April Results - May Objectives

I close my month tonight beacause I don't thnik I will be able to play tomorrow since I'll have to prepare all my stuff for vacations and I'll need to rest in order to drive at night (when kid is sleeping :) )

April Results

Objectives reminder :
1. Stop immediately the session when I feel tilting or close to OK
2. Don't play poker when I feel too tired OK
3. Go to the gym at least 3 times per week OK
4. Quit smoking OK

I'm really proud of accomplishing last one. I still feel some "cigaret needs" after big meals and while drinking alcohol but it's not as big deal as it was few weeks ago. I really think I'm on the good way and working 3 days at gym help me very much.

Regarding cash results, I finish just bellow +8K$. COmparing to march that's obviously a great result but I'm still disappointed because in term of BB/100 that's nothing really great : 57K hands for NL400 for +2.18BB/100





May Objectives

I really like the way I handled objectives last month so here are the new ones :

1. Take 5 days holidays :)
2. New 3 BI stop loss : stop playing poker for the day after loosing 3 BIs
2. Stop playing for minimum 1 hour after making a bad play
3. Keep going 3 times a week to the gym

Final straight

Still 3 days before closing this month and taking a small break from poker.
I had 2 winning days in a row this week-end but I'm slightly disappointed because I lost 2 BIs late in the session today.
I'd love finishing good the last 3 days to have for the first time this year a decent month














Even if I had a winning session tonight, the rivers were not really on my side...

http://weaktight.com/171707
Opponent was really aggro, so I'm quite confident being ahead on the flop.
I call and check turn hoping he will 2nd barrel. He checks and hit his ace (but I have to call because that's a perfect bluffing card for him)

http://weaktight.com/171708
This player almost made me tilt when he typed "lol" just before calling the river...

http://weaktight.com/171709
My bad. Easy fold river

3/6 shot... bad timing

Thought I would post a winning graph today but I lost 3 full NL600 pot just at the end of the session, that sucked ! I closed the poker software really quickly after the 3rd pot to avoid tilting. I will profit of this short night session to go to bed early.
It has been a week that I'm shoting 3/6 tables as I found some really soft tables. But for the moment it hasn't paid off.
Poker has been really frustrating this month. Not as much as last month obviously but I keep dreaming about huge 20K$, even 30K$ months and I'm far far far away for the moment even if I think I play much better than before.

I know I should take my time and concentrate only on improving my game but I keep looking other players scores everyday. But I should relativize, we all know that there is few winning poker players for a lot of loosers. Loosers won't be so enthousiastic about showing their results on the web ! If I could see all players curves, I'm sure I wouldn't be so frustrated as my curves would be part of the best ones since I'm a winning player.












http://weaktight.com/170266
SB vs BB. Got the nut flush draw but opponent has one pair and it holds

http://weaktight.com/170267
I didn't know the player and was more concerned about a strong draw here. Bad read :(

http://weaktight.com/170270
Big fish spotted, no way I can let my overpair away here

Warning !

I think it's one of the first time I get the feeling of getting bored during a session
That's what happened today after 2 hours playing. I was used for the last weeks to play easily 3-4 hours sessions at night and quit because I was feeling tired but tonight I really wasn't enjoying the game.












Having a negative session didn't help me to get some enthousiasm obviously but since I played some 3/6 tonight, we can say this is a -1 or 2 BI day (not so terrible)

To come back with boreness, there is only one way to avoid it : play less ! I might take a break very quick tomorrow morning if I get same feeling when starting to play
Good news is that I will take some vacations with my family beginning of may, so I will not hear about poker for 4-5 days

Only 1 hand I want to show you for today : a really nice set up with 3 players (set vs set vs OESFD)... Unfortunately I did hit the turn but top set got his boat for last street
http://weaktight.com/169085

Grinding

Saturday I haven't been playing at all since we prepared with my wife some 30th birthday party for 3 friends of us. Sunday, I didn't play a lot since I had a strong headache due to... saturday's 30th birthday party for 3 friends of us.
Pokerwise nothing really exciting, I have not been facing really strong spots and the only big pot I lost was TT vs AA from aggro player on a rags flop.
Since games were quite boring I had to make strong application to not open any firefow window

Money goes and comes

Yesterday was the worst day of the month, today is the best one and I almost got back all the cash I had lost yesterday.
Obviously I'm really happy with my game today, not that I played awesome poker but I was all the time focused on my tables, no distraction, no music, no TV, no websurf, no MSN, only focus on my 4 tables. Yes, 4 tables ! I managed to play "only" 4 tables the whole day, and I think I played my A-game during the same time :)














One thing really important I just noticed : i have only played 1600 hands, that's 3 times less than yesterday... So that brings me to the fact that I should stop marathon session, particularly when I want to chase the BIs I lost in the beginning of the session
So I think I will set 2 new objectives next month that could look like :
- Stop playing (1 hour break minimum) if you make a bad play (that means that I don't play my A game any more
- Stop playing for the day when I reach a 4 BIs downswing

http://weaktight.com/164710
I sit down to a 3/6 player because there was this nice player with 60/5 stats :)
Earlier in the session I made a big laydown when he made a huge overbet the river (i had set of 7s but the board was like A2357 and the 4 could easily be in his range
This time I think he thought I could make another laydown. No way ! :)

http://weaktight.com/164712
Last orbit, this player already 3 bet me in the exact same position (CO vs BTN) and he folded to my 4 bet. He thought I could be bluffing here but that was not the case (By the way I was really nervious when I saw the flop)

http://weaktight.com/164714
One of the last hand of the night. Nice set up for me (but the player deserved it for playing T3)

Knocked Out !

Wow, as I told you, my day started badly.. and it went worse until the end :(
Conclusion : -3K$ ! Obvious worst day of the month !












Did I tilt ? Don't think so but I went back playing 6 tables and I think it didn't help my game
Since I am doing good with my monthly objectives I have to remember to put next month in my objectives "NEVER MORE THAN 4 TABLES !"
Things got a little better at the very end but it's almost 4:00 AM, time to go to sleep, tomorrow will be another day, a better one I hope ;)

Should not have waken up this morning...

I know that I can't stop complaining about my luck for the last weeks. I think it makes me feel better when I write down the HHs in my blog, sort of cooler therapy I guess.
This morning I waked up really motivated, ready for a long poker day as I hadn't planed anything else (sports sessions are usually monday, wednesday and friday)
But everything went wrong, players were really aggresive and everytime I had hands, there were better hands in front of me.

It seems that I'm always starting day bad, so then I don't play to win money but to recover the money I lost earlier.

http://weaktight.com/163438
AK vs KK
I don't think I can do otherthing here as it looks like a good spot to squeeze

http://weaktight.com/163439
AK vs... KK
Player was 3betting a lot, bad timing for me :(

http://weaktight.com/163442
BB vs SB... AQ vs AK

http://weaktight.com/163443
Was really to let it go @ turn but this 2nd ace made me think he didn't have it
A5o rulez !

Black day (part 2)

Unfortunately night session didn't go well and I 've just finished my worst day of the month with -1.9K$ :(
Here is the graph of the last 2 days :













I'm starting to be a bit frustrated again this month because this time I'm not tilting and I think I'm playing my A-game most of the time. I make some bad calls ocasionnaly but nothing compared to before. So I deserve to win !!! :)))
What is also difficult to accept is to watch good players graphs playing limits far more difficult than 2/4 and see how well they performed. Am I so bad that I can even crush 2/4 ? I hope it's not true and I'm just stucked in a breakeven period after march terrible month

Black day

There is day where it seems that every hand goes the wrong way. I haven't got sucked out very bad, but it seems that today I had to lose every single hand where i was slightly ahead
Here are the 6 main pots lots today :

http://weaktight.com/162479
I can't blame the player with TP and nut flush draw. He had like 68% equity (but surely less since last player told us he had also a flush)

http://weaktight.com/162482
Classic coin flip QQ vs AK
However I've just check in PT and I have lost my last 3 Q's > 100bb pot against AK...

http://weaktight.com/162483
Very few hands after the QQ vs KK against the same player
But this time I have AK... and he has KK :(

http://weaktight.com/162484
I almost thought I was beaten @ turn since I was just beating AQ/KK.
Actually i was ahead... until this 2 outer !

http://weaktight.com/162487
Have I already told you that my Q's don't hold agaisnt AK ?

http://weaktight.com/162489
I don't like my play here. Stacking off with QQ here is OK as the board is drawy but I have to shove the flop.

I still have to play my night session now, I hope I will run better and that I can post a positive graph

2 days for nothing (bis)

My feeling is strange tonight, between satisfied for recovering more than 4 BIs loss from yesterday and disappointed with my last hand :

http://weaktight.com/160234
I know this player very well (bad loose passive regular). When he miniraises me I should let my bullets go, no way I'm winning anymore...

2 days for nothing

I lost today the BIs I had won yesterday :(
I didn't tak time today to review the HHs, I'll try to do it tomorrow. But I don't have the feeling I had been sucked out too much so it might be possible that I didn't play well. I have to check it in order to make some corrections in my game if it is the case

MU 1 - 0 AS Roma

Sorry for the tiltle, I had no clue what I could write so I just picked one football game result :)

Two last days were strange as I would start by winning few BIs in the morning before loosing them by the end of the day. But tonight I decided to keep playing after going back even as I was feeling pretty good and that tables look soft. I really dont regret this decision as I finished my session by a great run.














Since beginning of the month I really try to play only 4 tables as it helps me a lot to focus on the player and my reads. Maybe I won't be able to play as many hands as I used to but curiously it seems that playing less tables allows me to play larger sessions.


I have been playing a lot of hours the last 3 days so I might take a small break tomorrow to rest a little bit. I have to wake up at 8:00 AM every morning to prepare and bring my kid to his nannie, and I rarely succeed sleeping again after. Therefore nights are usually shorts (6 hours max...). I will also have my 2nd sport session of the day tomorrow so very little time for poker I guess (but I'm sure I'll find some if I really feel in th emood of playing :)

Some of the last hands I played tonight

http://weaktight.com/156334
I think my opponent tried to represent a full and bluff me. I guess it was bad timing vs 2nd nuts here. I'm glad I didn't shove the turn as he would have folded.

http://weaktight.com/156339
That's always nice when a player doesn't give you any credit on a 3-barrel play

http://weaktight.com/156340
Not a horrible play since few days ago against me he would have easily hit one of his 8 outs here :D

http://weaktight.com/156341
Horrible play from my opponent who miniraise river with a straight on a 3 flush board and call my reraise.

Good run already over :(

That was fast ! Ms. Luck let me alone 1 day

http://weaktight.com/155605
I trapped him... he sucket me out

http://weaktight.com/155607
If I can't win my oversets I'm in big trouble

Do no tilt, do not tilt !!!

I feel good !

Finally a great session ! Had forgotten this nice feeling :D
Haven't lost a big pot during the day and I even punished one opponent with a 4 outer














http://weaktight.com/154953
4 outer ! YES !

3 days break even

I thought I was ready to run hot when I went to a 2K$ upswing. It was nice to have a winning session after so many loosing ones.
However I almost lost the same amount of money following 2 days.














I run pokerev for april, I really think I run bad...




























But there are good news ! ;)
- 0 cigaret
- 0 tilt
- 3 sport sessions this week

April = March ?

Well, I just can't win anymore. That's so crazy !














http://weaktight.com/149976
Flush got rivered against boat...77% equity

http://weaktight.com/149997
Yes, I turned my straight... 90% equity against river boat

http://weaktight.com/149998
I could not put him on a 9 and I don't think my river call is too bad

http://weaktight.com/150000
AK < 9To

http://weaktight.com/149978
AJ < A9

http://weaktight.com/150001
I hit DP @ river when opponen flopped top set
I should have maybe folded river here but pot odds are huge

Tough... really tough time

Good news is that it's been 2 days now that I'm not smoking. I feel a bit stressed after eating and when I wake up at morning but nothing too hard.
I went back to the gym today and I felt much better than monday, my body is definitively getting used to some exercices after 1 year strike :)

April objectives

So last 2 months I set cash money objectives. I obviously failed both times
Therefore, objectives this month will be more about "quality goals", 2 of them direct related to poker, 2 others about health :

1. Stop immediately the session when I feel tilting or close to
2. Don't play poker when I feel too tired
3. Go to the gym at least 3 times per week
4. Quit smoking

I already went to the gym last monday and had a 1 hour coaching session. That was great and even if my body feels pretty destroyed since that day, I feel overall much better. The coach gave me some exercices schedules for 1 month and a half before we meet again.

I think goals 1. & 4. will be the toughest to achieve but I guess 1. will be the one who will improve the most my poker winrate, and 4. will increase my life winrate ;)

Last post was a joke as we are used to do every 1st of April each year ;)

Bankrupt !

I guess it had to happen :(
Following all this month bad run and bad play I tried to take a break from my favorite game... unsuccessfully as usually !
I finally played 3K hands in NL200 but was still running like shit, so for the firt time of my life I did something really crazy and stupid : I went to play some high stakes to chase my losses :(

Here is how my adventure ended, loosing my only left BI @ NL20,000$ table

http://weaktight.com/148117

I don't know when I will be able to forget about this hand, and how I'll be able to play back poker. I might be able to get back from my bank account something like 3000$ but this will allow me to play only NL100 and I'm not sure I will accept it...

So as you should notice, my poker career turned out pretty bad... I will certainly let this blog away few weeks now...