Weekend is almost over and here is small recap from last couple of days. I successfully finished 5K goal before Saturday lunch and played couple more at the top of it. And not done yet.
Volume very solid, Results fine as well. Love for the game is still there and hopefully soon i will make it to the green. At the moment I am trying to focus on basics and fix leaks I have in preflop game.
Here is one funny hand from last session (i bet you can spot it on graph).
Blinds$0.05/$0.106 UTG SnailDrumer $11.48 UTG+1 hektor182 $6.93 CO kay roberts $5.16 DHero $12.02 SB hj2009 $8.89 BB Eugeniu91 $9.86[/divbox]
Preflop 6$0.15Hero is BTNJJ 3 folds, Hero raises to $0.25, hj2009 raises to $0.85, 1 fold, Hero calls$0.60
Last two days I had a break from poker, because office and family things. But today I will play session or two again and still will be focusing on PF play.
I covered preflop play from UTG, MP, CO and not doing many mistakes there and I am very happy about it. In BU and SB I am still not very confident in opens, opening too wide and then I have troubles playing postflop where I am super bad. So today I will focus mostly on opens from these two positions.
After that another big leak I need to fix is defending BB. Cold calling vs opens from different positions. And after that 3-betting.
I am also doing "poker diary" where I write everything poker related. it looks like this:
As you can see I am trying review every topic I focus during the session just after i finish it. 1hour session and then 10-15 min reviewing of topic I currently focus on.
For anybody who is reading this: Good luck at the tables, I hope you crush!
Not a bad day today. played two 75 min sessions, studied 3 sessions 10+10+25 min
reviewed hands, unopened to me:
EP: 134/136 OK - folded wrong 2 hands MP: 203/204 OK - folded wrong one hand CO: 175/176 OK - folded wrong one hand BU: 124/131 OK - folded wrong 3 hands, opened wrong 4 hands SB: 61/64 OK - folded wrong 2 hands, opened wrong 1 hand
not bad. tomorrow one more session to focus on BU and SB opening and then start with BB cold calling.
Last 500 hands were terrible, totally unfocused. Need to stick to 1h-1h15min sessions. Lesson learnt. Also I am not sure if I will be able to play 2K hands tomorrow..
I was a busy today to do lot of different things and now I am going out for dinner and movie maybe. Tomorrow is day of bcs I am going to play pool. Will play on Tuesday, or maybe not, bcs on Tuesday is usually "Beer day" with people from the office.
FAIL my challenge, but happy about the volume anyway. Slowly working on my game and it feels good. If i can continue with this i hope until the end of the year I can play NL25.
Played pool yesterday and guys were playing 25c/25c cash game there. After couple of hours they had avg stack ~100e so I joined with 50 1h before they finish. It was easiest table possible, with every type of fish you can imagine. And very funny hand happened.
I was BU. Whole table (7 players) called 25c, I raise 5e with KsKh. 1 fold 5 calls. Flop: 4c7dQc check, bet 10, call, call, call, I raised AI ~40e. fold, call ,fold, fold, call
Also studied a bit. 3 short 10 min review sessions. Topic BB defend vs BU. made 3 mistakes out of 66 hands. folded 2*65o and 1*42s. Not a huge mistakes, but still mistakes.
Also started to use mind-bell (http://fungie.info/bell/#) every 15min during session, to keep me focused. Works well. worth to try.
Positives: - 22.5K hands !!! - 90min of coaching - Lots of study - Mental bell work very good during sessions. - Daily poker diary with session and study topics + grades - Feeling good playing poker again
Negatives: - Finished month in small loss - When I play 6 tables, I am not able to analize postflop situation that good. - Below EV - Skipped study after couple of sessions.
Adjustment for October: - Drop to 2 tables of zoom. - Play max 30 min sessions to keep up A game. - Drop studying to 5 from 10 min after every session. More is a bonus. - Focus one thing at the time
Start of new month (October):
Started moth very strong. Played 3 days from 3. I started to play 30min session followed by 5-10min review of certain topic, followed by game of hearthstone. It works perfectly.
Today is day off for pool competition (1st game of the season, after we had to cancel previous game).
Shitty pool day yesterday. We lost 1:5. My team mates played terrible, but thats happens... Our only point was from me, I won my game 6:0... next game on Monday. I hope we will do better.
Today I came to the office at 9:30 and this is how it looked like:
For the second I thought that I forgot about holidays or something. we are now 6 here.... from 20
As previously mentioned. Yesterday was a poker day. I played three 30 min sessions. And studied 20+5 min. I spend 20 minutes of reviewing my previous coaching and learning how to play from SB,BB,CO when facing a single raise.
This month is going well:
Today I will go for dinner with my wife and maybe one session later in the evening.
played three 30 min sessions yesterday and study 3*10 minutes. topic of the day was 3-betting from small blind. It went good. I was spewy in couple of spots where I didn't want to give up but manage to finish up ~2bi anyway.
Today I want to play 3-4 sessions too and after that i will post progress from last graph.
Sunday is usually not that good for me, but lets change it today!
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