April Review (-ve)

Surprising after huge losses I still have some equity left.. I guess it is due to the bonuses I have received this month. Apart from the April 1st Special, where I used my FPP to redeem $80, I also hit my 5th stellar for $50.. but were all in the drain lol. 

There's a slight improvement with my tourneys/sng but serious downfall for my cash games. I think it is due to zoom poker + tilt. I told myself beside playing cash game for VPP (to maintain my silverstar status), I should refrain from it. But sometimes you only got time to sit for awhile and you want to play a lot of hands in a short time you turn to zoom poker. My normal tabling cash games are still up a little, when I don't multi-table that much. 

Should stay away from zoom poker at all cost. Stay away from cash games on tilt.

As for tourneys, it isn't all the way down like it used to.. but ranging profit and loss. Had my deepest run in a $2.20 NLHE tourney getting 17th out of 650+ entrants. I was hoping for my first ever final table in a tourney but too bad. 

I'm getting the hang of 9-SNG and playing a slower pace at maximum two tables. Will continue this pace until my equity is good enough to up stakes.

I grind just nice of slightly more than 750 vpp for the month just to maintain that silverstar. 

And I'm still waiting for that Silver Money Clip in the VIP store on PokerStars.

March Review & PokerStars April 1st Special

I logged in stars today and saw there was a new section in the store April 1st Special. I went in to look and there were four items, quite unique, and admittedly, I thought they were real! Then I saw the last part of the description, that if you purchase you will receive a certain amount of cash.... plus the item? I thought. Too good to be true.

So I went on to google the forum and found a thread in 2+2 forum where it was something that was going on since 2 years back? The items were actually fake and you could just en-cash your FPP (only for SilverStar and above). The rates are good, 1fpp to 0.016cents, which means it is equal to Supernova's cash reward rate, the best. I went on to purchase all of them, took up a huge portion of my FPP, but it was a good boost to my bankroll. Nice move by stars I would say.

I had a good session on the last day of March, where I hit 3 nuts and my all-in were called by my opponents. One was hitting a full-house on the river, opponent hit flush on turn but was giving me free cards by betting only 1 bb. Board was super wet, I think we both put one another one a straight.

2nd was hitting a straight at turn, top pair guy also gave me a free card by not betting the flop.

3rd was another full house where opponent hit his trips in the river (my full house was made in the river too).

Above were all 0.08/0.16 6-max stakes.

This month is my 1st red month of the year. I could not get the exact amount of my loss because past two weeks I have using gf's laptop (where I use a fresh new PokerTracker installed), and I haven't got the chance to manually import my hands in this machine to my main one at home. But I would say I am down about slightly more than 100usd in cash games. Things wouldn't be that awful if I hadn't tried moving up to the 0.10/0.25 6-max stakes, where there are more floating on the flop and then 3-betting on turn, 3-bet c-bet etc.

I move up and got beaten badly there. I think my running good in February made me overconfidence and thought I could go up, but I think I need more time and experience to be ascertain that I could maintain there. I went up stake, crushed, moved down and build my roll, went up, crushed, came down and build my roll - basically what I have been doing this month.

I guess I will stick to my current stake, at the same time also learning the 9 Sit & Go, which I have been doing moderately well. Earlier had two games, one cashing out third, the other first, which I am happy.

Before that, I was playing SilverStar satellite match (130fpp) for VIP monthly $100k free roll, where I got knocked out with KK vs AQ vs 99.

If you played more than 5 MicroMillion events you get a free roll ticket earlier today for a $50k guaranteed tourney. Omg, got knocked out with AQ vs A4. We both slow play on a AAx flop but he hit the 4 on the damn river.

Both tourney played less than 20 minutes.

Ok my plan for April..

..look for a job.

For cash game I would stay at the stakes, maintain my SilverStar and then hit my first $50 stellar.

I will focus too, on my 9 Sit & Go, and then hope it helps in some of my MTTs.

Hope to bring my bankroll to the next level.

February Poker Review

Cash Games

Quite satisfied with where the graph is going. I ought to bear in mind that if I hope my graph to continue upwards, it will never happen that it is a smooth straight upward line. Nobody win all the time. Grinded 18,000 hands for February, about 1.6k vpps. Been 3-tabling followed by 4-tabling 6-max 0.08/0.16 micro.

Really happy with my results. This is my best month ever since I started playing in PokerStars, 2nd straight winning months. Played 24 days out of 29 days. 5 loss days, 19 winning days. But the loss days weren't small. The last one was so massively beaten. Putting a huge drawdown to my bankroll.

I think I play better between 500 hands to 1000 hands per session nothing more than that. I am planning to reduce back to 3-tabling and give my opponent a bit more focus. There are just some loose fish on the tables to take note of and some super solid tight players you never wanna go all-in preflop with without AA or KK.  

I am hoping to maintain my SilverStar vip level so I am aiming at a decent amount of grind too in March.

Tournaments

Still doing so badly with tournaments. I seldom cashes in Sit & Gos and tournaments. But I find that I could run deeper when I single table one tournament at a time staying focus on my opponents and post-flop play. 

My best result would have been the Sunday Storm, nothing else really. I think I could save a lot of money not playing tourneys lol. But I see my cousin cashing thousands and thousands every time he made it to the final tables it seems so WOW. Like paying a little to try my luck.

Anyway I just saw @PokerStars twitter that there will be a MicroMillions Poker Tournament held in PokerStars for 11 days in March, for people such as me, micro stake players. Because the WCOOP is too expensive to buy-in, at least for me. Another great thing is the timing of the tournament will be catered for around the world, very good news for the Asians.

Anyway, enjoy your once in four years leap year day and good luck at the tables!