Hey all and welcome to my Blog. I've decided right now that I need a place to set my goals down in writing and channel rants and HHs without cluttering up the BC with my outbursts.

So this is the Carrot Corner, where anyone who cares can check up on my progess. I'll start with some personal info I guess since noone really knows me here. You'll be able to imagine who's post you're reading a little better next time those bright orange annoying fucking carrots pop up!

My name's Pete, I'm 22 from Scotland. Been playing poker online for about 2 years, but only started to take it really seriously in the last few months or so. In the past I've been a 50NL grinder and made several cash outs of around $1000 to keep me alive in real life when money has been scarce. Now, I'm 4 tabling 20NL to rebuild a role for the purposes of travelling eastern europe with my girlfriend in May. When I come back from this I'll be going back to university and grinding a BR to never withdraw! So this is a little mini Op from now till May and after that you'll see the "going pro and reaching 1KNL" OP when I return to FTR. Poker is one of my few passions in life, so the prospect of getting a real job after I graudate is very ugly. Poker is my love in life and will hopefully save me from a grey pointless exisitence in the end.

Ok so what are the goals of the Carrot Corner then? They are to turn my current role of $558 into $1500 and grind 50Nl at least a bit before May 4th. This is ambitious I know, but I believe it can be done if I really put in the hands. I'm not working just now so it'll be all poker non stop until I leave the country, so we're talking 6 hours or 2000 hands a day hopefully 5 days a week.

I've made my last withdrawal from my poker account now until May. Just so you can get an idea of how I'm doing, I'll start by posting some stats for all of the hands up until now that I have on HEM.




And here's Feburary's which I'm pretty happy with. Ran ahead of EV for the month so no complaints.




Now here's March's graph up until today. Fuck March thus far! It's been filled with suckouts and horible spots, but I think I've controlled myself to not tilt as a result so far which is encouraging since I used to have a some serious tilt issues.



I had a pretty dismal session earlier - lost 2 buyins, but fuck it I'm only down $4 in EV. Got it in with top 2 on A 10 8 and got rivered by AJ then KK ran into an UTG limp/raised Aces and I obv failed to get away from it. Reminded me of Micro2Macro's recent post re: limp raising ranges at these stakes. I made some dubious plays today also, 2 of which I've posted in the BC (the 10,10 hands). Think I may have been on ignorance tilt towards the end of today's sesh - where your subconcious mind tilts and your conscious mind does everything it can to stop you from realising this is happening! As soon as I realised this, I quit playing. Another goal for this OP is to stay strong and focussed during times of running bad or making dumb mistakes.

It's 2am here and I'm wide awake, but I'm not in a productive poker mood so I'll refrain from donking about until tomorrow. I plan to get up real early to start my session tomorrow (10am) but this is easier said than done. I'm totally not a morning type of guy.

K I've rambled a shitload here, so if you're actually still reading this then, awesome and I very much appreciate the interest. I shall update soon with a review of tomorrow's session and some more rambling.

Just before I sign off though, I'll use this space to say thanks to all of FTR for your support. This place has been amazing lately and helped my game a ton!