SuitedSixes
08-24-2004, 07:29 AM
It makes me feel good that everybody is so worried about me! The biggest comment from Day 1 seems to be my intent to move up after 100 BB at each level. This is a concept that I latched onto before I became a 2+2er. In ITH, Hilger advocates that once you have beaten a limit for 100BB (and are sufficiently bankrolled) you are ready to try the next level. He also counts on 1 BB/HR, so he is thinking that you'll get about 5K hands at a level. I see know that that probably is not very sound advice, but in this particular case, especially with the lower limits, I feel like this is OK for me. I have over 10K hands at .50/1 so I know that I am capable of beating that game. If my sole intention was to learn through this journal, then I would stick around, but because I want to make money as well, I'm going to move up as soon as I've reached my 100BB, at least through 1/2.
Mondays are pretty good days. We don't practice until the evening, so I get to sleep in. For those of you who haven't figured it out, I work nights, so sleeping in, for me, is anything past 3:00. This time of year, I get home from work around 7:15, take my daughter to her babysitter at 8:00, wake up at 2:00, drive to practice (45 min.), get home from practice around 8:00 and leave for work at 8:45. Mondays are nice because I can pick up my daughter, and do something with her for a little while before I have to leave. Today we went to lunch: pizza, spaghetti, and ice cream. She likes Mondays too.
Some holes that I need to patch in my poker game:
<ul type="square"> I get way too aggressive sometimes.
I assume that everyone is trying to steal my blinds.
I assume that everyone in the blinds has nothing.
I don't lose enough showdowns (that seems wierd).
I don't trust my reads enough.
I am good at reading hands when I am not involved in the hand, but when I am, I am more blinded by what I need to come rather than what my opponent probably has. [/list]
I played very poorly today. I just felt restless, that I needed to force the action, and always be the aggressor. Betting when I should be calling. I wonder if this is a holdover from NL (which is probably why I wasn't very successful). I tried to find a way for my hands to win, rather than just folding when that was the best move (poker is not a good game for optimists). I did not do a very good job of sticking to the hand recommendations, which got me in trouble and always gets me in trouble. I did a good job of not calling raises when I wasn't supposed to, but I think I played too many late position hands in middle position and I paid for it. I think that I raised with too many hands when I was first in hoping to steal the blinds. For the most part, I keep a very level head even through the worst beats and bad down swings. I think that is a hold-over skill from coaching; when things go bad you can't dwell on what just happened, you gotta figure out how to fix it and recover. Today I just felt like my aggression got the better of me.
Today I was (trying) to focus on pot odds. Identifying pot odds is one of my strengths as a player, but I think that I have a tendency to call blindly just based on what I'm holding and I need to do a better job considering what my opponent is probably holding.
Two day total: 32.51 BB in 18 table hours.
Mondays are pretty good days. We don't practice until the evening, so I get to sleep in. For those of you who haven't figured it out, I work nights, so sleeping in, for me, is anything past 3:00. This time of year, I get home from work around 7:15, take my daughter to her babysitter at 8:00, wake up at 2:00, drive to practice (45 min.), get home from practice around 8:00 and leave for work at 8:45. Mondays are nice because I can pick up my daughter, and do something with her for a little while before I have to leave. Today we went to lunch: pizza, spaghetti, and ice cream. She likes Mondays too.
Some holes that I need to patch in my poker game:
<ul type="square"> I get way too aggressive sometimes.
I assume that everyone is trying to steal my blinds.
I assume that everyone in the blinds has nothing.
I don't lose enough showdowns (that seems wierd).
I don't trust my reads enough.
I am good at reading hands when I am not involved in the hand, but when I am, I am more blinded by what I need to come rather than what my opponent probably has. [/list]
I played very poorly today. I just felt restless, that I needed to force the action, and always be the aggressor. Betting when I should be calling. I wonder if this is a holdover from NL (which is probably why I wasn't very successful). I tried to find a way for my hands to win, rather than just folding when that was the best move (poker is not a good game for optimists). I did not do a very good job of sticking to the hand recommendations, which got me in trouble and always gets me in trouble. I did a good job of not calling raises when I wasn't supposed to, but I think I played too many late position hands in middle position and I paid for it. I think that I raised with too many hands when I was first in hoping to steal the blinds. For the most part, I keep a very level head even through the worst beats and bad down swings. I think that is a hold-over skill from coaching; when things go bad you can't dwell on what just happened, you gotta figure out how to fix it and recover. Today I just felt like my aggression got the better of me.
Today I was (trying) to focus on pot odds. Identifying pot odds is one of my strengths as a player, but I think that I have a tendency to call blindly just based on what I'm holding and I need to do a better job considering what my opponent is probably holding.
Two day total: 32.51 BB in 18 table hours.