Teh Swine Flu

Had swine flu all week, no grinding, more beats at 25NL before that, eugh.

Haven't played properly in about 2 weeks to be fair, so my BR is still about the $420 it wasn't 2 weeks ago, I think I may grind 10NL to get back into it and then revert back to 25NL after I've played a little and watched some more DC vids, notably Unconventional Wisdom and Remixed.

Silver for next month though, so it ain't all that bad.. Grinding tonight.

No motivation to play 10NL :/

I haven't played in 4 or 5 days since running so bad at 25NL, I only dropped 3BI and am 5.5BI under EV for 2k hands, but even just casually grinding 10NL, I just can't be arsed. No I've been playing regularly for $25 stacks, a $10 doesn't bother me anymore, I find myself 3betting light, playing junk because I feel I have a bigger advantage, it's like I can't bring myself to play my A Game at 10NL because I've played 25NL..

I won't reach my 30k hands goal this month because my little break, but I should hit the rest of them. I've already well past $150 for the month, although that took a little hit because of the 3BI at 25NL, although still ahead, I still should watch some more vids which I plan to do and I've nearly finished HoC. v1, although I should probably stop reading 5 pages here and there..

I think I'll start properly grinding tomorrow night, the sooner I get past 25NL the better.

[x] over rolled for 25NL

SHIP IT! Had a sick day yesterday, + 12BI I think, or atleast in the last 24 hours (inc this morning >). I started grinded at about midnight until about 5am and am up 8BI just for this morning, prolly gonna grind some more 10NL this afternoon to boost my roll and take some shots at 25NL when I get home tomorrow, but if I can pad my roll I guess my shot can last a lot longer, hopefully I won't have to move back down at any point.

I don't know how deluded I am, but I actually think I'm a lot better than most 10NL regs who take shots at 25NL, both pre-flop and post-flop. I see a lot of 2+2rs struggling to move to 25NL, but meh, [x] i'll show them all how it's done. *Cue FML post on the weekend.* I wanna watch some more 25NL videos at the weekend soon aswell, hopefully watch some of the 'The Coaching Tree' and start on season two of that by the end of the month, but we'll see.

I also used to play so bad on my sister's laptop, not sure what it was but I used to spew, I could never really play fully concentrated for some reason, I guess it was mainly a phsycological thing more than anything, but I've been running pretty hot on it for the last few weeks, albeit I haven't had much play time on there. I've kind of learnt a new kind of focus aswell, like when I played before I'd play to make money and not take much notice of the decision, I guess I played a little like a robot even when 4-tabling, but I stopped multi-tabling all together (4 tables not multi-tabling, I guess it's standard these days) and I just focus on my decisions a lot more, I guess that was a leak.




I'm not sure how much I'm up this money but it's way past the $150 I set last week, so aslong as 25NL doesn't go too bad, I think I've near enough past all my tasks, I think I can fire 30k hands in to, although the week my 'rents were supposed to go away doesn't look like it's gonna happen, they were taking my sister to Haven but I don't think they can afford it anymore now my step-dad didn't have any work at the start of the month, but we'll see.

[x] will be grateful to God if I can keep running like you.
[x] will be even more grateful if you can spare me a week of my parents at the end of the month.

Prem - HOLLA! =P

Quick update

I run so goot! Had a great week at 10NL, have watched some DC vids, had a sweat with a 50NL reg and had some discussion with another about hand ranges and what not and learned a TON. I used ot play about 14/11 but opened my game to about 21/18 which is great, I rerally didn't realise how fucking passive 10NL was! Am winning at abou 9.5bb/100 for th elast 22k hands at 10NL, and am near enough rolled for 25NL! Ship it.



That's this month thus far, been playing well and am really confident about my game, I feel like I've learnt so much in the last few days and feel I'm pretty much ready right now to take on 25NL. I need I'm going to study equity ranges and what not before I move up, I feel I should understand profitable situations a lot more instead of kinda hazarding a guess at a +EV play.

SHIP TEH 25NL BY THE END OF THE MONTH!

Sorted my July Goals

Played a little this month, about 6k hands I think and it went very well until 2 days ago where I stacked off easily and lost 4BI, but I've been in the profit and think I'm winning at about 7bb/100 over that period, which is okay I guess, should be a lot more. I want to set a reasonable goal for my winrate, but I feel like I need to learn to play my best all the time before doing that, and until I do that consistently I'm not sure on a realistic aim, so I've scrapped that for this month. My aims are as follow;

• Continue beating 10NL nicely
• Have at least $150 profit for the month
• Finish HoC v1
• Play 30k hands
• Start watching my DC videos

I think they're all achievable, my parents are going away at the end of July too so I'll have a free house for a week to hit 30k hands if I don't achieve it by then anyway, I'm very confident I can get past $200 for the month as I've played quite solid recently, but just need to learn a little more consistency and patience when I'm getting drawn out on, and HoC is a must finish, I didn't learn much from the book but I've nearly finished so I might aswell get it over with already. I've got about 60GB of DC videos burnt to disk which I need to start watching, all the NLHE series and PLO series so if I can get through a disk or two of them I'll be happy.

June Review

The month was a little mixed if I'm honest, it didn't start out too well, just getting used to 10NL and breaking even, but struggling. Then I kinda of realised I needed to play the same smooth game I knew best and it started to work. I got ill in the middle of the month so went about a week while playing about 2k hands, if that. But when I recovered I seems to hit some form, I concentrated a lot on my game and plugged my concentration leak which was a big bonus, I just seemed to auto-pilot 6tables while watching TV or listening to music, and it made no sense to do so. Here's my graph for June;


I didn't pass any of my goals except the first one, settled at 10NL. I didn't read much HoH, and I got no where near the hands total, i think 40k was a little ambitious tbf anyway, but I think I should finish HoH this month. Still no job, I need some money for college in September, and I didn't even attempt to learn any PLO.

I'll identify some goals for July in the next few days and get them up.