August - Short update!

Hi poker world! 

Just a short update for the month of August. There will be no graph this month as I decided to take a break for the month of August to have ample time to look back at my game and mental state when approaching the game. 

During this months, I had been reading some blogs and 2+2 threads on poker players who are trying to move up the ladder to remind why I started to play poker seriously. I realised that my mindset had changed when I had move up to NL50 and the mindset I am having for the past few months was not good at all. Just a reminder, when you are starting out at micro stakes, you are motivated to play well and keep studying to crush the table but when you move up the ladder, your mindset may start to change to a 'profit wise' mindset rather than continuing to improve your game. This is where you starting to feel the pain of being stuck to a limit or break even or on the losing end for months. I do believe this is the situation that I am currently in who think more about the profit rather than improving myself as a poker player. This is a wake up call for me to return the the improving/study mindset > profit wise mindset. Of course profit is important, that is the reason we play.  Most of the successful player have put in alot of effort to get to their current position unless you are a ultra luckbox who can climb the ladder with little knowledge about poker but you will not stay lucky forever. Hopefully what I said make sense and will serve as a reminder to some of you and ME.

Recently get to know a poker player who was sharing how to study poker. I find the blog very useful and send him a email regarding this issue and to my surprise, he is willing to share with me. Not sure if I should mention his name here just in case everyone flood his mail box. We had a few conversation on skype and the more we talk about poker, the more I feel like I am someone who just started playing poker. Coming September, we will be having sweat session, more discussion on hand analysis. I have to say it is pretty rare for poker players to share some of their insight on the game and study material as they want to stay ahead of their opponent but I was pretty lucky to get to know him who is willing to share some of his poker knowledge with me. Lets see how I do until the end of the year.

Although I had finished The Mental Game of Poker book one and two, I am going to revisit book one again as it is very obvious that I am not applying the advice given and past mistake that had been corrected had reappear into my game again. For example, I had become POW (Payoff Wizard) on the table again paying villians off more frequently due to massive accumulated tilt even though it is a standard straightforward fold on certain situation.

I will be using Evernote as the main apps to take note of everything related to poker like articles/strategy and etc. One of the most important is to do self review after my session. Had just started using the apps and find it amazing. Everyone should start using it!

That all for now! Cheers!

July Review - Low Morale Poker Player

Hola fellow poker players! Once again, I am in the red zone and nothing seems to be going well for me for the past months. It s pretty tough for me as I have not earn much from poker and BR seems to be stuck or moving down for the past three months. I am thinking if I should take a long break to study intensively as I feel that I am not improving anymore and my play is getting worst session after session! I know I have not show a nice up slope graph yet for the past month and this really bother me as well. Dream to build enough bankroll (BR) to conquer Macau is getting further and further atm.

Total hands : 27,460

Profit/Loss : (774.63) + 740.11 (VIP Rewards) = (34.52) USD

On 30th July 2014, PKR did some changes to their hand history code which no longer allow HM1 to import hand histories (HH) therefore the result is short of two days and the other two days did not ran any better so I gonna add extra ($200) loss to the net amount which was shown on the graph. VIP rewards were high for this month despite of low volume was because of a promotion that was introduce by PKR in July and I was given $150 on my birthday as a good gesture from PKR. Of course I was disappointed with the graph as I mentioned on the previous post that I was looking forward to play well on my birthday month but thing just did not went the way I wanted.

As PKR had change the code of HH, therefore HM1 is now useless and I have to get HM2 as they no longer update HM1. So graph for August will be a complete.

To poker players who are grinding at nl50 and above, I hope to have some sweating session with you be it you are new to the limit or a PRO. I do believe we can share a thing or two or learn from each other in the session. So kindly leave comment below or you can DM me on twitter to make this possible.

Apart from poker, I had completed one month as Client Services Executive. Work went pretty smoothly as I manage to do/learn what area I wanted to work at which is corporate tax and was doing some accounting work at the same time like preparing unaudited financial statement (UFS) and payroll for my client. Working environment is good after getting along with all my co-worker in the office and most of them does not know I was grinding poker online. My WTF moment in the office is when I was assisting my boss to do some work and he was giving one of my senior HAIRDRYER TREATMENT while I was siting face to face infront of him(boss). At that moment, I was like wtf, should I move away or just stay there and continue with my work. Alright, I will keep this non poker related stuff short and I know it is boring.

No plans for August yet as morale is very low at the moment. Maybe don't play at all and do intensive study on poker and HOPEFULLY get to have some sweating session with you guys. Just bring it, we will be able to come to a suitable timing for both of us even though I am living in Singapore.