vlseph

PokerStars Tournament #118934455, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $2.00/$0.20
1024 players
Total Prize Pool: $2048.00
Tournament started - 2008/11/11 - 20:15:00 (ET)

Dear HERO!,

You finished the tournament in 9th place.
A $46.08 award has been credited to your Real Money account.


Played almost 3 hours for this.
Final hand I shoved with air when I saw my opponent instacheck, but he showed up with top pair and me drawing dead to two runners.
He tripled up early on in the match knocking out one player and totally crippling another, so it was very tough to play him. When HU started he had a 5:1 lead on me.

This is my nicest score at a tournament so far and definitely biggest ROI.
I plowed through my first two tables on my shoot out but found much more competent players on the third round, where I had to take many coin flips and won enough of them to run into 9-16th payouts.


note: Shoot out pay ladders are fucking awesome. I might look into more of these. Just making it itm is an 800% ROI.

About 22 hours of work at NL5 and 10k hands at 18.32bb/100 I have a roll for NL10 now.
I've requested a check of like $700 from Stars to be sent and requested a $700 cash out from Cake to my eWallet account. It's quite a hassle as I have to wait about 24-48 hours although it's been much more now, and then e-mail eWallet and ask for a withdrawal because I think eWallet is strictly for purchasing items online instead of like an online bank like PayPal.

I know beating NL5 isn't much to brag about but I finally feel good about poker again. I had like a pretty sick run of cards my last 2 sessions.

I took a shot at NL10 today like one table when my roll was about at $180 or whatever and it didn't go so well but it might be cause I wasn't very interested. I sat only like half an hour maybe and lost 10 bb.

I have a biology exam to study for so I'll go try studying for that, it's coming up on Friday. I don't want to fuck up my GPA for life just cause I decided to go grind micro stakes this week. I need to get good grades or I'll risk losing my scholarship so fuck poker for the next 1 hour or so til I get bored and come back.

I think I'm ready for NL10 soon, just not tonight since I should be studying.

Instead of actually staying out my ban, I'm working with a $100 br on stars and gonna rebuild it. I'm going to cash out my cake and previous stars roll which is about $1400.
I'm buying in at NL5 for 100 bb until I make $200, then I'll buy-in for 200 bb.

After I hit $300 playing NL5 deepstacked I'll move to NL10.

$500 - NL25

$1000 - NL50

Haven't made it to NL50 yet, but winning against all the micro donks is boosting my confidence again. Stars doesn't have rb, so I won't have any neat bonuses like at Cake. I do however get to use HEM which I have a 13 day trial remaining.
I think being able to have HEM while on Stars may counteract my 33% rb on Cake, although it'd be nice to have both. Stats sure help me at the table, and graphs are neat for looking at afterwards and tracking my progress.


edit: I realized I am probably addicted even though it's microstakes since after a one week ban I just run to another site and deposit $100.