My new tourney life - keeping records here

I feel like a true MTT grinder now after just 2 days of tourney grinding (very high volume though). I'm far far too lazy to start a blog so I figured I'd record my progress here just to see how I'm progressing (or not). I'll start with today, the 25th of February:

$8.80+r (in for $24.80) ....................................... no cash
$22 deep stack .................................................(frustratingly) no cash
$1.10 CC event ................................................. no cash
$33 (have absolutely no collection of) ................... no cash
$11+r ..............................................................42/720, $76.32
$3.30+r (in for 9.30) .......................................... 342/3056, $26.26
$55 ................................................................ 122/1557, $101.20

I'm incredibly proud of 3/7 cashes, but unfortunately none of them got deep . In the $3 rebuyament AJo > my KK for my whole stack which was massive at the time. Barring a big cash a break even day is amazing let alone a marginal profit .

edit: going for weekly stars tlb obv .

i dont think anyone could really complain abouy a 42% itm
ill be following ur progress if u post it here but a blog would be a lot easier to track and seeing that u spend so much time on cc i think u can handle it and i never perseeved {spelling sucks} u as being lazy

two consecutive mtt winning days is something to be very proud of jt. I dont think ive ever pulled that off

ooo I missed one, I got ubernoobed in a $11, no cash. 3/8 doesn't sound quite as glorious .

I'm sure you already know this, and by no means am I trying to knock your game down a level, but its possible you could be on somewhat of a heater. In the future, it probably wnt be uncommon for you to go a week or two without a cash. 3/8 are good numbers, wish I could put those up. Just be sure you dont get in over your head. Taking the single shot at the high stakes tourney was fine, just dont make a habbit until youre properly rolled, or you've built up some money just to play one a week(say you play a sat. or a tourney just to get enough to play the million once a week). They way it looks now, you could be regularly playing the Sunday majors frequently

Trust me cash games > MTT's.

Youll get it after a few months............

Well I figure I could play the sunday majors/coveted $100+r once my br reaches 10k fairly comfortably (notice I said once not if ). I realise that doing so well is not normal and in the future I will most certainly have long slump periods of not cashing, but I'm not venturing into any tourneys over $30+3 (apart from the nightly 50k which is $50+5) so I can handle the variance I hope.

Well we cant all be cash pros....

Inscore77 said:

Well we cant all be cash pros....

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I never said that. Im a recretional player, but i make nice money, and conistant money doing it. Variance isnt as harsh, players are just as bad, your always deepstacked, your post flop skill matters, a bad beat dosnt bust out 5 hours of good play, etc.

tenbob said:

I never said that. Im a recretional player, but i make nice money, and conistant money doing it. Variance isnt as harsh, players are just as bad, your always deepstacked, your post flop skill matters, a bad beat dosnt bust out 5 hours of good play, etc.

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Lol just playin around

yayaya just played 7 $20+1 HU sngs and won 5 of them weeeeeeeeeee. Add that to list

tenbob said:

I never said that. Im a recretional player, but i make nice money, and conistant money doing it. Variance isnt as harsh, players are just as bad, your always deepstacked, your post flop skill matters, a bad beat dosnt bust out 5 hours of good play, etc.

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I'd have to disagree with bad beat doesn't mean 5 hours of play wasted.

If you keep a big stack at the table and someone else also gathers a big stack, then you hit something like set of aces vs straight and you lose....then that can easily be 5 hours wasted.

tenbob said:

Trust me cash games > MTT's.

Youll get it after a few months............

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I dunno, I've been grinding strictly SNG's around the $20 range (increasing buyin with increasing bankroll) for the past week and a half and have pushed a $150 b-roll up to over $1000. SNG's are essentially just plugging the situation into a formula almost and applying the proper pressure at the right time, knowing how to tighten up early and build a stack, and also the point where you hit push/fold area of play.

I played a few MTT's in that period and had a couple cashes but almost all of my profit has been from SNG's.

jaketrevvor said:

yayaya just played 7 $20+1 HU sngs and won 5 of them weeeeeeeeeee. Add that to list

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Lol, when I first saw that I instantly thought you said you won 5 of 7 180man $20 SNGs, I was like wow.....that has got to be the most amazing run ever

Hey, where's the first one? I don't see that on your list.

This was just for yesterday, I played many more on saturday and sunday - too lengthy to keep track of, but yes it did all spout from a GLORIOUS win

Ok, today hasn't been as busy but I've still managed to fit in a few tourneys:

$11 ...................................... no cash but I had to leave in the middle of it so doesn't really count
$8.80 .................................... (v.suckoutingly) no cash
$50+5 ................................... just out, no cash
$11+r (in for $80, oops) ........... no cash
$30+3 HORSE ......................... FFS ARRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHH BUBBBBLED SHIIIIIIIIT HATE LIFE

tourneys suck

(nah i still luv em)