Day 3: Nothing to see here or maybe there is...

Yeah well, not a great night early. I played three $1 + $0.25 SnGs without much success. Out in 6th in one, and then out in 7th in the second.

Here's a hand that kind of summed up my night to that point:


Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t20/t40
8 players
Converter


Pre-flop: (8 players) ey215 is Button with :6c :6s
UTG calls t40 (pot was t60), 3 folds, CO calls t40 (pot was t100), ey215 calls t40 (pot was t140), SB calls t20 (pot was t180), BB raises to t160, UTG calls t120 (pot was t280), CO calls t120 (pot was t400), ey215 calls t120 (pot was t520), SB calls t120 (pot was t640).


Flop: :9c :td :6d (t800, 5 players)
SB checks, BB bets t800, UTG folds, CO raises all-in t1280, ey215 raises all-in t1290, SB folds, BB calls all-in t480.
Uncalled bets: t10 returned to ey215.

Turn: :jh (t4640, 0 player + 3 all-in - Main pot: t4640)

River: :jc (t4640, 0 player + 3 all-in - Main pot: t4640)

Results:
Final pot: t4640
CO showed Th Js
ey215 showed 6c 6s
BB showed Qh Qs


Ah, but blessed third SnG. It started fairly well and this is the hand that put us heads up. The beauty of this one is more than once I had folded after raising from the button when three handed. Probably a little weak on my part, but I thought it might come in handy and it sure did.

Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t120/t240
3 players

Pre-flop: (3 players) ey215 is Button with kh kd
ey215 raises to t840, SB calls t720 (pot was t1200), BB raises all-in t3240, ey215 calls t2400 (pot was t4920), SB folds.

Flop: 7d 2s 8c (t7320, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t7320)

Turn: 3c (t7320, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t7320)

River: 4h (t7320, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: t7320)

Results:
Final pot: t7320
BB showed 6c Ac
ey215 showed Kh Kd

The heads-up went longer than it should have, but I took it down. Therefore my rolls now stand at:

Limit BR: $23.91 (same)
SnG BR: $20.00 (up 1.7 buy-ins)

I feel pretty good about the first two losses even, I made the right decisions when I got my money in, it just didn't work out for me.

Day 1: The Journey Begins

Not a bad start to the quest.

Limit BR: 23.91 (up 7BB)

SnG BR: 18.70(up 5 buy-ins)

I played very briefly on a limit table at Poker Stars. 22 hans in fact. :)

VP$IP: 13.64
PFR: 0.00%
Agression Factor: 0.50

I actually only won one hand, but it was a big one.

It occurs to me that I didn't lay any ground rules that I'll be following. So here they are, in no particular order:

• I will be following a standard bankroll strategy. 300 BB of the next level to move up in limit and 30 buy-ins in SnG play. However starting out I'll tolerate a little more risk. I'm starting at .05/.10 limit and $1 SnG
• I'm not going to play multiple tables at this time. I feel like, for the moment I need to focus on getting my game back in shape. Later on I'll modify this rule.
• I will not be playing any MTT except for maybe a few free rolls until I build up a 100 buy-in bankroll off of one of my other bankrolls. Any bonus money will be going into this fund.
• I'll try and post my overall stats after each session here.

Also, I started a new PT database, as really data from eleven months ago doesn't really help me.