July 18th

So tomorrow I leave for my trip. I reached my goal of $1000 and even made a little more. Hopefully I will actually make money out in vegas and not lose any. I will probably do a nice trip report after I get back on sunday. As of now, I will not be playing any more online until I get back so I will give a final stats update as of right now.

18th
15 SNG's
+$427

842 hands of NL cash
-$82

Monthly Totals :
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MTT's
-$65

SNG's

Cash

+ $1,167

July 17th

I had a interview in the morning, and went out after. So I didnt get to start my session till late at night. It seems kinda bad, but actually I played more after midnight and won a lot back. So today will seem like one of the worst days, but actually tomorrow will then end up like the best day.

So the trip is almost here and I have basically reached my goal. Hopefully I can get an extra about ~$500 or so before I leave.

19 SNG's
-$310.50

July 16th

Played mostly $100 NL cash games today. I think I did fairly well, I only misplayed 2 hands, but they were costly hands. I lost a $325 pot with QQ vs AA, when I probably should have been able to get away from it. And I also misplayed KK in a $200 pot when I should have 4 bet preflop and I let some guy in cheaply who hit a set on me. Ah well, I still ended the session well.

1251 hands NL cash
+$191

July 15th

So its Sunday and I did not play at all today. Insted I decided to go fishing. It's good to take a day off from poker like that after playing almost every day. I sometimes get a little burnt out even though I don't really spend more than 5 hours a day playing. It does get a little boring though, and in order keep the proper mindset you really need to not only want to play, but also enjoy playing the game. Anyways, was a good week, and although I really did not put in many hours I will still probably meet my goal by tomorrow night.

Totals up to now:

214 SNG's
+$810

3,875 hands of NL cash
+$196

MTT's
-$65

Total
+ $941

July 14th

Played some NL cash games today. I 6 tabled the $50NL tables and did well. I thought I played well, had a few big hands cracked and a few fish who kept getting the best of me. I was up about $175 at the peak for the day but finished the day up about $130.

I think I am really close to my goal of $1000, so im not sure if I am going to play any MTT's tomorrow. I may go out with family/friends insted. I am registered for the $10 100K 15000 player MTT crapshoot on poker stars, but may unregister for it. Last week first place was about 18K and the final table play was just awful. Not bad for a $10 entry, however you do have to wade through 15,000 (!!!) other people to win it, which unless you run super super good, it is going to be really hard to win. Im not sure yet, we will see.

952 hands NL cash
+$130

July 13th

Today is friday the 13th, good thing im not superstitious. I did not play much online today because I went to the casino to play some live poker. I played a MTT and some live SNGs there (results not included here). I got a little bored there, as playing 1 SNG that takes 1 hour to finish seeing 30 hands total is just silly. Allthough the play was just increadly awful and the SNGs were SUPER soft. I decided to head out to a friends house insted of grind it out there.

18 SNG's
+$144

July 12th

Did not play any SNG's today. Insted I played a whole lot of full ring $25 NL cash today. I thought I would do it to see how it would be playing full ring to prepare for the 1/2 NL games out in vegas. I ended up getting stuck like a buyin and wanted to at least get even so I opened up 12 tables and grinded back up. The games were super soft, but it was a complete waste of time. I guess it might have helped me prepare a little for vegas, but probably not much since I was 12 tabling. Anyways it helped me get a little better feel for full ring and will hopefully end up helping me out in vegas.

1,981 hands of NL
+$30

July 11th

Few days late posting this, not really sure how I played, but seemd to do well.

21 SNG's
+$198

851 hands of $100 NL
+$23

July 10th

Ran pretty sick bad today, as usual. Could not get aces to hold up ONE TIME!! Anyways I will be moving up from the $27's to the $60's very soon. I will at least be taking some shots at that limit. If the play at the 27's is indicitive of the play at the 60's I will be KILLING them. I would also like to jump into .5/1 NL cash games very soon. Will probably try out the cash games tomorrow.

21 SNG's
-$184.50

July 9th

So only played a few SNG's today, but had solid results. Was gonna play a few more but got distracted doing some cleaning and what not.

7 SNG's
+$171

Week 1

These are the overall results for the first week of play in July. It was a really solid week, I did not really even play all that much. SNG's went well, I just need to like double my number played for this next week. As for MTT's, I feel a big score is just around the bend, so hopefully I can hit that within my alloted time. I have about 1 and 1/2 weeks left to reach my goal, if I keep on pace from this last week, I should hit this goal with no problems.

91 hands cash
+$12

148 SNG's
+$482

MTT's
-$65

Total
+$429

July 8th

Only played MTT's today, I did not play any of the big sundays, but a bunch of smaller MTT's, as they usually have a lot of players on sunday. Played quite a few sats into the Sunday million, won like 2 seats. I had a big stack in the 10r, like top 20 after the first break. Did some silly stuff and deviated from my normal strategy of playing really tight; made some bad plays on really bad players who could not fold.

I feel a big MTT score comeing soon though, as I also took some vicious beats in a few of the other MTT's I played. In one of them, some guy raises 3x the BB w/ TT, some other guy flat calls, I push allin with KK, and then the Big blind OVER PUSHES (with QQ), and the original raiser STILL CALLS with his obviously beat tens. Naturally one of the 2 tens flops and he the worst hand wins for a bunch of chips. The feild is sooooooo weak in these things its sick. I can't wait till my kings hold up ONE TIME.

11 MTT's
+$80

July 7th

So finally I had a really good day. I ran really hot today, and what I mean when I say that is my aces(AA) actually held up against nines(99) this time. I got in ahead a lot and my cards actually held up.

28 SNG's
+$594

July 6

Did not play much today, most of the games were from the nigt before; I played 4 SNGs before I went out which I went 0-4 in, so that was not good.

19 SNG's
-$108

July 5th

In SNG's I think I ran fairly standard, I just did not pick up any good hands. And as usual in MTT's I ran horrible. In the 10r I won a couple of key coin flips once we got in the money, and then when I get in wayyyyyyy ahead, KK vs AK the guy turns an ace to cripple my stack. If I won this, I would have had a top 10 stack and probably would have gotten really deep.

(hand from the 10r)
PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t3000 (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: HTML)
saw flopsaw showdown
UTG (t36166)
UTG+1 (t145534)
MP1 (t69421)
MP2 (t19334)
MP3 (t70967)
CO (t41647)
Button (t47086)
SB (t15403)
BB (t95037)
Preflop: Hero is BB with Kc, Kd.
4 folds, MP3 raises to t15000, 3 folds, BB raises to t94737, MP3 calls t55667 (All-In).
Flop: (t167504) 5d, 7s, Jc (2 players, 1 all-in)
Turn: (t167504) Ad (2 players, 1 all-in)
River: (t167504) Qs (2 players, 1 all-in)
Final Pot: t167504
Main Pot: t143434 (t143434), between MP3 and Hero. won by MP3 (t143434).
Pot 2: t24070 (t24070), returned to Hero.

Hero has Kc Kd (one pair, kings).
MP3 has As Ks (one pair, aces).
Outcome: MP3 wins t143434.
Hero wins t24070.

Results for the 5th
38 SNGs
+$54
4 MTT's
-$37
35 hands of 1/2 NL cash
+$39

Total
+$56

July 4th

Was able to play 23 SNG's today, and 3 MTT's. At this pace, I will never make it to my goal of $1,000 by the 19th. In the next few days im really going to have to step up my games played. I think I may switch to cash games for a while to check out my win rate there.

23 SNG's
+$31.50
3 MTT's
-$37

Total
-$5.50

July 3rd

Didn't play at all yesterday, so in this post I will be giving the results for the 8 SNG's I played after midnight the night before. We'll see if I get any games in on the 4th.
8 SNG's played
+$324

July 2nd

So I ran disgustingly bad today, with 2 stretches of 7 SNG's in a row where I did not cash. However things started to turn around in the final set of SNG's that I played. I cashed in the last 4 SNG's I played, which were all 1st places, so that really helped. Overall for this session I played 40 SNG's and finished down about $90, however I will be reporting the stats for the actual "day" (I played 8 SNG's after midnight.)
I also played the $10+rebuys 55K Guaranteed tonight. My 99 lost to JQs a few hunderd spots out of the money.
32 SNG's
-$414.00
MTT's
-$71.00

July 2nd Total
-$485.00

First Post

The purpose of this blog will be to track my poker results for the month of July. My goal will be to make an extra $1,000 for a trip that I will be taking at the end of the month to Las Vegas with some friends.

The trip is set for 7/19 so I will need to get to grinding if I want to reach my goal.

I will be playing mostly SNG's and cash games, with some low limit MTT's mixed in. I will be reporting my results here