Poker Efficiency

Monday, August 14, 2006

Shitty Sunday

I played most of the big sunday MTT's again. I have been limiting myself to only playing MTT's on sunday, which has worked out well.
I played the Event #1 of the FTOSP which was guaranteed at 250k, I placed OutOfTheMoney. Played the Stars and Party sunday million, where I placed OOTM. I also played the the 200K Gtd on UB, and the second chance sunday tournament, where I placed OOTM. The only tournament I cashed in was the 150K on Paradise, where I took 20th place. Im not sure if I really screwed up here, or if I just got really unlucky.

I was chipleader with about ~40 or so people left, I had 200K which would be an average stack for a final table. I then lost a 120K pot which I lost in a coinflip. After this pot I was still in like 2nd place overall with 150K in chips. Then I think I misplayed a hand where I called a 3 bet push on a scary flop with Top pair no kicker, which brought me down to like 40K. Then with 20 people left I made a really ugly resteal and was dominated to get knocked out. First place was about 40K. It was actually really sicking to go from chipleader with 30 people left to busto at 20. I know I could have final tabled this thing, I really need to work on my closing when I get deep. I think I am going to have someone analyze my last ~200 hands or so, and tell me what im doing wrong and where I can improve. Anyway, 20th netted me about 1k, which made me a slight loser of about $500 on the day.

I have been playing a lot of 2/4 NL lately. I have also been running fairly good, but I could be doing better. If I were to play a little tighter and also more in position rather than out of position my ptbb/100 whould be a little better. This last week I have played about 7,800 hands and ran at 7.31 bb/100, which is actually better than I thought. I have been 5-6 tableing, but I just can't seem to get enough hours in. Poker Tracker says I have played ~16 hours which equals about $270 per hour. Not exactly a bad hourly rate. I should be getting a minimum of 10K hands a week and 20 hours worked. I am however happy with these results.