Getting Serious about life/poker

For those who know me irl the word serious doesn't equate with me ever. I don't wanna get into that but nonetheless i am going to start taking my life a bit more seriously.

The last few days have been a bit weird really.

I played for the university football (soccer) team on wednesday. Always a good release from work/poker. The game was really odd though. A long story short, we were totally outclassed by a team of grown men, i got punched in the back of the head by some random defender for no apparent reason. Not particularly shocking but never had anything like that happen to me in a game of football before. About ten minutes later i scored a volley first time from the edge of the box straight in the top corner.

I guess the reason i mention the game is that it illustrated a few things to me in as clear a context as i could possibly see irl. Firstly variance, one minute we're losing, i'm getting punched and it seems like the world is going to end. Ten minutes later i'm scoring one of the best goals of my life and we have a chance of getting back in the game. A pretty basic analogy i know but in poker these twists seem so far away when you're losing.

The other thing, they were well prepared and we weren't.

Our kit was wet, we didn't have matching shorts or socks. We didn't warm up properly and nobody really knew what tasks they were meant to perform on the pitch. The opposition had all the kit, they warmed up for about 20 minutes before us and had a huddle just before kick off.

Again basic analogy but if you don't prepare yourself in poker then similar results will usually ensue. I had to learn that the hard way on Wednesday, but i think the lesson was vivid enough for me to remember for a long time so it was worth it.

Ok enough BS. I've temporarily left uni because my current course is designed for 15 year olds i'm sure of it. Plus the employment prospects post uni are worse with this degree than the one i was previously on. So now i can pursue the previous degree at another uni in September and hopefully have some sort of long term plan as a result.So that leaves a 7 month LAG. I have kind of wasted the last 4-5 months but at least i had the balls to switch course before it was too late and my life was over with sub-standard qualifications.

In those 7 months i'm basically aiming to improve my HU SNG game as much as humanly possible. I think if i get a good computer set up and internet at my house then 50 games/day isn't out of reach and maybe monthly profits of $1k minimum will ensue. I hate making profit goals but if i play enough games and don't tilt at middle stakes then i don't see why $1k isn't achievable.

I haven't played a lot recently because i've been ill but when your ill you seem to realise so much more about life.

Hopefully post a solid graph for the month come the end.

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February Goals and grinding $20s again yay!!

Right i'll try and keep this short because everything i write or say is too long.





January was very solid. I bagged a $600 profit with just over a 10% ROI. That's my second highest profit/month out of my 6 months of playing.



I'm hoping February will be just as kind, if not more so in terms of total profit. I have ran sick good this month in $20's. Hopefully my first $1k month is on its way which would be really cool.


I'm going to stop cashing out portions of my bankroll now as well. Gonna actually build up a solid roll and start moving up through the limits. So to actively pursue that goal i'm going to play 30 $20 games a day. At first i will 1-table but eventually i'll 2-table to increase my $/hr and maybe add in some more volume.


Also gonna stop playing random FPP sats and stupid $3 90 mans or $20+ MTTs on a whim. I'm just wasting my time and energy doing all that and it's a significant leak.


As for improving my game i'm going to keep my posts on 2+2 shorter because i waffle. Also, i'm currently 120 pages through Collin Moshman's Heads-Up book which i really like, although i never have enough time to read it except from at weekends.


Coupled with that i'm probably going to look into buying some videos off HokieGreg because after i watched his sample video i actually ran like god himself. I can't really afford them right now but once i'm owning $20s and my BR is larger i think they'd be a really solid investment in my game.


Here's my graph for the last week/100 games:




ok until next time, goodbye.