Thursday, January 14, 2010

Day 13?

I forget what day I'm on. I hope 13 is right.

forgot to update last night so I'll include those results with todays.

Played: 66
Profit: -$766

Games to go: 1,071
Profit to go: 9,541

Today I played 50ish games, but they weren't loading very fast so I'm not upset. I feel like I played very well almost the entire session and even tho I lost I strangely don't feel bad at all. It's like finally my brain was going "you're running bad and if you keep playing this good you'll be fine". I hope I can keep that mentality up.

Killa moves in on Friday, I think it's going to be fun to sit down 2m2mm style and just grind out poker for hours. My game also improves when I coach him so that will be great for both of us.

I just got back from the pool hall and I'm exhausted, I'm going to pass out. Gnite world.

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Day 11

got like 3 hours of sleep, then woke up to go with killa to get some shit for the place. mattress, computer furniture etc. Bought myself a few nice colognes while at the mall, ship.

I started playing some $220+$16 sngs today. They don't run a whole lot so I didn't get much volume in.

I was doing so well up until I got the cold, now I'm behind pace and it's going to be a bitch to catch up.

Games: 37
Profit: $289

Games to go: 1,137
Profit to go: $8,775

Monday, January 11, 2010

Day 10: the return.

Finally getting over the cold. Hollaaa.
Don't take being healthy for granted, being sick is a bad beat :(

Poker went bad. Just running so horribly.
It saddens me to admit it but I am really weak minded when it comes to variance. I get really upset and have one or two poker buddies I'll vent over AIM with about how bad I run - 5 minutes later I calm down and feel like such a tool for getting so upset. I'm really trying to work on the mental side of my game.
I've been going off in chat more often then normal lately, I had two different players bring it up today which is kind of embarrassing :(.
Right now I feel like that is easily the biggest leak in my game (having 0 ability to deal with bad variance), it stops me from putting in a lot of volume and it makes me much less of a poker player imo. I am going to try to find out some way to work on it. If any of you have recommendations let me know. Books, coaches, etc.

Killa still hasn't moved in so I've been all alone in this apartment for the last 2 weeks. Getting kind of boring tbh. I've gone out a few times since I've been here but still. Maybe I just need a TV :p (how do I not have a TV?)

Games: 80
Profit: (1,332)

Games to go: 1,167
Profit to go: $9,064

Siiigh.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Day 6: Sick

I've got a fucking cold. This sucks.

I didn't play today. I may have to adjust the goal based on how many days I feel this shitty for. Going back to sleep.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Day 5

Just finished playing poker for the day.
The regs are getting insane. There are two regs who just seem to really not care who registers behind them, and they are playing 10+ tables for hours on end, and there are loads more who will reg even behind those. None of them have to be very good to hurt the games, and all of them combined can make the games very dry or even unprofitable.
Today I spent 6 hours just to play 48 games. I'd usually get nearly double in that time, but I had to game select around everyone else. I also included some 45 and 90 man sngs just to keep more than one screen up when the regs were at their worst.

The MTTsngs went pretty gay. I only played 5 of them. I busted 4, and in a 90man KO I got to 3rd place and lost AA < J8o allin pre-flop for what would've been a pretty hefty chip lead. 3rd was $250ish for the $26 buyin. I ran pretty decent in the STTs, which was surprising because it felt like I was getting crushed the whole time.

Games: 48
Profit: $957

Games to go: 1,247
Profit to go: $7,732


I'm just slightly ahead of pace for 1,500 games this month, which is disappointing because I wanted to get a nice lead going.
It may prove to be difficult to get the right amount of volume in playing just these games with how the regs have been this week, but hopefully that's just a phase they are going through because of the new year and they'll start falling off soon.


Oh, and some more fun news. I've got a cool little star by my name on SS now. I made the Turbo 101-300 leaderboard (currently 15th).
This really doesn't mean much at the moment, and I'm likely to go up and down on and off the list for at least a few months, but one of my goals for the year of 2010 is to end up with my name in the top 10 or top 5 (unless I make a move to a different game).



(that's a bad screenshot, but you get the idea).


Time for some AD, oreos, and then sleep.

Monday, January 4, 2010

Day 4: what goes down must come up

Woke up at like 5pm today, oof.
Ate some cereal and went straight to studying for about an hour and a half. After reviewing my hands I went to fire up a session.
Lately I've been feeling a little sluggish so today I decided to 6-table.

Games: 42
Profit: $1,861

Games to go: 1,295
Profit to go: $8,689



Obviously pleased with today's results.

I've got a coaching session tomorrow with one of my favorite students SlideBy (PokerStars). He's really made heaps of progress since I first started working with him. He's going through a rough little patch right now but hopefully he reads this blog and sees that it actually can turn around :)

Time for a movie and a nice warm bottle of Tylenol PM

Day 3

Woke up and had to run some errands, didn't get to start playing until 7ish. Once I started playing I just couldn't get focused. I didn't feel like I was playing well so I stopped right away and decided to just go play pool for the day.

Games: 15
Profit: $88

Games to go: 1,337
Profit to go: 10,550

I'm still slightly ahead of pace in games but I'd like to make up for today. I'd like to really get ahead of pace for the first two weeks.

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Day 2: when life gives you swings...

you build a swing set... ontop of a tall building... and launch yourself off of it.

sigh. fun game. Ran about as bad as you can run all day long. I don't want to make this a cry blog so....

Games Played: 80
Profit: (-1198)
Bonus: +$350

Games to go: 1,352
Profit to go: $10,638

I don't really buy into the HEM redline as a real indication of your luck, but for you fans out there:

Time for fruity pebbles and The Invention of Lying to cheer me up.

Friday, January 1, 2010

Day 1

The goal: at least 1,500 games and at least $10,000 profit (inc. rb/bonuses). From a profit standpoint it's probably a cakewalk bet. If I can play 1,500 games my expected winnings would be easily more than $10,000.

I've just wrapped up day one. I wish I could play more but I can't today has been a pretty frustrating day for poker. I started out on a little heater but that ended pretty quickly.
I feel like I played pretty solid today but sometimes you just have to run like shit.

For simplicities sake I'll be marking profit instead of winnings+rakeback.

Results:
Games - 68
Profit - $210


Games to go - 1,432
Profit to go - $9,790


Lets hope I run better tomorrow.