I am sorry, yet again forr the lack of updates, mostly because I was going to hang on until I could update my PT database, but I decided waiting so long without an update was unbecoming lol.
I started to play rather a lot of limit Hold ‘em, well rather a lot for me given that I haven’t played it since I first started playing and I have been enjoying it, but I’ve started to feel a little lost, so I’ve focussed more on NL over the last few days until I get back home and have a read up on it.
I did a bit of grinding at 2nl, to get my roll back to $300, as I’ve had to dip into It significantly, and I’ve now started an assault on 5nl. I need to stop even thinking about 5nl, I simply just need to treat it look 2nl, because it is really and just sit down and play. I’ve always seemed to treat it so differen’ty, and throw money around… maybe never straying above 2nl for over a year, as ingrained in my mind that 5nl is high stakes lol.
There was a few bumps in the road earlier today, I ran a couple of bluffs, which seemed okay at the time, but in hindsight where reckless and stupid, villains calls to catch me where at least half as bad though. here’s one of them
I’ve just come off another session though, which was far better then perhaps every over 5nl session I’ve ever had, so thats a good sign. I did start to notice that some of my 3b’s and my flop R/R’s where a bit too excessive though, all where occassions where I wanted to get stacks in, but I may have scared off my foe too soon, so I’ll have to be aware of it for next time.
Long story short I’m enjoying poker at the moment, and I’m actually starting to play a lot more then I would have expected. My eyes are still screwed up though, and so far not much has been found out about the cause, besides the fact that they are likely strained to hell.
Hope you all have a very Happy New Year, and happy grinding 
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December 31st, 2008
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First order of buisness is to wish everyone a happy holiday.
so… I hope you all have a very warm, happy, festive, cheerfull, joy filled holiday xxx
Secondly, its time for a bit of an update, or rather a forecast for the future, has I still haven’t played very much recently.
Due to being particularilly poor my bankroll has had to be dipped into a bit, and coupled with a few losess the last time I played its probably 30% shorter then it was only a move or two ago. I have however, started to resume some play in as of yesterday so hopefully I’ll soon start to pick it up again. I’m playing some 5nl at the moment, to get requited and to build up a couple of buy-in’s, before I start playing 2c/5c again, probably sometime in January.
My main frustration is still the math, just basic math, but its causing me frustration. I’m sick of not being able to compute my pot odds more “correctly” and I am especially tired of being almost incapable of reducing and converting percentages into ratios that I can use to adi my descscions.
I am now several chapters into Sklansky’s Theory of Poker and I am finding it a very rewarding read, though as with Theory and Practice, I predict it will take several readings for me to feel I have really absorb even the main concepts it offers.
I’ve never really bothered with new year resolutions, but I would like to achieve my first this year. That is to deepen my understanding of the calculations of pot odds. Sure I understand pot odds, but it frustrates me that I feel lacking in computing them reliably and efficiently. It would be nice if I could have this bolted down by the end of January, I’ll need at least until then, as I have a phobia of the very simplest of math, and truth be told I’m a bit of a slow learning and suffer with endless distractions, but achieving this goal will make me very happy indeed.
Not much else to write really at this time, so I’ll leave it here for now.
Happy Holidays xxx
December 22nd, 2008
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Yikes, I’ve just noticed how lazy I’ve been, leaving you without an update for so long, sorry about that. Long story short I haven’t been playing poker, mostly because I’ve been too busy focussing on uni work, but also because I’ve been on a bit of life tilt, and haven’t found myself in the right frame of mind to sit down and play.
Things are starting to return to “normal” though, so hopefully I’ll be back to some semblance of regular play soon. In preparation I’ve started a little bit or reading on math, which is something I am always neglecting, and which I hope will help in some aspects of my game at least.
I hope your all on a heater for Xmas! xxx
December 19th, 2008
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After another two sessions, throughout the night, I am still far from even beating 5nl. It drives me nuts, I want this so bad, that is to progress at poker, yet I suck so much.
My first session was terrible, full of tilti’sh play, a few bluffs and just nonsense, the later sessions really didn’t do anything to please me either. I failed to extract as much value as I could have with my TP hands against certain opponents, I paid off villains when my over pair was no good on the river, and I made a dumb call for a large percentage of my stack, instead of pushing pre without any real reason why not to do so.
A friend keeps suggesting I should play higher stakes, and tries to remind me that I can play, sessions like these remind me why I shouldn’t. Even if I won the lottery, I wouldn’t care to play any higher at the moment, because as much as it eats away at me, I can’t even beat fucking 5nl.
Tonights sessions have been symptomatic of a deeper problem I’ve been suffering with over the last month though. My motives have changed from wanting to make less mistakes and wanting to make the correct play, at least somewhat to wanting to make some money, wanting to hit the flop, wanting to win this showdown, etc… I think this is a mistake, and although it may not effect my play, it is certainly having an effect on me post session, and maybe between games.
Another weakness of mine was clearly evident tonight, I was playing terrible, yet couldn’t quit playing. Sure, I eventually ended my session took a 2 second break and then restarted reasonably well (to begin with), but I should have just accepted that I am not playing at my best and left it at that, but I couldn’t, I just had to play on, to get over my previous mistakes and perhaps more worryingly because I had a sense of wanting to win back what I have lost.
There isn’t much I can think of to get me through this, it all comes down to being disciplined and making the choices I know are right, not just the ones I want. I will however look into re-reading my copy of Zen and the Art of Poker
, as that seemed to “ground” me during / after my first read.
xxx
December 4th, 2008
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