june recap / july goals
June’s been better. I got PokerTracker at the beginning of the month, so I can’t really say what my historic totals are, but I definitely turned some corners and learned some lessons. A huge home tournament saved my month - about $100 in one night, plus the respect and fear of my coworkers. I had two or three terrible cash hands, and only one or two awful tournaments, but I feel pretty good about both. The interesting thing is that I’m doing very well in MTT play: single table sit-n-gos are a money loser for me, but two, three, and five table have all been pretty good.
I’m officially done with Empire. I moved $50 in there last week and it’s 97 cents now. Their sit-n-gos are so aggressive: 800 chips, and blinds moving from 10/15 to 15/30 to 25/50 to 75/150 with every ten hands… if you don’t see something you love in the first three rounds, you’re pretty much playing short stack against the six guys that are left playing Party-style. I may try to open a Party account, since I have heard the play is atrocious (and it is, I just can’t catch a break in their tournament format), but I’ve been smacked down trying to install it (since Empire is the same thing).
So that leaves PokerStars. I’ve had great luck with their .05/.10 NL game ($10 max), but every time I try to move to the .10/.25 ($25), I get crushed. So I’m playing two-at-a-time $10 tables, and that’s working out. I’m also going to leave the $10+$1 sit-n-gos alone for a while and see if I can’t make $5+$.50 profitable. And, with the revelation that MTT is a good game for me, I may try to carve out a couple two-hours blocks of time and play in larger tournaments. That’s where the real money is, anyway.