My poker resume / Top Ten Finishes
I had someone ask me earlier in the week about my poker resume, including my top multitable finishes looked like. I was interested enough in the question to go back through poker tracker and dig up the stats, and have put them together below.
I've been playing cards for a lot of my life. Early games of pitch, five card draw, and seven stud with friends and family. During the mid-nineties I was heavily in to the collectable card games (primarily Magic: The Gathering) at the competitive level (this was all prior to the "pro Magic circuit" that developed later) including numerous local tournament wins and a top finish at a regional-level tournament.
I'd been handicapping football and very active in sports betting since the early-nineties as well, which led as a natural introduction to playing casino poker (mostly stud and limit hold'em) in the very late nineties. In 1997-1999 I'd go out to Vegas four maybe five times a year, mostly for sports betting purposes (NFL Playoffs, March Madness, etc) and was a pretty sucessful craps player and was decent enough using a basic hi/lo counting system at blackjack to make it a slightly positive EV game. In the later of the years, I started mixing in casino poker to the mix, to varying degrees of success.
In mid-1999 I started playing in my first regular poker homegame, a mixed game dealers choice which exposed me to Omaha and other poker variants. I moved almost exclusively to poker around 2002, and started hosting my own homegames around that time. In 2003 I was fortunate enough to receive a copy of a Sklansky book as a gift, and started becoming a more serious student of the game and playing much more frequently in the local casinos and at various homegames. I was playing online in early 2004, almost exclusively a cash player, starting at 1/2 and 2/4 limit, and moving to $25NL and eventually $50NL.
In 2004 I started playing sit-and-gos mixed in with the cash games, mostly 3-table tournaments but some $11-level single tables. In mid-2004 I started actively lurking on Two Plus Two, and garnered a lot of knowledge from there. I started actively participating on 2p2 in August 2004, and eventually became a regular on the Single Table Tournament, Multitable Tournament and Sports Betting forums.
Around the start of 2005, i started working poker blogging in to my contributions to Cujofan.com. In mid-april 2005 I launched Poker.Performify.com and shortly thereafter the poker blog took over the main bit of content on the site. Around this time I started branching out from the cash games online to adding in single table tournaments and occasional mutli-table tournaments. In june 2005, during a pretty bad downswing at the No Limit tables (and with a helping of advice from bloggers and friends including but not limited to Cujofan and Human Head) I made the decision to leave the online cash games behind (at least as a primary focus) and concentrate my energies on the SNG's and Multitable Tournaments.
In the past two years, i've become an even more serious student of the game. Over the past years I've built up my poker library to include almost all the (good) books on the subject. I've studied SNG-specific topics such as the Independent Chip Model (ICM). I've put significant hours in to reviewing hand histories, tournament strategies, theoretical play, and commenting on and critiquing others' play, as well as having my own plays critiqued.
What follows is a list of my top ten online tournament finishes. This does not include a couple cashes in live tournaments in Vegas, nor numerous "homegame" tournament results. The results aren't ranked according to dollars won, but attempted to rank in terms of field traversed. I.e. i've got cashes in $22-$55 level MTTs that aren't reflected because they're technically eclipsed by my progress (in relation to finish % to number of players in the field) in lower-buyin tournaments, i.e. that party points freeroll that I final-tabled early in my online MTT career. Going forward, I'll try to keep this up to date and will permalink back to this post. Without further ado:
last updated: 06.10.06
I've been playing cards for a lot of my life. Early games of pitch, five card draw, and seven stud with friends and family. During the mid-nineties I was heavily in to the collectable card games (primarily Magic: The Gathering) at the competitive level (this was all prior to the "pro Magic circuit" that developed later) including numerous local tournament wins and a top finish at a regional-level tournament.
I'd been handicapping football and very active in sports betting since the early-nineties as well, which led as a natural introduction to playing casino poker (mostly stud and limit hold'em) in the very late nineties. In 1997-1999 I'd go out to Vegas four maybe five times a year, mostly for sports betting purposes (NFL Playoffs, March Madness, etc) and was a pretty sucessful craps player and was decent enough using a basic hi/lo counting system at blackjack to make it a slightly positive EV game. In the later of the years, I started mixing in casino poker to the mix, to varying degrees of success.
In mid-1999 I started playing in my first regular poker homegame, a mixed game dealers choice which exposed me to Omaha and other poker variants. I moved almost exclusively to poker around 2002, and started hosting my own homegames around that time. In 2003 I was fortunate enough to receive a copy of a Sklansky book as a gift, and started becoming a more serious student of the game and playing much more frequently in the local casinos and at various homegames. I was playing online in early 2004, almost exclusively a cash player, starting at 1/2 and 2/4 limit, and moving to $25NL and eventually $50NL.
In 2004 I started playing sit-and-gos mixed in with the cash games, mostly 3-table tournaments but some $11-level single tables. In mid-2004 I started actively lurking on Two Plus Two, and garnered a lot of knowledge from there. I started actively participating on 2p2 in August 2004, and eventually became a regular on the Single Table Tournament, Multitable Tournament and Sports Betting forums.
Around the start of 2005, i started working poker blogging in to my contributions to Cujofan.com. In mid-april 2005 I launched Poker.Performify.com and shortly thereafter the poker blog took over the main bit of content on the site. Around this time I started branching out from the cash games online to adding in single table tournaments and occasional mutli-table tournaments. In june 2005, during a pretty bad downswing at the No Limit tables (and with a helping of advice from bloggers and friends including but not limited to Cujofan and Human Head) I made the decision to leave the online cash games behind (at least as a primary focus) and concentrate my energies on the SNG's and Multitable Tournaments.
In the past two years, i've become an even more serious student of the game. Over the past years I've built up my poker library to include almost all the (good) books on the subject. I've studied SNG-specific topics such as the Independent Chip Model (ICM). I've put significant hours in to reviewing hand histories, tournament strategies, theoretical play, and commenting on and critiquing others' play, as well as having my own plays critiqued.
What follows is a list of my top ten online tournament finishes. This does not include a couple cashes in live tournaments in Vegas, nor numerous "homegame" tournament results. The results aren't ranked according to dollars won, but attempted to rank in terms of field traversed. I.e. i've got cashes in $22-$55 level MTTs that aren't reflected because they're technically eclipsed by my progress (in relation to finish % to number of players in the field) in lower-buyin tournaments, i.e. that party points freeroll that I final-tabled early in my online MTT career. Going forward, I'll try to keep this up to date and will permalink back to this post. Without further ado:
| Best MTT finishes, career to date: | ||||
| rank | date | entry | finish | payout |
| Best Finish | 07/11/06 | Full Tilt $69+9 | 2/331 | $3654.24 | 2nd best | 11/12/05 | Party $50+5 | 2/430 | $3225.00 | 3rd best | 05/19/05 | Party $15+1 | 3/1599 | $1918.80 | 4th best | 05/20/06 | Full Tilt $200+16 | 4/115 | $1650.00 | 5th best | 06/10/06 | Party Poker $100+19 | 9/637 | $955.50 | 6th best | 04/28/06 | Bodog.com $10+1 | 4/453 | $420.00 | 7th best | 06/10/06 | Party Poker $40+4 | 4/99 | $396.50 | 8th best | 02/02/06 | Full Tilt $10+1 | 5/356 | $249.20 | 9th best | 08/17/05 | Party $20+2 | 13/580 | $99.60 | 10th best | 02/10/06 | Party $50+5 | 14/426 | $181.05 |
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