Back on the grind!

Hello! Did the math-exam this friday, probably blew it and finished my last stuff yesterday. Now I am finally having a worry-free summerbreak and not this have-to-practice-linear-algebra-soon-kinda mentality. Also am back in sweden now so I can access all pokersites again. Played briefly this weekend and won 400$ but unfortunatly lost 260$ in the 30-minute bus ride from the airport back home, flopped midset vs topset vs a fish and some PLO-hands that were not so fun. I plan to grind around 4-5 hours per day this week, maybe even more but I have to make sure that I play with energy. I seem to more or less always win every month as long as I only play a little and usually the worst months ever are when I play loads. Would like to play in the morning/day and then take a long break and come back during the night but will probably stick to FLSH for awhile and if I am not misstaken then the games are very dry during the day. Dont want to play much other then FLSH 2/4-5/10$ so that limits me a bit.

Gonna start watching some PLO-videos during the day as well btw and try to study that a bit more then I previously have done. Gonna assign 2-3 hour sessions which hopefully get me started there better then b4 when I watched like 30 minute videos once in awhile.

More problems with the spanish poker regulations

Gaah! In the beginning of june/july, the access to online pokersite while in spain was getting harder and harder. A few sites blocked me and the number kept growing. It was allright thou because the 2-3 I played most at did not. Now thou, they do :(. Could be cool to play at spanish poker sites but I dont think the tax regulation of pokerstars.es has changed and apparently the winning spanish players avoid that site since the tax situation states that even losing players would have to pay hefty tax since it is interpretted as paying tax on each winning hand seperatly, nondeductable rom losing hands. Am not very interested in reading into this stuff right now but I guess I should do it pretty soon.

Anyways, this virtually means im without poker, or there is only one small site that allows me to play from here, with generelly not that many games going. Ohh well, I guess I can focus more on having a good vacation then. Hehe. And play more livepoker in the future.

Drunk poker and panic

Hey guys. Have written some stuff but just wanted to add some strategy but am a bit worried about my calculus exam and try to focus on that. Been playing and winning. Played twice in the casino and lost a small of mount of money and got heavily slowrolled both times and online has been decent as well for the few hours Ive actually spent there. Almost never play drunk poker but did so yesterday and unfortunatly it cost me $400 even thou I was a massive favorite in a 470€ pot all in 3way on turn but mr flushdraw got it so cannot complain too much.

Have formatted and fixed my computers now and it appears that my ultrabook is probably too weak to be called an ultra. Checked out the windows performance index and both my 2-3 year old computers beat the crap out of it. Gonna install all poker on the big old midtower-computer and grind on that again for the summer. The 30"incher has its full resolution with it so thats nice.

So expect fewer update from me until my exam that is next week.

Sickness...

Hey guys. Have written 5/6 of a longer post, just wanted to include some analysis before. Just gotten sick and it really has affected my energy levels, feel tired constantly. Am up 500$ for july so far after a session +530$ today. Gonna post tomorrow, take care.

Pimping up the grind area + continuous good results!

Winniniiinnnnnnnnng!
Maybe I mentioned this last post but first won around $900 and then tuesday i won $500 more and yesterday I won 200$ and raked $500 so it seems the weekend getaway did the trick, gotta be happy with 1600$ profit in three days at mainly 3/6-4/8$. The plan was to do a lot of math in the daytime but it appears I am a bit slow in terms of productivity during the day now during the summer so havnt actually done a lot of math so I got to prioritize that, hope I can still play 4-5 hours of poker per day thou. Talked with a pokerpro I used to share a pokeroffice with and we might have a huge grindsession lockdown-style at the old office this weekend. Would be cool. Gonna try to keep grinding at 3/6-4/8 maninly and not to take shots higher up, at least for like 1-2k$ more in profit. Only up around $1000 for july which is not awesome.

A better grinding area but with a screen with only half the resolution (very pixly atm)

Pimping up the grinding desk
Continued to try to pimp up my grinding spot now and finally got the 30" monitor to work with my laptop but unfortunatly it seems to be something wrong since maximum resolution is only 1280x800 instead of the 2560x1600 it supports. Not really sure why but even thou it doesnt look all that great then it is better then grinding on a laptop. Maybe ill pull together my old desktop that I know have the graphic card that supports max resolution (and the DVI-connections as well) but that would mean that I have to reinstall windows + all pokersoftware which is a bit of a hassle. That would allow me to play starcraft 2 thou :D.

All my stuff (including computers etc) is divided between my fathers and my mothers place and most of it is in boxes so even thou it is there somewhere then it is still a bit of a hassle finding everything but then also to go there and then to move it again.

Ohh, another good thing is that I learned how to move windows offscreen on-screen. This has been very frustrating since the HM2-note system always goes offscreen disabling my ability to write new notes. Extremly frustrating to say the least.

Back from a "nature resort" with new energy and a good result

Swedish nature :)

Got back from a real nice weekend with my childhood friends that I havnt seen in a long time. Unfortunatly almost all of them are musicians (dont have money for travel) or the other that could travel but doesnt enjoy it. That means that I have to come to them and will probably be like that as long as I stay abroad. Well, it was great. Got a bit of a nature experience as well. That probably lead me to this months best days, won 927$!!

Skeleton from a moose (hard to see, I know)

Have scheduled early evenings and nights for poker and am quite happy with the new schedule. Printed it out to make it "stick" into my brain and make it more official. Also added reminders etc on my phone. Gonna try to wake up and go to bed the same time everyday, hope that it will make me more energetic in general. 

Barbequiing!

Plan on doing a bit of math (for school) during the days but I plan to grind around 4h per night and probably gonna grind pretty hard for two days this weekend depending on which day I go out partying. Looking forward to it and hopefully turn around june from a bad month to a decent one.

Bad HU-reg, soso results and new coaching

Week 25

This week started out pretty bad and continued yesterday with a pretty awful session and lost $900 for the day at pretty low stakes. Started out losing three 65/35 shovs at PLO at zoom, then continued to run awful at PLO and then switched to FLSH where I had stats of 41/41 and lost like $500 more there. However, I do have the discipline and experience now to realize that these sessions will happen frequently and Ill just try to avoid taking longer breaks from poker just because I lost a little. Would be cool to see like the longest span of hands I have ever lost in with rakeback. Btw, I have plans to format one of my computers, load into all my hhs from all pokerhistory (have them all in different places) and then check some stats. Not that it is so important but would be cool to see some stuff with a larger samplesize and some sort of history graph.

Well well. Played some HU vs a reg on a smaller site. He always sits and waits on pretty high stakes. This site is very very fishy (but with limited action) and he is an extremly bad reg but he always sits on my left so it is usually hard for me to exploit him. I do, however, constantly think about playing him HU but with this years stakes-limitation etc then it will usually be a bad idea to play him HU even thou it is very tempting. It is just a bit too high for me right now and in FLHU the edge of say 1-2 BB/100 is likely to take a decent amount of time. Anyways, I did play him the other day, he played awful and hit four 4outers or less in 20 hands and I realized that it was a bad idea and left. Cost me 320$ or so.

Wednesday

Upp $320 after being up around 900$. FLSH with a lot of rake added 300$ish rb to the winnings as well. Probably the most I have raked in 24h this year, around 580$.

Thursday

Played some FLSH, zoom and 8game. Seemed like I was up 2-3 buyins at zoom but apparently not, won a bit in FLSH although getting some ridicolous bad beats (veeery fishy table) but lost $300ish in the mixed games, most of it in a $400pot getting it in good on turn at PLO followed by another PLO-pot with a flip that I lost. Also had 2 semi-large pots of FLSH lost due to disconnection. I sit 50 cm from my router at my familys place but even then, boss media is freaking shit. It is embarrassing that it is actually designed by swedes, when we normally do stuff we usually do it properly but this piece of shit software is beyond appauling. The worst thing is that you get kicked out frmo your table once you have timed out. What a great rule? Lol. Anyways, had a set in one and probably the best in the other and lost like €100 there. Frustrating to say the least.... Really trying hard not to let that bother me. Anyways, from now on I learn to stay away from boss here or at least use a wire.. All other networks works fine.

The biggest issue this week is that I think I have not played all that well for the first time in a long time. Not THAT bad of quality but definetly my B-game (which I believe to be winning at FLSH but perhaps not in PLO). Think the problem is longer sessions so ill try to keep it to 90 min and then perhaps a small break and do 50 min more. Ive scheduled my days this summer into 2,5hour-blocks more or less, a system that I think should work out quite nicely. Tried to organize my life last few years and it works to some degree but I believe that you need flexibility and leisure time in order to have a functioning schedule. Because if you play on like 10 min breaks between important task 1 and important task 2 then have a lot of other stuff then basically the whole day is ruined (schedule-wise) if you are 30 min late somehow and that is something I find to occur pretty frequently. So now I try to go for a more flexible schedule with longer periods and stop to think superhigh-achiever and try to maximize time spent on work/studying.

This weekend btw is pretty important holidays in Sweden. Gonna start of with a nice early dinner with my childhood friends and probably drink some pretty fine wine. Expect to be gone all day and probably hungover on saturday so probably not play until saturday night or sunday.

COACHING!

Btw, finally got answers from two coaches Ive contacted about stud hi/lo and 2-7 tripple draw so hope to get that going soon. Would be cool to spend like 3-4 weeks intensivly learning this games but with the recent downswing or whatever you want to call it then I hope my pace with the pokerwinnings will pick because if not then I do not feel comfortable spending like 1000-2000$ in coaching fees and probably not having too much timing grinding my bread and butter.