Nov 26-28

Put in some decent volume these last 3 days, ran really bad my first 100 games on Monday so the last 3 days i showed a bit of a heavy loss considering i was really just playing the $5 games before, although I've started adding the $20 DoNs to my grind also, as of now I've played 143 $20 DoNs and am profiting pre rakeback from them

Also, the sit win go leaderboard finished on the 28th of the month. And i hadnt even realized i was close to making the leaderboard since my first game played this month was on Nov 22. But, when i checked the leaderboard with 2 hours left before the leaderboard closed i was in 31st place (top 25 get paid), so I figured I'd try and put in a ton of volume in the last 2 hours before the leaderboard closed. I played 130 DoN games in 2 hours, which is definitely the most games I've ever played in such a short period. I managed to get 23rd place which is good for $30 (although it hasnt been deposited to my account yet)

The VIP host last week had also offered me a $60 bonus for hitting 10,000 VIP points in 10 days, i hit it today after only 6 days so I got $60 from that, as well as $50 added to my pending bonus

Heres my HEM graph for Nov 26-28

Games played: 628
Profit: -$206.8
Rake Paid: $391.8

And my graph since my deposit on Nov 22

Bankroll is at $432.96    ($182.96 up since deposit)

I have about $300 in VIP points

And a $30 bonus from leaderboard that's on it way

Up a bit over $500 since deposit one week ago

Background Story On My Online Poker Playing

I'm 19 years old, in my second year of university.
Been playing online poker for a bit over 2 years now
My first 6 months i kind of just casually lost a few hundred dollars
Decided to eventually switch to playing Double or Nothings (DoNs) on Pokerstars, after grinding the lowstakes games for about 3 months i managed to make like 2k
With this 2k i cashed out most of it and deposited $250 on Carbon Poker to attempt to make a good run at the Merge SNG leaderboard
In December 2010 (my first month on Carbon) i finished 3rd on the SNG leaderboard playing 6max Super turbos, the leaderboard cash was good for $1000, in December i had ran my $250 up to $3k and within 3 more months i had turned that into almost 15k, moving up from the $5 games up to the $35-100 games in like 4 months. This 15k also included about 2k more profit on Pokerstars playing the $50 DoNs
After Black Friday poker began to be up and down over the next 12 months nothing much really happend. I had some micro stake isildur1 like swings and had terrible bankroll management and did some crazy stuff
In January 2012 i won like $2000 on 888poker playing SuperTurbos and cashed most of it out

April 2012 i had one of the most epic 2 days of my poker career. I had $30 left in an 888 account and decided I'd just try and make as much as possible
I played the "Push or Fold" games on 888 which are games which start with 5bb maximum buyin. I started playing 3 tables of $1/$2 (with a buyin of $10). Within like 8 hours of grinding i had ran that $30 up to over $3000 and was playing ($5/10 and some $10/20), eventually i needed to sleep ofcourse. In this one night session i had ran $30 up to almost $3500, i cashed out $500 and went to bed.
The next morning i started playing again (back at $5/10 with is way under bankrolled when you only have $3000), in the next 10 hours i busted my roll.....$30 to $3500 and then back to $0 in basically 48 hours

The last 6 months ive done some grinding on pokerstars, some on ipoker (running up big rolls and busting big rolls also with poor BR management), and some on 888.

Now, depositing $250 on Ipoker I'm going to attempt to do some better bankroll management, with like 50 buyins minimum and dropping down in stakes if im losing, although good bankroll management would probably be around 100-250 buyins

Wish me luck and lets hope I'm grinding the $50 DoNs with a $10k roll as soon as possible

Enjoy the blog

November 24-25 - Solid Weekend

Did some damage at the games the weekend of Nov 24-25
Had an average buyin on $7.32 so in only 159 games its not like you can win a fortune
But i basically played a couple of sessions around 1 hour each
No major downswings and a pretty good looking graph for the weekend

I've doubled my original $250 roll now, up to $523.67 in 594 games (made $55 from deposit bonus)
As well as the money from the tables I've also accumulated about  $100 worth of Titan Points bringing my total profits up to $350ish in 14.9 hours so I've made about $23.5 an hour, with an average buyin of only $7.11

Weekend stats:
159 games
+$177
15.2% ROI
19.8 buyins won
$72 rake paid

Along with my graph since the start (total of 4 days playing)

Nov 23 Session

Nov 23 Session

Lost $13.50 in 225 games, but payed over $100 in rake, so i guess it wasnt that terrible aha, would have preffered a win

Lost $45.1 in MTTs
Won $31.6 in SNGS

Was a 5.8 hour session

First Session - Nov 22

First session since the deposit
210 games played
5.0 hours
+$61.85

Not the worst first session in the world

Back on Ipoker

Hey
I used to play SuperTurbos on Ipoker under the username 'HenriYokinen' and made my account about 3 months ago, but only played there for 1 month
My first deposit was only $100 and i ran that $100 up to like $4k in less than 2 weeks
After that it was kinda completely all over the place
I ended up withdrawing everything at the end of september, it was about $2200 so like $2100 profit from my $100 deposit

I achieved Titan Pokers top VIP level and was offered a reload bonus as well as another bonus, so i figured lets give this site a shot again with another small deposit

On Nov 21 i deposited $250, gunna grind mainly the $5 games to start off, hopefully i could get back to a proper roll for the $20 games and eventually the $50 games

I figure a blog might be a decent way to keep motivated