally: $211.69

98295 - Flavor - $21.79
21406 - Falk - (-24.67)


Start Time: 11:00pm
End Time: 12:00am
Game: NLHE
Stakes: $0.05/$0.10$
Tables: 4
Tally: $196.80$

52414 - Baffy - (-21.11)


Day 29 - Saturday, May 16th
No poker today

Day 30 - Sunday, May 17th
Tournamnets: 5
Buy-Ins: $5 + $.5 (0), $2.50 + .25 (4), $5 +$ .50 (12 wow), 0$(Satelite), 0$(satelite)
Prizes: 250$

Starting Time: 7:30pm
End Time: 9:16pm
Game: PLO
Stakes: .05/.10
Tables: 8
Tally:390.76$

Hands (Over 20$)
86898 - Spike - 36.56$

Starting Time: 10:35pm
End Time: 11:08pm
Game: NLHE
Stakes: .05/.10
Tables: 8
Tally: $409.34

66667 - Pacer - 29.70$
66476 - Good - 26.13$

Wow man, I'm jealous. I managed to take freeroll money and turn it into $130, lost it all, then turned more freeroll money into $80 and lost it all. I've been using your blog as inspiration, but still can't get out of my tilting mode.

*cheers* on reaching your goal!! Keep it up. Looking forward to hearing about your next benchmark/goal.

good luck kowboy. just a couple things i think may help you. setting goals is good. but IMO setting i time frame to achieve them may not be a good thing. swings happen and if you dont make you goal in a certain time frame dont get too upset by it. it may not have anthing to do with playing badly. and the rebuy tournament thing. i've thought about this and i dont know if this sounds like a good policy or not. basically i wouldn't invest any more money in a rebuy than what the lowest money spot is. say for eg the lowest paid spot is $12 i would only invest say $10. that way if i cash i will make a profit of some kind. in this eg i would make sure i had a BR of atleast $500 as i allow up to 2% of my BR. but if you want to go 1% then you would need $250 to have $10 to spend. taking all this in to account i would figure i could afford a buyin of around $2(if $10 was available to me).

Midterm? Where do you attend college kowboy?!

Hope we get an update soon

I know he hasn't updated in awhile, but I did see he finished 14th in MSOP #25 last night for like $140 or so.

Countdown to busto?

man your still truckin along

congrats!!!

i cant believe you haven gone busto yet haha.

good luck the rest of the way on your quest

Almost a month.. hope things are going well..! Or if you do need a break, do say.

You guys are oh so right everytime. Maybe I should hang around more? lol. I won big and let it get to my head. I stopped to finish my finals and school which I deemed more important. I started again and found myself up to 2.1k and well on my way to winning. I lost my cool and a little bit of bankroll management that I went into this with thinking i could finish fast and woo you guys but it didn't work out. I am busto at 0$. Thanx for following and some people (that is me) never learn their lesson. Thank you for all the support and criticism. You guys were awesome and the best forum a guy could ask for. IF I still somehow manage to make my goal before the allotted time (somehow) I will still hold good on my promise but it is doubtful. Don't let big wins get to your head!

Wow dude. I've been coming here regularly looking forward to your updates. I'm sorry that this happened, and I definitely feel your pain. If you've read some of my other comments to your blog, I'm a hothead at the tables too. However, I'd like to say that people like us do learn, just it takes a lot longer for many of us. I think I'm at that point where I won't tilt my whole roll. Bad luck still might take all my money, but I'm keeping my cool finally. What's funny is that what helped me so much was when my internet service became unstable, and during that time, I played much less poker than I usually do. I became really timid to play, but of course, I'm addicted to poker so I still played. When I lost, especially due to being disconnected from a game, I'd just stop playing, afraid of both tilting and losing my connection during a game. What this taught me was that I could actually finally walk away from playing poker and take a break, thus preventing me from steaming and donking my roll. Definitely don't give up, but I'd avoid trying to pursue such a challenge and just work on your disciplinary skills at the tables. Wish you the best of luck in your future pursuits.

ive also come to this thread at least a couple times a week to keep tabs on your progress.

sorry about your losses man...next time just try your best to follow proper BRM.

i wondered where you had been

Hi . Good, if you have the necessary skills, tenacity and desire to win. Without it, nothing happen, but I see you are well =) So good luck