Friday, May 02, 2014

Poker: Financial results for April 2014

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Plan
Monthly target was:
- Play 400 cash hands on NLHE $0.10 6-max (2 table Zoom) with target of breaking even (Pokerstars)
- Play 400 cash hands on PLO  $0.10 6-max (2 table Zoom or maybe switch to normal tables) with target of breaking even (Pokerstars)
- Play 2 sessions of 8 Game cash with target of breaking even  (Pokerstars)
- Play 8 MTT with target of breaking even (Coral and Pokerstars)

Monitor
Overall results for the month:-

Pokerstars  :  -$   2.42
Coral       :  +£ 131.45
Live play   :  -£  30.00

Pokerstars results break down as follows:

Cash results (+$ 34.58 overall)
8 Game           ($0.40)             -$  2.18
NLHE Zoom        ($0.10)  473 hands  +$  0.61
NLHE             ($0.10) 1262 hands  -$ 13.21
PLO              ($0.10)  670 hands  +$ 20.53
NLO8 Mobile Zoom ($0.02)  311 hands  -$ 15.64
NLO8 Mobile Zoom ($0.10)  159 hands  +$ 44.47

Tournament Results (-$37.00 overall)
2x SCOOP#08 sat MTT  NLHE      -$15.00
1x SCOOP#25 sat STT  NLHE/PLO  -$22.00

Coral results break down as follows:

Cash results (-£ 0.00 overall)

Tournament Results (+£ 136.72 overall)
3x STT            -£ 2.92
5x MTT Barry      -£41.27  (No Cashes)
5x MTT Dirty Doz  -£ 0.04  (1 Cash)
3x 1500GTD       +£180.95 (2 Caches

Reflect
For the live game, we tried the Thursday night "turbo" format at Farnborough.   Was a fun game but didn't get any traction and although managed to double up with pocket ace's to get into a good spot, my J high flush being beaten by Q high flush put paid to my night and got home early

Pokerstars results are looking a bit better.  I decided to switch from ZOOM for a while and my PLO (6 max) saw immediate improvement.  My NLHE (full ring) was a little up and down, but overall not too bad and starting to see more consistency.   I still play Mobile ZOOM fairly regularly, despite my best efforts not to ;)  Although this is meant to be a bit of amusement whilst out and about, I was just being too reckless at $0.02 level and hope the threat of more significant losses at $0.10 will help my concentration levels when playing!

Of course it’s SCOOP time of year and am intending to play some satellites and events.  April’s loss is due to my satellite attempts and May will doubtless follow, so hope to get some cashes in the events themselves to show a good month for May

I am playing more on Coral now, but still iPoker tournaments are not all that good formats for me.  The Turbo Barry becomes a crap shoot quite quickly and the Dirty Dozen is populated by beginners so its a bit like Bingo, but they are quite fun to play.   My main interest is the $1500 GTD MTT which I've had success with in the past, and seem to do OK in still.  A 16th place and 2nd place this month was a great result for me and made my month.

April was a decent month for me and although still need to improve, am fairly contented overall (it's amazing how one decent cash changes your attitude ;) )  My May schedule is beset by bank holidays, days off and a holiday so my Poker activities will be curtailed slightly.

May 2014 Targets

Monthly target for May will be:
- Play 400 cash hands on NLHE $0.10 Full Ring (4 table) with target of breaking even (Pokerstars)
- Play 200 cash hands on PLO  $0.10 6-max (2 table) with target of breaking even (Pokerstars)
- Play 2 sessions of 8 Game cash with target of breaking even  (Pokerstars)
- Play 8 MTT with target of breaking even (Coral and Pokerstars)
- Play SCOOP events

Strategic Objectives for 2014
*  Break even on all cash games
*  Play Mobile ZOOM only at $0.02 stakes and even then as little as possible
*  Try to play MTT more regularly
*  Commit less to the online festivals

References
End of 2013 review http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/poker-end-of-year-results-for-2013.html
January 2014 http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/poker-financial-results-for-january-2014.html
February 2014 http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/poker-financial-results-for-february.html
March 2014 http://sceaga.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/poker-financial-results-for-march-2014.html

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