Running good finally!

I got a bit lazy in terms of volume for the past few days, but I could still win 18-19 BI at the $15s. Very nice results after the breakeven strech (nearly 1900 game :| ). Now it's Monday morning, and I want to move up to the $30s as soon as possible, so I'll switch to grind mode now.

Duhh it's a short post but whatever, maybe I'll write again in the next few days! Cheers


Some hungarian progressive metal for the metalheads :

Breakeven 4 life!

Sooo I've played 1550 games in the month, and earned -2.70$ dollars yet.

This is the first day when I'm a huge winner (+16.5 BI @ $7s), so I decided to write here :D...

Playing breakeven for long streches can be really hard and stressful (well, it turned out that this is nothing compared to some dudes breakeven streches in hypers.. look at this sh*t > graph < as you can see he was breakeven for 7-8000 games. Of course if the graph's owner reading this and wants to remove it, pm me np). The best you can do imo is to play as much as you can without tilting (maybe with more pauses), and find a pokerbuddy to review your game. I'm posting my graphs on 2+2 nearly every day, and a few guys added me on Skype for hh reviews, I'm hoping that it'll help my game (and I help theirs). 

One problem that I had with my game so far in the month is that sometimes I focus on quantity, not quality. I mean if I'm get distracted, or I'm tired, I find myself grinding like a braindead, just autopiloting for hours. Sure, there will be a decent volume, but I'm giving up small edges, which are extremely important in hyperturbos. I'm working on my work ethic and focusing right now. I recommend for you d00dz to run this software  while you're playing : Coldturkey . It's a free software, and you can block sites for a couple of hours, so you won't get distracted by Facebook, Twitter, or anything that you hanging on a lot. I'm not sure about the music though, sometimes it helps me to get relaxed, sometimes I lose focus because of it. It depends on the person imo. 

Non-poker:

Here is a nice article from my all-time favourite site, Cracked : 5-famous-scientists-dismissed-as-morons-in-their-time . Watch out, this site can be addictive as hell. 

Running under EV

I've started to take grinding more seriously, because I need to buy a lot of things. Primarily stuff for my place, and, if I could afford it in the near future, maybe a new guitar. I want a Crusher 7 (Ran Crusher). Well, maybe it would be in the far future, because currently, I'm running under EV. Oh, did I mention 60 BI under EV at the fkin 7's and 15's?

Of course, I didn't loose that much, so I could just stop whining. The problem is, I have to withdraw regularly, so my BR is stagnating between 800$ and 1500$ since FTP closed. I'd really like to hear some tips for this problem (yeah obv, I should start spending less money on sh*t, and play more). I think I would crush the $30s, but I can't get a chance.. The last try was a total failure (I mentioned it in one of my previous posts), I was owned by fishes, and needed to step back. Sooo now, I'm trying to play more every day (increasing my daily volume from 90-100 games to 120-130, maybe more). A good idea would be to start playin the knockout tournaments again. I tried the $10.50 HT Tournament yesterday on Stars, but it's a total gambling. You start with t1000 @ 50/100 blinds..

And finally, some classical music yo (I'd also want to buy a digital piano somedayz..)

New month, new challenges

Sooo I've finished a very good month! I could reach and stay @ the $15s, and earn a decent profit. Here is my graph of March :

I've earned 1156$ with bonuses. I ran pretty well, except for the $30s. My main goals for April : 

[ ] 3000 hypers

[ ] min. 1500$ profit

[ ] reach the $30s, and stay there

[ ] finish watching chadders's pack

[ ] post and comment more on 2+2

[ ] get Jared Tendler's book

[ ] post in my blog every week

Non-poker:

[ ] continue exercising 3 times a week in the gym

[ ] read 2 books

[ ] practicing guitar every day

I re-discovered a decent finnish metal band, called Wintersun. I don't really like these kind of folkish stuff, but this song is nearly perfect, especially the solo. I wanted to learn it, but I can't do it by ear, and the guitar tab for it sucks :|

dat doomswitch

I'm running badly at the $15s (I lost 25-30 buyin), so I started mixing my game with $7s games, I still run like god in those. I've just checked my HEM, and I'm 35BI below EV at the $15-$30s. Kinda sucky, but I were warned before I started hypers, that this is totally standard, well, I still want to punch something :D

 Oh, I almost forgot : I won a 1 month premium membership to husng.com on 2+2! You had to make a strategic post, the winner was picked randomly. So now I can buy chadders's videopack now with a discount, I'll do it on next week.

30$ HERE I COME... lol jk ovb

Due to the last few days's upswing (I'm in +45 BI @ 15s in the month) , I've managed to reach my br goal, where I can move up to the 30$. So I fired up some tables and.. omg. My ass was kicked even by the worst players, it's funny that I was worried about playing against stronger players, and in the first few games, players who seemed to be regs limp/called, or just called my shove @ 10 bb eff with all kinds of crap like J3s or T8o. There was a dude who kept playing against me, with 0% PFR, limp/calling 100% and calling pre 100%. He just killed me, hit almost every flop, and managed to win all 60/40 and 70/30 situations. All in all, I lost 12-14 buyin, and I decided to drop back to the 15s. Not a big deal, I've just played 30-40 games @ 30$, and ran bad. If  I win back the amount I lost @ 30$, I'll try again (so approx. 30 BI @ 15$). Same stuff was going on, when I were trying to move up to the 15s, I had to move down for 3 times before I could finally stay at the upper limit.
A guy had posted his daily graph to 2+2 yesterday, and it was truly inspiring. He played 10.7 hours 'till 7 AM (what a sicko) @ 15s and 30s, and managed to win +900$. He played more than 300 games 2tabling. I asked in the forum about any tips for better volume/focus/motivation. Somebody suggested, that I should increase the time gradually, it seems to be a good idea (I'll try to add 10-15 min to my grind every day).

I've just bought the EP of a duo called Zelliack for 1$ (the singer is singing in Tesseract too). Funky-jazzy stuff, check it out!

Running well

It's comfortable to grind the 15s now, I'm in +21 BI in the month. I hope this good run will last until I can move up to the 30s :P I'll need money for the end of the month, because I'd like paint my place, and buy some new furniture. I'm thinking about buying an Xbox360, but it can wait, I don't want to spew my roll too quickly.
The volume is still bad imo, especially now, when if I win the first 4-5 game, I just go lazy and play Skyrim (gosh, that shit is addictive as hell) or play guitar or anything else..

Otherzzz:

I'm reading The Age of Turbulence by Allan Greenspan. I'm studying management and business stuff, and I'm recently thinking about getting into the field of stock market, I've already read 7-8 book about it, mostly from André Kostolany (hungarian fellow of course).  This book is mostly about economics, but not in the boring way (well..I hope so, I read only the introductory haha) .

I really like www.ted.com , there are hundreds of lectures about various fields, I'll post the best of them here in the future. To begin with, here is one about crows (scary stuff!)