Brief Update -- March Results / April Goals

Hey guys, sorry ive been slow with posting, as always, life has been pretty busy, march went OK, but still not as well as i'd liked it to have:

+$9,194

however a large % of this came from coaching, rakeback, staking, etc., so next month i'd like to work on having 6-10k profits just from poker, and the rest of the stuff as a bonus, so im a bit dissapointed with my poker results this month.




anyways, goals next month:

+10k or more
dont force volume, just play solid
get everything ready and booked for vegas
enjoy/relax a bit more



also hopefully big news to come in my life later this month




Vegas House stuff so far, we got the house, and a possible chef so far, my roomates will be:

NemoInDenial, JSnipes(Pez_Vela), Skilled_Sox, and ShortSharpShock , seems like it's gonna be great, here are a few pics of the house:
















Description:




Las Vegas Mexican Hacienda Vacation Retreat

* Property type: Villa, 5300 sq. ft.
* Location type: resort
* Bedrooms: 6 Bedrooms, Sleeps 19
* Bathrooms: 6 Bathrooms
* Highlights: resort, swimming pool, air-conditioning, washing machine




Our property is very large and offers many outside recreational items for your pleasure. It is 1.4 acres surrounded by a 10 foot high security fence.

The Volley Ball Court...
A view from one of the upstairs bedrooms give a great view of our beach sand volleyball court. Regulation size with an extra 10-15 feet of extra running room on all sides. Included at court side is a cold shower plus a water hose to soak the court when the sand is too hot...Enjoy beach volleyball in Las Vegas...
Notice the running track.









The Putting Green...Ready for play and challenging!!!

Over 8000 square foot of professional putting surface for your pitch and putt enjoyment. We have 3 unique holes and an unlimited amount of entry points to provide a level of practice for your short game that you have never experienced before...and a huge sand trap. In our coarse the ball only goes into the sand trap, if you want it to for your practice.












The Running Track...Best to run this 1/8+ mile at night(lighted). Shown around the volleyball court and also zig zags through out the property.

Get your workout using our 1/8 of a mile running track. It winds in an out of the property but always behind the security gates...soooo no dogs will be chasing you. The surface is varied and we have a few stretching appliances for your use during your run. You can even pick some fruit when in season during your jog.




And...Our lastest addition...Our heated swimming pool




















The other house we were comparing it to was this one, but it only had 5 bedrooms and we needed a guest bedroom so we ended up passing ;p:






















Description:

* Property type: House, 8762 sq. ft.
* Bedrooms: 5 Bedrooms, Sleeps 12
* Bathrooms: 4 Bathrooms, 1 Half Bath
* Highlights: swimming pool, air-conditioning, washing machine, internet access, tennis




Anyways guys, I hope you all had a fantastic month, and Good luck in April, I hope to meet a bunch of you in vegas! :)


-Primo

Weekly MTT schedule

Hey, I plan on playing a ton of live MTTs this summer, hopefully 20-30 of them when i'm in vegas this summer, most being the Venetian Deep Stack and Caesars Mega Stack series, for $300-500 average buy ins. To prepare a bit i'm adding the Sunday Million to my weekly schedule, as well as continuing to play the $216 HU MTT on Saturday (FTP), the $215 HU MTT on Sunday (Stars), and the $109 Super Turbo HU MTT (Stars). The HU MTTs obv won't help me any, but I plan on just 1 tabling (w/added HU MTT maybe if it's running) when playing the Sunday Million, to get my mind back into thinking deeply about MTT decisions. Anyways, this comes to just about $1300 / week in MTTs, which is pretty signifcant but i'm assumed to be +EV in all of them, so hopefully it works out and take down a decent score one of these times :).

Took a 3rd (KK < AKs for stacks), and 8th (JJ < ATo for stacks) in the nightly $109 HU MTT this week, I feel like I have a really big edge in that tourney, so I can't wait to keep playing it and hopefully crushing it.

Also got a trip to foxwoods planned for later this week, I think Wednesday - Friday/Sat. , so will be playing $2/5 NL cash and maybe some daily MTTs while im down there, going w/some friends from home but would be glad to meet up with anyone while im down there,

Hope you guys are all having a good month,

-PrimordialAA


(oh yea, i'm about +7k w/everything included this month, playing, coaching, FPP, I think im ~+4500-5k from just playing)

Y.T.D. update / Febuary Recap

Hey guys, sorry I havent been updating that much so I figured i'd give you guys all an update:


Janary: Jan. was really dissapointing, I was up like 9-10k and went on a big downswing at the end of it, and ended ~+$1500 or so for a final

February: Feb. has treated me a bit better, still not as well as i'd like but def. a solid month overall

Poker (2mans / 4mans): +4,367
Coaching: +2,220
FPP/Bonuses: +1,693
Staking: ~ +1,000
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+$9,280


In other news, i've been SUPER motivated recently, I just got off a 10 day vacation in Florida with my gf and family and am really pumped to start saving to buy a house as I saw some awsome real estate down there, and I may actually be making an investment purchase w/my older sister down there, so that would be really awsome. I bought my GF a car ( 2002 Audi A4 Quatro ), but we haven't really had a chance to use it much as we left right away for vacation. Other than that you guys may have seen me at 110s for a bit, I dropped until I made 20 BI and got some confidence back, i've achieved this and so should be back around a mix of 110s/220s. And other than that i've been receiving a TON of super good feedback by theSNGacademy members, both on 2p2 and on the forums there, and it's really nice to hear that my videos are helping people out and people are appreciating it alot.

Anyways guys, I hope you all have had a great start to the year, mine has been a bit disappointing and I put myself in a real struggle if i'm still try to get to SNE, but I can't really complain about make 11k over 2 months, when I feel I havent been playing my best and have been running poorly overall, Best of luck,

-Primo

Mid Month Update

Hey guys, just makin a quick update, it's been kinda a crazy month so far this month, my monthly graph looks like this:







It looks a little bit ridiculous, but my sharkscope was off by 11k at one point in the month, which is completely insane. anyways, it's currently off 3406 (too low), which puts my monthly profit at $4538 , add $1715 worth of FPP (just over 30k VPP), puts me at $6253, but im down a bit cause of cash, so i'd say im about +5400 this month overall. I've cashed out 5k and moved my spread of games back up a bit to include 220s/300s/330s , and still playing all limits of 4mans. Ive gotten alot of confidence back and I think I should definently be able to hit my goal of 10k this month.


Other plans for the month, I fly out to France on the 22nd (Thursday), and meet my girlfriend, who im bringing back on the 30th. So obviously not so pumped to be traveling again, but realllyyyy pumped to finally have her over here. Also planning a 1-2 week vacation with all my family in Orlando at the end of the month, should be 10 of us total going (parents, 4 of us children, + 4 gfs/bfs/wives). Gonna just hang out, relax around Disney, and meet up with People_Mover from 2p2, so looking forward to alot of stuff coming up. Anyways, will give a more detailed update at the end of the month, hope 2009 has start off right for all of you, Good luck,

-Primo


Jan: +$5400

Losing Month / 2009 goals

Hey guys, So let me start off with the bad, I had my first losing month ever, or since I started playing full time at least, and the sad part is I had a positive ROI on both sites.

I took a TON of shots this month, I played alot of 1100s on my own, played a bunch of 2200s w/ 50% of my action, and also had one day where I was -14k between 1100s/550s, but most of that was me going 14-34 that day in 550s on FTP for like -12.5k, just a really sick month and I feel like I played super mediocre and ran terrrrible every time I was playing higher limit games, but oh well; Live and Learn I guess.

Anyways it was a big eye opener, and helped me get super motivated for the upcoming year, as did my trip to Atlantic City w/hokie. So below are my results




Pokerstars: 741 games, 1% ROI, -4,196 , SS is $6,552 too high
FTP: 315 games, 1% ROI, -8,329 , SS is $5, 806 too low


Month: Stars: -$4,196
FTP: -$8,329
Cash: +$1,835
Satts: -$262
Sports: -$1,460
FPP: +$2,534
Bonus: +4,000
SS off: -$746
AC trip:-$1,000
rakeback:$1,858
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-$5,766




As for the new year, I am unbelievably excited about 2009, it's really insane to look back and see how far I (we as poker players) have grown this year, it's really almost surreal to look at. I hope 2009 brings me the same success that 2008 did, and I hope to establish my permanence in the Professional Poker field.


Poker Goals:
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Make $120,000 from playing ($10,000 / month , not including bonuses)

Be playing (and rolled for) $550s/1100s consistently by the end of 2009

Make $175,000 in 2009 (including bonuses)

Win a package to at LEAST one big live MTT

Don't focus too much on making SNE, just play my best when im feeling good and if I end up on pace for SNE, so be it, if I don't make it, don't stress about it


Personal Goals:
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Be less insane about poker, take more days off, relax and enjoy time with people more, just focus on playing great when I play, but don't obsess about volume

Try to pick up tennis or something else like it to keep me active / healthy in the coming year

Start to invest money or at least begin to set aside substantial money for a house

Get myself and gf cars

Hang out / meet up with hokie a few more times, that trip was the nuts and he always wants to go diff. places, so it'll get me out and doing stuff

AC bound

3-3'd the prop bet, got crusheddd at ping pong, he is really nasty, he was in a table tennis club for 4 yrs in germany and whatever



anyways, AC-bound , goin to chill w/hokie for a few days, from the 28th to 30th so i'm pretty pumped, should be alot of fun, if I dont donk off like 5k live ;p.

Christmas Prop-bet-a-ments

forgot to post this earlier :), happening today




Hey guys, I had a pretty huge downswing this month, but am slowly recovering and will most likely break even or turn a small profit this month. I had a single day that was -14k and that kinda set the tone for some other parts of the month ;p, but it's going well overall and it's not like anything has changed, I just need to wait a bit longer before taking shots at 1100s/2200s :).



Below is a propbet im doing with a friend, I posted it on 2p2 but thought I should also post it here:



Sick, christmas prop-bet-a-ments


I'm doing a 6 game prop bet w/a friend before he heads back to Germany, the events are as follows:


Event #1

HU SNG

he starts out 1600-1400, we 1 table turbos, best out of 5


Event #2

Pool

he gets 3 balls off the table on each rack, best out of 5


Event #3

Ping Pong

I get 5 points, best out of 5


Event #4

Tennis

I get 4 games / set , must win by 2 games (6-5 is not a win) , we play best of 3 sets

Event #5

bowling

I get 12.5 pins, best out of 3 strings


Event #6

Rock Paper Scissors

9 throws = 1 game, best of 5 games



Payout:

6-0: $1000
5-1: $600
4-2: $250
3-3: chop






fwiw he is a poker player as well, pretty solid at HU SNG (Paranoia87 on stars) , doesnt play much anymore but def. doesnt deserve much more of an edge in HU SNG, he CRUSHES me in tennis, and gave me 2:1 odds that I wouldnt win a single game vs him, and I didnt, even though we played 4 sets lol. I even had 40-love on my own serve and blew it =/

should be alot of fun, prolly gonna do it the morning of christmas Eve, goooo me, run good at HU and RPS 1 timeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :)