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tilllttt's Poker Blog

January 31, 2010

had a good month, but felt it could have been a lot better. i've been having some trouble adjusting to fish and have been calling too much in general. i got pretty tilted earlier today as well when i ran amazingly bad and eventually just lost control. it was crazy. had s stretch of like 30 minutes where everyone ran in god mode vs me. regrouped and pretty much won it all back, but could have been a winning day for sure.

i'm so mad because i barely missed ironman on ft this month. i was getting to the last 20 minutes of the night and realized i wasn't going to make it, so i fired up 4 rush tables and 12 normal tables. it was pretty funny. despite all this it was too late and i finished 25 stupid points shy. it just sucks to give away money when you're that close. i've been ironman for 18 months now so i get more medals for being iron. it's super easy to get now playing a bunch of tables lower or rush poker, so it's really inexcusable that i missed out.

had a great month though. made some money, but more importantly, played 56k hands over 85 hours. didn't quite reach my goal of 100 hours, but i think really getting into the grind and establishing a routine and schedule will really help. it's a lot of work, but my long term goals are all that matter and i need to step up the effort.

hope to hit 100 hours next month for sure. i think i can have an absolutely monster month if i just clean up a few things. for whatever reason, i've been too splashy lately. i think there is a tendency for this to happen when you play lots of hands in a month, but that's why it's even more important. all those bad calls or bad plays where i just KNEW better, that really adds up over 56k hands. i'm guessing in total my mistakes cost me at least 10 buy ins this month, but probably more. that's just way too much money to be careless with.

anyway, hopefully the coming months will be much much bigger than this one was. i'm pretty excited about my short term future in poker. working on a bunch of different things to maximize my profits. bankroll is a huge thing for me, and i'm finally getting to be in a pretty good spot in that regard. if i'm smart, i prepare, and i spend a little more time studying my plan and watching some vids then i think i'll have some great results.

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Feb 1, 10 00:46:49

buy the extra iron man day from the medal store to keep that streak alive imo

congrats on the good month

darth_bozo