Quick Jan Review

I'm falling behind on my video watching. While I managed to hold true to this for the end of December, I bought a brand new laptop in Jan and didn't transfer my DL'd vid's over to this hard drive. The network at work is atrociously slow (I'm in the middle of the arctic). It's a bunch of excuses, but it's the truth. I'll just have to up the ante and watch 2 videos per day when I go on days off early mid Feb.

I haven't done a HH review yet. I'm failing in my studies, and that's bad. Studying and improving is actually the most important goal on this list. I must do better.

I have been posting a bit on the forums but it isn't as much as I would like. I will admit I'm slightly put off by the inrush of new posters we seemed to receieve after the holidays, so I've noticed myself doing more reading and less posting. Also don't feel like I've had a good discussion about a hand or situation lately, but I'll put that largely on myself.

As for my playing…

I played 5 MTT's and 5 Turbo MTT's. Work is just killing my ability to put in the time I need to finish them, so I don't even consider reg'ing.

Since I can't play MTT's, I have been playing 30$ Hyper's. I'm not sure where this idea came from, but so far I'm not doing too horrible. I can only play a few a night, a few nights a week so I played 50 this month. I ended up making $37.14 in profit. It's a strange feeling to me to be happy about this, but I am. I suppose that's a good thing. I need to sit down and do some review and studying on this format… I'm quite sure I'm capable of beating it for more than 2BI/100. If not, winning is still cool.

Overall, I'm down $228.96 on the month. Not really a huge issue considering the ABI of the 10 MTT's I did play was $48.15. 

I did get a chance to play some Live cash game while I was at home. We got a 5/5 NLHE game going, and I cashed out an $800 profit. I also played a Bounty tournament, which is a satellite to our big monthly $325 buy in. Won my seat and a few dollars as well. Played a 100$ tournament and got 3rd for 800$. Was a great month in that respect. I also kept to my word of not playing 1-2NL in my home casino, which is probalby the 2nd most important goal for the year.

I think that sums up Jan. Need to do more review. Need to keep having fun. Need to find the hours to work half as hard on my poker game as I do my actual career.

Cheers

March Update

February was an interesting month for me…. I only got to play online for about half the month, as I spent 6 days in Vegas when I went off rotation at work. The other 8 days off, I managed to play 1 Sunday. So this update is pretty light….

I'm way behind in Vid watching. This is without a doubt my biggest downfall at this point, still. I just don't have the bandwidth available at work to download very many episodes, and when I was at home my days were way to hectic to co-ordinate pre loading my laptop with a bunch. I am going to watch the review of my Sun Mill run that Merfinis did. Been waiting a while for that one!

Trying to stay active on forums. I've set aside 20 minutes a day to read/post. 

For my play:

Online I kept putting in sessions of 30$ Hypers. I had a stellar month, starting off with a monster Feb 1 session. I played 4 SnG's on Feb 1, and crushed all 4 for a 10 BI profit. The next 10 days continued good, and I only posted two losing days and 1 break even day. Overall, I played 84 SnG's with a profit of $515.82, for an ROI of 20%. There was definitely some run good in bad spots, but a lot of it was just running well in the good spots.

I played 2 MTT's all month. They were on my one sunday, I played the Sun Mill and the Sunday 500. I got sucked out on bad in the Mill and built a stack in the 500, but it fell apart when some dude went running two pair vs my TPTK. Didn't see that one coming. Didn't cash either, so I do show a loss of $229.18 on the month. Not a concern at all. I can't expect to show a profit when the only two MTT's I play are the top of my buy in range.

I went to Vegas to play in the Venetian Deep Stack events. I would have loved to stay for the Main, but could only play a $400 and an $1100. The play in the $400 is just brutal. I seen play there that reminds me of poker in 2005. Whoever said all the fish are dead is wrong. I fired two bullets(making me a fish I think), and busted way out of the money. 

In the $1100, I had to fire 3 bullets. Oops. First one was kind of a funky spot where I should have folded AA on the flop after the BB 4 bet shoves. Just didn't think he could crack AA twice in two orbits. Turns out he could. Second bullet went much better until the guy two to my left went into God Mode. Bye Bye chips. Bullet 3 was the next day, and went much better right from the start. I built up a good stack, and then got moved to a table of death. Beat a fish there for his stack on a questionable hand. Donated most of those chips in a hand I posted on the forums. Survived to Day 2 where I doubled and folded my way to 21st place for a 3275$ cash. Fire 3 bullets, come out down 25$. I'll take it. Note: The field in this tournament was sick for an 1100$ event. Lots of online pros and even a few big name live pros were in the field. It was ultimately won by Christina Lindley. At one point I had her, Jimmy Fricke and Eric Lindgren on my table(not the table of death).

I played some 1/3 PLO and 5/10 HE while state side. Did ok overall. Happy with all my live play for the month.

Away from the tables, I moved out of my condo, as my house will be built within the next few months. It was hectic and murdered my schedule on my days off. I go home again at the end of this month, and won't likely have much down time then either. Hopefully I can put in a few days online though 🙂