Great work sir. Good luck!
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A three figure loss lol
I felt like I played well but I wound up losing $128. It was a long grind. I never really sustained any momentum. I was down from the very first hand. Poker is goofy sometimes. You feel like your doing everything right, you feel like you are at the top of the game but it doesn't work out. The cards don't fall your way, your opponent sucks out, or maybe the fates are against you. Either way, poker is a rocky ride. You can't fret over every bump along the way. You have to be confident in your game. You have to be confident that you can withstand these fluctuations. Things will work out if you practice and trust your game. Poker is definitely a marathon not a sprint. I am definitely in for the long haul. Vince Lombardi said success washes away the agonies of striving. Every step back will just make every milestone that much sweeter. Good luck and see you on the felt.
Tournament stupidity
I just played a semi heartbreaking tournament. I struggled throughout and then finally got some momentum. It was a $240 survivor tourney. 1 in 5 would get $1,000. I was starting to play better and got some good situations and then I made a big mistake that cost me the tourney. There were 11 people left and 6 getting paid. I was utg with 88 and decide to raise off of a 22 bb stack. I got 3 bet by the tightest player in the world. This is an obv fold pre flop. The limits just went up and I rationalized that since my stack was going to become an under 20 bb stack regardless of calling or folding. I decided to call and set mine without proper odds which I know to be a huge mistake. But I did it anyway. Flop is 5 3 3. I know this and check fold. Tight guy has Kk or aa. I check he shoves and I forget my plan. I called. He has aa and I'm out of the tourney. My play was bad. But forgetting my plan was worse. I convinced myself he has ak. Knowing the player, this is a terrible play. He never has worse than Kk here. But I will take this as a learning lesson. Trust my reads and don't act impulsively. Hopefully, I can put this behind me and start building the bankroll. Until then, good luck and see you on the felt.
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No clever title today. I'm at a loss for words. I just had another miserable 6-12 oe session. My bankroll took a severe hit and the future looks bleak. I need to reevaluate and reboot. I think I have to change it up. 6-12 oe has not been going well the last three months. I might have to consider playing nlhe again and mix in some low stakes limit Holdem. The year is a third over. I am not giving up but things are not where I wanted them to be at this point. After January, I thought this was going to be my best poker year ever. There is still time but I need some run good and soon. I will play one more session of 6-12 oe Sunday. Then, I am going to take a little time off to come up with a smart plan for rebuilding my bankroll. I enjoy 6-12 oe but it would be foolish to pursue it if it costs me my bankroll. Sunday might be my last session for oe for a while unless it is a decent winner. During my time off, I will work on my game and work out the kinks in my approach. They always say it is darkest before the dawn. I truly and sincerely hope they are right. Lol. Good luck and see you on the felt.
Great to realize your goals before you start to play! Good luck!
April was not much better.
The month started off well. I was accumulating small wins and my losses were small. Then, the last week, it all went poorly. I bubbled a survivor tourney and had a big loss at 6-12 oe. I turned a winning month into a loser. But I have to think about what I have learned. There are a couple of takeaways from my poor March and April. One takeaway, I am not a good short handed player. When the game gets short I have to leave the table. Second and most importantly, be happy with small wins. They are absolutely ok. I feel like I go into every cash game session or tourney looking for a $500 or $1,000 pay day. That's unrealistic. I have to begin to accept small wins and even small losses. Moreover, I have to do a better job of dodging big losses. These two aspects have been the reason for my failures this year. Way too many big losses. Losses I could have avoided if I just walked away. I need to change my approach at the table. If things look bad, just walk away. It's not like I never can play. I can play whenever. There is no reason to be chained to the table. This is something I will really work on this month. I may tweak my rules to better enable me to walk away. Also, I am taking some time off and get my head right. I need a break from poker. I am going to spend some time with my friends and wife and put poker on the back burner. I will post my goals for May in the next post. Right now, it's time to relax and get away. May will be a turnaround month for me. I can feel it. In any regard, good luck and see you on the felt.
I am trying to start making money in some online poker any one have any words of wisdom?
First, this site is great. Earn points and enter tournaments. I have built a small roll from freerolls here and I highly recommend it. Next, research strategy articles on this site and the internet. Find the type of game you feel comfortable with and practice practice practice. Finally, exercise good bankroll management and you will be a winner in no time. Be patient and good things will happen.
April showers bring May flowers lol
Corniest line of my blog so far. Just played 6-12 oe and did really well. Booked a $228 win and played really well. I didn't play too many poor hands and I really focused on position. I really tried to think out my moves rather than go on auto pilot. I also instituted a couple of changes. It's a lower risk approach to ensure a better management of my bankroll. A couple of changes deal with my stop loss limit, booking wins, and taking breaks. For the loss limit, I never really had one. I would just bring two buyins and see what happens after 6 hours. That was a dumb idea. Some days I would lose 30-50% of my roll. This new measure will make sure that never happens again. As for booking wins, for the time being, I will try my best to book wins no matter how small. The way I am going to go about that is a little complex. I do not advocate this in general, but seeing that my bankroll is at a delicate state right now, I do not want to risk much and I need to be happy with small wins. My formula is this: take my average win rate at that game and multiply it by 6 hours. For example, my 6-12 win rate is $12. So my goal is to win $72 a session. Once I get over $72, I play with that extra and try to make another $72. Then rinse and repeat. If I can't make more than my $72 I walk away. Finally, I never took enough breaks. I would play 6 hours without missing a hand, that's crazy in hindsight. Think about working your day job without a single break. This can't be good for my play. So, every two hours I have to take at least a five minute break. I did it last night and the world did not end lol. I use to be afraid I would miss that session changing hand that would win me hundreds of dollars that night. Well, I missed several hands and I still came out a winner. It's funny what you can be afraid of sometimes. I can't believe I wouldn't allow myself to take a break because I would miss something. But that will never happen again. I will take breaks, I will book wins, and I will minimize my losses. With these changes I think I will put myself in good position to build my bankroll up. Hopefully, my first session of the month will be indicative of the entire month. Good smart play and terrific results. Good luck and see you on the felt.
The grind is the way life should be playing poker
Here here. We need more positive posts. I wish everyone well as well. Here is to a great 2014 and a happy mothers day to all who apply.
A little momentum
I had another successful of 6-12 oe. This time I won $533. It was strange for me because it was 2 sessions in one day. I played a session and then called it a day up $230. Then my friend whose game I really respect showed up and asked me to sit with him. I was nervous to give away any profit but I decided to sit and try to grind out another win. Obviously I am happy that I did. I wound up securing another $300+ in profit at a very favorable table. There was one guy in the game who never played before. He had no idea what he was doing and ballooned the pot when he should have folded and checked when he should have bet. It was very good for the game and very good for me. So far, I have played two days in May and have doubled my bankroll. Looking at the rest of the month I am nervous I will not have as many opportunities to play as I have hoped. There are a lot of family commitments this month so it looks like a low volume month for me. I will probably get one session in this week. Hopefully it can be a profitable one and I can continue this momentum. Grant it, I am still down for the year but this could be a good omen. This could be the beginning of my comeback. Only time will tell I guess but I have to remain positive. Until next time, good luck and see you on. The felt.
Perseverance and luck
Well I just had another winning session of 6-12 oe. It was a small win of $45 but a win is a win. This is the third in a row. I like how I have been playing and I obviously love the results. I am a little disappointed in this last session because it should have been a bigger win and a much shorter session. I played really late into the evening and for over 7 hours. That is not good for sleep and my day job. More infuriating is that I broke my new management approach. I was up my normal $72 and was on my way to making another $72 when I lost two big hands in a row and fell below my $72 win. Instead of walking away 2 hours into my session as a $50 winner, I played 5 and a half hours more to lose $5 lol. Even worse, I was stuck $400 at one point in the session. This is something i didn't plan for. I am still not sure how to work this out. If a hand takes me below my win rate goal, what do I do? Do I walk away? Do I continue to grind? In the previous two sessions, I walked away because I had things to do or the game changed and I was pretty close to the win rate goal. It never happened mid game. I will consider this over the course of the next few days and try to figure out the best approach. I am not sure if I will play this weekend because I have several birthday and graduation parties. But I will be trying to increase my online volume. I think I have only played twice this month. It is hard getting motivated to play online because work has been super busy and when I get home I'm usually exhausted. But it have to try to get motivated and try to build up that roll as well. Hopefully, I will get the energy and start running well online too and get some real confidence going into June. I still plan on going to Vegas I just hope my bankroll can afford the volume I want to play. Lots of developments in the works. I just hope everything keeps going well. Good luck to all of you out there playing and see you on the felt.
the grind can be something else..i think patience and discipline is the major factors in holding a good bankroll, which i tend to not have these days
I agree with you. These are the two most important aspects of a good poker player. I know. So many good players who are busto because they do not have discipline or patience. They want to jump into the deep end and that usually doesn't work out too well. Most of the time they drown.
Another win for the good guys. It was a small win again but I will take it. I joined a friend of mine for a very rare Monday night cash game session. I had to wait about a half hour but I got in to the game and it was pretty slow going from beginning to end. The action player at the table left 5 hands after I got there so I was pretty bummed about that. Then it was a grind. I picked up some small pots, I lost some small pots, and I made some smart folds. It was pretty in eventful for the most part. My biggest pot came against a guy who was playing for the first time and overplayed aces in the Omaha hi low. All in all I finished up $83. This is my fourth winning session in a row. This matches my best streak of the year. I don't really care about the streak but it is a nice little side note. I love how I am playing right now. I feel like I am playing well and I am doing a much better job of managing my play. I feel like that was the missing piece. I am not saying I have mastered poker but I feel like I have better handle on how to be successful. I am confident I will get into the black soon and start building a serious roll. I am so confident that I am looking up trips to Vegas tonight for the wsop. No I'm not playing any bracelet events unless I satelite into them. I just miss going and want to play some cash games and tourneys. I was nervous about booking a trip because my roll is not where I wanted it to be. But I feel like I am playing well now and should give it a shot. Hopefully everything will work out and be a fun and profitable experience. I will definitely keep this post updated in Vegas but that won't be for 4 weeks. Right now I have to focus on playing great poker the rest of May. I can't let the thoughts of Vegas distract me. I need to play my best now in order to play my best in June. Until next time, good luck and see you on the felt.
Another small win for five in a row
Just finished another session of 6-12 oe and it was kind of blah. No real interesting or fun hands. The only good hand was a big bluff in Omaha where I scooped with ace high after three barreling. All and all it was ok. I only put in 3 and a half hours though. That was a mixture of a blah game and my wife came with me. I didn't want her to get too bored so I figured I would put in a short session. I wound up winning a meager $40. But a win is a win. I have to stick to the game plan I set out at the beginning of this month. It has really been bearing fruit. I will continue to accumulate wins and avoid big losses. I wish I would have started this from the beginning. I just did a quick calculation and it is gross. Right now, I am down $1,300 for the year but that is not the gross part. The gross part is that if I followed the rules I set out this month, I would be up $1,200 for the year. That is a $2,500 swing without actually improving my game lol. That is just knowing when to quit and avoiding a bigger loss. No gimmicks, no plays, no leveling, just getting up when it is not your night. Wow. On a brighter note, I booked Vegas. I will be there from Sunday, June 15th to Thursday the 20th. There are a couple tourneys and satelites that I am looking at but I will be playing mostly mixed cash games. When I have a plan, I will update this post. Until then, good luck and see you on the felt.
Another good news bad news post.
Bad news is that I lost my last session of the month and lost my quest for the perfect month. It was a combination of bad play and bad cards. I got stuck early in my session and like I have mentioned before, that is when i start to press a little. I play weaker hands in weaker positions. That is still a work in process. I will continue to work on playing every hand in a vacuum and not letting my session win or loss number affect my play. Further compounding the bad play was a bad string of hands. I really didn't have too many quality hands which was another reason for playing worse hands. Moreover, when it had a strong drawing hand, it bricked. Even worse, there were two hands in stud 8 where I had a straight 6 and a wheel and got half the pot instead of scooping. Both villains got there on the last card in two big pots. But I digress. I cannot be too mad. I had a great month after 3 abysmal ones and I am going back to Vegas for the first time since the 2008 wsop. I am super excited and a little nervous about my trip. I have high hopes but I also know the competition is a little bit stronger than what I usually play against. But only time will tell. I might have a couple sessions before I leave but the first half of June is super busy. I finish teaching and I am coaching a basketball clinic so I am not really sure how many I can play. On a side note, I am bringing back the bankroll numbers at the end of every post. I stopped because of laziness and shame that I am not doing better. I will not put my bankroll number but I will post my plus and minus for the month and the year both live and online. Hopefully, this will give me the extra motivation to play my best especially this month in Vegas. Until next time, good luck and see you on the felt.
Live:
June - +$529
2014 - -$1,695
Online:
June - +$8.82
2014 - +$21.90
Unfulfilled
June was kind of a wasted month/opportunity. I had really high hopes for this month because it was my long anticipated return to Las Vegas. I was really excited to return and thought it would really help my fledgling year. Unfortunately, it did not. I did something much worse than play and lose. I didn't play. Well, I played one $75 satelite. I just wasn't feeling it I guess. I was nervous about exposing my bankroll to too much risk. I didn't like the spread of games at the Rio. The list goes on. Excuse after excuse. On a bright side, I did have a good time with my wife. But I can't help but feel disappointed. This could have been a turn around month but I squandered the opportunity. Further compounding matters I only played one more time after Vegas. It was my lowest volume month of the year. I have to get more focused if I want to turn this year around. I have to increase my volume and play better. I have another opportunity in July. The Philadelphia Poker Open will be held at Harrahs Chester and I plan on planning several tournaments. Hopefully, July will be better and more fulfilling than June was. However, that is up to me. I can't sit back and let opportunities pass me by. I have to be aggressive and take shots. Like the famous saying goes, "you miss 100% of the shots you don't take." Good luck and see you on the felt.
Live:
June - -$475
2014 - -$2170
Online:
June - +$2.65
2014 - +$24.55
My last session was a microcosm of my year.
Things are not going my way and this is going to be a waaahhh post lol. I feel as though I am playing well but not getting the results. I truly believe it is bad luck more than bad play. Case in point, my make or break hand from last night. 6-12 oe full ring. I am dealt kqqj double suited. 5 players limp and the flop is a j 10 two spades. I just flopped Broadway with the nut flush draw aka royal draw. Sb bets two people call and I raise. Sb 3bets and one person calls so I 4 bet. Both players call. Turn is king. Now I have a full house draw with my royal draw and my made broadway straight. It's checked to me, I bet sb raises, middle player calls, I 3bet. The other players call. The river is a king giving me a full house. The sb jumps out of his seat and bets. He middle player folds and I just call. Well, the case King came out and gave him kings full of aces to beat my kings full of jacks lol. Waaaahhh waaahhh waaahhh lol I played the hand perfect. The only thing I should have done different was raise the river and lose more money lol. And that is how my year has going. I feel as though I am doing everything right. Maybe I have stayed at a table a little longer than I should have but overall I have played well. I feel as though I am running ridiculously below expectation. Waaahhh waaahhh waaahhh lol. Sorry for the less than optimistic post. I just need to pity myself for a day to let it out. Then I can fully regroup and get ready for the next session. Baaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh! Lol good luck and see you on the felt lol
Live:
July - -$400
2014 - -$2570
Online:
July - -$3.00
2014 - +$21.55
a long grind i had at 1/2 at the casino. Played for 12 hours straight, banked like 600 but then i lost it all. I need a time to quit just when you getting cards its hard to do so.
Good work so far buddy. I have been doing the same except strictly online due to health problems I cannot play much live poker. I just hope you stick to it even qhen the going gets tough, you seem dedicated and seem to be a profitable so take care and keep on your grind :)
You have to have an exit strategy. Whether it's a loss limit or an acceptable profit mark or a time limit, you have to have some measure that means escape. I know the old adage of playing while the game is good but that doesn't work for me. I always think the game is good lol. Figure out a way to leave when you are ahead or not too far behind.
First step back
I just played a nice session of 6-12 oe. I played tight and aggressive and wound up winning $132. It feels good to get back on the right track and make up for that abismal performance earlier in the week. I am really working on playing my a-game hand after hand. It is tough but if I just follow my plan I know I can turn the year around. I'm. To going to look ahead anymore. I am just going to focus on the task at hand. All I'm thinking about now, is winning my next session and making it two in a row. Until next time, good luck and see you on the felt.
Live:
July- -$268
2014- -$2438
Online:
July- -$3.00
2014- +$21.55
Now a step back lol
Bad session of oe the other day. What sucks about the session I was up $200 in the first hour. Usually I walk away with such a big win but I wanted to play two hours and then reevaluate. I always give it two hours then determine my exit strategy for the session. By the time my two hours were up, I was down $50. Then I played several more hours and wound up losing $300 for the session. To quote Charlie Brown, "good grief." Lol it sucks because I always advocate to people and to myself to "book wins." I got a little greedy and lost out on a nice junk. I think the lesson learned is to remove the two hour evaluation period. I will start the sessions as if I have already been there for the two hours. This will ensure I have greater flexibility at the table and increased profitability. Adjustments are important. You cannot remain rigs in your approach to things. I see that my previous thinking was flawed so I am changing it. Looking back in my stats, some of my biggest losses came during a session where I was initially up. Hopefully this change will help me get back on the right track and turn the year around. On a side note, I am taking a break from cash games for the next two weeks to focus on the Philly Poker Open. I will be playing several tournaments and I have a good feeling. My schedule is as follows:
Saturday: $200 nlhe 40k guaranteed (day 2 Sunday)
Saturday: $225 nlhe survivor bounty ($1000)
Wednesday: $100 PLO
Wednesday: $75 nlhe survivor ($500)
Next Saturday: $250 nlhe 50k guaranteed (day 2 Sunday)
Total buyins: $850
Total profit:????
Excited about playing some tourneys. It's been awhile since I played real important tournament poker but I feel good. Only time will tell. In my next posts, I will break down each tourney and the result. Until next time, good luck and see you on the felt.
Live:
July: -$568
2014: -$2738
Online:
July: +$8.42
2014: +$32.97
Nice night online
I usually don't post about my online play because I usually fluctuate between $1-$4 but Wednesday night was pretty good. I played my second night of online tourneys. In the previous week, I final tabled the $.11 $100 guarantee and won $5. So my expectations were high relative to the stakes I am playing. However, I went far beyond my expectations. I played 7 tourneys and 1 freeroll and cashed in four of them with three final tables including a 2nd place finish in the 1$ PLO and a 5th in the $1 rebuy. All told, I profited about $65 on the night and tripled my bankroll. I am now at $97.25, just $2.75 short of my goal for the year. In between my love tourneys, I am going to grind a lot online. With a good run, I might even be over $200 online by the end of the year. Furthermore, this success even at the micro level, gives me some confidence heading into the Philly Poker Open. Obviously the competition will be a little bit tougher but I know I can make the adjustments needed to succeed. Maybe I will have a similar run in me for these live events as I did online. Who knows? Until next time, good luck and see you on the felt.
Live:
July: -$568
2014: -$2738
Online:
July: +$72.70
2014: +$97.25
0-1
Well my first tourney is in the books and it was a stinker lol I couldn't get any momentum. I had a couple pocket pairs that missed the flop and had to fold. When I was the aggressor I was called down or raised and had the pot taken from me. Just super annoying poker lol. The only hand that I think I played wrong was my last. I'm in the big blind with ace 8 suited on a 10 big blind stack. My plan was to restealing a late position raise or go and go a mid position raise. (Call preflop and shove any flop) Well, a middle position player raised and then 3 players called. Crap, this changed my original plan. I could fold shove or call. Folding is the safe play and probably the best. But after this blind and the small blind pass me, my fold equity diminishes greatly. I could shove but my hand has poor flopping value and I am sure to get called by at least one opponent who could have me severely crushed. What about calling then shoving any flop that gives me a draw or pair? My hand doesn't produce many good drawing opportunities but I'm in a bad spot anyway. So I call. Flop is k 5 7 one spade. My plan check fold here. So I check and it gets checked around. The turn brings the second spade and a gut shot straight. No one liked this board on the flop so I think I have a shot to win this pot. I shove. I get called by the mid position raiser. He shows 3 4 of spades for a pair and a flush draw. I need an ace 8 or spade to triple up and I brick. I'm still not sure if my play was awful, bad, slightly -ev, or ok. Obviously it wasn't great. Lol on a side note I didn't play the 6pm bounty survivor. It was my friends birthday and he lives about 2 hours away so since I don't see him often, I decided to pass on that tourney and celebrate with him. I really wanted to play that tourney more than any other but he is my friend and friendship will always trump poker in my life. Hopefully, I will get some good karma points for my upcoming tourneys. The next crack will be PLO and then the survivor. Wednesday can be a big day for me and I feel confident that it will be. Until next time, good luck and see you on the felt.
Live:
July: -$768
2014: -$2932
Online:
July: +$72.70
2014: +$97.25
1-2
Well tournament number 2 was much better than tournament 1. I wound up finishing second in the Philly Poker Open PLO event. The only downside is that there were only 25 entrants and 2nd only paid $582 ($100 buyin). I know I can't be pessimistic about it. My year has been pretty bad so any profit/deep run is good. I played really well and think it was my best effort. The only hand that was out of my standard play was this following hand. I was chip leader with four left and paying three. The smallest stack was 4 big blinds the second smallest was 9 big blinds, the second biggest stack was 17 big blinds, and I had 20 big blinds. Family pot all limped in. Flop 8 6 j two clubs. It gets checked around. The small blind (3rd place guy) leads out of the small blind for a third of the pot when a 3rd club comes out. Other two players fold and I am on the button. I have only the ace of clubs and I am 90% sure he has the flush. I think this is a perfect spot to pot him all in because he would not want to go out on the bubble. Furthermore, he has folded to me twice and remarked how tight I play. Weighing all these factors I pot he calls with his flush and I lose that pot. I wonder if I was wrong to put the pressure on. What sucks is that he would eventually beat me heads up. I was down 3-1 but pulled it to 2-1 after some really aggressive play. Eventually we got it all in preflop where my hand aqqj suited ace lost to his aqqj suited ace. Overall I am happy and feeling confident going in to the last tournament this weekend (my PLO run made it impossible to play in the $75 survivor). It is the main event and has the biggest prize pool. If there was ever a time to make a deep run now is the time. Hopefully my next post will be filled with elation and $$$$. Lol until next time, good luck and see you on the felt.
Live:
July: -$286
2014: -$2450
Online:
July:+$72.70
2014: +$97.25
Good blog write more :)
Updates?
I'm back!
It's been a long time since I posted. My wife and I enjoyed a nice 2 week road trip so I decided to take a month off from poker. We drove through the south and had a really great time. Furthermore, it was nice to take a little break from the grind and spend some time doing other things. But I am back now. I am ready and focused to finish the year out strong. I was disappointed that I didn't play in the Philly poker open main event but it was a profitable series with my second place finish in the PLO event. I am going to try to implement some more tourneys into my schedule and really work on my cash game skills in order to make these last four months the best that I can both live and online.
I did make it to the casino once in August for a session of 6-12 oe. I was patient and stuck to my rules and it paid off. I wound up winning $100 on the nose. I was down at the very start but kept my head up and grinded out a decent profit. It was a one session month which sucks but it was a profitable month and since I haven't had a ton of those, I will have to take what I can get. Lol. I feel good about September. I feel like things are going to turn around and start going my way. I want the last four months to be my most profitable yet and I think they could be. Good luck and see you on the felt.
Live:
August: +$100
2014: -$2350
Online:
August:+$0
2014: +$97.25
Back in action
It was my first day of poker in September and I decided to play a survivor tournament. It was $75 and winners would get $500 if they cashed (1 in 9). I chipped up nicely through the first three levels but then the blinds got bigger and the play got more aggressive. With a 13 big blind stack I decided to resteal against an aggro opener with 44. He opened the cutoff I shoved on the button. The big blind thought for ten seconds and called the opener folded. The big blind showed 66 and he won. I love my play there. I can't fathom how he calls there. My image was great, he was flat calling a cold 3 bet, if he lost he would have been devastated. O well. My play was good. The result was bad.
In other news, I played some online sessions. Nothing too good or too bad. I made a couple final tables but no big cashes. I played some cash sessions as well. Also nothing to write home about. I'm still very optimistic about the month but I am worried my volume will be low because I have many obligations this month. But I am committed to making time for poker this month. It will be a great month I just know it. Until next time, good luck and see you on the felt.
Live:
September: -$75
2014: -$2425
Online:
September:-$8.20
2014: +$70.40*
* I forgot to update the online in August. It was a $20 loss month.
a good end to the month
Just played another session of 6-12 oe and it was a good one. I wound up winning $315 and I feel as though my play was solid. It started off shaky when I found myself down roughly $75 but I was able to right the ship. Nothing really too remarkable about the session. I scooped a huge pot in stud 8 when I made the wheel on fifth against two really good players. They were both going high when I hit perfect and I was able to get a couple 3 bets in. I love it when a plan comes together.
The only down side this month has been my volume. I played live twice and online only once. It's not for lack of want entirely, it's been lack of time. School is in session now and there is less time to play. Between teaching, coaching, and tutoring, I lack the time and energy needed to put in volume. October is just as packed but I am optimistic I will get more adjusted to my schedule and become more committed to puting in the volume. It's good that I have been able to put a couple of positive months in a row together but I think I can be better. It's a numbers game and I need more numbers lol. Hopefully I will have more posts and more sessions and more success. Until then, good luck and see you on the felt.
Live:
September: +$240
2014: -$2,185
Online:
September:-$8.20
2014: +$70.40
Good luck:)
Fell a little behind so here are two posts for the last two weeks
Bad start to October
Just finished an 6-12 oe session and it stunk lol I was on a just move waiting to get into the main game and in the course of two hours, I went busto and lost my $260 stake. What really grinds my gears is that it was a short handed must move and I hate short handed play. It's not my type or pace of game. I really have a hard time adjusting and playing in that type of dynamic. I was worried if I sat out, I would not be allowed to go to the must move when the seat opened up. I will definitely ask the floor when that situation comes up again. As for my play, it obviously wasn't great but I wouldn't say I was too loose or too passive. I didn't miss bets or call to light. There were a lot of bricks, some poor calls, and some poor bets. I just believe they were magnified because short handed you are forced to play more pots than you usually do. But this another lesson learned. I will move forward and get better. Ever loss is a lesson learned and a step in the right direction from a long term perspective. Until next time, good luck and see you on the felt.
Live:
October: -$260
2014: -$2,440
Online:
September:0
2014: +$70.40
Nice bounce back
Played another session of 6-12 oe and it went much better than the last. Wound up winning $207. I played well but honestly the cards really went my way. Hit a big card in two different hands and they were big parts of my success. Also, I made a nice bluff in stud with a pair of deuces and scooped a nice pot. I felt pretty focused and did not deviate from tag strategy. It was great that the game was completely full so I did not have to worry about short handed play. I will continue to avoid short handed play at all costs but definitely study that aspect just in case a juicy game presents itself. I always feel that it is preparation that separates the successful from the unsuccessful. John Wooden once said, "When you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail." I think poker players can learn a lot from that quote. All too often, we go to a table thinking we are the best and that the money will just flow our way. But that isn't the case. If it was, it would be a game of pure luck. So my final thought of the post is this: what have you done today to prepare yourself to be the best person at your next table? Answer honestly and that will give you tremendous perspective into your growth as a player. Until next time, good luck and see you on the felt.
Live:
October: -$53
2014: -$2,233
Online:
October:0
2014: +$70.40
damn-2k????? Ilove u