March Results (... aka "a whole lotta fail")
01 April 2008
Talk about a bad month in terms of personal goals. I had wanted to crank out like 15k-20k but actually played even less in March than I had in February. Overall I think that I may have burnt out a bit and just chose to spend time on other aspects of my life, which I think is a good thing. I don't want to be sitting at the tables if my mind isn't into it. However, I did manage to watch a ton of videos and finish up reading Prof. No-Limit Hold'em (overall, I'd give it a solid conceptual rating, but don't know how applicable it is to real life play... I'll certainly be reading again when I get the time).
I think one of my big problems towards the end of the month was lack of accountability. Once the group that I was in dissolved, I found myself lacking the motivation to sit at the table and grind out hands. This certainly isn't meant to put the blame on anyone else, as this is 100% my problem -- I should be accountable to one person, and one person only. That being said, I think that a solid group of players surrounding me definitely enhanced my game, and I hope that in the near future I'll be able to get some more sweats in and eventually find another group to be part of. In the meantime, I need to work on setting a schedule for myself and sticking to it. I can't get better if I don't play... "If you want to be the man, you've got to beat the man."
March Results:
Table Profit: $504.53
ABS Rakeback: $142.30
PokerStars Reward: Nintendo Wii (finally got it... time to mod it)
February Goals Review:
- 3,00 hands / wk -- FAIL
- Sustain > 3.5 ptbb/100 -- FAIL (ran just under 3... at least I was in the green)
- 1 non-group sweat session / wk -- FAIL (do we see a trend?)
- Watch 2 instructional videos / wk -- SUCCESS (at least I blew this one out of the water)
- Weekly reviews via blog posts -- SUCCESS (kind of... need to do more hand analysis)
- Finish reading Professional NLHE -- SUCCESS (not quite sure how I feel about it right now)
- Begin reading The Poker Mindset -- SUCCESS (started it... even though I'm not very far)
Posted byM0NIKER at 4:43 PM
Congrats on staying in the green. I felt the same way about PNLHE#1, I'd like to go back and re-read to see if it gets better with repetition!
I think the important things from PNLHE are basically to use the REM process and understand commitment. These are discussed quite well in the book in my opinion and that is the true strength of that text.
I am sure April will be a better month for you, stay focused, and the good results will come!
4 out of 7 goals accomplished is not bad. The ptbb goal is tough because you don't really have control of it.
keep on grinding and playing your A game.