Winning 5$ at a time

  Scroll down if you just want to see my monthly results! Another month down and i am so ready to turn the page and start september. While i did make quite a lot of money, the run was not enjoyable. Every tournament i played seemed like it was out to get me, all the crazy bubbles, final table bad beats and a break even cash grind. Crazy to think this is the best month i have had in Short deck so far. Running bad always seems to build character and i did a fair bit of learning(i really need to learn some preflop charts). Hopefully september will be a dull grind, i have had enough of swings. I started the month up around 2.1k€ but it really did cool down a bit as every single tournament seemed to have a bad beat in store for me like this one : Lovely right? I guess you have to take these on the chin and move forward. Anyhoo, lets get into my month. Cash game graph is pretty bleak, take out the rake and i am barely profiting at all. The big swings were all from shots in nl10 , i defin...

  Best tournament of the year. So i was not planning to play a big tournament but there it was, the 75€ zodiac festival shortdeck bounty. How can i ever resist that, the tournament started off like hell, i lost an all in from a JT6 flop with JT vs KQ and then lost another 2 buy ins against hands i dont even remember anymore. Here we go, buy in number 4... thats 300€ down the drain so far but the prize pool was too juicy to ignore. After playing tight for a while i flop a flush versus a massive 120€ bounty loose losing player, i bet the flop and turn, i see the river and think this is a nice spot for an overbet shove, opponent tanks for ages and makes the call, cool. 120€ heading my way, we dont feel so bad about 300€ in buy ins anymore. The rest of the tournament went pretty damn chill, everyone played super tight which is very unusal for a shortdeck bounty so we just took down small pots all the way to heads up, nothing special , no bounties, no big all ins just a boring style of ...

  Needed a mental break from cash games and loaded up some tournaments, the only ones availible were a little over my bankroll, buts it is fine i am pretty over bankrolled for my regular nl5 games anyway. Started the day off with the 31.50$ Short deck bounty, managed to grab a few bounties and finish a dissapointing 3rd AQo vs AJs, both opponents were losing players so a hold would have been nice but thats the game i guess. After the 31.50 there was only the 21$ short deck bounty running so i guess we are in. Started off pretty bad losing AK vs AQ for a buy in, but hey its shortdeck, it happens. Reg again and go, first hand AA and an all in infront of me, he has KK. Flop comes TT8, im happy, and then the turn... a K, oh well guess we are out again. Third buy in i see QQ,  shove against 3 limps and run into AK. This was getting expensive buy hey, nothing better running so back to it. Like always 4th times the charm, get dealt T9s and i see 3 all ins, easy call to be honest and ...

Not an easy month for me, was tough finding the time to grind out some hours but happy with all the results overall.  Cash game graph looks decent, was running above EV which is obviously sweet, mostly nl5 but mixed a little nl10 in there aswell, definetly more $ hourly in nl5 though. Knowing ggpoker we can deduct about 150$ of rake from the graph, if only i had it in me to actually learn the game and get that EV going up, there's always next month huh? Tournament grind was not good but i manged to atleast clutch in the end to break even or even profit a few dollars so thats that. Had a few decent deep runs but nothing special, highlight of the month was losing 8 buy ins on a 22$ tournament definetely though. Wanted to play a 110€ live tournament this month but i went on vacation to Lapland so couldnt make it, guess ill wait for next year since shortdeck is not very popular for live games yet. And here is where the profits come, rakeback and daily flipouts. Hit 8 flipouts for a com...