I am going to post my 6 max stats at 50nl since coming back. I have filtered the stats to be more than 2 players so that my hu results do not alter stats. I have a good winrate at the moment but the sample size is pretty small. I am playing 8 tables during most sessions. I do not rely on stats a ton and therefore I am not sure where I may be leaking money. Thanks in advance for any feedback.

I just "majorly" tilted for the first time in almost 100k hands. I only tilted away 2 buyins before snap quitting all of my tables. I did lose 5 buyins for the session. 5 buyins is not a big deal BUT I was taking a shot of course. That 5 buyin was 25% of my current online roll. I had great tables but the fish just did what fish do. AK
I'm just annoyed right now because I have done such a good job at tilt control lately. I literally almost threw my mouse across the room. I have never broken anything from tilt but I was really close tonight. My biggest problem has been going into auto pilot mode occassionally. I have tried to keep my sessions below 2 hours so that I don't lose focus.

Back to the drawing board I suppose!

Tomorrow is the last day at work for a few weeks. One of the many perks of being a teacher. My tennis tryouts have gone really well. My girls team is going to do really well this year. I would like to get a fat state championship ring my first year coaching tennis. My boys team is good but we will not likely make it very far in the playoffs.

Hopefully I will get to grind a bunch during Christmas Break. My girlfriend's dad is going to be staying with us for a little over a week. Hopefully I can still average at least 5k hands per day. Dang!! Just realized that I also have to prepare my lesson plans to teach U.S. I Honors next semester. Maybe I can average 4k hands per day.

I have not put in any real volume lately. I have been crazy busy with work, tennis, and family. I played a few junky sessions that I was not happy about. I was not in good mental states when I played like 3 of my last 5 sessions. I was either annoyed about work or tired from work.

I have only put in 10k hands since my last post, and I am not very happy with my play during that stretch. I know the sample size is small, but I really let a little bit of variance impact my decisions. For the first time since coming back, I started to lack confidence in my play. I stopped pulling the trigger in situations because I kept having negative thoughts.

Poker is a grind and the swings can suck. You cannot question your decisions while on the felt. The time to question your decision making is during your hand history review, your time with your coach, etc... Poker is like any other sport. Do you think a Major League Baseball pitcher is thinking about his pitching mechanics during the 9th inning of a ball game? Do you think Tiger Woods is questioning his swing mechanics while coming down the back 9 of the Masters? Of course not!! They are confident in their abilities and they are out there performing at a high level. Major League pitchers fix their mechanics in the bullpen, golfers fix their swing on the driving range, and poker players patch their leaks while analyzing Holdem Manager, posting on the forums, talking to our coach, etc... While we are playing a session, we should be locked in on the game flow and pounding the EV out of our opponents.

Have faith in your abiliites while on the felt. Confidence alone will increae your winrate more than you may realize.

We get out for Christmas break after this week so I should be getting in a lot more volume. My girlfriend's dad will be coming into town next week so I will not get to grind as much as I would like. I hope to get in about 40k hands between now and January. Good luck to everyone!!

Well things have gone pretty well so far. I just wish that I had more time to play. For all of you young guys out there grinding away with no family or serious responsibillities, enjoy every minute of it. I will try to get at least 10 hours in a week until we get out for Christmas break. Hopefully I can keep the run good going. The graph below is filtered for more than 2 players.

Back to school tomorrow. We only have 3 weeks left until Christmas Break. Going to be a rough 3 weeks for me and my students. After this week off for Thanksgiving it is going to be hard to get them back into a routine. At least football season is over and I do not have to work 75 hours a week anymore.

Poker has been really good to me lately but my HU game is very weak at the moment. I have been battling any Reg at 50nl that will play me. I am down about 10 buy ins so far over maybe 10k hands. I don't think I am going to play a lot of HU until I can spend some more time patching some leaks. I am crushing 6 max at them moment so I should really not spend what little time I have to play on fixing my HU leaks.

I have finally made a few trades on 2+2. Hopefully I can become a regular trader on there so I do not have to keep waiting 4-6 weeks for my money.

Wow they are soft below 100nl. The regs are spewy. I had a 18/16 nit 3bet me w/ J4 off suit. I had another reg 4bet call off 53s. I had a reg 5bet bluff 50% of his stack and fold to shove. I could keep going. The HU players are all bum hunters. The PLO games are amazingly soft. I assumed more people were going to get better at PLO since Black Friday but I was way wrong. I have not played any tourneys but I would assume they are soft as well. I might play a few tomorrow.

All in all, I am very happy with the games I am playing in. I have played 57 hours and 34,000 hands so far this month. I am up about 50 buy ins in this timeframe.

Now the hard part will be withdrawing all of this hard earned money. This is of course the scary part and why I avoided online poker since BF. I have already requested a sizeable withdraw because I do not plan to keep more than 3k online. I am trying to learn how to make trades on 2+2 but everyone is scared about trading with new people. Thanks to RedeemLastKnown for trying to work with me.

Well my first long blog entry went into the muck. This one will be shorter.

I am back grinding online. Started with $100 about a month ago. I am currently at $3500. Bankroll management is for losers. I started at 20nl and began taking shots at 50nl with 8 buy ins. Things went well and I can now comfortable play 6-9 tables of 6max. I will probably not play stakes much higher than 50nl for a while. I don't plan to keep much more than 3k online considering the current environment. The graph below is filtered for more than 2 players. I am still up $$ HU but the graph is not nearly as pretty with those results included.


So what have I been up to since BF?? I am officially a full time high school teacher. I have a contract, benefits, and annoying students. I teach world history and U.S. history. I am also coaching football and tennis this year. Our football team lost a nail biter in the 2nd round of the playoffs. My girls tennis team should make a deep run in the playoffs this year. We will start tennis in February. Until then, I plan to grind as much as possible.

Good to be back!!

Cancel stake offer...just read over everyone's difficulty cashing out. Online poker is dead to me at the moment. :(

I have not updated since the morning of black friday so here we go.

Aside from losing my online bankroll I also purchased a 2007 Chrysler Pacifica for my girlfriend. Long story short but she got smashed by some nearly blind old guy after only having the car 22 hours (I purchased the car May 5th.) The old guy's insurance company has been in no rush to get the car fixed and they still owe me $1,500 I paid for her a rental car and $500 in medical bills. My lawyer is going to try and get all of that back plus money for deprication in value of vehicle and pain and suffering for her. The car was really close to being totaled and will cost $8,200 to fix. It has only taken the old guy's insurance company 40 days to get the ball rolling on getting the car fixed. I met with the auto repair guy today to sign some paperwork and he said it is going to be another 25-30 days before the car will be completed!!!! Needless to say this has all been extremely frustrating.

We moved into a new place about a month ago and my cost of living has dropped down by $500 per month!!

Still no luck on getting a full time teaching position but I just found out it is going to cost me about $2,000 this Fall in online classes to keep my certification (which expires after 5 years if you don't meet professional development requirments.)

I have played live poker a few times and I am up like $500 but I hate the drive and really miss the convinence of online poker. Really really miss online poker :(

I have found myself trapped in the 2+2 world. I have avoided there forums for the past few years because it is filled with so much garbage. Unfortunately after black friday I have found a lot more time to troll amonst the NVGtards.

I am losing hope that we are going to get our money back from FTP. I think the NVGtards have sucked the hope out of me.

I ran super hot the past few days. I feel that I am playing really well at the moment. The downturn in my redline was due to me playing tooooo aggressive in spots and trying to force the action. I needed to be reminded that I can't win every pot even if I check raise bluff the river. I am back on track and I am hoping to complete this challenge by June. I really hope I can complete this challenge with a breakeven redline.