I made an effort to have a very low poker content in April. I only played in two live games and 11 online sit-n-gos. Results were mixed.
First my live play. I played the Weekend at Mookie’s tourney and did not cash (no surprise there): -$30; Then I sat at a table full of ringers and got smoked 🙂 -$50. This past weekend I hosted a crawfish boil at the house and a poker game broke out. It was 5c/10c NL and I did pretty well: +$12. Overall, not great, but not horrible.
As for online, I did really well this month. These numbers would be better, but I bubbled two SnGs last night when I shoved on the flop and was ahead in both hands. The deck screwed me both times and my monthly stats dropped. Poker is as poker does.
| Games Played: | 11 | |
| In the Money: | 7 | 64% |
| ROI | 64% |
This is my SnG finish distribution. I am quite happy with this:
| Finish | Count |
|---|---|
| 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 2 |
| 3 | 3 |
| 4 | 3 |
| 5 | 1 |
| 6-9 | 0 |
Yeah, it is a small sample- but it shows positive growth. I am going to limit how much I play in May as well; if this trend continues I will be a very happy camper indeed.
I was approached about hosting a game at my house. I do have a very nice 10 top table (pictures here). It gets very little use so this is a good option. I will probably run a 1-2 or 2-4 limit game for a period of hours and start a $10 or $20 buy in NL tournament at a specified time. It won’t happen a lot as some of the people who might want to play might want to play at Mookie’s or Rocco’s home games and I don’t want to interfere, but it would be fun to shake it up a little. I might even do it mid-week rather than on a weekend.
Good idea about the live cash game. We are taking the month of May off from hosting, so you should try to get something going soon.
Any chance you would run a NL cash game too ? Might get more interest.
Possibly. If I did that, it would probably end up like the game you had 25c/50c with a $50 max. There was mention of a PL game, but I like to drink beer at friendly games and that might prove a bit too much computation for my brain 🙂
I’ll think about it this week and decide what I want to do.