My wife had a surprise birthday party for me with a poker theme. She did a wonderful job decorating and cooking and I had no clue what was going on. I must count myself lucky to have a wife who understands me. I can’t imagine its easy dealing with a husband who wants to play a game for a living, but she supports me in everything I do. If I did not have her support, even attempting this would be impossible. She invited a few friends over to play poker but I decided to play spades, since none of them knew how to play poker. We had a good time and like I said before I am very lucky to be married to her.
I should be finishing up the details on my coaching situation. I am very excited to be working on my game and learning how to properly crush SNGs.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011
January Update
It’s been awhile since I posted anything on my blog, it’s about time for an update and how I have been doing so far in 2011. First of all I like to list my goals for 2011. As stated previously, I want to set healthy goals, so here are my goals of 2011.
1) Make Super Nova – I am not setting a time table for this I just need to make Super Nova before the end of the year.
2) Find a coach – I am working on this goal right now and have reached out to a few quality coaches and coaching sites, so hope to have this taken care of soon.
3) Play a WSOP event –I have gone to Vegas the last two years during the WSOP and have not played an event. I generally grind the smaller games being held during that time.
4) Increase my volume online – this kind of go along with the Super Nova goal, but I want to increase my hourly rate.
5) Study at least 3 hours a week – this is a goal that I know needs improving on.
I am not setting any profit goals since it’s hard to hit these goals ( I said hard not impossible) but there are too many factors that happen that effect your profit that is out of your control. I believe by achieving these goals set above, being profitable will take care of itself
As far as how January goes it’s been an up and down month. I started off with $1200 downswing playing $12 45man and $6.50, 45man turbo’s. I decided I need to be coached in order to improve my edge in these games. So I twitched back to MTTs and regular sngs and was able to erase my down swing and I’m doing pretty well. I been getting deep in MTTs and if not for being on the bad end of a flip in which I was ahead, I would of made some very decent scores (this is why I have not set a profit goal). I hope to find where I will be receiving my coaching from and hope to start a coaching session in the beginning of February.
My wife posted this Video on Facebook and it gets me hype eveytime I watch it.
1) Make Super Nova – I am not setting a time table for this I just need to make Super Nova before the end of the year.
2) Find a coach – I am working on this goal right now and have reached out to a few quality coaches and coaching sites, so hope to have this taken care of soon.
3) Play a WSOP event –I have gone to Vegas the last two years during the WSOP and have not played an event. I generally grind the smaller games being held during that time.
4) Increase my volume online – this kind of go along with the Super Nova goal, but I want to increase my hourly rate.
5) Study at least 3 hours a week – this is a goal that I know needs improving on.
I am not setting any profit goals since it’s hard to hit these goals ( I said hard not impossible) but there are too many factors that happen that effect your profit that is out of your control. I believe by achieving these goals set above, being profitable will take care of itself
As far as how January goes it’s been an up and down month. I started off with $1200 downswing playing $12 45man and $6.50, 45man turbo’s. I decided I need to be coached in order to improve my edge in these games. So I twitched back to MTTs and regular sngs and was able to erase my down swing and I’m doing pretty well. I been getting deep in MTTs and if not for being on the bad end of a flip in which I was ahead, I would of made some very decent scores (this is why I have not set a profit goal). I hope to find where I will be receiving my coaching from and hope to start a coaching session in the beginning of February.
My wife posted this Video on Facebook and it gets me hype eveytime I watch it.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Day 1
So I been reading some of these guys post on 2+2 about their pursuit of super nova elite and there first day total for VPP’s are about as much as I have been getting in a month lol. I spent the day studying on SNG Wizard and Nash trying to tighten up my SNG game. Of course I took breaks to watch a few bowl games and a movie with the wife. I wanted to relax while everybody hit the year hot and heavy trying to reach their 2011 goals. I figure most will get burned out in a few months and I remember looking in at the tournament lobbies and cash tables and seeing all the REGs grinding there little harts out. I mean all the players in the top 25 on shark scope were all grinding today. I figure I take this first day of the year off, I have a feeling this is going to be a marathon and not a race for me. Plus I wanted to take the extra time to get my head right and focused.
I had a conversation with my boy who is also looking to make Super Nova this year in an effort to increase his volume; we talked about our goals and game selection. He is grinding the $12 180’s and $6.50 45 mans on stars. He said he is going to stay away from the $12 45 mans because they are so Reg infested and the payout does not warrant the effort to put in a decent grind in them. My first thought was you play $12 180’s you can’t really get more REG infested then those and you also grind the $6.50 man, so why would the payout structure bother you? I assume he is think along the lines that why pay $12 to play a 45 man SNG, when you can play in a $12 180 for the same price and make more money. I was thinking along the lines that the 180’s had a higher variance do to the structure and number of players and REGs.
He is going to be my wing man on this journey, he has the drive and the work ethic to study the game and put the time in to reach his goals. I need people like him in this aspect of my life, to help push me and bounce ideas off of. The Forums will also give me access to player trying to reach this goal and reading the post of player who have already reach this goal and of player like me trying to go for it for the first time will really improve my chances of doing so. Well the grind begins tomorrow for me I hope to reach these volume goals and to be profitable doing so.
I had a conversation with my boy who is also looking to make Super Nova this year in an effort to increase his volume; we talked about our goals and game selection. He is grinding the $12 180’s and $6.50 45 mans on stars. He said he is going to stay away from the $12 45 mans because they are so Reg infested and the payout does not warrant the effort to put in a decent grind in them. My first thought was you play $12 180’s you can’t really get more REG infested then those and you also grind the $6.50 man, so why would the payout structure bother you? I assume he is think along the lines that why pay $12 to play a 45 man SNG, when you can play in a $12 180 for the same price and make more money. I was thinking along the lines that the 180’s had a higher variance do to the structure and number of players and REGs.
He is going to be my wing man on this journey, he has the drive and the work ethic to study the game and put the time in to reach his goals. I need people like him in this aspect of my life, to help push me and bounce ideas off of. The Forums will also give me access to player trying to reach this goal and reading the post of player who have already reach this goal and of player like me trying to go for it for the first time will really improve my chances of doing so. Well the grind begins tomorrow for me I hope to reach these volume goals and to be profitable doing so.
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