Langerz Grinds

I’ve decided (at least for now) that I really don’t have that much exciting to say in a blog so I’ll likely just update this on a monthly basis as kind of a month in review. Mostly I’ll review them in regards to the goals I set out at the beginning of the year.

If I had to sum up February in one word I’d use variance. I’ve been running really good since my move to FTP so I was probably due for a roller coaster of a month. The cool thing was I still had a positive month which I think is a good indication of having better focus at the tables. I know we always feel like we get bad beat constantly, but this month seemed like it had more than normal and I still managed to turn a profit. I’m not a believer in looking at the All-In equity graph, but I don’t know another way to see if my gut feel is correct here. In Jan I ended up within $1 of my All-In equity. In Feb I was 10 buyins below it.

I managed to still be up about 5 buyins over 21,000 hands and ran at 2.33 bb/100 at 25NL. I’d obviously like that number to be higher, but I’m pretty confident it will be in the future. In other good news other than a bad stretch in the middle (I was sick for a while and probably shouldn’t have been playing but certainly didn’t have my A game) my red line was basically flat.

In regards to goals:

Session Reviews – I didn’t do a great job here and need to review this plan. I’ve got a few people in India that work for me now on a couple projects which has led to some early morning meetings. It’s hard to do a review when you are getting up early.

Podcasts/Theory Videos during commute – I relistened to Tommy Angelo’s 8 Fold Path to Poker Enlightenment. If you haven’t checked out this series you should. Even if you are like me and don’t really buy fully into the “mystical” world there is great stuff to take away from this series. I just started listening to the DC podcasts with Improva and they are of course great. Probably have to listen to each a few times to really sink in.

Forum Activity – I made about 100 posts this month. I had a stretch where I wasn’t very active, but also been spending some time on Skype with the micro baller group. Both activities are great for keeping your mind thinking about the game.

Exercise – This has been pretty crappy this month, but mostly due to being sick for a good portion of it.

Watch Videos – This was so-so. During the time I was sick I was bad, but recently started rewatching The Coaching Tree. I really like Baluga’s thoughts on beating the micros and have been really trying to increasing the spots where I am going for value. (Biggest contributor to my red line flattening out IMO – thin value is thin so there ends up being quite a few folds).

See you on the forums and on the tables (hopefully more so on the forums than the tables or we aren’t table selecting that well).