Lazyness

02 September 2010
Posted in Lesmit's Blog

As I mentioned in my previous blog I wanted to play as much games as I could. The fact is I hardly ever played last week. It has to do with soccer and other random real life stuff, but I hoped to play more untill I have to go to school again.School is starting next week and I saw my schedule for the first period. It's pretty cool since I begin late (11am) on monday and thuesday, I'm free from school on wednesday and early out (12pm) on thursday and friday. Hopefully I can get in a solid amount of games in my spare time.I'm not doing really well with poker last weeks. I did not study as much as I wanted and I lost about $1k in SNGs. I really want to grind a lot on saturday evening and sunday. I did play some MTTs and I managed to get two final tables in some small tournaments. I finished third in the $4.40 2R1A, I did not win a lot (about $450 or so), but at least it's a sign that my MTT game is getting better and better. The other final table I reached was at pokerstars.fr, where I just registred. I finished second in the first tourney I ever played there for like €270,-. Hopefully I can get some nice MTT scores next month.My soccerteam did not win the second match in the

New Place, School, Results

01 September 2010
Posted in Reasons14's Blog

Looking at my targets for this month that I posted, I came up a little short. I might be disappointed if it was because I was lazy but that wasn't really the case. I had a lot of life stuff come up that prevented me from being online a lot the later 3rd of the month and it still turned out fine. Between, coaching, staking, playing, and some random drumming gig I got, I profited about 8k on the month. I also moved into a new place, started my senior year, and am managing to still enjoy life.I have yet to decide on new desk, so i bought some $60 cheap one at Wal-Mart that will suffice for the time being. It took me like 2 hours to build the freakin thing and seeing as I don't do much physical labor, I'm quite proud. The uneven monitor set up isn't really all that bad like you would think. I've adjusted my table layout to just play on the lower monitor and I think it actually helps me focus better.I have 35.2k vpps to go on the year for Super Nova which should be fine. I wouldn't be surprised if I fell somewhat short come December time, but I have about that whole later half of the month to make up for it. Really though, about 9k vpps/month for the rest of the year should be fine.

No Traction

25 August 2010
Posted in Wbmustang's Blog

It seems right now I have no traction. One day I win around $400 the next day I lose $300. It's all good it just feels like I can't get any traction going this month. Although I don't know how much I can complain. I mean I am up money and know that I am running bad late in the 180's by either not having my big hands hold or shoving and someone waking up with a monster. However, this stretch has made me look at my game and seek out other players to do some reviews with. That is always a good thing. I mean poker is such a psychological game it's ridiculous. One day you can be playing so well and crushing and the next you can be playing well and just run like death. SNG's are all about REPETITION and it's hard for the psychi to think you are doing things correct but you are still not getting the results. That's one thing you have to do is stick to your game. Sure you can make some adjustments.One big adjustment I need to make is refining my ranges at 45 man final tables. I think I have gotten far too gambly and I blame that solely on the way that 180's play. I need to make a concerted effort to analyze the whole situation before making my moves. For the most part I am

Weekly re-cap

25 August 2010
Posted in Lesmit's Blog

It's been a while since I've updated this blog (a freaking 5 days ago). There wasn't much going on. Just poker, soccer and watching a TV Show. I'm really addicted to the show 24 and I watched season 1-6 in about a month. Today I started to watch season 7 and I am already looking forward to watch further.As I told in my last blog I am a trainer/coach of a soccerteam and we managed to win the first match in the groupstage of the cup. We played an opponent we already played in a friendly match (lost 5-2) and beat them now with 2-0. We played pretty good and tonight we have to play another - tougher opponent - who also won their first match. If we win tonight our chances to make it to the next round are pretty big.Pokerwise it's been a really, really good week for me. I am really confident I'm playing the best game I ever did. I will keep studying and playing a bunch of games untill I have to go to school again. Unfortunately I am not able to put in as many games as I am doing now, but we're going to make the best out of it.Last Sunday I set myself some goals for the week:[ ] Play 700 games.[x] Study for around an hour every day.[ ] Run 2 times.[x] No slots.[x] No live poker. I have

Life's good

19 August 2010
Posted in Lesmit's Blog

Since I'm running hot last two days I'm starting to make this a profitable month. Last two days:Month:So far for the bragging. Since the soccer season has started this week I haven't played that much. I'm planning on playing a really big session tomorrow and hope to make at least 1300 vpp so that I'm at 10k vpp for the month.Saturday we are playing our first match and I think my team is ready for it. We practiced three times this week for about two hours each. The level is higher than I expected it would be after just one week of training. I am really looking forward to the match, since it's a real derby in the groupstage on the cup. Just before the summerbreak we played them in a friendly match, were the better team, but lost with 5-2.