After four unsuccesful attempts I finally managed to win money on a Sunday this year. It was nothing big, I think I ended up netting like $4k for my efforts. All of that basically came from binking a Party $120 turbo for a little over $10k. It was pretty close though, I got 20th in the Entraction major after losing two flips, 19th in Party $109 out of 580 players (basically a major hence the 58k prize pool), 22nd in Stars.fr highroller after losing the crucial flip AKvsQQ for double average, and lost KKvsQQ for 4,5x average and massive chiplead in the .fr major getting 40th/1500 or something. Had I won that I would've had over final table average in a tournament with a $200k prizepool :(

Enough whining. In all honesty I think I played pretty poorly for at least half of my sessions this month. I'm still happy with my progress, since this was a month of big chance schedules-wise. For the first time after two years of having next to no clue about pushbotting I studied turbos on a daily basis, going through spots and doing HH reviews with people who do well in them. I'm still not a master, but I think I've got a lot better with my turbo game already, and I'm going to keep studying them next month no matter how tedious I find them.

Being able to add turbos to my schedule means that I'll get to play less random smaller scheduled tournaments and get to focus more on the bigger ones. I've been toying around with my schedule, trying to find a perfect balance, failing miserably on some days. I played at least four sessions this month when I drastically underestimated the amount of tables I'd have popping, resulting in me playing like a massive nit in all of my 35 tables since I didn't have time to press buttons and was sitting out everywhere.

In the end I think I got pretty close to coming up with a near-perfect weekday schedule with about 80% freezeouts and 20% turbos, but I feel like it still has too many tourneys overall and I'm going to have to get rid of a couple of tournaments. I just love them all so I have no idea what I could actually drop. Oh, the heartbreak.

My biggest scores for the month were today's $10,2k from the Party $120 turbo, $8k on both occasions for winning the Microgaming weekday rebuy twice and $5k for getting second in it once (all within like a week, pretty decent run there), $6,5k for winning the Stars daily $75 turbo, 4,2k for winning the Party 22r and $3,6k for losing HU in the Stars $33r.

It's pretty sick to think that I bought in for over $100k this month, when about a year ago I probably bought in for maybe $20k. I'm now officially aiming to buy in for $1M this year. If I could even get a 30% ROI doing that... I definitely got volume covered, but honestly I played way too much meaningless shit that took focus from more important stuff, and I feel like I (almost) deserve these results. To be honest, sharkscope is even screwing up something since I think I actually didn't even win $9k but got closer to breakeven. I don't have exact statistics anywhere but I think my actual result for the month was like +$4k.





So on the plus side, I think my game kept getting leaps forward, I both got some smallish post-flop leaks plugged and improved my turbo game. If I hadn't scheduled so poorly all the time I think I would easily have made at least $20k. That's what I'm aiming for next month.

If anything good came out of the month it's two new CardRunners videos. The two-part series should be out very soon and concentrates on LAG play. Enjoy!

I'm heading to Deauville tomorrow for the EPT, planning to play everything but the highroller and the 5k turbo 6max. Last year I played the same schedule and didn't cash a single tournament, so at least it can't go any worse. Wish me luck.