Saturday 31 May 2008

12 months at 50 nl

Yep thats how long ive been playing 50nl now

Im going to take the weekend off and try to make some sense of what ive learnt
over the last year !!

Whilst i appreciate that i could probably do this at any time , it does seem like a suitable time to do this

I will try and evaluate my strengths and weakneses and work out a strategy
for the coming year

One thing i am sure is that i lack discipline in my poker life and this is one area that is a leak for sure and one area i really need to work on

Later all

May - And 12 months at 50nl Cash Games

Still a long long way to go !!!

Ok I have finished for May , I am on a downswing so although my results seem good i feel like shit !! Honestly !! Feel like losing when i am winning !!

Here is the evidence !!





Thursday 8 May 2008

May Goals - Of Sorts

This month i want to try and consolidate from my April performance
One thing that stands out in May already is that i focus better when playing only 2 tables .

I find it easier to pick out the weaker players ( although my hud stats indicate this anyway , its good that i can pick them out from ther play too )

I also find it easier to pick spots to isolate them and am prepared to make riskier decisions against them.

It obviously also gives me more time to put players on ranges too

So that sort of the first goal

The next goal is to try and get more sweats conversations in with players
This is one of my weak spots but i had a short conversation recently and it gave me a couple of hints / ideas

One was , whilst reviewing top winning , losing , tricky hands , to try and put yourself in your opponents position , so play his hand as opposed to yours , this was a new idea for me so i was quite pleased

Another little pointer was about limpers who limp after a raise and a limp
ie i raise 4x say the sb calls and the bb calls , obviously if the bb has a premium hand then he should be squeezing , so if he doesnt squeeze maybe we can give him a more defined range ( maybe )

So thats the second goal

Later

Monday 5 May 2008

April In Words - of sorts !!

Well after the results the previous month i was alittle worried about April
and as has been pretty much been standard i started off with a losing run

I could not really put my finger on anything in particular although i know for sure that early in April my small blind completion was horrific easily beating my button play

I continued to study my excel spreadsheet desperately trying to find the leaks and then thought the only answer was a session with my coach. After a few days of trying to arrange a lesson he sent me an email suggesting that i was a little anal about my spreadsheet ( my words not his ) and that it may be distracting me form the real task which was playing poker and focusing on the hands more .

After a few minutes deliberation , i had to come to the conclusion that he was right
It pretty much coincided with my upswing and therefore felt his theory had strength
around this time i also reduced the number of tables to 2 or 3 and tried to focus on playing against the weaker players more if possible .The combined results seemed good
and i went on a 10 buyin run which for me is quite good ( unheard of actually !! )

Then a small downswing when i got it all in deepsatcked with the Ace high flush only to run into a royal !! . The remaining 3k hands i think was spent watching people fold as i was dealt AA after AA and KK after KK many any times , i am surprised i didnt tilt on lots of ocasions but just concentrated on the hands . I did in fact quit on a few occasions when i had been dealt AA twice And KK twice and people just kept folding . I couldnt bear it . I finally managed to grind it out to $500 dollars and stopped as i was feeling pleased