This is probably one of the longest time periods I have gone without updating the blog. I just wasn't really in the mood for blogging because poker has been frustrating for me this month and I've made a lot of foolish errors. My biggest mistakes have been bankroll management and not fully comprehending variance. I was doing nicely in the 6 handed $100 max at the beginning of the month but then I hit a spell where basically nothing went right for a couple of sessions. This led to me getting frustrated, even though something like this is clearly within the boundaries of negative variance, and caused me to want a change of scenery. I moved to heads up, where things really kicked off nicely and even led me to think I would play it solely or the rest of the month. Once again, variance kicked in and I took a few beats and tilted some. I then saw a guy who looked pretty weak at 2/4 HU table, so I decided to play him. I ran pretty awful and ended up dropping close to two buy-ins to him, which was around 25% of my FTP bankroll. After that horrific day (ended around -$1100 that day!), I have since been grinding $100 max again and have regained most of those losses. I think I am down only $150 for the month thus far, so I'm setting a new goal of $1000 for September. I do think I will reach the 15k hand mark so that's at least one goal achieved.
My big thing right now is working on not getting frustrated and changing things up all of the time. I've also been playing pretty well since my blowup day, and I'm happy about that, but I'm still not giving as much credit as I should be and still not laying down some big hands when I need to. I just started datamining 1/2 since I might be moving up in around a month, so hopefully the extra stats and preparation will help. I'm on my laptop now so I can't post any graphs or stats, so I will do that next time...
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