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Well January actually turned out to be a good month for me. I ended the month strong with back-to-back-to-back final tables. I came out with a good profit that should help my bankroll. My goals for February are pretty simple, just keep doing what I’m doing now. The profit that I gained in January should allow me to continue to just play Mtts and Sngs comfortably although I know I said I was going to pick up LHE cash games I think I’m going to put that off for a while. Throughout this month I’ve found out that one of my strengths is playing Mtt satellites. In fact I won 2 seats into the $300k grtd playing only two satellites both $8 mtts where I had to finish top 3 out of a 150+ people. I have confidence in my ability to get into big tournaments, but whenever I do, I can’t seem to catch a break. I wont bore you with the bad beat stories but I do feel that I am playing well in these tournaments and just havn’t had enough volume to get a big cash. However, I’m confident that in the next couple months I’ll have a cash in one of these big tournaments for a couple grand. I just have to keep playing my A+ game and good things will happen. 

On To February…….

—–doublemeup——

Hello, My name is Michael Aron. My online handles are no not baxter/moneyinbag. I am a freshman at the Indiana University. I am from West Palm Beach, Florida. I got my start in poker during the Moneymaker boom. In 9^th grade, a lot of the kids at school would play for play money on Pokerroom. Then, in tenth grade, I somehow found out about Full Tilt Poker. The site was still in Beta but my friends and I enjoyed playing it. When they first opened up, they had tons of freerolls and my friends and I would play these all the time. Eventually, a few of my friends found a way to deposit (we were underage at the time) and I followed suit. I was not bad at all for first starting out. I did very well in the $5 sit and goes and won a few $5 MTT’s. I even managed to bust Layne Flack, earning myself a t-shirt saying “You busted Layne Flack at Full Tilt Poker.com.” When Tilt first introduced razz, I absolutely dominated the game. For some reason I just understood the game very well right from the get go. However, I do not play it anymore as it bores me. I was a very decent player back then, but I had no idea of many of the concepts I know of today, especially bankroll management. I went broke many times and I had probably lost about 1.5k (due to playing way out of my bankroll) before I finally started to get it. I do not have a great memory. Actually, I have an absolutely horrid memory. So, the timing of certain things in my poker career is sort of a blur. But during my junior and senior years of high school, I bought poker books, read the forums on FCP a little (not really strategy), played a lot of home games, and started going to my local kennel club. After a few decent scores, I was back in the green for my lifetime career earnings. I deposited on a couple different poker sites, but then eventually settled with Pokerstars and Full Tilt.

Ever since this summer, I have been trying to work on my game so much because I really want to be a great player. I have mostly been playing MTTs since this summer. I was not doing great in them, but I was surviving. More recently, I have played more SNGs and cash games. I acquired Poker Office through an offer with Titan Poker. I bought Cardrunners and Poker X Factor and also became acquainted with many other poker tools. I started to track my results using excel. Basically, I have been trying to do anything to improve my game. But, something is wrong. I am not giving it 100%. From today on forth, I am going to spend as much time as I can improving my game. I want to be very open in this blog and will not be afraid to give any of my bankroll numbers. I feel like this is the best way to learn more about myself and my game.

Back in December, I was doing extremely well in all aspects of my game (sng, mtt, and cash). I had about 3k to my name on stars. But once again I was a BR management donk and it has gone down.

Here are my results so far for January:

- Cash: -$148.22

- SNG: $154.30

- 180s: $32.88

- MTT: -$333.50

- Sats: -$71

My current bankroll (spread out over FTP, UB, Stars, and Bodog) is approximately $467.

From here on out I am going to proceed under these bankroll guidelines. If you see me get out of line, whip my ass, post about how I am a BR donk, just do something.

- Cash: 40 buyins, if drop below 30 buyins then drop down

- SNG: 45 buyins

- MTT: 80 buyins

Also, I am going to try to set many goals. My goals are as follows for February:

- Maintain good bankroll management

- Have a 1k+ score in an MTT

- Consistently be able to beat .10/.25 NL

- Be bankrolled for $35 Turbos ($1575)

- Be able to beat the $27 Turbos

For the next week I plan to play mostly $6 turbos and some .05/.10 NL with a few $4 180s and $5 MTTs thrown in there when I can find the time.

I plan to update frequently as I believe it will help improve my game. I hope some of you guys will enjoy reading about my progress as well.

Good luck everybody,

Mike

Its been a long time since my last entry. Well since the start of ’07 I’ve kept track of all my results in Mtts and Sngs on an Excel spreadsheet. How long will this last? Probably not long, I’m sure I’ll get lazy and stop keeping track but for now I’m happy that I’m keeping track of my results. I’ve been running really bad this whole month. I’ve only cashed 3 times in 29 Mtts so that’s not good at all. Although I don’t feel that I’ve played poorly so I shouldn’t be too disappointed with my results. Nevertheless, I play to win and when I don’t, I wonder why. My stats have shown that I’ve gone deep in a lot of tournaments but I havn’t been cashing. This is going to be one of the aspects of my game that I’ll need to work on in the near future. As for right now, I’m thinking of picking up limit hold’em cash games. The more and more I play strictly NLH tournaments, the more I realize how hard it actually is to maintain a good profit month after month. I think I need to play something where I can count on consistently making a profit, no matter how small it may be. This way, if I lose 30 buy ins without cashing then the loss won’t be so great. On the other hand, if I start losing at limit hold’em cash games then the loss will be even bigger. I’m not too concerned about that, the fact is that I need to pick up another game so I will. We’ll see how it goes.

Peace

—-doublemeup—-