Played another 1k hands at Nl400 pretty much break even today. Pretty frustrating because I was up between 2 and 3 BI at one point. I think I played well. As usual there are a couple of hands I should have played differently.
I'm going to keep on trying at Nl400 and see what happens.
BR: Lad- 11 900$ FT- 1600$
hi!
im from hun site... just browsed english blogtopics and randomly clicked on your blog...
man you are awesome! congratz on you very nice BR in such a short time! keep up the progress!
;]
Hope you can beat nl 400. One of my 2008 goals was to reach nl 400^^
+ some other dreams- like winning first tourney ♦
Good luck at the tables and keep posting 
Thanks Kaitz20 and szcsaba86! It's really nice to get encouragement/congratulations especially after tough sessions like last weekend
I feel like I played one of the best sessions of Nl400 so far in terms of minimizing my mistakes. I finished up a little over 2BI in 700 hands. I feel much more comfortable at the tables now than I did at first which is good...it took a while for me to get used to more money flying around!
BR- Lad- 12 775$ FT- 1600$
Played another 1.3k hands today up a little under 3BI . I feel like I played quite well today. I got into a few weird spots where people cold called my 4bets and I missed the flop. It will be interesting to see what the coaches have to say about them because I was kind of unsure of my plays.
Here's a graph of Nl400 so far...my poker tracker missed a couple hands somehow so I'm actually up like 500$ according to my BR (about 400 less than the graph says)
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I'm really happy that I'm a little better than break even now at this limit...I guess it's time to try and crush it now ♦
BR- Lad- 13 875$ FT- 1600$
Played about 500 hands today up 2.5 BI. Unfortunately my computer cable stopped working so I ran out of batteries in the middle of my session 
. The tables were rediculously good on top of that! I had never seen as many fish at the tables as I did today. Hopefully I can get myself a new cable in the next couple days so that i can get back to the tables.
I also won my biggest pot so far today. I'm using my girlfriends comp so I can't show the hand history. It was a 1200$ 3 way all in on an all hearts flop with me holding the AJ of hearts for the flopped nuts! One guy had a set and the other top pair and the K of hearts. Luckily the board didn't pair.
BR: Lad- 14 900$ FT- 1600$
Ok, I'm back at the tables again!
I took the past week off of poker because I was feeling frustrated while playing so I knew I needed a break. Last weekend I lost my whole FT role playing mtt's and getting deep a number of times without ever getting any big wins. I think this was the main reason for my frustration...it's hard going deep in like 5 tourneys in 2 days without ever getting a good cash. I think I can mostly credit this to bad play as well, which is what really pisses me off. I also lost 3 BI on Nl400, but I think for the most part I played pretty well there.
Anyways... enough about that. Since it's the end of Nov I'll recap my goals.
November Summary
+BB/100 hands at Nl200/400 over 25-30k sample size- Pokertracker says I played about 22k hands at just under 2k profit (all the profit was at Nl200, and pretty much break even Nl400). I know I didn't reach my 25k hands goal, but I still consider this as a completed goal because I was smart enough to take a break when I felt frustrated as opposed to keep grinding (and probably lose) achieved
-watch every mtt/sh video up to platinum- I think I watched them all now at least once achieved
-review every session and never multitable over 6- I think I did a good job in terms of review this monthachieved
-stay active in hand posting forum- achieved
-maintain in control of tilt- I think I played a couple of mtt's on small tilt, but I was smart enough to take a week off when I realized... so I guess I failed this goal but it could have been worse. failed
-16k BR- My end of the month BR stands at 13 900$ after rakeback so just over break even this month. failed
Overall It's hard not to be a little frustrated after making it to 17k and then dropping back to 14k to finish the month break even. I am happy with my cash game progress though, because I continued to beat Nl200. I also played about 10k hands at Nl400 break even which I'm confident I can improve on.
I'll post my december goals when I get a chance... hopefully I can get back to moving in the right direction!
December Goals
- become diamond member- This means generating 3.5k rake, which I think translates to something like 25-30k hands.
+BB/100 hands on Nl400- I'm going to continue to focus on cash games this month and I'd like to have a decent win rate on Nl400 by the end of the month...no more break even!
-review every session and don't multitable over 6tables- It's obviously important that I don't just keep grinding...but keep working on improving my game.
-don't wast mtt buy-ins- Last month I dropped 2k in mtt's.... I'm not too happy about that. I know that variance is large and it could be just due to this, but I'd say I made a lot of critical errors in late stages of mtt's mostly due to lack of concentration. If I decided to play some mtt's I have to make sure I really focus on it!
-maintain in control of tilt
-don't play above skill/bankroll level- I have no plans to move above Nl400 this month. If I drop below 11k I'll be moving back to Nl200 as well.
I think that's about it.
I've played 4.5k hands up about 2BI at Nl400 so far this month. I think I'm playing ok and I've identified more leaks in my game which is good. I'll post some hands on the forum when I get a chance as well.
BR- Lad- 12 860$ FT- 1915$
I haven't had much time to play... I've only played 3k hands at Nl400 and a couple of tourneys since my last update. I've continued to bounce back which is good, up something like 3 BI at Nl400 and small profit in tourneys.
BR: Lad- 15 300$ FT- 1400$
Hey Georgio, your story is quite interesting. I am a canadian as well 22 years old. I had the same problem as you (BRM mostly). Now I take it really seriously and am now 1.7k BR. I read a lot, take break, manage tilt better, etc.
I'll try to follow your blog more now! It concerns lot of stuff about my reality xept maybe the BR in itself.
I have the following project : Reach 25k BR in 1 year and a half to travel all around the world with it.
I tried reading all the pages but just couldnt do it.
And i find your start of poker was similar to me i kept on blowing away my BR, first time 300$ then 500$ and another 600$, im quite stubborn as you see .
Anyways good luck and nice going. ♦
marking this ..for future read (dont know a better way of doing this 
can any1 tell me a better way?
Originally posted by PokerRoad
marking this ..for future read (dont know a better way of doing this
can any1 tell me a better way?
♦
post of the month!
PokerRoad: Appaently, you didn't notice the last update is 9 months old.. Check last 3 posts before yours 
PS: you're right.. there's no better way to mark thread than posting in it. It's hot this forum works. :/
Yeah I saw how old it was but I herd it was an interesting blog and wanted to check it out later when I had more time .... Cheers opal
