Long time since the last post. I have taken a pause from poker in summer /like I usually do/ to spend some time with my friends, to get out of my small room and talk a little bit with other creatures (defined as people), play football, smoke a few joints and put the poker out of my mind for some time. I have been thinking about myself, my future in poker and my goals.
Long story short, I came to a conclussion that the best way for my mindset will be switching from battling top regs at zoom500 (props to you guys, you deserve all the glory) to playing high stakes mtts. I dislike playing mid-stakes + bumhunting high-stakes and making money and not being able to be one of the best at cg. These guys are so ahead of me that it would, in my opinion, not be the highest EV decision for me. But I think I have a chance to be one of the best in mtt's. It will be easier to outwork these lazy guys compared to high stakes regulars
So at the moment I am playing some 20-30 avg bi mtt's to learn dynamics and the game flow and in a few months if I do not get some sort of sick downswing (we are on a one, but EV 7bb/100 is making me feel ok) I would like to play avgbi 50+. I think that my analytical understanding of the game will help me to learn very fast this mtt format and I will crush it. To be honest, I am very very confident. But on the other hand I am learning everything myself. I have been working with some MTT players but usually I just end up being on tilt. I think that if I learn the basics I will crush these Avgbi's and I will slowly but surely move up the stakes.
And by the way. All these MTT regs are LAZY! They do not analyze (enough). They do not work hard (enough). And there is me. Mastermind willing to outwork and outwork everybody! There is only one way this is going to end. It is me. Playing higher stakes. In a few months.
I would like to keep this blog up on semi-daily basis. My goal is to play only 5/7 days and the rest I will be analyzing a **** ton of. When I will feel confident in my skills I will play 6/7 days and the day-off I will chill and analyze some final tables from PS majors.
Goal for the upcoming rest day, which is monday is:
- analyzing all ICM spots on our final tables and try to understand what it ICM about (+adjusting to tendencies of the players)
- analyzing high stakes WCOOP ft's (10k and 100k hr)
- analyzing limping ranges BvB for 30- bbs
I have reached out to Pleno if he is still selling his hand histories from a few MTT's according to his blog few months ago but I did not get an answer from him. So, if you are reading this, and you have bought some, please, leave here a reply. It would mean a lot for me since I am studying only by myself. I am totally ok with paying 50% to you and 50% to Pleno for them (if it is not enough, we can talk it through on skype).
Since the summer is almost over I have been looking for some grind house. There was a small chance I would go to Budapest and a higher to Prague. Long story short, none of them have worked out and at the moment I am living with my parents. All inclusive, closed all day in my room, no distractions, 100% FOCUS ON POKER. It is not bad as it seems, right?
It looks like I will not be able to find any Grind House in near future so at least I will spent some time with my family. Get to know them better. Enjoy their company while they are still here
Yesterday we had a nice FT @55$ 15k Breeze @888poker we got to FT 1/9 but we got super unlucky with cards, we did not get into any spots to steal or to 3bet. We won 1 pot in more than an hour and in the end lost BvB flip KQs < AJo and we got sixth. We are quite down, but in about a month I have learnt so much about MTT's, tendencies, ranges in different spots that I feel super confident in my ability to crush these stakes and move up. I just think I have to get better in ICM situations to be able to play 50+ avg BIs, but we will work on it and In 2017 I expect nothing but me crushing everybody.
My session starts in about an hour so I am going to make some simple analysis to wake up my mind and get ready to crush. Hopefully we will make some nice FT's today and convert it into some nice hit
GL