January 2011 Reivew

Hello again to all 2.3 of those who read this. January has been a good month for me on the tables. Things have turned for the better, but we will see how long it lasts. I'm happy with the work I've been putting in on my game, and it's seemed to have paid off.

To start with my once a month poker league went sour for me again. I had been pretty aggressive opening alot of pots. The worst player on the table limped UTG. Everyone folds to the SB who completes, I looked down at KK. I raise to 4x the BB. UTG goes into a rant and pushes on me, SB folds. I really consider laying it down, but just can't do it. I call he has AA, good game.

As for online have been running really good. Overall have played 722 games, up 835.25, with an roi of 50.7%. This is nice and all but isn't really substainable over the long run. An roi of around 20% would make me happy. So I'm expecting to cool off at some point. On fulltilt only have played 43 games, up 55.28, roi of 36.4%.

Have had a couple of deep runs on full tilt in some 1 dollar tournies. They have added a feature that allows you to enter tournies multiple times, in which you can multi table tournaments. For the two I ran deep in you could enter up to 4 times. I finsihed 81 out of 9900 in a dollar rebuy and 27 out of 5225 in a dollar freezeout. Was fun to run deep, have learned at this point that getting deep into tournies of those sizes don't happen every day so I enjoyed them.

I've been reviewing hand histories more then ever this month and I really feel this process is paying off. Have also become a member at tournamentpokeredge.com and have watched many videos, that have helped me out alot. I really feel that I have to do these extra things to keep an edge on the ever changing game of tournament poker.

Plans for the next month are pretty much the same. Continue to play mostly 2.20/180s and 3.25/45s on stars, with some MTT's mixed in. Will be looking to mix in some 6.50/45s and 7.70/180s (hopefully the 7.70s will run more after stars added them to main tourney page) if my bankroll continues to grow. Play the dollar freezeouts and rebuys on fulltilt.

Tomorrow(30th), I will be playing in some sunday events. Qualified for the world blogger championship on stars which should have around 500 entrants. Final table gets like 2k in tourney entries and winner gets like 3k in tourney entries. The entries are for the upcoming SCOOP and Sunday Millions on stars. They also pay down lower with entries. Great value for a tourney that all I had to do was maintain this blog to enter. Will also be playing the 250k guarantee(gonna make this a weekly thing) on stars. Also just registered for 6 entries into the 200k guar little big tourney on fulltilt.

So overall a good month. Hopefully will continue to go well in February. As always can follow MNPuck on twitter for more updates.

MNPuck