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Stop Wasting, Start Winning, a casual players diary
Hi all,
yes its another diary. no it probably wont be that interesting
Been playing for a few years now. overall winner but aside from a heater for a few months not sure if a consistent winner over the long stretch. Not looking to ever make a living at this but would be nice to see a consistent profit over a year.
Have a full time job, wife and 3 kids so not a huge amount of time to dedicate to studying or playing in huge volume. Played on numerous sites and tried numerous formats, my favourite is tournaments, but time constraints mean I'm mainly a cash player, and likely will be for at least the next few years.
Feel I can beat the game but never made any accurate logs of winnings or hourly rate etc, in the past have withdrawn to pay for holidays/treats etc but cant tell you total winnings lifetime, and no nice graphs to show as dont use a HUD. Also as I dont rely on the income tend to view it as "free money", wasting profits punting high stakes, and have a weakness for blackjack which I need to shut down. Hoping if I plug these leaks I can make a reasonable profit each month but could be fooling myself blaming tilt/blackjack etc when it may be I cant really beat the game
Deposited £1k at start of month, hit exactly £1500 this morning, and just thought, "dont want to waste this". Starting this diary to keep a log of how much I play, and to record wins/losses over the next few months. Thinking if I keep records will hopefully make me more consistent, and also help me start to see my true win rate, so I can evaluate if its worth the time trying to grind cash, or if I'm wasting my time and should just play for fun. Hoping to run the diary for 12 months, obviously if I go busto then so does the diary!
Goals are:
No more punting blackjack (Now self excluded from Sky Vegas and Casino)
No heads up tables
No Omaha above 20nl
Don't be lazy with table selection
Don't tilt after a losing session (hopefully having records of previous wins will help here!)
Review 1 tricky hand per week (not enough but better than current zero hands)
Strategy:
Main game will be 6 max NLHE, stakes from 100nl down to 20nl
Table selection will be tighter as stakes increase, so mainly will be playing 20-40nl
May play the odd tourney if time allows up to £33 buyin (likely <1 per month as just dont have time!)
Bankroll:
Starting £1500 for the site but total roll is over £5k so option to redeposit if bust
Will build site roll to £2k and cash out above that
Will include live casino poker wins/losses in monthly stats once I start going again maybe towards 2018!
Apologies if this is another boring diary but mainly doing it to try and make myself be more disciplined by putting it out there!
Will hopefully update a few times a week
20/05/17
Starting balance £1500
Hours played 2
Total hrs 2
Profit £92.84
End balance £1592.84
yes its another diary. no it probably wont be that interesting
Been playing for a few years now. overall winner but aside from a heater for a few months not sure if a consistent winner over the long stretch. Not looking to ever make a living at this but would be nice to see a consistent profit over a year.
Have a full time job, wife and 3 kids so not a huge amount of time to dedicate to studying or playing in huge volume. Played on numerous sites and tried numerous formats, my favourite is tournaments, but time constraints mean I'm mainly a cash player, and likely will be for at least the next few years.
Feel I can beat the game but never made any accurate logs of winnings or hourly rate etc, in the past have withdrawn to pay for holidays/treats etc but cant tell you total winnings lifetime, and no nice graphs to show as dont use a HUD. Also as I dont rely on the income tend to view it as "free money", wasting profits punting high stakes, and have a weakness for blackjack which I need to shut down. Hoping if I plug these leaks I can make a reasonable profit each month but could be fooling myself blaming tilt/blackjack etc when it may be I cant really beat the game
Deposited £1k at start of month, hit exactly £1500 this morning, and just thought, "dont want to waste this". Starting this diary to keep a log of how much I play, and to record wins/losses over the next few months. Thinking if I keep records will hopefully make me more consistent, and also help me start to see my true win rate, so I can evaluate if its worth the time trying to grind cash, or if I'm wasting my time and should just play for fun. Hoping to run the diary for 12 months, obviously if I go busto then so does the diary!
Goals are:
No more punting blackjack (Now self excluded from Sky Vegas and Casino)
No heads up tables
No Omaha above 20nl
Don't be lazy with table selection
Don't tilt after a losing session (hopefully having records of previous wins will help here!)
Review 1 tricky hand per week (not enough but better than current zero hands)
Strategy:
Main game will be 6 max NLHE, stakes from 100nl down to 20nl
Table selection will be tighter as stakes increase, so mainly will be playing 20-40nl
May play the odd tourney if time allows up to £33 buyin (likely <1 per month as just dont have time!)
Bankroll:
Starting £1500 for the site but total roll is over £5k so option to redeposit if bust
Will build site roll to £2k and cash out above that
Will include live casino poker wins/losses in monthly stats once I start going again maybe towards 2018!
Apologies if this is another boring diary but mainly doing it to try and make myself be more disciplined by putting it out there!
Will hopefully update a few times a week
20/05/17
Starting balance £1500
Hours played 2
Total hrs 2
Profit £92.84
End balance £1592.84
Comments
Good luck with this m8. Certainly strikes a chord with me re. the non existent records etc. Will watch your progress with interest.
Good luck with this bud.
Let the readers be the judge of whether it is boring or not. Update it regularly, on good days and bad, and you'll soon gather an audience.
Good luck with the challenge. I have played you a bit when I venture onto the cash tables and you have a good game for what I remember.
What's with the alias?
I can confirm that babies / young children and poker are not an ideal combo. Although plenty of MTT's on Sky that don't go on until the early hours of the morning if you do prefer the MTT's.
Cheers
Greg.
Username is from On the Buses, show was a bit before my time but happened to buy a cheap on the buses fruity when at uni so aware of the show from that. If you've not seen the films they basically revolve around 2 fat/ugly middle aged blokes chasing after women in their 20's, whole premise is so ridiculous it falls in the category of so bad it becomes funny, but when it came out it was No1 at the box office in the UK - the 70's were a weird time! this Harry Enfield sketch from a few years back sums up the show quite well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q1uHcGTK8k
Another good day today, played bad at the start calling too much but had some rungood at the end hitting a few sets for another win. Need to start timing my sessions as guessing so far but work in progress and all that
21/05/17
Starting balance £1592.84
Hours played 3
Total hrs 5
Profit £82.01
End balance £1674.85
(NB decided not counting hours played on tablet, as usually 1 tabling while washing up/doing jobs around the house so not devoting my full attention, will just be counting hours on the laptop multi tabling, obviously this throws out my hourly calculation slightly but happy with a rough estimate)
22/05/17
Starting balance £1674.85
Hours played 1
Total hrs 6
Profit £44.85
End balance £1719.70
23/05/17
Starting balance £1719.70
Hours played 4
Total hrs 10
Profit £197.97
End balance £1917.67
Rungood over tonight, mixture of bad runouts/coolers and bad play through slight tilt/calling too much as a result. Had some rungood yesterday so cant moan although hopefully AA/KK will start holding up a bit more tomorrow!
24/05/17
Starting balance £1917.67
Hours played 3
Total hrs 13
Profit £-74.20
End balance £1843.47
25/05/17
Starting balance £1843.47
Hours played 3
Total hrs 16
Profit £-83.91
End balance £1759.76
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Overall though had a good session, ran quite well with hands holding when needed mostly. Prob take it easy tomorrow/family time and play a bit more sunday try and luckbox a tablet in these freerolls!
26/05/17
Starting balance £1759.76
Hours played 3
Total hrs 19
Profit £23.07
End balance £1782.83
Got coolered KK />AA straight off and never recovered. Some tilt juice meant some questionable calls so spaffed about £400. Mini recovery with this (badly played) hand
Player
Bricked the freerolls and the android draws but think will have a tenner in the mayhem promo and around 50 quid in rakeback to show for the week- better than a kick in the di ck!
Will be back on it next month chasing the SPT entry and hopefully a more respectable winrate!
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May summary
Starting balance £1500
Hours played 13 (approx!)
Total hrs 32
Profit £325.84
End balance £1825.84
Hourly = £10/hr inc rakeback and bonuses
Points = 6500 (approx - total just reset!)
June Goals
Poker
£500 profit inc rakeback and bonuses
Hit Priority (want to be able to buyin to SPT direct as useless at satellites)
Avoid 100nl! (might fail this one)
Health
Get back on the kale and spinach smoothies for breakfast 4 x minimum per week and reduce snacking
High intensity workout 2 x per week
Reduce coffee intake to 3 cups/day
Drink 2 litres water/day minimum
will try and update regularly but likely not daily as cant always be bothered straight after a session
Not much motivation to play at present, not sure whether to try 2 tabling, swap to another format for a week or so (MTT's/SNG's) for a change or just take a break and come back to play SPT sats. Fortunately dont rely on any poker income must be a massive stress having to keep grinding through a downswing and avoiding tilt etc.
On the plus side work going well at present, off to a conference next week which should be good, need to make time next week to sort presentation out etc, but should be an opportunity for a few jars in the evening which is pretty rare for me these days!
Health drive is ongoing, managing to drink more water and less coffee, also cut down on snacks, stayed up till early hours watching election last night and late again tonight so sleep pattern needs work - might get some better results if not falling asleep!
Will update in another 10 days, hopefully with a balance over £1500!
After a bad run at the holdem tables last week been playing some Omaha, and fortunately running well to bring me up to just under £2k. Barring disaster will have some cashouts next week! Hopefully a few more like this:
Player
and a few less like this
Good luck with the prio push.
Losing weight and putting serious volume in at the tables can be a bit of a contridiction. Before I ever started playing poker I was around 11-12 stone, now you can add around 6 stone to that... It is possible but takes some serious discipline.