Focus and Exploitation

Exploiting nits so hard and running very good is awesome. I ran like 1.600 above ev but I had a 3.750 month all in all. I played ~60 hours of sngs for 820 games and some plohmaha donking that was b/e for 2.500 hands.

fulltilt giraffe, sucky beginning awesome everything else. 800$ day is around game 150:



+460 bonus and ring game tickets + 200rb + ftps and gold ironman at fulltilt
+600 at stars altogether (tracking is screwed up cuz I still played bounties) with 1200 vpp and 2400 fpp
+20 at merge which I just signed up for with last chance for rakeback, the software tilts me too hard for me to realistically grind there, sng volume is horrible and double or nothings are not sngs, poker or anything. Kinda a freeroll and still have 100$ left on there.

I definitely feel comfortable playing 24s + 36s now and 30s at stars and am sure I have an edge, I know I can't realistically continue make 4.50 a game though sigh. Next month I want to play 1k+ games probably almost all at fulltilt to make ironman and be on pace to make blackcard by early or mid July. I did experiment some at higher buyins losing a 120$ full of fish and breakeven lowstakes regs and winning a little bit over six 60s. It's really the same game except some of the regs are better and the fish / gamblers are actually significantly worse. Maybe I just ended up in games with good fish Anyways I cashed out enough of my roll that I will maybe take shots at 60s on winning days when the games are good but won't be playing 60$+ regularly until I win another 70+ buyins at 24s and 36s. I was thinking about how little I study (like an hour this month) and it's silly really. I always liked and understood math and yet my game is really feel based. sngs are basically all about math + ranges, like all of poker but it's even clearer when stacks are so short. In June I want to spend a few hours a week reviewing the main regs I play with and noting who shoves or calls what where and approximately what this means for calling / pushing ranges for me.


Meh work is going ok but I realized it's nowhere near as awesome as I thought it would be. It is just too much of listening to people complain and whine whilst they are playing awfully. It is also -life ev to not see sunlight and work random shifts and breathe too much smoke. If the trend continues I could end up spending alot of time at work on random shifts waiting for tables / my turn to deal and really not making enough $ to make it worth my while. I'm glad I learned a skill (not saying I am 100% pro dealer or anything but pretty decent) but I don't see myself dealing cards fulltime a year or even 6 months from now. I will probably go back to school in the U.S. or abroad. I would like to continue playing poker obviously but I would not able to in U.S. the way things stand now. I'm sure I would be +ev live poker but I don't think I would turn to that as a sole source of income ever unless I had tons of money saved.

Cliffs:
In june I want to
.win more money
.eat healther
.go outside more
.make blackcard
.move up
.make plans to save some more money then quit job and go back to school or find a more fulfilling job