Update

Not much to write about really. Coming up on tax season so that means less poker; particularly tournament poker which keeps you up ungodly hours.

Full Tilt

I was running pretty bad at cash games and just decided about 10 days ago to go back to sit and gos and play them for a while. SO I have been playing a ton of sit and gos which are good because I can generally be done a session in about an hour to an hour and a half. I usually play 6-8 tables at a time. I have found that flattened payout satellite SNG are really easy and soft. In fact, Full Tilt is running their quarterly tournament series (FTOPS) and they offer a lot of satellites for all of the events. I have already won 25 seats to FTOPS Event #1 (a $200+16 NLHE tournament). This is all been done in 42 tries which is pretty strong and not really sustainable. Essentially that means I have run at ~74% ROI which is insane.

Total Buy ins- 42 x $75 (entry) = $3,150
Total Wins- 25 x $216 = $5,400

So while I would love to continue with this it is not realistic. I will try, however and see how many I can accumulate before the actual event which is next Wednesday evening. You can track me here (I am fkeplastictrees):

http://p.fulltiltpoker.com/ftops-challenge?id=1

I will also try to win some satellites into some of the other events and have already won 5 into Event 2 and 1 into 3 otehr events.

As for the actual FTOPS series I doubt I will be able to play many of them. A lot of the good tournaments for me start at 2 p.m. and this time of year it is hard for me to get away early from the office. I may be able to slip out, however, on Feb. 11 for Event 16 which is a Omaha Hi-Lo event. We'll see. So I will probably play Events 1, 24 and the Main Event and possibly the Hi-Lo event above.

Poker Stars

On Stars I have been playing mostly the $16 SNGs 9 or 12 tabling at a time. I play very basic ABC and have been doing pretty well. Running at about 15% ROI which is a little above expected for $16 level. Such a small sample size though that it really is insignificant to extrapolate anything from this.

Also been playing some Omaha Hi-Lo on Stars and been playing solid and just grinding everything from 2-4 to 5-10 Limit.

Finally, my goal for this year is to make SuperNova status on Stars which gets all kinds of freebies and goodies as well as some tournament buy-ins, etc. In order to make it, however, I need to average 8,333 Frequent Player Points per month. Currently in January I have a bit over 6,000 and will probably finish the month around 7,200-7,500. Considering I will likely be lucky to get 3-4k in Feb and March that means I will have to run over 10k per month in April, May and June in order to get back on track. I think that will happen.

Well that is it for now.