November Wrap Up

November has been my worst poker month to date. The first 50k hands of the month looked really good as I cut tables (and volume) to focus on improving my game - heatering for like 12k hands midway did not hurt either. All indications pointed to a strong month with a solid 2.5+ptbb winrate. However, such is poker and nothing in poker is guaranteed as the last 20k hands I played this month have been some of the most painful to date. The all-in luck analyzer in HEM is not a good indication of the luck in poker... but it's certainly a start. As you can see, the divergence is pretty painful.

Without further adieu, results:



Post run-bad the month looks like .5ptbb at 50NL. While a lot of this can be attributed to running bad, my NSD were still terrible for most of the month (leaking monies!!). Near the end of the month I started to improve, but not enough to counterbalance the runbad.

As a result of running awful, I decided to take a break from poker for Thanksgiving until Friday Dec 4th. I've really enjoyed my time away from the game, and have been spending time preparing for a very difficult actuarial exam (Exam 2 - Financial Mathematics) which I will take Friday. Generally, it is suggested to study 100 hrs for every hr of the test. This test is 3.5 so I should have studied 350 hours... I've probably done half so prospects for passing are not great. Hopefully, I can put in some solid volume (lol!) into studying and pull this one out.

As far as poker goes, I will most likely return to the game this coming weekend at some point and I've decided to put some volume in at 25NL so I can show some profit. I also want to add some more aggression to my game, so I can practice finding the right targets at 25NL (although I expect to lol in pain when no one folds their over-pairs).

Back to the books for me... hope everyone is doing well!

Josh

Month summary & next month goals

Alright, November has been the best month for me in my 1+ year of playing cards. Some people will tell me I've been on a super-heater or something and I guess I've been a bit. I also think those results are due to the fact that I read 2p2 everyday and post mostly everyday in strategy posts which helps me in figuring out some spots and thinking about spots.

During the month I've been 6-12 tabling strictly depending on table selection and how I felt about my game at the time I start a session. I've also tried mixing up levels, at the beginning of the month I played strictly 25NL, after I've won a couple of BIs I included some 50NL tables. At the end of the month I was playing 50NL and included several 100NL tables.

I played some SnG during the month too when I don't feel like 'grinding' but more like playing cards for entertainment.

Here's my November:

Graph:

Stats:

(I know I'm running hot with sets :P)

My next month's goals maybe won't make sense but whatever I'll just state them anyway..

[ ] Become a regular at 100NL

[ ] Take shots at 200NL if BR permits it at some point

[ ] Finish reading Professional No Limit Hold'Em

[ ] Make at least 1K next month

[ ] Play 30K hands and try to hit Platinum

[ ] Sweat 2 people ( General Johnson already has a reserved spots here :P )

[ ] Get sweated

November Review / December Goals

Latley I feel pretty ok about my game after I cut my tables from 8 to 4. But yesterdy I got totally hammered on the tables and booked an awful -5 BI session over 1.2k hands.

Here is my month overall




Seems like I have still a lot of work to do before I can beat NL25.

December Goals:

[ ] Have finally a winning month (before RB)

[ ] Play 25k hands.

[ ] Improve overall as player ( posting hands, reading COTW, etc.)

[ ] Table select as good as I can.

I wish you all an awesome December at the tables and in life.

r2w

Supernova

Just wanted to make a quick post.

I hit Supernova today.

Now I can focus at becoming good at this game!

Almost there...

Well my chase for Supernova is almost over. Just wanted to give a quick update on my status.

I currently have 2046.24 vpp's to go!

Here's a current screenshot.



I hope to have it tomorrow evening sometime!

On a sidenote, who's playing in the turbotakedown tomorrow?

Intro

And finally the first post from me.

My poker history in a nutshell:

I started with Poker in November 2007. Till summer 2008 I blow some small rolls because of missing BRM and tilt issues. At this time I decided to take Poker more seriously since it sucks for me to be a semi-clue less tilt monkey. I concentraded mainly on SNG where I was somekind decent I guess.
But in the summer this year I got the feel that they are already to much explored and the edge in todays game is pretty slim.
So I moved to the Cash games at the end of July. Since then I play NL25 FR on Full Tilt.

So far I am still struggling with it but I have the hope to be able to beat the game somewhen in the near future. So this blog is a good way to records my progress in the Poker world.

r2w


P.S.: In case you find spelling and/or grammar mistakes you can keep them since I am not a native english speaker :D

Introduction and end of year goals

Yo,

My name is Yannick and I've been playing poker for a bit more than a year now. I've started playing 2nl with a $50 roll (overrolled baby). I'm now pretty much playing 50nl and taking unrolled shots at 100nl when I feel frisky.

I speak french. =)

For the end of the year goals part, I'd like to be taking serious shots at 100nl if not being a reg there already by mid January if everything goes well.

I'll try posting interesting hands here if I encounter any and give my opinion about it.

Laters,

Yannick

Hai

My name is Gooose, aka Mooose, aka Rocketfish. I have played poker for several years, made a bunch of manies. I can currently be found at 25nl-100nl for anyone looking for donations. I don't really have anything to say so I don't know why I am poasting this. This blog will be used for all my thoughts that everyone should be aware of.

You stay classy SanDiego-Anchorman

Pilot Post

Hello All,
I've been wanting to blog since the beginning of the year,but I've never put any effort into starting it.Out of the Blue,comes crzytimes on the idea of sharing a blog with other poker players(Thanks Andrew on it).So with that,is how I got into my 1st post running.

Poker History:
I've been wanting to play poker since young,but i never got the chance.Well,growing up in a country like Malaysia has its limitations.Things are just generally more passive in Asia.Therefore chances like this doesnt come along.Malaysia Poker Boom didnt come on Chris Moneymaker's win but more of a like Jerry Yang's win.

Now that I'm in Germany,studying.That learning curve came by.It all started with a small play money home game,and then i got introduced to High Stakes Poker.I got hooked,and i never looked back from then on.For about 6 months-1year,all i played was home games which i crushed game by game by simply watching HSP.Luckboxing all the way i guess

So i started with a $10 dollar depost on Stars(fuck the $600 deposit!!!) middle of last year,and i was grinding 2NL and 5NL for about a month before i start on SNG for about 6 months.I bought books and read some strategy posts online about cash games and sng to help with my progress.After a while,i realised that SNG was a bitch,and you dont earn shit unless you go sky high.

To keep my poker history short.I jumped into cash games and started crusing on 25NL 6max and 50NL 6max(doomswitch at 50NL).So i started hopping into FR,although at 1st ,i fucking thought,how fucking boring is this(9 fucking handed),then i somehow started opening 24 table-since its wasnt worth the wait playing 1 table).I realised how much fun from then on.Only then i discovered 2+2.I kept reading but never joined the site till like 2 months ago.

Now I can be found tangling with other regs on 25NL and 50NL FR Stars.
This sounds like fun eh-blogging?Putting your thoughts into a notepad post!
Thats it for now

Thanks for reading,
take it easy