Nick's Poker Stars Double or Nothing updates

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When John set up the ill-fated forum poker game on Poker Stars I decided to join up. However, on that very day I got an email from Poker Stars addressed to me with a username. I had obviously joined at some previous stage of my life.

I logged in and got a shock to discover there was $45 sat there in my account just waiting to be spent.

I have decided to use the $45 to play the $1 double or nothing STTs. It's probably worth pointing out that NLHE is not my strongest suit but I will do my best.

To the uninitiated, that means the top 5 in a 10 seater table all win $2, an increase of 90c after deducting the house fee.

So today I had some spare time and decided to play. My laptop will allow four tables to display so I got into 4 turbo tourneys and off I went.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, I cashed in 3 of the 4 tourneys and they took about 30 mins to play. In the other I went out relatively early pushing all-in with AsAh on a board of

AcKc3d - I got called and my opponent who had 10 chips more than me turned over QcJc and the last two cards were 5c and 10d so my trips were smashed every which way. No complaints because it happens fairly regularly.

So, my bank increased by $1.60. That's a poor increase for a SR of 75% but at least I know how long it will take to get to my goal of $100 before I increase my playing level. Having said that it is an increase of 4% which I can only dream about from horse racing.

I should add that this will be very part time and occasional as I have other poker things I wish to do that are more profitable.

By my reckoning a SR of over 60% should keep me winning but I need over 80% to make the balance move quickly.

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Good luck with this. May the PokerStars poker gods be kinder to you than they are to me at the minute :D

[John]

Good luck Nick. It will be interesting to see your results. I remember you said they were a goldmine... :)

I'm playing Double or Nothings at the moment as my only poker game type, I've had a solid week of it so far. But I don't want to clog up your thread with my results so I'll start a separate thread of my own (do you see a pattern emerging here? :D)

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Bloody hell. It's 6:30 in the morning and I've already been up an hour thanks to the dog deciding she needed to go out.

It does mean that I've shoehorned in 3 games this morning (will almost certainly be the last until at least Monday night).

I cashed in 2 out of 3 and (sulk) went out on the bubble in the other.

So, $3.30 spent and a return of $4 so a profit of 70c.

Profit to date of

$2.30

Now I am off to iron my cricket kit - oh joy!

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It is so frustrating playing these STTs - they seem to take for ever and what for? An 85c or 90c profit.

I was trading the cricket this afternoon and thought I would make good use of my time in the 1 hour break between innings.

I opened up 8 tables - the good thing about them is that the tables fill within a minute at most.

6 tables of hold em, 3 turbo and 3 normal (paint drying slow). 2 tables of Omaha.

I cashed in 6 out of the 8 tourneys, busting out of the other to in 7th place; interestingly both times with KK which got called by a rag Ace that hit the turn on a safe board but that's what happens in a $1 tourney I guess.

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Strike rate - 11/15 = 73.33%
Profit = $5.25