I have to share this with yall........and first tourny today

[Jonniedough]

If anyone is up, heres why Im so excited!!

About 3-4 weeks ago Paradise passed out $2 free to their play money players.

I figured with the tables they have .2/.4 and .5/.10 it take me awhile to break thir $50 cash out limit.

I was wrong, I just broke $50 with 53.53!!! Thats based off of close to 6000 hands. There are loses, I jumped to .50/1.00 and lost about $12 then went back to .5/.10, played a few NL tables lost $2, and the neverending river cathces with one out, kept me up and down throughout. No tournies yet I wanted to work on a roll before I headed to them.

If your interested in my stats: Games won 11% Showdowns won 51%
Flops seen 44% Win % if flop seen 25%
Actions:

Fold: 45%
Check: 17%
Call: 22%
Bet: 10%
Raise: 4%
Re-raise: 2%

Where I fold:

Preflop: 60%
Flop: 14%
Turn: 8%
River: 5%
No fold: 13%

I started keeping track of total % about 1000-2000 hands into my attempt
the total hands played thereof is 4795

Im not a math wiz or have the patience to figure all this out. Cant figure pot odds, or implied odds or any of the stuff I should know. I play outs, and guts to an extent, watching the players at the table keeping notes on them. I hope this helps any of the new players out there. Play your cards well and you will "out play" your opponents.

"Bad-beats are temporary, winning is indefinate"

Now its off to the shores of paradise to try and catch some fish and start rolling the dough!!

well not tonight atleast I gotta sleep.....Ill work some more on it tomm.

[EDIT] Im getting in my first real money tourny on line at paradise, pretty excited. Wish me luck!! $2 buy in, multi.

[Dave B]

Nice work! I find that I do my best when I am seeing 30% of flops and winning 70% or better of showdowns.

[PuckJunkieNY]

G'Luck to you Jd....keep it rolling.

I had a similar story, but at UB. Made initial small deposit in Jan. I rode it up and down. I roller coastered between $130+ to below $20 for a few months before I had a string of bad beats, went on tilt playing very stupidly with a fck it attitude and ended up w/only $2.50 left in my account. I then vowed to smarten up and check myself. I promised myself to play smart and shake off the bad beats quickly or leave the game for the evening if I could not. I stuck wih my basic winning stategy and did not get sucked into playing hand out of shear bordem.

So far I have kept my promise and that original $2.50 now sits at $131. Like you I played mini-micros (.01/.02 NL @ UB) till I rolled it to $42, played a SNG (2nd placed for $15 - net $9.50). I then made a small step up to .15/.25 NL, which is what I play now and what boosted the roll to it current state. Still chump change really, but it's over 2x my orig. deposit. See where I can take it. I still play a .01/.02 table or 2 along w/the .15/.25 to help combat the bordem factor. I rarely play more than 3 tables at once. play the occasional SNG and low buy-in Tourney.

I have been tracking my stats as well.
I average between 28-32% of flops seen when I'm playing "my Game" and making money. Win % at showdowns is usually around 65-75%. I'm still a student of the game and have much to learn, but I'm confident I can avoid huge losses and progressively move forward at a slow steady pace.

Here's to continued success while learning to you as well. :D

[PuckJunkieNY]

[Edit] duplicate post deleted....ooops!

[nicthestick]

dang Puck, Are you trying to boost that # of posts?

[nicthestick]

Keep it up jonnie. It sounds like you are on the right track. It is profitable to play online poker. I cashed in for $50 and so far have paid for a bathroom remodel, a carseat for the daughter, and a new light fixture for the family room. :D Anything to keep the wife off my back.

[PuckJunkieNY]

dang Puck, Are you trying to boost that # of posts?

Not on that one above, but yes to this one.

[PuckJunkieNY]

[EDIT]

WTF!....it keeps double posting my replies.
??????

[Jonniedough]

Thanks everyone,

Well made it 19 out of 202. Pretty damn good Id say, 2 away from money, Blinds were 2000 or somethign like that, shoulda waited it out, but got to excited over my all in 33s with 650 left quadrupled up (won with a boat on the river boat had the hand the whole way). Got Q/J off, three from the BB, all-in. Lost to a str8 on the river, I had Js, oh well.

Im happy with my finish, I didnt think Id do that well compared to the home games and the no fold'em hold'em at the change games, the players are a little better then I imagined.

If anyone was wondering the payouts were 1-14 were seats at some midnight tourney for the WSOP and 15=8.82 16=5.29 17=3.53.

Im gettn em nex time

[ballbp]

Nice finish Jonnie. Keep it up. I don't play many multi table tourneys but my best finish in one was 250 out of around 1000 so I wasn't even close to the money. Two out of it for you eh, ouch so close.

[racquet000]

double post are just like prime numbers. Some people never get it.

[cayouche]

What do you use to keep such stats??

[Jonniedough]

Paradise poker keeps track of your stats on a session to session basis or one session at a time, I did mine overall, to see where I am and what Im doing. Most other sites do the same thing but how they keep track is varied a little.