The sky is no limit

So firstly let me talk about my planning of last week. All went well but I did miss a couple of hours in the first days. I missed four hours total and therefor I reward CDA with one hour of free coaching.

For the next week I will not make such a strict planning. I want to play more hands by increasing tables and decreasing analysis time. I do want to say that I want to play poker for 75 hours starting now and ending 1Apr. Again for every missed hour I will award 15minutes of free coaching.

My brother is a donk. He really is but is ok he just started playing poker. He is a working man for four days a week but he wants to start playing poker now for two days a week. I gave him some pointers and he now plays 10NL on Everest with mixed results. Next weekend he comes over to my place to play a couple of sessions together and I am looking forward to this.

This is it for now, I gotta run.

So it has been two days since my last post. You need to forgive my English I am tired and I can’t really do any better at the moment. I have done ok the last couple of days. Since last post I played a couple of thousand hands on both 100NL and 200NL, which an avarage and therefor boring result.

Planning for the next 7 days,

Thursday:

On thursday I need I coach for 2.5 hours and besides that I want to play three sessions of which two are 4tabling and 1 is 6tabling. All my sessions will be 1.5-2 hours long. Of these three sessions I will record two with camtasia for myself to analyse.

Friday:

This Friday I will go over, for dinner, to my brother. Therefor I don’t plan on playing any sessions since this will cut my day is half. Instead I will review the two recorded sessions of Thrusday.

Saturday:

Don’t we all just love saturdays for grinding? I know I do. I have got nothing planned untill the evening so I want to play 4 sessions, 2×4tables, 2times 6tables. Again I will record three of those sessions for later analyses.

Sunday:

Don’t we all just love Sundays for grinding? I know I do. A friend of mine might come over to play the sunday majors in which case I won’t play any cashgames this sunday. If my friend doesn’t have time to donk tournaments I will again play 4 sessions, 2×4, 2×6 and will again record 2 of those.

Monday:

After a long weekend finally we have come to the well deserved week days off. Well not really because I still have 8 hours of video for me to watch and think about.

Tuesday:

Meeting my girlfiend in the evening I should still be able to squeeze in 3 sessions of 2×4 1×6, recording 2 of those.

Wednesday:

This is unsure because my girlfriend will wake up next to me I might go do something fun with here, if she isn’t busy with school stuff. I will at least look at the videos that I made on Tuesday and perhaps play a session or 2.

Allthough I played mainly 200NL the last couple of days I will only play 100NL for this schedule. This is because I normally play more than 4/6 tables and in the past I have lost a lot when I did play only 4. I guess I got bored.

The schedule is really repetative but that is not a bad thing I think. As you can see I am going to focus on analysing my own game this week and not so much on playing a lot of hands. This week there is no real room for posting hands or reacting to topics so that has to wait for 7 more days.

Being stoned..???

Normally when I play I am stoned… I started playing stoned about 2 years ago and it really helped me playing my A-/B game for long streches of time. I could just play 4-6hours on 8 tables and still win money never playing really bad. The only problem is I also never play my A+ game and since I really want to focus on getting better and analyse stuff this week I will not play when I am stoned.

Introducing the fictional bankroll. I want to keep everyone updated with my progress in this week and therefor I want to introduce a fictional bankroll of 3Keuro. My real bankroll is not important so I just set it at 3Keuro right now and we go from there. In this updates I will include bonusses and rakeback.

Rewards for readers:

Disclaimer:
I don’t want to have to prove anything afterwards so you will just need to trust me.

For every poker related hour I planned here that I do not execute or am stoned. during this week. I will give away 15minutes of free microstakes coaching. This can only be given in packages of one hour and the 15 minutes will keep adding up. Meaning that if I mess up 3 hours this week no one gets coacht, but I begin the next time that I make a planning with 45minutes penalty allready.

I will reward the one that follows my blog and makes some good comments(and plays microstakes).

Everyone that knows me also knows that I plan for a fresh start multiple times a month, this is caused by me having a hard time sticking to any plan. Lately a lot has changed for the better and this time I really believe I can make a fresh start and don’t have to look back anymore.

I recently moved back to the Netherlands after having lived in Ireland for over a year. Allthough I was not really feeling homesick but did not enjoy myself either. Somehow my days just went by for a year without me doing a lot of productive things. Now that I live in Holland again I feel good, and I really want to work on and with my game every day.

Here are the things that I will try and do from now on, some of which I have been doing for some time now.

1 Exercise almost every day
2 Eat healthy foods and don’t drink much soda
3 Have fun with my girlfriend
4 play poker
5 Work on my poker game
6 Coach microstakes players

1 Exercise almost every day,

I was a very active youg kid until I turned 10, after that I got more lazy as to a point where I am overweight and don’t have a lot of stamina. Offcourse stamina is important for poker, but poker also makes it hard to really work on it. I mean we are all just sitting in a chair all day long clicking on multiple tables. Since a week now I have been exercising almost everyday on my hometrainer and I will continue to do this. Offcourse when the weather outside gets better I will begin running and cycling outside.

2 Eat Healthy foods and don’t drink much soda,

This actually is a tough one for every fatguy, and for me it also gets harder when really trying to focus on poker. Healthy food takes time to prepar and I just want to grind and order a pizza. Well not anymore, I am going to take the time to make healthy dinners and this should really improve my stamina and overall health a lot. I have been doing this for the last 2 weeks and so far so good. About the soda, well I love the taste of a nice cold coke, but hey too bad only Cola Zero and water for me now.

3 Have fun with my girlfriend,

I have lived abroad for just over a year flying back to see here every 2weeks or once a month. I have also not been a great boyfriend because I didn’t really feel like doing fun stuff a lot of the time. I was just not feeling great, being overweight, being tired because of my messed up sleeping schedule and who knows what else caused me to be no fun at all. Well this is changing and I will continue to make this change happening. We have been to the theatre last weekend to see Avatar 3D(nice movie), and I will continue to do fun stuff with her for sure.

4 Play poker,

Hehe finally we are going to talk about poker. Well poker is the way I earn my living so I need to do this also. Like I wrote before I really want to grind since I live here so that is what I will do on most days. I have played 100NL and 200NL mainly last year, but like I mentioned I did not do a lot of productive things in that period. In my fresh poker start I will start out playing 200NL being a bit underrolled. This is not a big concern because I beat the games and I also don’t have any trouble moving down when I need to. Each month I will post some goals and if I don’t reach them I will give away free coaching lessons.

5 Work on my pokergame,

This is pretty amazing, actually this is embarresing. There are so many ways that one can work on his pokergame available to me and I dont utilize any of them. I can watch videos, talk to good players, play a lot, get coaching, analyze my game, and probably some others. I have just been too lazy, I have watch probably not more than 10videos in 2009 never analyzed a session, not responded on to many strat. posts etc. I really need to work on this. Well this has also changed a little bit over the past couple of weeks and I started to watch some videos. This blogging idea actually is from episode 1 of Never Tell Me the Odds.

On point 5 I could use some help from you guys, I need some direction in how to go about improving myself. I will try and post more on the DC strat. forums for sure and any other tips are very welcome.

6 Coach microstakes players,

Coaching really is awesome. It is very nice to meet so many different people and be able to teach them something. I don’t want to talk to much about coaching but I do want to say that I really enjoy it, and also that I am looking to start a group coaching program together with another coach.