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Hello Everyone,

I have not upated my blog in awhile. I have been mostly grinding $26 45 mans since getting to #2 on the Sharkscope leaderboard at the $10 level. 

Below are my $26 45 man stats for this challenge.  I am happy to be doing fairly well in them.

patricii

84

$13.43

$24

52%

$1,128

Tilt

N/A

FullTilt

9/9/2009 11/30/2009 E45-45 S20-30

I was hoping to be able to play more mtts than I have for this challenge but my private life does not allow me to put in 8 hours mtt sessions.  I can put in 3-4 hours at night but that is about it.  I have noticed the 1000 cap mtts on Poker Stars and think I may start playing more of those.

Friday night I though I would take a shot at some mtts.  I opened up 4 mtts on Full Tilt and 4 on Poker Stars.  My goal was to get in mtts that would finish around 3am in case I ran deep.  I busted in all my tourneys and was running pretty deep in the $33 $15K Guaranteed on Poker Stars.  I played my game.  I played very tight and maximized my big hands.  I took not of the players that were playing too many hands and occasionally 3-bet them.  I got to the final table 9 of 9.  It was cool to be at a final table but going to bed past 4am to win $387 did not seem very cool.  I always had around 15-20 blinds so I was not super desperate.  I remember shoving AJ a couple of times and won a 77 vs A10 flip to double my stack to $220k.  We got down to 7 players.  I then picked up KK and raised preflop to $30k.  One person flatted me and another squeezed to $85K.  I shoved to $220K and got called by 44.  That hand itself put me in the lead. 

I was willing to chop 4 handed for about $3K but one guy didn't want any part of chopping.  I ended up getting HU with him and beating him for $4462.  That was a big boost to my bankroll and makes getting to $10k a lot more attainable.

I have taken a few days off of playing after the win.  I always like to take time off after a big win.  I assume I just like the feeling to sink in for a couple of days before the beats start happening again.

Thank you for reading the blog and just $3K left to go.

Patricii

Hello Everyone,

My bankroll is now up to $1759.03.  I haven't hardly been playing any mtt's so i have only slowly been increasing the bankroll playing 45 man SNG's.

I have mainly been playing $10 45 man's on Full Tilt because I was so close to breaking into the Leaderboard.  I finally have my first star.  I am 3rd place in average profit for tourneys 4-6 tables over the last 500 games.  I am shooting for #1 but am happy with this so far.

I thought I would layout detailed stats over my 500 games in the $10 45 mans. 

Username	Games Played	Av. Profit	Av. Stake	Av. ROI	Total Profit	Form	Ability /100	Network	Filter
patricii	500	$6.94	$10	63%	$3,469	-	N/A	FullTilt	E45-45 S10-10

Miscellaneous Data
Total Cashes	First Game (CDT)	Last Game (CDT)	Total Rake	Total ROI (?)	ITM (?)	Av. Entrants	Turbo Ratio (?)	Av. % of field beaten
$8,969	27-May-07	8-Oct-09	$500	63.07%	24.2%	45.0	0.0%	63.89%

It was a pretty good run.  I am going to start playing the $26 level again and hopefully will have good success.

PM me if you are interested in getting coached by me.  I am coaching 3 people at the moment but am interested in players wanting to learn and that can play high volume and make a 12 month committment to run under me. 

I am slowly but surely increasing my bankroll but understand i still have quite a ways to go.  I need to put in more MTT volume.

Good Night everyone and until the next.

Patricii

Hello Everyone,

Still Winning

I am happy to say that every day I played last week I won money.  Below are my stats from that time period.

patricii

67

$12.1

$11

125%

$810

-

N/A

FullTilt

9/20/2009 9/28/2009

I am waiting for variance to kick in but so far it does't seem to want to.  I am playing very well, picking good spots and having my cards hold up. 

Mixed Games and Badugi

I have started playing more mixed games and so far it has been a lot of fun and has been increasing my bankroll and breaking the monotony of just playing holdem.  I got 5th in a $5 PLO MTT against 238 people for $80.  I got 2nd in an 8 person $5 Badugi tourney on Poker Stars.  I have also played a couple of mtt horse tourneys but haven't quite cashed in them as of yet.

45 man games still rocking

My bread and butter of making money is still the 45 man tourneys.  I have been crushing them and hope to continue more of the same.  Below are my full stats from the $10 45 man tourneys.

Sharkscope leaderboard here I come.

patricii

445

$7.05

$10

64%

$3,138

-

N/A

FullTilt

E45-45 S10-10

Once I reach 500 games in these $10 45 man tourneys I should finally get a star next to my name and get on the leaderboard for 2nd or 3rd for  most average profit in 6 table tourneys on sharkscope over last 500 games.  1st place currently has a $7.33 average win rate and 2nd place has $6.99 average win rate.  I am currently at $7.05 average win per tourney through 445 tourneys. 

Coaching Zekenasty

My new Student goes by Zekenasty on Full Tilt and melano on p5's.  He is already a proven player and has won thousands of dollars online.  During the month of October he is in a $10 45 man competition and says he is going to play at least 1000 of them during that time period.  This is how the competition works.  Every contestant pays their entrance fee and then  60% for most profit, 30% for best ROI and 10% for most volume.  I know there are guys in the competetion that will play 3-4K tourneys in one month so we are definitely shooting for best ROI.

If this month goes well for Zekenasty I am definitely going to be setting more time aside for coaching players who can put in serious volume.  If you are good enough to learn and have time to play I would be happy to discuss staking/coaching scenario for you. 

Way to go Zekenasty

Check out Zekenasty's first session of $10 45 mans

zekenasty

21

$19.85

$10

180%

$417

-

N/A

FullTilt

<12Hours E45-45

That is all I got.  I hope this next week continues to see the bankroll increase.  I need to play more MTT's if I have any chance of making it to the $10k mark. 

Good Luck to all of you.

Patricii

The bankroll is steadily increasing.  We are at $1226.45 by merely grinding $10 45 mans with some other random tourneys thrown in. 

I want to eventually be good at all poker games so I have been throwing in some PLO, RAZZ and Stud to the equation.  I played my first Stud tourney last night and I thought I got they hang of it pretty well.  I didn't cash but I was somewhat close.

It is nice having all the information about the other persons cards in RAZZ and Stud.

I have picked up a couple of new students that I am teaching the nuances of 45 man tourneys on Full Tilt.  It seems that most players even if they are good take the wrong approach to these tourneys.  If you are interested in me coaching you in 45 man tourneys and you are able to put in good volume let me know.

Once of my new students is already a great player and he is playing a 45 man competition during the entire month of August.  He expects to play about 1000 of them in one month time.  Now that is volume.  I wish him the best.

$5 for your Bad Beats

Over the last two weeks people have been sending me so many bad beats on skype that I am actually pretty tired of it.  When you open me up on Skype now it says that you must ship me $5 on Poker Stars or Full Tilt any time you feel you need to send me a bad beat. 

I cash in about 25% of all 45 man tourneys that I play.  This means that 3/4  of the tourneys I am going busto.  This usually means that I got sucked out or lost KK vs AA.  Get over it.  Stop crying and letting it affect your game.  This is going to happen and continue to happen almost every night.

Instead of sending bad beats I am now sending great hands that I played over to my poker friends on skype.  I think this brings everyone's spirits up and maybe even teaches them a new move or two.  I urge you to try it.  I always cringe when someone sends me a bad beat hand because it does nobody any good.  I loved to be pleasantly surprised with a winning hand that gets sent to me every once in awhile.

If you would like to take a look at my rail just join www.istakeu.com and follow my ride to $10k.  http://www.istakeu.com/viewstake.asp?id=334 si the link to my rail.  It is a great staking community with some players that can really take your game to the next level.  If you aren't good enough to win yet then your best bet is to stake the good players on www.istakeu.com and rail them as they play.  Nothing better than learning by watching them play and winning $$$ when they take down a big score.

This has been a great month so far I hope I can get some time to take down a big score in an mtt soon.   Below are my some of my stats for this run.

patricii

3,110

$4.83

$15

32%

$15,031

-

82

FullTilt

patricii

435

$6.73

$10

61%

$2,927

-

N/A

FullTilt

E45-45 S10-10

patricii

114

$11.25

$10

93%

$1,282

-

N/A

FullTilt

9/1/2009 9/24/2009

Have a great day!

Patricii