Focus, Disciple, Concentration - My £1 to £100 challenge diary

Slykllist

Alot of you on here will know me and without wanting to be big headed will know I'm a decent poker player.

I am however absolutely terrible when it comes to discipline with my bank roll and it's cost me quite alot of money recently.  So, after spewing around £120.00 on SkyVegas roulette last night trying to claw back what was only about £60.00 of poker losses during the day, I went to bed feeling a little sick and thoroughly annoyed at myself.

I got up early this morning still quite annoyed and took action, I self excluded myself from SkyVegas and SkyBingo for 5 years and withdrew everything but the last £1.00 from my account.

As an exercise in focus and discipline I'm going to try and turn that £1.00 into £100.00 as quickly as I can.  I'm not aiming to practice recommended bankroll management and will be taking shots at higher levels way too early but because every chip is important to me I believe this will increase my in game focus and discipline and keep my focus on good solid poker.

I had decided I wasn't going to post on here until I had made £10.00 as in all honesty I wasn't sure I could actually acheive it.

However, I've had a really good first day and to be honest have ridden my luck at times, so far I've played 9 DYM's and cashed in all 9 and have spun the £1.00 up to £9.25.

I'll aim to post daily updates and will try to post a record of what I've played and why as well as any other interesting things I'm up to.

Final word to GaryQQQ who's diary and quest has inspired me to give this a go.

Slykllist

I will be depositing £5.50 every Monday in order to play the forum DTD as I don't want to miss these tourneys, however I'll withdraw any winnings from these tourneys so my overall roll is not affected

Slykllist

Mistake number 1.....

I somehow just registerd for a £3.30 Omaha DYM thinking it was a Holdem game.

I'm an awful Omaha player so the downswing may well start here!

Slykllist

All good..... I somehow managed to cash in that too.

So a re-cap of day 1, played 10 won 10

Starting balance £1.00

Closing balance £11.95

Long may it continue

shaun84

Great t see your new diary/challenge. Good luck with all your DYM's and taking shots. Hope you get that quid up to £100 asap. I'll be checking in soon hoping you haven't found Sky Bet.lol. SelfExclude Now.lol
Best wishes. Shaun the Villa fan in Bham

Dudeskin8

Best of luck mate, always interesting to see these ones where you start with a very small amount and really have to battle to stay alive. A 9/9 start also helps lol but sure you'll keep it up and get to £100 pretty sharpish.

When do you think cash will be included in the challenge as personally once you get to at least £20 1/2 tabling should be fine.

devonfish5

hi Slykllist,
what a great start....
nice to see another new diary type challenge thingy!!!

best wishes,
sure u will do it...

:-)

devon

GaryQQQ

Good luck! I think you have a great chance of making it after such a promising start.

DOHHHHHHH

glgl with the spin up!

I managed to turn £2 into £350 in 1 day on Friday (admittedly I started with £8 and lost my first 2x £3 games) but that's a minor detail :P

tiz possible! Check out the micro stakes HU games to help get you through the early stages, really really soft. 

Nice move blocking sky vegas too!!! Tiz the devil. 

TommyD

Best of luck with the spin up

Glad to see you're off to a flyer!!!!

Slykllist

Well  today has started with no poker whatsoever as I'm also trying to spend a little more time indulging my other passion this year so turned out to support my cycling club in the first local inter-club event of the year, a 14.5 mile hilly time trial.

Given that I really haven't done any training, am around 3 stone over my racing weight and haven't done any serious cycling for around four years this was at best optimistic!  Oh and my goodness it was cold and ridiculously windy this morning!  Anyway I struggled my way around and made it home in one piece, I may not have been the fastest....... (the guy who started 8 minutes behind me passed me!)  but I'm pleased I did it and I scored some points for the club.

This afternoon I'm going to head over to Dusk til Dawn and rail the Sky players remaining in the UKIPT so I won't be playing anything until this evening so will post an update later on.

Have a good afternoon all and run golden! 

Slykllist

Well the last couple of days seem to have been taken over by preceedings at the £1,000,000 guaranteed Nottingham UKIPT and I've played no online poker at all.

I decided to go and rail my HitSquad team-mate Ian 'MacMonster' Senior at Dusk til Dawn on Sunday afternoon and even after I left the venue under strict wife instructions I was totally engrossed in the forum and Facebook activity happening around that event and as a result didn't even fire up a single table.

Then Ian only went and Made the final table in Nottingham which played out from 2pm yesterday.  I had a few things that I needed to sort out for work in the morning.  But once the final table started up I was again engrossed by that and was furiously refreshing various forums to keep up with the action.  Eventually the stress was just too much to bare so I jumped in the car and drove over to Dusk til Dawn so I could watch things unfold first hand.

Unfortunately Ian had been knocked out in 8th positon (still an incredible result from a field of 1625 runners) just before I arrived, but I was able to catch up with him and his other railers in the bar for a drink and chat and was able to soak up something of how it must feel to final table an event of this magnitude.

After a session at the Blackjack tables (me losing and Ian winning yet more money!) we decided to buy in to the £40.00 evenining tournament which proved to be an excellent decision on my part and a fitting way to end an eventful couple of days as at 4.10am this morning and admittedly running good against a guy with a far superior heads up game than mine, I managed to take down the tournament for a £1078 payout.

So, quite a couple of days for me and for the HitSquad but in short no progress whatsoever on my challenge.  I'll get back on it later on in the day hopefully.

So in summary, after 2 days of complete inactivity my balance is still £11.95

Tikay10

In Response to Re: I set myself a challenge, a diary of sorts!:

Well the last couple of days seem to have been taken over by preceedings at the £1,000,000 guaranteed Nottingham UKIPT and I've played no online poker at all. I decided to go and rail my HitSquad team-mate Ian 'MacMonster' Senior at Dusk til Dawn on Sunday afternoon and even after I left the venue under strict wife instructions I was totally engrossed in the forum and Facebook activity happening around that event and as a result didn't even fire up a single table. Then Ian only went and Made the final table in Nottingham which played out from 2pm yesterday.  I had a few things that I needed to sort out for work in the morning.  But once the final table started up I was again engrossed by that and was furiously refreshing various forums to keep up with the action.  Eventually the stress was just too much to bare so I jumped in the car and drove over to Dusk til Dawn so I could watch things unfold first hand. Unfortunately Ian had been knocked out in 8th positon (still an incredible result from a field of 1625 runners) just before I arrived, but I was able to catch up with him and his other railers in the bar for a drink and chat and was able to soak up something of how it must feel to final table an event of this magnitude. After a session at the Blackjack tables (me losing and Ian winning yet more money!) we decided to buy in to the £40.00 evenining tournament which proved to be an excellent decision on my part and a fitting way to end an eventful couple of days as at 4.10am this morning and admittedly running good against a guy with a far superior heads up game than mine, I managed to take down the tournament for a £1078 payout. So, quite a couple of days for me and for the HitSquad but in short no progress whatsoever on my challenge.  I'll get back on it later on in the day hopefully. So in summary, after 2 days of complete inactivity my balance is still £11.95
Posted by Slykllist

Incredible - very well done!

GaryQQQ

Nice bink! Very well played.

VespaPX

In Response to Re: I set myself a challenge, a diary of sorts!:

Mistake number 1..... I somehow just registerd for a £3.30 Omaha DYM thinking it was a Holdem game. I'm an awful Omaha player so the downswing may well start here!
Posted by Slykllist

I've done this a couple of times but managed to cash in both ! lol
gl with your challenge
KTF!

Slykllist

OK so yesterday was a bad day, but lessons learned.

Opening balance - £11.95

1st game was a £3.30 DYM which I bubbled playing a hand I really had no reason to get involved in (lesson 1)

2nd game I decided to try something different and go for a HU SNG I went with £2.10 level as I'd already lost one game and didn't want to risk any more.  I stupidly registered for an Omaha game (not really my game) as there was a guy waiting in the lobby, I let my ego tak over and figured at this level my game would be good enough to beat any oppositon.  Obvioulsy this guy had been waiting for someone with just this type of arrogance and he duely krushed me. (lesson 2)

3rd game I then did something even more stupid with my diminshing bank roll and decided to register for a £1.10 £100 guaranteed deepstack.  Again figuring with this structure and a good solid game I couldn't possibly finish anywhere but 1st.  I did manage a min cash in 11th with the next ladder being 10th getting it in against the big stack who kept shoving every hand as a 60/40 favourite A10d against his 56h and he hit a 6 to despatch me to the rail.  So with that min cash for £1.09 I actually showed a 1p loss (leson 3 - way too much variance in MTT's for this kind of challenge) 

4th game - back to DYM's and due to now being very short had to drop back to £1.15, I played badly and managed to get lucky in this one by shoving in the right spots to pick up enough chips to keep me afloat near towards the end and managed undiservedly to cash for 85p profit.

Realising I wasn't feeling it and playing badly I decided to shut down for the night and try again tomorrow (lesson 4)

Closing balance - £7.49

Back to £1.15 DYM's tomorrow then I'll take a stab at £2.25 level when I hit £10.00

Slykllist

Today has started better - played 3 £1.15 DYMs and cashed them all, stuff to do now so will get back to it tonight.

rancid

Did you touch the Mac's lucky something to bink that wd m8'ty

Slykllist

...... putting this on hold for a little while for a couple of reasons.

1, I'm not playing as much poker at the moment as having to deal with some real life stuff and can't commit regular time to play.

2, I had a few beers and spewed off my money on cash tables and then REALLY stupidly on a £5.50 russian roulette!

So having got up to £15.00 I managed to donk it all off due to booze.   Another lesson here!

I will come back to this challenge at a later date, but for now, when I have time to play I want it to be playing the stuff I enjoy so will be back to playing MTT's for a while.