Not played any poker at all in June so far. Been back at work too and had a bunch of stuff to sort out for Vegas. Unfortunately Roman had to drop out of the WSOP house so we interviewed a bunch of folk over the last few days and settled on Matt, a professional player from Florida, I think we've got a great mix of guys now.Not long 'til I leave now... Saturday night!!! :) I cashed out all money I have in poker sites to organise my roll for the trip. Gonna stick $5k on Full Tilt and take $6-7k to Vegas. Seeing as I'd like to get staked for a bunch of tourneys I really need to come up with a schedule...
Rough poker schedule
Week 1/2 - settling in. Get acclimatized... used to the heat, housemates, etc over the first few days. I'll prob be gagging to play... Will grind a bunch of $1/2 and $2/5 live and play a few $200-300 range tourneys at the Venetian/Golden Nugget/Caesars Palace deepstack series.
Week 3 - up the stakes. Should be super confident live by this point, will play $2/5 exclusively, most likely at the Wynn and Venetian. Probably play in a $550 Venetian deepstack, and a $1.5k WSOP event.
Week 4 - finale. If I've been running well at $2/5 cash games and my roll is in good shape then I'll take shots at the $5/10 games. Depending how I feel about tourneys I'll consider playing more sats for to the WSOP ME, or maybe play the Caesars/Golden Nugget $1k Main Events instead.
Online
Throughout the trip I'll grind a bunch of $1/2 on FTP. Dropping down stakes to lower the variance and hopefully help provide some stability over the rocky variance of live poker. Also, I'm expecting to have to adjust a bit from iPoker so I think dropping to $1/2 is wise.
Staking
I'll be taking backing across a series of events I decide to play. It'll likely be around $4-5k worth of events, and I'll be looking for around 50% backing. I'll decide on the schedule over the next few days and post it up along with instructions on how to buy stakes. I'll be specifically targetting MTTs with large soft fields where there's the most value. I'd expect myself to be hugely +EV over the field in all of the events I play and I'll be selling stakes for face value so I think it'll be a great deal for anyone looking to invest.
Getting ridiculously excited about the trip now... :D
Also, this thread on 2p2 is GOLD.
And lol check out Amatay's crazy prop bet to try to make $10k this month from $33 SNGays on FTP, I've got $100 against but am secretly rooting for him.
4 comments:
Alright mate,
I didn't play as much as thought i would but the $1-$3 NL game at Caesars was very soft. Standard was actually good but in the best way - people knowing their hand and looking for showdowns. I incorporated a lot more limping pre flop and only the occasional 3 bet without AA-JJ/AK - took the game for just shy of $1k in around 7 hours play.
Good luck!
Adam
Hey - This is my first time checking out your blog, I like your poker play schedule. I assume most poker players do it, but have never seen it quite mapped out like you have it. I think I'll try it for my next stint in Vegas.
www.betsecure.net $100 for a month. You can play ipoker and betfair etc with it. I have just ordered it and will let you know how /if it works...
Just arrived a few hours ago... excited too!
sounds like the trip is going to be awesome. if matt is schlucky1 from cardrunners, you found a cool guy for your house, too.
only change i would make is that you don't need to wait for week 3 to move up stakes, i'm pretty sure.
anyway, best of luck out there, hope you are still able to get there thru the san francisco area.
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