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.

June Review - Spewy month

Time for June review. June did not went well for me and I had only myself to blame for the straight line downward slope at the very end of the month. Not going to blame on variance, bad luck or whatever excuses that is available. I was very spewy at the end of the month which my graph clearly said so. I got no idea what got into me to this spewy behavior and threw about $600 away. Sometime when you feel like you play better or believe u are playing at a higher level, you tend to forget the fundamental way of playing it. Anyway, I deserved to lose and this should served as a reminder for me to play better in both game and mental aspect in the second half of the year.

Total hands played : 52,431

 Profit/Loss : (318.03) + 923.36 (VIP Rewards) = 605.33 USD

Although I am in profit this month, I do not really like it as I needed VIP reward to put me in profit. I want my profit to come from the volume of hands I played, so hopefully July gonna be a good month for me. Really looking forward to play on July with much improve discipline and focus level. 

Recently I got a job and will be working in a certified public accountant (CPA) firm as client service executive. Will be doing corporate tax, personal tax and accounting work. I know it sound like a boring job and YES it is. With my current work, my grinding session will be shorter but it make me wanna do better with limited time. Hopefully with the time constraint, I will be doing better and stop all those mental fish behavior. 

No idea what is the volume I am going to  play this month. I only started my first hand on 5th July but I gonna try to grind as much as I can after work. Lastly, 25th July is my birthday! Run good months ARE COMING!

 

That's all for now! Gonna get back to work tomorrow. GL to everyone on the felt!

May Report - Worst run ever in poker life

May had been the worst month ever I had to endure. Nett lost on the table was (1405.92) with only 36698 hands!!!! (YES IT IS ONLY 36698 HANDS)  One of the most painful period ever. Everything did not went smoothly for most of my session. During this period, I became a fortune teller. Every time I put my money in ahead, I will bound to lose on the turn or river and I can literally see it coming before the card was even dealt. I think every poker player will somehow become a fortune teller whenever they are in the downswing.

From the previous post, I had said that I gonna play a bigger volume in May but the downswing had greatly affected on the number of hands I played. Had spoken to a few players and the advise was to take a few days break or move down in stake to get my confidence level back. I took the advise and took one week break. During this break, I was reviewing the hands I had played in May. Taking break did helped, I was playing pretty well for the first two days then came variance once again where coolers were everywhere. Confidence hit rock bottom as I became a ATM on the table. Had a good seat on the table with fish but most of the time I am just giving out money to them. They miraculously hit their 1- 3 outers so often that I just kept reloading and continuously repeat this over and over again. There was one point where I am not sure if I can still beat the game (mental fish). I can obviously beat the fish, just that they run extremely lucky and I was running on the other end.

Pokerstars

PKR

Weeeeeeeee! I am embarrass to post the graph but I cannot just post profit graph.

Total Volume = 36 698 hands (Took about 10+ days break)

Loss = (1405.92) + 380 (VIP + Stellar Reward) = (1025.92) USD

Most serious poker players should feel the same when we are in the downswing. You get very emotional when variance cannot stop coming after you. You lost your confidence and start to question yourself. You just have to endure and play through the swings. I am looking forward to June. This is gonna be a UPSWING month to compensate what I went through in May.

That's all for now. GL on the table and those who are playing in WSOP 2014!

April Report!


PROFIT month cheers! but I'm pretty disappointed with how my month ended. Variance caught up with me and I ran pretty awful at the end of the month. Whatever that can go wrong just went wrong on the table and there is nothing I can do about it.

Due to pure laziness, I had played lesser volume of hands, I went on tilt at the end of around 1k hands which I spewed away two buyins which is deadly and I stop playing for the last 3 days of month due to how bad I ran. Discipline is one of the most important factors for you to succeed in poker therefore I have to be back on track to play more hands in May and stay cool headed. I got no idea if posting my graph in monetary term with profit/loss is a good idea but I am going to post it for this month report.

Total Volume: 41,534 hands
Profit: 405.97 + 841.76 (VIP Reward) = 1247.73 USD

I know I am not the best online cash game player on PKR nl50 but I expected myself to earn much more as the players I am playing against, were not the greatest. Like what @Flixx had said in his #grindingitup episode, 'No point whining about the weather since you can't change it'. If they ran good against me then there is nothing I can do to change it! I just hope to play them against before they give out their money to other players.

PKR traffic is getting lower and lower constantly and I hardly able to grind nine tables at their peak hours and therefore, I had to change a new grinding site to hit more volume of hands. I have not decide to play on Pokerstars or Full tilt poker but both site does not offer rakeback deal which is a little meh. I have not set a target for the number of hands I want to play in May as I am going to grind on mainly on another site.

There are quite a number of things I want to accomplish in May,

• Finish reading long overdue Mental Game of Poker 2
• Have a schedule for exercising
• Start learning Spanish
• More HH analysis with my poker friend. 
• Get a Job!

That sums up for my entire April. Good luck to everyone on the tables and wish me luck on new grinding site!

Chin Ye

 Let's Start!

Hello everyone! My name is Chin Ye, a online 6-max no limit cash game player from Singapore. I decided to play poker seriously about 3-4 years ago and putting in effort to grind and climb up the stake.I mainly grind on PKR and Pokerstars. Had a short email interview from PKR a few years back.

Why I started to play seriously? Because I had enough of losing money like a fish. I told myself to deposit another $50 and if I lose it, I will never play poker again. I started by playing at microstake NL10 using short stack strategy thinking of winning at least $2 a day. So this go on until I reach NL25 and met a dutch player who was telling that why am I playing short stack when I am a good player! So I heed her advice and started playing 100bb and money is growing much faster ever since. Here am I at my current stake playing NL50 up to nine tables at a time. I still made mistakes during my grinding session and I am doing my best to minimize them ($ save = $ earn)

I am not aiming to play nosebleed cash game like NL5000/NL10000, I want to play at least NL400 in the near future and looking forward to play live cash game and tournament in Macau. This blog will be reminding me the goals I set for myself and keep track of my progress on climbing up the stakes. Like most poker players, I would like to play poker full time and have to the luxury to travel around the world to meet different people.

Growing up in a traditional Chinese family. parent want you to get education and find a job and work all your life so you can buy house, car and etc. By the way, I hold a bachelor degree in Accounting and Finance. My parent disapprove me of playing poker as she feel poker is gambling but my small profit over the years had made her started to think otherwise that poker is does not involve 100% in luck.

Other than playing poker, I also play DotA 2 (Defense of the Ancient) so any poker player who play the game can add me on steam.

 Lastly, anyone who want to discuss poker can follow me on twitter @TheRealChinYe or add me on skype. That's all for now!

Stay tune!

Chin Ye