Hi all,
In case you're wondering why I haven't posted in ages..it's pretty much that I haven't had anything interesting to say, what with playing very little hands at rather boring limits. In case you're wondering who the fuck I am, you'll have to dig through the blog to find my older posts. deal with it.
First, let me sum up what's happened between then and now in a handy list format.
- I almost busted my roll making a stupid BRM mistake in February or so (that, I already talked about)
- I played NL50 then NL100 for a while, mostly making money through bonuses.
- The reason why that phase lasted almost 6 months is that I was working (a little more than usual) for school, and was too lazy to make proper time for poker.
- Somewhere in there, I broke my back in two places on the last day of the ski season (nothing too serious, but very annoying), had exams, won a $1000 propbet on my maths one (6/6, ship it holla), recovered and continued to be super lazy with poker.
- Oh, I recently started playing HU too. Also, I watched a few videos and improved my 6-max game a ton. I'm not grinding stupidly anymore, thinking about every decision I make and soaking up advice from excellent coaches.
AND NOW:
Today is the 1st of August. I have an entire month free ahead of me. For those of you who read my blog a year ago, the title should start to give you a hint of what's up next. (quick summary for the new ones: I grinded like crazy during July '08 for a promotion, 120k hands nl100-nl200 in <30 days)
That time, I was shooting for 20'000 partypoints in a month. This time, I'm going for 20'000$. Just to step things up a little. The way I'm going to do this is simple: eat, play poker, eat, play poker, eat, play poker, sleep. Let's see how it goes.
Seriously though, my roll now stands at 6700$, spread between Party and full tilt. I'll be starting at NL200, playing *maximum* 8 tables (I'll fill up with nl100 when traffic is bad). I play 6-max on party and HU (nl100 at first) on FTP, though that might change once I get my bonus. Speaking of which, I have a 3k$ bonus I can buy on party as soon as I reach Palladium again, and rakeback on full tilt -- the 20'000$ include bonuses and rakeback, by the way.
What's perhaps noteworthy as well is that I am not going for any specific promotion, top250 or otherwise, so I don't give a shit about volume. My main goal will be to improve my hourly rate as much as possible (frankly, that should be the goal of every poker player), and beat NL400 as soon as possible. Thankfully I have lots of videos I can watch, and I might get some private coaching if I feel I need it.
I will hopefully be playing 6 days per week full time, to leave a few days for playing live (I play NL1k or 2k and put 75% of my winnings towards live tourneys). It'll probably end up being less than 6 days though, since TwiceT is coming over in a few days ^^
I'll post updates here if there's enough popular demand, otherwise I'll just start a thread in the forum blogs I guess. On that note, I'll leave you with an awesome video while you wait for the first update. Wish me luck, I'm officially starting tomorrow! (well, this afternoon i guess. whatever.)
//edit: check out TheLastNail's blog! He's doing the same thing, only way more baller