Not exactly the best way to start: -$11,33 :(

Hello,

As you know the competition to see who is the most profitable player in 10000 hands started yesterday. I have posted this on pokerstrategy.com in different forums and the feedback and support received so far is great! Thank you!

Before jumping into my own results I would like to make note of two important details:

1 - The competition will be running until the 8th of October and during this period of time you can always join as long as you able to provide the 10000 hands for the final result.

2 - During this period of time you can play as many hands as you like and you can pick the best 10000 consecutive hands to be presented for the final result.

As you know I will be testing this concept on my own and I have played the first hands yesterday in Party Poker - what a bad start... I lost $11,33 in 773 hands played.
I played 6 tables at the same time applying the pokerstrategy short stack strategy and for a period of 2 hours.

Here is the graph:



Not that Im trying to find an excuse for this bad start but never try to play poker when you have family visiting and a small kid running around you constantly asking for you to go and play! Your focus and concentration on your actions will be -120% :)

I will also post my most profitable and loss giving hand for your analysis and maybe you could give me some feedback on what should I do better next time :) both to maximize my profits or minimize my loss:

Most profitable hand 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)

Its funny how attached I can be to the ladies :)

I have to run now as I still have my family here to visit me (during the next 7 days) but I will soon post the updated statistics and the results on the top 10 promotion.

I hope you can help me promoting this competition with your friends so please send this blog link to them! Thank you!

Best regards,
Tuk

Quest for profitability in 10000 poker hands - Competition!

Hi,

Im starting a new competition online for all that have registered through my blog on pokerstrategy where the objective is to see how profitable you are after playing 10000 hands. For the top 5 most profitable players this is will be the prize money:

1st - $80

2nd - $60

3rd - $40

4th - $20

5th - $10

The competition will be open from 8th of September until the 8th of October and during this period you will be able to compare your performance with all the others who will join this competition. All you need to do is register on pokerstrategy using my link and send me a email with your registration nickname and that you wish to participate in this competition.

I will also join and I will start with my current bankroll of $49.75 that I have on Party Poker and I will post my own performance during this period of time. But of course I will not be eligible for the prizes.

Some rules need to be defined to make the competition equal to everyone:

1 - You will have to play no-limit Texas Holdem at the $0.05/$0.10 level.

2 - You should start with a bankroll of $50

3 - You need to be able to present your statistics for this specific competition using one of the many available tools - my suggestion is that you use the poker elephant developed by pokerstrategy.com (if you dont have this available yet you can download it here and use this software for free during 21 days which I guess will be more than enough to play the 10000 hands.). Another suggestion would be PokerTracker 3 where you could use their 60 day trial period.

4 - The starting date will be 8th of September 2008 and the last day for you to send me your statistics will be the 8th of October 2008. After that within 5 working days I will announce the winners. The 10000 hands need to be proven as played during this period of time.

5 - Profitability will be measured in US dollars. In case you play in other currencies the rate of exchange at the date of today will be used for calculation.

6 - You need to have registered on pokerstrategy.com using my referral link and confirmed your registration nick by email to tuktukbkk@gmail.com. This competition is, of course, open for all that have already register with me before. All you need to do is send me an email confirming that you would like to join. A minimum of 10 players will be required to join for this competition to be valid.

7 -The prizes will be paid using the inter account transfers in 1 of the following poker platforms - PokerStars, Full Tilt, Titan Poker, Mansion Poker, Party Poker (only for the prizes above $50 due to PartyPoker restriciton). Other platforms will be considered if required.

You will probably see me around for the next 6 days promoting my competition so if you can help me spreading the word around either by sending this post by email to all your friends who might want to join or/and leave a post/comment in 1 of your favourite forums or blogs.

Any questions please drop me an email to tuktukbkk@gmail.com

Good luck and let the games begin!

Help me to break down the TAF payments!

Hi,

Ive been in the past days in discussion with pokerstrategy.com to see if they can either increase their current Tell-a-Friend - TAF - promotion or reduce the number of strategypoints required to release the $75 dollars.

As you can see by my latest statistics out of 385 registered friends with me only 1 managed to get to the 5000 strategypoints and because Im running this promotion he ended up making $250. But it is still quite difficult and demanding to get there. So what Im proposing to pokerstrategy.com is that they reduce the TAF payments as follow:

$10 at the 15 strategypoints mark

$15 at the 100 strategypoints mark

$25 at the 1000 strategypoints mark

$50 at the 5000 strategypoints mark

If that goes through that will mean that actually you will get the TAF money that I give back earlier as well.

If you can please go to this pokerstrategy forum post and support this initiative.

Now for the latest statistics update:

The top 10 promotion:

Free Poker Money Released - $7237.5

My head is full of ideas and one of the things I was planning to do is a small competition to see how profitable you are playing on a defined NL blinds in 10000 poker hands... But this still needs to be still prepared... Please keep in touch and make sure you subscribe to my blog for the latest updates!

Best regards,

Tuk

My first video - Step by Step guide to Register on Pokerstrategy

Hi,

I finally manage to create my first video and this first one has the objective of explaining to the new visitors how to register on pokerstrategy.com using my tuktuk poker model. I upload it on youtube.com and I will also upload it here:



This was done in cooperation of a fan of my blog that decided to record all the steps. So new visitors, in less than 5 minutes you will be able to grab the initial $50 to start playing poker for free without any deposits!

I have included the video also in the top of the blog so that future newcomers can immediatelly see these nice step by step guide.

I will soon be posting some more interesting activities that are happening as we speak!

Best regards,
Tuk

Moving to a new apartment!

Hello again! Sorry for these lack of posts but my life is being under a big change and I have moved to a new apartment. With so many things to do (work, move, family, etc.) something had to be left aside and that was unfortunatelly my blog. But now Im back and hopefully to be able to post at least once a week with the updates and all the statistics and news of this initiative.

One of the most interesting things that happened during this time was to receive positive feedback and support to continue by one of the pokerstrategy forum moderators - thunderbird56 - to my blog. Read it here. That really makes me motivated to continue with my idea - I call it now the tuktuk poker model :)

Not sure if you usually see them (as they dont show in the main page) but I have received a few comments that really make me happy like for example the one from Garry.

I have also received a request from 1 fan to use my tuktuk poker model but for another site - pokerprofessor - and I have give him the ok to go. Here stays the link to his blog - http://poker250.blogspot.com/ - in case you are interested.

Its really nice to see that this is moving in the right direction and the more we are the more free poker money will be available to play!

Now the updated statistics and a few more payments made by me.

The top 10 promotion - there are still 2 places to be paid the full amount - $250!

The overall statistics of this initiative - Untill now $6995 have been released to play poker for free:



Payments confirmation - CCO, g4rry, CalimeRhum and AngleSh00ter have contacted me and they have receive the money I give back from the refer a friend, as per my step by step guide:

Again if you are still in doubt just look for these players in the poker platforms and ask them directly.

You can also see that I have activated 2 new functions in my blog that you could use to help me to promote this:

1 - The "Thumb This Up!" where basically you can leave an independent review of my blog for others to see.

2 - The "Links to this Post" function in each post so that you can a link back to my blog .

Well thats it for today, and I hope to receive your comments and of course your support to spread this with your friends!

All the best,

Tuk