I have not been active on the forums at all for awhile. I wanted to start playing poker again semi-seriously. The main reason for this blog is so I force myself to review hands/results and make myself more accountable for my mistakes. The blog is going to be a way to track that. I expect to update the blog once a week-ish. Don't really expect anyone to view or comment on it, doing this more for myself.
Some history: I stopped playing seriously and starting working a real 9-5. Got promoted a few times and currently working a good job and making a comfortable living. FYI college grad jobs are a lot easier than poker IMHO. Oh I also got married! and been traveling to many different countries. She currently is working a well paying job as well. We do not have any kids so most of our money is expendable income which is going towards traveling.
Enough of life stuff. I think there are benefits of working and playing poker. Biggest probably being that your winnings isn't going towards any kind of expense. Anything you make from poker is just extra expendable income. This takes a burden off while playing. You do not feel "forced" to play X amount of hours. Since you have less time, you play less. But the times you do play, you end up playing at a better state of mind and close to A game as possible. This is true for me but might be different for others.
I was playing mainly 200NL 6m with some (failed) shots at 400NL before stopping several months. I withdrew most of my roll. I had about $3800 laying around on sites which I decided to start grinding up again. I started playing at 100NL but was not doing too well. I was making some bad plays and do not blame anyone but myself. I decided to drop down to 50NL for now until I feel more confident about my game. Here is a graph from when I started back up again like a week and half ago.
After about 5k hands I decided to do 50NL only for now. Once I feel confident I will move up to $100NL again. I will try to post some hand histories I am not sure about or I feel I did not play well. Starting with this one:
MP had 8, K (one pair, Kings).
Hero had A, 4 (one pair, fours).
Outcome: MP won €127.93
I think I played it fine until the river. I didn't like the river shove due to player's stack size after the block bet. Also, I did not have enough reads on villain to justify that shove. I knew the villain was a weaker player but this was the first time he showed down a hand like this. I think I like the shove more against a reg 200bb+ deep. Lesson learned..hopefully.
My goals are to at least put in 15k-20k hands of poker a month. I 4-6 table so that's about 400-500ish hands an hour. I do not play poker Fri/Sat as that's mainly time with wife/friends. I will start again Sunday and hopefully have a good focused week. Will update again next week.
Winning as a Hobby
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