Oct-Dec & End of year round-up

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ToT)MidiaN( This user is a quality poster

United Kingdom. Dec 31 2013 15:06. Posts 5070

During October I completely lost my interest in this game. I had attained my 300k VPP milestone on PokerStars and withdrew all my bankroll. As far as I was concerned I was done with PokerStars for the year. I didn't blog my results as I had stopped caring and felt that it was pointless. Early in November I made a very small deposit on iPoker and intended to just grind a few tables there for not many hours, but expected that due to weaker games and increased focus due to 4 regular tables vs the usual 8 zoom tables I've been playing this year that I'd still make a decent amount of money just through having a much better winrate. I couldn't always even find 4 tables running so I barely played there at all and moved back to PokerStars mid-late November. At this point I decided that if I'm going to play on PokerStars I mayaswell make an effort to hit the 400k VPP milestone target. I needed to make about 100k VPPs in ~45 days which, playing 8 tables split between 100NL zoom and 200NL zoom would take me a little over 3 hours a day. This seemed doable. I am unbelievably lazy and struggle immensely to find motivation though, so as time went on the amount I needed to play just kept getting higher and higher due to me falling behind a seemingly "easy to maintain" pace. With just a few days left this year I needed to be playing 6 hours a day, and knowing that I would be going out tonight to get smashed, I would have to get above that and only leave myself with a small amount of time left on New Year's Eve. I actually did it, but even maintaining 6+ hours a day for 4 days has already caused a lot of stress haha. Mad respect to people who make SNE, seriously. Anyway, I've finally hit my 400k VPP milestone just now and here are my Oct-Dec results aswell as my end of year results (Screenshot intensive obv):

October Cash:

October MTT:

October Results:
Cash: +$1,547.85
MTT: -$74.80
Overall: +$1,473.05

November Cash:

November MTT:

November Results:
Cash: +$2,908.90
MTT: -$1,209.44
Overall: +$1,699.46

December Cash:

December MTT:

December Results:
Cash: +$8,633.43
MTT: +$323.09
Results: +$8,956.52

2013 Cash:

2013 MTT:

2013 Results:
Cash: +$39,695.93
MTT: -$7,764.01
VIP Milestone + Miscellaneous Bonuses: +$10,600 (Maybe missing some out, not sure)
FPPs: ~1,400,000 (+$22,400)
Overall: +$64,931.92

Obv some run good in terms of winnings vs EV at 500NL zoom and to some degree at 200NL zoom, though I think my EV is underestimating my winrates as both of those stakes. I had a ~300k breakeven stretch at 200NL zoom with lots of run bad at D game play due to tilt. I would be amazed if I'm <2 EV bb/100 there over 1mill+ hands and would be surprised if I was <0 EV bb/100 over 1mill hands of 500NL zoom, where I feel I had an unreal bad run in terms of situations over those 100k hands. I feel far short of the monetary goals I had for myself, but $65k is about £40k and that's a lot better than I'd be doing if I wasn't playing poker so I can't grumble too much.

2014 goals are to decrease # of cash tables to 4 zoom or 6 regular aswell as decreasing hours. I hope mainly that this will increase enjoyment and lower stress. I want to feel more involved in the game than I do at the moment where I'm just robot moding 8 tables at my B-D game seemingly just to make rakeback. I would like to improve my MTT game, and probably aim to put more hours into MTTs than Cash next year, just hoping to luckbox a big MTT so I can quit poker and move on. I think my long term future in poker is probably going to be based on playing some live MTTs while working some other job or studying some course so I really wanna get better at them so I can both profit and enjoy them. I'm going to start working out and dieting again in a hope to feel better mentally and physically on a day to day basis. Cutting down on alcohol will help this also. And lastly I'd like to start making some active progress towards my next step after I'm done with poker, even if this just means deciding on a course to start in 2015, as long as I get to the end of 2014 with a solid idea of what I want to do I will feel one step closer to ending the misery that is being an online poker professional hah. That's pretty much it for this year. I don't think I'm going to keep this blog going next year. I really only made it this year to keep track of my progress and use it as a way to motivate myself into playing better and playing more. But I don't think it's had any such effect, really all it has done has wasted me however many hours I've spent on typing these posts out.

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LemOn[5thF] Czech Republic. Dec 31 2013 15:17. Posts 15163

GJ!
And why not get a part time uni course this year or asap? You can always quit if you figure out it'snot what you want no?

93% Sure!

Last edit: 31/12/2013 15:24

LemOn[5thF] Czech Republic. Dec 31 2013 15:45. Posts 15163

Also wtf man no wonder poker life's a misery when you drink too much. and do you even lift?

It's like
Step one - get a job where the greatest benefit is freedom
Step two - use the freedom to drink and do nothing productive

93% Sure!

Last edit: 31/12/2013 15:46

k4ir0s Canada. Dec 31 2013 16:01. Posts 3478

216k hands in december ? !

I dont know what a dt drop is. Is it a wrestling move? -Oly

Mardagg Germany. Dec 31 2013 16:13. Posts 843

good job man!
Those are some impressive vpp/hand rates you get at 100 and 200.

Last edit: 31/12/2013 16:15

dnagardi Hungary. Dec 31 2013 17:21. Posts 1777

end your misery

so what are your options regarding the afterpro life

johnmagi Norway. Dec 31 2013 19:52. Posts 1424

Im happy for you, that you are doing well! keep up the good work for the next year

Eluflop Estonia. Jan 01 2014 06:59. Posts 3835

sick december man, grats, another decent year. Keep blogging, really interesting to see how you are doing. These kind of blogs give hope to peole =)

ToT)MidiaN( This user is a quality poster

United Kingdom. Jan 01 2014 11:04. Posts 5070

On December 31 2013 14:17 LemOn[5thF] wrote:
GJ!
And why not get a part time uni course this year or asap? You can always quit if you figure out it'snot what you want no?

I went to Uni in 2007 and dropped out after 8 weeks. It just isn't for me. I don't wanna bust a few grand on taking something up that I will drop out of really soon afterwards. I just haven't decided what I want to do yet.

On December 31 2013 14:45 LemOn[5thF] wrote:
Also wtf man no wonder poker life's a misery when you drink too much. and do you even lift?

It's like
Step one - get a job where the greatest benefit is freedom
Step two - use the freedom to drink and do nothing productive

I drink an unreal amount. Last night was no exception. I'm still drunk and I did a lot of embarrassing things. It's a new year though and I definitely want to cut that out. I have ~£2k worth of weights and whatnot in my garage. I was on a good schedule earlier in the year but injured my shoulder and never got back into it. I dropped 8% body fat in just over 2 months when I was at it (According to some fairly innacurate bad bathroom body weight scales). Steps 1 and 2 is basically my life. It is indeed miserable and there's nothing like a new year to renew some motivation, but who knows how long it'll last.

On December 31 2013 15:01 k4ir0s wrote:
216k hands in december ? !

Yeah definitely the most I've ever played in a month. 8 tabling zoom gives a lot of hands/hour. Draining though. I don't ever wanna play that much in a month again.

On December 31 2013 15:13 Mardagg wrote:
good job man!
Those are some impressive vpp/hand rates you get at 100 and 200.

Thanks. Those vpp/hand rates are considerably less than I used to get, and considerably less than I would get if I played less tables. Right now I'm robot moding at something like 22/18/6 stats whereas in the beginning of the year I was around 27/23/9...

On December 31 2013 16:21 dnagardi wrote:
end your misery

so what are your options regarding the afterpro life

Options are limited and I haven't fully considered them yet. I just hope to better understand my path by the end of this year, not going to set a goal of actually moving on from poker immediately as I know it's not going to happen that soon, but I wanna at least know what my next step will be by the end of 2014.

On December 31 2013 18:52 johnmagi wrote:
Im happy for you, that you are doing well! keep up the good work for the next year

Thanks

On January 01 2014 05:59 Eluflop wrote:
sick december man, grats, another decent year. Keep blogging, really interesting to see how you are doing. These kind of blogs give hope to peole =)

Cheers dude. It was a decent year but I don't think the mass tabling rakeback grind is for me. I dunno if I will continue blogging, there's likely not going to be too much to blog next year as I cut down tables and aim to play a lot of MTTs relative to cash so variance is going to be a joke anyway. We shall see though.

Back to bed for me anyway. Hungover to fuck

One day good. One day bad. And some days, even hope

Last edit: 01/01/2014 11:32

napoleono Romania. Jan 01 2014 11:32. Posts 771

Blog about what u learn about MTTs and where from.

dnagardi Hungary. Jan 01 2014 12:58. Posts 1777

dont just blog about poker, blog about your life, path, happenings, thoughts, these are much more interesting anyways if done honestly

lebowski Greece. Jan 02 2014 12:02. Posts 9205

respect

new shit has come to light... a-and... shit! man...

LemOn[5thF] Czech Republic. Jan 02 2014 13:14. Posts 15163

also why do you play zoom? It's less fun for sure no?

93% Sure!

GoTuNk Chile. Jan 16 2014 20:21. Posts 2860

Don't be so negative, If I make that amount of money playing poker next year I'd celebrate by locking myself in a room with hookers at Argentina for a week . Take pride in your hard work.

And lift weights.