Learn what I think I know...

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I wrote a MTT walk through for anyone looking to move past the micros. Its not an easy one to follow but IMO you will get the most ouf of it doing things the way I wrote them. Its how I would have done it if I could have gone back...I should have entered it into the FTR competition but it was over before I was able to finish this. I hope it helps someone out .

Just an epic fail...19 players left of a $11 6max and I'm in 5th place. Instead of playing smart poker and picking my spots. I chose to be a spazzy spewtard and lose 1/3rd my stack. Then lose A9<A2 then shove short stacked K6s into A7o bvb. Over all I want to hang myself for a puke of $90 and 16th place. God this game is sick, especially when its your fault. FML

I'm very excited for next month. I have a decent bankroll and for the first time I feel like I have somewhat of a grip on my game. I had a deep run in the daily 30k this last week or so and finally busted in 12th to a coin flip. Good run considering most of my time has been devoted to grinding 180s. My goal from now till the end of this year is to be able to comfortably 20 table, currently 14.

Also on a small note, I finally understand variance. Which is a huge gain for me as it has always been a big, giant question mark. The more games you play the more you begin to understand how poker really works. Even though I am just being a push bot there are still tons of things to learn.

Its been a little while since I have updated. My head is so much more level now that is was a month ago. I think that the newb thought process in terms of tilt has been mostly eliminated and the numbers are getting easier to recognize. I had a HUGE downswing this month that lasted 1/3rd of my over all sample (but then I realized that stats don't matter). I was really worried that I was doing something different until I checked my cEV adjusted..lol I ran like shit. Ill end on this thought:

Poker is long term but what does that really mean? The game of poker is a constant. It is always there but never changes. Whether it be MTT, SnG, or Cash the numbers never change in terms of equity. Equity will always be equity. We choose when to jump into the game and when to jump out. Here is a better example to illustrate what I mean.

You multi and have 6 games going in front of you. 2 things happen, little things and global things. Little things like opponent reads happen and big things like shoving AA is unexploitable (just examples). These things are universal, meaning they are the same on all tables. You will always be able to make unexploitable plays and villain reads. So really, even though you have 6 games going at once you really have 1 game going called your "session".

Each game you play nothing more than an investment you are making during your session. Its almost like jello. If you mix a whole bunch of jello together, you really just end up with more jello. Poker seems to have the same effect. Now think of your jello filled with money. Only each individual small jello piece has a certain $ amount in it. When you shove it all together is where your profits come from.

This seems pretty abstract but I don't want to delete it all. I hope someone gets the message in there

ehhh making progess.

good stuff.

I have chosen to bring this back but hopefully in a more interesting way. My thought process is very different now from when I first started this blog. I don't know who would do it but if you ever go from start to finish you can see a progression. On to the updates:

1) I had to stop playing to finish up a film project I had been working on. It took way more time then I thought but in the end I am happy I did.

2) Around the same time a close relative of mine had to have open heart surgery and it didn't go the smoothest. He resulted in being in a coma for 2 weeks and his body was refusing to work on its own. He eventually came out of it to then get pneumonia. All is well now but this was a difficult time.

3) After both of these situations so much time had gone by that I basically spent my roll on living and expenses I hadn't accounted for. Luckily I was able to find some really cool backers who are also very good players. I switched over to FTP so I could take advantage of rackback and now I'm just going through the motions of building back up again.

My dedication to poker is stronger now then it was before and my game has improved a ton. I am becoming more and more interested in investing and poker seems like a really great way to learn the basics (and sometimes more advanced) with a smaller amount of money.

Well thats really it and I am excited to be back

Just finished building my new grinding workspace. All thats left is to try and hide some of the ugly ass cables.

Monitor on left is 22" 1620x1080, right is 28" 1920x1200

The original idea was to tile 16 tables with just a little overlap but I stack now. Either way I love it!



with 16 tables tiled:

FML...I was having a great session today until I got nailed with a tornado warning and had to cut it short. I usually play 70 games a day at least but was only able to get like 50 something in. Going to have to grind like crazy this weekend to make up for lost time. Good thing I have nothing better to do