April 04, 2010
BLAH!!!
This morning I got up at about 9:30. It was nice to sleep in. Went over to the parents house and colored Easter eggs till about 2 o clock. I took Courtney to work and I went to the gym. I started playing poker at about 5pm.
I didn’t do so well at all. I lost about 13 buy-ins. Horrible!!!!!!!! I’m not confident in my game AT ALL anymore. It’s just plain sickening. These players are so awful at this level. I’m basically getting blinded out because there is someone in the pot before me every hand. I seriously need to study a lot. It seems like I have no time. If I want to be able to get volume in, I have no more spare time. I guess it would be nice to make money tho. So probably Monday is going to be full of studying poker. I need to just go through a set of tournaments to see what in the hell is going wrong. It might be time to get coaching. I think I am straying off the road to success.
Here’s the kicker. This week I’ve played 360 games at the $6.50s and I have an roi of [b]-11%!!!![/b] Besides running horrible as hell, I am like at square one right now. It’s like I just started poker. I feel so clueless. How is it possible that I have forgotten every single thing that I’ve learned over the last year?
Although I hate hate hate studying for any kind of length of time, that looks like what next week will consist of mostly. I get so bored, I fall asleep and I get distracted super easily. Another thing I may have to do is just buy Holdem Manager. People have been raving about how good it is for studying and what not. I’ve had PT3 for a couple years and I’m super used to it, but I guess it’s just not doing the job. Also, there are several stats that it doesn’t have for the HUD that HEM has.
I also feel like I need another coaching session. I can’t afford it at all right now, but I am so lost in the world at poker. I might need help from the ground up.
I’ll have a day off from poker tomorrow because of Easter. Courtney and I will be with family all day. Maybe I’ll get outta this funk.
RIGGED!
5 Comments:
JtX posted on April 04, 2010 at 10:21 AM
Remember that poker is about luck in the short run, but about skill in the long run. 360 tournaments is quite short time and a winner can have -11% ROI during such stretches.
Often it's not about the tools. HEM is better for improving your game, but you can manage with PT3 (and it's better in some regards).
RIGGED! posted on April 04, 2010 at 15:24 PM
Thanks JtX
caperbii posted on April 04, 2010 at 15:53 PM
9:30 = sleeping in? I got up early today = 11:00am hahaha.
Good luck man!
corkeye posted on April 05, 2010 at 01:35 AM
hey rigged, just to let you know I have had 1 session of coaching in my life so far, (vandweller), and in the short space of time I spent talking to him, watching the vid he made for me etc, I learned a bunch and my results improved on stars and in my live game too.
So if you can afford at least 1 session, I'd definitely recommend it. You'll turn it round. I've played ya before and I know you can play! GL. :)
RIGGED! posted on April 05, 2010 at 19:58 PM
caperebii - I get up almost every day at 8am to take my fiance to school lol. I know, not exactly the ideal poker sleep schedule.
corkye - I actually had a coaching session with bones a few months ago. I felt that it helped a lot at the time. Now I feel that I have forgot most of the stuff I learned. I think I'm one more losing day away from another coaching session.
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