2010

2010 Poker Goals

Non Poker- To accomplish the goals I want to in poker, I need to have my mind and body right. I need to get and stay in good physical shape. My goal will to be to run at least 3 miles at least 5 times a week. I need to do yoga and meditate everyday as well. Eating healthy is also a must. I need to stop eating fast and junk food. I’ve noticed that since I stopped working out and eating right, I’ve been tilting and becoming upset with poker a lot more than I had before. Hopefully making these lifestyle changes will help.

Poker- Last year was a successful one, but If I’m going to do this for a decent living, I need to take it a lot more seriously. I need to find the most profitable games and times to play and play them on a regular schedule. I also need to keep my own detailed stats of results. I am going to start the month playing Double or Nothings on Stars and FR cash games on FTP. I will play the 10s on Stars and start at 12 tabling 10NL. I hope to try out some 180 mans and MTTs eventually but to start I’m just going to play these. My bigger goals are to make platinum star every month and also make Supernova by the end of the year on Stars. I don’t really know about FTPs VIP programs so I’ll have to figure that out later. I’d really like to make 40k overall from poker, rakeback and bonuses. I made around 15k this year and I really feel like if I can put in the hours and play my A game and focus, that it can be accomplished.
Schedule
Sun DONs 11am-4pm
Wed Cash noon- 5pm DONs 8-11
Thurs Cash noon- 5pm DONs 8-11
Fri DONs 5pm-1030
Sat DONs 2pm-8pm

I'm back

Been about 3 weeks since I last posted. Since then I have 530 dollars in sng profit and about 480 in mtts. I'm really starting to get the hang of MTTs. Ive won two 180 man tourneys (which im counting as mtts) and I've come really close to final tabling some mtts with thousands of entrants. I just today downloaded table ninja, which has me motivated to start grinding DONs again. The software allows you to set hotkeys for all actions, makes sure you dont sit out, closes all of your finished tournaments and registers and keeps you at whatever your target number of tournies is. The software is amazing and is probably gonna almost double my productivity and makes sngs so much easier.

Finally a decent score

Had my first good MTT score today. Got down to 4 handed in 4 dollar limit 540 person tourney. Had a good chip lead and we chopped for equity so i got 350 when first payed 400. Played really well but had some great hands too, which is what needs to happen to win one of these. Actually I got 2nd cause we left 30 bucks to play for and I wanted to go drink so I sat out soon after we made the deal. Woulda been nice to have the outright win, but I'm out for presidents to represent me so we all know who the real winner was. Had a great sessino at the 10.8s too and with the bankroll boost it looks like ill be playing more of those. MTTs are something I need to play more of' ROI is at 140% with a decent enough sample (250 games)
Ill post my weekly stuff tomorrow. Feels good to have a score like this though and the experience of going deep will serve me well in the future.

10.8 session

I went 26 of 38 for a profit of around 90 dollars. I played pretty well but also ran really well. Im still not as comfortable playing these as I am with the 5s but Im getting closer at least. There is still such bad play at these, especially with people calling light on the bubble and putting their whole tournament on the line. People are also a little trickier and some of the things I do at the 5s arent gonna fly here. The traffic started getting pretty slow with these and so I did a 3 hour session at the 5s afterwards and although I ran like complete dogshit, I still managed a small profit. Im looking to grind the 10s for a good 5 hours tommorow and maybe get a few MTTs in.

weekly results 134/215 11.5

Ive decided to move up to the 10.8s so i did the results for the week so far. I ran pretty well at 62 percent but the sample was pretty small. My hourly was also about 5 bucks higher than average but again I think this was because of the small sample. I'm gonna start positing my 10.8 sessions like I used to do with the 5.4s.

10 session review 335/549 31.25 hourly 12.33

This set started off well but I got burnt out at the end and my session lengths started to shorten. Ive done pretty well in MTTS the last few days but Ive been running cold in the 9 mans so Im not gonnna play them for a while. Ill also decided to not blog each session> im just gonna keep track of the hours and then look up the results in PPlabs every monday. Ill still post on some session and also on MTT results.

sess 10 19/34 2.5

Shortest session Ive done in a while. I feel really burnt out on the DONs. Played decently.