Competition - How profitable can you be in 10000 poker hands?

tuktuk200 · #1 09-03-2008, 02:50 AM

Hi,

Im starting a competition where Im challenging everyone to see who will be the most profitable player after 10000 hands. I will be giving the following prizes:

1st - $80
2nd - $60
3rd - $40
4th - $20
5th - $10

Read all the details and how to join in my blog.
I will keep you posted of my own performance!

Best regards,
Tuk

tuktuk200 · #2 09-06-2008, 08:48 PM

Just a quick reminder to say that the competition will start tomorrow and it will be running for 1 month and during that period you can always join!
Looking forward to see you there!

Best regards,
Tuk

tuktuk200 · #3 09-11-2008, 03:40 PM

Hello!

As promissed I would like to give you a quick update on my own performance to reach maximum profitability in 10000 poker hands.

I had a terrible start and I lost $11,33 in 773 hands played... Please consider the session graph:

i can not post images... yet...

Best hand of the session: +$5,28

Preflop: Hero is SB with As, Ad
3 folds, MP2 calls $0,10, 2 folds, BU raises to $0,50, Hero raises to $1,00, BB folds, MP2 calls $0,90, BU calls $0,50.

Flop: ($3,10) Kc, 7h, 8h (3 players)
Hero bets $0,50, MP2 calls $0,50, BU calls $0,50.

Turn: ($4,60) 3s (3 players)
Hero bets $0,60, MP2 calls $0,60, BU calls $0,60.

River: ($6,40) Jh (3 players)
Hero raises $0,70 (All-In), MP2 calls $0,70, BU calls $0,70.

Final Pot: $8,50

Hero shows a pair of aces (As Ad)
BU shows high card ace with king kicker (Qs Ah)
MP2 shows a pair of kings (Tc Ks)
Hero wins with a pair of aces (As Ad)

Worst hand of the session: -$5,86

Preflop: Hero is BB with Qc, Qh
UTG+1 folds, UTG+2 raises to $0,40, 6 folds, Hero raises to $1,00, UTG+2 raises to $1,60, Hero calls $0,60.

Flop: ($3,25) 7h, Kd, Ts (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG+2 bets $1,10, Hero calls $1,10.

Turn: ($5,45) 6h (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG+2 bets $2,90, Hero raises to $3,16 (All-In), UTG+2 calls $0,26.

River: ($11,77) Th

Final Pot: $11,77

Hero shows two pairs, queens and tens (Qc Qh)
UTG+2 shows two pairs, aces and tens (Ad Ah)
UTG+2 wins with two pairs, aces and tens (Ad Ah)

If you have the time I would love to receive your feedback either here or you could leave a comment on my blog.

Please note that the competition started on the 8th of September and will be running for 1 month. During that period you can register at any time through my blog as long as you are able to play and present your 10000 hands in the end.

If you like the concept you might want to help me and share this idea with your friends

Thats it for today I hope on my next update to be back on the green light!

Best regards,
Tuk

tuktuk200 · #4 09-17-2008, 07:07 AM

1 week after - 6045 hands and still on negative profitability: -$7.55
Rake generated $44.87
Pokerstrategypoints - 123 (still missing 1 day update)

My comments:

So far Im not being able to go to green and stay on green. Im also testing a few diferent ways of playing and that might be the reason for this "bad" results... I should have stick to the Short Stack Strategy.
All in all apart from the fact that Ive been able to generate enough party points to join Party Poker promotional 50K tournament next Saturday everything else is being just boring... I might need to continue after the 10000 hands to see if I can present a nice upward trend graph

...still not able to post images...

Most profitable hand so far: +$9.06

0.05/0.1 No-Limit Hold'em (10 handed)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with A , A
Hero raises to $0.50, UTG+1 raises to $1.50, 8 folds, Hero raises to $3.00, UTG+1 calls $1.50.

Flop: ($6.15) 3 , 7 , Q (2 players)
Hero checks, UTG+1 checks.

Turn: ($6.15) 5 (2 players)
Hero bets $2.50, UTG+1 calls $2.50.

River: ($11.15) 8 (2 players)
Hero raises $4.40 (All-In), UTG+1 calls $4.40.

Final Pot: $19.95

Most unprofitable hand so far: -$8,80

0.05/0.1 No-Limit Hold'em (9 handed)

Preflop: Hero is BU with 4 , 4
3 folds, MP2 raises to $0.40, 2 folds, Hero calls $0.40, SB raises to $0.80, 2 folds, Hero calls $0.40.

Flop: ($2.10) 5 , 3 , 6 (2 players)
SB bets $1.00, Hero calls $1.00.

Turn: ($4.10) 9 (2 players)
SB bets $2.00, Hero calls $2.00.

River: ($8.10) 8 (2 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $5.00, SB calls $5.00.

Final Pot: $18.10

If you have the time I would love to receive your feedback either here or you could leave a comment on my blog - tuktukbkk.blogspot.com

Best regards,
Tuk

tuktuk200 · #5 10-21-2008, 03:07 PM

Hello community,

Its been a while now and my life is being quite active lately (Im actually in Shenzhen at the moment on a business trip)

I have checked my email and for my big disappointment I didn't receive any reply from those who registered on my 10000 hands promotion until today (12 days after the deadline). That's really bad and now I'm trying to understand what went wrong...

Was the target of 10000 hands to high for the period of time defined? I mean I did it but I also played several tables at the same time as I have already some experience but maybe for a beginner that's something you definitely don't do so basically if you play 1 table, lets say on average 40 hands per hour that actually means you would have to play about 8 hours every day... a little bit to much! So I need to rethink this promotion and create something that can be a challenging but realistic. If poker is a hobby for most of us then lets say you can play 2 hour per day during the weekdays and 3 hours on the weekend days. Also assuming that you can play 2 tables at the same time (otherwise I think that even for beginners poker online will be to slow) then to be able to play 10000 hands you would need 2 months!

Another reason could be the fact that beginners will not have immediate access to download poker elephant and/or they dont know or where can they get their poker hands. A quick explanation - for the poker hands in most of the sites they will be stored in a folder inside the place where you have installed the software. As 1 example for PokerStars my hands are saved in C:\Program Files\PokerStars\HandHistory, for Party Poker in C:\Program Files\PartyGaming\PartyPoker\HandHistory, etc..
So if this is the problem and the reason why you didn't send me your statistics just send me a quick email and I will reconsider your results. I will be able to upload them on poker elephant I create your graph and see your result.

Could it be because I'm locking the promotion to a specific type limit and type of game i.e. just because I play no limit holdem doesn't mean that the other also want to play that... And maybe I should use a different measurement like BB/100 i.e. how many big blinds you generated per each 100 hands. Then everyone could play at any limit and type of game.

Could it be lack of trust? I still have the feeling that most people that read my posts in forums and in the poker rooms don't trust me or don't believe in what I'm doing... I have no clue how to change that...

So I'm thinking that when I'm back home I will probably relaunch this promotion but on a different format. Please feel free to send me your comments and suggestions to make the next 10000 hands promotion a successful one!

The 1st 10000 hands promotion is now officially closed and unfortunately I have no results or winners to announce. The money will be reused for the next one.

Looking forward to receive your ideas and comments!!!