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Further misadventures of a fish at the cash tables
shakinaces
Member Posts: 1,590
OK so I don't know where this will go, but in other ventures a diary spot has helped focus my mind on improving so perhaps this will throw a hobnail boot at my backside and help get my poker on a more consistent upwards curve. Posts mostly to focus my own mind, but any shoeings or guidance will be very much welcomed!
After years of one-off deposits and withdrawing winnings / spewing on Sky Vegas, I bunged £20 on when I returned from holiday in October 2012 and wanted something to do while off work and getting over jetlag, with the plan to run up a bankroll.
Got lucky and have been in +ve ever since, with one month credit card bill for a couple of hundred quid cleared from a withdrawal but other than that not touched my Sky monies. And also self-excluded from Vegas to prevent donating to Mr Murdoch via that platform (best decision ever!)
That said, a lot of it has felt like treading water and not really working to get things clicked into place. Must do better.
I briefly ran like God last night to finally move my sharkscope back into positive territory and wholly intend to keep it there by the end of March next year (then beyond?) - but cash is and will remain my primary focus. Bankroll currently just shy of £500 so almost legit rolled for NL10 again and will mix NL8/NL10 and action NL5 along with smaller buyin tournis.
Plus I've just bought my first house and it's chewing up all my money... winning enough to spark a holiday later this year would be boss!
Base Targets next 12 months:
Maintain sharkscope +ve
Be in profit from cash!
Earn a minimum of 500pts poker rewards from cash every month
Have meaningful notes on 80% of players at NL8/10
Mix at least an hour of non-playing poker study in with every week of playing
Seek a way to get more involved with better players that can drag my game on, be that formal coaching or ???
Not partaking in any other Sky Vegas-style gambling
Update this thing at least once for every week I play... especially when I'm getting beaten up at the tables
Stretch Targets:
Make at least £1k profit
Earn at least 1k poker points from cash each month
Win a main or mini (once bankroll gets big enough!)
Have my toe dipped in the NL20 waters or above
Getting a hand shown on ch861 where I pull off a ridic three-barrel bluff that somehow gets through
Comments
Nice 1, getting a knew house! Expensive business:) Well done on running up £20 to 500 nice effort!
Your 1st post be in profit from cash, easy:) You have that sorted right away.
The best thing to do at 10nl is table select and winnings easy.
If you see a table full of regular nits avoid it, there is no point in playing for the sake of it. With the rake (which is massive at this level) it is just not possible to make money if there is 4 nits on the table who need the nuts to commit to a big pot.
Pick tables with a maximum of 3 regs on it, the less "regs" the better. Another good thing to do is to start up tables, just sit on an empty table and let the table fill doing this cuts out most of the regs, cause they hardly ever sit at a short handed table. You have a good game and it's way better than nitty ABC poker (of most of those you play at 10nl), so you will do really well imo. Do that and you are well onto your way 2 1k.
Defo take notes, i'm really terrible at that, something i need to improve on.
Defo spend some time studying, you can get loads of free poker videos on you tube showing cash getting played. Looker over hands to spot mistakes, the biggest mistakes are made in smaller pots, the bigger ones tend to be coolers.
If you are playing a lot of MTT's might be an idea to join a team.
There is a TPT skype group also. If you want to join just pm me your skype and i'll add you.
Anyway good luck and look forward to hearing how you get on.
Base Targets next 12 months:
It will be interesting to see what would happen to the poker world if the tracking software was suddenly turned off across the whole industry and we all had to kick it old skool again.
Yesterday was good cash wise, over £20 up, offsetting two bounty hunters that yielded 1 measly head prize. Poker Gods quite fairly seeing me lose flips to make up for winning them all yesterday!
I don't know what Sky have done recently, but people seem ready to gamble again at NL10...
Or perhaps the wider economy is genuinely getting better now and people are more happy and confident to spark off a few £10ers on the poker again!
Had 4 tables going at the time, had a tricky decision on one which distracted me slightly, but noticed I'd picked up AA in the SB of another, happy days.
My advice would be:
1) Forget about donkaments
2) Stop playing 10nl, rake is too high, 7.5% is ridiculous. £500 is plenty for 20nl (assuming your not prone to tilt or drunk)
3) Forget about poker points
4) Your only target should be to play the best you can, don't aim to make £x, the money will flow if your good enough.
Judging from a few of your posts in the clinic Shakin you seem like you would be comfortable at 20nl.
Try and forget about £ targets and set volume targets instead. Playing well + volume = £££'s
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