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I’ve been meaning to put up some semblance of a post in the last couple days but what I end up realizing is there’s nothing too interesting to say. I had my first losing day two days ago, and followed it up with a nice +61% ROI short session yesterday. I’m almost exactly on pace to play 1000 sngs for the month. Four tabling, that’s an average of playing 35 hours a week. I’m beginning to wonder if the ROI that I’ll lose by playing 6+ tables is small enough to make it worth not having to play so many hours.

I remember I tried an experiment of 12 tabling $1 sngs a while back and I think I had like a +1% ROI. I’m awful when it comes to multi tabling. I need to be able to think things out. For the most part I act extremely quick and know what to shove, what to fold, etc. But there are times where it’s close and I need to think it through. I’ll have to do some math but I think it might be worth it next month to play 6 or more tables so I won’t have to play so many hours while hopefully earning the same or more money. As for right now, I’m just trying to grind out my $3k for the month to pay the rent for the next couple months.

Fortunately, this is not a sarcastic title. Yesterday I had the sickest day in sngs I’ve ever had. I grinded a good 10 hours. Here are the results:

65 $24 stts

+43% ROI

+$677 profit

Just absolutely gross. At the end of the day I thought I had probably profited but wow. So now my overall ROI is 15% over 374 sngs. I feel like my ROI should be 20% but when it was at 9, I really can’t complain. I mean that’s still better than almost all players who have put in any volume at that level but I set high standards for myself. Although the games HAVE gotten much tougher. The $22 level is now much tougher than the $33s that I grinded a year ago imo. Back in those days, it was me, j00hnnyd, and hez. That was it as far as good regulars go. Now there are soooo many good to decent regulars who while exploitable, hurt your overall ROI because they push/fold well. I feel like as far as tilt is concerned, I’m doing a good job but as far as continuing to improve, I’m not. So that’s something that I’m going to work on in the coming days. I also need to put in very long days as I did yesterday on my off days from college so I can get back on track.

I also want to mention that today is September 11th and while I promised a friend I wouldn’t write up a blog on it, I just want to mention that my thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected by that day.

God Bless

—-Don—-

I remember Sngs being swingy but jeeeeez its like you can have a good session and brick your last 4 sngs and your ROI goes down significantly. To give you an idea, on August 31rst my ROI was 20%, after September 1rst, it was 2%. Blahhhhh all about the long term. I just have to put in the hours to get that volume. I hope to play 2k sngs for the month but that’ll be tough. Especially considering I only 4 table so you average like 8 sngs an hour. You do the math. Anyways, I’ve completed 1/10 of my goal and here are the numbers:

207 Sngs

12% ROI

$576 Profit 

Pretty solid, I mean like I said it’s very swingy. If I win my last couple sngs my ROI could be 15-16%. I think by the end of the month I’ll have a positive ROI. I’d love to get to 20% but I may be at 5%. Who knows, I just have to do everything I can to somehow find a way not to hang myself while grinding my life away. It definitely is a grind doing the same thing over and over again but I had a discussion with a friend of mine who’s been on both sides of the coin. He’s worked a real job and he’s played poker as a job and he said that poker is no where near the grind that a real job is so I believe it.

I’m gonna have to set some kind of schedule after I’ve been to all of my college classes. But for now on my off days, I’m gonna grind.

Grinding

—-Don—-

I read Daniel Negreanu’s blog and although I try to keep politics and religion out of my blog, if I watch another minute of the Republican Convention, I’m gonna scream. This will be my first time voting and I’m very excited. I’ve followed this election very closely. I’ve listened to more speeches than I can count, heard more bullshit than one can take, and realized how biased cable news can really be. To tell you the truth, I made up my mind a long time ago. When the potential nominees threw their hat into the ring, I wanted to give everyone a fair chance to convince me that they should be the next President of the United States. Keep in mind that I don’t belong to any party and think that parties in general is what’s wrong with America. But that’s for another blog. I watched the debates and got the candidates’ view on all major issues. I listened to them speak about the future of the country and numerous social issues. There was one candidate that I felt would be best suited as the next President. Now please don’t take me for someone who just goes with the trend and doesn’t know what the fuck they’re talking about. I’m also not naive enough to think that Obama is gonna do even half the things he promises.

But I do think that Obama’s intentions are sincere and I’ve never felt that about a politician………ever. McCain on the other hand is old politics. I don’t want another 4 years of Bush, I’m sorry. By his own admission, he wants a draft in the near future. I would not like to be drafted to go serve in Iraq.

The McCain campaign has attacked Senator Obama on his lack of experience and with good reason. His resume is no where near that of McCain. But then to select Governor Palin as your running mate. Just lol. I mean if that’s not a perfect example of a hypocrisy then I dunno what is. Don’t get me wrong, I’d so do her in Sexy Secretaries II but I don’t want her running the country if John croaks. His pick while it creates attention for a campaign that so desperately needs it is already blowing up in his face. Her daughter is pregnant? Ut……..oh. Let’s hope she’s not a lesbian.

I guess as I grow up, my views on certain social issues come to fruition. I had my first college class tonight and we were discussing the big social issues. There are some issues that while seemingly you can only be for or against, I can see both sides of it. Like abortion or as clever politicians like to call it, “pro life” or “pro choice”. I honestly can see both sides of it. On the one hand, it’s a horrible thing to take someones life even if it’s someone who hasn’t been born yet. On the other hand, I hate when the government tries to run my life and tries to tell me what I can and cannot do. I think women should be able to choose. So I understand both sides and the fact that belonging to one political party or another says you have to be 100% committed to one belief doesn’t sit well with me. Now on an issue like the War on Terror yah I’m against it.

OK so now I’m just rambling. I felt like I had to put something out there about my political views because I feel so strongly and I’ve been following the election so closely. I hope us young people and first time voters show up on Election Day. If you plan on doing so and are voting for McCain, then that’s great. The important thing is that you have the ability to elect the leader of your country and that freedom is what makes America the best country in the world.   

God Bless

—-Don—-

I’m baaaaaaaaack. I live in Grind City, USA. I put in a really long day of sngs yesterday. The finals results were:

71 $24 Stts

20% ROI

Profit +$351

I’m pretty happy about the results. I had what seemed like 8 zillion bubbles so to have that and still put up a 20% ROI in a small sample size is always good. The key thing is just volume. Even if I put up a 5% ROI, if I can play 2k sngs for the month, I’ll make 2500. Then again If I have the exact same day as I did yesterday everyday this month, I’d make 11k.  I plan on putting in a sick amount of volume in September.

Unfourtunatley, school starts tomorrow. My schedule is I have classes 4 days a week with three of them at night and one in the morning. As you could probably guess I’m not a morning person so that’s why I chose night classes. I think it’ll be good but worst comes to worst I’ll switch next semester. I’m already feeling the first day of school jitters. I’ll be feeling for that a whole week! Ughhhh   At least Prison Break Season 4 premieres tonight?

I’ll try and give updates regularly on how Sng Experiement: TP/MM Part 1 is going.

Till Then

—-Don—-