PimpinDonks's blog

I have been playing some Rush poker on fulltilt to maintain my ironman status and play some different games to get a break from sngs.

The games are very profitable and my results so far are posted below. I will make some videos about rush poker if you want to make some money in these games.

Hey guys and girls. I have been back in Michigan for a week now after 1 month in Vegas. I miss Vegas already! I am seriously moving there. I am putting my house up for sale and moving out there hopefully within 6 months. I want to play more live tournaments and cash games. The weather is way nicer too. I can't stand the snow in Michigan.

So I am in Vegas right now, for the next 3 weeks. I entered my first wsop tournament yesterday. We started with 4500 chips and there were 2394 entrants. The buyin was $1500 no limit holdem. I survived my first day!

The tournament currently has 288 players left and the average stack is 37,400. I have 53,900 chips and 243 get paid. So I have a very good shot at cashing in my first wsop tournament.

This is a 3 day tournament. Surviving the second day will be tough as the field is filled with much tougher competition. Carlos Mortensen is among the chip leaders.

I am excited to go to the wsop this year! I am going to try to play 10 to 15 tournaments depending on how deep I get in them. I will be there for the second half of the schedule for 3 weeks. Playing that limited number of tournaments obviously anything can happen with variance. I will be dissapointed though if I don't make at least 1 final table!

I had a pretty good April and wanted to post my results on here from my sngs for the month. These are from fulltilt and poker stars. I like to focus on the positives in poker and since I had a great month I wanted to share.

Also, I have a new video series coming out soon. It is titled "How to crush Sit n Go's". I will share all my secrets over the course of 15 to 25 videos. If you would like to improve your game, I recommend checking them out.

Tell next time keep pimpin them donks!

Hey guys and girls, I have a few quick updates I would like to share with you. First, I have been grinding mtt sngs back on fulltilt mostly this month (April) and have been doing quite well. I set a weekly goal to play 500 in the week and if I do I am getting a new pair of Oakley glasses and a new watch!

So far in 2010 I have been playing mostly 45/90 mans and some larger mtts. I think so far this is what I am going to mostly keep playing. My results have been pretty good in the 45 mans and 90 mans but terrible in the mtts.

I think there are a couple of reasons for this. First, I play way more 45/90 mans so the variance evens out in fewer days. Second, every time the number of players in the field doubles the variance goes up also by about the same amount. Twice as many coinflips and 60/40 situations increases the chances of a bust out.

I have been 16 tabling full ring $200/nl and $400/nl cash games on fulltilt for the past few days. I like to mix up the games I play for a bit of variety and I have not played cash games in a while so I though I would see how it goes.

I played a big hand and wanted to share it with you. I had played one other pot with this villian and he won it by betting me out of the pot on the turn. After the hand was over I noticed he typed in the comments "pimp this". So I figured if I play a pot with this guy again he is not going to give me much credit for having a hand.

From an investment point of view this staking deal massively outperformed any other conventional investment product you would find like a stock or bond. Here are some of the interesting stats below.

Total Profit of the group from sharkscope.com. So this doesn't include rakeback and bounties = $31,068

Total # of games played from sharkscope.com = 17,199

Average Stake played = $17.73

Average ROI = 10.19%

Average $$ won per player = $3,452

As a group I am very happy with the ROI number. When you have an open invitation and don't have much screening for poker skill you never know what kind of group you are going to get. They are all smart guys though. They caught on very quickly. If I do another poker training group though I will do more screening on the applicants to make sure we aren't wasting each others time.

I am not real happy with the number of games played though. They played 40 days while here. The average number of games played per day per person was 48.

I think there are a couple of reasons for this. First, some of them would stop playing for the day if they were taking a lot of bad beats. I tried to prepare them for this in the initial training but it takes experience also to cope with it. Next, I did not push them as hard as I could have. I was pretty laid back with them and we had a pretty flexible schedule. Lastly, some of them could only play 2 tables at the start so it took a while to multitable effectively.

Personally, it was fun for me to do something different than playing all the time. It is rewarding for me to teach someone how to make a great living from their home playing poker. I enjoyed hanging out with the guys also. We went to an NBA game, played American football, played live poker at my house and enjoyed a few meals togeather.

Some of you may be wondering if I will do it again? I think I probably will. If I do it again though I would like to do it with a bigger group and another trainer. For a couple of weeks though I am going to take it easy and play a little.

Finally, an update on how I did at the tables. I played 1347 games while doing this and made $16,566.

I will try to post updates on the leaders of the group a couple of times a week. All of these stats are from sharkscope.com so they do not include rakeback or bounties. Also, some of the games may be missing so these are not completely accurate. I may also post results while they are in middle of a session so the numbers can change quite a bit from day to day. Here are the latest results.

Total Profit Leaders:
1. dexterj911 $19,697
2. changethief8 $3,396
3. claygavin $2,525
ROI Leaders:
1. dexterj911 33%
2. jockmybluff 20%
3. peke2008 17%

Number of Games Played Leaders:
1. Max The OG 2948
2. changethief8 2345
3. hrc99 1919

dexterj911 has final tabled 5 mtts. His largest payout has been $5,675.
bad_boy_les has also final tabled an mtt.
Updated November 3rd 2009