April

so my month results are actually quite embarrassing. Even if it may be a small sample, the fact that I'm wrecking 5/10 when i'm playing 3-6 tables vs 3/6 where I'm 9tabling means that obviously I am leaking too much money 9tabling. Not sure how or why but I am and that needs to be fixed starting...APRIL :D

I'm very very close to being a supernova. I'm going to continue 6? tabling 3/6 tomorrow and graduate to nova status. I really wish I could've 9tabled at a higher winrate and to be honest I really did feel like a winner but having a very low winrate over 60k hands, short sample size or not I know there were many spots where I either tilted or played bad, and thus I cannot ignore results, small sample size or not. And by the way, about 9k hands at 5/10nl, 31vpip, 7bb/100. Hmmmmm...I'm gonna poker ev my 5/10 results and see if I ran "bad" or not. I think the program is stupid fwiw although it still is fun to use :p It's just that, does it give u cooler points if u ran KK into AA? AK into KK? Stuff like that. Oh! The results are in.......Posting screen below........



My plan for april is to 6table 5/10 and focus on putting in 3k hands a day. I'll actually be gone for the first week as I'll be over in Boston from fri-sun and Foxwoods Casino from Mon to Sun. I think I'll be playing some 10/25 and hopefully I'll pull a nice session (crosses fingers for 10k+ week).

3k hands over 20 days = 60k hands...I'd like to shoot for my first 40k month. Screw the 20 or 30k, let's just jump to 40, but I'll never be happy until I hit 50k.

I'm a little bit discouraged to be honest becuase I really thought I was going to show a 3bb if not 4 or even 5bb/100 winrate at 3/6. I mean come on, I 6-9 tabled 2/4nl for the very first time. I jumped right into it on oct and nov. and according to pEV, yes the evil program, I ran bad! But I still won at 3.89bb/100 or something like that yet at 3/6...I cannot? wtf? I'm a much better player now than before, bleh. My biggest leak atm is I like to play too many hands in re-raised pots and I don't have the skill level yet to deal with every situation thrown at me. If 6tabling 5/10 goes well next month, it's off to 9tabling in May :p

But until then, I'm going to focus on every hand possible, think about the conceptual aspects of the game, work on adjusting properly and finding that thin line between spewing and betting/bluffing.

Mike

p.s.

Air is the nuts

Below is a sick music vid imo

Bad.

So somewhere along the way today I messed up and played really bad. Imo I think I ran pretty badly but there's no excuse for losing lots of money like I did. Only thing I can do is just try to make more tmw lol

Sleep is so -EV

Not a bad week!



I'm starting to dabble some more in 5/10 but as of now I'm still not as comfortable with NL as I'd like to be. I know I have some areas that I'd really like to improve on, but for the most part my postflop play is getting really/pretty good imo.

Looking at the screenshot, if you did the math in your head, I really should've had 21,000 hands minimum if not 28,000 but I did get burned out at some point and sleeping in really does cost me money. I've been having some trouble sleeping at night...some days I find myself just staying up til 4am for no reason! I really like my days when I get up at 6, hit the gym and come back and work. Just feels like you're really doing something :D

Sleeping in probably costs me at least $600-$1000 a day.

Normally I should be waking up at 5:45am, hitting the gym by 6, doing my cardio for an hour and coming back around 7:05ish. Hit the shower, heat something up, eat. Should be done by 7:30-7:45. Boom work.

If I sleep in until 10am, this is a bestcase scenario for sleeping in btw, sometimes I hit 12pm, but anyhow, 10am, well now I still have to shower and eat breakfast. I refuse to play under shitty circumstances. I think it's really bad to play without being fully awake/prepared for the day. So doing all that, I won't be playing til 10:45-11am and now I have to get in waiting lists as other people are also waking up/playing by now.

I hope to improve more this week! I just realized that I don't need a 5bb/100 winrate at 3/6 to make $.5 a hand so that's always nice. I'd like to pull in 20 more grand or so at a 4+ bb/100 winrate and hit up 5/10 permanently : )

Must work harder!!!!! The goal for every month should really be 100,000 hands. Fuck I'm lazy.

Work it Harder; Make it Better!

Taking a break from a session right now so it's a good time to blog :D

I've decided this month to work really hard. In fact, from here on I'm going to really treat this more seriously than before. My schedule is roughly this:

wake up 5:30am - go to gym for 1.5-2hours
7-7:30am - eat breakfast
7:30am-5pm - poker!
6pm-8pm - tennis!
8pm-10pm - study? prolly not, more like video game time

10pm - 5:30am - sleep : )

My life has been a joke for the past year. I'd like to say I worked hard but I know I could've pushed myself more than I have. That's why starting March I'm going to be putting in about 4k hands a day. It's not only the volume that's going to increase. I am spending more money on coaching to improve my game even more. I can only do so much by myself and can only spot so many leaks. So with some help, I should be at 5/10 in no time, AMIRITE? :D

I do want to make some serious money and reach 10/20nl by June. If I don't become a regular at 5/10nl by summer, I'm a joke. 10/20nl is my goal for online poker and I really want to play 25/50nl at this summer's wsop :D

Do you know how sick that would be? I could buy into any event I want except the 50k. But pretty much everytime I bust out without cashing, all i have to do is go to my cash game, win like 1/5 a pot or a whole pot and boom, entry fee paid! :D Not to mention it's def. a brag to play that high and prove, albeit a small sample size, whether you're a winner or not.

There's a lot of prestige in my opinion in being able to say to my friends that "I can play with the best and am in the top 1% poker players in the world"

unfortunately I can't make that statement as of yet

Good Start!

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I actually lost 600 in a short session so that puts me up $3600 today. I'm really going to take this month seriously and I will go into the details but I actually have to sleep soon. It's time to be professional!