Monday 11 February 2013

Lazy, lazy February....

Hey, so i thought i'd just give you all a really quick update on February so far, the reason it's going to be really quick is because I've played very little so far and generally been very lazy and I'm miles behind pace this month :( 
A few friends have told me several times so far this year that my short term results are not the most important thing in the world with the high volume i'm putting in, and i now agree. I have always been caught up on checking my session results like every 10-30 minutes in-game, just to check on my redline and winnings at that time. I feel like i used to think if i checked my redline often i could tell when i started to auto-pilot, as often ties when my redline started to dip i was playing poorly, but this year so far my style has changes and my redline is much more negative than it has been in the past so checking is not so crucial. This, and the the fact that it is not of utmost importance that i win every single session i play this year has led me to not checking results and removing all the dollar and the winrate tabs from my Hold'em Manager apart from the evbb/100. This should be a good way to track my progress and play throughout the month without worrying too much about how bad or good i am running and so that i can still look at hands after a sesssion. So this is what my HEM2 database looks like now on the session tab:
So as you can see, haven't played much at all and currently only on ~20k vpp for the month, which is about 15k less than this time last month :( Though it's not all bad news, i spent most of today going over my game with friends who are very good players and i'm going to be doing some of that tomorrow also, so hopefully i will see some good results from this at the tables afterwards. I a still going to try my best to make another 55k vpp this month despite the bad start and get up to 75k vpp total for Feb. Basically have no chance of hitting that 90k vpp target i set myself at the start of Feb but that's ok as i'm still ahead of pace currently. As for my other Feb goals i still haven't stacked LeJean at the tables haha i thought i had a good chance on two seperate occasions when i got in KK pre vs him but he had AA and then again when i got in my AA pre, but turns out the unstackable man is indeed unstackable as he had AA also lol And let's hope i can make more than $0 by the end of the month, i'm hoping the time spent away from the tables will pay off and i can accomplish this goal. 
I also treated myself to a new grind chair :) 
My old chair had really hard arm rests and i was having to rest a pillow on there to grind otherwise i would get elbow pain. So i saw this one in a local staples store, obviously only went in to spend £5 and left having spent £155 haha But hopefully it's worth it, i spend a lot of time in my chair so it needs to be a nice comfortable one. 
So after a little more study time i'll be back on the grind full-time at some point tomorrow racking up those vpps :) don't forget to share my blog on Twitter or facebook to your friends if your enjoying following! Thanks and good luck all until next time :) 

4 comments:

  1. Hey, Mike.

    I've met you at the tables couple of times, and I bumped into your blog when I was actually studying your profile in HM2 :) Anyways, nice blog out there, and I was following it without commenting. I had similar marathor at the end of the last year, trying to get my SN.

    So, why am I commenting now? I was amazed with your dedication and volume you put out there, I respect it a lot. I am rooting for you from the start, but I was bit sceptic if it is possible to keep things so intense for so long.

    Then you had this "lazy month", and just today I had read this and got worried too. Please check this out, it might be interesting. Just... be careful and control the process!

    http://dustyschmidt.net/dusty_schmidt_blog/

    Anyhow, I really wish you the best of luck, let the variance swing the other way soon! Keep up the great work and I hope you'll get what you want! Will keep watching closely and I hope to meet you someday at the tables too :)

    Good luck,
    see you around,
    DemonRax.

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  2. Hey..

    I like the read, but are you gone broke, or have you given up hunting for SNE since there has been no update after this one ? :=)

    Gl if you´re still in the race

    Regards Jan

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  3. Hey guys thanks a lot for commenting, my apologies for not updating recently for a while i forgot i even had this blog still haha But due to your comments i'm going to resume posting here, even if it is not very frequently.

    Thanks for reading.

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