Friday, May 8, 2009

april recap / may so far

alright so april ended off kinda badly, i think i lost a couple stacks in 100nl and made maybe a little money playing huplo. i'd like get back to posting graphs but unfortunately my hem for april is all kinds of messed up with hands spread over 3 db's and all the omaha hands missing.

my estimate all tolled would be about a $300 loss on the month combined in both nl and plo games. thats obv not very good.

to start may i was really lost on what to do, can't win at nl, running good in plo but realize that its not a game that i want to play on a consistent basis. i ended up playing some 50ha and 50huplo to start the month off and was up some to start but then got kicked in the ass by some plo variance and was stuck 150 to start the month. after a tiny break and getting sick of 4 card poker i've rededicated myself to the unlimited version of hold thems.

my first couple sessions back and i've really been focused, concentrating on ranges of opponents and sticking to 2-3 tables to help keep that focus throughout a session. the other thing i've dedicated myself is not tilting. i don't often go nutso tilting smashing monitors and open shoving but i have realized that i've probably about 80% of my poker playing time this year soft tilting.

so i've been gaining a little momentum and then balugawhale's ebook came out yesterday and after reading the first 3 chapters some concepts are just soooo much more clear now that i feel like im ready to crush. this is after only 3 chapters of the basic volume so i can't imagine how good the rest must be.

look forward to reading the rest, playing a little and seeing what happens.

tg