The goal has been reached (1000 in a month) on the 17th of may!!!
so thats 2 weeks and 3 days I achieved the goal for the month.
I admit there was one week as you seen were I just had alot of good varaince, hitting hands getting paid off and more importantly they held!
I've been recently PUNISHED with a week of bad varaince but I still went up and reached my goal. just not as quickly as I hoped.
(I will post a section maybe in a few days time of the bad varaince I included but wanna make it a good post so I will leave it for today)
So this has left me to wonder how much I could make from the 18th of may to the next 18th june doing it this way then averages as usually when I get paid from my real job.
And it also tells me if I can make a decent wage from poker as well (I'm not gunna leave my job or do anything that drastic yet....well not until I think i can crush 200nl a long dream away!!!)
but it would be intresting to see how much I could make. doing this would boost my roll and also give me some play money which is nice, so the goal for the 18th of june is!!!! DRUM ROLLLL!!!!
$1500
Its a massive goal maybe to big really but wanna push myself to the limit on this one see if i can reach it or surpass it, wish me luck , people at my tables ...put the money in the bag!!
a nice inspirational vidd I found but I like to add a video to a blog specialy ones liek these :)
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Its been due to sheer exhaustion and slightly me being lazy....okay....really lazy lol
but after my first week of 50nl I had swings of break even and I basically had to re-evaluate my game from the ground up, it seemed I suffered from FPS (fancy play syndrome) although in some spots were fps is a good thing, what I was doing just wasnt!
I was just trying to outplay every one, which is a recipe for disaster!!! I think my average vpip was like 30% which is just ridiclous. However after alot of hand history reviews and session reviews I quickly found my leaks......and i'm gunna keep them private since I'm still working on them ! ;)
and I think I ended last month on break even.....however this month or should I say week I've had the game in a choke hold, the play has improved and so has my edges I'm quickly finding a nice winning style and its working out well for me and in just one week I've pulled in $787 ooooo Go on have a look at the graph
the hand samples are pretty small though so I can only take this as good varaince and I think good play my ev is right up there also so yea thats great and it makes me wonder if I'm gunna smash this months goal! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I also HIGHLY recommend a certain book I'm reading at the moment called
'Treat your poker like a buisness' by Dusty Schmidt
This guy has pulled in $3million so far and is now earning a million a year in poker and is pretty much known as the ULTIMATE grinder you will find with his nickname leatherass its no suprise.
The book is a real eye opener and has pluged in a real work ethic and inspiration in the game or buisness of poker, and its probably the best book you could get at the moment. he has some great chapters in that book and I HIGHLY recommend you get it.
(no way affilated with him although I wish I was!) -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Now lets put some wrong weird and wonderfull hands in
FML....moment
I think this is the ULTIMATE COOLER OF ALL TIME!!!!!! still made me chuckle more than weep :)
Just SEXY
Does it ever get any better than this? on the river I just felt some big hands was standing here so i decided to ship hoping they calledi figured on of them had a ten or one of them might have a straight or lower set, getting paid eachway was nicer.
Ivey call
I just really felt he wasnt representing anything here and I went with my inner ivey and was rewarded.
A Tom Dwan moment! Also a very cheeky bluff here if he reads this blog.....he'll never EVER fold to me again lol
sorry m8 it just looked like you really didnt like that turn had to stack the pressure on since I thought u would fold, never thought u had kings mind lol knew u had a pair though.
So 50nl as a whole is going well for me at the moment I feel that I will smash the record soon and it makes me wonder what my month record will be.....hmmm poker for a living? we will see
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PKR is a cool 3D poker site, also super soft! PKR Poker
yes as the title says it felt like I was the new kid in school at 50nl there are some familiar faces but alot of new ones, which i'm still learning about there play styles and generaly there attitude, does one guy control his tilt better than the other guy etc.
One thing I noticed is that the plays at 50nl are alot more trappy, and loose doesnt neccesarly meen FISH as it 99% of the time does at 25nl, the play styles are more thought out and the players are alittle better, but doesnt meen there arnt any fish neither since sometimes I could be sitting down in an aquarium sometimes, so this tells me table selection is alot more important, only problem is pkr is a still relativley small site and the fish dont come on till around 3 or 5 ish.
I can handle myself with the regualrs now as well, on the first day and along the week it was pretty rough though, I lost 4 buyins quickly yes all thats $200!
There was definatley a learning curve, the betsizing is alot bigger than I was used to and it just took me awhile to get that $6 isnt a huge bet and its pretty average.
I also still thought $50 as 2 buyins but I soon got rid of that, and fixed these problems near the end of the week I made back all the 4 buyins! and 4 more
yes made $200 this week up! and got pretty settled at 50nl and I feel at home there alot more than I started, I think I will be pretty comfortable up here with betting taking a stack and loosing one aswell.
I will update this post with some good and bad hands tommorow alittle tired at the moment.
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PKR is a cool 3D poker site, also super soft! PKR Poker
I reached my goal today the 19th of april, I havnt updated the blog to much recently or daily like I planned but the jist of it is, that I'm playing great becuase of me looking back on hands and constantly scrutinising my play, the hands are holding and I'm getting paid, in around 6 days i've made around 250, which is very nice! I feel that I always have money at 25nl whenever I play it again now so if I have to drop down it wouldnt be terrible since i know i can beat it (however it would suck).
I think I have become a much better cash game player, than beforehand of this blog and me taking it a slight more serious, the main leak I had was knowing when to give up and knowing when not to bluff, soon as I fixed this mainly by learning alittle bit more on board textures and players traits I made alot more $ at 25nl
I'm alittle anxious of what 50nl will throw at me and getting used to the bet sizing but I heard from another player that 50nl isnt all that different from 25nl just richer fish , which of course I hope hes right, but I still think there might be a learning curve, and I cant help but have engranined thats 2 buyins of 25nl! lol which I gotta loose pretty quickly and just realise its a buyin, so hope I do well today on my first grind of 50nl will tell you all what happens, I wont give myself a goal yet since i dont wanna pressurise myself to much I think I will seta goal another day when I feel alittle more comfortable, todays goal is get used to it!
Shuffle up and DEAL!
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Yes today I'm pretty happy about how I played, I made around 4 buyins and its great to see I made back what I lost and consiously made sure I was Grinding my bankroll rather than choosing spots to gamble in, and I feel I'm getting someware.
I corrected alot of mistakes so far this month, and it's thanks to the loosing sessions and this blog to serve as a reminder, however I also noticed that I'm getting bluffed alot more than usual this month, sometimes the bluffs are almost so crazy its like watching a suicide bomber going to the felt with nothing.
I've lost around 2 or 3 big hands like this, just becuase of terrible boards and my reclutants to gamble on some hands, however I've also won 3 pots by catching bluffers out so I guess I welcome it since I've made alot more than I lost from gamblers so............ BRING ON THE GAMBLERS! I will catchem out!!!!
I'm playing pretty dam well enough were I'm not gambling and they are when they make a big move on me so I guess I should welcome gamblers since there easy money I guess. (hate to sound like a hellmuth clone but the plays are shockin somtimes :p )
Check out these hands.
This hand was pretty hard to laydown I had no reads on villain and when I bet hard on the turn and get re raised I think most the time I'm mostly beaten by an unknown but no he bluffed me big time
First off I usally have a good read on players and what there capable of but this player in particular was just almost determined to bluff me no matter what at all costs lol, I didnt think he would be bluffing this huge again after the other hand.
This is the suicide bomber I was mainly talkiing about. I just cant see how he can continue to bluff me after I called his re raise on the flop and bet massive on turn the river J of hearts if the worst card in the deck since every draw gets there anbd so does his hand range I put him on maybe a flush maybe a straight draw, I could even be beaten by a set here, was a sick hand he had Q4! nothing
if that river never came I think I was calling, he got very lucky.
As you can see I had two massive bluffs from the same guy but the spots were so difficult I would think any 1 would find it hard to hit call button in those spots.
However I did get back at some other filthy blufffers!!! muhahahaha
I think I should have led out on this flop regardless but check calling isnt to bad. Specialy since I thought he was bluffing here after watching his play and having a read on him, but i tryed not to go all in since I was 70% he didnt have it.
Here is another hand where the play is beyond retarded by the player really, I knew the river bet was suspect since I thought he would ship more likley if he had flush and I also knew the player from a past game and seen he had a tendency to bluff.
And he tryed bluffing me again straight after 2 hands later...LOL
although really I shoulda re raised the turn all in since he coulda been drawing and since I thought I was already ahead I shoulda shipped...my bad lol
and just one more for the extra LOL.....so much is wrong with this LMFAO
But ended the day up and looking good!
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I've lost around 4 buyins a day before today and I felt pretty shitty, but I realised later on that 2 were due to bad play and the other 2 was coolers and I can only take it on the chin and move on, I'll get it back and I have to keep a positive attitude I guess.
However today was crazy and I started at around 12pm and lost 2 buyins pretty sharpish, one was due to terrible play by me not realising the set and not having dispiline to fold the aces, and the other was a cooler and I later had a small loss around 60 down so far . So after comming off a loss this wasnt a great start of getting back on my feet.
I then said that no matter what I'm gunna play through my beats and as long as I felt I was playing correctly and I wasnt tilting or letting it controll my play and I wouldn't stop until I was even or slightly up, just to make myself realise that I'm better than these mistakes I'm making and if I play long enough I would be even or up alittle if I played enough hands. You have to rember a day before i took a 4 buyin loss and I thought it would be bad on my mental attitude if i took another loss like that again.
(this is said to be bad I guess but why should I quit for a day if I felt i was playing right)
It didnt ment I played scared, I chose spots and played through some horrousious bad beats and in the end after 2000 hands in one session ended 5 up LOL but it was more about me knowing I could play better than most on the table and me trying to prove it to myself and I did make back and alittle more of what i lost, comming back after a big loss knowing u played ur best and achieved what u wanted feels great hopefully I can turn the next few days in to more profit and make back the 4 buyin loss day which has threw me off schduele, but I feel stronger for the loss, so just to round off my session with two videos that are cheesy as hell! although the rocky vid is nice for poker bad beats lol
and also remember! (time for some 80s cheese!)
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Today was really my first 'True' grind this month I played around 1000 hands, in my house this time, and had mixed views on my session, firstly me starting my grind on a monday is harder anyways since the fish dont seem to be there as much as friday through sunday.
And since I started a 2pm or 3pm I was up against other regualrs and I usually find sometimes these guys are cash cows if u play them right since they play so abc I was cbetting nearly every hand and taking it down on the flop or turn.
These are all loosing hands I'm posting but I think its great for me to look at and learn from, and maybe you to, I did win alot of other pots bringing me back up eventually but it coulda been alot more if I avoided these mistakes.
I got it up quickly doing this to around $20 then I think I started playing way to loose for example this 67 suited hand preflop is'nt bad but on the flop cbetting a board like that is never good and double barreling on the turn was pretty disgusting play by me. that was my first medium loss of $7 which should have been avoided if I played better. Hand 1
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I made one very big mistake which cost me a buyin with queens, which on second glance I should have avoided.
The Raise pre and on flop is fine and maybe calling the re raise from tlp is fine also since her vp was wide enough where she would be raising aj there as well, howver i shoulda dhut down when to all ins were declared before i acted since what am i really beating here after a re raise a shove and a call of a shove i should be dropping this hand, its very likley at least one of these players have a set or twopair and could saved a buyin here.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hand 3
This was just a tricky spot for me where I felt I had to call the flop re min raise, I bet out here to try and take pot control and eitehr add value to my hand if I do hit my flush or king or bluff them off the pot, but after the re min raise I was expecting over pairs and thought thats what she was defending queens and low hope fully since I hit my king on th turn with a flush draw or the chance to hit another k or j the turn bet is big and here i just find it ver y hard to fold and I call once more hoping to hit my draws since its obvious she has a big hand here and the pot is stacking up on the river it blanks and she bets 4.50 a bril value bet really but I have to call becuase she could still have qq or jj and the pot alone is now like 25 but this hand I'm not to sure on I think I shoulda been getting 2 to 1 on my money to make this play which I wasnt, however i found it hard to beleive that she had a 5 here after the raise preflop i was putting her on a pair so i was thinking 5's quads and aces or kings at worse.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hand 4
This hand wasnt badly played at all really, but its just a tuff spot, it starts off pretty standard I get kq near the button I raise it I get called by some one in position. I flop a queen and I cbet $2 thats pretty standard I get called so now I'm thinking okay time for some information about his hand so I bet $4 on the turn to either try and stop a flush draw or to see if he ships, I know he probably has over pair ot two pair or better if he calls maybe he might have the flush draw and is getting stubborn or he has AQ
The river comes the ace making two outs the ace and queen making more unlikley he has aq and is maybe on a jqs or a flush draw and missed so when I check to him and he ships I feel I have to call unfortuantley he has the hand but, I cant really see much of the mistake I made here since he was a pretty loose player I think it was just unlucky and I think in the long term I would be winnign this pot.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hand 5
In this hand I got to loose and I think I made a mistake by calling the re raise the turn isnt a bad bet to try and win the pot but on the flop I should have given it up really, he did smooth call ak but after I raise and he re raises he most likley has it since this guy is a pretty tight player and i dont think he would re raise a cbet when i raised preflop with nothing , not his style wot so ever so bad play by me, nice try on the turn I guess though.
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This hand I'm not sure is bad again maybe the call on the flop isnt terrible since the player with 4's is agressive I knew at the time he would make some sort of play on this hand and I figured if he didnt have anything after bravepitt shipped I thought the pot is big enough for me to make this call on the flop and see the turn and pray that he checks it on the turn or makes a smaller bet making it okay for me to call he doesnt and makes a massive bet which I think for what his hand ended up being was pretty bad for him, checking the turn woulda been great for him if I hit my flush i woulda shipped all day, but I make a disiplined fold on the turn. not a bad play but just a pot where it was kinda intresting
some nice spots there, hope I learned from it.
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PKR is a cool 3D poker site, also super soft! PKR Poker
