$4 ft

meh it was a nice little score i ended up getting 2nd for $144. Other than that i havent made nuch money or had many scores. I am so stoked that N 82 fixed the poker db to include my $8 ft puting my total up to 1879 in winnings which is pretty sweet. I submitted an article i wrote for pocketfives but i doubt they will put it on the front page as i am a nobody but here it is if you want to read it

Why do you play poker? – The importance of goal setting

by ronjon13 on 8/30/2006 17:01


Everyone has their own reason why they play, maybe you want to pay off some bills or debts perhaps you want to be able to put a down payment on your new house, but most people have no sense of direction as to where they are heading in the poker world. I attribute most of my recent success (as small as it may be to most of you) to setting goals. I have a few simple rules and guidelines you can follow to help you with your game.

1) What are the things you want to accomplish in the poker world the most? - (Keep it reasonable, lol we all want to win the WCOOP) Mine where to turn the initial $60 I deposited into $750 before the summer ended, have over $1000 in cashes on the poker db and to make 5 final tables

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2) Write down your goals. - You need to have physical evidence of what you are trying to accomplish or else you may forget also if you have it written down it is a lot harder to give up, I find, because people are going to see your goals and if you don’t accomplish them your friends and family will know you failed, this was a big incentive for me.


3)Play Smart – I am referring to bankroll management, a subject that has been discussed on our boards MANY times before. To save me the trouble of typing this here is the link to a great article by Fox, Basic Bankroll Management.


4) Accomplish your goals – It is a great feeling to know you have completed everything you set out to do all those months ago. If you didn’t make it no problem, sure it sucks but you have gained valuable experience during that time period and you are most likely to make it next time. Keep in mind it is not worth it to go broke playing to high or if something more important than poker comes up.

5)Have Fun – Don’t be stressed out if you aren’t going to make the deadline for your goal, you obviously set it to high and you will learn from your mistake for the next time.

The above types of goals are extremely broad and do not really focus on one thing in general, which brings me to my next point…


SNG Challenges

These are a great way to learn some valuable skills, put in a lot of hands and make some good money. Now all you have to decide what the guidelines for challenge are going to be.


1) What’s the challenge? What do you want to do play 500 sngs? 1000 sngs? And what are you aiming for, do you want to have a 20% ROI over all those sngs or do you want to make $20/h?. Here is a post from one of the resident sng experts on the site, dhubermex

2) Buy in – What level is suitable to your bankroll? Once again I recommend reading foxes article to get an idea of where you stand, Basic Bankroll Management.

3) Multi-tabling – It is going to take along time to play 500 sngs 1 at a time so I recommend playing several. If you are unfamiliar with multi-tabling then start off slow and add tables when you fell comfortable until you feel you are ready to take on you challenge.

I highly recommend anyone who has read this article to think of some goals and go out and accomplish them and make some money, gl.

ronjon13

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Update

Not much happening recentley and i have played very little since my win and only a couple mtts so i am hoping to play a bit more this week. I am thinking about buying another computer and running dual monitors in my room cause my other computer is always being used my family and the laptop is for use while watching tv, another big thing is i want to have some music in my room and if i had itunes i could do that. I figured out how to run dual monitors off my laptop and i am farely pleased about that although i havent had a chance to really multi-table yet and am looking forward to doing so. Here is a picture of my setup with the old crapy monitor. I am gonna buy another 17-19" LCD so when i get the new comp i can run dual monitors and hella-multi-table.

I think i got this poker thing figured out

WOW it still hasn’t sunk in, how can a micro donk win this much freaking money in one swing? I am still shell shocked at this win, although it isn’t really that big to my opponent bdubs3737. When we hit six handed I pitch a chop and everyone but bdubs agreed alright I was cool with that I can easily beat these guys, bdubs busts a few more short stacks and we are three handed once again I pitch a chop bdubs replies “not yet ronjon, I smell dead money”. Lol so bdubs does his usually shit kicking of the field and we are HU I beg for a chop and he graciously decides to give me another $150 which was huge considering he had me 4-1 and that was only $47 off the chip chop deal so I took it.

PokerStars Tournament #30264506, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $10.00/$1.00
1053 players
Total Prize Pool: $10530.00
Tournament started - 2006/08/21 - 22:40:00 (ET)

Dear ronjon13,

You finished the tournament in 2nd place.
A $1,263.61 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 461.37 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/tlb_tournament_rankings.html


Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

And for the deal

Hello ronjon13,

Congratulations on your finish in tournament #30264506!
You agreed to a deal at the final table to adjust the payouts as follows:

Official New
Player Payout Payout
========= ======== ======
bdubs3737 #1 $ 2053.36 $ 1916.97
ronjon13 #2 $ 1263.61 $ 1400.00

When the tournament ended, you were automatically credited with
the official 2nd place payout of $1263.61.

The difference between this amount and the amount to which you agreed
in the deal is $136.39, and this amount has been credited to your account.
You will find this transaction in the cashier history at this time.

Good luck in your next event, and thank you for your participation.

Best Regards,

PokerStars Support Team

Anywho back to poker, when we where down to final 45 I had about 100k in chips and was just around first or second not much happened a few ppl went out and then suddenly I was up to 150k in chips and had about 50k on second then I dropped down a bit but picked up this gem

PokerStars Game #6008122662: Tournament #30264506, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit -
Level XIV (1500/3000) - 2006/08/22 - 02:27:35 (ET)
Table '30264506 51' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 1: mikelong11 (67834 in chips)
Seat 2: RichS2RagS (134581 in chips)
Seat 3: grindin4tips (56991 in chips)
Seat 4: bmtphs829 (17444 in chips)
Seat 5: holdem3 (71375 in chips)
Seat 6: Arrjay (63618 in chips)
Seat 7: Surphman (69551 in chips)
Seat 8: ronjon13 (111168 in chips)
Seat 9: WillieDM3 (87270 in chips)
mikelong11: posts the ante 150
RichS2RagS: posts the ante 150
grindin4tips: posts the ante 150
bmtphs829: posts the ante 150
holdem3: posts the ante 150
Arrjay: posts the ante 150
Surphman: posts the ante 150
ronjon13: posts the ante 150
WillieDM3: posts the ante 150
holdem3: posts small blind 1500
Arrjay: posts big blind 3000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ronjon13 [Ks Kd]
Surphman: folds
ronjon13: raises 6000 to 9000
WillieDM3: folds
mikelong11: folds
RichS2RagS: folds
jono16 [observer] said, "impressive Willie"
jono16 [observer] said, "a little to impressive"
grindin4tips: folds
bmtphs829: folds
holdem3: folds
Arrjay: raises 15000 to 24000
WillieDM3 said, "thx"
ronjon13: raises 87018 to 111018 and is all-in
Arrjay: calls 39468 and is all-in
*** FLOP *** [Kc Td 9c]
ronjon13 said, "hold"
jono16 [observer] said, "HOLD"
WillieDM3 said, "figured he was either drawing or I had alot of outs"
Arrjay said, "nh"
jono16 [observer] said, "HOLD"
*** TURN *** [Kc Td 9c] [Ah]
jono16 [observer] said, "HOLD"
*** RIVER *** [Kc Td 9c Ah] [4c]
ronjon13 said, "gg"
jono16 [observer] said, "GG"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Arrjay: shows [Kh Ad] (two pair, Aces and Kings)
ronjon13: shows [Ks Kd] (three of a kind, Kings)
ronjon13 collected 129786 from pot
WillieDM3 said, "gg"
RichS2RagS said, "nh g"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 129786 | Rake 0
Board [Kc Td 9c Ah 4c]
Seat 1: mikelong11 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: RichS2RagS folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 3: grindin4tips folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: bmtphs829 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: holdem3 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 6: Arrjay (big blind) showed [Kh Ad] and lost with two pair, Aces and Kings
Seat 7: Surphman folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 8: ronjon13 showed [Ks Kd] and won (129786) with three of a kind, Kings
Seat 9: WillieDM3 folded before Flop (didn't bet)

Other than that I just had a tight table and picked up blinds and came to ft with about 250k the ft was full of good players and I was so stoked to go so deep, this si the hand that finished me off when we where playing for tlbs

*********** # 455 **************
PokerStars Game #6008669757: Tournament #30264506, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit -
Level XXI (15000/30000) - 2006/08/22 - 04:18:25 (ET)
Table '30264506 20' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 4: bdubs3737 (1077973 in chips)
Seat 7: ronjon13 (501527 in chips)
bdubs3737: posts the ante 1500
ronjon13: posts the ante 1500
bdubs3737: posts small blind 15000
ronjon13: posts big blind 30000
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ronjon13 [Kd Ad]
bdubs3737: raises 60000 to 90000
ronjon13: raises 60000 to 150000
bdubs3737: calls 60000
*** FLOP *** [Jd 3c Kc]
bdubs3737 said, "ill gamble"
ronjon13: bets 75000
bdubs3737: raises 851473 to 926473 and is all-in
ronjon13: calls 275027 and is all-in
ronjon13 said, "HOLD"
*** TURN *** [Jd 3c Kc] [7c]
thenut21 [observer] said, "cccccccccc"
thenut21 [observer] said, "gg"
ronjon13 said, "AHHHH"
bdubs3737 said, "damn"
*** RIVER *** [Jd 3c Kc 7c] [9s]
ronjon13 said, "gg"
bdubs3737 said, "gg"
jono16 [observer] said, "gg"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ronjon13: shows [Kd Ad] (a pair of Kings)
bdubs3737: shows [2c Ac] (a flush, Ace high)
bdubs3737 collected 1003054 from pot
Drarr [observer] said, "gg"
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1003054 | Rake 0
Board [Jd 3c Kc 7c 9s]
Seat 4: bdubs3737 (button) (small blind) showed [2c Ac] and won (1003054) with a
flush, Ace high
Seat 7: ronjon13 (big blind) showed [Kd Ad] and lost with a pair of Kings

FT of semi deepstacks on stars

Oh and boy did i need it that day i had been on a sick down swing at cash games. Two hands that almost brought me to tears where kk floped a king and got all in guy rivers flush 10 5 high and the other was jj and j on flop 3 way all in river flush again. But enough about that back to my final table, the tourney lasted about 9 and a half hours when i busted in 6th for $300, the biggest bitch of it all is that when we got 6 handed i was chip leader with 500 000 and refused a chop :( but whatever.

PokerStars Tournament #29939335, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $8.00/$0.80
899 players
Total Prize Pool: $7192.00
Tournament started - 2006/08/14 - 19:15:00 (ET)

Dear ronjon13,

You finished the tournament in 6th place.
A $298.47 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 234.59 tournament leader points in this tournament.
For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at
http://www.pokerstars.com/tlb_tournament_rankings.html
Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

The best thing about this now is that i can move up limits and start to play more satellites to the WCOOP and the million. On that note jono won 2 seats to the million thru the $2 triple shootouts.

Snakes on a plane

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HIGH STAKES POKER TORRENTS

Someone posted the link to this site, http://pokerbankroll.blogspot.com/, on www.pocketfives.com and I am so excited to watch this, if you have never seen high stakes poker you are in for a treat a bunch of pros playing 300/600 NL it is very exciting. I have added a bit torrent search bar to my blog to help you find torrents in the future.

Search for Torrent Files

Anywho congrats to the winners of the Super Micro tlb challenge I hope to do it again sometime. Here are the final numbers:

1st-60%-$210
2nd-20%-$70
3rd-10%-$35
4th-10%-$35

1st - AFink93 & DJUssery6 = 3435.66
2nd - Damage1 & Mbus28 = 2556
3rd -jhammond10 & Zapper1000 = 2284.02
4th - McBeasterson and Luaugirl34: 2240.70

Congrats to all the winners

As for my SNG quest I havent been playing very many sngs recentley because I am working on a project, I plan on opening up a website soon to host micro tlb bets and perhaps even a micro league of private tourneys but I am still working it all out so stay tuned. But i got a few $3s in and a set of $5s but i have decided I am going to start a new data base to record $5s, so here are my numbers:

ROI - 30%
ITM - 47%
PROFIT - $155.80
# OF SNGS - 150

My ROI is starting to even out to an attain able level, after about 200 sngs i will have a pretty good idea of what my stats will look like in the future.