Online - Cash
I really wasn’t happy with my cash game play last year. I think this was down to a few things… playing for bonus money, poor tilt management, not playing under optimal conditions (tired, etc) and playing too many tables (usually 4-8 at once). This year I’m going to take it back to basics focussing on concentration, patience and discipline. I’ll start off 2-tabling $50NL and work my way up, I’ll need a $1k bankroll for this. I’d hope to be comfortably bankrolled for $200NL by the end of the year.
This year I’m going to seek out the best rakeback or affiliate freeroll offers at websites to make sure that I’m getting the maximum back for my money, not just playing for shitty player points. Party seem to have great freerolls and Absolute have rakeback/bonus/freerolls so I’ll base my cash play at these sites rather than floating around doing bonus offers.
Online - Tourney
Although I’ve achieved good results at the $60-80 level, I jumped up really fast and don’t think I really spent enough time at the $30-50s. I’m going to drop down a bit and 2-table $30 freeze-out or $5 rebuy tourneys on Stars, along with $35 Turbo SNGs. I’ll bankroll myself $2k for this, moving up the buy-ins as my bankroll grows.
Online - Play
I’m gonna create a “play money” account at a site for learning to play Razz, Omaha, Stud, etc. This is really damage control so that I’ve got something to do when I feel like playing, but know I won’t be on my A game… sometimes you just feel like having a few beers and going all-in hand after hand. :P I’ll set aside a $100 bankroll for this.
Live & Satellites
Originally I was hoping to qualify for a WSOP or WPT event this year, but I don’t really like the idea of playing in an event that I’m probably not +EV in. WSOP/EPT/WPT will be my targets for next year, for this year I’m going to aim to satellite into a few of the GUKPT or GBPT events which are $1k-2k buyins.
As for other live play I’m going to continue playing the fantastic £30-50 OfficePoker tourneys and hopefully make it through to a few £75 freezeouts at CinCins. I WILL stay the fuck away from the Maybury and Berkley, casino poker is tempting when there’s nothing else on, but it’s horrible! 10BB stacks anyone? Homegame-wise I’ll try to invite folk round if work permits!
For sats and live tourneys I’m going to need another $2k bankrolled.
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From the numbers above, I’ll bankroll myself $5k for 2007. This is cool as it allows me to withdraw about half of my profits from last year. Work is going to take up a huge amount of my time up until October this year, and money is pretty comfortable at the moment, so I'm not going to set any profit targets.
Reading List
There are a couple of other books coming out this year that I’ll want to pick up too, particularly Daniel Negreanu’s, due out later in the year.
- Harrington on Hold’em 1 & 2 (re-read),
- Super System 2 (re-read),
- Theory of Poker (Sklansky),
- No Limit Hold'em Poker for Advanced Players (Sklansky),
- Championship NL & PL Hold’em (McEvoy),
- Little Green Book (Gordon),
- Mathematics of Poker (Chen),
- Psychology of Poker (Schoonmaker),
- Read 'em and Reap (Navarro),
- Caro’s Book of Tells (Caro),
- Zen and the Art of Poker (Phillips),
- Ace on the River (Greenstien),
- Positively Fifth Street (McManus),
- Stu Ungar Story.
… and that’s about it. Easy! :P I’ll try to update this blog regularly. Bring it on 2007!
