October is here, and it's going to be a good one (hopefully).
It's actually got off to a really good start, I feel I'm playing really well and running ok as well is always nice. I feel as if I've improved a lot as a player last week or so. Then again it is just 4.5k hands so far, but made a pretty good profit in that time. A move back to 50nl sometime soon? Maybe, but right now I want to play 25nl for a bit longer.
I had sweat sessions from Chriswitteman, which really helped. Top guy, and I'm looking forward to the next one. He should coach.
I should also probably mix in some uni work...
Monday, 4 October 2010
Monday, 27 September 2010
Making a List
I made a list of everything that makes me not awesome:
What I can gain if I get better at these spots
Hopefully I'll get motivation from this.
WHY I AM NOT AWESOME
· Shy
· Hygiene
· Dis-organised
· Boring
· Bad at poker
· Lazy
· Anti-Social
Ways of improving:
- Talk to people more
- Do at least one thing a day that you can talk to someone about
- Use more lists and keep a diary
- Work out a little every day
- Utilize the facilities I have to improve my poker game no end
- Get off my fucking ass
- Shower every day, not every other day
What I can gain if I get better at these spots
- Friends
- Girls
- Money
- Looks
- Grades
Hopefully I'll get motivation from this.
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
A brief report on 2010 so far
Since the last time I blogged was January I will fill you in on my months since then.
February
February was the most difficult month I've ever had. I started off with a really long break even stretch, followed by a 20 buy in downswing. I was tilting and only kept playing to secure platinum again which was really draining and frustrating. A bad month all in all. I played 40k hands but lost about $600 which sucked!
March & April
I took a break from poker in these two months. I played about 1k hands in March before I left for NZ and when I got set up in NZ with internet in April I played maybe 5k hands of 25nl. It was good though I really didn't like poker anymore and taking a break helped me. I cashed out half my roll and moved down to 25nl.
May
May was an awesome month, however. I played 30k hands of 25nl and ran at 6-7ptbb/100 so really good to finally feel like a winner again and nice to play lower, less stress and variance. May was good.
June
I puked on my laptop which made me unable to play poker until September.
September
I'm back played some 25nl getting used to it again. Not winning at the moment but hopefully my luck will turn.
There was a brief summary of each month. Hope that fills in the gap and I'll be posting a massive TR of NZ whenever I get round to writing it.
February
February was the most difficult month I've ever had. I started off with a really long break even stretch, followed by a 20 buy in downswing. I was tilting and only kept playing to secure platinum again which was really draining and frustrating. A bad month all in all. I played 40k hands but lost about $600 which sucked!
March & April
I took a break from poker in these two months. I played about 1k hands in March before I left for NZ and when I got set up in NZ with internet in April I played maybe 5k hands of 25nl. It was good though I really didn't like poker anymore and taking a break helped me. I cashed out half my roll and moved down to 25nl.
May
May was an awesome month, however. I played 30k hands of 25nl and ran at 6-7ptbb/100 so really good to finally feel like a winner again and nice to play lower, less stress and variance. May was good.
June
I puked on my laptop which made me unable to play poker until September.
September
I'm back played some 25nl getting used to it again. Not winning at the moment but hopefully my luck will turn.
There was a brief summary of each month. Hope that fills in the gap and I'll be posting a massive TR of NZ whenever I get round to writing it.
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
I'm back and back for good.
Sorry about the lengthy absence. I went to NZ for 6 months (I'll blog that soon). All I want to say is I'm back now and I am back on the tables for good. Lets hope for run good!
Friday, 5 February 2010
SitRep - January
Can't believe I used SitRep in the title, what a geek I am, but I've been playing lots of Call of Duty recently so... (for those that don't know it stands for situation report, yeah I know right?)
Just gonna update for January. I recently found out that someone actually reads this (hi ready!).
January was a pretty decent month overall, won at a decent rate, got 40k hands done and got platinum again, which I'm pleased about. I want to get supernova this year, and it's gonna be a bit of a stretch, but I reckon, if I move up sometime during the year then I should be ok. I feel like I'm beating 50nl, but not to the extent that I feel I can beat it. I think it's a case of getting the mental side correct, and stop tilting and calling when I know I'm beat. I definitely want to get some more hands in, but I am still the same lazy ass no good that I always have been I guess.
I did play some 100nl during January and ended up positive in a 4k hand sample (I know [ ] sample size). But 100nl exhausted me, by the end of January I felt so burnt out, I wouldn't care if I didn't play another hand of poker again. But I took a couple of days off and am ready to grind again. February hasn't been a great month so far, lost money in every session or so. I played well today however and have put in 2k hands at 5ptbb/100 which I'm pleased with, just to end the streak of losing.
You'll notice that I'm stopping the target setting thing, I feel like that's all I am posting here for is continuing the target setting thing, and I feel like if I stop that I might actually post blogs more often. I am however considering getting my own website, and transferring my blog over there. I think I can have a lot of fun with a website that can have loads of poker stuff, I can make some videos, and do other cool stuff related or not related to poker. I think using Split's website as a template (I don't think I could ever get it that good, but it will hopefully be a fun thing and will make me update the blog more so it's all good).
So little more to say, I'll post my girrafe because I know a lot of people love looking at giraffes (well, I do)
This is the year so far, it's not the best graph, but it's a winning one so I'll take it.
Just gonna update for January. I recently found out that someone actually reads this (hi ready!).
January was a pretty decent month overall, won at a decent rate, got 40k hands done and got platinum again, which I'm pleased about. I want to get supernova this year, and it's gonna be a bit of a stretch, but I reckon, if I move up sometime during the year then I should be ok. I feel like I'm beating 50nl, but not to the extent that I feel I can beat it. I think it's a case of getting the mental side correct, and stop tilting and calling when I know I'm beat. I definitely want to get some more hands in, but I am still the same lazy ass no good that I always have been I guess.
I did play some 100nl during January and ended up positive in a 4k hand sample (I know [ ] sample size). But 100nl exhausted me, by the end of January I felt so burnt out, I wouldn't care if I didn't play another hand of poker again. But I took a couple of days off and am ready to grind again. February hasn't been a great month so far, lost money in every session or so. I played well today however and have put in 2k hands at 5ptbb/100 which I'm pleased with, just to end the streak of losing.
You'll notice that I'm stopping the target setting thing, I feel like that's all I am posting here for is continuing the target setting thing, and I feel like if I stop that I might actually post blogs more often. I am however considering getting my own website, and transferring my blog over there. I think I can have a lot of fun with a website that can have loads of poker stuff, I can make some videos, and do other cool stuff related or not related to poker. I think using Split's website as a template (I don't think I could ever get it that good, but it will hopefully be a fun thing and will make me update the blog more so it's all good).
So little more to say, I'll post my girrafe because I know a lot of people love looking at giraffes (well, I do)
This is the year so far, it's not the best graph, but it's a winning one so I'll take it.
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Wednesday, 13 January 2010
Redline Barg.
I have always struggled to get a decent redline. I hated seeing my redline just bomb and while I was making money it suggested to me that my game was seriously leaky.
Here is my January graph, with a good redline (its green cos my HUD's ****). Seem to be finally getting to grips with not leaking money away. Now to stop spewing...
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