July was the month with my biggest swings ever. It happened a lot of times that I lost 5k+ just a day after I won almost the same amount before. I was up to about 42k in the middle of July and lost big afterwards. Thanks to my great excel sheet I track every game on PokerStars very well since the middle of June and have a very well overview about good and bad sessions what is very important for me. In July I played 1,075 2man HUs with an average buyin of $562 and won 54,54% of them what is ok, but not what I maybe could reach if I was playing my best A-Game all the time. I’m up about 29k on Stars with HU SNGs this month and lost about 2k in MTTs and STTs where I ran horrible bad. So overall a pretty nice profit of 27k – even though I lost both 5k HU SNGs which I played an my own and where I couldn’t sell action in time. Ofc I only won those 5ks where I sold percentages. I run so bad.. Note in mind: save the 11k next month!
Cuz of the huge swings I had I decided to block myself from 2k+ games some days ago and plan to focus more on the 230s-570s for a while.
I’m at 864k VPP at the moment and will probably reach Supernova Elite even before WCOOP MainEvent starts. A free entry for a $5,200 MTT wouldn’t be that bad.
Two weeks ago PokerStars released the 2010′s WCOOP events and I’m glad they decided to run a 2day $215 HU MTT.
I got bored by grinding Stars recently and decided to follow Primo’s pace more often in future. Primo is crushing the Superturbos on FTP in the sickest possible. At the moment he still runs a prop bet for 10k/20k that he’s able to reach a ROI of 3%+ before rakeback with the Superturbos over 2k games. See the 2+2 thread for more, it’s just awesome!
FullTilt’s Superturbos have a rake of about 1,5% in average and start with 500 chips at 10-20. The blinds increase every 2 minutes to 20-40, 25-50 where almost every game is over already.
I didn’t think it was possible to make that much money that easy, but needed to try it on my own. Some days ago I gave it a shot and played 350 games so far:
I had a very sick run in the beginning and got lucky a lot of times. I ran over EV (red line) for a while, but saw a LOT of horrible mistakes by my opponents as well. If there is one pokersite and one game where it’s possible to make a lot of money very fast it’s definitely FullTiltPoker and their Superturbos! It’s crazy how easy it is to trap the opponents and how bad they are in standard fold/shoving-decisions. I recently played a huge fish who minraised EVERY button, but still could fold with a stack of 250 when he already raised to 100 on blinds 25/50.
The edge in those games isn’t big, but it’s still possible to adjust, read and outplay the opponent. A lot of regs think my best game in the turbo HUs is when blinds increase to 25-50 and the endgame in general. In the Superturbos you start with 25 BBs which could fit to my game perfectly. So beside reaching Supernova Elite on PokerStars I will play some more of these sick 2-minute-games and see how I will do in future. Follow me on FullTiltPoker where I use the same nick as everywhere.
