February results

Ok, so its a little late, but here are my results from February:

Period Full Tracking Last 120 days Year 2010 Year 2009 Year 2008 Year 2007 2006 (>?) 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2009 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2008 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2007 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2006 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January with estimated RA expenses (and bounties in FTP Knockouts) without estimated RA expenses (and bounties in FTP Knockouts) View by Game Game Size All Holdem NL Holdem L/PL Omaha Omaha HiLo Other Games

ITM Finishes 1st 5 1st ties 3 2nd 4 3rd 3 4-10th 25

MTT Avg. Finish% Early 1% (10%) EM 9% (20%) Mid. 45% (40%) ML 30% (20%) Late 15% (10%)

HU/STT/MTT * Prizes Profit ROI ABI AFS R/A ITM ITM Heads-Up 2 player $0 $0 0% $0 0 0% 0/0 0% Single Table 3-10 $0 $0 0% $0 0 0% 0/0 0% Multi Table 11-45 $774 $205 36% $3.82 45 0% 36/149 24% Multi Table 46-180 $104 $29 38% $2.77 143 0% 9/27 33% Multi Table 181- $15 $4 35% $2.20 4234 0% 2/5 40% $892 $238 36% $3.62 175 0% 47/181 26%

So obviously I didn't play anywhere near as much as I did in January. Not included in the above is a session of 18 man games to chase the $40 40 billionth hand bonus that was on offer.

The good numbers are the reasonably high ROI (for me) and the ITM%. The ROI of course leads to a decent profit considering the lack of games played. It would have been higher but I had a bad session near the end of the month after I reached the $1000 mark.

My goals for March are to keep improving and moving my game forward. I played a bit last week but I'm not sure how much time I'll be online for the rest of the month.

I've just hired someone to help me out with Capital Reservations so that takes the pressure off and I can get some balance back in my life after a crazy last 6 weeks or so. My main focus of the month is getting back in shape and getting consistent gym time in. So far so good with that as I've been to the gym 5 times in the last 3 days (2 weights, 3 cardio) and I'll be there again in the morning. I weighed in just over 80kg and the goal is to get down to 75kg ... hopefully I can get this done in a matter of weeks.

Frustrating

Last night's session seemed like hard work. My game seemed to be all over the shop, sometimes making good moves and smart plays and other times I just couldn't play hands any worse.

My dumbest hand of the night by far was against an early position raise from a loose/aggressive player. I've got pocket queens so I re-raise him solidly and he calls, which I expected. The board comes 5, 5, 7 or something like that and stupidly I check thinking he'll take a stab at the pot with his lower pair or ace high. He instead checks and the next card comes a king so I bet, he re-raises all-in and for some reason I call ... he of course turns over ace king and my stack is decimated. Just a dumb, dumb play and I was embarrassed I made it.

Another surprisingly horrible move by me came when I was 4-tabling and on one table I had ace king suited and on the other I had ace 4 suited, both on the button. One table there was a raise and a call and the other had a short-stack all-in. For some reason I re-raised all-in over the top of the all-in with ace 4 suited thinking it was the AK and by the time I realised what I had done, I decided to fold the AK on the other table and get my shit together. The ace 4 suited was up against pocket queens but I turned the flush for the nuts ... woops.

I played 23 tournaments last night, $2 180 man games but mostly $3.25 45 man games and cashed 5 of them. No heads-up action but I did have a 3rd and a 4th ... as well as roughly 5 bubbles, so roughly a break-even night by the end of it. I had a look at my August numbers and my profit is essentially all coming from the 45 man games. I realise the 180's have a higher variance and aren't suited to my normal/old game, but I'd like to continue to play them, work on them a little more and hopefully see some better results.

Won't be playing online tonight as I'm off to see Brad Pitt in Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Basterds", I'll let you know what its like next time. Also not playing tomorrow as I'm catching up with a friend I haven't seen for a few months.