Sunday, September 01, 2013

Poker: Financial results for August 2013

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Plan
My monthly targets for August were:
- Have at least 4 study sessions
- Play 800 hands of cash on NLHE $0.20 6-max (1 table Speed) with target of breaking even (BBP)
- Play 350 cash hands on PLO $0.20 6-max (1 table) with target of breaking even (BBP)
- Play 4 sessions of 8 Game cash with target of breaking even  (Pokerstars)
- Play 16 MTT/STT with target of breaking even (BBP)
- Have one more try at EPT sat, using FPPs to buy-in
- Play some WCOOP sats (if available and depending on the final schedule for the Main Events)

Monitor
Overall results for the month:-

Pokerstars      :  -$  200.89
Black Belt Poker:  -$  159.71  (-£103.06)
Live play       :  -£   40.00

Pokerstars results break down as follows:

Cash results ($-62.09 overall)
8 Game    ($1.00)              $ -44.95
Mobile NLO8 Zoom ($0.10)       $ -20.20
NLO8 Zoom ($0.10)              $  +3.06

Tournament Results ($-138.80 overall)
1x EPT sat MTT (FPP)       $    0.00
8x WCOOP sat MTT           $ -130.00
1x NLHE MTT                $   -4.40
1x PLO  MTT                $   -4.40

8 Game wins/losses by game type for this month (1 session):
2-7        + 3.62
Limit HE   -15.33
Omaha HL   - 1.88
Razz       - 2.77
Stud       +15.69
Stud HL    -15.30
NL HE      -20.45
PLO        - 8.53

BBP results break down as follows:

Cash results (£-70.66 overall)
NLHE Speed  ($0.20)  714 hands   -£60.17
PLO         ($0.20)   36 hands   -£10.49

Tournament Results (-£32.40 overall)
14x  MTT            -£  7.19
4x   10 seat STT    -£ 15.55  Maui Jackpot
2x   10 seat STT    -£  7.84
3x    6 seat STT    -£  4.88
1x    2 seat STT    +£  3.06

Reflect
I have done my study sessions as targeted, watching Nick's Tournament videos.  I'm not sure I'm applying all the techniques as yet, so need more reviewing of the previous materials as well as going through the next module.

Pokerstars was about as expected, in that I played several WCOOP satalites, and although had some good runs, didn't win any seats yet.   The cash side was a little disappointing but not outside acceptable limits

Black Belt cash was a little low on volume and also disappointing.  I think focussing on tournaments may be messing up my cash game!   The Tournaments were also a bit disappointing but with the low volume, difficult to make any firm judgements.... other than that I am still no good at Maui Jackpot tables and should probably give them up!!

September Targets
I am still going through Nick Wealthall's "Tournament Cash Machine" program (http://transformmypoker.com/) so September will also need to be about training for and playing in MTTs.   I'm also still got some WCOOP satallites to play.    My targets are therefore:

- Have at least 4 study sessions
- Play 400 hands of cash on NLHE $0.20 6-max (1 table Speed) with target of breaking even (BBP)
- Play 150 cash hands on PLO $0.20 6-max (1 table) with target of breaking even (BBP)
- Play 2 sessions of 8 Game cash with target of breaking even  (Pokerstars)
- Play 10 MTT/STT with target of breaking even (BBP)
- Play some WCOOP sats

Strategic Objectives
*  Keep to Poker Plan
Achieved all this month, except 8 Game cash sessions
*  Focus on less variants of cash games
So far, so good.
*  Break even on all cash games
Needs more studying
*  Fiddle around less with MTT/STT variants, concentrate on NLHE and 8 Game
OK this month

References
January 2013 http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/poker-financial-results-for-january-2013.html
February 2013 http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/poker-financial-results-for-february.html
March 2013 http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/poker-financial-results-for-march-2013.html
April 2013 Cash Challenge http://www.blackbeltpoker.com/blogs/read/4020786/sceaga/First-month-results/
April 2013 http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/poker-financial-results-for-april-2013.html
May 2013 http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/poker-financial-results-for-may-2013.html
June 2013 http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/poker-financial-results-for-june-2013.html
July 2013 http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/poker-financial-results-for-july-2013.html

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