Two day's off

I didn't do any playing today just went out did some shit, tomorrow will be the same - So for the next two days I'm just gonna chill and get ready for the upcoming month. I made 1200 TLB points in just 2 days of playing - I think next month I should be able to win the TLB at least once - So you'll see my preety face at the bottom of Pokerstars HUD next to Joe Hachem. :D
I figure in 7 hard days of playing I should be able to get just under 3000 points, that would be ~420 a day which seems more than achievable.

Good quote

I'm reflecting on some of the hands I've gone broke with. Often I went against my guy feeling and just made the "correct play" which has resulted in me busting when this could have been avoided. I remember Phil Ivey saying "We all know about probabily and stuff like that, but eventually it gets down to, does he have it or not?"
I think this is the answer I will be asking myself more often as opposed to making "correct" plays. My results have been decent so far, but I have very high expectations and am always looking for ways to increase my skill level. I think this will help, trusting my instinct more often and having no regrets.

Can't always run good.

Eh I had one decent result today the rest are not really worth talking about.
Today I played the $300+15, $150+12 , $30+3, $5+.5 and a few $22 and $55 sit and go's.
I think I played very poorly in the $315, I accumulated a decent stack early on and then I made one bad call that I think I should have been able to get away form... I made the mistake of going broke with one pair - Which is something I hardley ever do. I also donked off my chips in the $10 rebuy with a low pocket pair when I really felt I was beat but I could not get away from it because 33% of my chips were in play... but that's no excuse.
Only half-decent finishes are 2nd in the $5+.5 ~650 profit and 21th in the $30+3 ~130
I actually outplayed the guy heads up in the $5+.5 but he won every single all in pot - he won 4 in a row, after each one I chipped away got a big chip lead and lost another coinflip. Really satisfied with the way I played there.
My net for the day is a grand total of $84, what a fantastic day.

Thoughts:
-Play solid tight poker
-Trust my instinct and make the correct play as oppose to just playing the numbers and calling because of pot odds.

Tournies Day 1

So I played several tournies... had really good results :)

4rth in the $10R +$4128
2nd in the $55 +$900
8th in the $22 + $93
9in in the 22 + 61


Solid day, weird thing is, this is the most money I've ever won in one day, and it's the first day I ever spend playing tournaments... This is sick. I was initually inspired to play because 2 of the last 3 winners of the last sunday Million were my fellow 2/4 and 3/6NL grinders. Apparently cashgame players are good in every aspect of poker ;).
I will try and post some hands later its 5:30 am getting kinda late im tired.

July

Ok, so for the month of July I'm gonna play less cashgames and really play Tournies very hard. Liquidpoker.net is having a MTT challenge for that month and I'm gonna spend that month learning all I can about tournies which is something I've never done before.

Day One

Okay - I may not be able to do 8h a day every day immidiatley. It's a difficult transition to make, but I will make a conscience effort to put in more hours every day, untill I am eventually albe to play for extended peroids of time.

Todays results : 3/6NL @ Pokerstars, 2400 hands +$1985 ~6 hours

Played a preety solid game, didn't make any terrible calls which is good. Once I learn to play longer I see no reason that I can't make 3-4 buy ins daily so long as I'm not cold-decked. Many of these players are absoluley attrocious these games are not difficult by any means. Here's examples of today's hands.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/42703
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/42713
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/42797
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/42809



Poker is indeed a game of hours not results - this is something I wish I had realized earlier, I checked my lifetime winrate @ 3/6 via Pokertracker and im making just a little under 11bb/100, which is definatley maintainable given the calibur of these players. I used to just stop if i won the first 2 or so all in pots and call it a day. But if I was break-even or losing for the day I would continue playing as long as it took... Which is not the correct way to approach this game. There's no reason I cannot make 50k+ a month even jutst playing 3/6 NL full time. This number is very achievable - 50k/ 30 days = ~$1670/day. With a winrate of 10bb/100 (10 is a nice round number) this can be made playing ~2800hands/day which equates to about 6h a day 8-tabling. If I 8-table for 8h+ there's no reason 50k/month cannot be achieved.

Return

I've really been slacking off A LOT latley I've never had this much free time avaliable to me, and apparently my time managment skills are non-existant. So starting today I will make a conscience effort to play a solid 8h+ a day for at least 6 of 7 days every week.

Let the madness begin.