Day 0: 100% ($677)
Day 1: 94.5% ($640)
Day 2: 83.5% ($568)
Day 3: 99.5% ($670)
Tilted hardcore today, was down to under 400. Played a $40 45 plyr mtt, came in 3rd for $288
Actually, I disagree, although I realize you said this half-jokingly.
The main reason was availability of games. At Ongame, end of the line were $100 SNGs. The $200 ones just wouldn't fill up. Once or twice, I had registered, waited for over an hour, but the game never started because there weren't enough players.
Progress Update
Day 71: 499% ($9,984)
Day 72: 412% ($8,249)
Day 73: 481% ($9,626)
I've been playing $3/$6 again since yesterday, and the level still hates me.
Least profitable hands:
1.) KK / 30 times / -$50.65 per hand
3.) TT / 30 times / -$23.32 per hand
5.) JJ / 32 times / -$18.06 per hand
7.) 44 / 30 times / -$14.56 per hand
8.) KQ / 83 times / -$12.99 per hand
10.) AJs / 23 times / -$9.06 per hand
And no, AA, QQ and AK don't make up for it, not even close
I only play No Limit. I don't even know the rules for most other kinds of poker.
The laws of statistics have no memory who was ahead or behind.Progress Update
Day 72: 412% ($8,249)
Day 73: 481% ($9,626)
Day 74: 542% ($10,834)
I'm totally owning 600NL. Well, not quite, but at least I finished with two stacks of profit..
Oh yeah, in case somebody was wondering - I didn't stick to my 5-3-2 system. As I briefly mentioned yesterday, I've been playing 600NL for three days now. I started playing it when I had just under 10K, and I'm buying in for the max as opposed to $500.
I even took a stab at 1000NL yesterday when I started with only $8,249
I'm not exactly sure what went into me, it's the first time I "took a shot", and I wasn't even close to properly rolled for it.
I intended to stop playing immediately should I lose one full stack, but it was pretty insane nonetheless. Fortunately, I ran pretty well, and 250 hands made me about $750 of profit.
I quickly realized that I was playing with scared money, so I stopped the madness. Right now, I feel pretty comfortable at 600NL with full buy-ins, but I do realize that I'm overextending my bankroll rules quite a bit.
I'm patient at the tables, but when it comes to growing my bankroll, things just can't go fast enough.
I've often preached to never look at past peaks in the graph, but that's exactly what I'm doing, and it's hard to stop it. I know that I've been to 15K and that I should be way beyond that by now, so I keep wanting to "get back there". The right way to look at things is to just look at the current bankroll and not care about past performance, but it's real difficult.
In times like these, I feel it's appropriate to once again post our big mentor's graph to realize the meaning of the word "variance".
Does anybody know whether Chris Ferguson can be contacted via e-mail? I have a few questions concerning his bankroll challenge which seems to have been running badly as of late.
Maybe he stopped following these rules after he hit 10K. That's why it's a shame there's no information on what and how he's currently playing.
Everyone looks to be on the upslope, so Nj.
After viewing some of the graphs closely, (it's kind of hard to tell exactly when people took days off...) I feel the weekend play, which includes Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, has a great deal to do with the down slopes more than a few of us have incurred. My theory is that better play comes out on the weekend and the donkey's play get worse, causing everyone's usual game to get slightly off track at times and possibly causing a downward tear.
I guess that's my theory...and maybe the long hours some of us play on the weekend can account for some of this. But, for one reason or another, I'm beginning to believe you have to keep a close eye on how you play, and what exactly happened, because the weekend brings unexpected consequences when otherwise we're running smoothly going into it.
Crack-Pot theory. Eh. You can make your own judgments.
Yes, true. But we also all secretly cheer for Chris
