February Recap and March Goals
Been lazy on updating the blog, but I wanted to throw something up here before we got too far into March. February was about as turbulent of a month as I've ever had. Twice into the red to the tune of -15k, and roughly 80k hands played, I was actually pretty proud of myself to recover to get to +20k in the PT green.My original February goals just centered around getting the hands in and playing my A game. Well for the most part I think I accomplished my goals, but I did have some days where I was probably on my B or C game, and on 8 tables at once... which can mean bad things... but alas I'm much more proud of my accomplishment in February of making about $20k then my January of making 40. In Feb I proved to myself when I need to I can put in the hours 8 tabling... I think there was one day I played 7-8 tables for like 14 hours and something ridiculous like 9k hands. Certainly, those aren't optimal conditions and I wouldn't advise doing that a lot, but at least I proved to myself that I can if I need to...and it certainly did help dig me out of a hole because of it.
To recap the month, here's a PokerTracker screenshot that shows just under 50k hands I played at Full Tilt and PokerStars, then I also had another 29,193 hands at another site (where i ran exceptionally bad) that doesn't work with PT for a whopping -$7,368.
So the totals ended up being: 79,082 hands for +$20,771.41. Obviously, this sucks in terms of winrate... you can see my results on stars/full tilt were ok as far as winrate goes, but when you add in the other site's disasterous results, it really brutalizes the per hand rate. Anyway, I'm not going to complain about $20k but still I need to play and run better.
On to March and my goals for this month. First I should mention that I'll be travelling through Memphis and North Carolina the 3rd week of March so I'll have zero internet access for a whole week. I'm not sure how I'll survive. I'm only somewhat joking. Sadly...
So I'm basically working with a 3 week month. My goal is going to be another 60k of 3/6 and 5/10, hands with $30k in profits. I think it's doable if I put my mind to cranking out the hands and hopefully run decently. Also, add to the goals that I want to (read: NEED to) qualify for the WSOP Main Event, and also possibly some smaller early events. This is going to be my year to take a shot at the WSOP as well as some juicy side games in Vegas this summer. I've already spent about $800 playing qualifiers with no luck. I played one qualifier where I made it down to Heads Up, winner gets the seat, but couldn't fade the big draw when I got all in on the flop with Q
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lost to A5 hearts on a 9 9 7 board. Of course the 6 on the turn... GG me. If I can manage, I might take some shots at some good 10/20 games if I run well early in the month. I think it's important to always try to keep pushing through the limits, and honestly I think that's one of my biggest weaknesses. Unlike some of my friends, I don't have a lot of "gamble in me", and I think that's one of my biggest downfalls. As the stakes go up, so does the aggression and players' skill, so the ability to make thin calls/raises for big money becomes paramount...I need to keep progressing up. Hopefully I'll run well early and find some good spots at 10/20 to take a shot.
Oh yea, add to my list of goals more frequent blog updates with strategic content ;-)
Aaron
posted by WiltOnTilt at 1:31 AM
1 Comments:
Hi Aaron
Nice to see that it's still possible to win nice $$$ at sites infested by american pros. Not that I need to try, luckily :).
Good luck with your March goals.
Kristian
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