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Essexphil's May Sky's the Limit Challenge

EssexphilEssexphil Member Posts: 8,876
edited June 2017 in Poker Chat
I did one of these last September. It really helped focus my game. I had a fairly ordinary September from a profit perspective, but it definitely provided a kick-start for the rest of the year.

I spent most of last month clicking buttons, rather than playing poker. Yesterday was a nice day-binked a Vegas side package on here, just missed one on another site (9/150, 2 packages), and had some other deepish runs. So-confidence rather better, and hoping Victor Variance keeps smiling for a while.

Month goals:

1. To achieve top 20 by end of month on Aussie's "best player"-I think I am currently about 420th)
2. To win 2 tracked MTTs
3. To final table 10 tracked MTTs
4. To FT a Main or Mini
5. To end the month in profit

This will not just be about poker. While some of it will be re progress on goals to help me (and hopefully others), I will also deal with my thoughts on poker and life generally. However, I don't want it to be just about me-the more people who comment on this thread the better. It can be good to look at a snapshot of a month of a person pretending to play poker seriously.

It will only deal with May-I know I cannot compete with the long-term brilliance of threads such as Quickfeet, Tomgoodun or Jac. Let's see what May brings....

Phil
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  • Jac35Jac35 Member Posts: 6,492
    edited May 2017
    This'll be really interesting 
    Congrats on your Vegas package btw
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  • markycashmarkycash Member Posts: 2,837
    edited May 2017
    Well done on the package and good luck with this Phil.
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  • ArrogantArrogant Member Posts: 216
    edited May 2017
    Gl, i think you will reach your goals.In the top 5 tournament players on this site from my experience at the tables.
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  • tomgooduntomgoodun Member Posts: 3,756
    edited May 2017
    Well done on the Vegas seat Phil, that's about 40 years on the trot you have played there isn't it :)
    Follow your goals with interest, g lk.
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  • aussie09aussie09 Member Posts: 8,033
    edited May 2017

    good luck phil.

    it's something i will folllow every day. 

    your current position in the top 500 Best Player league is 362nd

    up 59 places yesterday






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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,247
    edited May 2017
    In Response to Re: Essexphil's May Sky's the Limit Challenge:
    This'll be really interesting  Congrats on your Vegas package btw
    Posted by Jac35
    Define "really interesting" please.
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  • Jac35Jac35 Member Posts: 6,492
    edited May 2017
    In Response to Re: Essexphil's May Sky's the Limit Challenge:
    In Response to Re: Essexphil's May Sky's the Limit Challenge : Define "really interesting" please.
    Posted by Tikay10
    Less tedious than Can an old dog learn new tricks 
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  • glencoeladglencoelad Member Posts: 1,505
    edited May 2017
    Hi Phil,   good luck with the challange, im sure you will hit the goals, i thought you had 
    already ticked off the top 20 player list....i have you down as one on here.
     Perhaps you dont do the volume of games as some others .
     FANTASTIC result on the package, great to have it tied up and a nice trip to look ahead to.
     The thread will be followed by many....i look farward to it, good luck at the tables.
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,247
    edited May 2017
    In Response to Re: Essexphil's May Sky's the Limit Challenge:
    In Response to Re: Essexphil's May Sky's the Limit Challenge : Less tedious than Can an old dog learn new tricks 
    Posted by Jac35
    I might just spite re-start it now.
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  • Jac35Jac35 Member Posts: 6,492
    edited May 2017
    Already bumped :)
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  • EssexphilEssexphil Member Posts: 8,876
    edited May 2017
    In Response to Re: Essexphil's May Sky's the Limit Challenge:
    Gl, i think you will reach your goals.In the top 5 tournament players on some of the tables from my experience at this site.
    Posted by Arrogant
    FYP, but thanks ;)
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  • EssexphilEssexphil Member Posts: 8,876
    edited May 2017
    Thanks for the good wishes, although it feels a bit weird men complimenting me about my package:).

    So-an update on day 1:-

    The highs-er, see Rob (aussie's) spoiler. Sounds good, until you look and see just how little success can cause that jump. Clue-all goals untouched....

    The lows:
    • got to expect that an element of run-bad (and play-bad) was due. Thought it might not be my day on the 3rd hand of the day. Me-QQ. Flop Q87 rainbow. Villain shoved-and won (87ss with a runner-runner flush)
    • discovered that a good friend is not well (the person who started me playing on here, AceGooner)-not for me to go into detail, but hope he is better soon
    • I wish to apologise to everyone who may be forced to read that an old dog cannot learn new tricks (apart from giving up smoking, please)

    Good luck all-more tomorrow

     

    Phil

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  • aussie09aussie09 Member Posts: 8,033
    edited May 2017
    In Response to Re: Essexphil's May Sky's the Limit Challenge:
    Thanks for the good wishes, although it feels a bit weird men complimenting me about my package:). So-an update on day 1:- The highs-er, see Rob (aussie's) spoiler. Sounds good, until you look and see just how little success can cause that jump. Clue-all goals untouched.... The lows: got to expect that an element of run-bad (and play-bad) was due. Thought it might not be my day on the 3rd hand of the day. Me-QQ. Flop Q87 rainbow. Villain shoved-and won (87ss with a runner-runner flush) discovered that a good friend is not well (the person who started me playing on here, AceGooner)-not for me to go into detail, but hope he is better soon I wish to apologise to everyone who may be forced to read that an old dog cannot learn new tricks (apart from giving up smoking, please) Good luck all-more tomorrow   Phil
    Posted by Essexphil

    sorry phil, not intended as a spoiler.  more in praise.




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  • EssexphilEssexphil Member Posts: 8,876
    edited May 2017
    In Response to Re: Essexphil's May Sky's the Limit Challenge:
    In Response to Re: Essexphil's May Sky's the Limit Challenge : sorry phil, not intended as a spoiler.  more in praise.
    Posted by aussie09
    Not a problem-1 of the goals is to promote your excellent site. Please feel free either to give an update or post a link to your site for it (as long as Sky don't mind)
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  • Tikay10Tikay10 Member, Administrator, Moderator Posts: 172,247
    edited May 2017

    Marv.
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  • aussie09aussie09 Member Posts: 8,033
    edited May 2017
    In Response to Re: Essexphil's May Sky's the Limit Challenge:
    In Response to Re: Essexphil's May Sky's the Limit Challenge : Not a problem-1 of the goals is to promote your excellent site. Please feel free either to give an update or post a link to your site for it (as long as Sky don't mind)
    Posted by Essexphil

    thank you phil, kind words.

    you will see your top 500 Best Player position here...
    www.PokerSuperHero.com/best




    To help you find your performance in different leagues, I have added a brand new FIND page to help you see the pages on which you feature today.

    Type in your alias into the yellow cell and see a "yes" next to each page. This guides you and you can select specific pages from the menu.

    Incidentally, you can FIND all 23,270 players in the 2,744 major tournaments so far in 2017.

    It will be updated every morning too.

    .

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  • EssexphilEssexphil Member Posts: 8,876
    edited May 2017
    First the update:

    Managed to brick 5 or 6 MTTs yesterday, so still languishing in 360th on the leaderboard. On a more positive note, managed to get through a preliminary round and a quarter final towards a "Main" Vegas package. £275 Semi Final to come on 7th May. Meanwhile, feel the need to start running deep in an MTT on here to get the challenge up and running.

    Essex as a County produces some fine poker players. This site has some excellent players-MattBates, ChicknMelt, Jordz are fine examples. Elsewhere, there are further examples-the Essex players listed on Pocket5s include the likes of Chris Moorman and Luke Schwartz, and there are several good live players from Essex playing at Southend/Stratford as well as further afield. Nevertheless, I think it is fair to say that the County of Essex is particularly strong on Sky in terms of the best players on a site-I wonder why that is?
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  • EssexphilEssexphil Member Posts: 8,876
    edited May 2017
    Finally-some real progress.

    Month goals:

    1. To achieve top 20 by end of month on Aussie's "best player"- (currently  420th)-up 198 places to 162
    2. To win 2 tracked MTTs-won 1
    3. To final table 10 tracked MTTs-1
    4. To FT a Main or Mini-0
    5. To end the month in profit-not yet, but the losses are smaller

    Onwards and upwards (hopefully)

    Phil
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  • markycashmarkycash Member Posts: 2,837
    edited May 2017
    Good progress so far Phil.

    Best of luck going forward!
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  • aussie09aussie09 Member Posts: 8,033
    edited May 2017


    well played yesterday phil, it was good to see your win so early in your quest.  up 198 places is one day is spectacular.

    to make things easy for you and your thread readers, the webpages that are best for each of your goals are reached using the following links.


    Goals

    1. To achieve top 20 by end of month on Aussie's "best player"- (currently  420th)-up 198 places to 162
    www.PokerSuperHero.com/best

    2. To win 2 tracked MTTs-won 1
    www.PokerSuperHero.com/monthbest
    www.PokerSuperHero.com/results

    3. To final table 10 tracked MTTs-1
    www.PokerSuperHero.com/monthbest

    4. To FT a Main or Mini-0
    www.PokerSuperHero.com/jackpot

    5. To end the month in profit-not yet, but the losses are smaller
    www.PokerSuperHero.com/monthprofit


    Incidentally, your profit in the 21 major tournaments you've played so far in May is £44.95. 



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