Showing posts with label February. Show all posts
Showing posts with label February. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

February

February was a pretty bad month poker wise. Didn't play much, but played a larger than expected number of tournaments, with the following results:


And here are the cash results:


Basically the whole month I felt like I was running bad, and I got tilted way too easily and stopped playing. So the volume is absolutely terrible. Woops. March will be better.

As far as progress on my yearly goals:

Goal 1: Structure my daily routine
A) job-search 60 min per day
B) Play 16 table hours per day
or do tons of push ups/situps.

Result: LOL so far. None of the three have been accomplished. I'm way way way off track. Time to get some focus back. I'm averaging less than 4 table hours per day (in cash) and even less than that in tournaments. Unfortunately in HEM I don't really know how to find multi-tabling ratio, so I'm really just basing the table hours on the fact that I've played a total of 100 hours of poker so far this year.

Goal 2: 400k Hands of 6-max cash.

Result: About 45k behind pace right now as I've only played 19k and should be averaging ~33k per month to reach this goal. No real excuse, reason for my lack of hands is a direct result of being short on goal 1.

Goal 3: Play the SM >2x (or equiv.)

Result: Already played one, the 2.5M guaranteed special (which was 2 weeks before the 4 mil guaranteed special, blah). Played like scared money. Kinda disappointed that I didn't play like I know I can. Next time should be easier. Also planning on playing quite a large number of the low buyin SCOOP events that will be in early May, though these don't exactly count as equivalent tourneys.

Goal 4: Achieve and maintain Silverstar + status.

Result: Got it in Jan, but lost it back after Feb. I just didn't have any motivation in Feb due to my poor mental state. Already feel much more focused in March and am more than 10% of the way to silverstar again, so this should be back on track within a few weeks.










Friday, February 27, 2009

Updating

The school/work combo is kicking my ass. It allows no free time for anything, including poker. My February volume is less than a tenth of my January volume (I think, I haven't actually checked, but it feels that way). But the monetary results are better. Stupid variance.

Not much to talk about, didn't play many interesting hands, but lost after getting heads up again in a 4/180. That's now 1 for 6 in those after getting heads up. At first I just thought I was running bad heads up, but now I'm pretty sure I'm just not very good at heads up. So I need to work on my heads up game, probably either through HU SNGs or regular 1 table SNGs.

We'll see if I actually get around to that... I also just can't seem to put in volume in cash games. I feel like I want to when I'm doing random daily shit, but when I sit down at my computer I never seem to want to open up tables. So I put in only about 500 hands this month, and I'm now at ~850 for the year... Well below the ~7k I should have to be on pace for the yearly 40k goal.