Back on the Grind

I'm back on the grind. I plan to play 1 hour per session. I'm using an online alarm clock and setting it at 1 hour. When it beeps, I play until the BB and start sitting out. It will be a great way for me to not tilt and lose 10 bi per session.

I plan to 16 table $50 nlhe FR. I need to refocus and start playing my A game at all times. So far I've played 4 sessions and it has been fun. I haven't said that about poker in a long time. It's actually fun to play poker again. I had to look deep down and figure out why I'm playing this game. I def want this to be a big part of my income so I have to take this game more seriously.

I plan to play 100k hands of $50 nlhe FR and then reevaluate wether to move up to $100 nlhe FR. This will be a test of tilt and discipline. If I can't stick to that plan, I guess I just suck at that part of my game.

Self Ban until Nov 1st

I tilted like a monkey on Oct first after dropping about 13 buyins to the sickest coolers/beats that I could remember. I'm not proud of it and lost close to 2k playing high stakes limit hold em. It's so embarrassing writing about it. I'm just going to think long term and regroup on Nov 1st. I still got close to a 5k roll and I'm going to drop down in November.

I just looked at my long term results and it makes me feel better. I know I'm a small winner overall since I started playing online poker in summer 2005. I'm up a little over 10k (over 400k hands with bonuses/rakeback) but it's nothing to brag about.

I really do think tilt is the biggest edge in this game. I know it too, I love playing against people who are on tilt. Strange thing is, I go on tilt too.

When I come back, I'll probably just play 100 k hands of $50 nlhe FR and get my confidence back and just go from there. I really do think I'll be stuck grinding out low stakes forever until I get my tilt under control.

As for life, I've been working out alot at the local YMCA. Fifteen minutes of cardio and then stretching. Playing pick up basketball and the touch football league. We're getting killed in the football league but it's still fun to compete. I feel alot better physically and mentally. Hopefully, it'll transfer over to my poker game.

August results and thoughts

I played a little over 12k hands. 6 k hands of $50 nlhe FR. 6k hands of $50 and $100 nlhe HU. I worked on my red line and won more pots that I would usually give up on. My W$WF was around 45%. It is usually around high 30 or low 40. My FR game is solid right now and I will probably play alot of that this month.

As for HU, this game has some sick variance. I played a guy at $50 and won about 6 bi off of him. A few days later, I played another guy at $100 nlhe for over 6 hours str8. It was a pretty epic match. I was down close 9 bi vs him at one point.

I knew I was running terrible and he was running me over. I bolted down and starting to really focus on what he was trying to do. I readjusted my turn and river play. I made an epic comeback over 1k hands to be up 1 bi. This match really tested my tilt control. I realized I'm not ready for $100 nlhe HU unless they are completely terrible. This villain actually played pretty good and I would def avoid him in the future.

This month, I plan to only play $50 nlhe HU/FR. If I decide to play higher, it will be $100 nlhe FR. I really enjoy HU because I can really get a read on their style. It's especially satisfying when you can soul read them and follow through with the plan. I guess the only thing I hate about HU is the variance. I need to build my tolerance to that because I am def prone to tilting when I'm done 5 plus bi.

First 6k hands is $50 nlhe FR and last 6k hands or so is $50 and $100 nlhe HU.





As for life, my co workers and I formed a touch football team. There will be 6 games over 6 weeks. This will def motivate me to get in better shape. I got a YMCA membership and if I go workout atleast 12 times a month, my insurance will reimburse me for $20. I def think feeling good physically about yourself will def improve my poker game. I am def putting my physical/mental health first now. I love poker but my physical/mental health needs to be a priority right now because I got more control over that.

Also, I read that Alex (DWarrior) is going to be going to school at the U of M Twin Cities. I went there and got my BA in Psy back in Fall 2005. Alex emailed me his cell and I'm looking forward to showing him around here. I'm not sure how much poker Alex plans to play while in school. Hopefully, we can motivate each other to play better poker.

56k plus hands in July & Massive Tilt

I played 56k plus hands in July and won about $300 plus $600 in rake back/$325 bonuses. I tried to stick to my plan of playing $50 nlhe FR during the week and playing 6 tables of $100 nlhe FR during the weekend. I ended up eventually just playing 16 tables of $100 for the rest of the month. I ended up tilting after dropping 9 buyins. I quitted and then came back to the tables to get my $ back. I ended up playing my A game at 1/2 nlhe HU and winning about 3 buyins. It's pretty stupid of me because the variance is pretty sick at hu. I ended up getting good spots and getting my money in good.

My br stands at around 5950 and I'm going to be getting over $600 in rakeback. I'm pretty disgusted with myself even though I won 3 buyins at 1/2 nlhe hu. I'm going to be playing 16 tables of $50 nlhe FR and get my confidence back.

My redline sucks and I'm going to be working at it this month. My showdown pots go straight up and my redline goes straight down. I'm going to try to pick up pots where no one has a hand. I'm hoping that will lower my variance.

Here's my sick graph for July.

June Results and Last 100k Hands

After taking a 2 month break, I started this month playing 16 tables of $50 nlhe FR. I played about 28k hands then moved up to $100 nlhe FR. I played about 5k hands there and posted a solid month.

Here's my June Graph.




Here's my last 100k hand Graph. It's pretty sick.




My last 200k hands or so, I'm up around $200 bucks. Luckily for rake back/bonuses, I'm probably up around $3,000. I keep telling myself I should play less tables and focus more but I just don't have the discipline to do it right now.

I hope to make a change this month because my results are terrible. I plan to play 6 tables of $100 nlhe FR on the weekends and 16 table $50 nlhe FR during the week. I can honestly say I probably go on auto pilot too much and tilt. So it looks like the results are indicative of my play.

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