April wrap-up

Hey guys and girls,

the april is over and it was a pretty good month overall. I'll just start with the graph and then explain what happened:

You obv already know what happened at game 480 :D (for those who don't remember/didn't know: Brag Post ) Well, after the ship, i played way more MTTs for the next few days, obv up to $215 BI and combined with a pretty bad run at 180s (esp at 35s and 60s), i lost ~$4k in the next 3-4 sessions lol. It's pretty similar thing to what happened last year when i played too many tables and at way too high stakes, fortunately, i realized what's going on soon enough :)

The reason why i didn't recover from the downswing is basically 35s and 60s as i lost $3.7k in those in 136 games, lolsample and that's bit less than -100 BI, nothing to worry about it :)

The second best thing that happened this month is that i finally bought new PC!
Pretty good thing:
Intel i7-2600K (3.4GHz)
8GB RAM
120GB SSD drive (for poker mostly) and 1TB SATA3 HDD for the rest
Geforce GTX 550 Ti

Graphics card isn't great, tho i don't really need it. Only for occasional gaming nights :) However, i'm really happy now that i can play as many tables as i want WITH HUD and it's not lagging at all! (except rare <1s lags because of my internet) That's sooo cool, i actually had 44 tables open at one of my sessions and it wasn't THAT hard to handle them, tho i'm usually trying to keep ~36 games running. This definitely helps my volume as well, which obv is a great thing :)

Now a bit about other things in life, i'll start with bodybuilding. That's going pretty well, since my last post on April 3rd, i gained ~1.6kg (current weight: 60.6kg). It's not much, but poker messed up my eating schedule a bit in last two weeks, tho it's getting better now. I do enjoy pretty much every minute spent in the gym, even tho i don't like all the exercises i have to do, but it's really cool to feel that i'm way more powerful than i was ~2 months ago :) Also, quite a lot of people notice that i'm bigger now, so i'm happy that my efforts are actually showing up. Still got a long way to go until i reach my goal, but i enjoy every moment of it :)

The weather is finally great here (already had two really hot days +29 C ), now it's not that hot, ~+22 C, but there are no clouds so it's great and i've been spending way more time outside. I actually started walking quite a lot compared to what i used to do and it would probably sound really strange to most(probs all) of my real life friends, but i do enjoy it haha.

I'm quite happy about where i am now in my life, obv there are things that need some work and there are things i'm satisfied with, but that's just life, just gotta do what i gotta do to get where i wanna be :)

And this leads to the last and very short part, goals! I thought what i could aim for in May, figured that there's only one thing worth aiming:

[ ] Do my best at everything i'm doing!

(hopefully i put that sentence right)

That's all for now, have fun and good luck in May ;)

Cheers,
Bigniux

Brag post!

Yooo,

yea, thought that it's worth to make a brag post about it. Check out the image below and you'll understand what i'm talking about ;)

Feels great, first time i ever shipped an MTT! More to come (soon, hopefully).

Back to blogging!

Hello, fishes and sharks :D

Wow, it's been almost 3 months since my last update :O

Well, to be honest, there wasn't much to update with. Unfortunately, i'm not sticking to my plan for the year so far (facepalm). I just read my last update and i actually should have switched to PLO by now haha, guess what, i'm pretty much at the same skill level as i was when i wrote that post lol. Basically, what i need to do is take some coaching sessions which would give me the drive to play more (and obv improve as well).

The problem i realised to have was that i found it quite hard to learn and play PLO while i'm still playing sngs. Don't know if it's just me, but after i started playing more PLO, it became much more fun than sngs and i just played it for few weeks(obv not making any money), then i tried sngs and i didn't want to play PLO for a while. Need to work something out about it and then should be pretty easy to move on :)

However, there are some positive changes in my life which i'm really happy about.
First, i changed my sleeping habits a bit. Going to sleep at ~2-3am(before: ~4-5am) and getting up at ~11-12 in the morning (used to get up at 3pm :D ).
Second, i finally started going to the gym!!! Damn, i was delaying that for soooo long. That's was probably best decision i made this year :D It's gonna be pretty tough challenge, but i need to gain quite a lot of weight. I don't have exact number how much, it will depend on how i'll look, but probs at least 20kg (44 pounds). So far doing pretty well, starting weight was 56,5kg (125 pounds)(Height:1,73m / 5'8" ) and during first five weeks gained 2,5 kg. Obv happy about the results so far and should be able to keep it up quite easily :)

I guess this explains why i didn't have much to blog about, cause i pretty easily summed up last 3 months in 3 short paragraphs haha. I'll keep you updated with my "bodybuilding" challenge and obv various poker stuff :)

Good luck everyone!
Bigniux

Transition to PLO

Hey all,

as you know i am planning to switch to PLO this year. Initial plan was to switch anytime until September 1st, however, recently figured out that i better do it sooner, to be more exact, until the end of March :)

Quite fast, huh? Doable imo, i have some savings which will be enough for at least few months, so i don't need to be a winning player by that time, all i want is to have pretty solid understanding of basics(which actually should be enough to at least b/e @ PLO50).

So, as i have 2,5 months remaining until i switch, i will have to play some 180mans in that time to make some more money. Currently aiming at 3,000 games during Jan-Mar (played 200 so far :D ). Ofc, i have no idea what variance will decide, if i'll run hot, most likely i'll play less games, otherwise might need to play more than planned. Basically, 3,000 is almost $5,500 at my current $1.81/game winrate. I'm aiming at ~$5,000, that's where i got the number from and variance will decide whether it's gonna be more or less games :) (If someone doesn't want to see me at 180mans, you can pay me $5,000 and we have a deal :DDD )

During TCOOP, i'm planning to play only $15 180mans, it's gonna be quite small volume, but i don't want to mass-table, especially during higher stakes events and obv i'm expecting to have best $/game at 15s :) If i manage to get a significant cash in TCOOP i will just switch to PLO after it ends (again, i could switch now, but i just want to make sure that i have more money aside and definitely don't want to wait until i run out of money!).

As for PLO, i'm playing quite a lot. Learning quite slowly, think i should spend more time watching vids as the studying : learning ratio is ~ 30:70 or smtg like that. On the other hand, i find it pretty hard to learn from the videos if i haven't found myself in similar spots that i see in the videos, so getting some more experience at the tables should be helpful imo. Also, will take some coachings really soon. I think everyone will agree that it's the best and fastest way to learn and even tho it's most expensive one, but it will pay off really fast :)

That's about it for today, let's have a great 2012 everyone!

Bigniux