This week has been an epic fail volume wise. I'm pretty sure I've played like 10 games all week. That being said, I clawed back the loses I endured last week so it's not all bad. However, I did set myself a volume goal this month & it looks like I'm going to miss it, but for a valid reason. On Saturday we finally saw the arrival of MiniJayOMG which was pretty epic & always a proud dad moment. I have tried finding some baby poker clothing, turns out there isn't any decent retailers I can't find on the t'interwebs. Definitely a gap in the market!
So, I'm gonna write up my full review of the month in a couple of days, once I've had chance to review everything I've done & analyse where I want to go with things next month. Should be a pretty epic month next month hopefully, start of the $10s so hopefully September is rungood month for me.
Monday, 30 August 2010
Sunday, 22 August 2010
Aug Week #3: Get rich or die tryin'
This week started out pretty bad for me. I had a severe lack of confidence, which was strange. I'd been running pretty well, had +10% ROI & around $80 profit from the games I'd played. But for some reason, I couldn't get my head into the game. Had a bad session Monday, slight winning session Tuesday & Wednesday was an unmitigated disaster! I played 26 games & lost 3 BI's. I was on full auto-pilot, spewing off chips in the wrong spot, calling light & I was getting sucked out on pretty hard in a couple of games which added to the misery.
I was due to have a Skype session with another player last week but his internet was down (seems to happen a ton in the US!) but I SS'd him & he is crushing the $5s & $10 for around 30% ROI, which got me thinking about something I'm reading in 50 cents book at the min. One of his keys to fearlessness is to rediscover curiosity. Explaining that as a child the world was a huge source of information & we paid close attention to everything, as time goes on we tend to close our minds off, thinking we know all we need to know mainly out of fear that our assumptions about life have changed.
This strikes a chord with me when I think about poker strategy. There is certainly 2 definitive camps when it comes to HUSNG 'basic' strategy, you're tendencies are either passive or aggressive (As argued on 2+2) but no one really considering each others strategy to be effective. Maaybe this is a bad example but it got me to open my mind back up, remembering the style of play that Cog taught me & try a little small ball & it seemed to work. Hopefully I've moved past this roadblock of auto-piloting & found my creative side where I'm thinking more for myself & not just re-enacting the actions of my peers.
I finished the week off pretty dismally, Saturday I played way too much, I think I dropped around 5 BIs which is terribad TBH & tottally lost focus. PLayed a short 5 game session today, won all 5 for around $22 profit leaving my week around -$10 but a valuable lesson learnt. Volume wise I exceeded my target but the auto-piloting has hurt me pretty bad. Overall I've played 82 games this week, bit too much I think and my loss of $10 shows it.
Good luck at the tables.
Jay
I was due to have a Skype session with another player last week but his internet was down (seems to happen a ton in the US!) but I SS'd him & he is crushing the $5s & $10 for around 30% ROI, which got me thinking about something I'm reading in 50 cents book at the min. One of his keys to fearlessness is to rediscover curiosity. Explaining that as a child the world was a huge source of information & we paid close attention to everything, as time goes on we tend to close our minds off, thinking we know all we need to know mainly out of fear that our assumptions about life have changed.
This strikes a chord with me when I think about poker strategy. There is certainly 2 definitive camps when it comes to HUSNG 'basic' strategy, you're tendencies are either passive or aggressive (As argued on 2+2) but no one really considering each others strategy to be effective. Maaybe this is a bad example but it got me to open my mind back up, remembering the style of play that Cog taught me & try a little small ball & it seemed to work. Hopefully I've moved past this roadblock of auto-piloting & found my creative side where I'm thinking more for myself & not just re-enacting the actions of my peers.
I finished the week off pretty dismally, Saturday I played way too much, I think I dropped around 5 BIs which is terribad TBH & tottally lost focus. PLayed a short 5 game session today, won all 5 for around $22 profit leaving my week around -$10 but a valuable lesson learnt. Volume wise I exceeded my target but the auto-piloting has hurt me pretty bad. Overall I've played 82 games this week, bit too much I think and my loss of $10 shows it.
Good luck at the tables.
Jay
Sunday, 15 August 2010
Aug Week #2: Pump up the volume
Hai Guise! Another decent performance this week, I was more consistent this week too & although I took Monday off which made it a tough to maintain for the rest of the week but I made it happen, obv! I hit my target 57 games & added an extra 1 again. This weekend wasn't the best session I've had & I think I can improve on this. Sat I got up late so only put in 6 games (4-2) & today put in 13 (8-5) after family distractions knocked my concentration - man I need a proper office!!
For the month I've played 126 games which is +5 on target, although this is pretty good I'm not over the moon about it, I would have hoped to be further ahead. I want to push my volume up past 300 & as it stands this month I'm just doing enough to hit 250. There is a couple of spots I can gain an edge from, the weekend is my biggest opportunity to hit serious volume. I think anything less than 15 is a failure form now on regardless of what happens midweek. Midweek, I am more time constrained due to work commitments & usually get 2 hours of play. Hopefully this coming week I can put in solid volume & bolster it at the weekend with 30 games bagged. I kinda already know I wanna stretch myself another 25 games next month, taking a monthly total to 275 & then 300 in October.
Week: +$33.50
Aug: +$93.25
2010: +$243.20
For the month I've played 126 games which is +5 on target, although this is pretty good I'm not over the moon about it, I would have hoped to be further ahead. I want to push my volume up past 300 & as it stands this month I'm just doing enough to hit 250. There is a couple of spots I can gain an edge from, the weekend is my biggest opportunity to hit serious volume. I think anything less than 15 is a failure form now on regardless of what happens midweek. Midweek, I am more time constrained due to work commitments & usually get 2 hours of play. Hopefully this coming week I can put in solid volume & bolster it at the weekend with 30 games bagged. I kinda already know I wanna stretch myself another 25 games next month, taking a monthly total to 275 & then 300 in October.
Week: +$33.50
Aug: +$93.25
2010: +$243.20
Sunday, 8 August 2010
Aug Week #1: VOLUME 58
This week has bee pretty mixed in terms of volume, started off quite poor on Mon only getting 2 games in. I woke up & felt like shit & realised I wasn't playing my 'A' game so quit the tables. Didn't get up on Thurs due to being in the hospital until gone midnight expecting to be a dad! And then a few long games left me a couple of games down Friday.
All this left me a tough task for the weekend, to hit my weekly target of 57 games I needed 30 games over Sat & Sun. I managed to hit the volume, I was quite surprised that I could concentrate for that long. Sat my session lasted 4.5 hours & I finished 10-5 & Sunday lasted 2.5 hours & I finished 8-7 so for the week I've played 58 games & finished 35-23 for $45.50 profits. This leaves me $0.38 over my requirements to move up to the $10s. I'm gonna keep going this month at the $5s & move up at the start of September, gives me chance to finish the month strong without the pressure of the new level, plus I'm expecting pandemonium once the little one arrives this month.
I'm pretty satisfied with how things are going right now, I know I've come a long way since I started out & with help from Cog, Hokie & a few others I'm pretty confident in my game now. I know I still have tons of leaks, but I'm determined to work on them & become a better player. This week I've included the Sharkscope table that shows my results at the $5s which is pretty decent I think, considering I wasn't a great player when I first started & I also went through the worst downswing of my playing career (granted it was 10BIs but it was 1/2 my roll at that time. It hurt!!)
So, enough blowing smoke up my own ass. Next week is definitely more of the same, apart from the irregular play! I hope I can keep on target to hit the required 8 games a day throughout the week & if all goes well I may even try top continue with the 15 games over the weekend days which should give me around 70 games per week without a rest day. Not sure that's sustainable, but we'll see!
- Good luck at the tables
Jay
All this left me a tough task for the weekend, to hit my weekly target of 57 games I needed 30 games over Sat & Sun. I managed to hit the volume, I was quite surprised that I could concentrate for that long. Sat my session lasted 4.5 hours & I finished 10-5 & Sunday lasted 2.5 hours & I finished 8-7 so for the week I've played 58 games & finished 35-23 for $45.50 profits. This leaves me $0.38 over my requirements to move up to the $10s. I'm gonna keep going this month at the $5s & move up at the start of September, gives me chance to finish the month strong without the pressure of the new level, plus I'm expecting pandemonium once the little one arrives this month.
I'm pretty satisfied with how things are going right now, I know I've come a long way since I started out & with help from Cog, Hokie & a few others I'm pretty confident in my game now. I know I still have tons of leaks, but I'm determined to work on them & become a better player. This week I've included the Sharkscope table that shows my results at the $5s which is pretty decent I think, considering I wasn't a great player when I first started & I also went through the worst downswing of my playing career (granted it was 10BIs but it was 1/2 my roll at that time. It hurt!!)
So, enough blowing smoke up my own ass. Next week is definitely more of the same, apart from the irregular play! I hope I can keep on target to hit the required 8 games a day throughout the week & if all goes well I may even try top continue with the 15 games over the weekend days which should give me around 70 games per week without a rest day. Not sure that's sustainable, but we'll see!
- Good luck at the tables
Jay
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