monthly profit

[silax]

well after one month of playing mtts my monthly profit is £970 proberbly haven't played as many tournies as i could have and have been on a pretty grim run for the last 2 weeks of the month but overall i've got to be pleased with that now can i reproduce it for another month playing my last tourny of the month in 5 minutes but its a big one and in the past never seem to get any good hands to play in this particular tourny.

[Street cry]

good stuff eddy keep at it i am hoping to try afew sit and go's to get me back in to thw swing but as i am back to trading manually mental exhaustion is aproblem cheers sc

[silax]

gonna try another month at least, just gone out of the biggy tourny called all in with ak not normally an all in shout for me but i'd read a few loose players and thought i might get a bire which i did J,7 so while i'm rolling around laughing he rivers a 7 and i'm out
goos stuff

[John]

Well done Silax, that's VERY good going. What buy-in levels do you tend to play?

I'm a low stacks player, probably too low for the intelligence and logic I just pulled off (though that doesn't happen very often :wink) coming 2nd in a 90-seater MTT ($3.30 + $0.50 for every knockout). So won myself $47.88 in total. This is, however, after the worst week I've probably ever had at the poker tables... which is quite startling to be honest because the week before was very good.

I tell you what though - you have to have the hands to get to the final table in these big tournaments. I had AA 3 times, KK twice (once which I folded to a straight draw), 88 twice (won once with quads :D), TT twice, JJ once (which I lost with) and that's probably about it in the space of nearly 2 hours.

AK not normally an all-in shout for me either Silax... I love and hate it. Anyone who hits a pocket pair kicks you off.

[silax]

well after a little experimenting i normally play $10 freezeouts i would agree about having to have the hands there is very little skill play in the mtts i like games where there are 300 - 400 people although same rules seem to apply to 1000 people get to the 2nd break and you're in the cash thats 2 hours then about another hour or so and the final table or is it another 2 hours seems to have been ages since i got there.
i generally only need to win a few hands to get a nice stack and into the money but getting hit by bad luck a lot just like the ak getting beat by a river 7 and its always on the river

[John]

Know the feeling. It's tricky. I always find that I have a really good run followed by a bad one and then it switches back. There's no in-between, I just seem to hit the extremes of both. Times like tonight don't come along very often however and my word I regret losing 125,000 chips (3/4 my stack, after shoving my King-high flush to be greeted by my closest danger with the Ace). That put me on to a real low although at this point there were three of us left at the final table. 10 hands later after some crazy blind stealing I ended up losing with Pocket 9s to be greeted with AQ and he rivered an Ace. The final straw was shoving my AJs to K8o.

Freezeouts - not something I am really familiar with. Don't freezeouts just give you entry into better tournaments or is that satellites I'm thinking of? I tend to mainly play 18-runner two-table tournaments but recently have thrown in the odd MTT here and there.

[mathare]

Freezeouts - not something I am really familiar with. Don't freezeouts just give you entry into better tournaments or is that satellites I'm thinking of?Freezeouts are just normal tournaments, no rebuys and last man standing wins. Satellites get you entry into bigger events

[silax]

yep john freezeouts exactly yhe same as re-buys without the rebuy option