My Poker Journal

[Dubbs]

Last week bovada sent me an email saying that I had won $500 in their daily drawling promotion that they have going now.
So I got really excited, but I didn't tell anyone about it, and I started thinking about how I was going to spend the money cause since I am unemployed that is a lot of money. Later that night bovada sent me another email saying that they made a mistake and that to make up for it they gave me a tournament coupon for $6o I think.
I didn't really want the coupon cause I haven't had a whole lot of success at the big tourneys, but I used the coupon that same night and I bombed the tournament.
I wrote them an angry email stating that I wouldn't be making a deposit of my own money again.

being unemployed i dont think you should deposit no matter what.

[Hunter]

I try to think about the results and not the bad beats but sometimes it just seems that the bad happens way more than the good, But I try to keep plugging away and learn as much as I can along the way

[Joe]

I think I have found my new favorite game on carbon.
As I mentioned I have been grinding away at the sng's, especially the $1.10 double or nothings, and I recently started to play the $1.10 hyper turbos and I did really good at them today.
$37.66 is my current balance on carbon.
I'm going to try and make a run at the sng leader board contest that they have on carbon playing just the $1.10 hyper turbos.
Also has anyone met the requirement for the 10k casino freeroll over on carbon. I'm sure that I met the requirement on thursday or friday but I haven't received a tourney coupon yet.

[bsam]

yea i wouldnt care too much about the results of the hand because i know i played a good tournament even though i busted out there still good cards and most of the time we'd win with those cards i got busted out with k's he had a A 10 ..caught the A on the river but im still happy with the way i played so we'd win alot more than losing. I'd like to see some of those guys stats. I bet it isnt great.

[Joe]

I've got $40.82 on carbon right now and I am making a push for the two-a-days promotion that they have going on right now in addition to the sng leader board.
With the two-a-days promo you have to earn two points each day for a month to get into a freeroll tournament at the end of the month.
When I was I playing the double or nothing sng it would take me longer to earn the two points than it would if I play the hyper turbo sng and there is potential to make more money as well.
I think I am going to save my vip points and use them to play in a big money double or nothing.

[Joe]

During the first week of the month I missed a day so I won't qualify for the two-a-days promo over on carbon.
But since then I have switched gears and started playing the tournaments.
I do mostly late registration but not all the time because if you wait too long to late reg for a tournament you get stuck with a really small stack.
I've had three relatively big scores since I have started playing mtt's but after the first two big scores I've pissed most of the money away by playing in the higher buy in tournaments and completely blowing it.
Before today the most money I had in my account (after the above mentioned urination) was no more than $100.
Now I've got $133.17 and I am instituting some bank roll management rules right now.
I'm going to play just the $1.10 and $2.20 mtt's until I get enough vip points to play in the $11 mtt's.
Carbon changed their vip program and now you can't use vip points for the $1.10 tournaments or exchange vip points for cash, which I think really sucks.
The best that I finished in the mtt's so far has been 2nd place, which in some of the mtt's pays very well when compared to the buy in.
I see The mtt's that pay more than just final table as three separate tournaments.
First part, make it to the money.
Second, make it to the final table.
third, win the tourney.
The third part I haven't done yet on this site, but I have made the final table four or five times.

[Joe]

I just finished the $600 gtd mtt on carbon in 8th place and I think the buy-in was $2.20.
I think this is the second day in a row that I have made a final table.
My cash balance is now $147.09.

[Samweis3]

welldone, is there anymore progress in this challange or do you stop to play? would like to read some more, because i also started with nothing and already gor out 40 bucks on carbon up till now

[BERHOUET]

For how long do you play these $1.10 hyper turbos.

[Joe]

Its Joe again.
I am playing a $1.10 nine player sng on ignition right now and I just got a pair of aces and I pushed all in cause that's pretty much a standard play for me. And I actually got someone to call, the blinds are still 30/15 and I was in first position and the caller was in later position. The caller had a pair of fives and I won the hand so I almost double up from a little less than 15 hundred up to almost 29 hundred.
Earlier today I was playing the same sng and the same situation, where I had a pair of aces in first position, but it was the very first hand of the sng! and someone in later position called with a pair of freakin two's and I lost.
my aces got cracked last night and then again earlier this afternoon!
Right now my bankroll is really low and I don't really want to talk about why its really low, but I did just start a journal on here...,
I am going to keep playing the regular $1.10 sng's on ignition until I earn enough poker points to buy into the $5.5 regular sng's.