STTs okay MTTs dreadful

Hello reader, monthly summary time again. What a strange month, I have done the usual on the STTs and turned the regular profit figure but I have had an absolute disaster on the MTTs. The stats don't lie £132.50 up on STTs, but $277.34 down on MTTs, ouchy, $144.84 down overall. Betfair have decided to up the buy in of the 7:10pm 1k gtd which pretty much killed off paying out 9 places and now usually pays just the 5. Previously at between 55 - 70 players paying 9, final tabling was a reasonably regular proposition. Now with only 5 paid, different story. Cheers betfair. That said, it was me playing and not them, so its only me I can really blame. 31 MTTs, only cashed in 5, not good enough.

So the stats:


Statistics

From 04/01/2008

Total Buy-Ins: ($ 1105.20)
Total Gains: $ 960.36
Net Gains: ($ 144.84)
In The Money: 28.4% ITM
Return On Investment: - 13.1% ROI
Games played: 67
Hours played: 54.5 h
Hourly: ($ 2.66)
ITM from Bubble: 100.0%

1st: 6
2nd: 3
3rd: 6
4th: 4
5th: 5
6th: 3
7th: 9
8th: 1
9th: 1

Still grasping onto a profit for the year and am sat at $249.65 up for the year. Need to kick on and concentrate on the STTs and find a regular MTT that suits my style.

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March Success

A short but sucessful poker month March had been. I only got back from Oman on 18 Feb so gave only played online since then. After a bad start, I seem to have turned it round with a few success in MTTs. $10 down on STTs (only played 14), but a decent $271 up from MTTs (from 17 tourneys). So overall, $260.59 up, which I am alos happy to report includes a free $28 bucks from a swapped % from Snap. Comedy poker players that we are have often swapped %s but never actually managed to cash! The bare stats for the month are as follows:

From 03/01/2008
To 03/31/2008

Total Buy-Ins: ($ 430.65)
Total Gains: $ 691.24
Net Gains: $ 260.59
In The Money: 35.5% ITM
Return On Investment: 60.5% ROI
Games played: 31
Hours played: 41.9 h
Hourly: $ 6.21
ITM from Bubble: 137.5%

1st: 2
2nd: 1
3rd: 3
4th: 2
5th: 2
6th: 0
7th: 4
8th: 2
9th: 3

Which means I am just short of 400 bucks up for the year so far.