solid week thus far outside pokerdb being ghey

Sooo its been a solid week in both sngs and mtts....Sunday night i shipped the 100ss for 2700, and then today shipped 4500ss for 1800 and a 3rd in 30r for 1800 or so....SNG's have been so so, not too sure where Im at profit wise with them.....Ive also decided to quit keeping track of this 50k goal as I dont have an exact number....hopefully tomorrow and friday I can clear this 3k arp bonus as I need 15k more arps to do so.....

I mentioned pokerdb because they failed to record my 100ss win on Sunday..after contacting them i was told they cannot manually enter in a tournament result, thus fucking up my chance at tracking results on the year....not the biggest issue ive faced but nevertheless annoying.

rollercoaster week so far

Poker is absoutely crazy in terms of the ups and downs....some days you finish loving poker, some days you are ridiculously stressed out wishing you didnt play.....monday and tuesday I had rough days - lost roughly 2500 of that 4700 I had made over the weekend, but then last night went on a quick heater and made 2k in about 3 hours....Im glad I dont play 200s right now cause dealing with those swings would kill me mentally, so hopefully I can make another 40-50k and not care about dropping 10k in horrible swings....

On a side note, Im pretty annoyed at pokerdb on bluffmagazine.com....The 100ss win I got never updated to their stats, and they told me it could take a couple weeks....I dont see why they cant manually enter it in now but I guess thats how it goes....today I plan on getting in 5-6 hours of play since Ill be out tonight and Friday Ill prob be busy all day......Im also about 35k arps away from 200k so Im looking foward to that 3k bonus.

had a good weekend

finally got a couple hours in on sat-sun after a sort of breakeven week....played 2 hours of sngs on sat , made about 700, got home sunday for about 4 hours of play and made roughly 4k with a 100ss 9k win.....felt good to win a tourny as the last one was the 30rebuy i dont even know how long ago

Treating poker like a business

This past week after lackluster performance, I decided to take a look at highly sucessful players in order to possibly learn something from them other than their actual poker skills. Just like any business in a specific industry, paying attention to your competitors moves is extremely important, and in poker, copying these moves can lead to making a higher hourly wage. I've never been big on change, and it costed me dearly. Wasting hours on end in the 40s last year hurt my profits, and being hesistant about jumping in 100+ mtts hurt my profitability, but at the same time maybe its good I'm more cautious then your average player. Anyways I've made two moves

1.Cake Poker - I talked about this earlier but never followed up on it. During the daytime, AP is slow and I can't 8-9 table, 6-tabling seems to be the average from noon-5pm. Cake is gonna allow me to keep the hourly wage I make at night during the day

2.UB - UB has some good MTT's, and I really need to get on there. The best part is I can xfer from there to AP so getting money on/off is a breeze. Either way this seems like a good business move

So there it is. The real goal is to get more games in, which leads to higher profits, lower variance, and an overall better strategic plan. I have found 8 tabling to be a breeze, so 9-10 tabling shouldn't be too bad....we shall find out soon enough


50K Sept Goal

+2500(roughly)

Summer is here - sort of

I always considered May 1st - Sept 1st to be summer......I guess the real reason is I finish school usually the first week of May, and start around the first week of September, but this year September 1st I won't be starting anything :)....In the past the summer has been very productive in terms of moving up in poker - I started profiting in poker 2 years ago in July, building my roll up to 1k and having a huge August....last year I made the full time to jump to 100s in August and ended up having the biggest month(at that time) and picking up a seat to the Aruba Classic....So to up the ante, I decided to set a goal of 50k over the next 4 months.....its very achievable if I put the time in (only 1 vacation is scheduled so far for the summer), and hopefully itll push me to get better....Ill keep an update at the bottom of my blog entries and hopefully the goal is reached.

I also got the lease signed to this beach house - we move in on the 15th of the month and Im really looking foward to this....will be nice to play poker all day then drink/pong/etc at night...the place is somewhat small but being under a block from the beach is amazing

September 1st 50k goal
+643.00