May in review

Disclaimer: This is in no way to brag about my poker accomplishments. I simply provide these numbers for people who are curious about how I'm doing lately. I get tons of questions from people about how much I make, hands played, etc. that I guess I'll post monthly summaries.

SNGs: I played a lot of SNG's on Stars this month with pretty decent success. This is definetely a great way to build a small bankroll, but I think it would be hard to make a lot of $$$ without playing an insane amount of tournaments. For this reason I quit playing SNG's after 10 days or so but here are the stats.

86 tournaments x $22 = $1892 invested.
Results =$2538 ($646 profit).
ROI = 34.14%.
ITM = 50.8%.

Not amazing but I'll take it. I learned a lot and I know I can fall back on my SNG game if the cash games go sour for awhile.

MTT's: 2 final tables including a chop. I played a lot of tournaments on FTP the last few days of the month because their $69+6 buyins have huge overlays in the guaranteed prize pool. Therefore, these numbers aren't that great but...

Profit = $138.
Approx 49 tournaments entered.

Nothing amazing to report here but if I can make one serious FT my stats would really be intense for that month. Therefore, I'll continue to play MTT's until I get sick or make a big score.

Ring games: After a break from playing cash games I came back home the last few weeks of May. I am really happy with how I played and will continue to play .50/1 NLHE on UltimateBet until I get tired of the site.

Hands played = 15,508.
Total profit =$981.
$/100 hands = $6.33.

Hands played and $/100 are much lower than I anticipated, but I didn't play for many days and I also took 3 or 4 days off this month for various things. I'm happy with these stats.

Bonuses: 100% up to $500 on UB is the only real bonus I scored this month. I also used my FPP on Stars to buy an iPod Nano which I plan on selling for $225 so I'll add that to this category.

UB Bonus = $274.
iPod = $225.
Total = $499.

MAY TOTAL: $2264.

Time to start playing in the month of June...

(Cash game strategy article coming very soon.)