feed from sakisaki blog 2008-10-02T14:33:08+01:00 fc 1.7.2 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://sakisaki.liquidpoker.net sakisaki

September sucked. Its my first month as a purely professional player and things definitely didnt go my way. First of all, I played tons of wcoop events and never really got anything going, I cashed in a couple of them but nothing big and i probably dropped about 6k in the wcoop totally given that I bought into the $5200 main event directly. HU hasnt been going good at all. To summarize, in the first half of the month I played pretty terrible. I tried to maintain dicipline by playing only 2/4 but for some reason I have get this retarded feeling that I somehow "deserve" to play higher and I spew a ton on 2/4 cause it feels like so little money or whatever. Obviously this is such a retarded irresponsible mindset to have and it caused me to make alot of spewy negraneu calls and stuff like that. After doing this for like two weeks on and off I got my shit together and started playing pretty well again. Unfortunately, lady luck decided to punish me for being a retard. The last two weeks I have been running really bad. I lose all my coinflips, constantly get sucked out on and just keep running into the top of my opponents range. It sucks but I have been getting alot better at asessing if Im running bad or just playing bad, and I am 99% confident that I am running significantly below expectation. It used to tilt me so bad when I had poor results and I kept doubting myself thinking that maybe I was just a terrible poker player and I had been lucky all this time. I am still in a pretty bad fucking mindset right now though. This month I am break even at 2/4 over 40k hands and that is definitely making me feel pretty worthless. I think if I played my A-game at all times a 40k break even stretch shouldnt even be possible for me. Who knows though, variance in HU is pretty crazy. Poker is so brutal, when you have a killer month you feel like gods gift to poker and just completely indestructible. After two very mediocre months I feel useless and this obv makes me play worse aswell. It feel pretty shitty to only have made around $5k on my first month as a full time professional poker player. I mean, I dropped out of school because of alot of things but I am playing poker to get rich. That is pretty much the only thing that keeps me doing this. If I was to regularily make 5k a month I would just do something constructive with my life instead. Poker is fun and I enjoy my free time but hey, it isnt that fucking rewarding and I feel that if my bank account isnt rapidly growing poker is just a complete waste of time. My goal is to make $20k/month atleast, if I cant do that then fuck this game. Owell, no use in weeping of the past, as for the future I have set some goals to keep me motivated etc. GOAL#1 I really need to stop cashing out so much. The last few months I have just been cashing out compulsively, like, whenever I have a bad session I cash out 2-3k for no real reason that that I feel like it. I think its good cause it helps me save up money but enough is enough. My roll just keeps dwindling down and Im not really rolled for 3/6 anymore. Not that this matters because I cant get action on ipoker 3/6 to save my life. Which brings me to my next goal: GOAL#2 I want money on multiple sites. I want to have a roll for 2/4 and 3/6 on atleast three sites. It is pretty easy to get alot of action on 2/4 on ipoker but as I am aiming for 3/6+ I think it is definitely necessary to have money on alot of sites. Basicly, I want to be able to have a solid +4 table HU grind whenever I want. This is definitely not possible on just one site. I want money on stars cause of the good action and my love for the software, the third site will probably be some microgaming site or maybe maybe maybe full tilt. We will see. GOAL#3 Log 100k hands in october. This is definitely possible since I will be playing mostly 2/4 and I have improved my multitabling skills alot and I can more comfortably 4-5table or even 6-table HU, I also plan to structure my life more with logging three 2 hour sessions each day. GOAL#4 Work out more bitch! I might have mentioned this in an earlier blogpost but I am planning on running stockholm marathon next summer. Being in the poor poor shape I am in now I definitely need to start running asap. I plan on running 3-4 times a week for starters and hopefully this will help me play better and lead a more happy balanced life in general. To finish this long rambling post up, I have been doing some coaching recently and I have really been enjoying it. The hourly coach sessions I do have been fun and hopefully educational. What I think I will enjoy even more though is the long term coaching. I have taken on k2o4 as a long term student and even though we havent fully gotten started yet I am very exited. He seems to be a smart guy who definitely is eager to learn so I think this whole coaching thing is going to be an awesome experience for both of us. I cant wait to watch him grow into a 200nl killing machine. Thats it for now, take care boys and girls BOOM

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First of all, thanks everybody for the great response. Many very good players have been telling me im way undercharging but meh, I will keep the rate of 150$/h for now. Secondly, alot of people have been asking me about long term coaching deals. For now, I have one long term deal set up with k2o4 and to ensure he will get the best experience out of it I have decided to keep it that way. Im still doing coaching per hour but I only want one long time student at the time so I will be able to devote enough time to him to make it worth the wile. I will update the blog again once I have time for another long term student but I already have another player at the top of that waiting list. Take care everyone!

1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://sakisaki.liquidpoker.net sakisaki

As most of you know I dropped out of school recently and I have tons of free time that I didnt have before. Therefor I have decided to start coaching! I dont even know if anyone is interested in coaching but w/e. I will mainly focus on coaching HU since I consider that to be my best game. I still consider myself a pretty good 6-max player but having played almost only hu for several months now my 6-max game is definitely a little rusty. Here are my results from midstakes HU: [img]http://www.liquidpoker.net/user_pictures/ba2caa41f964adc3dfe86b464b92d6a8.jpg[/img] I think I have a very solid HU game and I have a good grasp of what 6-max players struggle with when trying to get started playing HU. I have alot to teach and I think i personally would enjoy coaching alot, and hopefully so will you guys. My rate is $150/h which i consider to be pretty cheap so yeah, send me a PM if you are interested and well set something up. Feel free to ask any questions about anything here in the blog aswell. cheers