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February 04, 2010


Feb 4, 10 09:00:11

LOL. That guy reminds me of Rosenkrantz.

Big_Scobie



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February 02, 2010

I have mixed feelings about the first month of the year...
First of all what really satisfies me is the amount i've played. Topped again my best by almost 10k. I consider 40k hands pretty impressive for a guy with a full-time job. TBH i think I'm somewhat close to the peak with that effort.
What makes me kind of sad is the play I showed. Committed many avoidable mistakes, maybe was on semi-tilt too...
The month ended up in the green again (btw it's 14month in a row now) but I consider january as a breakeven month with only 2bi-s profit which is ridiculous.


So I thought it's time for change...

now I want to focus on improving my play. Forgot many things we spoke with Steve in 3 coaching session and it's just my fault. He can't do much more than shoving the right way, i have to walk on it. We agreed w Steve that we should make the lessons more regulary so we will have every two weeks and try to shake things up. What i will do is watch again the videos made about the coaching sessions and try to recover my play as good as i can.

I try to change my daily routine too in terms of playin. I will study concepts and try to plug leaks (with help of Steve) in the afternoon and play max 4 tables to try the new things out and to see whats work. In the night i will play my usual sessions to maintain the daily 200 ftp pace... so thats the plan.

Also I won't look this month at my BR. Will remove the profit related columns from HEM just to concentrate more on the stats and focusin' on the direction i'm headin...

let's see how it goes.

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January 26, 2010
I've read about that many grinders try to avoid keeping track of their BR while grinding tons of hands keeping their focus on the game.
Today i've decieded that I wont look into my BR this week. I never look at it in a session so why don't take it further. If I can keep my eyes off this week, I'll try to nail a full month in February.
This should be fun.

Jan 26, 10 12:34:14

Good luck my man.

You have to do it now it's in writing :)

SGB5000




Jan 27, 10 04:04:45

i give u a chance to join the experiment, it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. it's your call :-D

pocketfish007



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January 24, 2010
I thought a lot about this month so far mainly because i'm don't doing so well. I had to realize that there is no need to blaim luck if I play like a retard. Don't know how things turned this wrong this month. I make mistakes I never maid before, get frustrated of playing badly. Yesterday was the 2nd time in a row that i checked my results ending a streak of almost 3 months without looking. New personal "best": -3bi in 70 hands. Obviously tilt. Sad. I have 6 opportunities to clean this mess up. I know i can do it but am i in the real menthal state to pull it off?


Jan 25, 10 08:13:47

Sounds like it's time to read (or re-read) the poker mindset!

SGB5000




Jan 26, 10 02:14:28

I'm about to finish "your worst poker enemy" and looking forward to start the "elements of poker". I don't have the poker mindset but these books are about the same topic i guess.

pocketfish007



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January 22, 2010
January still isn't very kind to me but i'm already even at FT and up 6bi on PS. Already played a good amount of hands and if I can keep the pace t will be a new record of hands played in a month. It's very refreshing to play on a different site if things didn't go well at the old one.
Yesterday I set up TableNinja and wrote an AHK script which will enable me to resize and move my tables if neccessary. Somehow the bet sizes didn't work well with TNFT and i'm still tryin to solve the problem. I need to develop my script and I have great ideas and task to work on. I f i don't find code for my ideas on the internet i'll try to write it myself...

cheers. 

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January 08, 2010
This morning i suffered my biggest loss in my carreer. I've lost 6bis in just 1300 hands.
Honestly, I don't think I played that bad just things didn't went my way this time. I do made one clear clear mistake i remember but mainly my fired barrels and thin value bets got hammered by the river. Evaluated the situation ~90% of the time somewhat correctly but the river cards wich made me beat were sooo unlikely (example: 2KQr 7 3 with AK vs 23s) that I fired / bet happily again. Also I wasn't able to compensate the losers with my winners which is partly my fault. I tried to experiment occasionally with wild overbets against targets (possibly because I was down and wanted to get my money back quickly - but i'm not sure) but they didn't worked.
I think it's a great opportunity to start finally review the marked hands not just mark it and leave.

All in all nothing tragical happened, it's just a feedback to start work harder...

peace

ps: my security key has finally arrived from the FT store after more than 6 weeks. well done :-S


Jan 13, 10 01:59:43

This is the way the poker gods work. We just have to deal with the swongs better than our opponents :)

Do your review and put it behind you.

SGB5000



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January 07, 2010
January started, and after 6k hands i'm down 1bi wich -considered the medicore play I make these days- is acceptable. Have to pull myself together and focus more because I make 1-2 medium-to-big errors in a session wich is more than I can afford. If the things starting to get better i'll take a shot again at NL50.

I think it's time for me to start to look for another site besides FT, I choosed Stars cause the gr8 first deposit bonus so i will deposit some money and will start to build a bankroll there to. I plan to start at the same level as I play here on FT. FT will be the primary site though, maintaining iron man status is top priority only if that is secured will shift to playing more hands on stars.

I purchased a security key at the FT store more than 6 weeks ago, now I'm really pissed why the stuff isn't arrived yet?

C YA next time

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January 01, 2010
Altough I didn’t succeed with the nl50 shot I wouldn’t treat this year as a failure. I took a shot and it was a good experience than came back to reorganize myself and i did just that. It’s an all green year, i know it’s the ridiculous micro stakes but hey, i’m a micro player .

Looking back these were the highlights of the year in poker for me:
  • realizing that i need help from someone and hiring a great coach
  • NOLOOKSTREAKOMETER : eliminating the habbit of checking the results of the session while playing is just priceless
  • taking a shot at nl50
  • 3rd coaching session: feel for the first time in a poker conversation that I’m treated as a poker player
  • realizing how much free money i can get just from playing more hands
  • the improvements in november and in december regarding determination
  • 29th of december when I earned my monthly payment in poker.

I’ve almost never write about personal stuff in my blog, this is an exception…personal highlights:
  • buying a flat, our first
  • getting to know that i’m going to be a father
  • getting to know we will have a son

Yes, 2009 was a gr8 year and i know 2010 will be even better…i know it.

Wish everyone all the best in 2010!

Jan 3, 10 13:08:53

Wow, congrats on the real life stuff, far more important than poker!

Have a great 2010 :)

SGB5000




Jan 7, 10 07:36:50

thx Coach, I wish a Happy and successfull Year for You too!

pocketfish007



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January 01, 2010
After the best month of my carreer I had pretty big expectations from December and the things just kept getting better.

I topped again my best by a very big margin. Played 10k hands and 24hours more than in november so thats brutal improvement in terms of amount of playing. Resultwise i’ve played with a winrate of 3.39 BB/100 over 31k+ hand wich it’s pretty much OK i guess. With the rake, iron man bonuses (level Iron for the first time), the ITM place in the freeroll was good enough for earning with poker as much as I earn with my full time job in a whole month for the first time in my carreer.

I think it’s a pretty big milestone and tapped my shoulder for 3 straight days for that but that’s enough, i have to think about it as this will be the normal expectation for the future months.

Way to go fish...
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December 08, 2009
Hi folks,

last weekend i've played a ton of hands sadly i realized a small loss in total. On sunday i've decieded to participate in my rake sites 27k freeroll. Dind't take it too seriously watched Heroes during the tournament. Honestly i think i've played my worst tournament of my life. If i had a hand I pushed pre, and that was the strategy. It was enough for reaching the late phase finishing 28/1334 for an unexpected 93$ profit. I'm not too proud about it...seriously.

This week i will continue to grind, maybe shooting for iron level this month? who knows...

cya


Dec 8, 09 11:53:56

lol donkaments!

SGB5000



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