OK, lets chronicle the time that has elapsed since my last post.

1. Month of January: I make 15000 dollars at full ring nl. I'm on top of the world. This is my best month ever by a landslide (my last best month was +8k).

2. Month of February: I drop 5k at ring, various stakes. Like 7-8 buyins at 2/4 fr, 1 buyins at 2/4 6 max, 6 buyins at 1/2 6 max etc etc. Life sucks. Im not playing nearly enough (last month i played 120000 hands, this month ive played like 20k so far).

Ive been getting into tournaments a lot lately, keeping one or two (or 4) running while i play ring. Basically no success whatsoever, dropped like 1k at 10+1,20+2,5rna,10rna, the occasional 33/55.

A few days ago i took down my first one, a 10+1 freeze on FullTiltPoker.net for about 600 dollars. Just prior to that, i went deep in the FTOPS Main Event (playing out of my roll for the win) scoring about 1300 dollars (for a 535 buyin). So im like "awesome, im a winning donkament player now."

Then yesterday.

I woke up at like 4 in the morning, loaded up some donkaments and 4 1/2 6 max tables on stars. Totally destroyed, winning about 700 at 1/2, but busting the donkaments. Felt satisfied, then just kinda chilled for a while and went to sleep in the afternoon.

Woke up at around 8pm, felt frisky, decided to play a couple of big buyin mtts. Signed up for the Nightly Hundred Grand on stars and a 109 on FullTiltPoker.net. The 100k went like complete shit (lost most of my chips flopping top two with AQ and watching the board come with four hearts after 1/2 my stack was in ) and i busted about 90 minutes into it.

By this point the 109 was starting and i realized "shit, this is a 6 maxament, i don't even really know how to go about playing these."

It had an interesting structure, 12 minute blinds (as opposed to the normal 10 min FT structure), and double stacks (3000 chips). This tournament was super deep literally the entire time. The increased number of hands/hour + the deeper stacks + the slower structure made for a tournament that had lots of room for play after the flop.

So for the first couple of hours or so I played it exactly like a cash game, lagged it up, and was chip leader before long. Pretty much kept chip leadership all the way to the final table, then lost half my chips on a flip QQ vs AK and then the rest of my chips with a three outer AK vs AJ to the same guy as the QQ hand. Went out 4th for about 2.5k, my biggest cash ever.

So. Ive had a pretty shitty month, but yesterday was my best day ever $$$ wise (making just over $3000), my bankroll is very respectable again (@ around 16k), and I think I may really get into donkaments on a serious level.


ty flopturnriver