Saturday, March 24, 2007
Day 5
Didn't play any poker on Day 3 and 4. Managed to get back into +ve on Day 5. Played about 1.5hrs and finished up +$158. I'm also getting really close to achieving Platinum Star status on Poker Stars. I'd be quite disappointed if I don't get it by the end of this month.
Today = $158
Overall = -$272
I Need = $10,272
Today = $158
Overall = -$272
I Need = $10,272
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Day 2
Very frustrating session. Finished overall down $291. Good news though is that I only misplayed one hand. Variance is sick...Please let me run sexy again for the rest of the week. Thanks.
Today = -$291
Overall = -$430
I Need = $10,430
Today = -$291
Overall = -$430
I Need = $10,430
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Day 1 is not so sexy
Played about 2K hands and finished down $111.
Overall = $-111
I Need = $10,111
Overall = $-111
I Need = $10,111
$10,000 by July 31st goal
I've decided to set a goal. I've been rather lazy in the past few months in playing poker and hopefully, this goal will provide some motivation and direction for me. My goal to make $10,000 through cash games alone by July 31st. I'll need to put in somewhere in the region of 150-200hrs to achieve this goal, giving me an hourly rate of $50-$66 per hour - a rate which I strongly believe is my long term rate at my current stakes. I've got slightly more than 4 months to achieve this goal and 10-15hours per week is definitely doable.
I'll post daily updates and weekly graphs. Hope I run good.
Overall = $0
I Need = $10,000
I'll post daily updates and weekly graphs. Hope I run good.
Overall = $0
I Need = $10,000
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Confession
I've got a confession to make. I'm lazy. Remarkably lazy. Last month, I put in only ~9K hands of cash game poker. I would have played more but I was only breaking even (actually lost slightly since I ran at -0.48PTBB/100) and that discouraged me from playing more. Once I played enough hands to maintain my GoldStar VIP status on PokerStars, I stopped. And for the first week of March, I've only played 800hands or so. I'm now playing at $200NL and if I want to keep moving up, I've definitely got to put in about 20K hands per month.
The grind of playing cash games is remarkably boring and I can't play MTTs anymore since I don't have the luxury of blocks of 5-6hrs of free time to commit to MTTs. So if any of you out there have any advice on how I can motivate myself to put in the requisite number of hands, please tell me. The only idea I have right now is to buy a 22inch monitor and start 12-15 tabling as opposed to the 8-10 tables that I currently do.
The grind of playing cash games is remarkably boring and I can't play MTTs anymore since I don't have the luxury of blocks of 5-6hrs of free time to commit to MTTs. So if any of you out there have any advice on how I can motivate myself to put in the requisite number of hands, please tell me. The only idea I have right now is to buy a 22inch monitor and start 12-15 tabling as opposed to the 8-10 tables that I currently do.
