Played 1 $5 45 man game

Well last night I decided to only play one game for the challenge I am competing in right now over Raise the River. I have talked about it some but I am not sure if everyone knows what it is. So I decided to post a copy of the current results thread, and the rules.

Anyone reading my blog and has the time you should register at RtR if you have not already, and then compete in the $5 45 man challenge.

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Acefilledreams - played 10 games for 71 points
Lou Saban - played 12 games for 91 points
MAIR38 - played 14 games for 31 points
Mike Saban - Played 9 games for 43 points
2much2drink - played 6 games for 28 points
Cogs - played 2 games for 7 points
Burnleymik - played 8 games for 37 points
Jonnyfish - played 5 games for 18 points
Tanorpheus -

Current Prize Pool: $90.00

Are you up for the challenge?

(A member of the admin team will frequently update this table, as and when the results come in. Any errors, and please feel free to let us know)

Points Scoring System:

45th - 37th = 1points
36th - 28th = 2 points
27th - 19th = 3 Points
18th - 10th = 4 points
9th = 5 Points
8th = 6 points
7th = 7 Points
6th = 8 points
5th = 9 points
4th = 11 points
3rd = 13 Points
2nd = 15 points
1st = 20 points

Rules

1. Ship your $10 entry fee to "BurnleyMik" on pokerstars.
2. PM me to confirm you sent payment.
3. I will then create you a thread in the "Online Live" forum. it will be titled ' $5-45 challenge'.
4. You then have one month starting 15th Januaryand ending 15th Febuary to play 15 $5 45 player games on poker stars.
5. Each time you plan to start one of these tournaments you must make a post, under your thread, and include the tourney number, time and your Pokerstars username.
6. When you bust out of the tournament, you must return to your thread and input the postion you finished and the points you score for this according to the scoring system (see below).
7. Once you have played all 15 of your games, please total up your score and you are then done until the challenge ends.

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Played MTT's

Played some MTT's yesterday cashed in 1 going 35th out of 2070. Really did not like how I played then end of it though. I played a couple of games for the $5 45 man challenge over at Raise The River.

I am currently in second but it is going ot be really tough for me to overtake the leader. I just had two games that really cost me. The last one I played I shoulda won but when my QQ got beat by AQ I had to settle for 5th and 11 less points.

Day 11: 50 games in

Well I have finished my first 50 games. I would like to improve my ROI in the next 50. I think I can as long as I dont have the bad run I had in the beginning of this one.

Here are my complete numbers for my first 50 games:

Played 50 games:
Finished: 1st- 8 Times, 2nd- 5 Times, 3rd- 8 Times for a ITM of 42%
Finished: 4th- 6 Times, 5th- 4 Times, 6th- 0 Times,
Finished: 7th- 5 Times, 8th- 10 Times,9th- 4 Times


Looking at those I am not very impressed with my results so far. I have lost alot of coin flips, and situations were the money went in with me as a huge favorite. Well I have made a profit so far so i guess that is something

Day 8: 4 more games.

I won my first one but lost my next 3 today. played one very badly, the other two I reraised a preflop raiser all in with AK the called with small pp 44/77 and I did not improve. I am noticing small pp and KJ/AJ are the most overplayed hands at this level.

Well decided to try some cash games and like an idiot I dropped $50 when in the second hand I flopped a set and when a guy pushed all in for his two pair he hit his boat which was bigger then mine and wasl eft wondering why I was so dumb to put a chunk of my roll in a cash game like that.

DAY 7: 2 more wins...

well the last 7 games I have played I have won 4 of them. It seems as if I am either placing in the middle in 5th 6th 7th, or I win. I had had 1 additonal bubble recently. I definately feel my bubble and three handed play has improved. I also have started to play 2 tables at a time, However it starts affecting my bottom line and my profit I wil have to re adjustand go back to 1 game at a time. If I do well this weekend playing two at a time I might move up to three to see how I fair.

DAY6: INTO THE GREEN

Well hopefully I dont jinx myself but I am in green four buy ins. This should give me a decent cushion since I have not been losing a ton, but been zig zagging back and forth over the black line. I played 4 games last night and placed 1st in two of them. I know this is taking a painfully long time, but once I get the feel for these more I will once again start adding tables and then my pace of completing the 1000 games will increase as well.

I also played a $5 45 man as part of my challenge over at Raise the River. Right now I have played two games and have 19 points. I really wanted another final table though and just missed it. The challenge is going to very hard to take down. I consider a lot of the players over at RTR much better then myself so if I could win this challenge it would be a huge ego boost.

Day 5 holding on...

I am still holding on to the pretty much even money zone in my quest. I spent yesterday playing mainly limit hold em, and a $5 45 man tournament. The 45 man tournament is par tof the current challenge over at Raise the River. Anyways I started off by getting coolered in the second hand. I held fast though and came back to pull off a
2nd place finish to give me a good start for the challenge.

I plan to some much need maintenance to my blog the next few days. So to all those that have mover you blog and such I am sorry for not updating my blogroll for this long.

Day 4: Can I be more unlucky...

LOL after 28 games i am down exactly $1.00 but I am running so bad. I keep losing AK/AQ vs Ax or KK vs 88 or some crazy shit like that. I know I am making mistakes and thos mistakes cost me my last game but I went on tilt after I lost a huge hand AK vs A8 and then worked really hard to rebuild from 500 chips to 2k get all in AA vs 34 off and the guy hit a straight. That left me with 805 with blinds of 800. So i pushed A9o only to be called by J9 and lost to trip J's.

I know its variance but even my wife is saying it seems I am on the losing end of this crap alot. It just wears on you when you make your opponent make a huge mistake For all of their chips and then they hit. I am taking the beats better then I used to but it still hurts.

Day 3: Creeping along...

Well I pretty much took the day off from playing the $5 dollar SnG's. I did play four and placed in 2 of those. So i am down exactly $1.50 total after playing 24 of them. I have given up trying to play real poker or what not and have adopted a push fold extra tight mentality on these. I seems to have helped and hopefully it will show in my future results.

I did play several mtts yesterday and I was just getting the shit kicked out of me. Then I started playing poorly. At one point I had lost a good chunk of my roll. At this point I decided to do the only smart thing I could think of and that was play above my roll and enter $20 27 man tourney. It was a very tough game but Imanaged to make some good plays and some even better folds. I ended up winning it for a nice $200.00 cash.

Hoping to get a few games in today... It feels good to be making regular updates again.

Day 2: A slight comeback...

After day ones horrendous punishment at the hands of thepoker gods I made a slight comeback in day two. I am still down a little over 1 buy in after 21 games. I actually had a profit after 19 but I actually screwed up the next two games when I should of easily cashed in the money, but instead i got cute and bubbled. So those last two games I screwed up. I looked at my poker office and so far I have had AA/KK a combined 11 times and won only 2 which were ones I got no action... Statistically I should be tearing up the tables right now.

I say this because most my big hands are getting crushed right at or right after the bubble. Well I have not lost my motivation and hopefully I will pick up some more cashes so I don't look like such a donkey...

Day 1: Bumpy Start

Well I played the first 7 of my 1000 $5.00 SnG. I placed 3rd in two of them which sucks so bad, but 5 games out of 7 including those two and 2 bubbles I went out as a 70% or more favorite. I also had one cooler. My exits or crippling hands were as follows.

AK vs AQ
AQ vs A10
AA vs JJ
Flopped str8 vs Flopped 2 pair and he got a boat on the river
AA vs KK
KK vs AA

Needless to say i am a bit demoralized right now. Hopefully day two will come out better.

Longest ever...

I think this is the longest I have waited to post. I have been extremely busy at work, and really have not had anything amazing to say lately. I pretty much have spent my time dwindling my money away bit by little bit...

Anyways after just slinging chips and dollars around for months. I think I might actually be ready to become a student of the game again. So I have decided to go back to the root of this blog and once again start a quest 1k $5 STT SnG to build my self a roll. During this time I will also participate in all the RtR challenges that I can as well as a few mtt's each week.

Now the Quest won't officially start until next week as I am in a training exercise with the military right now. During this exercise I plan to re read everything over at SnG planet over and over and really learn the STT. Once the quest begins I will update DAILY at least with my stats if I played that day.