Saturday, April 4, 2009

Killing April so far.....

I am off to a very hot start in April. Totally killing it. I have been playing the triple combo of $115/230/345 and it's going very well. The last 2 days I've actually only played a handful of the $115, the rest have all been 230/345. I think I am finally ready to move past the 115 on a more consistent basis now. That's not to say I won't play them anymore but I expect to play at least 2/3 of my matches in April at the 230/345. We'll see how it goes at month's end. I should have prob made this move sooner. The 115 turbo has been my main game for so long that it just became somewhat of a comfort zone for me and I was super comfortable with the swings at that level.
I just got around to thinking about it about 3 days ago when dibasio and I joined a 230 at the same time. We decided to chop and he asked me why I still play the 110 and I really didn't have a good answer. It's such a simple question, but one I really had no good answer for whatsoever. I think it comes down to one main thing. Complacency. I have just become happy with my winrate as is. I was always so excited to try new levels out, but for some reason once I made it to the $100 dollar level a part of my mind just said, "Well, that's it, you made it." I don't know why. Like I just thought of $100 as high stakes and that was good enough. It could possibly be that I had a few depressing days where I crush the 115 but played a handful of 230's in the same day that I did bad in to make me a loser for the day. Who knows, but I think I've finally gotten over whatever was holding me back. Even playing the 345's lately I don't seem to be phased by the swings(granted I've been running hot). Like today in a 345 I got it all in pre with AA vs K 10 and watched the board come out AJxQx. Usually I'd at least be a little pissed, especially since it was a 345, haha. I didn't even let it phase me, and I came back to win the match(little luck helped me out too). Below are my my lifetime graphs for $115, $230, and $345 turbos on stars, in that order. (obv the 345 is a very very low sample size)




Anywaysssss, my goal for this month is to play 700-750 games with 2/3 being above the $115.

I will say I do just get a bit impatient waiting for the lobby to open up in a 230, so my impatience makes me go down and play 115 also, haha.

The other night I saw my online sportsbook I used had a promo where if you make a $20 or higher bet on a NBA game you get 1/2 of ur wager back, win or lose. I could hardly pass this up so I made my first sportsbet in quie some time. I had a very good feeling about Cleveland @ Orlando(-3.5). Orlando did not dissapoint my 100% demoloshing the Cavs.

I made 2 seprate bets on the Twins upcoming season. They had the over/under for total reg season wins for Twins at 83 so I bet $150 on the over obv. I just don't see them not winning at least 84 this yr, no way no way no fucking way. They also had an over under for Francisco Liriano wins this yr at 12.5, so I bet $50 on the over. Seriously?? This guy has the potential to be one of the best ever!!! No way he doesn't get 13. That is as long as he stays healthy(fingers crossed) which is maybe why the line is kinda low. Also the Twinkies will have to score him some runs. We'll see, LET'S DO IT!!

April Profit - $2,541.50

4 comments:

HokieGreg said...

dude your turbo stats are really sick

how many tables do you play at a time typically???

bartchalker said...

Thanks.....I am and have always been a 1 tabler for the most part in HU. Usually if I have a 2nd game going it's a sunday mil 10 man qualifier or a different sng (6 man, 9 man etc etc) but I so rarely play other SNG's. In 2009 I've been 2 tabling HU a tad more, maybe like 15% of the time. I usually enjoy the game alot more by 1 tabling.

HokieGreg said...

thats cool

still great stats even for 1 tabling

i thought u were 3 tabling though and was like ummm you are the best player on the internets

bartchalker said...

nah no 3 tabling for this guy, 2 tabling I can do though without having my brain blow up and send chunks all over my puter screen. Eewww.

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