VladimirN: April Reviewed & May Goals

_Anonymous_ · 2012-01-04T02:39:23Z

Hi, I have been roaming around these forums for a few years now, and since I decided to start taking poker a little more seriously I though I could make a blog to share my progress and keep myself motivated. About Myself: My name is Vladimir and I'm 24 years old from Serbia. If I had to describe myself in 3 words it would be: persistent (maybe even stubborn in a good way), open minded and selfless. Aside of poker I'm into pick-up, music and body-building. Which I intent to include in this blog later on, but for now it will be only about poker. As well I'm into colors. &diams; Poker Career: I started playing poker around 3 years ago with PokerStrategy. I liked DoNs at start so I played a lot of those, usually 8-12 tabling through my poker career. Since then I played around 45.000 games with ROI of around 1% (average BI of 6$) with 50-50 of DoNs/SnGs. I played mostly for fun and some pocket money so since I was winning slightly I didn't even care of improving. I thought actually that not much could be done to improve so I kept it like it is. In the meantime I dropped DoNs since I changed my style of play (and those started to annoy me really really bad) and focused solely on 6 man SnGs. I'm going to start with 3.5$ SnGs at Stars and work my way up. About 2 months ago something snapped and I decided to start working on my game. I started watching a lot of poker videos and reading some books which helped a lot so far. In the past month in around 2.000 games (not much I know) I went to 4% ROI with a lot of room for improvement. Steps Towards Success: 1) Play Better: Duh! This one might seem obvious but some people think they are playing fine and the only reason they are not successful if their luck etc. After finding out how much math is involved in poker I admitted I was wrong and started looking into every aspect of my game to improve. Especially Postflop and HU. 2) Table Selection: I remember playing a SnG recently with each other player being a winning reg. I thought to myself: "WTF am I doing at this table?". Wouldn't it be much more profitable to play against 5 fish? Indeed it would. So since then I hardly play with a single reg at the table (at least at these 3.5$ SnGs), but that required me to change my style significantly to less bluffing and more ABC. 3) Strict BRM: I will use BRM of around 100 BI for these lower ones like 3.5$ and 7$ and rising to 150 BI for 15$ etc. I restricted my limit at Stars so I can't register for higher ones either intentionally or by accident (yes, few times I registered to 30$ one when I was looking around how those people play - tyvm TableNinja instant register) 4) Improving PT3 Stats: For SnGs at least, I found basic stats pretty much useless. I mean person VPIP for example depends on so many factors: his stack in BBs, his position at the table, is he far away from the bubble, at the bubble, HU etc. And without an accurate stats good poker can't be played. So I had those sorted and improving my HUD still until I find it perfect. I'm looking for a balance between accurate and not too clogged up or else it's troublesome using it with many tables. 5) Actually Using The HUD: I own PT3 for 3 years now and I haven't really used it properly since few months ago. I only used those stats that are sitting at the table like VPIP/PFR/3Bet and maybe BlindSteal and FoldToBlindSteal but couldn't be bothered to open pop-ups with that many tables, it was just too troublesome. Recently I realized what am I actually missing, so now, besides improving HUD in both usefulness and simplicity, I'm also... 6) Reducing The Number of Tables to Optimum: With many tables it was simply a mindless grind...playing good push/fold, going with your good hand and simply folding not so good ones. Poker is much more then this. I feel like I'm not bluffing enough and especially like I'm bluffed way to much, because of too many tables and not having enough time to think and observe a situation. For me the optimum number of tables would be 7 (also my lucky number &diams;), for now at least. 7) Eliminate The Distractions: After I got used to playing a lot of tables I started multi-tasking while playing (lol). Like browsing some forums or going through some music artist's albums to see what I like or don't like. Even listening to music in that way (judging the song) so I have to direct my attention to it, is diverting attention from the tables, which can't be good. So no more of that. 8) No Tilting: No problem with that. Never tilted and never will. Goals for January: -->Watch at least 30 Poker Videos<-- -->Finish Harrington's 2nd book<-- -->Do at least 10.000 SnG Wizard quizzes (separated into 4-6 Handed, Bubble and HU equally)<-- -->In SnG Wizard achieve at least 93% success on Average and 75% on Expert<-- -->Play at least 2.000 SnGs<-- -->Earn 150 More $ in order to advance to...

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08.05.2012, 10:44 0

Following; good luck, sir!

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_Anonymous_

28.08.2012, 07:53 0

Just stumbled upon your blog now, though it seems that it has been abandoned. I read most of the thing in the past 15 minutes; I'm very interested in your progress.

Following in the hopes of seeing an update.

Hope you're having a good run at the tables,

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29.08.2012, 19:46 0

Funny how this blog got bumped right before I made a new blog ^^

I just got bored of poker and paused for 3 months... now I'm coming back as soon as I get my 2.000$ back, which I borrowed to certain someone.

This new blog will be about self improvement and living life. Also about some poker, but seeing how often this one got updated, it might contain even more poker then this blog.

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