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PanoRaMa United States. Mar 02 2008 10:57. Posts 1655 | | |
My february graph. Not going to devote the entire blog to claiming how bad I run or anything, just decided to post the EV graph instead of a pokergrapher graph because this one looks a lot cooler. At around hand 24k is when I started playing like my old self (how I played at 1/2), which was roughly 25/23 and being pretty aggro and fearless overall. Prior to that, and in January, I was playing something like a controlled 22/19, but that ended up not being so fun. Good thing I took the initiative to open up my game that drastically too, because given how I ended up running the next half of the month, I would probably be up only a very marginal amount.
An utter disappointment this month though... I feel as if I played a lot better than how I played in January yet the results don't show it. The last 10 days of february, where I was motivated to do the best, resulted in massive breakeven stretches over time (I'd have a +2k day, then a -2k day, then a +300 day, then -1.5k day, then +1k day, etc.). I was really getting sick of it, as I wanted to make at least 15k in February.
I think that it's times like these where you really need to take a step back and objectively look at how you're playing. So many times in my career I thought I've hit a plateau in my skill level. It's just amazing how much better I am today than I was only 3 months ago when I had made the jump to 400nl full time. But really, if I was a perfect player, there should be nothing stopping me from destroying 400nl for 10ptbb and moving up to 5knl. Until I can do that, I can't slack in my improvement as a player.
If you guys read this weeks hotw thread I posted what I believed to be a great oop float turned shove induce with mid pair in a 3b pot. Naturally, I was verbally raped by FrEaK who (and I can't thank him enough for it) wrote paragraphs on why my play and thought process was incorrect and inconsistent. He ended up being right, my thought process at first glance seemed good, but if you delve further you'd see that it was littered with holes. So what it comes down to is, if I can be SO wrong on such a big hand, I definitely need to continue taking the necessary strides to improve myself as a player.
I know a bunch of 10 and 25nl players who just seem to be "stuck". They understand preflop decently well for their stakes, and they know how to value bet their top pair and up hands. Typically, my advice to those that tell me that they can't seem to be make much despite doing these things correctly is that "If that's all it took to beat micro stakes poker, then just about anyone in the world could be a winning player". And as we all know, poker is actually pretty damn hard. So if you fall into this camp, look to make the effort in really improving yourself. The 10nl/25nl stage is where you can actually learn the MOST at the quickest rate because a lot of the info needed to beat these games is readily available on various forums and videos etc.
So my goal for March is to make at least $20k. Going to try to make the necessary effort in improving my game, constantly, as everyone else should (whether or not you're losing or not winning as much). I have finals this month but I also have a week of spring break which is going to be me sitting at home playing poker for hours on end. Here's to a lucky March!
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thanks for the encouraging words for the microstakes players and gl! |
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