actually, lets not say that, because i cant promise that and i dont want to lie.
Ill post as much as i can, and if i feel like posting alot i will. Hopefully, this will mean that i will post religiously.
So, where have i been the past couple months?
I finished my second year at school, Im a junior now! and in just about 3 months i will be living in london. I got a job for the summer to try to make some money. unfortunately being a rake even poker player will not pay for the luxurious life of a college student trying to go abroad.
As far as pokers going?
I guess right as i stopped posting i started going on a downswing again. Somewhere in there i started playing 10nl and that went well, until it didnt and i went on a multiple thousand hand downsing. i managed to not nuke my bankroll but it never really got much higher either.
what im getting at is that while one of the points of this blog was to document my play and create a sort of accountability for my play it didnt really do a good job of that. I guess i didnt really want to write about me losing. Thats no fun to write about, or think about. Its much more fun to just bitch at whomever is on AIM.
Well back to now, my friend toots just created a blog in which he writes a novel about how he lost a chunk of his roll one night so i saw that it can be done. And deep down ive always known that i should be thinking and writing about my losing so its time to man up and do it. Im going to make a full hearted attempt to write in here, be it about poker or not, as much as i can. promise.
Ok crib notes on my poker for the past couple weeks.
got back into cash for a little while and started losing. Played some tournies and kept losing. Lost at everything in sight. Then my buddies Jeff and Toots, aka the fucking men, decided to play some sngs with me and stake me for half my profit. Well, i went on a heater and cashed like 7 straight 12 dollar turbo sngs makeing us all a tidy sum. I proceeded to destroy 5nl Deep tables and then 10nl deep tables making ~70bucks in a couple days. I catapaulted my roll from a depressing low of 30 all the way back up to 200. For the past few days ive been playing 10nl deep which i have found that i enjoy much more than regular 10nl for various reasons i may or may not delve into later but ive been grinding. The rolls been pretty stagnant and i was getting kind of bored.
Today while talking to my roomate OES we started talking about grinding 6.5 sngs. hes been doing this for a while to pretty high success and i felt like i might give it a try. A couple things excited me here:
1. sngs are exciting. they contain the most exciting, and heartbreaking, part of poker -the bubble. and you have to confront this period more times than anywhere else.
2. this one is kind of nerdy but i really liked the idea of being able to carefully track my progress. I developed a chart on excel which allows me to keep track of exactly how i am doing in terms of average finish, profit, expected value, after each session (set of 4 sngs) It is really exciting to me to be able to fill out this chart at the end of every session and see just how well or poorly i am doing. This is the same sort of thing that attracted me to poker copilot at first, nothing is more fun than watching yourself perform better and better all the time. the true test is to still be excited about such charting systems when performing poorly.
Well anyways, this is getting kind of epic so i think i will wrap it up.
Today i played a total of 28 sngs. I cashed a measly 1sng in the first 12 and was stuck close to half my roll but then went on a tear cashing 8/the final 16 to end the day down only 5 bucks. Ive definitely learned some things, and ive become excited about playing again which is a plus. It is definitely -ev to sit down and grind cash if you are not excited about it so i think i will play these sngs for a while, or until i want to kill myself due to bubble frustration.
Good luck at the tables, and ill see you in sooner than 3 months!
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