July 2017

So this is the latest month but hopefully it doesn't tell the full story.

I had a long weekend away in France halfway through the month and I read most of (going to finish this week!) Matt Junda's latest book. I also took it upon myself to (once again) limit the number of tables that I play. I kinda feel that I wasn't strict enough with the tables rule but I have noticed an improvement in my game and although it's a small sample I've got a 4.5evbb winrate over the last 27k hands. I'm obviously aware this doesn't mean much. I've also been using the Primed Mind app which has helped my mindset going into session. All of this plus shorter session (~2hours) has definatly help my game.

I feel like I've been way too lax with all things to do with poker recently. It is very easy to get disheartened when looking at the state of the games not to mention the new changes forced upon us by the once decently rewarding site left.

None the less, it is most defiantly sink or swim time. I need more months like January of this year if there is to be any long term future for me in this game.

I need to get out of the 100nl death trap as even with a decent winrate there is hardly any money there... and really start upping my overall winrate for the year. I think that I have the ability to do so much better and tbh I think it is my mental game that is mostly holding me back.

I tried to keep a public blog last month and just didn't feel comfortable with it. I've decided that for the next month (at least) I will keep a daily blog here, much like I did when I was just starting out  full time and trying to get a foot on the ladder.

I will get money on the full range of sites and have a crack at playing 200nl again as my main game.

I will get daily goals and review each day either at the end of the day or the morning after.


January = +£4,817
February = +£2,358
March= +£1,744
April= -£1,196
May= -£255
June= +£1,492
July= +£1,042

TOTAL= £10,002

June 2017

Shocking lack of updates is ending now.



January = +£4,817
February = +£2,358
March= +£1,744
April= -£1,196
May= -£255
June= +£1,492

TOTAL= £8,960

May 2017

January = +£4,817
February = +£2,358
March= +£1,744
April= -£1,196
May= -£255

TOTAL= £7,468

April 2017

January = +£4,817
February = +£2,358
March= +£1,744
April= -£1,196

TOTAL= £7,723

March 2017

Right, I've been terrible with updating the blog with these two previous months having only been updated now. I was sure I'd written the February entry but apparently not.

I've put a lot of effort into studying various things these last few months and spent £1k on a coaching package from Nick Howard (which was OK but kinda hoped for better - the skype groups were great at first but have tailed off).

Anyway I decided the last week or two to drop all 100nl apart from maybe on Sky when needed as there are sometimes 2 fish per table there. I'm trying to play 6 tables max but will stretch to 8 if games are good. Lets see how this goes....

January = +£4,817
February = +£2,358
March= +£1,744

TOTAL= £8,919

February 2017

January = +£4,817
February = +£2,358

January 2017

£4,817 profit.

78.4k hands, 130hr. 603h/hr  £37/hr.

Happy enough with the month. The first 3 weeks were kind of swingy and I wasn't playing
anywhere near good enough. I looked over some simple stats and noticed an overall lack of intensity to my game. One simple thing was not stealing enough buttons, as well as not defending enough pre-flop as well as on the flop. I've seen how effective calling even OOP with the correct hands can be as there are many opportunities to bluff rivers when they check back. I've felt more comfortable playing OOP in general and I'm protecting my range a lot better.

I have a much more defined game plan regards flop bet sizing. Paying more attention which boards are good to bet 33% full range-ish and which I need to checkback more - protecting the cback range with good top pairs and other hands like draws.

I had some trouble getting my last session in with YOU-MAD-BRO, it was a good 5 session that I had with him but I think I shall move on and get a fresh perspective from someone else. It's either gonna be the Nick Howard "pack" or some private coaching from BenaBadBeat. Both have different appeals.

There was some bad news that Stars is likely going to be taking away the ability to game select at 6 max tables. This seems really bad news for my current routine of getting in good games - time will tell on that one but as always there are other options...

January = £4,817