Things are OK over all. Departing from Thailand soon (the 4th). My BR is the smallest it has been since my first 6 months of learning to play poker, but the hands I post on LP are being told they are wrong less often.. I dunno if I'm a winner anymore but I'm trying at least. Only have 20more buyins to try with though haha. Hmmm kind of hard to of only had (small) 4 winning sessions out of the last 15. I feel sad but not really depressed or tilted/excitable atm. I guess I will move down to nl25 if I have to but I'm hoping that doesn't end up being the case.
Going out for the last time with Byrnesam before we both go our different ways, should be fun.
It seems like everything I do at the poker table is ass backwards. Every hand I post, its pointed out that I misplayed it horrendously (not complaining at the people pointing this out for me). Its like my internal logical thinking ability is completely .. trash. My assumptions are always wrong, what I expect people to do with each hand in their range is skewed, my hand values are all fucked. I don't understand. Whats wrong with me. It isn't as if I'm, in my mind at least, just clicking buttons, but that is what the result looks like after I see what other people think about what I'm doing.
I hope someone has an idea of what I'm talking about, and how I can change it.
I'm buying the 27" monitor from the FTP store, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824005127 . Not bad, getting it for effectively $168 vs the $389 retail price. I have a 24 or 26", can't remember, really quality monitor at home and I'm not sure if I am going to go akimbo monitorz or if I will give it to my little sister or momma. Either way, it'll be nice to have a big, fat, quality monitor for when I get back to grinding. And it'll be an even more insane move up from my 13" laptop monitor LULZ!
I also picked off the $300 cash bonus from the Iron Man store. The transaction went through and the medals were removed from my account, but no cash was deposited into my account, and if its delivered as a bonus there is nothing new in my Bonus Account tab.. Anyone know how these ironman bonuses work?
After I figure out what's going on with the Ironman cash, I am going to put through my order for the monitor and then withdraw my BR and put it on UB. It is the last US site that I know of where I haven't cleared the deposit bonus.. I figure it will help me get everything back in order to have an effective ~50% rb or whatever for a month. Really would like to experience some real bankroll growth..
I haven't done the calculations but hopefully the 30% UB vs 27% FTP rakeback will help with the extra jackpot rake (almost only jackpot tables run on UB).. Plus maybe I will hit the BBJ ;P
I've hardly played this month. That's OK, this'll change next month. Feeling decent about poker and I hope that next month begins my journey up-up-up, haha. I will be putting real hours in at least.
Not much has really been going on otherwise. I went out a couple of times and had quite a bit of fun. Hung out with byrnesam and silverZ a bit, good times.
I do like it out here, but I think it is not +EV pokerwise for me right now, and in the spot I'm in right now it'd be difficult to make it work financially. So I'm headed home on May 4th. I am torn between treating the rest of the time here like a real vacation or if I should try to be putting in some hours. I suppose I will just do what flows before I buckle down after a day or two of resettling back home. March and the start of this month was a serious disaster mentally and physically, I think taking it slow is what I need. There's no need to for pressure right now.
Been reading Fool By Randomness on loan from SilverZ. I am in the final pages of it now.. Really excellent book and a lot of it is applicable to poker players. I will pick up a copy for myself when I get home and re-read it when the time comes.
i dunno what's going on, lol @ my life, will give it another shot tomorrow I suppose
where the redline changes directions there has definitely been a change in my play.. can't really describe why, honestly, but I just started playing a lot weaker (Folding to more cbets, not continuing bluffs, 3betting less type of stuff). will focus on turning that around and make sure I am playing just 3 tables again until I do so.
hardly played since the 6th but that has kind of been the plan. going to put like 1k hands/day in for the next 5 days to realize my "get to 10k hands 3-4 tabling and re-evaluate" goal
roll 1150 lawl, shipped some more money away, I have a 300 cash bonus from ironman that I will have to buy
For the past 9 days or so my sleep schedule has been completely ass backwards, waking up at 5-8pm and going to bed at 6-10am. It hasn't been so bad, I've been feeling fine during my waking hours 'n such, it is just inconvenient since I haven't been able to see silver)z( and byrnesam during waking hours, or my other friends in thailand. So I end up just playing videogames all the time that I'm not playing poker..
Anyway, I decided to try to fix it by slowly moving my bed time later and waking up later, eventually I woke up at 11pm and was like fuck it I'll stay up 'til the next night's midnight or 1am. I did that, went to bed at 1.30AM andddddddd woke up at 7PM.
God damn it.
If I go back to the states on this schedule I will be on perfectly synchronization to be awake during the day though!
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