Week 3 Report
Stats:
Casino Bonuses: +$49
Poker Play: -$95.50
Total: -$46.50
Unfortunately this is my first losing week, however, I didn't play a lot of either poker or casino bonuses at all this week. However I did finished my poker strategy essay on monday/ tuesday, so I was able to get back into actual poker play, but only played about 400 hands for the week.
So far I've just been trying to get the pre-flop strategy in my head while also trying out various strategies that I could remember off the top of my head. I intend to go throught the strategy bit by bit until I'm playing by all of it, then double back and work on different problem areas, so of course the preflop stuff is first. I'm also trying to get into the habbit of counting the pot in bets (SB and BB) instead of money, and actually counting the bets, not just looking at the pot summary that the program gives you. So I guess that my bad poker play run this week could be accredited to the fact that I'm just starting out with this new strategy.
The worst thing at the moment is that I don't know whether I'm just another losing player, or I'm a winning player who's just having a run of bad luck, and I don't know how much I would have to lose before I decided that it wasn't bad luck but bad play. Luckily my bankroll is over 2000 big bets so I've got a bit of room to move. I've decided that I'm just going to work on my game until I get better, never give up.
In terms of my goals for moving up in stakes, I've decided to alter them somewhat because it looks likely that my casino bonus playing will bring me to 3 grand much quicker than poker play, hence in order to move up to 2/4 I need a 3 grand bankroll, AND I want to have won at least double my lowest point at 1/2 stakes. Therefore I need to win about $400 at poker in order to move up the stakes.
I've also scaled back my effort with regards to poker bonuses. I've taken all my funds out of Titan Poker because I was unable to find games with 30% of people to the flop consistently, also its not poker tracker compatible, so I can't analyse my play. I am now playing at poker stars, where I'll probabally remain until I'm sure I'm a winning player.
Poker Play:
Titan Poker: -$26.75
Poker Stars: -$68.75
I only finished off the Casino Euro bonus this week, as it took quite a while. I ended up finishing with a profit of $64 which wasn't too bad. I'm now doing the sign up bonus at VIP casino which has just increased to 50% up to $100, $2500 WR. I've got about 6 more good cashable BJ bonuses still to do, then about 8 cashable video poker bonuses, and then its on to the semi-stickies. Hopefull I go well, because it looks like I'll be relying on casino bonuses to replenish my bankroll while I work on my poker play.
I'm also back at uni next week. This is good and bad for my poker play. It means that i'll be doing work and will be out and won't have as much time for poker, however the time that I do have, I'll probably have the computer to myself as my bro will be back at school. I'll also be looking forward to it more as a break from study.
Casino Bonuses: +$49
Poker Play: -$95.50
Total: -$46.50
Unfortunately this is my first losing week, however, I didn't play a lot of either poker or casino bonuses at all this week. However I did finished my poker strategy essay on monday/ tuesday, so I was able to get back into actual poker play, but only played about 400 hands for the week.
So far I've just been trying to get the pre-flop strategy in my head while also trying out various strategies that I could remember off the top of my head. I intend to go throught the strategy bit by bit until I'm playing by all of it, then double back and work on different problem areas, so of course the preflop stuff is first. I'm also trying to get into the habbit of counting the pot in bets (SB and BB) instead of money, and actually counting the bets, not just looking at the pot summary that the program gives you. So I guess that my bad poker play run this week could be accredited to the fact that I'm just starting out with this new strategy.
The worst thing at the moment is that I don't know whether I'm just another losing player, or I'm a winning player who's just having a run of bad luck, and I don't know how much I would have to lose before I decided that it wasn't bad luck but bad play. Luckily my bankroll is over 2000 big bets so I've got a bit of room to move. I've decided that I'm just going to work on my game until I get better, never give up.
In terms of my goals for moving up in stakes, I've decided to alter them somewhat because it looks likely that my casino bonus playing will bring me to 3 grand much quicker than poker play, hence in order to move up to 2/4 I need a 3 grand bankroll, AND I want to have won at least double my lowest point at 1/2 stakes. Therefore I need to win about $400 at poker in order to move up the stakes.
I've also scaled back my effort with regards to poker bonuses. I've taken all my funds out of Titan Poker because I was unable to find games with 30% of people to the flop consistently, also its not poker tracker compatible, so I can't analyse my play. I am now playing at poker stars, where I'll probabally remain until I'm sure I'm a winning player.
Poker Play:
Titan Poker: -$26.75
Poker Stars: -$68.75
I only finished off the Casino Euro bonus this week, as it took quite a while. I ended up finishing with a profit of $64 which wasn't too bad. I'm now doing the sign up bonus at VIP casino which has just increased to 50% up to $100, $2500 WR. I've got about 6 more good cashable BJ bonuses still to do, then about 8 cashable video poker bonuses, and then its on to the semi-stickies. Hopefull I go well, because it looks like I'll be relying on casino bonuses to replenish my bankroll while I work on my poker play.
I'm also back at uni next week. This is good and bad for my poker play. It means that i'll be doing work and will be out and won't have as much time for poker, however the time that I do have, I'll probably have the computer to myself as my bro will be back at school. I'll also be looking forward to it more as a break from study.
posted by morris at 7:43 AM
1 Comments:
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If you want we could do a link exchange for mutual benefit.
Good luck with the poker
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