Mid March Update

Hey guys, I'm sorry I've been quite for a long time but I've had a lot going on recently that has kept me pretty busy from blogging so I'll fill you in.  First I better review how poker has been for me this year.  I am making a big push in 2012 to make 50nl by the end of the year, not just being rolled for it but being a competent winning player at that level and being ready to make a run for Supernova in 2013.  I'll be honest and say I haven't had a great start to the year and am running pretty badly which I'm sure is affecting my play.  I'm not saying if I was running good I'd be crushing but it has affected my confidence a lot and I'm sure that has a subconscious effect on my play.  I've also been breaking my rules on game selection and been playing far too many mtts, including the MicroMillions.  These are not my main game and although I'd love to play them once I reach 50nl and am happily making profit, for now I think I should really be focusing on cash games and using my poker time for that, this unfortunately includes my homegames that I've been playing.  These tournaments are small buyin but they do have a negative effect on my play as when I run bad in mtts, I feel it affects my cash play.  I've decided to take a couple of days off from playing altogether and have withdrawn a little bit of money from my account and have bought some video games to keep me occupied and am combining that with some studying to get my drive to play back.

Year to date cash:

Year to date mtts:

I've started a 6max skype group with players from 2p2 and am now more driven than ever to achieve my year end goal, I feel 2013 is going to be a good year so I want to be prepared for it.  With all these cut backs I've been making I've given myself a new reward, I'm going to save my fpps that I earn from grinding and use them to take shots at the Sunday Million whenever I have enough, around 13k.  I should be able to play ever 2 or 3 months by my calculations so that should give me my tournament hit in one big go!

One thing happening away form the tables right now is a bit of a health worry, I won't go into details as it could well end up as nothing but I'm being referred around circuits of specialists who are trying to figure out what is wrong with me and what they can do about it.  I'll update on this when I know more as I don't want to go into it without knowing much myself but if I'm honest, I'm so -ev in poker right now I'm sure I'm going to be +ev life.  I might even use my one time....

All the best on the tables

Jake

February Review, March Goals

Well February has certainly been an interesting month for me!  I did not have a great start on the cash tables and it got steadily worse, however, I really feel I worked on my game well and have come along a lot this month.  However, the main problem with this month is I spilt a pint of water over my laptop like a pro and therefore have had to reimport all of my hands form this year so far!  I managed to get January to how it was supposed to be but February looks a bit funny.  I've decided not to wate too much time on trying to fix it and get on with the year but here are the results from February!

Cash: -$118

 MTTs: $162

Bonuses: $20

Total: $64

Pretty poor month to be honest but I've plugged a lot of bad leaks in my cash game that I hope will make a big difference.  Secondly, and I appreciate that this gets said a lot, but I ran horrifically on the cash tables this month.  AIEV only tells part of the story, there were a lot of coolers it felt this month and they just caused me to play sub par poker which resulted in more losses.  I want to stop relying on mtts to bring me into the positive every month.

The problems with my laptop at the end of the month lead to me failing almost all of my goals but I'm back up and running now so despite having missed the first few days I'm ready to take on this month head on!

March Goals:

• 30k hands with profit at 16nl 6max
• Top 10 in homegame leaderboard
• At least 1 $100+ figure mtt score

I'm not going to add too many more this month as I have 3 essays due in over March and I don't think I'll get much else done but here we go!

Good luck on the tables!