Its been a minute.

Haven't been grinding nearly as much as I would like but when I have I feel great. I am truly enjoying poker again. I know that sounds stupid but its true. During my filthy break even stretch I went into this state of depression where I truly disliked poker and was just grinding. I contribute a good amount of my success to my coach for simply opening my eyes up to some spots where I was bleeding money as well as a nice slice of run good.

In other news I am down to like 215 and been kicking ass on my new eating style excpet for Easter obv. And now Dodgy and Drew are coming so I will be slobbing it up for a week. Hopefully I can some kick ass pics for the blog. later yall.

WOOOOOOT!

Ship the BBJ share again! I run goot at table shares. Third share in like 5 months or so. Played decent today besides a few spots. The truth is my biggest leak is just being to eager. Playing solid in line ABC poker will crush from now until I die. Its so true it is unreal. One thing I realized is note taking is so key. If you have over 100 hands on a guy and no notes you arent focused enough.

Anyways I kinda caught my monthly results yesterday but I am back on the no peeky. It was nice to ship the 1k share after I withdrew a chunk of my roll yesterday. Again my roll is sufficient for 100NL. My plan is 100NL till May 13th which is mine and Dodgys bday. Then I will check the roll and hopefully be ready to own some 200NL donks.

One bit of advice I got for all is this, play solid and aggressive. Also they dont play back as much as you think.

BOoOOOOOOOOOO!

So things have been going well and I have been avoiding my results. The cards have been kind and the donkeys have been kind too. The luck of this game is being fortunate enough to have a fish make a 2nd best hand vs you or just flat out do some dumb shit. Of course this can go the opposite way and be brutal too. Anyways I was sailing high until today. Today I played one of those sessions where I played not so well. Basically I got QQ in preflop for a 400BB pot vs AK and JJ and lost and then from there proceeded to basically just stop thinking. My brain was in shut off mode just stewing over the previous pot which i could have scooped. At that point I need to shut down and clear my mind. Instead I continued my grind and made a high variance stack off with TT which I dont like. I have to realize that in todays game my edge is going to be postflop much more then pre. From there I made some more bad calls and came unglued. Only thing to salvage is I am aware of what the cause was and now i simply need to devise a plan of action for next time.

Anyways life is good and I am enjoying the piss out of it at the moment. Now on the Paleo Diet and am down to 215lbs. Super stoked on Dodgy and Andrew coming into my town in 2 weeks. Also stoked on Easter as it will be a ton of fun watching my little man track down his goodies. later yall.

Time to own!

OK OK enough BS its time to buckle down and simply own. I know I said I didn't like goals but its time to start setting them again. I will play no less then 30k hands this month. I intend to book a 5k month as well.

My plan to execute my goal is simple:

~3-4 sessions a day M-F 75-90min 4 tabling
~Intensive note taking during play in order to develop reads on regs
~Emphasize correct decisions over anything else (no results checking)
~1 hour of study 3 times a week minimum


So far this year has been mediocre in comparison to how 08 started. It is my fault and I know it. As long as I continue to be a clown my game will suffer. The cold hard truth is I have mouths to feed and fucking off wont cut it anymore.

Strange observation and some resolve.

Just wanted to quickly hit up the blog for my faithful readers,anyone out there? Anyways things are good in all aspects of life.

1st things 1st I realized that poker had gone substantially better when I am attending college then when I am not. Discussed it a bit with Martin and we both have some ideas as to why its the case. I might be hinting at something.

2ndly I realized that instead of watching my roll closely and feeling a sort of urgency to be back at 200NL I want to just play 100NL through April most likely and then see where I stand in regards to 200NL. The truth is i can live off 100NL and though 200NL will be a nicer living I need to be ready in all regards to moving up before I do.

That is all, goodbye.

Yes sir!

What is yall just wanted to blog real quick and catch everyone up. Poker was wack in Feb and I ended around breakeven after RB and bonus. I have found a new coach and was quite pleased with our 1st lesson and hope to continue with him till I am regularly crushing 1/2 or 2/4. The real thing he hammered home was just thinking. I mean fuck its like at some point along the way I forgot that the reason I love poker is the fact that every hand I play is an opportunity to out think my opponent and force him to make a mistake. Truth is thats where the money/edge comes from right. Another thing I opted to do over the weekend was to downsize my HUD to the old school PFR/VPIP/AF which has forced me to focus more on game flow and do less spewy shit based on 3bet/4bet stats. I have the pop-up if needed. I am still making some fundamental mistakes but in due time I hope to plug them.

Exercise wise things are going well. Been eating right most the time and havent missed a beat as far as gym and cardio go. Was 217lbs this morning. Probably post a pic at the end of the month to compare with the earlier one. Hope everyone is enjoying life I know i am.

Dodgy advice

DODGYKEN advice that is. "If you spew a BI it will take you 1k+ hands to regain it based on your win rate." Moral of the story if you spew you aint going to be going anywhere fast in poker.

I have made a spewy bluff yesterday that was not well thought out and just complete spew. basically I must always be thinking while playing and any distractions will have a negative impact on my win rate long term.

Solution, when playing I will have no other programs open.