September Review

Hi Poker world!

Finally completed one full month on Pokerstars playing 6max nl50. Things were not going so well in the second half of the month compared to the first half in monetary term but overall I am happy that I had completed what I wanted to do for the month.

For sweat sessions, I managed to do a few session with ZP and Ava. The session was good because I have to constantly think of my play during the hand so I could justify my play when a question were thrown to me during the session. For example, 'Why are you 3betting  on the turn instead of flat calling villain bet as you may be able to extract more value from him on the river?' Then I would explain my thought which is good as I am constantly maintaining the level of thinking for hours during the sessions. Sometime players would grind for the sick of grinding and they become a grinding machine without them knowing! You cannot maintain the level of thinking because you are so 'immune' to the game as this is what you do everyday. Hopefully I will have more sessions in October as I really enjoy those sessions.

Hand analysis wise, I am still marking hands during session to see what went wrong and what is the more optimal way of playing at the situation vs certain type of players. If I am unsure about the hand, I will then post it to players on skype for their opinion. I have to say a big thank you to Sipox because he always gave detail analysis from preflop play till the river talking about how to play each streets which was mind blowing. This will certainly improve my game as I wouldn't want to repeat the same mistake again especially in big pots. I am folding more hands than before and not putting myself in many tough spots.

Graph for this month,

Total volume:                                 67,952 Hands

Profit:                                             402.36 USD

Stellar Award:                                100.00 USD

PKR (HU Speed SNG)                  570.00 USD

                                                     1072.36 USD      

I am happy with my volume as you guys know that I am currently holding a full time job and time are limited during weekdays. Basically, I am playing 2-4 hours during weekdays and double/triple the time during weekend playing 6 - 8 table. In case anyone of you are wondering if I got the time to sleep, the answer is yes. I slept about 4-5 hours a day during the weekdays. Although I mentioned I have no volume target this month but I still manage 67k hands because I am very motivated to play! I had a number of bad session especially Sunday but it did not stop me from playing. In the end, I managed to pull off a small profit for the month.                                         

As I had stop playing at PKR, I had accumulated a lot of PKR points while grinding cash game which I had converted to MTT/SnG tickets. After a thinking it through, I decided to use all my points to play HU as there is not much value for MTT at PKR. I managed to win 5 out of 8 HU game ranging from $20 - $100 amounting to $570 profit with 0 buyin! I will be playing a 50k gtd mtt ($10k up top) on PKR in October as I was given a $150 entry for achieving their highest club level. Hopefully miracle will happen on that day.

Lastly, for October, I want to maintain my Eat.Sleep.Work.Poker.Repeat routine as I am still highly motivated to play. Why I am motivated to play? It is because I feel that players who were grinding the same limits had move up and they are improving tremousdously as they put in tons and tons of effort to get to where they currently are. No volume target for October as well because if I am motivated to play, the volume will automatically be achieve.

That's all for now!

GL on the tables!