May

As mentioned I completed my goals for beating 50NL and made the move to 100NL. Ended up being that I played 50NL for about half the month and 100NL the other half.

I only ended up playing 7600 hands this month which is really light. I guess I was just taking it easy as i was adjusting to 100NL. Testing the waters.

So far so good at 100NL. To be honest I really don't see much difference skill wise, but I think that's partly due to how much my game is improving. This is the best month I've had so far.

May:






Moving forward, I need to take my game to the next level. Think outside the box and get to mid stakes.

Hi 100NL

Last weekend I achieved my target goals and beat $50NL. [Insert Party Poker balloons and fireworks imo]

Target goals were:

50k hands
35 bi's for $100NL

To summarize, I learned a fuckton at $50NL. My game came together and I worked out a ton of leaks. I also hit a ton of variance at 50NL and it was quite the up and down roller coaster at times. Pain in the ass, but it really toughened my skin. I think "inner game" is super important. Overall I'd say I started $50NL still primarily a feel player and finished significantly fundamentally stronger. An epic tranformation imo. Proud of how far I have come. Big thanks to my awesome coach and DeucesCracked.com for helping me get to my current state.

Moving forward, today I played my first sessions at $100NL. It went quite well. Finished up a little over 3 buy ins (+$300). I played three 1 hour sessions and only got in about 640 hands which is actually a pretty low Saturday for me. At one point I was playing 4 tables, but for the most part played 1-3 tables at a time. Just wanted to break myself and test the waters. The biggest difference I noticed was having to table select more. We will see were my thoughts are when I've gotten into it a bit.

Update Part 1

Alright it's been a while since I've added to my blog. Been really busy and well I guess I keep procrastinating because I have so much to add.

To start off I'm going to post the link to Episode 4 since I haven't yet. We finished the series and it was awesome being a part of it.

Ep 4:

http://www.deucescracked.com/videos/861-Episode-Four

I will update soon about my recent move up to the 4th floor lol, my new sweet poker office, beating 50NL and my thoughts on moving up to 100NL since it's right around the corner, my first 6 months at DC and since I just signed for another 6 months, what might be in store etc.

Ep 3, etc etc

Episode 3 came out last Friday.

We sadly record the final episode next week :(

Hopefully more to come! :)

Haven't posted the links to the series yet for some reason, so here they are:

Ep 1

http://www.deucescracked.com/videos/794-Episode-One

Ep 2

http://www.deucescracked.com/videos/814-Episode-Two

Ep 3

http://www.deucescracked.com/videos/842-Episode-Three

March

March was an interesting month with a lot going on. I played roughly 13k hands. I Started off pretty bad going on a downswing of about 10bi’s at one point to recovering and ending up 5bi’s. I’ll also get about $200 back in rakeback so in total I ended up about $450 this month. I guess for 50NL and being on a downswing that’s not too bad. It’s also fwiw my 5th straight month of posting a profit.

What else was great about March is I defeated a downswing. It really feels great beating a downswing. I get stronger with each bit of variance I encounter and it’s getting to the point where it’s pretty much a non issue.

Also as you know we recorded episode 1 and 2 for the DC series. I can really tell a big difference in my game. Coaching sessions always seem to do that for me and I’m really happy with how quick I’m improving. Besides my improved decisions at the table, I can really tell my improvement doing hand history analysis in the forums. Still not perfect, but improving.

To summarize March, I’d say I started the month a winner at 50NL and am feeling like I’m starting to get on a level where I can crush 50NL. Most notable improvement is maxing my value in spots I used to miss. I’m starting to get that feeling like I had when I had got to a point at 25NL where I was crushing it.


March Graph:





Moving forward, I think I should be ready to try and make the move to 100NL may/june. My plan is to have 35 buy ins. Currently need 6 more. Deep is gooot. Gives me room to adjust and if I go on a downswing it won’t hurt so bad especially just moving up. My plan throughout is to be rolled deep and have nitty bankroll management. Considering wanting to go professional, I don’t see any other way.

Some other thoughts, after watching episode 2 the other day, I noticed some things that I’m doing during recording that are getting on my nerves at least. I’m quite possibly being too critical of myself for obv reasons, but since I don’t make videos all the time and haven’t given a presentation since college I for sure see things I can improve on. Something else I want to improve moving forward is how clearly I explain my thought process. I think doing hh’s will certainly help and the better I get fundamentally this will improve as well. I really think this is due to my lack of forum participation the past 3-4 years and primarily playing by feel. Anyway just something I want to work on.

Other than that, I can’t wait to move into my one bedroom and ready for my new set up!

Episode 2 and other ramblings

We recorded episode 2 last night. Some good discussion and probably better than episode 1. Quality also was improved because I bought a new headset and uploaded my session vid to the site server so the video quality will be as close to perfect as it's going to get. Excited to see it come out tomorrow.

It was pretty cool last night while recording, because even though we recorded episode 1 only two weeks prior, I can see how much I'm improving. I feel like I soak up the knowledge like a sponge.

This Weekend

turned out pretty good. Started nice because I took Friday off of work. I went out to the pool yesterday and it was relaxing. So glad it's getting closer to summer. So as far as poker I ended up +$450 or 9 buy ins on my full tilt account this weekend. +$211 yesterday and +$240 today. It helped because I've been on a downswing.

My month so far: