March - weakest month since September

So the month has came to an end - ended up around 13k in profit - the worst month since September....the funny part was I was at like 4k on Monday then had a +9k tues to get me up there......anyways as you can tell im off to a huge start in 2010 more than I could of anticipated......with that said im going to stop posting financial figures in my blog - I actually had a wierd situation wtih selling my car where a guy found info on me and didnt want to buy it, so goin to try to limit how much information I give out over the net.....Ill def talk about my wins or losses, but wont get into the #s

I also recently sold my corvette z06 and bought a 2008 335xi - found a great deal on one for 30,750 and picked it up last week....been loving the car too much! looking forward to good weather to full enjoy it..

Anyone want some coaching?

Well I was on 2p2 looking at coaching threads and thought, hey I could see myself doing that. I'm obviously not the greatest at MTT/MTT SNG play, but a proven winner at mid stakes/some high stakes games over a decent sample. Now I don't even know who reads this blog but I figure I'll post this up anyways. I'm looking to coach small stakes/midstakes MTT/SNG players, whether that maybe be reviewing HHs, reviewing HHs via skype, sweating players, or any other form of coaching they may want. My sharkscope results show the following for MTT play

YouGotBeat 1,022 games played, 80,198 in profit, 73% ROI
Z06Fanatic 764 games played, 75,106 in profit 92% ROI (never counted my 80k win)
Richard Gere 432 games played 30,655 in profit 64% ROI

Stars is about even so I wont even post :(.......anyways my sample isn't that large for results via tracking sites, but thats over 200k in profit dating back to June. Why do I want to coach? I enjoy the game of poker and enjoy talking about it on a more indepth level and like to see people succeed(sp?).....I had one student already for a session over skype that went well...anways my rate will prob be around 80/hr - my hourly in MTTs is probably higher but this is variance free and atleast I can do an hour and stop....anyways if you're interested reply here otherwise I'll post back when those figs double and hopefully garner some interest!

50r win and some thoughts on how becoming complacent can be the devil

first off, i won the 50r ap 2nite for 5k and change....i came into the ft 3rd or 4th in chips - ended up chipping up here and there - when we got 4 handed i donated alot of chips to pokerho when i got 88 in the bb vs his button open with 30 bbs or so - we got it in he had kk.....I then chipped back up and lost anotehr big race to him , but eventually won a big race and had 4-500k in chips 3 handed.....we got hu and eventually i 3 bet qj pre, flopped the nuts, and buried every street till i got paid off by k8 for like a 80 bb pot on a 89T93 board

Ok now a little bit about complacency in poker.....you see it alot - people get good at one form of poker, grind it for hours on end and save up the money, never thinking about the future.....at the same time, they dont improve their skillset, thus just grinding out their hourly and praying that the hourly will always be there....well we've seen how much tougher games have gotten, especially SNGs, and people have to realize mindlessly grinding and never improving is a recipie for long term failure - yes you can still make plenty of money, but the games continue to get harder, so if you're not ahead of the average pace you're losing money slowly.....SNGs have been the big example of this - SNGs back in 2004 were ridiculously easy and extremely profitable - big winners were making 500k+ plus for sngs! its pretty amazing to think about compared to todays profits....I think after looking on SS for 2009 the biggest winner had 80k or so in actual profit? Now thats now bad with bonuses - I mean its still possible to make 100-150k with SNGs but nowhere near where they use to be, and in 2010 the games will get harder.....MTTs too aren't the toughest thing to beat - the 109s and under don't require amazing poker skills to beat - playing 20-30 bb stacks isn't that tough, but its still very profitable....anyways the point is to always improve your game if you plan on playing this game for a long time - you see alot of players come and go and very few are still playing for a living over a 5+ year period - just realize if your not improving daily your losing money

chopped up the 40k tilt

Last Wed I chopped the tilt 40k for 9800 or so......I got heads up and had 1.6 mil to about 500k and icm dictacted he'd get 1k over 2nd place but he wanted more.....since he had nitted most of it and hadnt shown being that good I declined and said take icm or we play....we ended up playing and i ended up losing a race to him....eventually we got to about 900k in chips a piece and decided to chop it up - blinds were high and even if i had an edge it wasnt that big at that point.....I think its definitely been to my advantage to have all these scores over the past 6 months - when I get to the ft's with 10k+ 1st place payouts I dont think about the money whatsoever....i remember back in August id make a ft with first being 8k and worry bout it - now first can be 30k and it doesnt influence me...its definitely helpful as you can see others tighten up trying to move out the payouts which makes it insanely +ev to chip up off of them

anyways its a nice little start to the month.....I want to get in some good volume in march, but its tough being motivated lately.....its really a grind but i gotta toughen up and get in my games.....we'll see how march pans out