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Ugh.. I've ignored my blog forever :( Probably because I haven't had anything that I've wanted to write about. January and February were decent months, I made a little money.. but March was crazy. I decided I was going to gamble more than normal and ended up playing several bigger buyin mftops, including 3x'ing into the $22, buying into the $26 and $33.. and having half of my own action in the $75 main event. To say it went shitty is an understatement. I cashed the $33 for like $50 and that was it. I do think I played well.. so I guess that's all I can ask for.

In April I've decided to go back to grinding cash games. I am set on hitting 50nl or 100nl by the end of the year, and I won't be able to do it if I don't ever grind. This month I plan on playing 2 weeks at 10nl, and if things go well I plan on hopping back up to 25nl to grind. I do feel pretty damn motivated to grind now that I have my new laptop. It's exactly what I wanted, Toshiba Satellite L655 15.6" 4g ram.. hdmi output and a blu-ray player.... it's pretty sweet imo.

On to my goals for the month.. I posted a short version on 2p2, but those aren't all of my goals:

Poker
[] 10,000 hands
[] 15,000 hands
[] 20,000 hands
[] Less than 20 mtts/sngs
[] Less than 25 mtts/sngs
[] If I play a schedule of mtts, sell action
[] 4 poker videos
[] Review hem once per week
[] Post 3 of my own hands, respond to at least 20 hands

Life
[] 20 Workouts
[] Add 40lbs to squat
[] Add 25lbs to bench
[] Lose 10-15 pounds
[] Spend $20 or less on fast food/junk food/pop
[] Get more hours at work/apply for 10-20 new jobs
[] Start Meditating
[] Less time on the computer, mindlessly surfing

Ew

Well.. two weeks in and 2011 hasn't gone as well as I had hoped.. but it's still early :) I feel like I haven't gotten into a good groove yet and I think a lot of that has to do with what I do.. well haven't been doing..away from the tables. I've slacked big time in studying.. eating well.. sleeping well.. exercise.. and I can feel it taking a toll on how I play. My stamina isn't there for sng's at the moment, like it was in the last few months when I was doing those things better. So I'm going to take a week off..kind of anyway. I plan on taking the rest of today off.. along with Friday-Tuesday.. on Wednesday (or Monday, depending on my work schedule) I plan on spending all day watching videos and going through my hand histories... finding hands to post and finding spots where I'm really playing poorly. So my next update will be at the end of the month with my results/goals post (pending a donkament score before then of course :))

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One week in..

Well.. the first week of 2011 is in the books.. and to say it was underwhelming is a bit of an understatement. I don't think I played very well and pushed a bit too hard to get off to a good start. I seem to be doing pretty well at the 3/90s, but I'm struggling at the 6/90s at the moment. I'd like to think it's variance, since I seem to be running into the top of everyone's range.. or they get there.. for big stacks later on, but I'm sure my lack of focus has made me miss some important spots. I think the plan will be to 4 table just the $3/90s for the rest of the month, get back into a good groove in those, build my bankroll up just a bit more.. and then give myself a solid shot at the 6/90s. My aim is to play 2000 90man sngs this year... hopefully playing all the way up to the 26s. 40/week seems pretty doable, especially since I'll be able to grind hard during the summer/winter breaks. I was able to get 35 in during my first week, and that's without playing a few days... so averaging 40/week will be pretty easy peasy since for a lot of the week I was 1-2 tabling when I could have been playing 3-6 tables.

At the moment... I'm hoping school starting up again next week will really help out my focus. Having a schedule to follow.. people to be around. etc will really help my mental state. Also, on Monday, I'm looking to really start hitting a healthier lifestyle... working out 3-5 days/week.. eating much healthier. getting on a regular sleep schedule. I plan on focusing on the 3/90s during January because I plan on focusing really hard on getting real life things... imo, one solid month of focusing on getting into great habits will really help my poker game.

I've spent quite a bit of time this week thinking about my 10k profit goal. For awhile, I thought that there really was no way I could hit that.. but, even after a crappy first week.. I'm really feeling like it's plausible, with some solid, focused grinding.. some hard work.. and a little bit of luck. With 2000 90man sngs... broken down at roughly 300 $3s...800 $6s.. 700 $12s.. $300 26s.. with roi's hitting not quite the top end from guess that I could find on 2+2 (40% for 3s.. 35 for 6s.. 30 for 13s and 25 for 26s).. that will be $6,246 in profit.. plus $483.30 in rakeback from those games.. plus some amount from knockouts.. I'm up to $6800 or so.. so if I'm able to do well in a few mtt's.. plus reach at least 50nl and get any sort of volume there...plus bonuses that ftp gives out.. and I'll definitely be able to hit my 10k profit for the year.. so gogogogogo rungood :)

Until next week :)

oh.... If anyone (well..the 5 followers I seem to have :)) want to follow my irl stuff with getting healthy and stuff.. I started another blog @ nofatty.blogspot.com.