2011 Thoughts

I will not play any game today, I am going, (with my wife and son), to my father-in-law house to dinner and we will spend the all  night there. I have Internet and a laptop there, if I awake up early tomorrow morning, I will probably start my 2012 grind in the morning.

I played more cash games hands this month than any month of the year, I am satisfied about my current game at the tables. The key factor that I miss most of the time during the year was volume. But that is not so bad, because I consider myself a novice player in many areas on Holdem, so not playing many games per day is not a big issue. After all, this is not my job, at least for now.

I consider a 2011 a rich experience in terms of learning but also, somehow, disappointing due to my lack of discipline in grinding one type of game. I will correct this error next month, I may just have corrected because I only played one type of game during this month.

I will put December results on the next post, just leave here a picture of my final VPPs 2011 year.

10 Years Of Excellence

There are some things in life that just by saying the name of that "thing", we remember excellent quality, excellent product, excellent guarantee of use, excellent performance, excellent work, excellent ethic.
This apply in many areas in life, take football (or soccer) for example, if you say your favorite team name, you are going to remember something excellent about. Take you car dreams name, it will be the same. You can also think about some people, maybe your closest family members, how excellent they are in your daily life.

The main thing applies to one name of  a "thing" in the world of online poker, Pokerstars.
Yes, Pokerstars to many people, (including me of course), is a sign of excellence. They are excellent in many things. They have an excellent software for online poker, they have an excellent ethic that is the same to all customers, starting from the player that only plays few hands per month to the professional player. They have an excellent reward service in the business that rewards the most volume players. One key factor is listening to the customer and implement new ideias.

They are excellent in many areas, and they are surprising me all the time, every month, every year with little things, like receiving an excellent e-mail from they support to more important things like creating a brand new tourney series (by the way they are going to release next month a new one), or implementing a great promotion or breaking a new world record Guinness.

I play as an amateur player on Pokerstars but I am very proud to play on the one and only, the greatest online poker room, that some people, 10 years ago decided to call, Pokerstars.


Merry Christmas and a happy new 2012 year!

Current Perfomance

Hello, this week I played many hands on full ring NL cash games. Most of my sessions are profitable,  I played 10 sessions this month, I had 2 losing sessions and 1 break even session, so I can complain too much. I played 15950 hands this month. I am enjoying the cash games experience, I am not studying so much as I should, so I am going to concentrate on improving my game last 2 weeks of the month (of course you should always strive to improve your game).
Leave here my current performance for the month.

Month Results

This month I only managed to play on 2 days, one on the 1st of December and today, I will put more work during the next week. I am playing about 1k hands for session. Started the month a little bad, with some ugly spots (those sets are killing my overpairs!), ayway it's all part of the game. Played about 4k hands this month, leave here the current performance. Will try to update every week, stay tuned!

Last 3 Months Review

Since September I have been playing almost every type of sits. I must admit that I don't have the discipline to specialize in one type of sit. The true is, if you want to make things work on poker, you must dedicate to one type of sit first and grind a lot.

Anyway, I was reviewing the games that I played and where I have most game played are on the 180 players hyper turbo, with a decent ROI. I had some good results on the 90 and 180 man sits, but the 180 mans are very full of variance and the 90 man takes too long, specially the regular blinds speed.

I decided to give a try to full ring cash games during the last days. I have good results on a very short sample of about 5,5k hands, but they are promising results. I ended playing 5515 hands and making 35bb/100 at NL2. I won't play tomorrow so I leave here some pics and I will workout my game next month.

Less Volume This Month

I haven´t put many hours to the game this month. Been busy with a small project on my leisure time. Anyway, I played a few sits and some cash games. I am going to put more study until the end of the month and try a new approach on cash games next month. This approach should incorporate strategy and volume. I will also continue to play multi table tournaments/sits, they have lot's of dead money.
Here is my current perfomance on cash games, the volume is very, very low, I will set goals for next month, if the things workout I probably going for cash games full ring in January. If not, back to muiltitable sits. I am going to cross my fingers for the next month!

Playing and Learning

Hi, October was a low volume month for me and I did not made anything memorable to write. This month I had a 10th place on a tournament with 1000 players, so I was the bubble final table player.
I have been playing some sits but not so much volume. I played my first cash game session today for the month and it was ok. I like to play cash games but unfortunately I do not have the knowledge to beat these games. Anyway I leave here a decent graph from today session.
I am thinking already next year what type of games should I grind a lot and conquer, because I want to make more money and more volume next year and probably turn this business n he right track so I can think about doing professionally in a near future.

Past Hand Review

I was reading an old post from my blog, that has the title "2 Outer on the River", I posted on May this year. At the time I write that "I lost to a 2 outer on the river". Then, some nice guys did correct me on the comments to 4 outs and another one write 3 outs. Anyway, probably I did not explain very well my hand but the truth is 4 outs.

Let me explain better, step by step.
Preflop: I had AQo on the big blind, loose opponent has J7o on the cutoff and decides to play his hand. Preflop my hand has 66,7% Equity against his hand.

Flop: on the flop 3 cards are on the board, those cards are King of Hearts, Seven of Diamond and Teen of Diamond. Opponent make his pair of sevens, (bottom pair), and I have a nothing but a draw, a straight draw. If a jack comes on the turn or river I complete my draw and I make a straight.

Ignoring the opponent hand, (when playing the hand I do not know his cards), there are 4 cards, (4 jacks), "out there" to complete my draw, so at this moment I have 4 outs. The math says  that I have 16% chances to win the hand (winning odds), or 17.2% to be exact.
At this moment I am behind to my opponent pair, so my equity is reduced to 35,9%.

Turn: The positive variance his at my side this time and I make my straight, and nice to me that my loose Opponent make his second pair, because he is willing to put more money on the pot unless he suspects that I had the straight.

At this moment there are only 4 cards to come from the deck that could beat my straight, those cards are: Jack of Spades, Jack of Diamond, Seven of Spades or Seven of Clubs. So my opponent has 4 outs to make his full house on the river, and not 2 outs like I write before.
The math says that he has only 8% chance to win (or 9,1% chance to be exact).
At this moment my equity increased to a huge 90,9%, I am a big favourite to win this hand. In the long run I win about 90% of the time against his hand with this board.

River: One of the 4 outs does come on the river with the Seven of Clubs, so my opponent does make his 9,1% winning chances and wins this hand with the full house, (3 Sevens + 2 Jacks)

Observations:
I do not have here the bet amounts present at the moment, so with a 16% chance on the flop a good player must figure out when playing if he isn't paying too much to go to the turn. This hand was played in a cash game (not a sit and go or a tournament).

Here is the original post.

Words To Think About It

I want to leave here a link to a Portuguese poker player who wrote some correct and great things about having an edge in today's poker games, specially online poker. For the people who don't know portuguese language, there is some tools online to translate the text.

http://pokerpt.com/blogs/95-naza114/o-edge-comeca-muito-antes-do-torneio-comecar

Thank you João Vieira.

More Players, More (Long Term) Profit

What can you do with $1? Well, you can turn in $100!
I played the most profitable games this month, the 90 and 180 players on Pokerstars. With an average buy-in of $1 I made more than $100. I am still chasing the $2.50 top 3 place, hope that will be very soon.
After months of average to poor results, I finally find myself playing the right games.

I Am Back Again

It's nice to post when you are having good results, so I will do just that. September is being my best poker month of the year in terms of profit. I am playing most of the time the 180 man hyperturbo sits. I play occasionally some MTT's. The month is still not over, but I am not measuring my results on a monthly basis for now. By the way, I decided to leave the VIP pursuit for another time and concentrate my energies on getting better at the games.
Here is a nice picture from the month:

Hyper Turbos 1st Place

I have been playing multitable sit and go's this month, not 2 tables, not 5 tables but 10 tables (90 players) and giving a try at the 20 tables tournaments (180 players). I have a very short sample on them too really know if I am beating the games or not, nevertheless I am showing a profit, perhaps better than I was expecting due to the small sample. I have some decent results at the 90 players tournament in Turbo mode (blinds speed), zero profit at the 180 players in turbo mode  but an 1st place at the hyper turbo 180 players, the new $1 SNG with 180 players.

I think this performance is not luck, although it has it's role on this short sample, but has someone use to say, the better I am the lucky I get. I have been working on my end game, studying hand ranges equity when you have less than 20 big blinds. A great Portuguese professional poker player wrote on his blog that a medium pair has a better chance to win against a random hand than a premium hand like Ace-King.

Meanwhile I have so much to learn and study, I have some good material to study about the math that it makes part of the game, concepts like expected value, basic probabilities, hot and cold equity, game theory and many more subjects to sharp my skill at these games.

The 90 players and 180 players tournaments have more variance than the single table tournaments but you get a higher return on your investment with these games. I invested $1 today and made about $48 in profit. Leave here a picture of my 1st place at the tournament, not so much because of the result itself, but because it's my first 180 players 1st place at a higher variance hyper turbo format.
The tournament duration was almost 60 minutes, they are fast!
But remember, we shouldn't be results oriented, the most important are the +EV (Expected Value) long term decisions that we make at the tables.

WCOOP 2011

The World Championship Of Online Poker is back.
Do you want to be the next online poker champion? See the schedule details only on Pokerstars.

Mega Promotion on Pokerstars

I just saw today that during August Pokerstars is having a huge mega promotion, you can make Platinum with only 750 vpps!! I still don't have my new pc, anyway there is no time for system failures I just have to borrow a notebook from a friend or give some steam to my old pc and grind the vpps to make platinum this month!!

System Failure

I haven't updated the blog because I haven't played any game at all on the last days. My desktop computer is having some problems and I cannot play anything. My pc has 10 years, so it was expected that sooner or later he was going to give me some problems. I will buy a new pc on the next days so I probably will start to play next week or middle of August. Will comeback to the 9 Max SNG (regular blinds) and want to put some really effort on the game.
Stay tuned for latter updates!

July Update

Don't forget it but move on

I ended the 18 man SNG turbo grind/coaching. For the coaching point of view I did not make the required number of games in a month and that was the deal. So it was better for me and for the coach to stop right now until I can work out and put a great deal of volume. Nevertheless, I enjoyed very much the coaching experience and learn some things about shoving more on the late game.

I won't forget this experience but I am fresh and released from the last grind and ready to move on to my "beach", the STT normal blinds SNG games.

I am playing 6 man games, enjoying and profiting slowly and steady. I want to move on to the $3 buy-in somewhere next month and play a lot this month. I am not sure if I will be a shorthanded sng player or a full ring sng player, or both, the experience will shape my path.

The 2011 vs 2010 Performance

I know that the sample is short (specially last year), but I could not be more disappointed with my current performance. I have learn more things this year but I am running poor, I identified two main reasons:

- the increase on the number of tables playing per session. Last year I played 6 tables on average, where this year I am playing 12 tables on average.

- the lack of dedication to one type of SNG game. Last year my main game was 9 man SNG (normal blinds). This year I played a few types: 9 man and 6 man (normal blinds), 18 Man (Turbo), 9 Man (Turbo) and Heads-up.

This is the picture that compares both years, one of the filters have SNG+MTT's (Tournaments) from last year.

What's next?

Pick up the skill, shape up the mind, calm down the emotions, study hard and put more volume. Dedication to on type of SNG. I will play occasionally some MTT's but they aren't (for now) my main focus.

Stay tuned for more updates!

June Recap

June wasn't a good profit month in terms of grinding. I did not improved my game on the first weeks of June and the lack of focus in one dedicated area of game was bad. I played some cash games and SNG's. In terms of volume was nice, I made Silverstar twice by making more than 1900 vpps, not enough for GoldStar (3000 vpps).

As for cash games, well I just grinded all the way and ended up losing in some spots that I shouldn' bet more and lost in another spots where I was favorite to win. I think my main leak on cash games is the lack of knowledge and the way to deal in some spots. I think cash games are long term ev+ and is an area that I will probably return to them in the future. For now I decided to take a grinding cash games break.
I am focusing my next 5000 games on 18 Man Turbos SNG. This is because I am taking coaching on this area with another players. I just started on the last week of June so the results should come out very soon.

June Overall SNG's Graph:


There was a type of SNG that I made profit in the end, the 6 Man (Normal Blinds). I just played the micro stakes on them and I think they are very soft. Besides being profitable on them, for now I will improve and grind the 18 Man Turbo SNG.

June 2 types of SNG games results:

July is here, so lets' go get them and make a good month.

Silverstar Achieved

Just a matter of time and volume, today I achieved Silverstar. I am playing more cash games this month just to spice things around and learn some new things. I will keep playing them for a while, my last sessions have been positive but I have some major downswings a few days ago. Whenever I had a big pocket pair I was always losing and I even lost sets vs sets. Really sick, but those things happen. I will keep puting some really nice volume this month.

May in The Books

This month I decided to change things and leave the SNG grind apart for a month, (although I played just a few of them).
I decided to play micro stakes cash games and check-out my results after some volume. Well, bad beats apart and I did not made the volume necessary to renew Silverstar this month. Anyway, June is going to be another VIP pursuit and will get there with no worries.

I played NLH full ring and NLH 6 max. cash games and even some fixed limit. I profited on NLH and lost some money on FLH. I got some sick suck-outs on my nit full ring experience and some nice hands too. The 6 max cash games have much more action, you have on some tables a hell of a party because everyone is raising and re-raising with some marginal holdings, (the kind of hands that will suck you out on the river!)

Anyway, I enjoyed a lot the experience on cash games, specially at 6 max NLH that I will possibly grind them out on June. It's a different beast apart from Sit & Go's, the full ring are more a kind of valuing your good hands by betting on all streets. On 6 Max, you have to be more aggressive and widen up your hand range.

Btw, I grinded some 21 tables at the same time (full ring) in one of the sessions (picture on the end). I did not made anything specially in terms of profit, but will leave here the results pre-rakeback.

The curve line on the graph is the profit, the green bars are the number of hands played per day:

A masive multitabling experience in one of the sessions:

See you in June!

2 Outer on the River

On the last post I showed the Royal Flush, and the positive variance that sometimes are present in the poker sessions. Well, I am going to show you an amazing hand, where I make the straight on the Turn and according to PokerStove I am 90% favorite to win this hand, but I lost to a 2 outer on the river, when opponent makes his Full House.
Here are the pics to prove it! (hahaha, now I am preseting the pics to prove the negative variance).

The Royal Flush

Literally, I had 2 hands (in different sessions), where I made royal flush, the only two that I made in my poker career, so you can see that the odds to make are very thin. The probability to make 4 of the possible Royal Flush in one deck of (52) cards are 1 in 649740 or 0.000154%.

Here are the pics to prove it! I made both this year, one in a heads-up game and the other on a 9 man SNG game. Have you done your royal flush this year?

The Need to Improve

I played already more than 400 games, but believe me, this month is being very though. I am negative in $4 and I need to reduce my volume... for a few days only.

I am going to watch some videos and study ICM during this week so I will probably not play any game, but I will return on Thursday or Friday to some mega sessions.

I need to stop for a while, review sessions, study and apply ICM to my sessions and watch some videos to improve my game at the single table tournaments. I was analyzing my data and I have a 11% ROI in 1060 games on 9 man SNG regular blinds (since last year), witch is reasonable. This year I am negative. So I figured out that all that I need is a break and some home study on my game to get back to good results. Of course, I have some variance this year, because I am multitabling on average about 12/15 tables at the same time.

Feeling good with my past data and I have been on this situation before, I was negative on Sharkscope and I did turned things around last year. Another turn around was on my turbos SNG's. I was negative on them and I did turned them positive this year.

I probably will return to the regular blinds SNG's after this pause.

By the way, online gambling could become legalized in the state of Columbia in USA:

http://www.denverpost.com/entertainmentlastold/ci_17828343.

See you at the tables!

Week Feedback

The game of choice

This has been a good week, in fact, a good month. I decided to grind the 9 man turbo since last month and I have been doing very well. I still played some 18 man and regular blinds 9 man this month but the game of choice will definitely be the 9 man Turbo.

Stakes and multitabling improvement

I am playing at the $1,75 for now, I am more than rolled for the $3,40 but I want a bigger sample at this level and perhaps a shoot at the sharkscope leaderboard this year. I move up in stakes very soon.

My main improvement has been on my ability to multitable. I am now playing 15 tables on my sessions with profit (if the conditions are normal). I had some sessions with more tables, (my maximum is 20), but they did not ended very well, but I guess playing my "A" game with 15 tables at the same time in a 19'' monitor is a great achievement!

Here is a picture of the month, from the 235 games played, 194 games are from the 9 man turbos.

March Review

March is over, was a solid month in terms of volume, I achieved 600 games played.
In terms of profit I made about 35 buy-ins more. On the VIP status, I made about 800 Vpps, and 1933 Vpps for the year. The final days of March were very though, I had fantastic sessions on the last weekend and then, starting on Monday until Wednesday I went on the red and a huge downswing hit me and I lost some races were I was 70% favourite on crucial hands.

Plans for the second trimester, starting in April. Like I said in one of the last posts, volume is the goal, and of course, make good decisions at the tables. I will try to play more games on April, I challenge myself to play about 800 games in total (it's going to be hard, I have about 2/3 hours on average per day).

See you at the tables!

Sunday Update

This month is almost over, nevertheless it has been a reasonable month in terms of profit and volume. I still think I can make the 600 games this month and make a nice one hundred bucks, but if not, no big deal, I am counting on more volume next days and increase my edge over the games. By the way, I think this is my best volume month in my entire sng career.

Multitabling is another very important skill for a online poker. I am very comfortable right now in playing 12 tables at the same time, my current maximum tables is 20 but only did that two times and is very though on a 19'' Monitor.

Leave with a graphic for this month, had two majors downswings along the way and recovered from both with more play. See you soon!

Measuring Volume

I haven't played much the last days, about 10/12 games on average per day witch is very low for my ambitious. Anyway, instead of updating my performance on a monthly timeline, I have decided to measure my SNG performance on the number of games that I play at a given type of SNG.

I see 2 advantages here: the more bigger the sample, the better gives you're exact ROI and reduces the variance; and to let you know more clear if you are beating the game by not worrying about a timeline or a specific date to show the results. My goal is to reach as soon as possible the 1k mark on one or both of games at the 9 man and 18 man (turbos), buy-in independent. My current numbers are on the picture below, as you can see, most of my volume at the SNG turbos that I played this year were made this month.

I am playing the turbos, 9 man and 18 man. I am more than rolled to play the $1.75 and the $3.40. Due to the small sample on the 9/18 man turbos, will play both stakes and check out the performance.

Quick Update

Downswings, upswings, volume, bad beats, good decisions, bad decisions... this is poker, this is grinding. I am going for a multitable session after this post, so I leave here my current graph for the month and wish me luck and skill!

March Update

Decided to make a quick update on my current progress. I started pretty well this month with a good volume and profit at the tables. I am playing the 18 Man Turbos at the $1.75. I have more than enough to play the $3.40 but I want to grasp the strategy and make a decent sample on these ones. Wich me luck this week, so I can make a good update on the next post.

March Prediction

I played 415 games on Januar and 289 games on February. January was positive, (3% ROI) February was negative (-6% ROI).
I want March to be my best month in terms of volume and profit. This is always a risk to define profit goals, because it's not good to be results oriented. Anyway, I will take my chances to play the most games and the best I can. Volume goal for this month: 600 games. I will be more satisfied if I can make it 1000 games. Profit terms, to be my best month I must make more than $100 but $200 will be awesome! This is the positive outcome that I want to achieve, things could turn another way around and I could end the month with less profit and games played, but I hope not. By the way if i failed to make good results on the 18 Man (Turbo blinds), will return to the 9 Man SNG (regular blinds).
Congratulations to Azntracker, he is the new Supernova Elite 2011 and fisrt one to make in the shortest time possible.
Good luck to everyone at the tables!

Month Feedback

Hello again, this month I dedicated to heads-up games most of the time. I played 238 heads-up games. It started very good, grinding the $6.25 (Turbos), at one point, about 65 games I was almost $70 in profit. Then things started to get very ugly, and I lost a lot on them (more than 10 buy-ins). Of course, I was rolled to play them but because I am a nit about bankroll management, I dediced to put them on hold. There aren't HU Turbo games at $3 level on stars and the regular blinds at heads-up are so boring. Anyway, I enjoyed very much the HU experience and will increase my study on them (I have been studying the proper stratey to play HU SNG's), and sooner I will return more confident.

The question now is: what games should I focus next month? I decided to take a look at my stats on the all games that I played. Where I played most games at the 9 Man SNG (regular blinds) and is where I made more profit. I could return to them but right now I need a break at the 9 Man, so I will play some 18 Man Turbos next month.

Congratulations to pukax9, for his challenge, he is a great 6 Max SNG Player! I wish Stars could have 6 Man SNG at the $3 buy-in but with regular blinds. I enjoy these games but the $6.60 is a little too much for my conservative bankroll and $1.20 has a high rake to be atractive to play.

January Recap

Finally this month is over, what a month! Profit wise wasn't that good, still ended on the profit zone but I am disappointed with the 9 man results.

I played a total of 386 games this month (good volume) and 277 games of 9 man with a very small profit on them. The other games was 6 man (break even but a very small sample), 45/18 Man turbos and heads-up. I had my best results on the heads-up sng but i played just a few of them.

Yesterday I defined some ambitious goals for this year but I will not write right now. I want to see how february goes on my sng grind. If I make my profit goal for next month, I will be prepared to accomplish some ambitious goals.

Finally I renewed my Silverstar status for February by playing, most of the time, the $3.40 SNGs. If you play 12 of these games per day, on 30 days you are Silverstar.

Mid Month Feedback

There isn't much to say about this month, I have been playing a lot of 9 Man SNG ($3.40 stakes for the majority of the time), a touch here and there at 6 Man. All of them at regular speed blinds. According to my spreadsheet, I played about 292 games this month (and year), so I am satisfied with the volume but still not perfect volume (if I had about 600 at this point, I would be very satisfied).
Anyway, it's the 1st time that I put this kind of volume. I am positive in terms of profit but still did not reach the 3 digits profit for the month, so I am disappointed in terms of my ROI (about 3%).
So, this has been a volume month but not so profitable has I would like to be.

Stay tuned for more updates!

Career Graph (SNG Only) and more...

A picture from my career path until the end of the last year. This graph only shows the SNG, I have some good results on MTT's that are not represented here. This is from the popular Sharkscope.



2009 was my first year on Poker, more exactly the No Limit Texas Holdem. Was a year to learn the game, to have fun, make some good friends (Paulo Mesquita from Braga, if you are reading this, you are one of them!). I got my first poker book on August and started to post hands on Forums.

I started to take Poker more seriously on 2010, starting to grind 9 Man SNG (regular blinds), and I managed to get positive by grinding these type of game. I reeded more new books on 2010, watch some videos and have some long remote sessions with a friend from England that unfortunately I lost his contact a few months ago, (yes Bruce, it's you, you are a great SNG player, give some news!).

2010 was a year to try different SNG formats, and you can see that the graph was a roller coaster due to that but I manage to be positive and learn fundamentals things during the process. I also decided to built my SNG career path on the only and only Pokerstars.

2011 it's going to be different, I am more mature but still always leaning and improving the game. 2011 it's going to be a volume and dedication year, I am going to grind one type of SNG and play some MTT's.

I will post updates very soon, but just to let you know that I already played 89 games this year on 9 players SNG.

Stay tuned.

2010 Review and 2011 Plan

2010 Performance Review

Poker is such an evolving game that we are always learning new concepts, studying others concepts that are more familiar and taking each and every new concept one by one.

For example, last year I learn the basic rules of No Limit Holdem. I also learn how to play in position, one very important and misunderstood concept by the way. But you know what, even this year I must reinforce to myself the importance of position when reviewing my sessions.

I am suspecting that next year I will study some concepts like ICM and bubble factors. Yes, I read the basic theory behind but that is not enough to win consistently at the poker tables, reading is one thing, studying, analysing and applying are very different things.

One of the things that I learn this year is about volume and skill.

Volume and Skill are co-related

One very important thing I learn is that volume and skill are co-related. Beginners and recreational players play much less volume than more dedicated or professional players. Skill is present, it may not be seen at first glance, but is there. The only way to bring the skill out of the game is to put volume. Luck is also present on the game, on the short run you can lose to a bad beat, a cooler but those things have a minor probability to happen, (ironically they happen much more times when you play more hands, but it is compensated by the other times when you make good decisions). I played in a year what some Pro’s play in a month or less, so you can see how volume is important.

Multitabling

Yesterday I had one of my best sessions at 9 Man SNG grind and was the session that I played more tables: 16 tables at the same time! I made almost $60 in profit games plus $50 on VIP stellar rewards and it was more than $100 in profit for a single day. I am much better at handling more than 10 tables at the same time. I started playing 2/3 tables at the same time on January of 2010, increasing the number of tables slowly. There was a time when I was comfortable with 4 tables in title format. I increased to 6 tables in cascade format and on the last 3 months I made the switch to 8 tables ending at 10 tables on average during the last days.

Multitabling 16 tables at the same time is though, specially when you are deep in the SNG. For example when you are approaching the bubble it becomes a very mathematical game. You have to pay attention to you stack and other players stack, your position, bubble factors become important and ICM is always present and finally, the strength of the cards that you hold. When you are ITM, 3 players playing or heads-up is very though but also very exciting!

2011 Milestones

This year I will do my best to stay consistent in one SNG format and put much more volume. I will also play more MTT's online. I am not going to put here some profit numbers, just say that I will put volume on the 9 Man SNG (regular blinds). I will start to grind the $3.40 buy in (like I have been grinding) and mixing with the $5.50 buy in. I wish to end the 1st Semester grinding the $11 buy in and already have some very good months with more than 500 games per month.

I will keep you guys in touch, by the way, if I want to share some quick update I will post on Twitter on: http://twitter.com/lmagalhaes78.

Cheers.