My SNG Career

So I figured id attempt to restart my blog... Hopefully it last longer then a week.

Lots has happened since way back when i use to blog so to update everyone I now play 100nl FR as my main game and am currently getting coaching from threads13. I currently play poker as my sole income and play around 6-8hrs a day. Ive recently noticed poker really sucks ass some times when you play this many hrs a day. If you run bad for a week that's 40+ hours of run bad which starts to wear on your mind. A way that helps me to deal with it is realizing how bad most players really are even some of the regs. Its nice to know people are either to dumb or to lazy to work hard enough to get good at poker so in the long run there is good money to be made if you work for it.

So I fired up a session after getting home from the gym tonight. (yeah I went to the gym on halloween weekend) After first 500 hands I was down 3 buyns! I was running bad and playing worse. Idk if it was the caffeine from the N.O.xplode or what but I was just button clicking not thinking about things. After attempting to refocus 2 or 3 times and failing I instantly sat out on all tables and left the games. I went layd down and meditated (idk if its actually meditation I just relax my body and think about shit). I thought about everything from why im playing poker to how to beat the games im playing to how bad I want to be sucessful at this to all the shit ive learned ect ect ect. After about 15 mins I got back up table selected 8 games instead of 12 so I could really concentrate on playing good. I played 1500 more hands and ended up 1 buyn. This was a huge victory!!! I couldnt beleive how HUGE a difference playing my A game made compared to my B game. This was a huge morale booster as well. Hands down my favorite poker moment of my life so far and ive been playing off and on for 5 years now.

"Rise and Rise again, until Lambs become Lions."- Robin Hood

So Ive been playing cgs this week nstead of sngs and I have to say I find them alot better. Your edge is bigger so in turn variance is lower and you can change your style of play not just play a set standard sng style. I started playing 6max 25NL 4-6tables but decided to 12 table 9max to reach goldstar by the end of the month. Come to find out im alot better at FR. I enjoy 6max cause it can be played alot more aggro but I tend to think there is alot better players in these games at 25NL. Id sit down play 50 hands and realize it was 4regs and a semi decent player. Then id sit down at 9max with 4 fish and 2 regs and 2 semis. Ill take the later. Ive began doing things I use to never do and its really opened my eyes to poker.

1. Play only when your playing your A game.

2. Table select. If the players to your left are 3 bet happy/ good regs and theres no fish to your right leave!

3. Find the fish, mark them and figure out how to take there money! (usually not to hard)

4. Starting to notice how much you can open up in HJ/CO/BTN if players to your left are tight. (keep my redline from diving.)

5. 3bet bluff regs who open in CO/BTN and fold to 3bets. (found a perfect canidate for this tonight.)

6. Embrace Variance. (Winning AA vs KK all in pre is +Variance for you. You won more then you should)

Ive always known these things from watching videos but never really did them. I was to worried about figuring out what was the best line to take in this spot ect ect when these things will help your winrate just as much.

Im thinking my biggest leaks right now is Cbetting and planning out my hands better (will be better at this once I cut down tables after reaching goldstar). Will be working on those alot in my next sessions. Ill probably make my next month goals here pretty soon. Going to make this months goals more play orriented then $ orriented.

So Ive decided to switch from SNGs to CG. 6max 25NL. So far ive really enjoyed the game and how much bigger your edge is over fish. Although Im still running like shit and shaking off the rust for CGs. 2600 hands down 4 buyins. Mostly to coolers and one sick river spot where i value townd a fish on flop and turn to get riverd by a set. Oh well though. Im 64 buyins deep ATM so should be fine. I think after i finish my deposit bonus ill switch networks for softer games. (i wont be able to make SN by end of year on stars so no point playing there really.) Im pretty excited to get back into cash. Ive been really working on the process of playing hands and knowing why im making every single move and what my move will be on next street ect ect. Helps make me feel like even if im losing im improving and making plays for reasons. Ill post my bigger hands in thread to talk about.

621 points away from gold star so will have to put in like 6k hands or so before end of month. 3 days! EEEK! If i have to ill play FR like 12 table the last day and NIT out to get it.

 

So the streak continues... 83 games played -2$ profit 91$ev. Getting pretty sick of playing right now but I force myself to. Ill prlly do more studying this week then playing to counter the run bad. I just want to get to goldstar and say fuck this month. 400 games away from goldstar prlly get that in the next 7 days then just not play the last 4 days.

So first things first fallout new vegas is amazing. If your into RPGs buy it. They added all the stuff I wish fallout 3 had. 10/10 imo. Hopefully it doesnt take to much away from my poker playing/ learning.

Now to the poker part. Played 83 games today for a 55.50$ profit. EV 111.34$. So my red line is still shooting up but my green doesnt quite want to hang out with it yet. At least I made money for the first time in five days though so im happy. My month profits pretty much went to shit at 254.66$ over 621 games. Crushing 6.4%roi! NOT! My goals now are just to get to gold star and continue to get better. Would really like to get better at multitableing. I 12 table now but 16 would be very nice to get more games/hour. I got a feeling a heater is coming soon! Or at least thats what I tell myself when I get ready to sess haha.

I played 44 games today a little on the low end but I couldnt take any more mentally. I ended up -10.60$ profit. EV +43$. So a 53 dollar diff over 44 games. Pretty brutal but its standard for the week. I feel like im playing well and have been happy with my reviews. I think I need a day off sooooo thank GOD the new fallout comes out tommorow! Ill be buying that ASAP and playing that all day and going to the gym so hopefully I wont even look at my fucking computer! Ill post my review of the game here for anyone that cares.

538 games this month up 200$ without bonuses. (thank god for bonuses). Ill need to put in a couple 100 game days here soon but im kinda waiting for my run bad to end.

Watched the youtube video on the last speech that was in the inspirational quotes thread. Very good recommend you watch it if you havnt already. In the video he says brick walls are there to stop the people that arent tough enough and willing to fight threw them. Also reminds me of the quote "how bad do you want it". So I just see this last week as a brick wall I have to fight threw to come out better on the other end.

So I decided to start a blog after reading everyone elses for so long. Ill start with I play SNGs at Stars at the 6.5$ and around level. I started at the 3$ games and hopefully can soon move up to the 16$ games. Pretty intimidated about moving up to 16s though cause I see alot of very good regs at that level some of which coach on other sites.

My poker goals for the month were to play 1k games, Which I think ill easily achieve. To have a 3k roll at the end of month, which is going to be tough about 1200$ short right now. Also to make goldstar status, Which should be very easy as well.

I was doing very well to start the month. After around 300 games I was over 1$ a game but then all hell broke loose in the last 5 days. 30 buyin downswing over 200 games. Its been extremly brutal and mentally challenging. I can tell at the end of sessions where ive been 2 or 3 outted repeatedly and ran into the top of everybodys range every hand that im not playing my A game. I wouldnt say im playing bad but its more like my B game B+ at best. So now im making .50$ a game after 500 on the month. But oh well thats part of the game. Im very determined to keep working hard watching videos and reviewing (espicially more in wiz). Hopefully by the end of this month or maybe next ill be able to move up to the 16$ where you can make some good money. (or at least good money in my life).

As far as life things go the huskers lost to texas saturday. Well actually they lost to themselves which imo is even worse. If your opponent kicks your ass thats one thing but when you kick your own ass thats 100 times worse. 4 dropped TD passes 2 of which were SNAP catches and they end up losing by 1 TD. I was tilted harder then ive ever been playing poker haha.