New Goal Added

Just to note, I've added a new goal to my montly aim, just to help motivate me to towards putting in some kind of volume this month, I want to hit IronMan on FullTilt. 200 FTPs per day, around 1k hands I think it is roughly, so it should hopefully see me hit over 30k hands, which is my other aim.

Here goes.

October Review

Overall, I guess the month was a small success. I didn't get in half as many hands as I wanted too, mainly because of FIFA '10. Although, even when I wasn't playing the game, I still wasn't all that focused on grinding. Mainly because I couldn't be bothered dealing with the expected swings of 50NL, I'd just begun crushing 25NL on a regular basis and it felt good, and after I took my shot at 50NL, I expected to get crushed eventually, and when it didn't happen, I didn't wanna play because I thought it would come sooner rather than later, but then I couldn't motivate myself to play for smaller at 25NL, so I was kinda stuck.

Goals wise, I did quite well:
[x] Take shots at 50NL - They went very well, although just over break even, I've yet to move down so I'm delighted, rakeback has been huge too, so I highly doubt I'll be grinding 25NL in the future, unless for other certain purposes.
[x] Focus more on decisions - Definitely sorted this one out. Without this I'd have got crushed, I'm proud of myself that I've spotted two leaks in the last couple of months, mental leaks, and plugged them with consummate ease. They were both holding me back, FPS and focusing, I guess they're kinda in the same boat, but I've improved so much after focusing a lot more on the tables, aswell as of it.
[x] Watch more DC/Stox - Was kinda meh on this one, I'd say I watched 6 videos through the month, 2 of which were in the last 2 days. I think I'll set a bar of 10 next month, Stox and DC, I think I need to nail the Mathematics of NLHE from WiltOnTilt, this may uncover a leak, I don't do much math on or off the table, we'll see. I'll pass it for this month though.
[ ] Book some coaching - Didn't need too! Did well enough to continue on my own, but will definitely review this next month, I'll certainly get a coach before I take shots at 100NL.

Profits wise, it was decent, +$583 inc. rakeback. Not huge, but plodding along nicely, and considering I only put in 17k hands, it's not bad. I've set a goal for a $1k month before the end of 2009, which should happen in December depending on the hours I put in. Which kind of brings me to a next point, I've been offered a temp. job from 6th Dec-31st Dec, hours are 10pm-6am, so my clock will be insane, plus I dunno how much time I'll have to grind! Especially as the games from 6am-11am UK time are pretty fk'in poor. =[ Here are the graphs and stats:

25NL Graph w/stats

50NL Graph w/stats













Month Graph w/stats













So as you can see, 25NL was very good, 50NL was okay, I started okay, just had a wee downswing at the end, and got most of it back, although still need to work on the rest next month. I've been thinking over some aims for the next month, and they are (drumroll):

• Play 30k hands @ 50NL
• Watch 10 coaching videos
• Profit for the month overall
• Read the Theory 4rum @ 2+2 more
• Gather a maths base for Poker

I think that'll do, I may look at coaching but I might save that until December, I may also withdraw some money for a new laptop, I'm in dire dire need of a machine that actually runs half decent, but for now, time to watch get a buddy into Fringe at last. ;l

Well, I lied

So I have played a little bit of teh Pokerz in the last couple of days.

Up a few BI, I played a good session tonight but ran okay, and I've steamed through 'What Would Joe Tall Do', which I'll name WWJTD from now on if ever mentioned. He's a limit players so obviously doesn't have the same mindset others have, as some of his plays have shown in the video, but having a DC Exec. with him, they kinda clear the mindset and give a whole new thinking of the hand, it's very good so far, definitely the most interesting series thus far in terms of the spots you get in every day.

Goals wise, I've marked all this months down as I won't be playing much on the weekend (I probably lied here too). I've put a K (for kinda) down on 25NL, as although I beat it, it was swingy and not very convincing, so I wouldn't call it consistent, but I would say the porblems were completely my fault, so I was 50/50 on that one, plus I didn't want a negative. ><

Will probably stick another post up at the end of August, for now chums.. (and btw, have reached GoldStar for the month the other day, good news.)

No more grinding until September

So I've decided to take a couple of days off. I withdrew $150 from my $750 roll to buy a couple of pairs of jeans and I ran bad pretty bad after that. I played very bad aswell, for the first time ever I shoved in anger with a gutshot and villain snapped with AJ high, and he held. I was just running so bad, getting so infuriated with getting c/r on the driest of boards, all my cbets were being called down, and I wasn't in the mood to adjust to it, I was just feeling so annoyed at the time.

I finished watching Unconventional Wisdon the other day aswell which was a sick series, prolly gonna give it another watch some time as I missed a lot out, but I feel I learnt a bit from the series on the whole, and next up, 'What Would Joe Tall Do'? I like what I've seen of it thus far, so it looks good.

I'll set my goals for September now as I wanna get straight into it when it comes around, I wanna watch a whole series before then and just refine my game a little as it's gotten a little stale imo.

• Beat 25NL for over 7bb/100.
• Play at least 25k hands.
• Watch at least 2 video series'

I feel 7bb/100 is a start, I had a rocky month and came out on top before my swing/bad play, so if I can work on my game a little and refine so rough edges, it'll give me a good base to work on and eventually crush it, little steps I guess.

Prop Bet with Prem + August Goals

Ok, so I've started a little motivational prop bet with Prem (eBuddy from SFM!), nothing major which'll effect either of our bankrolls, but just something little to get us each grinding. Basically he needs to play 25k hands (he plays 50NL), and I need to play 30k hands, with at least 15k of them being 25NL. I also need to finish unconventional wisdom on DC, which I'm 2 episodes through, although I may re-watch them if I have time. So yeah, only a $25 wager, I'm confident I'll do mine, and I'm pretty confident Prem won't reach his (sorry man). =)

As for August goals, well I don't wanna set a profit margin because I just wanna concentrate on getting better, working on better lines to take and figuring out others so I think I'm going to experiment this month with a few things. I want to beat 25NL consistently through the month, obviously play 30k hands, watch atleast 2 series' on DC and maybe I'll add something else in there too.

For now, bitches.

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.