Challenge Days: 529-552 + March 2016 Report
@HellionCraft
Well, my playing style was influenced by Gordon back in the days, but most of it I develop on my own. In the end it was more about me putting the hours for the research on details which brought edges.
@mpokerdonk
TX buddy!
Hey guys,
I'm finally back for an update. I guess it was about time since it's already the 11th April. Anyway, just gonna jump right away into the results which show that I made a bit over 19.5k$ post RB. It was an OK month where I run and played good in the NL1k games. The fact is that I got a bit lazy once the weather started to get better and I was already decently up. Also I have to be honest and say that I think I missed the opportunity for a 20-30k.
The reason is basically that bumhunting didn't really make me happy. I know it's the most wise decision money wise given nowadays poker economy, but if there is no NL1k tables going I don't get any joy or thrill by bumming a 400 fish. I will still play the 400 table but more from a professional side rather then for my own pleasure. Since I was up already decently I found new goals that would kind of give me back some joy at playing, so I set some goals.
I initially started by polishing my NL100 and NL200 results on site where I wasn't happy how they look. Basically it's mostly my perfectionist side, kind of wanting to see an +8bb WR EV on NL100/200 before I remove the the limit from my playing schedule. Well, I was doing the play and one day one reg I consider bad played me HU. We started to play 3 tables HU on NL400. Basically we battled every day when we saw each other at the tables. I had for the first time like a real HU nemesis. Despite the fact that I knew it's not as profitable as bumming around for fish, I just loved the challenge. It was great fun and it still nowadays continues to be.
Overall I played 133h only cash. The other time I spent playing some MTTs and they made me think a lot about the poker. I still think MTT players are bad postflop players and I saw my opportunity mostly in the initial parts of the MTT where I was playing pretty LAG and I think I very often bust out because I had the feeling like this 1h is my opportunity to build my stack or I will bust pretty soon. It turned out that this way I barreled off my stack too light and I had such a flawed mindset. I was trying to avoid shallow stack situations because I knew this is my leak, but in the end it's a huge part of the game and I should face it. So I spend a lot of time analyzing in ICMizer all kind of different spot, SQ jamms, OR shoves and in the end I wasn't really aware that 20bb stacks in MTT's aren't that small. For me 20bb is like a 2nd barrel in a 3BP
. Anyway, asides from the fact that they often C with wrong blockers, I haven't seen a 3 barrel bluff in a whole month from a reg. It's really kind of rare when you are used to cash games. For what it's worth I like way more the HS MTT's because I have much more room for my postflop skills but since I'm an ICM fish I make later too many mistakes that I decided to put my MTT HS desire aside and learn MTT's on the mid levels. I think I will gain a lot of new skills by learning this format, although I won't be focusing on a certain number of tournaments per month because I don't want to switch to it completely since I just simply love the cash game lifestyle
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There is one thing that made me think this month. Does really made $$ show the true technical skill difference on mid stakes? I mean I was thought by Gordon that we always have to measure our self with money, but how true is that for mid stakes? Like a couple of days ago I was curious about the results of extreme bumhunter because I thought he was weak and I was surprised when I saw that he had a higher WR then some crushers that would destroy him. Like he was extremely focused on the fish, while the crusher was playing anybody in any format. Then I was thinking to myself, man, I also might have had 7bb on NL400 but does it mean that I'm 2x better then some 500z 3,5bb/100 winner? I can tell you clearly not, which kind of brought me to the conclusion that money won isn't always really the parameter to evaluate the quality of your play(technical skill), but rather a trivial factor that always brings along questions like how and where was the money won. But in the end, it's only food for thoughts.
In April things will be interesting since I have a bigger desire to spent more time outside and I think I need to take a theory week.Probably gonna play some MTT's along, but have to redefine some parts of game. Not to forget that it already started in March and this month it will continue,my search for the perfect plot of land for my villa. I love going around in search for it, especially since it's spring and the fact that it's mostly packed with great gastronomic adventures
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Anyway, that was it for today. I'm gonna leave you below the facts and pics and wish you GL at the tables. Cya!
TOTAL CHALLENGE: 337 019.83$(LAST UPDATE) + 15 667.86$(WINNINGS 24 DAYS) + 4 004.18$(RakeBack) = 356 691.87$/ 500 000$
MTT's played: 33
ITM: 5
FT:
Overall Invested: 2 228.5$
Overall Earned: 1 234.24$
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Profit Month: -975.33$
Overall Profit: -975.33$