I'M BACK!!!
Did you miss me? Hopefully so, but unlikely due to the extremely low readership this blog has... if any. But anyway, the reason why I haven't been posting my weekly reports for like the last four weeks is because I've decided to expand on my line of thinking that says that short term results don't matter... its the long term that really matters. Since I only play like 300- 1000 at most hands in a week, each week would be considered only very short term results, so I've decided to only make my reports monthly to try and iron out some of the variation that we see from week to week. Also in an attempt to make the blog content more interesting than just boring weekly reports, I will try and make at least one post a week, and they won't involve statistics... all that much. Hope that makes sense.
A lot has happened since my last post, so heres a quick update. I know I promised to post a graph of my poker results once I got back in the black, but recently when I opened Poker Patterns it said that it had expired, and I haven't got around to determining exactly what that means, perhaps I havet to 'buy' something now before I get it back, or download the new version, I'll have to see. I've also started playing short handed limit earlier than planned, I originally said that I'd start playing 1/2 short handed once I moved up to 2/4 rull ring games, but one day when there were no 1/2 full ring games available I started playing 50c/$1 short handed and found that not only did I do REALLY WELL but I enjoyed it too. Just to give you an example of what I mean by REALLY WELL, heres a rough breakdown of my poker stats to date: $1/$2 full ring games: + $234 (over the period that I have kept this blog), 50c/$1 Short handed games: + $154 (over the past week). I have been running absolutely insanely well, so well that I even got into the mind set that I couldn't lose playing this game. Out of about 15 session over the past week I had had only 2 losing ones, one I lost $10 the other 15c, and I had had multiple winning sessions over $50. However this mindset was rudely awoken last night when I lost $30 playing in that game... nothing was going right... I lost with QQ, KK, and AA and was being beaten by slightly higher kickers. In conclusion I think I could say that I was obviously running extremly well before, and couldn't expect to keep it up for a long period of time, however I do feel that I play the game very well (i play a very aggressive style, and try to play position hyper aggressively), and that I have an opportunity to make a lot of money at short handed.
On the poker tournament frond its been pretty terrible. Somehow I've lost all skills that I previously possessed when I first started playing online poker back in march (long before the time of this blog), or perhaps I was just very lucky then... who knows. The point it I've entered about ten Multi Table Tournaments (MTT's) in the past 2 weeks and placed in none of them. I was playing $10+$1 but now I've reverted to $5+ 50c until I can show some results, then I might move back up in stakes.
In terms of casino bonuses, I haven't been travelling all that crash hot. I recently launched myself into the semi stickies and I've now done almost all of the doable ones (theres some that i've leaving for when I have a bigger bankroll, and others wouldn't allow my to play or had become unprofitable) and I'm only up by like $200- which was a bit disapointing. The plan now is to do the stickies, then come back and hit the last few semi stickies then finish off the video poker bonuses of earlier. I will then probably do the most profitable looking slots bonuses, like the no deposit bonuses... but I'll leave the rest as they are too high variance for me... and probably time would be better spent on poker.
If you remember back to my goal for the year, I had a very ambitious goal of $8000 bankroll by the end of this year. I have know all along that this was unlikely and only set it so that I'd have something to work towards which might make me push myself a bit harder. Every time I look at possible forecast of my play, a realise that I probably won't get anywhere near it. Infact, I think I'll be struggling to get to $6000, let alone $8000. 5K I think I can manage, and if I don't make it there I WILL be disappointed. I have also been really looking forward to playing at the casino live for $4/$8, but for that I need a bankroll... which was going to come out of the 8K... which I probably won't get to. I've decided that the least I'd settle for is 7K, so then I'd take out 3K for my live bankroll ($4000 Australian), and have 4K left online... enough to be conservative playing $3/$6 which is also my aim by the end of the year.
In other news, I have over 1200 bucks in my bank account from my "real job" as well as bday money and tax back from last year. My parents still don't suspect a thing about my online gaming pursuits, they just think I play a lot for play money, but I think my brother suspects something. I'm also feeling somewhat bad and guilty as I had a big conversation will mum the other day about how Real Estate Agents are so untruthful (we are trying to sell our house at the moment), and mum went on to say how she hates liars... hmmm well you could say that I'm not lying, but just not telling the whole truth... couldn't you. Don't know, I will eventually tell them, just not sure when, and not really sure about their reactions.
A lot has happened since my last post, so heres a quick update. I know I promised to post a graph of my poker results once I got back in the black, but recently when I opened Poker Patterns it said that it had expired, and I haven't got around to determining exactly what that means, perhaps I havet to 'buy' something now before I get it back, or download the new version, I'll have to see. I've also started playing short handed limit earlier than planned, I originally said that I'd start playing 1/2 short handed once I moved up to 2/4 rull ring games, but one day when there were no 1/2 full ring games available I started playing 50c/$1 short handed and found that not only did I do REALLY WELL but I enjoyed it too. Just to give you an example of what I mean by REALLY WELL, heres a rough breakdown of my poker stats to date: $1/$2 full ring games: + $234 (over the period that I have kept this blog), 50c/$1 Short handed games: + $154 (over the past week). I have been running absolutely insanely well, so well that I even got into the mind set that I couldn't lose playing this game. Out of about 15 session over the past week I had had only 2 losing ones, one I lost $10 the other 15c, and I had had multiple winning sessions over $50. However this mindset was rudely awoken last night when I lost $30 playing in that game... nothing was going right... I lost with QQ, KK, and AA and was being beaten by slightly higher kickers. In conclusion I think I could say that I was obviously running extremly well before, and couldn't expect to keep it up for a long period of time, however I do feel that I play the game very well (i play a very aggressive style, and try to play position hyper aggressively), and that I have an opportunity to make a lot of money at short handed.
On the poker tournament frond its been pretty terrible. Somehow I've lost all skills that I previously possessed when I first started playing online poker back in march (long before the time of this blog), or perhaps I was just very lucky then... who knows. The point it I've entered about ten Multi Table Tournaments (MTT's) in the past 2 weeks and placed in none of them. I was playing $10+$1 but now I've reverted to $5+ 50c until I can show some results, then I might move back up in stakes.
In terms of casino bonuses, I haven't been travelling all that crash hot. I recently launched myself into the semi stickies and I've now done almost all of the doable ones (theres some that i've leaving for when I have a bigger bankroll, and others wouldn't allow my to play or had become unprofitable) and I'm only up by like $200- which was a bit disapointing. The plan now is to do the stickies, then come back and hit the last few semi stickies then finish off the video poker bonuses of earlier. I will then probably do the most profitable looking slots bonuses, like the no deposit bonuses... but I'll leave the rest as they are too high variance for me... and probably time would be better spent on poker.
If you remember back to my goal for the year, I had a very ambitious goal of $8000 bankroll by the end of this year. I have know all along that this was unlikely and only set it so that I'd have something to work towards which might make me push myself a bit harder. Every time I look at possible forecast of my play, a realise that I probably won't get anywhere near it. Infact, I think I'll be struggling to get to $6000, let alone $8000. 5K I think I can manage, and if I don't make it there I WILL be disappointed. I have also been really looking forward to playing at the casino live for $4/$8, but for that I need a bankroll... which was going to come out of the 8K... which I probably won't get to. I've decided that the least I'd settle for is 7K, so then I'd take out 3K for my live bankroll ($4000 Australian), and have 4K left online... enough to be conservative playing $3/$6 which is also my aim by the end of the year.
In other news, I have over 1200 bucks in my bank account from my "real job" as well as bday money and tax back from last year. My parents still don't suspect a thing about my online gaming pursuits, they just think I play a lot for play money, but I think my brother suspects something. I'm also feeling somewhat bad and guilty as I had a big conversation will mum the other day about how Real Estate Agents are so untruthful (we are trying to sell our house at the moment), and mum went on to say how she hates liars... hmmm well you could say that I'm not lying, but just not telling the whole truth... couldn't you. Don't know, I will eventually tell them, just not sure when, and not really sure about their reactions.
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