March 21st - Putting in some hard work.
Monthly goal: $11.000
I am at $4.572
Change: $2.132
I have played a couple of sessions since my last update, trying to get up to speed with my planned hand count for March. I know it must sound kind of arrogant to again complain about my luck, but I have seen an awful amount of slim suck-outs lately.
I fell that with my quality of play and the hours I have put in this month, I should have been above my goal by now. Not more than 6 days ago, I wrote that I didn't deserve to be at $7.000 and that I thought I had been lucky so far and I meant it. Since then however I have put in an extraordinary amount of hands, most featuring quality play and I have lost $2.300 since then.
J8s on the Button: I felt like posting a bad beat, after all that complaining. As far as I know everyone has a critical amount of beats that they can take. Most people start playing a losing game after just one of these, if they didn't already play a losing game to begin with.
I feel good recalling how many of these I have seen in the past week and still remember my game afterwards to a large extent as tilt free.
My trials in $10/$20 are still going fine. I am about break even according to Poker Tracker, but I believe that is due to luck and that I have played a winning game. So far I have only logged 1000 hands at the higher limit, but they have given me a lot of confidence.
A9s in Middle Position: I really hate myself for slow playing this hand. Had I just known he turned a set.
This felt kind of like flushing $1.300 down the toilet. The hand bugged me more than all the suck outs of the week.
2 comments:
It seems like you have crossed some kind of barrier - in your mind and your learning curve. The way you talk about your play comes across as a lot more confident that just a couple of days ago.
Am I way off here or does this impression resonance with you?
(It's the psychologist in me talking here, if you were in doubt:-)
Your right.
I think a lot of it has to do with $10/$20. I have read many times that with enough practice almost anyone can learn to beat the $5/$10 game, but most people will never be able to beat $10/$20.
I know it is kind of ridiculous to set such a precise barrier, but after hearing it so often I kind of started thinking that I could only aspire to beat $5/$10.
After giving $10/$20 a try I suddenly feel like the sky is the limit and I might have a chance to win more money through poker than I previously thought possible.
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