Inspiration needed....

liamboi11

fantastic year for you jordz vwp buddy and all best for next year

benc

Nice work Jordz i've satted into the ukpc as well so possibly see you there, gl next year.

LARSON7

Well done Jordz on a  great year all the best for 2015

jordz16

Whoops!! one of my targets for 2015 was to update this more often, and nearly 1/4 of the year has passed without me even writing my opening post for the year

Il try and briefly summerise my year so far..

January - Bad... not awful in terms of losses but I dont think i ever really played my A game and definitely didnt put enough volume in,  probably a -£500 month which isnt too bad when only playing MTTS (will blame this month on a long and drawn out Xmas/new years hangover)

February - Improvement, put in a bit of effort away from the table going over old books that have helped me in the past and trying to focus more on improving my game.. dont think i had any big scores but i was definitely playing more consistantly and had roughly a +1000 month and also made priority

March - Very well.. managed to bink my First main event and also felt like i was consistantly playing at a higher standard, with less "robotic sessions".. ive put in slightly less volume in terms of cash/Sng's and just stuck to MTTs. still a week to go but so far it has been a +4000 month

I havent got any solid goals for this year. and right now im comfortable with that being the case... as long as i make more money than i made last year then i will be very happy  (I guess that kinda is a target).

Im going to try and update this more regularly, maybe every fortnight or so... also I will try to include more information about my life away from poker as the year goes on.

Nuggy962

Best of luck Jord, I am a secret stalker of you when you run deep in mtt's. Helps me with my game a lot. Best of luck!

jordz16

Cheers Nuggy I can only hope that the stalking pays off for you! (not often you get to say that)

Nuggy962

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Cheers Nuggy I can only hope that the stalking pays off for you! (not often you get to say that)
Posted by jordz16

Haha too true cheers 

Glenelg

Nice bink in the speed last night. Was hoping to get heads-up with you but made an AWFUL misclick all-in with 23!!   GL

jordz16

Cheers Glenelg, ah i missed that, but have to say that was probably good news for me as i was fortunate enough to be heads up agaisnt the weakest player at the table.

IDONKCALLU

only post when ya winning only posts when ya winninnnnnggggg

jordz16

Yeah its always more tempting to post when the going is good, but if you go back to the start of this diary the whole aim for it was to get me out of the hole i was in when things were going pretty bad for me...

its a lose lose lose situation really

if you post when you are running bad then its "just another bad beat story" which people get sick of

if you post when you are breaking even then its hard to have anything of interest to say

and if you post when you are doing well people see it as blatant brag posts...

But so far this year i am slightly worse off (in terms of profit) than i was at this time last year so i certainly aint in a position for a good ol' bragpost just yet.

IDONKCALLU

im only messing m8 keep up the good work i cant talk i only posted when i won  so i gave up when i was losing ha

Glenelg

Nice bink last nite AGAIN!  At this rate they're gonna have to rename this tourney from the "Matt Bates Invitational" to Jordz's Invitational"!!  ;-))

Tikay10

Yup, as Pad said, great result last night.
 

jordz16

140000

1st/35

£350 + £323.92 Head Prizes

9

jordz16

Cheers! one can only dream of reaching MattBates status... right now I'm still a little short

uncle0nion

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Whoops!! one of my targets for 2015 was to update this more often, and nearly 1/4 of the year has passed without me even writing my opening post for the year Il try and briefly summerise my year so far.. January - Bad... not awful in terms of losses but I dont think i ever really played my A game and definitely didnt put enough volume in,  probably a -£500 month which isnt too bad when only playing MTTS (will blame this month on a long and drawn out Xmas/new years hangover) February - Improvement, put in a bit of effort away from the table going over old books that have helped me in the past and trying to focus more on improving my game.. dont think i had any big scores but i was definitely playing more consistantly and had roughly a +1000 month and also made priority March - Very well.. managed to bink my First main event and also felt like i was consistantly playing at a higher standard, with less "robotic sessions".. ive put in slightly less volume in terms of cash/Sng's and just stuck to MTTs. still a week to go but so far it has been a +4000 month I havent got any solid goals for this year. and right now im comfortable with that being the case... as long as i make more money than i made last year then i will be very happy  (I guess that kinda is a target). Im going to try and update this more regularly, maybe every fortnight or so... also I will try to include more information about my life away from poker as the year goes on.
Posted by jordz16

What are the books that you return to for inspiration?

Want to do a bit of reading myself and evaluate my game.

jordz16

The mental game of poker is the book i return to most often as it helps me get back in the right frame of mind to play poker.

when i first started playing poker i read a book called "how to win poker tournaments one hand at a time" i remember reading that and feeling like i finally understood tournament poker.

jordz16

Pretty bad week for me since i last updated, not really poker related but had a bad case of man flu for the last week or so, and not that normal man flu you get once a year which gives you extra time to spend in bed, watch footy and play computer games but the kind of man flu where i pretty much lacked the energy to even switch the tele on....

I managed to play 4/5 tournaments in about 5 days, which was a bad idea as my concentration was awful and my play was even worse, from what i can remember i didnt cash a penny in any of those.

Luckily enough im feeling pretty good now, i managed to play the main and mini last night and ground out a min cash in both.

The one positive to take is that after playing very little poker for the last week I am now raring to go for UKOPS

bring it on. 

mrsduck

Go Jordz! Smash the UKOPSSSSS!

jordz16

Im going to do a UKOPS round up after each days play....

1. £11 BH   seemed to be around starting stack for the first hour before getting a few generous double ups then managed to run aces and kings into slightly smaller pairs for a top 3 spot.. it was about 3 from the cash when i had a nasty hand... Had AK and got 2 callers. flop of 10 J Q rainbow, a half pot cont bet got 2 callers, the turn was a 5 and there was 20k in the pot and I had 30k behind i bet 13k and got one caller, there was a another J on the river... I hated that bad had to shove because i could still get value from aj, jk and any full house was gonna shove on me and id be priced in to call, he had 1010 and it was GG

2. 5.50 REBUY   i was going along nicely with about a top 10 stack most of the way, then had a nightmare and for no reason the table froze (while all other tables were working fine) and i didnt realise until i had blinded away just outside the cash

3. £22 Omaha, was my first ever omaha tournament so it took me 30mins or so to get the hang of how it was going to play out, i got pretty lucky that i ran FH's into smaller FH's 3 times in the first hour for an early chip lead, then i just decided that super aggro was the way to go and managed steamroller my way (with my fair share of luck) to over half the chips in play when we got to the FT.. thats when i couldnt hit a flop, and i ended up heads up with a sligh chip lead but ran a nut flush into a straight flush and couldnt recover, but a 2nd place finish was great for my first ever Omaha tournament so i was happy enough.

4.  £3.30  Ran aces into JJ and got outdrawn so was an early GG there.

5. £110 BH surprised i made it as far as i did considering it was probably the worst i had run this year, I kept chipping to chip leader then losing huge all ins, when I was down to the final 30 I managed to lose AA into JJ aip then lost AK into AQ aip before slowly chipping up to chip leader again, down to the final 12 and i lost qq into 66 aip and then A9 into Q10 and it was GG. think i finished 8th/9th (hopefully saving my run good for sunday)

6. £5.50 Rebuy, i never really got going only had about 11k after the rebuy and lost JJ into AK so pretty standard

7 £22 BH picked up lots of hands early on and took a few heads then went card dead when the blinds started catching up, cant remember the exit hand so i imagine it was pretty standard.

8 £55 BH probably my worst tournament, I was playimng lots of tournaments at this point and I couldnt get going and then decided to run a bad bluff into a bad player and hated myself for doing so.. need to cut out stuff like that in the next few days.

overall was a good day in terms of profit, but a lot of near misses which have played on my mind a bit.. fingers crossed i can run a bit better today.

Gl all

jordz16

Im going to do a UKOPS round up after each days play....

1. £11 BH   seemed to be around starting stack for the first hour before getting a few generous double ups then managed to run aces and kings into slightly smaller pairs for a top 3 spot.. it was about 3 from the cash when i had a nasty hand... Had AK and got 2 callers. flop of 10 J Q rainbow, a half pot cont bet got 2 callers, the turn was a 5 and there was 20k in the pot and I had 30k behind i bet 13k and got one caller, there was a another J on the river... I hated that bad had to shove because i could still get value from aj, jk and any full house was gonna shove on me and id be priced in to call, he had 1010 and it was GG

2. 5.50 REBUY   i was going along nicely with about a top 10 stack most of the way, then had a nightmare and for no reason the table froze (while all other tables were working fine) and i didnt realise until i had blinded away just outside the cash

3. £22 Omaha, was my first ever omaha tournament so it took me 30mins or so to get the hang of how it was going to play out, i got pretty lucky that i ran FH's into smaller FH's 3 times in the first hour for an early chip lead, then i just decided that super aggro was the way to go and managed steamroller my way (with my fair share of luck) to over half the chips in play when we got to the FT.. thats when i couldnt hit a flop, and i ended up heads up with a sligh chip lead but ran a nut flush into a straight flush and couldnt recover, but a 2nd place finish was great for my first ever Omaha tournament so i was happy enough.

4.  £3.30  Ran aces into JJ and got outdrawn so was an early GG there.

5. £110 BH surprised i made it as far as i did considering it was probably the worst i had run this year, I kept chipping to chip leader then losing huge all ins, when I was down to the final 30 I managed to lose AA into JJ aip then lost AK into AQ aip before slowly chipping up to chip leader again, down to the final 12 and i lost qq into 66 aip and then A9 into Q10 and it was GG. think i finished 8th/9th (hopefully saving my run good for sunday)

6. £5.50 Rebuy, i never really got going only had about 11k after the rebuy and lost JJ into AK so pretty standard

7 £22 BH picked up lots of hands early on and took a few heads then went card dead when the blinds started catching up, cant remember the exit hand so i imagine it was pretty standard.

8 £55 BH probably my worst tournament, I was playimng lots of tournaments at this point and I couldnt get going and then decided to run a bad bluff into a bad player and hated myself for doing so.. need to cut out stuff like that in the next few days.

overall was a good day in terms of profit, but a lot of near misses which have played on my mind a bit.. fingers crossed i can run a bit better today.

Gl all

GELDY

First ever omaha mtt and you get 2nd in a UKOPS event

outstanding

and with tikay in the field as well vwp

jordz16

First of all il round up the rest of UKPC 

played every single event and made 2 min cashes, i didnt run great, but looking back over a few hands and spots made me realise i definitely wasnt playing well, I was playing up to 8 tables at times when generally 6 is my limit and playing 12 hour sessions definitely led to a lot of -ev play on my behalf.. but oh well we live and learn.

Since then I have been in a weird situation, I have managed a few decent results, but in terms of how i have been running it has been really really brutal, I know thats all part of poker and you have to get used to the swings, but none the less, its still very demoralising when you are going through it.

I finally decided on my target for the year.. to make more money from MTT's on Sky than I did last year, which keeps it simple enough

Last year £23,225 

This year £8,727

Considering just over a third of this year has gone, and im just over a third of the way towards my target it should be a pretty close thing.

LARSON7

Confident, you'll smash it.

You have a great MTT game.

Do you play on Stars at all?

jordz16

Cheers mate, and yeah i play on there now and again mainly STT's as im not a lover of 9max tournies and 1k+ fields. I dont mind playing the odd turbo/hyper...  

jordz16

Havent updated in over a week, mainly due to me playing far less poker than i would normally. Sometimes normal every day life stuff takes over and you have to put poker on the back burner for a while. I have only Amassed 3500 Poker points so far this month when generally im normally between 7000-8000, so looking to next month Im going to try and really up my workrate..

played quite a few main events and £55 BH's over the last week or so but no binks and only a few cashes....

I did have a solid Sunday night though which helped, although I did spew a 2-1 Chip lead in the £55 freezeout which was a bit of a downer especially when looking back over some hand i can see i didnt play optmally. managed to notch up another Roller final table as well which was pleasing although it was pretty annoying as i was down to about 10bbs when we were down to the final 2 tables, and from what i remember it was a very soft final 12 tables so i was pretty disappointed i couldnt get up to a playable stack where i would have fancied my chances of taking it down....

Last year £23,225

This year £9,547

MilitantG

Hey Jordz, enjoying the diary. Just a quick question what is your general schedule that you play in order to get 7-8k points?

Cheers.

VespaPX

Congrats on your 5th & 1st in the Main & Mini last night.

samantha25

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Congrats on your 5th & 1st in the Main & Mini last night.
Posted by VespaPX

Well done Jordan, you boss  

jordz16

In Response to Re: Inspiration needed....:

Hey Jordz, enjoying the diary. Just a quick question what is your general schedule that you play in order to get 7-8k points? Cheers.
Posted by MilitantG

I'll generally play 

6pm £22 BH

7pm £22 BH

7.45 £11 BH

8pm Main

8.30 Mini

9pm £55 BH

10.30 £55 BH

11.15 £22 Times

I will sometimes miss the odd one out if i have more than 6 going at once,

If i get to around 8k points then i will play some HUSNG's to make sure i make priority