Happy New Year
Happy New Year Poker Peeps.
Contrary to popular belief, I am still alive and playing online poker. The euphoria of completing phase one of my Bankroll Boosting challenge didn't result in me jetting off to Vegas, blowing my bankroll and getting a job as a rent boy just to survive, my hourly rate at that would probably be even less than at Poker! Nor did I drown in a lake of Tennants Lager over the Festive period despite giving it a pretty good shot. All the same, I do feel dirty, nasty and riddled with feelings of guilt and inadequacy for not posting in so long. So New Year, new resolutions and at last a new posting...
Since I last posted I have been pursuing my ongoing bankroll challenges and I'll fill you in on all the gory details in a moment. But first a shameless plug for the other activity that has been consuming a large proportion of my time, my new web design business Weblomania. I've been busy with my first comissions and have been really enjoying working for myself. I'm currently busy with a couple of new client sites and working hard marketing the business and trying to fill up the order book. Needless to say if you are looking for a good web designer / developer, give me a shout.
Apologies for the shameless plug, back to the poker...
Party Challenge 2:
Well it had to happen! As soon as I hit the $600 bankroll target things started going a bit Pete Tong. I managed to quickly build up to $655 then proceeded to gradually fritter my way back down to a lowly $438. Since then I've been plugging away at the $5's and $10's gradually working my way back up. So here I am, 87 games into phase 2 of the challenge and I've only actually played three $20's. The bankroll is currently sitting at $587 so I'm nearly back to where I was 5 weeks ago!
Full Tilt Challenge 1:
Slightly better news on the Full Tilt front. I haven't played an awful lot of games on there yet but my results have been very promisng. I've worked my bankroll on FT from $200 up to $298 playing mostly $5.00 games without any drama. That gives me an ITM of 49% and a very respectable ROI of 39%. I'm going to have to crank up the pace on Full Tilt though as I have a bonus to work off and I don't want it expiring on me.
Other Stuff: I enjoy playing MTT's and have had a little success in them in the past, but hadn't played many recently due to my SNG focus.
During the holidays I spent some time treating myself to a few MTTs and cashed in 2 of the 3 ~850 player $10 tourneys I played and managed a 12th in a 146 man $50 MTT.
I really enjoyed the $50, it's the only MTT at that level that I've played online, I played it as a bit of a Xmas bonus to myself. I felt I played well, was feeling very comfortable going into the last 20 places with an average stack and a good read on quite a few of the players. But I made a bad judgement on a player I thought I had a really good read on and busted just before the final table. Ho Hum, it was fun and slightly profitable.
I've also been playing some short handed Sit and Gos on one of the other poker rooms. The blinds are quite fast and the starting stacks quite shallow so I've been really enjoying the fast, wild pace of them but I've not really won or lost anything on them, they've just been an amusing distraction.
So now it's the New Year and time to knuckle down to the challenge again, wish me luck...
