Time for my first update on how things are going. I haven’t been able to put in much volume over the last three weeks and when I have been playing, I’ve been trying to cram some sessions in which hasn’t led to good poker. I only played 200 tourneys over the last 17 days. I’m probably going to keep going at roughly this rate until SCOOP.
I’ve booked some time off work to play the SCOOP events I want to take part in so I really hope to hit the tables hard for those couple of weeks.
Results
I’ve lost a few hundred this month so I’m down to $900 profit on the year at an ROI of 11% – this is fine but not spectacular. I think if I can tread water and play with small but steady winrates for the majority of the time, at some point I’ll bink a couple of big scores that will propel me to where I want to be.
I’ve started to spread out where I play – I recently joined Party Poker and 888. Pokerstars seem to want to turn every tourney to PKO or 100% PKO so I wanted to test out some other options.
Party Poker doesn’t have a great selection of games for my level – they’re also falling for the PKO trap but the software is pretty decent and they have a decent player pool.
888 poker has a nice range of tourneys. The software is crap but the player pool is really soft. I’ve played about 15 MTTs and final-tabled 3 of them usually with people donating their chips.
Study
I’ve bought ICMizer – I’ve started using it for a few spots but I hope to do some deep analysis in some of my FTs and see where my strengths and weaknesses lie. I’m also considering purchasing Flopzilla but I don’t know if I’d use it too much – it seems like a tool that’s more suited for Cash players.
I’ve been hitting my target of 5 study hours per week – watching some RIO vids and doing analysis of my own play – mainly shove/fold spots so far. However I want to go more in depth with this.
Goals Update
I'm going to amend one of my goals slightly. Because I've started on new websites now, I've just deposited on them with my real life roll so it's tricky to comment on my bankroll as a whole. I've therefore decided that I can go for a target of $2k profit before SCOOP.
Goals from now until SCOOP:
[x] Do 5 hours of quality study per week (e.g. interactively watching videos, breaking down ranges in my hands)
[ ] Do one big overall leakfinder session per month
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Amended - Have $2K profit before SCOOP so I’m properly rolled for $27Bis.
Long term goals:
[ ] Play more big MTTs with soft fields e.g. Sunday Millions, Big 109
[ ] Reach $15k profit by September 2018