Like most of the people posting here, I'm guessing this thread is mostly for myself as a tool to keep track of my development and as a way of getting opinions and advice from other people on this forum.
Info:
29 years old
bachelor in theoretical physics
master in teaching (working on my thesis)
About me
I've always liked math and logic puzzles. I've also won a couple of math and physics competitions and my grades have consistently been really good. Mostly because of my persistence and stubbornness when learning new concepts. I'm also part of Mensa, not because I'm smart I believe, but because I studied 2 days before taking the "exam".
I'm not new to poker. I played it for fun about 4 years ago and made a decent profit on NL50. However, it's been a long time since I've played and I know the game pool has changed quite a bit, so I'm might not be able to play profitably in the beginning. This is ok. I plan to start at NL10 with $2000.
This autumn I will be writing my masters thesis and study/play poker. I will start grinding micro stakes NL10, where I can comfortably experiment with different strategies/concept without being afraid of losing huge amount of money. After a session I wanna be able to go to bed happy about the concepts I've learned and not too focused on the money lost.
My goals for the coming 5 months:- Learn how to quickly identify players tendencies and how to exploit them
- Understand the concept of hand ranges in theory and practice
- Play profitable poker
How
I plan to accomplish this with a minimum of about 2 hours of poker/day. This time includes activity on poker forums, hand analysis on PT4, and playing poker. I'm tracking my time with an excel spreadsheet.
Each Month (Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec) I will set up individual goals, small steps, that hopefully will lead to me reaching my final goals. I will also put individual goals for each week, so I can better focus on one concept at a time and practice it, rather than having a huge amount of information shoved in my face all at once.
Sugegestions?
I've recently read "Applications of No limit Holdem" by Matthew Janda, which was a really nice read and I liked how he focused on the math side of poker. I'm not sure I will be implementing much of his theory in my game in the beginning though (I suspect balancing ranges isn't going to be very important at NL10). If anyone has good suggestions of good poker videos/learning material I'd be very grateful!
-iwanttopractice
