may results

unfortunately i didn't end up playing much in may. the month started off pretty slowly by playing small sessions of plo & mixed ha before getting it out of my system and making 100nl my sole game.

after that i still didn't get a lot of playing time in and then unfortunately had a death in the family that made me not want to play.

just last week i started back playing again and the results have been good. i credit the improvement in my play recently to the balugawhale book that really helped clarify a few things that i didn't understand but was trying to emulate. often times i think ssnl guys like myself see things in training videos or hear a pro say something and we implement it into our game with no understanding of why. (we also mis apply it a lot too)

i was hoping to post some hem graphs but once again my db is all messed up and missing hands for some unknown reason. the results on the month are about 8k hands played with a net profit of 700 @ 100nl and then like 150 in losses from plo at the beginning of the month.

my style has me playing 27/22 so far this month and its really fun and interesting to be in the action more rather set mining and playing 18/15.

also, wsop has started once again, every year i say that i will for sure play in next years series and then am never rolled to do so. last year i was rolled to take a shot at a smaller buyin if i wanted but was never even close to contemplating it. this year i got a slight itch and thought about possibly playing in some super sats to the main event but then realized if i win a 12k package im obv just going to take the cash and not play, so then essentially i would just be playing top heavy payout mtts. to be honest my dream of winning a bracelet is really pretty dead. when i think about my future playing poker i mostly think about playing cash games online and have no real interest in mtt's anymore. even live play is something i get an itch for once every 2 months and then wonder why i ever wasted my time. i guess the most realistic thing for my own wsop future would be to go and play some cash or something one year but even thats a stretch i think since i get so annoyed with having to deal with assholes playing live.

im hoping to continue playing well and ironing out mistakes in june. my roll is at about 4.4k right now and im toying with the idea of taking a 3 buyin shot at 1/2 once i grind it up to 5k. im also hooking back up with my coach after a couple week hiatus and im looking forward to better discussion now that i think i understand some fundamentals better.

tg