Up, Down, then take a rest
Well i have had a bit of a lay off from the poker for a week or so. I finished the month of May pretty strong and pushed my Pokerstars bankroll up to $550, but i started getting tired at the very end of the month and i played rashly for about 5 days or so and bust it back down to $300.
The good news is that this time i was able to walk away for a few days and tell myself that i needed a rest to refreash myself. I was playing loose and cursing outdraws. It was true to say that i suffered a bad run of suckouts and bad beats. I saw so many 22-1 rivercards fall to cripple me i even began referring to the site as Riverstars. In short i was on tilt and looking for an excuse for what was simply a combination of an unlucky run and some poor and tired play.
Still i had stuck roughly to the plan and only moved up to the $10 MTT's when i got to the $460 mark. I was supposed to wait till $500 but i was too tempted. It seemed little different but to be honest i wasn't in the best of conditions and i didn't play there too long because my losing streak started in all areas. I quickly moved back down to the $5 tourneys but my losses just mounted. Sharkescope even had me listed as being on super tilt at one stage. If you need to see the graphclearer just click on it and it should pop up in a seperate window. Let me know if it doesn't work.
I managed to stabalise things and then took a bit of time away at the begining of June. I guess i set myself good boundaries and stuck to them reasonably well. You can see that my poor play was stopped and the limits of buy in entry had been enough to protect my bankroll long enough to allow me to discipline myself before blowing the lot; which is what used to happen. You can see that i still made decent profit overall, last month. This is the begining. You can see the start from zero, but will i ever reach hero?
It is apparently a common problem amongst new poker players. The period of boom/bust. In the past i would have blown a lead like that and had to re load. Learning not to do that is crucial and undoubtably another step along the way to becoming a successful player. It's a slow learning curve, i tell you. I hope this lesson has stuck.
Some of my figures may not add up i hear you cry. The Sharkscope Graph only shows a profit of about $320 but i keep talking of a $550 bankroll. Well Sharkscope has a drawback that many people miss. It doesn't give the 'whole' picture. People forget that it only records STT's. I had also taken to playing MTT's in May as the month went on and i felt confident enough in my bankroll. I stuck to the same rules for the buy in level though. There is another site that i use called http://www.officialpokerrankings.com/ that gives you exclusively MTT information. There is a slight overlap in the information because both sites record your performance in STT's of 45 players or above. So that information will be duplicated. I had had next to no wins in the 45 man STT's i had been playing though, so this information should be accurate if combined.
There you go! You can see that i fared pretty well in the MTT's last month. Just as well as the STT's, roughly. Click on the pic to see the info in another screen larger, just like you did with the graph. Given that i played far fewer MTT's There was ticking over profit that paid for the losing tournaments but the profit really came from two big wins at various points that boosted me back up:
1 - 19th May, 5th / 1822 entries in a $2 tourney
WINS $204
2 - 28th May, 9th / 899 entries in $11 tourney
WINS $139
In all i have done what i said i would this month. I am pleased with my discipline, if not my slump and pleased to see all round profit. I think this is clear improvement. It is important to use tools like this to keep a check on yourself and your progress, I'm convinced of it.
The good news is that this time i was able to walk away for a few days and tell myself that i needed a rest to refreash myself. I was playing loose and cursing outdraws. It was true to say that i suffered a bad run of suckouts and bad beats. I saw so many 22-1 rivercards fall to cripple me i even began referring to the site as Riverstars. In short i was on tilt and looking for an excuse for what was simply a combination of an unlucky run and some poor and tired play.
Still i had stuck roughly to the plan and only moved up to the $10 MTT's when i got to the $460 mark. I was supposed to wait till $500 but i was too tempted. It seemed little different but to be honest i wasn't in the best of conditions and i didn't play there too long because my losing streak started in all areas. I quickly moved back down to the $5 tourneys but my losses just mounted. Sharkescope even had me listed as being on super tilt at one stage. If you need to see the graphclearer just click on it and it should pop up in a seperate window. Let me know if it doesn't work.
I managed to stabalise things and then took a bit of time away at the begining of June. I guess i set myself good boundaries and stuck to them reasonably well. You can see that my poor play was stopped and the limits of buy in entry had been enough to protect my bankroll long enough to allow me to discipline myself before blowing the lot; which is what used to happen. You can see that i still made decent profit overall, last month. This is the begining. You can see the start from zero, but will i ever reach hero?
It is apparently a common problem amongst new poker players. The period of boom/bust. In the past i would have blown a lead like that and had to re load. Learning not to do that is crucial and undoubtably another step along the way to becoming a successful player. It's a slow learning curve, i tell you. I hope this lesson has stuck.
Some of my figures may not add up i hear you cry. The Sharkscope Graph only shows a profit of about $320 but i keep talking of a $550 bankroll. Well Sharkscope has a drawback that many people miss. It doesn't give the 'whole' picture. People forget that it only records STT's. I had also taken to playing MTT's in May as the month went on and i felt confident enough in my bankroll. I stuck to the same rules for the buy in level though. There is another site that i use called http://www.officialpokerrankings.com/ that gives you exclusively MTT information. There is a slight overlap in the information because both sites record your performance in STT's of 45 players or above. So that information will be duplicated. I had had next to no wins in the 45 man STT's i had been playing though, so this information should be accurate if combined.
There you go! You can see that i fared pretty well in the MTT's last month. Just as well as the STT's, roughly. Click on the pic to see the info in another screen larger, just like you did with the graph. Given that i played far fewer MTT's There was ticking over profit that paid for the losing tournaments but the profit really came from two big wins at various points that boosted me back up:
1 - 19th May, 5th / 1822 entries in a $2 tourney
WINS $204
2 - 28th May, 9th / 899 entries in $11 tourney
WINS $139
In all i have done what i said i would this month. I am pleased with my discipline, if not my slump and pleased to see all round profit. I think this is clear improvement. It is important to use tools like this to keep a check on yourself and your progress, I'm convinced of it.
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