new month

Well figured i would throw a little update had a great day yesterday cashed like 1400 ran amazing +like 1kish in eq which puts me only down about 300 in eq on the month according to hm. All in all im playing fewer tables and concentraiting on playing correct and stuff. We will see hopefully i can pount out a lot of sngs and actually get in good for the month.

O and have the 9 person satty to the 50k with phil today hopefully ill get one of those 2 seats

Oct

Well figured i would give a little update maybe ill get back to a full one.

Sooooooooo i havent updated because i was actually playing a shit ton of poker.

4565 sngs to be exact.

Was just an insaine month worked 203.8 hours....

All in all there was good things and bad the bad was i made only 352.60 from play lmao. This was mostly due to large volume 10+ tabling ultra tubros that give little time to act and make decisions. However i did have my biggest month ever.

ended up making 17.6k this month... so was pretty fantastic biggest month ever

Most of this was due to the epic 9 promo on ap another reason i didnt make a post most people didnt seem to notice the promo so i took home like 10k in bonus money from this pormo. Plus i am in a tourny with like 8 others for 2 seats into the 50k sng with phil.

anyways money break down went a little like

3.3 rakeback

3k bonus

10410 in bonus and rakerace weekly leaderboards etc

plus350 from play which is LOL

But anyways mostly i didnt get to game select whatsoever which was stupid to do even grinding the promo at first it didnt hurt me but about mid month i slacked some on my play and wasnt game selecting and dropped like 2k in one day.....

This month i had my 4 worst days ever in poker i believe totally around 5k in loses.. about 3k of which was actually supposed to be lost which hurt a lot. But anyways i rallied over my bad play and was supposed to be up for the month.

I hope to work on my game a lil next month and game select a little also and hopefully can get my ev line positive a few K.

New month worst day in forever

well last month was pretty break even i wasnt playing good and knew it so i sat down this month with a new month and a general focus to play good and i have......

BTW sorry for just no blogging i have had a lot going on in life in general and just not playing poker like i should but anyways since june in about a 7 roi and EV wise around 5 so ive ran very well but gotten in good too even after last month which was horrid i believe i was supposed to have lost like a 1 roi first one of those and first losing month since coaching.

But anyways today was just butal i didnt really tilt and am not which is hard to do when you lose large amounts of money but it was made easier by the fact i was getting in good all day.... Whether i believe truely in using ev as a guildline the simple fact is if i make my little red line go up the green line follows so anyways...

Today i played 62 games and lost 19.5 buy ins... ev wise i lost 30.9 it was so crazy. i ran at a -41.3 roi and got in at a 7.7 roi. Anyways hopefully i can continue to get in that good because the simple fact is over 20k sngs the green line at least follows the red line :).

Well i haven't been playing nearly as much poker I have pretty much taken the summer off. I have regained a lot of sanity and just relaxed in general and stayed busy.

The last of my vacation will be at the end of august when i take a trip down to jackpot for a golf tourney and then onto Vegas for poker and just being a lame tourist with my friend and girlfriend.

Anyways onto poker since i got coached i have ran very well and finally gotten in good over significant sample. The coaching mainly just showed me that i was not thinking my plays threw more then anything.... The coach showed me a few things here and there but nothing really i didn't know which also gave me the confidence back that i was lacking for sure after my 5k down swing back last Jan.

Well i haven't played a ton of poker obviously like i said but i have played some i will post a graph of my July that i never even made a blog update on and a few others.

This is my July graph i obviously ran very well had downswings upswings but got in very well the red lines are the EV graph. ev 8.0 $ 8,1 roi's

Again i have ran very well since June however this is all according to the ev graph which also shows that i have been playing far better. All in all I'm still working on some things but i believe i have finally righted my head and am back to playing very well. Since june ive ran at 11.4 roi and gottin at 7.6 which is as good as i could have ever hoped for....

June was good a little on july

So i have taken most of june off going to try and get back into things some in july but will still be slacking a lot playing lots of golf shot a 92 recently i dont get under 100 massivly so was nice usually in the 99-105 range pretty consistantly.

Anyways june when i played which was little was fantastic i ran good and played very well. Even when i was losing a lot of buy ins hm-ev was saying i was getting in good over those runs!! I ran at 8.1 roi getting in at 8.0 which was a massive insainly good relief thanks mostly to my coach showing how bad i was playing when i know as much about sngs as anyone i just wasnt applying it. Also had stoped studying and learning which is never good and way to easy to do. avg buy in was only 44ish but thats more then fine i dont need to be up on the 109s or higher.

Anyways heres a pic of how i ran which was mostly hot till the end. I also only played 622 sngs when i should be playing like min 2k and probably 3500 LOL but o well.

I still pulled in 4500 or so because of the rake 1k from race cards last 2 months which i was happy to get because i put in very very little volume over the race cards

June no real goals

So my only goal in life in general at the moment is to work out.  For the most part I have been doing something either 30min good work out basketball or golf every day.(bowling today only)

As for poker I'm on one of my first true heaters of the year LOL at least one that I have gotten in fairly well also.  I've wont 2k here and there but for the most part i was still getting in at like 1-2 roi.

I got some coaching from one of the best 6max players online and realized i know almost everything that i should be doing in poker... Almost he has shown me some things and has me doing a couple little things to fine tune things.  For the most part my issue in poker is not taken 5-10 seconds to look at a table before i act.   Missing a little easy push here and there or just not seeing something.

For the most part my month has been a small sample only 220 sngs but I am at least back on track and have my confidence back which is half the battle.

I'm obvoiusly running good also but im getting in (according to HM's EV) at near 11 roi. 

update

Well I have basically not played poker this month at all after the first week.   Going to be way below any expectations i had this month because of it too which is a little annoying.

However the nice thing is I have been getting outside a lot doing lots of golf and basketball.  I also decided that i would rather make sure i work out every day rather then play poker every day.  I'm just tired of being over weight and not being able to run because my knees dont like to move 270 pounds.

Also I'm looking into getting some coaching so that hopefully i can improve my game some.

April/may

Well i really should put in a few hours more poker tonight but im going to be lazy and call it a month.

All in all acomplished nothing that a truely wanted to this month other thing profits which obviously is the only real goal i need....

cashed in about 9.3k this month 3kish form the race cards last month which over last 2 months im +15kish up little over which is fantastic.

However still not playing great and race cards started up again on the 15th this one is going to be a 2 month long one so i haven't been grinding near as hard as last month.  Also i can play way less and still get a 3k bonus or so  but might crank it up to try for 6k+ which would be bad ass.  Basically though if i earn 15k over next 2 months with the race cards ill be hella happy because ill be over my pace of 60k for the year.  Which really is plenty of money for me obviously id like to be actually good at poker and make 100k i probably am able to do but im lazy and unmotivated and just lose concentration to much while playing.

As for the month i made 1k or so should have lost like 250 bucks or so according to ev on HM but breaking even is good money so whatever.  The negative 250 is all from MTT that i played didnt play many and im not overly good at them however im sure i can have a good win rate because i think any compitent poker player can have a decent roi at those.  I did a good job of running into AA when i hit final tables which always is fun.

Still working on actually playing good for the most part i have been playign 20-40s with some 50-65s mixed in no game selecting on 20-40 but i really shouldn't have to....  rarely is there more then one reg besides me and i should be better then them anyways.   However i obvoiusly need to work things out.  I have consistent massive down swings it seems like every month lately that i drop 1k+ EV in like 100-200 sngs which just needs to stop.  I really dont feel like im tilting anymore so im not really sure why I start playing so bad in these streatchs.

Anywas anuff rambling about how bad i play next month my main goal is 5k profits i dont care if that is 5k rakeback or what.  I will be playing 3k games mostlikely played around 2.5 this month hoping to pull around 45k fame points this next month too. 

 But we will see I will be golfing more and playing basketball trying to get in some remote shape other then round and puffy LOL.

running hot!!

So ive struggled a lot this year been getting in bad all year and grinding rakeback.  This month has been same as last although i started super hot and then lost it all.

However i am on an insaine heater last 2 days which has been fantastic.  I have been game selecting a ton lately and that has resulted in me playing mostlye 20-30s instead of 50-100s.  Anyways I need to start getting more volume in again ive been back to my 20 hours a week again....  at just 90 hours on the month which sucks... hopefully i can start putting in some seroius volume soon and get up there on the ap500 im only like 40th been hovering there for most the time which is pathetic i should be top 20 at least but im so lazy.

Speaking of lazy i got new golf clubs and made it out  tuesday shot a 99 ( really suck at golf ) which was good for first round no driving range and brand new set of clubs i had never hit.  Will be getting out again sunday so getting another day off of poker too.

Anyways here is a sick pic of my last 2 days.

Vacation/running good

So running amazingly this month (playing about break even) which is really really nice.  Haven't played a whole lot either been pretty much on vacation went to the seattle comicon with a few friends.  Which was pretty fun and wierd in general.  Saw pretty much every and any type of nerd you could think of LOL.

Anyways will most likely pick up my play here in the next few weeks so hopefully i will continue to run good.

Heres a few pics of some of the good costumes at the comicon.  

March/april

Ah well another negative month another month i should have lost money.  I'm starting to wonder how possible it is to be positve on the ultra turbos.   For me anyways 109 ut6mans are not positve and a large number of the 55 71s are also negative.  However knowing this i made 9k+ this month due to the race cards promo.   Obviously the biggest thing to improve my game other then playing better and makeing less negative push/calls is game selection. 

Seems like every reg you see that has a blog or you talk to says they are going to game select more and more obvoiusly that is what im planning to do.  

For last month i played  over 2700 sngs losing 2355 on the month(had a good session after 9 to start out race cards on the last day of last month) for +6259.70 +another 3k/250/and 600ish in rakeback that i will receive here at the start of next month.

I played 177 hours which for me is way way more then i have possibly ever in one month.  God im lazy......   Averaged just over 40 hours per week every day this month which is nice getting me back on track for 30 hours a week for the year.  It also showed me how its really not all that hard to put an 8 hour day in in poker.   That translates into about 52 dollars an hour so very happy about that but could be far better if i could learn to play poker at some point.

Next month I will obviously take it easy get back into golf which i suck at but is very relaxing.  I'm not overly sure what i want to do poker wise Grinding SNGs like this is very very profitable but the peace of mind of actually showing profits would be very very nice.  I may get back into some cash games it was fun and nice for a change.  As for goals my only real goal will be 30k fame points other then that dunno game select may play a mix of 3-5 full ring 50-100s and 3 or so 6max cash tables or may just play 2500 6max UT and try to bang my head against the wall some more.

Variance at 30-100 level

so all month i have been playing 30-100 buy ins and playing A FUCKING LOT because of the race cards event.  Ive been using holdem manager  which has the new ev calculations which is very nice to get a grasp on how im playing.

I am supposed to be down like 1500 which i cant decide if this is overly bad or not this month due to large amounts of regs im being forced to play against.  For the most part i have been playing 6max and have been trying to keep the games down to 2 regs +me which obviuosly is going to be break even or losing with just that.  However i find i get way to many games going with 5-6 regs also which those are negative for all.   Usually this happens because  i sit with maybe one reg maybe 2 and instead of random people 4 regs join with me lol so retarded.

Well according to HM I have played 138+ hours alreayd which is so fucking much.  It has been an eye opener however on how lazy i am when it comes to playing and how easy it really is to get 7-9 hours of poker in a day if you try.  I am ahead of my 30 hours a week pace now which is also nice.

As for sngs i have played 2080 already which is fantastic I was going to try for 2k to 2.5k so i should be near the 2.5k which is also great.

Now for the variance part :) -2000 which is killing me I should still make 5k-10k on the month due to volume should be a decent $ per hour after its all said and done.

Its really hard to tell how much of this is bad play varaince and just playing vs to many good players in general.  Hm says i should only be down 1500 .  But its hard to tell how well the all in ev calculators really work.

for the year now im down 9k and according to the all in ev i should be down 2.8k...  Obviously this sucks i havent had back to back losing months ever and to supposed to have had 3 of them is rediculous however im also playing far higher limits these days.....

After this race cards ends im going to most likely reevaluate things debating on stopping playing 6maxUT for the most part just because im obviously losing and at best break even on them.  I'm leaning towards a mix of maybe 3 full ring 50-100s and 3 6max cash at  a time as i ahve been mostly 6-8 tabling lately.  However if they add a new status level on AP i will mostlikely continue grinding 6max ut's for that and lost 2k every month to make 3-5k lol.  If i do continue playign ultra turbo 6max im going to do massive game selecting and try to play with no more then one reg..   Most of the other players if the arent a regular sng grinder are a cash grinder or at very least aggressive and running like god.

feb/start of march

Well i finished down for the 2nd month in a row that hasnt happened often.

However i lost only 1100ish this month so it wasnt a total loss as i played over 1500 sngs and cleared about 5k in rakeback/bonus.

all in all i lost

-1315.5 on sngs ( holdem manager said i shoulda made 843)

So i still didnt do overly well or play overly great and 2kish swing isnt bad at all so wasnt horrid.

I'm still looking over my play for the most part just looking at the mental things trying to figure out why i do stupid thing that i know are bad and trying to remove these things still.   It is fairly stupid that i have been playing poker for so long and have developed these types of things.  I have to remove them if i want to make more money and move into the 100 ultra turbos consistantly.

On the month i played 1564 sngs not as many as i would have liked but def not bad volume.  Ended up running reallly hot tonight so cleared about 4090 profits so deff a decent  month.

As for next month racecards have started again so im going to get more volume in.  My goal is 30k fame points and 2k+ games   should be easily doable but i always get lazy so we shall see.

Poker and break even

So i have been a break even player forever........ at first it was due to not knowing a lot of things icm ranges etc.  Know its mainly due to becoming an insaine nit/pushbot.  I have been looking back at myself over hte last few weeks I'm not really sure when this happened.   I have always been a 1-3 roi player for a lot of reasons more then just being nitty.  

This has kinda become a major focus of mine due to holdem manager adding the EV scale to there sng section.   It has really depressed me looking threw all my HH over the months and years.  Know a 2-3 roi isnt that horrid for 50+ buy in but for some reason im a 2 roi person at no matter what level lol its really strange.   

According to HM im down absured amounts more then i should be however im also playing breakeven/losing....

That is a pic of my EV for the year basically shows me down 6100 and should be down 1000 which is depressing.  I did play bad last month and on top of that i dropped about 1k on hu sngs before i figured out how to play them... but i'm almost even on hu sngs for the year now.

That is a pic of my month  should be up  about 850 and am down almost 900.  Which at least im playing better now.  However up 850 is under a dollar per sng and i have an avg stake of 47.8 and 1397 sngs played so that is rather pathetic......

In short I am way better at poker then i play and for the most part it is just plain laziness that i dont play more hands now.  I have been working on fixing this slowly  I know exactly how to play post flop and yet dont do it.  Playing my hu sngs kind of lit a fire under my ass at how many chips that i am always giving away so hopefully i will become a lot better at poker because of all of this.

Jan

So Jan sucked bad ive basically played a ton however not even 30 hours aweek...

i played 117.25 hours not bad for the month but below what i wanted....

I did play  1559 SNG's which was good.  More then i have played in a long time.

However i also lost 4600 from play.... worst month ever bye 1600 or so.  These months are bound to happen playing 50+ buy in sngs.   For the most part i played fairly well not great.   

For the month i actually made a tiny bit of money so it wasnt a total loss just really really really hurt.

For at least a while i will most likely be playing 30-40-50 6max ultras just to kidna get some easier compitition and at very least the swings cant be as bad playing for less money.  Almost every single day this month i either won or lost +/- 500 with several 1k ups and downs per day.

Overall i am playing fairly well and it will turn around hopefully soon lol.

All in all my monthly goals will be to play over 1500 because that isnt even 30 hours a week..  Tracking my hours has shown me how insainly pathetic my volume has been.

2009

So I have been putting in tons of volume over 800 sngs already.  However ive also had equel to or my worst swing ever -70 buy ins.   Which is pretty sick avg buy in of 55 specially when you think the only level im doing good on was my 100s.

However im kinda working my way out of it im only stuck 40 or so buy ins plus im  about even know after rakeback and bonus' finnally so im a little happy about that.

Needless to say poker has been a big mind game this month losing so bad but its bound to happen.   I've had a few bad swings in the last few years although i hadnt had one for a long time and never at the higher stakes.

Anyways i'm starting to do better and ive been mixing in 6max and HU sngs (got crushed at hu sngs at first but ive deff gotten the hang of them and have been crushing them now).

I'm also behind on my 30 hours a week main goal already LOL however im playing a lot of sngs and am still commited to playign 30 hours a week avg for the year so i need to get some 40 hour weeks in here.

Also on a side note im really hopeing to break at least 1500 sngs maybe even 2k.  Its been so long since ive played 1500.  So anyways thats a little update ive been sow at updateing and this month has been so hectic with the downswing and all ive been actually studying a lot of poker too.

but anyways hopefully ill get some more updates in.

2009 and more 2008 recap

Well im pretty lazy so i didnt make any pics of graphs etc on 2008.  For the most part it really was a break even year i ran about 3.5 roi on SNGs which isnt insainly bad with avg buy in of 40ish.

Alot of my break even came from 6max sngs i ran 7-10 on 40s and 50s and 15ish on 30s only about 10 on 20s for the year on full ring turbos.   On full ring turbos the only level i lost money at or came close to breaking even was the 71$ sngs im down like 50 bucks on the year.   O ya i didnt really cash any MTT i played either lol i suck so bad at them also didnt play that many really.

I did however get hte 40k goal

RakeBack $9,076.00 Total Bonus          $14,558.49 Win/loss              $16,648.50 Total Profit       $40,282.99

So  Very good year considering i slacked so much i need to find motavation...  In the summer 3 months i belive i played under 200 total sngs all in all i worked probaly only a total of like 7-8 months of 40 hour weeks worth of work.....   which is depressing becuase i play worse when not playing a lot and my push/call ranges struggle a lot.


Anyways main goals for 09 are obv profits which i will set a 60k goal this year hopefully i shall easily pass it if i can motivate myself.  I would have crushed my 08 goal had i put in volume.....  as it was i got it taken another 3 weeks off in dec again.

Next primary goal is a life goal of getting in shape.  I mean seriously i have no job how hard is it for me to get to the gym for 30 mins a day or an hour.....


So all in all 60k work out/lose weight.



On my actual play i have started playing hu sngs i have not been overly profitable however i have enjoyed them and i can get far more volume in doing those then full ring.  Also in 09 i would obviously like to get more into cash again I basically fell off when AP merged with UB because traffic went up so much. (also got abused at my cash play)

So for play i would like to be consistantly playing the 100 range of sngs whether it be 100 hu ones or 100 6man the 100 full ring just dont fill anuff on ap to play them.