help me put together a summer poker schedule

with the summer only a few weeks away, [FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]i'm trying to put together some sort of basic schedule for poker. i will be playing online a decent amount and i'm hoping there will be an online series or two over july and august. i'm also looking to play more live tournaments this summer.

i'm willing to spend around $100-$200 for entry fee per tournament but i probably can't go higher than that (unless i bink one early lol). i'm from hamilton and i'm willing to commute up to 2 hours or so to play depending on the tournament.

i'm interested in any suggestions of where and what to play. anyone know of any good/interesting tournaments coming up this summer?

there is a chance that i may road trip to atlantic city again, so feel free to suggest any good tournaments there or maybe along the way.

right now, my basic summer poker goals are:
  • profit at least $2000 online (between MTTs and cash)
  • win one live tournament

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  • Is poker your full time or do you need to allocate time to another job?
  • bluesky wrote: »
    Is poker your full time or do you need to allocate time to another job?

    i'm a teacher so i have two months off. ^-^

    EDIT: so other than what the gf decides that i have to do around the house, i'm free for anything.
  • TL DR

    FU trigs
  • OHTNCTRHM wrote: »
    TL DR

    FU trigs

    you can read?
  • trigs wrote: »
    with the summer only a few weeks away, [FONT=&quot][/FONT][FONT=&quot][/FONT]i'm trying to put together some sort of basic schedule for poker. i will be playing online a decent amount and i'm hoping there will be an online series or two over july and august. i'm also looking to play more live tournaments this summer.

    i'm willing to spend around $100-$200 for entry fee per tournament but i probably can't go higher than that (unless i bink one early lol). i'm from hamilton and i'm willing to commute up to 2 hours or so to play depending on the tournament.

    i'm interested in any suggestions of where and what to play. anyone know of any good/interesting tournaments coming up this summer?

    there is a chance that i may road trip to atlantic city again, so feel free to suggest any good tournaments there or maybe along the way.

    right now, my basic summer poker goals are:
    • profit at least $2000 online (between MTTs and cash)
    • win one live tournament

    You can't schedule either of the above 2.

    Try something like.

    Play 1 hour of poker a day.
    Enter 5 live tournaments.
  • You can't schedule either of the above 2.

    Try something like.

    Play 1 hour of poker a day.
    Enter 5 live tournaments.

    Those are just general goals.

    As far as volume goes, I'll most likely aim for minimum of five live tournaments. Online I'm probably just grinding full out the days I can unless there's a series or something in which I will try to play those specific days. I'm not being strict on cash vs MTTs. I'm just playing what I feel like.
  • Drive to fallsview and play live cash 10 times
  • GTA Poker wrote: »
    Drive to fallsview and play live cash 10 times

    If I'm playing cash it's probably Omaha but I don't think that's spread at Fallsview.
  • If your goal is to make money just play live 1/2 NL...if you have the time you will easily make a few thousand in a couple of months putting in some 4-5 hour sessions
  • Brantford is a decent place to play tournaments for the buy-in range that you mentioned. Have a look at the OLG calendar for event dates. Mohawk electronic poker 2 table tournaments may be in order as well (low rake)! Don't know of any summer series yet - maybe Seneca?
  • GTA Poker wrote: »
    If your goal is to make money just play live 1/2 NL...if you have the time you will easily make a few thousand in a couple of months putting in some 4-5 hour sessions

    it's not just about the money, however i would like to make enough to cover some extraneous purchases that i'm planning on making this summer.

    to be honest, i'm not very confident in my hold'em cash game skills. i wouldn't say i'm terrible, but i just feel a lot more confident playing plo cash currently.

    however, i probably will take your advice and go play some 1/2 no limit at casino niagara. i don't think fallsview spreads lower than 5/5 which may be a little too high for me.
  • trigs wrote: »
    i don't think fallsview spreads lower than 5/5 which may be a little too high for me.

    Whats your starting br?
  • trigs wrote: »
    i don't think fallsview spreads lower than 5/5 which may be a little too high for me.
    Fallsview doesn't have 5/5 - almost all 2/5 and sometimes 5/10. So tourists and drunk :fish: are forced to buy-in for $100 - $500, but you have to be prepared for a bad poker manager/TD/CSM :p and life-tilting variance.
  • bluesky wrote: »
    Whats your starting br?

    I was going to start with probably a thousand online I think. Live will depend on how much I'm winning but again I'll probably play at least five live tournaments times around $150 each = $750

    EDIT: it's not a big deal for me to add more cash if I need to
  • trigs wrote: »
    EDIT: it's not a big deal for me to add more cash if I need to

    After all... He IS a teacher...:p
  • compuease wrote: »
    After all... He IS a teacher...:p

    :p
  • trigs wrote: »
    holy shit! i can actually play in this series!

    this will most likely make my list of live events for the summer.

    PokerStars Montreal Festival - over $1M guaranteed!

    lol just realized that i posted this in the wrong thread. i meant to put it here.
  • well, this series has probably convinced me to stay in canada and travel to montreal at the end of august. i can't play the main even sadly as i begin work on sept. 2nd, but i will most likely be there for the beginning of the series. i will most likely play in event one for sure, and maybe one or two others depending on time and how well i do.
  • Well done. Compared to flying to the US to buy into highly -EV tournaments, playing at the #1 TOURNAMENT poker room in the world for Canadians is a much better option. The two guaranteed events in the PokerStars series were both won by GTA players.
    trigs wrote: »
    well, this series has probably convinced me to stay in canada and travel to montreal at the end of august. i can't play the main even sadly as i begin work on sept. 2nd, but i will most likely be there for the beginning of the series. i will most likely play in event one for sure, and maybe one or two others depending on time and how well i do.
  • i'm willing to spend around $100-$200 for entry fee per tournament but i probably can't go higher than that
    EDIT: it's not a big deal for me to add more cash if I need to


    Have you considered upping the buy in for tourneys to $230?

    The $230 @ Brantford has a patience factor of 18.43 - rake 13%. The tourneys there <$200 all have a PF of 10.62 or less, rakes vary from 13.3% - 25%.

    The electronic version of the $230 has 36.91 PF - 9% rake.
  • Gottaget wrote: »
    Have you considered upping the buy in for tourneys to $230?

    The $230 @ Brantford has a patience factor of 18.43 - rake 13%. The tourneys there <$200 all have a PF of 10.62 or less, rakes vary from 13.3% - 25%.

    The electronic version of the $230 has 36.91 PF - 9% rake.

    $230 is doable. as long as i am able to play a handful of live tournaments i'm not too picky about the buy-in. hopefully i just bink one early on and not have any more worries ;)

    electronic version at brantford? or is that at woodbine?
  • hopefully i just bink one early on and not have any more worries

    I like this plan

    Electronic tourneys are at Mohawk, Western Fair, and Georgian Downs. No tourneys yet at Woodbine. No electronic tables in Brantford.
  • Edit- Not a tourney but Woodbine does have sit & goes during these hours:

    Monday - Thursday: 12:01 a.m. to 2 p.m.
    Friday - Sunday: 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.

    Players I've asked irl tell me these run all the time. Chatter on here is they run sparingly. Haven't been myself.

    Mohawk will put up an interest list at any time- tried it a few times but it never ran.
  • trigs wrote: »
    hopefully i just bink one early on and not have any more worries ;)
    That would require having horseshoes surgically implanted by Dr. pkrfce9 up your wazoo



    without Vaseline.
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