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Originally Posted by feel wrath
End of year results post.
Had my best year ever in terms of Profit and second best in terms of Win Rate, albeit 2013 was skewed by one massive result.
2015 - 370 hours played, Profit $15,582 at $42.08ph
2014 - 367 hours played, Profit $9,585 at $26.08ph
2013 - 290 hours played, Profit $14,973 at $51.48ph
2012 - 281 hours played, Profit $9,010 at $32.02ph
Results are across cash and tournaments. My cash limits range from 1/1 ($100max) home games, to 1/2, 2/3, 2/4, 2/5 and 5/5 ($700max). My overall cash win rate in 2015 is 10.91bb an hour
I feel like I've improved this year in the technical and strategic areas of the game, with quite a lot of study via reading and re-reading a few key books and some note taking and scenario planning off them.
I have masses of areas I can improve, but where I believe I need to improve most is in my focus and concentration at the table. I just don't play my A game enough. I feel this is particularly true at what I see is my 'normal' game, my 5/5 game at the local casino.
Reason for this is that by the time I get to the casino, it's generally on Thursday or Friday night and I've had a long week of getting up early and going to the gym, running my business and all my family stuff. It becomes relaxation time and this, in addition to the fact that I know and am friendly with a lot of the regs I play with, means that it's become more social, I talk more and I'm way less focused on villains, tendencies, table dynamics and spots than is optimal.
As a result and in conjunction with there being some good regs and villains at my normal game, my win rate at the 5/5 is less than half what it is at other games.
so this is what I need to work on in 2016, along with planning for particular villains and plugging a load of technical leaks that I still have
Humbling results post for me with my first ever losing year of poker
Overall result is a loss of $5,661 over 300 hours.
Hold em cash - up $1600 over 150 hours (at 2/3, 2/4, 2/5 and 2/5/10)
PLO cash - down $1500 over 35 hours
Tournaments - down $5761 over 115 hours of which....
Satellites 0/11 for minus $2520 after swaps (24 hours)
MTTs 3/9 for minus $2853 after swaps/sales (91 hours)
So all in all, a bad year and it would have been a whole load worse without a couple of donkament cashes in Dec.
I don't believe I've run well at all...definitely not in tournaments and also in cash, but I also know that my game has fallen away.
I haven't played nearly enough cash and I haven't worked anything like enough at my cash game (like not at all) to get myself together to a point where I feel confident in my game. And a huge leak of mine is not concentrating/thinking hard enough at the table and as a result, I'm not playing my A game hardly ever. I also believe that my cash game has gotten harder over the past 2 years - all the worst players have gone to PLO - and as a result, I feel like I've lost my cash 'mojo' almost completely.
I'm determined to work on it this year...to retool myself to understand the different game conditions and villains I'm facing and to ensure I'm playing well enough to take advantage of what I see
So...resolutions
- play cash more regularly
- study off the felt - Poker Snowie, a coaching commitment...either CLP or something else.
- create an in game focus routine that can help me get more disciplines while playing