Long Time No Post
It has been a while since I posted in the blog will try and update this more often now but the neglect here I think reflects how I felt about poker for a while.
I ended up having to play through to November before getting a new contract, in that time my bankroll shrunk and shrunk basically because my monthly nut was too high, this brought more and more pressure and ended up underolled for $200NL and in the end had to move down to $100NL which left me in even bigger trouble trying to achieve the money I needed.
So the experiment to a point was a failure but mainly because I didnt have a big enough roll to cope with playing for a living and having to make withdrawals, also not having the 6-12 months savings most people advise and I think more importantly having too high expenses in the first place.
In these credit crunch times now I am back working, until April as it stands, I will be focusing on reducing my outgoings (have already got rid of my car as dont need it while working away) and rebuilding my roll which I had to cash out during November till I got paid the following month.
So I was left with $130 in my poker account and was totally sick after multitabling robotic 18/17 tag nit poker. Didnt really play during November or December so started again in January new year and all that but playing SNG's instead of cash. Didnt really have a roll for the cash games except at penny limits which I couldnt face.
Started playing the $3.5 Sng's and $4 180 mans got pretty lucky early on winning a 180 man for $200 so moved up to the $5.5's and then the $6.50 turbos. At this point having played around 100 sngs mainly in sets of 8's realised what a boring soul destroying game they are, yes good for building a roll but the tight then push bot strategy is just no fun at all.
So back to 6 max cash games I went I had a 20 buyin roll for $25NL so I have a new plan to try and move through the limits quickly to try and get back to $200NL and push on up to $400/$600 and hopefully become a regular in the $1,000 game by the end of the year. The plan will be to move up once I hit 20 buy ins for the next level moving back down if I my roll hits 30 buy ins for the level below.
I am also looking at how I play being a total nit does make some money, and is good for rakeback, but once you get up the levels it is open to exploitation, so I am trying to open up my game and play a much more Loose Aggressive style currently around the 25 vpip mark for my play the last month or so, but tend to start being looser than that to get a wild image, seems to work have already been called a madman. But is easier at $25 as the games are very loose passive and even the tag regulars dont tend to play back at you.
Have also cut back my tables to 2-3 and am reducing my HUD to only display the minimum of stats, the top players in the main swear by not using a hud and getting by on notes and game flow and concentrating to get reads. I have definatley played on auto pilot for years so will try and work on improving concentration and note development, this will be more important once I move through the limits knowing how to exploit people in these tougher times.
Will also look to improve and develop some Omaha skills, its the in game at the minute and seems to be where most of the fish are, havent played it 6 max before so will look to do that a bit although think it might be a bit more swingy than NL.
Other main thing will be to start bonus whoring to get my roll up quicker, probably try the GNUF room first once I get my neteller account unlocked.
Plan for March is to play at least 10K hands and get out of $25 NL had peaked at $800 but back down to a roll $700 at the minute, once I hit $1,000 will move up to $50 NL.
I ended up having to play through to November before getting a new contract, in that time my bankroll shrunk and shrunk basically because my monthly nut was too high, this brought more and more pressure and ended up underolled for $200NL and in the end had to move down to $100NL which left me in even bigger trouble trying to achieve the money I needed.
So the experiment to a point was a failure but mainly because I didnt have a big enough roll to cope with playing for a living and having to make withdrawals, also not having the 6-12 months savings most people advise and I think more importantly having too high expenses in the first place.
In these credit crunch times now I am back working, until April as it stands, I will be focusing on reducing my outgoings (have already got rid of my car as dont need it while working away) and rebuilding my roll which I had to cash out during November till I got paid the following month.
So I was left with $130 in my poker account and was totally sick after multitabling robotic 18/17 tag nit poker. Didnt really play during November or December so started again in January new year and all that but playing SNG's instead of cash. Didnt really have a roll for the cash games except at penny limits which I couldnt face.
Started playing the $3.5 Sng's and $4 180 mans got pretty lucky early on winning a 180 man for $200 so moved up to the $5.5's and then the $6.50 turbos. At this point having played around 100 sngs mainly in sets of 8's realised what a boring soul destroying game they are, yes good for building a roll but the tight then push bot strategy is just no fun at all.
So back to 6 max cash games I went I had a 20 buyin roll for $25NL so I have a new plan to try and move through the limits quickly to try and get back to $200NL and push on up to $400/$600 and hopefully become a regular in the $1,000 game by the end of the year. The plan will be to move up once I hit 20 buy ins for the next level moving back down if I my roll hits 30 buy ins for the level below.
I am also looking at how I play being a total nit does make some money, and is good for rakeback, but once you get up the levels it is open to exploitation, so I am trying to open up my game and play a much more Loose Aggressive style currently around the 25 vpip mark for my play the last month or so, but tend to start being looser than that to get a wild image, seems to work have already been called a madman. But is easier at $25 as the games are very loose passive and even the tag regulars dont tend to play back at you.
Have also cut back my tables to 2-3 and am reducing my HUD to only display the minimum of stats, the top players in the main swear by not using a hud and getting by on notes and game flow and concentrating to get reads. I have definatley played on auto pilot for years so will try and work on improving concentration and note development, this will be more important once I move through the limits knowing how to exploit people in these tougher times.
Will also look to improve and develop some Omaha skills, its the in game at the minute and seems to be where most of the fish are, havent played it 6 max before so will look to do that a bit although think it might be a bit more swingy than NL.
Other main thing will be to start bonus whoring to get my roll up quicker, probably try the GNUF room first once I get my neteller account unlocked.
Plan for March is to play at least 10K hands and get out of $25 NL had peaked at $800 but back down to a roll $700 at the minute, once I hit $1,000 will move up to $50 NL.
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