Slight Downswing

Well its here and I'm glad its not horribly bad but in two days I have been on about a $50 downswing. This was about 1/6 of my BR which is kind of scary, so since I fell so far I'm going to move down in limits, I have been playing my limits but i just wanna take my time in getting back up to $300+. I have seen many others move down before they get hit too hard and it works very well.
On another note I have been reading a book called "Zen and the art of poker", which I said I would talk about in one of my previous blog postings. The book so far is very good reading for a player like me. It calms me down, makes me want to be in a Zen like state. I know it sounds kind of weird but it works. When I went on the downswing I could have easily chased those losses and went on a crazy luck streak or most commonly a bad down streak possibly losing my BR. But instead I closed my laptop, sat sown on the couch and started reading. I highly suggest doing this, even if it's something other than a book(drawing, writing, television, outside activity).

Starting BR: $72
Current BR: $253.67

UP and UP

Well I'm still moving up and its starting to look more and more like a rush, you could call it that but I think it is due to a lot of time at the tables, Iv'e been hitting the 5$ SNG's and winning, I would say about 70% of my games ITM(in the money) which is good enough for me. I have been playing cash games on the side, it helps me to not get bored and play loosley in my SNG's, and it has been helping in two ways with me winning SNG's and winning a little on the side in the cash game. I am pleased with my results and increasing my BR(bank roll) by almost $230 in 2 and 1/2 weeks. I am going to slow down these next couple weeks mainly by not playing so much and only playing SNG's and I'll always be playing the CardsChat events on PokerStars.

Starting BR: $72
Current BR: $299.11

Final Table Day

Well After a small decline in my BR i played one last 180 person $4.40 sng. I did well the whole time calling bluffs, winning coinflips, and dominating a lot I held chipleader for about 30 mins. I made it to the final table and pretty much let the bigstacks take care of things since i was in 6th place going in to the final table, and they did eventually getting down to 4 handed.....
Then after about 45 minutes of me doubling up then blinding down, I got busted when I made a move to steal and got called by A 2...I had K 8, which i like very much 2 live cards and an over! The flop came nothing but i had an inside plus my 2 live cards, then 2 blanks came sending me away in 4th and almost $60.

Starting BR: $72
Current BR: $241.06

Another wonderful day of Poker

Well once again my BR has increased by a good percentage almost 19% which is about 36$ !!
I did well by winning a 1.10$ 18 person sng and a 5.50$ 18 person sng both. which was impressive. Anyways I plan on possibly trying to finish a block of the BOP or starting a new one in the 1.10$ sngs.
I also want to appologize to any readers for my short and sweet postings. For it is not more than a journal of my winnings but it can also be used as incouragement to not go exceedingly far out of brm and loose it all. Good Luck and I'll see all you on the tables tommorow!

Starting BR: $72
Current BR: $223.06

BR Supercharge

Well today was a great day in poker for me, although some may think my winnings were small i think they were huge compared to my BR. From playing and winning in cash games to taking down some nice sngs, i have been able to increase my BR by a little less than 40% and thats huge!
I would have added even more but did not cash in the CC buy-in event which has an added 100$ and is nice since the buy-in is small and if you cash you're getting a nice return, but i got knocked out and was basically card dead the whole time.

Starting BR: $72
Current BR: $181.67

$3 Rebuy on Stars

Well I did very well starting off with Quads and multiple double ups through AA, but eventually the blinds got higher and i just couldnt do anything. The big blow was my QQ running into AA and losing obv lol. But I did make it in the money and now my BR is getting larger. I like this tourney and plan on playing and cashing in this thing again. Watch out Final Table here I come!


Starting BR: $72
Current BR: $136.68

Good Day of Cash Games

Well this morning i had some time to multi table some cash games, and it worked out well, 5 tables at 5$ each, .02/.05 cent no-limit 9 handed. I barely lost any pots playing only premium hands and I am pleased with the almost 12$ increase to my BR, because 12$ is a or was about 10% of an increase to my BR which is huge in one session.



Starting BR: $72
Current BR: $125.67

Even Day, Not much poker though

Well I didnt play that much poker but when i did it seemed to be unlucky, well it was. I played in two mtts and both i was knocked out when i was ahead preflop and eventually got sucked out on. Example: AK VS AQ obv i had AK and we were all in preflop for about a 6k pot and a good one to win for me to actually make it deep. Of course a Q hit on the flop and no help on the turn or river to save me. The second one was AA VS 55, again all in preflop and the flop came all spades including the 5 of spades eventually sending me on my way and out.
But these things happen and good players learn to deal with these unlucky times.
I'm just going to keep my head up and look forward to tommorow and the micro sng grind, lol.



Starting BR: $72
Current BR: $113.47

Why didnt' I use BRM before?

Wow lately I really appreciate Bank Roll Management and cannot stress how important it is in sustaining a Bank roll. So far just by playing in my limits, mainly 1$ sngs, mtts, and 5$nl, I'm doing fairly well with slight downswings, but guess what, by having BRM my BR could take the hits, and now I have increased my starting BR by nearly 80%, which I personally am happy with.
OK, enough with BRM. I recently bought two poker books and will be reading them soon. I bought "Kill Phil" and "ZEN and the art of poker". I will update somewhat of a critique on both and my opinion and a possble suggestion to buy the books.


Starting BR: $72
Current BR: $120.12

Good Day but not a Good 100k

Well i didn't do well in the 100k, getting knocked out by hitting a set and being beat by a higher set isnt always fun. But other than that i have increased my BR by 15$! Im am happy with my play and good brm dicipline. So cheers to a new week and good brm!

Starting BR: $72
Current BR: $110.28

Doing well! Here I come 100K

Well so far I did well today, about 20 points away from the top 100 lb on PS's BOP(battle of the Planets), my BR is around the same but i won a sattelite in to the Sunday 100K! It was an amazing story as I came back from 245 chips on the bubble to win a seat , it was amazing. Anyways I am going to get some sleep and rest for the long 100K tommorow 22500 max entrants and 3k starting chips....whew!

Starting PS BR: $72
Current BR: $95.28

On my way to 100$

Well i did pretty well today while playing sng's for the BOP on Stars. Out of 7 sngs, I got 1st 3 times, 2nd once, and 3 once, the two others i busted before the money, but im very happy with my play. I have 13 more sng's to play to fill my 20 game block, which means multitabling tommmorow until midnight to make it, i can almost gaurantee a top 100 finish!

Starting BR: 72$
KC Current BR: $96.06

Back in the saddle

Well its time to grind and this time my bank roll is on Poker Stars. I basically plan on playing strictly Sng's and Mtt's, and following correct bank roll management. I am also planing on playing in the Battle of the Planets promo on Poker Stars as well. I am off to a good start since i won my first 18 player sng of the night which will surely help my first block in the promotion. Well wish me luck back to real money!

From now on everynight i will be posting my BR for personal purposes to help me out, so here is my first one, after paying 2 people back and depositing 80$......

KC BR: 72.00$

Real money, No deposit

Ok well after the post below, and saying i'm going to take a break, I go and get 2nd in a 300$ freeroll. I did well in that even know it was a turbo, and managed to walk away with 42$, followed by a 30 person 1$ buyin sng that I won, bring me to about 53$. So from there i wanted to somehow get the money on Stars or Full Tilt, due to me being a mac user, and it wasn't easy. But i managed to get 20$ traded from a good friend. After some ups and downs and on FT i managed to be back to around 19.90$, with a plan to play an MTT tonight.

Small Break

Well I have been playing a lot of freerolls mainly CC events and losing almost all of them(not getting ITM) takes a toll on your poker ego. Anyways i did well last night in the .10c rebuy on FT and turned it into almost 4$ butlost it as well. So my plan is to take the next 4 days or so off untill i deposit on Thurs.