Small Stakes Grinder : : January Results

I don't think i will be playing anymore before the end of the month so i will post these results from officialpokerrankings.com

I had not set any monetary goal for this month but i am please with the overall result. A +1k month is nothing to laugh at for someone who started out a few month back with $38 bucks in the old poker account.

A big chunk of that came from my 3rd place finish in the $5 FO mtt. I only played 11 MTT tournaments this month mostly at the $5 level. I will continue to play these along with at least 2 sunday 100k guarenteed tournaments each month. I also want to play a few of the $3 rebuy tournaments and sunday million sats.

Another big chunk came from the $3 45 sit n go's that i've been crushing. I have 455 (128 this month) total played and have to say i'm very comfortable playing them. I will play another 45 to make it 500 total, then try to move on to the $6 45 turbo sngs.

The $4 180 sit n go results were a bit dissappointing because i didn't win any this month. I 've made 3 final tables in the last 2 days and 7 /65 for the month, I've only missed the final table once finishing 10th. I just need to close them out when i get there. I will review them all to find out what is wrong with my final table strategy. I feel i should be doing much better in these though.

Overall i'm very pleased with my improvement and my progress on the path to becomming a good mtt'er. Next month i will attempt to play more mtts and not get stuck in the sit n go grind too much.

ISGP.

Weekend Results

Since my MTT final table i've been in what i'd term a mini slum... nothing major but i've felt kinda out of it when playing and its lead to some poor play (see last post). I think i've been averaging around 108th place in the pokerstars $4 180 sngs.

So Saturday after more of the same i decided that i was in the mode for some turbo sngs and started playing the Pokerstars $3 45 sngs . I played 24 total Turbos in 3 sessions (morning, afternoon & late evening) on saturday. My results were amazing.

I finished...

1st....5
2nd....3
4th....1
8th....2(bubble)
OOTM...16

Just crushed the games for a whopping 400% ROI. It was a really sweet feeling and a huge confidence builder. My game had gone a bit off and these turbos set me straight.

Today i decided to play in the $5.50 5K guarenteed @ 1pm on stars and the 100K guarenteed at 3:30pm. I was playing the 5k guarenteed and a $4 180 sng when my electricity went out. What a disaster... I was running good in the 5K and had just taken the chip lead with about 26 left in the 180.

My ups only lasted an additional 15 minutes before it started beeping furiously... I also have my modem and router on the ups so when i shut down the computer there was enough power to keep the network up. I burrowed my nephew's laptop and spent about 20minutes installing pokerstars and trying to remember my password. Once i got on i soon realized that the laptop battery was about to go... talk about bad luck. So i just decided to donk it up and try to get a big stack or bust. long story short i made the final table as a short stack and finished 8th... then my pwr came back on.lol.

I fired up another $4 180 sng to go along with the Sunday 100k Gaurenteed. I didnt get deep in the 100K but finished 2nd in the $4 180 sng which was a good result. So two final tables in one day... not bad. Just checked officialpokerrankings and i'm running 20% ITM & 94% ROI over 246 tournys for January, and that is without the 2nd place finish.