Unstructured post today. Turned 21 yesterday, grinded out the last bit of VPP til silverstar, and went on a spiraling downswing. A quick analysis of my losing hands tells me that I am willing to call raises on the flop a bit too easily. Talk about doomswitch :D. I will start over with a clear mind in february. Anyway, graphs:
[x] Make $40 playing SNGs exclusively
[x] More volume - 2 hours a day minimum*
[ ] Place in the money in a large tournament (1000+)
[ ] Win 1 or more live SNGs at the local charity games (130 payout, 30 buyin)
Didn't get a chance to play any of the live SNGs in January because of schedule conflicts, missed the money on a big tournament (2k payout to 1st) by like 5 people or so. I like the volume I've been putting in but I have to put more effort on reads into my sessions and stop making donkey calls when I have a hunch I'm beat.
February goals...
[ ] Build BR to $100.
[ ] Develop higher level of proficiency at PLO by playing PLO almost exclusively.
I'm keeping away from the tournament scene because I feel I play much better in cash game scenarios. A lot of the money I've lost in order to break even has been buyins to SNGs, where I just don't feel comfortable playing marginal hands and somehow always found myself shortstacked. I only lost 1 HU when I made it that far, but I'm definitely sticking to cash.
Swingy redline as usual especially when it comes from nl5 nl10
Started out badly with kinda loose agressive stats until the end where i nittied it up a bit. :/ http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/9696/sanstitrebk.jpg
Like any good rollercoaster, started by jumping up a quick 10k, bad sessions left me at -15k, shot back up to +4k or so and finished off down $2,500 or something silly. So breakeven from October until now it seems. Hopefully the wheels haven't fallen off completely and I can make something happen in the next few months.
Does anyone have any experience with a Camtasia-esque program for Mac OSX, preferably a free one? I'm looking to record my sessions so I can go back and analyze them very easily and a program of this nature will not only allow me to do that, but also to potentially upload them with commentary and hope to get feedback. Thanks.
Pretty cool, didnt grind at all till the 16th, still made it to 3rd place at the sharkscope leaderboard. Also didnt have any losing sessions which is pretty kewl!
So I blew like 110$ in qualifiers and busted bubble so ridicolously often..
Last night I won a 215$ SCOOP ticket finishing 6th in WBCOOP-06 but that one cant be converted to a step4/million buy in ticket
I desperately tried to qualify but I cant really use more money for this..
I know I am not a big winning player and used to blow a lot of money away in MTTs, but after my break last fall I got a lot more into the theory, read MTT books etc. and my game improved a lot!
I dont play MTTs daily, but I already did 2nd in 20k 5$, final tabled 11$R, 8$R and yea..
Does anyone know how a canadian can sign up or work around with using the site? I am canadian and on the register page there isn't an option for canadian's. but i know some canadian's use this site so i'm wondering if anyone knows how they manage to do that?
May you live in interesting timesby DustySwedeDude, January 31
Ok so this is an summary of January and some goals I have for February. Haven't posted anything like this in a while cause the results of the last few months was to depressing.
Just going to play some MTT's tonight and then start grinding after midnight since I Unibet will give me a UO package for UO Bulgaria if I rake enough during the next two months.
Thus:
January
Profit: Much higher then my "goal" despite dropping 15k€ yesterday. With cashback and such it's still more then dubble what I needed to be on schedule. So that's good.
Hands: only 56k hands, which is much less then I wanted but since I had 4 exams and also been taking up BJJ 3evenings/week and some random Thai boxing I feel that it's decent anyway.
Overall play and such: I played good most of the time, had a couple of bad sessions and I did not follow my stop loss rules. I did, however, tilt less then normal. The last thing might be because of the fact that I was up a ton for the month most of the time. Overall decent play but bad discipline.
And so I've turned a big winning month into something of a failure, lol. Hard to feel to sad though, but I definitely need to work on it.
Goals in february:
- 80k hands, 2/4 and higher. Preferably mostly omaha. No 10/20+ 6-max or 5/10+ HU against anything but really soft opposition if I play more then 7tables.
- Keep a good Winrate (5bb/100+ at least) playing mid stakes. Play good when I happen to play higher.
Other then poker:
- BJJ or the gym 5 times a week whenever possible, the month is 4 weeks so anything 18 and over I'll consider a win.
- Continue to eat healthy. "Bad food" no more then once every week, preferably less, and no getting drunk. Only drink alcohol when social considerations dictates so (ie: hanging out with friends) and no more then twice this month. Preferably no more then 2 beers.
- Not fall behind in school (however, I study economics which is a big joke, so that shouldn't be a problem as long as I actually take 10-15 min/day and read the stupid book).
- Learn a decent bit of Yoga stuff.
- Help out with Intresting Times, a magazine about lots of fun stuff, and actually write something good for them. I wrote some fluff stuff that really sucked for the first or second issue but now it's starting to take off a bit and it actually contains some fairly interesting stuff. The "about" page says this about the magazine:
Interesting Times is a self-help magazine for extreme people, helping you survive and thrive in the cyberpunk future of today. Headquartered in Sweden, the magazine provides a unique perspective on the current age of possibility, where every new happening holds the potential for both disaster and groundbreaking success. The magazine aims to implement total world domination using a shock & awe toolbox of positive thinking, power armor and pornstar girlfriends, edifying the reader with an eclectic mix of interesting subjects including lifestyle design, preparations for the post-apocalypse, and the pursuit of superhuman fitness through batmanesque bodyhacking. Building better bad-asses is our main objective and we aim to please. The suck stops here!
Dude who's behind it is a really inspiring person who actually goes through with a ton of self improvement stuff and even though I personally suspect that he's a little bit of a crazy person with something in his brain working a bit different from most of I for one tend to keep an eye on most things he gets involved in because a fairly high % of it turns out awesome or hilarious. The rest is just weird.
I'll end this by posting some of the most notable hands of the month here. Some of them are fairly weird/fun/stupid.
Showdown rubixq shows,
Hero shows,
pelleri doesn't show,
MrDonovan doesn't show,
Hero wins $2176.10 USD from main pot
rubixq wins $1072.25 USD from main pot
Hero wins $1702.95 USD from main pot
Hero wins $777.00 USD from main pot
... When you win this one and still finds out that you're under equity the last couple of thousand hands you feel weird .
I can 24table NL5 with a 4BB/100 winrate. NL10 this month is ~5BB/100 over 10k hands 9tabling. Hoping to start NL25 soon after a few more thousand hands on NL10
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