The Monkey House

typed up half of this before the weekend and the rest just now

I probably should have set my targets for the month when it started but better late then never I suppose. I switched to only sit’n’gos (SNGs) at the end of last year after destroying my bankroll and my soul playing mostly limit hold’em. Last month I aimed for 500 SNGs (3.40s), not a huge feat but when you work from 6 to 5 there arent enough hours in the day to get things done. I thought 10 tabling I could reach my goal, but I underestimated just how lazy I can be after a long days work. I started off strong but lost momentum when I realised I would rather be spending my weekends in bed, catching up on the sleep I never seem to get. I ended up playing 302 games total.

Now, for Febuary I could lower the bar but I still think 500 is a pretty small number so I am taking another shot at it. Four days in and I’m up to 90 after not playing at all on the first day of the month. If I keep up this pace 500 shouldn’t be a problem. What is a problem is my ROI. After switching from 8 tables to 10 I have been doing substantially worse. I feel like I’m playing the same. Maybe I’m running bad or I was just running really good when I was playing 8 tables. I think I will try ride it out, hit the 500 mark playing 10 tables then reassess the situation.

The weekend is behind me and boy did I get alot of poker in, on the Saturday I slept in til 2 and played a total of 0 sit n gos before going out and getting completely faceless. Did I make up for Saturday by getting a bunch of hours in on Sunday? well no not even kinda, I played 13 sit n gos at once(I remember saying I wasn’t going to do this) and went to bed. For the month I am down $3 after 100 games, I guess I should read a book or something so my money goes up instead of down.

Here it is – long awaited and highly acclaimed – a blog from some nobody on the bottom of the world and his journey to become a better poker player. Hopefully, those who read this will get something out of it, maybe just a laugh at how I butcher a hand that I post or how my degeneracy results in me moving up stakes, losing a good chunk of my bankroll in 1 hand, all in an idiotic attempt to get even and leaving myself barely able to breathe.

I set a lot of goals, some poker related and some in life. More often then not my laziness gets the better of me. Even if the only person who reads this is my girlfriend (thinly veiled brag), at least I will feel accountable to someone besides myself. Perhaps this extra little bit of motivation will help me put in the hands, hours and SNGs that I aim for.

I have been playing poker for a couple of years and if someone were to ask me if I was a winning player I would say yes, but the more I think about it I don’t know. Yes, I have money in my accounts, but I lost track of reloads a long time ago. This blog will mostly be my goals for the month, hands that I find interesting and my results; win or lose, although I know what my preference is. Even if I do get crushed and lose it all, at the very least my typing will improve.