September Review

VICTORY!!!This has been my best month to date, clearing $4,400 (after including poker related side incomes). Biggest month previous to this was $3,800 last March. Pretty damn happy, a great start to the $10k to $20k goal :)

... plus a lot of RB, Bonii, etc. Pretty much a slaughtering of 1/2, and I ran $1.2k under EV! First 10k hands were a real slog, and I was actually breakeven, then had 2 $1k days back to back where I ran really well and cruised to 15k hands.

Watched loads of Leggo videos so hit that target, however I didn't get through the whole MSNL forum. Got pretty bored of it after a couple of weeks and it became a grind and I decided to do other things - like post lots of hands - instead. Still determined to get through it though, so will do the rest next month.

Next month, more of the same. I'm now 35x rolled for 2/4 but I'm not going to move up just yet. Will stick at 1/2 but try to mix a few thousand hands of 2/4 in when there are good games running. More Leggo videos, I'll have a Stox membership as of next month so will check out some of the stuff there too.

Some stuff to check out

This thread titled Change Your Life by Adsman on 2+2 is easily one of the best ever. Definately have a read!

Been thinking about shipping some money over to Party and playing there for a bit. Will probably give it a crack next month although I've heard the games have tightened up a lot since the good old days. There's new party poker software out now with resize-able tables, auto-reload to 100bb FTP style, pot buttons and a bunch more stuff. Worth a look for the Euros.

Last week of the month

Brag: I'm set to clear $1k in RB+Bonus
Beat: I'm only 1/4 through LeggoPoker MSNL forum :S
Variance: I'm down $1.4k in Sklansky Bucks

Current hand count... 11,400

Mid-month Update

It's been a pretty solid month so far. Got a decent amount of hands in, watched a few Leggo videos, 1/3 of my way through Leggo MSNL forum, and been helping Andy&Matt out a bit with some hand analysis.

Was hoping to get more hands in tonight but I seem to be having problems playing more than 4 tables on AP just now. The software really crushes my laptop and causes lots of slowdown, good excuse to buy one of the new Dell Studio laptops maybe? :>

A couple of guys on my buddy list were at 2/4 tonight so played a little there, but ran poorly as usual. Here's my month so far...

Still a long way to the 15k hands target for the end of the month. Will need to get my grinding hat on, doing a bunch of other stuff at the moment too. Trying to get my drums skills up to scratch and join a band, fortunately there's a sweet studio only a 10min walk from work, really handy. Song at the top is Screamager by Therapy?

Sweet Sunday

Wouldn't normally post short-term results but I'm rewarding myself with this brag for playing 2,500 hands today ;) All $1/2...

New goal... $10k to $20k

Over the past few weeks I've been re-evaluating my life a bit and seeing where poker fits in. As a result of that I've decided to increase poker as a priority and create some new goals to help drive on to where I want to be. I've been making a bunch of changes to live a more healthy and balanced life and working on a lot of personal development which will have a very positive effect on my poker game.

My primary poker goal is now to make $10,000 by the end of the year. This works out pretty nice as I currently have a $10k roll, so the challenge is to double that in 4 months. I think this is achievable, especially when rakeback is factored in at around $1k per month.

Hoping to continue on from a great month of 1/2 in August, here are my goals for this month:

• 15k hands (this MUST be met)
• 5 Leggo videos (minimum)
• Read every post in Leggo MSNL forum

That's all for now, I've updated some of the headers of the blog to reflect the changes. Really looking forward to getting started, it's great to have something new to work towards.