slash2k01's blog

May has finished and I have completed my first month of playing with discipline. I'm happy with my progress and the last two days were particulaly challenging, I ran horrible and suffered bad beat after bad beat, but I was getting it in ahead and I was able to take the set-backs.

According to poker tracker, during May I played 135 tournaments for a profit of $192.99 with an ROI of 24%. If I had soley played the $6.50 90 mans the stats would have been better, but I played some mtts to break it up a little and have the chance of a bigger pay-off.

So what now?

Continued last night with 6 tournaments, 3 90man kos, a $3mtt ko and the two early doubles.

Finished with a 3rd place in one of the 90s and not much else. Puts me up about $250 from my initial $75 at the start of May. I'm very happy with how it is going, I know its early days and I haven't played nearly enough but I think I do have some edge in the 90 mans where generally players seem to hand me their chips (and their bounty) early doors.

Just finished the 4 90 mans for this evening and it was extremely painful, but much improved and raises some questions.

I shall start with the postives. I was much more comfortable with the four tables tonight utilising all of the time available to me to make the right decisions. I picked my spots alot better and was able to accumulate alot of chips in 3 out the 4.

The pain though is pretty apparent in the results

54/90
12/90
10/90
10/90

Last night I 4 tabled the $6 90 man KO SNGs on FTP for the first time.

The session didn't quite go how I had hoped, I played horribly. I don't think it was the 4 tabling that was the problem, maybe I was too tired or just had an off day. I did accumulate some chips in 3 of the 6 games I played but I made some stupid plays and also met with stiff resistance to most of my moves in the later levels and the blinds got to me in the end.

Like 99% of recreational online poker players (and probably some pro's), poor discipline, both in bankroll management and in "brain fart" moments at the table, made me a losing player. Now I'm trying to turn this around. Hopefully by posting here I can help to achieve this both by shaming myself if I slip up and also posting about positive results to re-enforce the benefits of keeping ones head and being super disciplined.