This graph shows my (Resulting Chips in the Pot) - (Tournament Chip Equity in the Pot) for my last about 1400 all-ins in hyper turbos. I'm running pretty bad.

Spring Break, lots of hyper turbos, big swings

My spring break is coming to a close so I figured I'd show how I did. The first several days I had a lot of work to do and didn't play much. Over the last few days Jorj95 wasn't really playing so I decided to get in some hyper-turbo time. It has been a really long time since I put in a lot of hours in those games and I had to get used to the big swings again pretty quickly. As you can see from the graph, I started out good. Basically the entire downswing was today, I ran really badly. This type of downswing is normal though for these games. Back when the game was unraked you didn't get this type of downswing often though (I paid over $3100 in rake during these games). It all makes me miss the days of unraked hyper-turbos. What was really sick about today was I think there were some really bad players. There were a lot of just big mistakes people were making, especially in the bubble situations. I did pick up 18,000 VPPs which is pretty good. Since I'm only a platinum star that equates to around 45,000 FPP, which is worth about $720. I think it's really important to be a supernova elite if you are going to play a lot of these. An elite woulda earned around 90,000 FPPs for about $1440, which is a really large chunk of rake-back.

I'll also mentioned that I played a lot of hands over the last few days. Since the 25th (the last 3 days) I've played 21130 hands, got quads 15 times, a striaghtflush, and my 3rd royal flush (I've played like half a million hands and only have 3).

I also bought in for my $1,000,000th dollar on Pokerstars today.

I haven't decided what my schedule is for tomorrow yet (Sunday). I have a lot of homework to do and then we'll see. I'll either play the Sunday millions or keep trying to grind hyper-turbos. Peace.

First Blog

Hey, so I decided to start a blog to track my results and talk about other things both poker and non-poker related. This first one is going to be pretty quick I think. For those of you that can't tell, I'm "c Dannon s" (without the " ") at pokerstars.com. Pokerstars is by a very wide margin the best poker site to play on. I have played on full tilt and along with having $1300 stolen from me by the site, the service was about as frustrating as could be. If you send them an email about your lost money, it takes about a week to get a reply and it's basically the same reply every time you talk to them. It's just some asshole who has know idea what is going on because the last email was a week ago so he just copy and pastes the standard bullshit to you. It's not like that with Pokerstars. If you send them an email, you almost always get a reply within the hour (and sometimes within the minute).

So last year was my first breakout year in poker. I made a lot more than the tracking sites suggest for lots of reasons. This year, my goal is to make $70k. I think I am currently up around like $16k right now. I also think I have been overall unlucky during the year, but I guess everybody thinks that.

I've been playing mostly 180 mans and 45 mans of every buy-in, playing anywhere between 10-25 tables at a time. I have played a bit of the cash games (almost all 6 max plo), mtts, and hyper-turbos. For those of you that don't know, I used to be a hyper-turbo reg. Back in the time before sharkscope gave hyper-turbos its own category and before they were even raked, I used to play about 60 and hour at every buy-in from $22 up through $128. Back then there were only 3 guys who were able to do that for some real profit, me, muttern3k, and of course, Jorj95. What was sick was I think I played the least number per hour of us. For all his hyper0turbo talents I think muttern3k might be a loser in regular poker (although I definitely could be wrong on that). One guy who is certainly not a loser in regular poker is Jorj95, and there was also no question that he was the best hyper-turbo player. The 3 of us played a ton of hands against eachother and my head to head hands against them went basically dead even. After hyper-turbos started getting raked I stopped being a reg. While Jorj95 is in there killing everybody it's basically impossible to be a good winner in that game anymore. If you are going to play it regularly seriously, be prepared for enormous swings and tiny ROI. Being a nova-elite would be an ENORMOUS help. I still play them occasionally when I'm bored or don't have much time, but that's about it.

I think I'll end this blog here.

c Dannon s