Grind

I've been debating to switch over to FTP for a while.

I recently started playing poker seriously again in late March. I took 70fpp on STARS and won $10. From there I've managed to make it to the NL25 level without too much trouble. I've had a few downswings here and there, but whatever it goes with the territory.

As my bankroll approached 1k I decided to check out FTP and get the $600 bonus.

I check out the forums here and I was ROFL

-"FTP is riigged.." etc...

Well I didn't listen and I switched anyway!
So i got the $600 bonus and started grinding... long story short...BOOM...

I went on 7 buy-in downswing...

I decided to take a week off and just clear my head. I came back strong this week and won all of my losses and more + bonuses. So now I'm a bit more healthy..

Anyway I'll be taking shots @ NL50 soon once I clear my bonus and get a BR of 1500+.

Seems kind of nitty but I haven't reached my BB/100 goal of 4-5 bb/100.

I dunno maybe I'm just playing bad? Could be...more reason to up the BR requirements.

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I played an eight hour session of NL25 yesterday:



I'm currently playing a very tight style and low variance style. Originally I wanted to play about a 14/10 style, but I guess having a VPIP of 11 just turned out after 9k hands.

I'm trying to get maximum value on every hand I play. Obviously at the beginning at the session my focus was good, I was happy with my play. Eventually my focus started to deteriorate and I started making so fancy plays which cost me some $$.

Luckily I ran well and made a ton yesterday, but I'm going to keep things in perspective and just continue to play good solid poker. Too many time after winning a bunch I've gotten over-confident...next thing you know boom, you start breaking even you think something is wrong..then you start losing.. - happens way too often.


Goals for the month:
- start working out to work on my mind set
- read The Poker Mind Set
- read PLO - Jeff Hwang's book
- try to average about 4bb/100 until the end of May.

Anyway I'm going to start posting here from now on to keep my head straight.

Peace All,

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