September Recap
I'll try to keep this short and sweet but I wanted to post up the graph of how september ended up. It was a much needed confidence boost to run well and play well for most of the month. I accomplished my goal of playing fewer than 50k hands but not by much. I actually played more than the 38,000 hands shown here but those hands weren't caught by PT and it was during the 25% action share I was doing with 4 guys during my NYC trip. Overall we lost a lot sharing action even though individually I would have profited. That's how it goes sometimes. Hard lesson learned. Had I played those 7-8k hands on my own instead of sharing action in NYC I would have ended up well into the +30k range but you live and learn...as it is, this graph just shows the hands I played for myself.
Overall I'm very happy with how I played in september and obviously happy with the results. I've taken a little stumble in October, but nothing I can't recover from as long as I keep playing well. I'm trying to push forward to playing more 10/20nl, using good game selection of course. I hit some bad spots early this month at the higher stakes but overall I think I can definitely compete there. I feel like my hand reading skills are getting better and spending the time to coach and analyze hands on the forums I created for my students is reinforcing that.
Something I'm going to try this month is anytime I have two consecutive losing days I'm going to drop way down several levels on the 3rd day just to make sure I keep my head on straight. Even if it's just variance kicking me in the butt I think it'll be good to just drop way down and try to erase the "get it back quick" mentality that seems to be the downfall of so many online poker players. Anything you can do to separate yourself from the results, in my opinion, is worth it... so I'm going to give this new technique a try.
I think cutting down on the tables has helped... also cutting down on the AIM'ing during sessions also is good as I've mentioned before.
The month of October is going to be pretty busy for me. On the weekend of Oct 13th Missy and I are headed down to Mississippi to visit mom and catch a Southern Miss football game. Then the following weekend I'm headed to Huntington, WV to visit my sister for a weekend where we'll see Southern Miss vs Marshall. Also my uncle and I finally got our server and now that things have calmed down a bit we're going to push forward with our website harder. I'm in the process of doing lots of linux/tomcat/apache configuration which totally sucks for a n00b like myself. There's also a good chunk of programming that still needs to be done. So lots of work there.
Also this morning I had my "Youth Friends" training where it looks like I'll have 2 elementary school kids at the school Missy teaches at. I'll be sort of a role model/mentor to these kids assigned to me. We'll play games, eat lunch and I'll help them with their studies in some capacity. I think it'll be a very rewarding experience and I'm looking forward to a good excuse to get off the computer and out of the house. I want to make volunteer work a bigger priority in my life even though I feel like I'm busy as hell with playing poker, coaching, and the website stuff. I need to make time to have a life goal that doesn't revolve around making money.
Ok that's it for now... here's a quick and dirty list of October goals:
-Play 40-50k hands, at least 10k hands at 10/20.
-Drop down immediately when not playing my best and/or running bad
-Continue coaching. I'm very happy with the students I have but I'd like to add another one or two regulars.
-Get my feet wet being a Youth Friend
-Launch the website me and my uncle have been working on (lol goal now for 3 straight months)
-Figure out what other types of volunteer work I'm going to do
-Begin working out regularly again (how am I going to fit this in with everything else?)
Good luck,
Aaron
Overall I'm very happy with how I played in september and obviously happy with the results. I've taken a little stumble in October, but nothing I can't recover from as long as I keep playing well. I'm trying to push forward to playing more 10/20nl, using good game selection of course. I hit some bad spots early this month at the higher stakes but overall I think I can definitely compete there. I feel like my hand reading skills are getting better and spending the time to coach and analyze hands on the forums I created for my students is reinforcing that.
Something I'm going to try this month is anytime I have two consecutive losing days I'm going to drop way down several levels on the 3rd day just to make sure I keep my head on straight. Even if it's just variance kicking me in the butt I think it'll be good to just drop way down and try to erase the "get it back quick" mentality that seems to be the downfall of so many online poker players. Anything you can do to separate yourself from the results, in my opinion, is worth it... so I'm going to give this new technique a try.
I think cutting down on the tables has helped... also cutting down on the AIM'ing during sessions also is good as I've mentioned before.
The month of October is going to be pretty busy for me. On the weekend of Oct 13th Missy and I are headed down to Mississippi to visit mom and catch a Southern Miss football game. Then the following weekend I'm headed to Huntington, WV to visit my sister for a weekend where we'll see Southern Miss vs Marshall. Also my uncle and I finally got our server and now that things have calmed down a bit we're going to push forward with our website harder. I'm in the process of doing lots of linux/tomcat/apache configuration which totally sucks for a n00b like myself. There's also a good chunk of programming that still needs to be done. So lots of work there.
Also this morning I had my "Youth Friends" training where it looks like I'll have 2 elementary school kids at the school Missy teaches at. I'll be sort of a role model/mentor to these kids assigned to me. We'll play games, eat lunch and I'll help them with their studies in some capacity. I think it'll be a very rewarding experience and I'm looking forward to a good excuse to get off the computer and out of the house. I want to make volunteer work a bigger priority in my life even though I feel like I'm busy as hell with playing poker, coaching, and the website stuff. I need to make time to have a life goal that doesn't revolve around making money.
Ok that's it for now... here's a quick and dirty list of October goals:
-Play 40-50k hands, at least 10k hands at 10/20.
-Drop down immediately when not playing my best and/or running bad
-Continue coaching. I'm very happy with the students I have but I'd like to add another one or two regulars.
-Get my feet wet being a Youth Friend
-Launch the website me and my uncle have been working on (lol goal now for 3 straight months)
-Figure out what other types of volunteer work I'm going to do
-Begin working out regularly again (how am I going to fit this in with everything else?)
Good luck,
Aaron
posted by WiltOnTilt at 12:35 AM
1 Comments:
wow that looks really nice, gratz! Although it looks like you had one very ugly swing in the middle :)
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