CHALLENGE IS A WASHOUT!

Welll, pretty much anyway.

Stupid tribeca moving to playtech, more of that later, has buggered up the challenge a bit.

The traffic on playtech is large with often 17k+ players, but for some reason this translates badly into the stt traffic with tables fillign up painfully slowly except at very peak times.

What is worse is that due to the absence of the transatlantic kippers from america that we all love nightime traffic is slower than the offspring of a page three girl and a chippendale.

This is bad news for the cat as I love slumming around late at night laying waste to kippers. :(

The PL om8 tables are pretty much empty bar the best players from tribeca so the value is pathetic on them now and i can't be arsed playing really which is reflected in the figures to follow.

On the plus side the mtts have good structures and there are plenty of 15-50 freezeouts which i enjoy. Maybe the site will grow on me......I do like the fact there are some 20 and 50$ plom8 stts to play.

Time will tell. If i can't adjust to the new site, ill probably ship my bankroll over to full tilt.


Anyway, here's the stats so far.

Stts
Played 169
Av time 30 mins
Profit $1901
hours played 84
ROI 49.9%
Hourly Rate 22.62$
Rake paid $350.10

Summary
Going well. Had a bad dip in the middle, which affected my ROI considerably but variance is life in poker. Finding the plom/8 games quite profitable. Overall i place 52% of the time, and finish 1st 24% of the time across all 9/10 and 6 handed games. This seems high but i think is maintainable. I wouldn't say I had run particularly good but i haven't run that bad either.



OM/8 PL Cash

Hours Played 13.38 (i know... nothing!)
Profit $222.74
Hourly Rate $16.65

Summary

Can't analyse this. I know my standard hourly rate is better than this but without the traffic i can't play so what u gonna do??!

MTTS

Played 19
Total Buyins $418
Winnings $975
Profit $557
Time played 30 hours
Hourly Rate $18.60

Summary
Again can't analyse a sample this size. Have played generally crap though i must admit. Had a chance to win the mansion 100k when i got allin for a pot to put me top 5 with AT v J8 but lost.
Variance again means i need many more tournaments before reflecting on these stats.
LOL donkaments is the phrase i beleive!

Heads up games

Only a minor change from before as ive only played 3 (lost 2 won 1)
but for completeness here they are again

HU games won 64.7%
Number played 325
Hourly Rate $32

Summary
I can obviously beat up the low levels up to 50. I need a bigger bankroll i feel before hitting the 100s.

OVERALL

I should stick to heads up and stts i guess! I expect my tourney results to get better though. But being able to 2/3 table stts means these are probably the most profitable.

Anyway enough boring analysis and numbers for now

Good luck kippers. Seeya soon!

Cat Challenge

Well, i challenged myself to do 100 stts, 100 hours of omaha hi lo 100 hu games and 50 mtts to compare how i did in all.

The MTT challenge has yet to be completed. After about 10 mtts im operating at -10$/hour so not great, but we'll wait for the full 50 before drawing any tenuous conclusions. (because 50 will be statistically significant of course. What? You don't agree with this kipper? Well guess what son, GFY!)

STTS

I've just finished 100. These were the results.

PLAYED - 100
PROFIT -$1468
HOURS PLAYED - 57
HOURLY RATE - $25.63
ROI - 63.74%
1st places - 26
2nd places - 20
3rd places - 11
(in 9/10 handed)
BUBBLES - 13

PLACED IN $ - 57 OUT OF 100


I played most of these at 15-25$ level and the majority were 9 handed although there were some 6 pacs and some 10'ers in there too. I started like a train and was on over 100% ROI for about the first 40 but variance caught up with me and i had a very bad patch with 30 left dropping my ROI significantly.

I 2 tabled most of these, found the kippers very easy to play and read. Once I get my bankroll to a good level, I hope to start playing more 50s and 100s where I feel I do have an edge.
I feel like I can actually raise my ROI at up to 25$ stt level from the 63% it is at at the moment. Whether this is optimistic or not i don't know. STT specialist would probably tell me it is, but it's good to be positive! Let's see how the next 100 go.

HEADS UP STTS

Well, i haven't played many stts so i'm going by my stats from last year over 325 games, almost exclusively at 20$ level.

GAMES WON/ PLAYED - 255/394
GAMES WON % - 64.7%
PROFIT - $1868.25
HOURLY RATE - $32.9

I could do with some more HU practice but again I would like to challenge myself at the higher levels and once my bankroll is in better shape I should be able to see whether I can maintain the 65% winning rate at this level.

I have to cut the post short for now but I'll put the rest of my stats and what conclusions I can draw from them up shortly. Till then, be safe kippers....