Gis A Job... I can do that !!

"I was a great tilter. I knew all the different kinds. I could do steaming-tilt, simmering tilt, too loose tilt, too agressive tilt, too passive tilt, playing too high tilt, playing too long tilt, playing too tired tilt, annoyed tilt, injustice tilt, frustration tilt, sloppy tilt, revenge tilt, underfunded tilt, shame tilt, distracted tilt, scared tilt, envy tilt, this-is-the-worst-pizza -ive-ever-had tilt, i-just-got-showed-a-bluff-tilt and of course the classics: i-gotta-get-even-tilt and i-only-have-so-much-time-to-lose-this-money-tilt, also known as demolition-tilt."

The Enlightened Tommy Angelo !!

VP$pip PFR Catagorization

Hey Check out Inspirions recent post on player categorization
Looks good

Short Piece

Im going to do research and write a small piece about emotions and how they relate to poker , and how we can sometimes feel like were losing when really were are winning , obvioulsy the reverse can apply and we can be winning when really we are losing

It will hopefully be a lot about state of mind and how we can make efforts to control it and maybe even change it and there maybe a few other ideas in there to

I have been motivated a little by reading a few blogs and realizing how useful they can be , Whiskey Chasers is always informative and fun to read , but its also a record !! A record of things that have happend . I used to keep a diary of all the
good things that happend during the week and then review them at the end of the week . So if my Friday was a bad day it would not mean i had had a bad week as i had all these other good things going on throughout the week that i had forgotten

Anyway this is just jabber so ill leave it for my piece

Later

Just a Couple of things

As i am sure we are all doing , i have been working on my game recently , one area ,
although its difficult to work on , more like waiting for the opportunity , is the sueeze play .

I have introduced this recently into my game and came accross these 2 examples
although on the 2nd hand i didnt actually make the play

www.pokerhand.org/?2060858

www.pokerhand.org/?2060864

The major reason for this is that there was a shorty who had called the raise and
it was my feeling that if i did raise he would just go all in with the remainder of his stack , and i didnt fancy my chances in a coin flip with 3s . Im not sure if that was the right play , but thats what i did .

This brings me on to another point and maybe an example of how my game is improving . I remember reading the Justin Bonomo piece about how people learn and i sort of though...if this situation i.e. the 3s had happened to me earlier in my developement AND the result had been that i had lost my hand...i would have learnt INCORRECTLY that the squeeze doesnt work

Obviously i would have needed a couple more failures to reinforce this. But i just
goes to show how easily we can learn the wrong things and it was just sort of pleasing that i was aware of this at the time .



Obviously checked out Dodgy,s blog as per normal and loved the question . I have never thought to myself "what do i find difficult when playing opponents and then
decided to try it out against my opponents" so thanks very much for the thought
Martin , much obliged

Anyway Good Luck at the tables !!

February Focus Points

My Main Focus Points

W$WSF

BUTTON PLAY
CUTOFF PLAY
NOT COMPLETING SB LIGHT




Do You Know Who i Am MoFo !!

TABLE IMAGE


My Guns !!

3 BETTING
DOUBLE BARRELLING
FLOATING
SQUEEZE PLAY
VALUE BETS

Whoops !!

February has started off ok so far , i had a little bit of luck too !

Man check out my pair of Tens and the squeeze play that didnt work !
What pair of Tens i hear you ask !


http://www.pokerhand.org/?2037850

By the time i had realized it was too late !!

Off to the Opticians !!

Results - Looking Ugly

Well that went well then !!

Obviously not , As usual there are positives

1 i played over 11,000 hands , which for me is quite a lot , so thats good
2.........hang on.........there must be another

MMMM nothing springs too mind

Anyway , to be honest i felt like i was playing ok for most of the time
there was a really bad start , which i sort of recovered from and then went on a 14 buyin downswing ,and the a semi recovery

Part of the downswing was due to 2 session of 8 tabling madness where i was convinced that i could recover as i was playing ok !!! yep... i honestly thought that

My aim in Januaty was to reduce the difference between my PFR and VPIP
as well as continuing on from December , However i think the problem in my game is i am too tight from the Cutoff and the Button .

I think if i had aimed to open up more from these positions more and maybe called a little less that would have solved my problem .Any way thats what i will be working on over the next few weeks.

During the month i became an analytical madman and started analysing everything
possible . Check out my daily Excel figures !!

Also did a couple of sweats with Baz which were cool .

Anyway despite my poor results i think this has been a learning month and like
Rasputin i am learning the hard way ( its good for the soul , you know )
and i am becoming more comfortable with my play . i hope..

On a lighter note my wife is back from Cyprus and i think the news is positive . Her Father,s cancer whilst progressive is treatable and they are starting straight away
They think the results will be noticable immediately and could extend his life by 2 or more years . Which for an 82 year old is i suppose is good

Anyway Good luck at the tables for Feb