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First Few Hours of Challenge

...And I lost a BI. $6.23 down, I got AA 4 times, and lost $6.78 with them, quite unbelievable, each time the villain made a straight, and to be honest, I could have probably found a fold on each time, especially the last one. Wow, I really didn't remember how boring 2NL is, how people grind this is unreal, 5NL is so much more bearable, except I want to stick to BRM for this.

EPT is on Channel 4 in half an hour so I'm just gonna browse tinternet for a bit, grab something to eat and begin grinding again when it begins. Will probably grind for an hour while that's on, watch 'The Wire' for an hour and go to sleep, wake up early and begin the grind again.

Will post an update in the morning before I begin, or after I finish grinding for the afternoon.

Fuck Off, Sister!

I'm fucking dying to get this started, I haven't played Poker for about 4 days! I just wanna get it started already, I told myself I wasn't going to start until Friday originally, but my niece stays around on the weekends so it leaves me little play with until maybe the evenings, even if she's downstairs with my Mum, my Mum's always calling me for favours 'n shit so I can never settle down for a decent session, so I decided to start on Monday morning as no one was in all day, until I woke up at 10am and found that my Mum didn't go to work, so that put me off for a day as she wanted me to help her with some shit.

"Ok, I'll start Tuesday", I tell myself. Until I get a phone call at 7pm asking to my babysit while my sister gets called in for emergency work on Tuesday, 9-6. So that rules that one out, so I'm now sitting here with my niece jumping all over me because she thinks it funny when I tell her to get fuck off and proceed to pretty much throw her off the sofa onto the floor, she comes back for more. She sleeps from 1-4 but I really can't settle down playing Poker at my sister's, I don't know what it is, I just seem to run bad for some reason, it's probably a mental thing more than anything and when I get a decent roll ... lol, my niece just took a drop ... I'll play some more at my sisters and get it over with once and for all!

So yeah, I won't start tonight as the football's on (Chelsea vs. Barcelona) and I could do with some FIFA, so I'll wake up tomorrow morning, do the shitty chores in the house for half an hour and eat my breakfast, which should leave me with the whole day to begin my grind! That is unless either my Mum decides to take another day off work for some reason, or my Sister decides she wants to come around for a bit, I can pretty much guarantee something will get in the way.

We'll see..

New Beginnings

Previously I had a blog which basically begun with me grinding $30. I took it to over $300, before withdrawing $220, then going on a sick downswing and break even stretch, leaving me with $25. I was beating 10NL, but it all went wrong, 5NL became a joke, and I couldn't even profit at 2NL, probably because of tilt and the mental block. Trust me, if you're underolled as it is, don't withdraw, it's a huge mistake which effected my game, and also many others who's posts I've read on twoplustwo, I'm not quite sure what it is, but it fucked me up pretty hard. So I added $15 from my bank, and will regrind it from $40, and this will begin Wednesday 29th April. The aims for the next month are as follows, and I originally I wasn't going to begin my grind until they were done, but I aim to get them done in May.

• Read every topic in the 2+2 sticky thread.
• Watch every available video at PokerTrikz.
• Read the whole of Harrington on Hold'em Vol. 1.
• Stick to within my bankroll limits, which I'll specify.
• Play 30,000 hands through the whole month.
  

I will begin watching tonight, and will begin reading tomorrow afternoon. I also have Harrington on Hold'em Vol. 1 coming sometime next week, so I will be reading that every night, at least 10 pages. Obviously I plan to read a lot more, but the bare minimum is 10 pages at a time, I feel like I only reading take it when I get into it and focus. I will focus on 2NL, playing small ball poker, that involves not betting on draws heavily, being ready to fold big hands in spots I'm pretty sure I'm beat, and trusting the opponents lines more than I did before, which include c/c, c/c on a 2flush flop and turn, and then leading out on the river, I reviewed some session in PT and some o the money I leaked was a joke in spots like this.

Keepin' the grind on my mind, and my mind on the grind..