Hi mate. Well done and good luck. Read most of the pages today and am very impressed.
If any one needs inspiration they just need to come and read through your journey.
I love poker but have problems with bank roll management... tilt and then think i am better than what i am and go to a higher limit and lose it all. Quite frustrating but i seem to keep making the same mistake.

If you dont mind me asking what is your roll up to at the moment??
Started at $750
Keep going mate. Subbd!!!

Up the volume mate

Nice work. Ride that wave

Thanks for the good words.

Sounds like you have some discipline problems in general, which I think most people have. If you are gonna take poker seriously then you need to put some work into BR management and tilt.

Set some rules for your BR and either print them out and keep it beside your computer or make a note in your phone and read over each time before you play as part of a 'warm up'

For any tilt issues I would recommend Jared Tendler Mental Game Of Poker. I wouldnt't just read it once, use it as a reference guide that you consult often.

My BR is ~$6K, I lost ~$2k previous 2 months so took bit of a hit there.

Gl

Will do, whatever you say coach.

Cheers mate, will try to.

Although kinda have that feeling of winners tilt right now, that the doomswitch will be flicked soon when the run good is reversed. Will have to make the folds during that period that my opponents couldn't make.

Your obedience has been noted.

Well said, its easy enough riding the upswing, how we ride the downswing is more important.

Oh no, don't make me lunge everywhere instead of walking we all seen how that ended for Antonio Esfandiari.

"Rather than thinking in terms of money won or lost, take a lesson from the business world. In many businesses, there is a major difference between the money being held and the money that’s actually earned as income. For example, a retail store offering a refund within 30 days realizes the income of a sale after the 30-day period is over, not on the day of the sale. Until that point, the money is just being held and is not considered income. In poker, if you believe all the money won in the short run is yours—especially on a great run of cards—then predictably you’ll get pissed off when poker takes back what you really didn’t earn. Often the seeds of hating to lose are planted when you assume more of what you won to be income."

Jared Tendler - Mental Game Of Poker

Jared, ma BOY. Keep crushing mate!

Wise words by Jared.....

Cheers mate will try.

Wise words indeed. Not surprisingly a lot of my "customers" did in fact come back to the store for a refund as shown by the sharp decline after the 40k hand mark.



Was just one of them periods of missing draws and getting 3 or 4 set over set losses, and I mean set over set in like 4bet pots when you bink the set of 8s on the flop and your opponent has a set of As.

Another hand I flat TT after an EP open, someone behind squeezes, EP calls and I call to take a flop. Flop top set Ts and it checks round. Turn comes a K and EP bets out, call call.

River is an Ace

EP puts the rest of his stack in, he could have flopped worse sets or have AK. So I calls with my set of Ts and had almost forgot about the original squeezer was still behind me, when he calls I know I am beat.

EP had a set of Ks
Hero had set of Ts
Squeezer had set of As

Anyway had good session yday so back on track.

I can defo say that from a fundamental theorem of poker mistake perspective I would not have played this hand the way villain did. Prob starts off with both of us assuming the opponent has an overpair. Then when you see 200bb go in on the flop you have to worry.

Only one hand was beating me* so didnt think I could realistically fold.

*He was a Reg so I wasent worried about him holding something completely wacky like 7,4 or 4,2

vs Reg




In other news I have been experimenting with playing across multiple sites this month (3) and I can say I absolutely hate the multi-siting experience.

I like to feel in control during my poker session and I just dont feel in control as much playing over 3 sites.

First problem, I dunno if this is from me updating to Windows 10 or because I have 3 lobbies open and pushing the computers boundaries or whatever but I have been getting the blue screen of death at least once per session where the screen goes blue and it reboots with a message:

Video_TDR_Failure

Next playing over 3 sites is a nightmare for getting hotkeys working, but the biggest problem is getting the tables to behave with regards to focus. Tried TN2 which was just awful and didnt work at all.

I had some success with Table Tamer which seems to be able to control the focus. But then some hotkeys and features like timebank only work on certain sites

The way table tamer works for postflop bets is that it clicks the bet pot button to calculate the pot size then if we are betting say 75% it the moves the slider before sending the bet.

Well this works, about 90% of the time. The other times it will bet something random and a few times it put my whole stack in the middle when I was trying to open to 2.5x or make a small cbet. After that everytime you bet you are bricking it in case it shoves all in, so just kinda lost confidence in it.

Oh yeah and also everytime I am on an active table and click a villains hud stats to see a pop up the software seems to register this as me having acted on the table and then takes me to the next table and loses focus of the action, awwww nightmare.

However, my winrate does seem to be a tad higher on non Stars sites as you might expect (small sample size so far). While that continues I am still gonna want to play to see what my winrate is elsewhere over like 50k hands.

However, however... my winrate is higher on other sites BUT so is the Rake. And I also get an appalling, practically nothing rakeback on other sites compared to my Supernova rakeback on Stars. All things considered it is prob pretty close and the inferior software and other problems that come with other sites start to make Stars look like a good option.

Gonna set some February goals now before I forget. Few spots where I am underachieving that I want to keep an eye on next month:

February Goals:

Improve and review:
[] SB vs 1 Raiser on Btn
[] BB vs 1 Raiser in MP
[] BB vs 1 Raiser in CO

One day I will learn how to play from the blinds hopefully.

I have however, learned how to play a flopped 2 Pair at FR:

A January goal was to improve winrate in Unopened Pots. Here is how things went:



Points to note:

The winrate from the CO and Btn are very dissapointing, is this just some bad variance?

No.

Sometimes I maybe try too hard to improve things and end up taking a step backward. So in the CO and Btn for Unopened pots I made an adjustment that seemed right in theory and seems to be what other people are doing.

Before making this change I had my doubts about whether this would suit my game and work for me.

Well fcuk the theory I am going back to what the numbers say and I had a bigger winrate previously so moving forward I am going back to how I was playing. Will check at end of Feb and think this re-adjustment should give my winrate a boost.

In other news, the SB is now looking quite smart here. Dont expect to maintain that winrate but the fact it is no longer crashing downwards is a relief.

Monthly results for January

Total profit $1,065

$450 from Stars Coin (rakeback)
$60 sign up bonus for other site
$100 of First Deposit Bonus cleared from other site
Rest is money won from playing, which isnt much.

Since the heater midway things just went downhill from there. Was really dissapointed tbh but I have no logical reason to feel that way. My true winrate for all 50NL hands so far is prob in the range of -1 to +1 so I cant expect to have a 5bb month, obviously results are gonna regress towards the mean. I think what happens everytime, is that when on heater I suddenly think I have solved those leaks I am working on and thus believe the current results are now my new baller winrate. Then when things go back to normal it feels like the sky is falling.

My EV for 50NL in Jan finished at EV 1.3 bb/100, so need to just build on that.

50NL Graph for Jan:


Strangely, very strangely for myself I have run above EV there. I am still down a ton from running under EV so not gonna feel guilty about that.

Also that graph above only includes 50NL no ante games, I did play some deep stack games where I aint doing too hot recently and lost some $s.

Other points to note, my winrate on non-stars sites has now regressed to the mean a lot as well and doesnt look too good anymore. Well, dissapointing but cant say I am enjoying the crappy software elsewhere or the non existant rakeback either so will prob aim to play most of my volume on Stars next month and maybe 1 table other sites if there is a decent game running, I dont care about trying to clear more of the FDB anymore because its prob -EV by the time you factor in how crap the rakeback is.

Be back later to read over Jan goals and set Feb goals.

Time to look over some of the goals:

2016 Yearly Goals:

[] Focus #1 on improving winrate in unopened pots
[] Focus #2 on improving winrate in "vs 1 Raiser" pots
[] Focus #3 on improving "vs 1 Limper" pots
[X] Begin playing on other sites besides Stars
[X] Buy a better chair for playing, back is getting sore

January Goals:

[X] Install Windows 10
[X] Work on improving winrate in Un-opened Pots
[X] Buy a fan to help cool me down during some heated sessions
[X] Have a winning month at 50NL FR
[X] Install other poker sites and dabble
[] Have, yet another study of BB vs 1 Raiser on Btn
[X] Study some vs 1 Limper material
[] Recognise when to deviate from my pre-planned preflop game
[X] Focus on good table selection, quality not quantity

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[] Have, yet another study of BB vs 1 Raiser on Btn

Never looked at this much but doing ok here so attention was elsewhere.

[] Recognise when to deviate from my pre-planned preflop game

Hmm yeah need to work on this.

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February Goals:

[] Dont expect a higher winrate than EV 1bb/100
[] Stop messing about with AHK scripts during play, trying to set up hotkeys for non Stars sites
[] Have a winning month at 50NL and try to improve on Jan winrate

Improve and review:
[] SB vs 1 Raiser on Btn
[] BB vs 1 Raiser in MP
[] BB vs 1 Raiser in CO

Main Leak Focus:
[] Work on and improve winrate for "vs 1 Limper Pots"


Can say my back feels fine now after buying that Markus chair, was defo a +EV move.

Are you sure we live in the same country?

Haha valid point.

The room I grind from has an electric heater. Usually the room is either absolute freezing or roasting. The heater seems to have some sort of "power saving mechanism" where it likes to make the room roasting so it can switch itself off for the next hour.

Apart from that sometimes I just seem to get hot while im playing even if the room is cool. Seems to happen when Im playing HU for an extended period or maybe if I had been doing bench presses earlier. If you have never experienced getting roasting while playing I would say it is similar to when you were a kid and you played Pro Evo on the playstation for 4 hours and you are sweating over just how badly you want to win

Anyway I got this:



actually an air purifier but works the same as a fan and gets rid of dust too so anything that helps me avoid getting the hoover out has to be the GTO solution.

Works pretty good with that Markus chair as well, cos it has the mesh back can just park that behind me and I am ready for whatever heat comes my way.

How has the weather been in your part of the country, been all sorts of stormy up here, wind has been out of control.

It's called Fifa. Who in their right mind plays Pro Evo.....

Also I never experienced that, I don't lose at Fifa. I only win.

Gl this year

Je zet een tackle in?

(no proper translation for this, sorry)

Cheers,

Pro Ev was all the rage before I went into Playstation retirement, I understand most people have converted to Fifa these days though. Decided that playing Playstation and Football Manager was -Life EV for me.

Would decide to play football manager for an hour before bed. Then decide to just play another hour until the Champions League games. Next thing you know you can hear the birds chirping outside and its 8am time to go to Uni and you aint been to bed yet.

I did come out of Playstation retirement for a one off special when I was round at my mates for the FA cup final and everyone was playing FIFA. Id literally only ever played Pro Ev. Mate went Bayern who looked ridiculously good, I took United.

Banged in a hat trick with RVP and took the game to penalties. Wtf is with Penalty kicks on Fifa, my Pro Ev skills certainly didnt convert to this area of the game and my mate sat and laughed as I blasted my pens into row Z and cost me the match. Think Ill take a deck of cards to my mates for the FA cup final this year see if anyone if fancies a game of Poker instead.

Bump???

Hey, how is it going, I hope all is well?

Suppose its time to update things. I have been mega busy lately and my poker volume has probably dropped to Hap_Hazard levels

So what has happened? Three letters: DFS

Draft Kings has now launched in the UK and I was straight in there to try things out. Started off by just throwing a few dollars at it and my lineups seem to be doing rather well, defo had some run good to kick thing off.

Career DFS highlights so far include a 1st place win in a freeroll for tickets to Anfield for the Liverpool v Man City game:



I havent really played enough slates to know how profitable DFS will be, but I am up around $3k in my first month of playing. I still fully intend on playing Poker as well but DFS is actually taking up more time than I thought it would. When I have $1k on a soccer slate it would feel wrong not to be watching the games to learn more about the teams.

But wait soccer DFS will only be on a couple of times per week, right? Wrong.

Draft Kings have just added Europa League and the Mexican league, add that to English Premier League, Champions League and MLS and there is literally soccer slates on every night.

I was gonna play Poker on Saturday night but had to keep my eye on the Soccer lineups coming in and then making changes and there was a game kicking off almost every hour that required me to tinker with lineups.

If I was to go with my instincts I would say DFS will be more profitable for me than Poker so I am giving it priority right now. I have still been trying to play poker in between, but I honestly dont feel "match sharp" at the tables right now from thinking about DFS while I play and from not being able to memorize recent adjustments due to being a bit rusty from not playing every night.

On a positive note, I feel I can make cash from DFS so I dont feel as "under pressure" to play poker every night now to make money. I am probably spending longer on DFS just now cos everything is new to me, so given time hopefully I can find time to do both.

DFS graph:

omg I have to find out how to make money from DFS and give up poker.

Stop exaggerating mate, no way have you dropped to my levels of poker inactivity

Ive been trying to make a poker comeback since the start of the year and its not happened yet .... its only mid March so its taking the usual path.

Off to Cardiff on Friday i think for a meeting and then i reckon im bang up to day with everything work wise and i can concentrate on poker a little more ... #no excuses

Have to admit ... i was finding 12 tables of FR to be just too slow so im tempted to switch to Zoom for volume purposes.

In all honesty ...i see myself switching to 8 tables of 6 max and just embrace the pain.

Time to update this, been a while.

Most of my time has been spent on DFS recently. I was up 8k in DFS but tbh I just luckboxed a few GPPs early on and my results are now regressing towards the mean (back towards zero). The EPL season ends on Sunday so I will be turning my main focus back towards internet pokers.

My bro sent me a msg yday said he heard something about a big poker tourney in Glasgow soon. I Googled it and sure enough Party Poker are hosting $250k guaranteed prize pool 2 day event at Hampden park football stadium, $109 buy in.

I fired up Party Poker earlier and played a satelite, some whale cracked my AA in the first game with 76o. I took down the second satelite and won a $109 tkt for the event, so I am going to day one at Hampden park on Saturday. I have only ever played one live MTT in my life so should be interesting.

Bit annoyed that I dont feel on my A game right now poker wise due to playing so much DFS but I am sure there will be a few worse players than myself at this gig.

Sounds interesting, good luck!

part timer ....