November Mini Challenges

What is a challenge to you?
Well for me is an opportunity to grow and become better at something. Sure is a motivational thing to do. I decided to set up some new small challenges for the next month to have a "back again" to the tables more focused than ever. I will set up some goals that are going to be challenging for me and I must achieve at least one until the end of November and will start on the 1st day.

The Challenge
The challenge is to try to accomplish one of these goals on November and will start only on November, so here they come:

1. Make Silverstar.
2. Play 500 games.
3. Make more than $150.
4. Make $50 in one single day (my current record is $72 in one single day).
5. Ended up on the SNG leaderboard (whatever will be at low orbit or high orbit).

Goals Explanation
- The 1st one is something that will put me on the volume side to play at least 22 games per day at $1 stakes, or about 12 games per day at $3 stakes. I am more than rolled for the $1 and $3 stakes (probably for the $5 too).
- The 2nd is related to the 1st one but a little bit more softer.
- The 3rd and 4th doesn't deserve any explanation, is pure profit goals.
- The last one is to try to make something that I never made and could give me more profit too.

SNG Structures
I will choose whatever SNG I like, but I am more inclined to play the 18 man tables. Probably mixing with some 27/45 and 180 man tables. I will also play some 360 man tables. For the most part expect to see me at the 18 man tables

Buy-ins
Well, like I said before, besides my current downswing this month, I have 100 buy-ins to play the $5 tables. But, because I am a nit at bankroll management, and because the multitable SNG's have more variance than single tables, I will play at the $1 and $3 buy-ins.

Schedule Play
On weekdays expect to find me at the tables between 23h and midnight grinding at least 6 tables and some times 12 tables at the same time.
On weekends I will play on the same schedule but with more flexibility to play on afternoon.
I probably play some MTTs on the weekends.

So this is it, let the challenge begin on 1st of November.

Let me leave you guys with a picture where I was playing on the Sunday 1/4 million and there was the professional Pokerstars player Leatherass9 (Dusty Schmidt) on my table.

October Feedback

Results
This month has been terrible, I am down for about $120. I played some different structures (again) and even on the regular one, the 9 Man SNG, I am having some bad results lately. In fact, was on 9 man sng (regular blinds) that I lost most and next was 9 Man SNg (turbo blinds). But the sample size is ridiculous, only 66 games combined on these games, wich is a very small sample.

Multitable SNG
Where I am being profitable (this month)? I played 21 games of 18 Man SNG (turbo) and I have a 16% ROI on them. I also played 47 games of 45 Man SNG (turbo) and made a 14% ROI on them. I think my grind will be on the 18 Man SNG. What about 9 Man SNG? Well for now, I will not play them as much as I could.

Volume
I played this month 291 games, and I will reach 300 for sure. Right now is my highest volume month, I am happy for that. I have a goal to reach 1k games in one month, not sure when that will be, but I am getting closer to that mark.
Silverstar this month? Well, with so much volume, I need to make 384 FPP to reach silverstar. I should play 35 games everyday until 31 of this month. I am not sure if I will do that, let's see.

Future Thoughts
This month was so hard for me. I mean, the downswing's are part of the game, I see some serious professional players who make thousands of dollars each month by playing SNG's and they all have downswing's for hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars.
Volume is the key to keep making profit, this is a long term game and on the short term luck plays a big role but on the long term, skill is master.
I think I will play more multitable SNG than single table SNG because they are more profitable besides having more variance.

180 Man SNG
These are the most profitable and yet more variance sng that exists (in turbo blinds). I have been looking at some pros results and these games are very very profitable. I played a few this month and did not cash in any of them but I enjoyed a lot. I think these games have potential to become my grind on the future, not right now because I do not have the perfect bankroll to grind them and I also need to study them. To make good profit on them you have to play at least 1k in one month.

These are my thoughts on my actual poker career. Not a good month but you should not look to your short term results, instead, look at your decisions at the tables and work towards long term profitable results.

Back to 9 Man grind on Turbo mode

I am down for the month and I am willing to turn things around. I returned yesterday to 9 Man SNG's but on Turbo. I dropped 1 buy-in level so I can manage to multitable and adapt to turbo blinds at the 9 Man SNG's.

I played 10 tables at the same time today and I made ITM (in the money) on 5 tables with two 1 st places, one 2nd and two 3rd places. The funny thing is that I lost with good hands, like AK vs 72s (player rivers a deuce) and on the other game I call a shove with A8 vs his A3s (he rivers a 3).
Anyway I made a small profit and I will try to play between 60 and 100 this week, so I can have many points to the Battle Of the Planets and, of course, to make cash.

Keep grinding smart!

Last Month Review

Last month I played 216 games, was my highest month in volume. But I played different types of SNG and that brought some negative consequences on my ROI. Was a month with a small profit, almost break even. In some point of the month I was 3 digits in profit and then after some games I was down again. Anyway, poker is a learning process and I should think and take action to correct my game.