THE TOTAL VALUE OF MTT PLAY AS OF DATE

In the current session i have just entered a $5/18 man tourney on Poker Stars. I have found that it seems to run in about the same time as a regular SnG.Somewhere in the area of 1hr 30 min or so;With the top 4 being paid for thier efforts.I have now found enuff leaks in my Stt play,that i now feel comfortable stepping up to play Mtt's for now.
My reading skills have become very sharp here as of late also;And ofcourse this pleases me very much having so much improvement here as of late.Even my inflection point play has shown major improvement also.I can now mix up my play according to certian table situations,and i no longer play ABC Poker ect.
One of the biggest concept's of my game is learning to put a player on a range of hands accordig to thier position and skill level on the table.You will not believe how much this alone has helped to improve my game.Also i am no longer afraid to play in the smaller 180 tourneys anymore.My thinking was becuase there is so much bad play in them that the game is unbeatable.But i have found that any game is beatable if you are a winnning player.
Also if i had to give myself a grade on aggression as oppossed to the way i played at first.Im proboly at level 7 on a 10 point scale system,and before i was at most a 4. It still amazes me the difference being an aggressive poker player does for poker game and your image at the table.When i 1st began to make these aggressive moves i was being to aggressive. But now i am learning to use selective aggression thoughout tournament play as well.

SUCH AS THIS MOVE WITH POCKET NINES OVER THE TOP TO REPRESENT A BIGGER HOLDING.

PokerStars Game #10161707881: Tournament #51503905, $5.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2007/05/29 - 04:02:56 (ET)
Table '51503905 2' 9-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: ttocs15 (205 in chips)
Seat 2: sting600 (1963 in chips)
Seat 4: alexh86 (2395 in chips)
Seat 5: BlooHooHoo (3912 in chips)
Seat 6: SR8tAcEto5 (2225 in chips)
Seat 7: Trygg69 (1405 in chips)
Seat 9: Leda Uno (1395 in chips) is sitting out
sting600: posts small blind 25
alexh86: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to SR8tAcEto5 [9d 9h]
BlooHooHoo: raises 100 to 150
SR8tAcEto5: raises 100 to 250
Trygg69: folds
Leda Uno: folds
ttocs15: folds
sting600: folds
alexh86: folds
BlooHooHoo: calls 100
*** FLOP *** [4s Kh 5s]
BlooHooHoo: checks
SR8tAcEto5: bets 250
BlooHooHoo: folds
SR8tAcEto5 collected 575 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 575 | Rake 0
Board [4s Kh 5s]
Seat 1: ttocs15 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: sting600 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: alexh86 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: BlooHooHoo folded on the Flop
Seat 6: SR8tAcEto5 collected (575)
Seat 7: Trygg69 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Leda Uno folded before Flop (didn't bet)

I HAVE ALSO LEARNED TO GET VALUE OUT OF MY BIG HANDS PREFLOP TO AVIOD THINGS LIKE THIS!

PokerStars Game #10161724914: Tournament #51503905, $5.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level III (25/50) - 2007/05/29 - 04:05:47 (ET)
Table '51503905 2' 9-max Seat #6 is the button
Seat 2: sting600 (1938 in chips)
Seat 4: alexh86 (1895 in chips)
Seat 5: BlooHooHoo (4042 in chips)
Seat 6: SR8tAcEto5 (2475 in chips)
Seat 7: Trygg69 (1755 in chips)
Seat 9: Leda Uno (1395 in chips)
Trygg69: posts small blind 25
Leda Uno: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to SR8tAcEto5 [Qh Qd]
sting600: raises 100 to 150
alexh86: folds
BlooHooHoo: calls 150
SR8tAcEto5: raises 100 to 250
Trygg69: folds
Leda Uno: folds
sting600: raises 1688 to 1938 and is all-in
BlooHooHoo: calls 1788
SR8tAcEto5: folds
*** FLOP *** [7s Kc Kh]
*** TURN *** [7s Kc Kh] [3c]
*** RIVER *** [7s Kc Kh 3c] [5d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
sting600: shows [Ah Ac] (two pair, Aces and Kings)
BlooHooHoo: shows [9d 9s] (two pair, Kings and Nines)
sting600 collected 4201 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4201 | Rake 0
Board [7s Kc Kh 3c 5d]
Seat 2: sting600 showed [Ah Ac] and won (4201) with two pair, Aces and Kings
Seat 4: alexh86 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: BlooHooHoo showed [9d 9s] and lost with two pair, Kings and Nines
Seat 6: SR8tAcEto5 (button) folded before Flop
Seat 7: Trygg69 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: Leda Uno (big blind) folded before Flop

THE GOOD THING ABOUT THIS PLAY IS-even though i folded QQ here i still remain in a high M situation! So basicaly i win the chips that i lost on the reraise,becuase i saved my entire stack.

HORROR!!!!!!!!!!!!! TOTALLY BAD POKER HERE AND A WORSE READ!!!!

PokerStars Game #10161761066: Tournament #51503905, $5.00+$0.50 Hold'em No Limit - Level IV (50/100) - 2007/05/29 - 04:11:48 (ET)
Table '51503905 2' 9-max Seat #4 is the button
Seat 2: sting600 (4451 in chips)
Seat 4: alexh86 (1470 in chips)
Seat 5: BlooHooHoo (3054 in chips)
Seat 6: SR8tAcEto5 (2150 in chips)
Seat 7: Trygg69 (1155 in chips)
Seat 9: Leda Uno (1220 in chips)
BlooHooHoo: posts small blind 50
SR8tAcEto5: posts big blind 100
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to SR8tAcEto5 [5h 9c]
Trygg69: folds
Leda Uno: folds
sting600: folds
alexh86: folds
BlooHooHoo: calls 50
SR8tAcEto5: checks
*** FLOP *** [8c 9h Qs]
BlooHooHoo: bets 300
SR8tAcEto5: raises 300 to 600
BlooHooHoo: calls 300
*** TURN *** [8c 9h Qs] [4c]
BlooHooHoo: bets 2000
SR8tAcEto5: calls 1450 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [8c 9h Qs 4c] [Jc]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
BlooHooHoo: shows [Ts Qh] (a straight, Eight to Queen)
SR8tAcEto5: shows [5h 9c] (a pair of Nines)
BlooHooHoo collected 4300 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4300 | Rake 0
Board [8c 9h Qs 4c Jc]
Seat 2: sting600 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: alexh86 (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 5: BlooHooHoo (small blind) showed [Ts Qh] and won (4300) with a straight, Eight to Queen
Seat 6: SR8tAcEto5 (big blind) showed [5h 9c] and lost with a pair of Nines
Seat 7: Trygg69 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: Leda Uno folded before Flop (didn't bet)

THIS BRINGS US BACK TO AN OLD SAYING NEVER EVER GO BROKE IN AN URAISED POT!

I am now entered in another 5/18 mtt and if i bust out here im going back to sleep again. "Oh yeah",also i had a guy ask me why my roi% was so bad right now and my profit in the red. Well i told him;"Basicaly i tried playing on tables with the higher buy-ins thinking it was just bad platers at lower levels".But in fact what the problem was is that i just made alot of mistakes.

And this is not to take anything away from the players who play in the Stars Nightly $160 or anything;But i truly beleive what seperates a winning player and a losing player is winning player makes less mistakes.Just look at it this way,"If i play in 5 $20 buy-in STT and bubble them all that's $100 in negative roi%.If i do the same in a $5 buy-in STT it'$25;And not to mention poor bankroll management to boot!

Also the cash rewards are greater for obvious reasons at bigger buy-in events.You cash 5 20's it could be as much as $400.00 in winnings.Do the same for a $5 buy-in event it's around $110. So when i began to play poker this year fulltime i was very unaware of proper bankroll management solutions.

I truly believe that poker is a game of Skill;and more so becomes a game of luck for the weaker player in general.SO the more you learn about this game of poker;the less you will have to rely on luck AKA a coin flip.And in the end the main goal of being a winning player is to have no luck at all in my opinion!

This is why i am planning on reviseing my bankroll management system once again. As far as my game goes my limits are 20x the buy=(maximum down swing)-50%=(min threshold values for SAT tourneys).So in other words i will take a $100 bankroll to enter any $5STT/MTT=20x5=100/50=(the ammt in which i will have to play STT/MTT until my roll is above 50% or $50.00.

This is the formula that i am currently using and so far i have not gone broke with it.Ofcourse i don't play cash games as of now;But it is soon to come!