IN SEARCH OF BLISCIPLINE - Feb cash diary

SR23

Yep, another diary. This could well be my fourth. Fifth? It's certainly some number of diary.

Anyway, thought I'd give another one a go for this month because (a) diaries appear to be petering out on the forum (b) it helps with focus and other things and gets me writing daily but most importantly (c) I'm actually planning on doing some actual ACTUAL BRM for the month. For far too long now I have just deposited, played, withdrawn and so on and played 30/50nl with, like, four buy-ins. This BRM aggression will not stand.

So, mid last week I withdrew down to 15 buy-ins for 10nl and absolutely would not play 20nl until I had 15 buy-ins for 20nl. Thankfully I managed to get in one or two spots and spin it up and now I can comfortably - or, 'comfortably' - play 20nl.

I plan to stick to this semi-strict 15 buy-ins per level until I get to 50nl then it might be 25 buy-ins because people might not stand for my nonsense up there.

Planning on updating daily until the end of the month. In fact, if I don't update every day (starting tomorrow) including AT LEAST ONE interesting spot/hand to post then I'll donate £20 to the charity of choice to the first person who posts in this thread who says something like, "Hold on, you didn't post AT LEAST ONE interesting spot/hand yesterday."

Peace out.

Starting roll: £150
Roll: £550

Tikay10

I'm actually planning on doing some actual ACTUAL BRM

SR23

Would highly recommend starting a diary for anyone, like me, needing help with discipline, focus and BRM. Within an hour of starting this yesterday I had dropped five or so buy-ins at 20nl. Then I dropped a couple more. So I decided to really work on discipline, focus and BRM and lost some more buy-ins. Within a few hours I had sliced my roll in half. Diaries are awesome.

On a more upbeat note, I did manage to scoop up a load of points and I can't play as poorly as I did last night. OR CAN I? I probably can, actually. And I can probably run worse.

Will aim to post one or two spots and some absolute howlers a bit later.

Starting roll: £150
Roll: £287

loosecamel

GLGL will defo follow this one. Can't wait to see you YOLOing 30/50nl soon

IVIystical

Definitely following this - sounds fun!

SR23

loosecamel said:

GLGL will defo follow this one. Can't wait to see you YOLOing 30/50nl soon

Me neither. Hope Sky still exists in 2031. Thanks for keeping an eye on me.

SR23

IVIystical said:

Definitely following this - sounds fun!

It is ABSOLUTELY LOADS of fun.

SR23

With nothing better to do, I thought I'd drop another 7 buy-ins this morning. Going well this diary, isn't it? What I'm most delighted about is that I have to update every day - and post an interesting spot - otherwise it will cost me £20 per day. So there's that. Although I could delete it. If there is no thread then people can't post on it saying "You didn't post". That's physics for you.

Interesting hand below. I felt I was good. It turns out I was good. Then I was not good.

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
XX	Small blind		£0.05	£0.05	£4.69
SR23	Big blind		£0.10	£0.15	£13.02
tommo452	Big blind		£0.10	£0.25	£9.90
	Your hole cards	A Q
Pvf1	Fold
tommo452	Check
Jamieb23	Raise		£0.45	£0.70	£30.24
XX	Call		£0.40	£1.10	£4.29
SR23	Raise		£1.80	£2.90	£11.22
tommo452	Fold
Jamieb23	Fold
XX	Call		£1.45	£4.35	£2.84
Flop
		3 K 8
XX	Bet		£0.10	£4.45	£2.74
SR23	Raise		£2.38	£6.83	£8.84
XX	Call		£2.28	£9.11	£0.46
Turn
		5
XX	Bet		£0.10	£9.21	£0.36
SR23	Raise		£4.76	£13.97	£4.08
XX	All-in		£0.36	£14.33	£0.00
SR23	Unmatched bet		£4.30	£10.03	£8.38
XX	Show	A 5
SR23	Show	A Q
River
		J
XX	Win	Pair of 5s	£9.27		£9.27

MAXALLY

Starting roll: £150
Roll: £287

I was away when they did that math lesson at my school......but have you not nearly doubled your roll already at this point?

Yours,

Intrigued/Subscribed/Following with interest/etc etc etc

SR23

MAXALLY said:

Starting roll: £150
Roll: £287

I was away when they did that math lesson at my school......but have you not nearly doubled your roll already at this point?

Yours,

Intrigued/Subscribed/Following with interest/etc etc etc

In a sense, I suppose (although I've managed to lop some of since then) but this BRM challenge wasn't going to be public, more of a personal thing. In the OP I wrote:

So, mid last week I withdrew down to 15 buy-ins for 10nl and absolutely would not play 20nl until I had 15 buy-ins for 20nl. Thankfully I managed to get in one or two spots and spin it up and now I can comfortably - or, 'comfortably' - play 20nl.

Now, I suspect it looks a grandstanding to start a thread after nearly quadrupling your BR in less than a week but I genuinely wanted to keep disciplined and focused and I'm (also genuinely) nearly back to last week's starting roll so it's all good. And by 'it's all good' I mean it's all bad. Thanks for popping in dude.

MAXALLY

SR23 said:

MAXALLY said:

Starting roll: £150
Roll: £287

I was away when they did that math lesson at my school......but have you not nearly doubled your roll already at this point?

Yours,

Intrigued/Subscribed/Following with interest/etc etc etc

In a sense, I suppose (although I've managed to lop some of since then) but this BRM challenge wasn't going to be public, more of a personal thing. In the OP I wrote:

So, mid last week I withdrew down to 15 buy-ins for 10nl and absolutely would not play 20nl until I had 15 buy-ins for 20nl. Thankfully I managed to get in one or two spots and spin it up and now I can comfortably - or, 'comfortably' - play 20nl.

Now, I suspect it looks a grandstanding to start a thread after nearly quadrupling your BR in less than a week but I genuinely wanted to keep disciplined and focused and I'm (also genuinely) nearly back to last week's starting roll so it's all good. And by 'it's all good' I mean it's all bad. Thanks for popping in dude.

Cheers for the confirmation. I genuinely wish you all the best on the challenge.

In my little book of Sky Poker rules (which I purchased for 5p from a flea market in Skipton), it says....

Rule
16c) Rag ace will always get there on the turn or river.

SR23

^ thanks very much, appreciate it. There's no fun in getting off to a flyer. That's how I'm consoling myself, at least.

TheEdge949

SR23 said:

^ thanks very much, appreciate it. There's no fun in getting off to a flyer. That's how I'm consoling myself, at least.

That's what I say each time I reload. Oh and for all you successful players out there reload is defined as "The continual donation of funds to those whose skill levels deem them worthy of such riches".

Good luck with your endeavors. Should be a cracking / interesting read.

waller02

Great to see you back posting, always a pleasure to read.

Best of luck on the tables.

hhyftrftdr

MAXALLY said:

SR23 said:

MAXALLY said:

Starting roll: £150
Roll: £287

I was away when they did that math lesson at my school......but have you not nearly doubled your roll already at this point?

Yours,

Intrigued/Subscribed/Following with interest/etc etc etc

In a sense, I suppose (although I've managed to lop some of since then) but this BRM challenge wasn't going to be public, more of a personal thing. In the OP I wrote:

So, mid last week I withdrew down to 15 buy-ins for 10nl and absolutely would not play 20nl until I had 15 buy-ins for 20nl. Thankfully I managed to get in one or two spots and spin it up and now I can comfortably - or, 'comfortably' - play 20nl.

Now, I suspect it looks a grandstanding to start a thread after nearly quadrupling your BR in less than a week but I genuinely wanted to keep disciplined and focused and I'm (also genuinely) nearly back to last week's starting roll so it's all good. And by 'it's all good' I mean it's all bad. Thanks for popping in dude.

Cheers for the confirmation. I genuinely wish you all the best on the challenge.

In my little book of Sky Poker rules (which I purchased for 5p from a flea market in Skipton), it says....

Rule
16c) Rag ace will always get there on the turn or river.

What's rule 16b out of interest?
You must moan like a little **** in the chatbox at 'lol Sky rivers'?

Good luck SR, always a funky read.
Don't forget about rule 16b though, if you want to get anywhere.

SR23

TheEdge949 said:

SR23 said:

^ thanks very much, appreciate it. There's no fun in getting off to a flyer. That's how I'm consoling myself, at least.

That's what I say each time I reload. Oh and for all you successful players out there reload is defined as "The continual donation of funds to those whose skill levels deem them worthy of such riches".

Good luck with your endeavors. Should be a cracking / interesting read.

It SHOULD be but let's see. Things are certainly interesting at the moment. Bad-interesting not good-interesting but still, you can't have it all. Thanks for the support.

SR23

waller02 said:

Great to see you back posting, always a pleasure to read.

Best of luck on the tables.

Lovely stuff, always a pleasure to have you here. Well, you and Kit Carson.

SR23

hhyftrftdr said:

MAXALLY said:

SR23 said:

MAXALLY said:

Starting roll: £150
Roll: £287

I was away when they did that math lesson at my school......but have you not nearly doubled your roll already at this point?

Yours,

Intrigued/Subscribed/Following with interest/etc etc etc

In a sense, I suppose (although I've managed to lop some of since then) but this BRM challenge wasn't going to be public, more of a personal thing. In the OP I wrote:

So, mid last week I withdrew down to 15 buy-ins for 10nl and absolutely would not play 20nl until I had 15 buy-ins for 20nl. Thankfully I managed to get in one or two spots and spin it up and now I can comfortably - or, 'comfortably' - play 20nl.

Now, I suspect it looks a grandstanding to start a thread after nearly quadrupling your BR in less than a week but I genuinely wanted to keep disciplined and focused and I'm (also genuinely) nearly back to last week's starting roll so it's all good. And by 'it's all good' I mean it's all bad. Thanks for popping in dude.

Cheers for the confirmation. I genuinely wish you all the best on the challenge.

In my little book of Sky Poker rules (which I purchased for 5p from a flea market in Skipton), it says....

Rule
16c) Rag ace will always get there on the turn or river.

What's rule 16b out of interest?
You must moan like a little **** in the chatbox at 'lol Sky rivers'?

Good luck SR, always a funky read.
Don't forget about rule 16b though, if you want to get anywhere.

Oh, it's going to be funky alright. Funky is my middle name. Thanks for the good luck.

tomgoodun

Hi Steve
As a wise man once said, it’s Super Smashing Great to see you posting.
Best of luck with the pokers, and hope you are keeping well in these interesting times.

SR23

tomgoodun said:

Hi Steve
As a wise man once said, it’s Super Smashing Great to see you posting.
Best of luck with the pokers, and hope you are keeping well in these interesting times.

The WISEST of wise men, Tom, bar you ofc. Super smashing great to have you here Tom as always. Life update? Hope it's all going swimmingly (or I'd take semi-swimmingly) for you right now.

SR23

Bankroll continues to get knocked around. Both by me and, you know, them. You know who they are. I've been on perma-tilt since starting this diary but managed to extract a bit of calm from somewhere yesterday and did some cool stuff. Remember: the most important thing in life is doing cool stuff.

Think the below hand qualifies as an interesting spot. And cool stuff. I make an extremely rare 3b with a pocket pair versus a reg, then c-bet thinking I could fold out worse pocket pairs on a lot of turns. PLus, of course, I absolutely have TT/JJ/QQ/KK/AA. On the turn I could still have those and could totally have AK, as played. I don't, I have 22 as played, but I totally could have AK. On the river I perhaps don't have an absolute ton of showdown value & I could still definitely have A, plus a BDFD makes up quite a sizeable part of my range. So I went for it.

Player	Action	Cards	Amount	Pot	Balance
poooop	Small blind		£0.05	£0.05	£8.22
DeucesLive	Big blind		£0.10	£0.15	£10.67
	Your hole cards	2 2
gragun	Fold
REG	Raise		£0.30	£0.45	£13.63
WUBBZY1401	Fold
SR23	Raise		£1.05	£1.50	£15.14
poooop	Fold
DeucesLive	Fold
REG	Call		£0.75	£2.25	£12.88
Flop
		3 10 J
REG	Check
SR23	Bet		£1.13	£3.38	£14.01
REG	Call		£1.13	£4.51	£11.75
Turn
		Q
REG	Check
SR23	Bet		£2.50	£7.01	£11.51
REG	Call		£2.50	£9.51	£9.25
River
		9
REG	Check
SR23	All-in		£11.51	£21.02	£0.00
REG	Fold
SR23	Show	2 2
SR23	Win		£8.79		£8.79
SR23	Return		£11.51	£0.72	£20.30

Starting roll: £150
Roll: £192