Sunday, September 09, 2012

Aaaaaagggggghhhhhhhhh !!!!!

Foooking typical, about 3 hours after my last blog post, screen goes purple on my PC, big ole BSOD and its fooked, spent 6 hours trying to repair it and its really foooked now lol.

Can't believe the timing of it. Its almost as if it knew I was thinking of replacing it out of my tournie winnings and thought fck you, I'll go when I'm ready !!!

It has lasted 5 years to be fair and has been a decent investment, but the new one has been ordered but won't be here till about 18th !! So its no pokes until then.

Although i was able to get all of my important files off my old PC like photos and documents before I trashed it completely, I didn't bother getting my HEM database off, I decided as I was gonna move up to 25NL, I might as well start off a new database, bit of a pain I won't have the hands on a lot of people, but they may play different at 25NL than they do at 10NL anyway, so it might be better in the long run.

I do have HEM2 and I am debating whether or not to use this, I did try it when I was doing SNGs, but it was abs pants then, especially as the SNG wizard was not integrated, just have to see how I feel when it gets here.

I was part hoping I could get to Gold this month on Stars, but I will prob have to push to get to retain Silver by the time I have got all the new one setup and raring to go. Def gonna push for Gold in October and as per my last post, we should then have a better idea what is happening with the player pool size on Full Tilt so I can make a decision accordingly.

I guess for the next 10 days I will at least have the chance to get some study in and hopefully some decent excercise as I have got fook all to do in the evenings now !!!

Why is life never shimples !!!

Goth.

Friday, September 07, 2012

Moving on Up + New Cash Bankroll Plan

Well that time has come when one just has to make the move up to the next stakes, so as of tomorrow, I will be starting to play 25NL pretty much exclusively. I have played 159184 hands at 10NL and finished $654.17 in profit which equates to running at 4.11bb/100 which I am more than happy with. It could of been a lot better as I actually had my first negative month of the year in August being approx 4 buyins down, this was mainly due to a couple of tilted sessions which cost me about 15 buyins. I really thought I has managed to get those sorts of sessions out of me, but I guess the demons are still there. Its really annoying when you know you are tilting, you are actually saying it out allowed and that you should stop the session, but no, you carry on, calling 3 bets with dumbass hands and try to push anyone of anything cos you think you can. Oh well, lesson learned. Here is the mandatory giraffe of my time at 10NL.


I have also amended my bankroll plan to be a new uber nitty system. This time, I am not counting the money I have online as part of my poker bankroll for moving up. So at the moment, I have about £1k on stars and £2k in my poker bank account, it is only the £2k in the bank that is going to count towards me moving up to the next level. I intend to move up to 50NL when my poker bank account reaches £4.5k which is 90 buyins (again in £ not $ so its even nittier) I will finally move up to 100NL when it reaches £10k.

The main aim for playing poker at the moment is to get my mortgage paid off before Amanda reaches 50, its gonna be a pretty tall order and I really am going to have to work at my game and put the hours in, but I think I can do it.

I have set up a new plan to do this which involves withdrawals from Stars when my balance reaches a certain point then using 50% of that withdrawal to go into my Poker Bank Account and the other 50% will pay off the mortgage. The plan is highlighted below

Stars         Withdraw           Stakes       Bank Acc   Withdrawal Split

£1,500.00 - £400.00          25NL        £2,000 - £200 BR, £200 Mortgage
£1,600.00 - £400.00          25NL        £2,200 - £200 BR, £200 Mortgage
£1,700.00 - £400.00          25NL        £2,400 - £200 BR, £200 Mortgage
£1,800.00 - £400.00          25NL        £2,600 - £200 BR, £200 Mortgage
£1,900.00 - £400.00          25NL        £2,800 - £200 BR, £200 Mortgage
£2,000.00 - £500.00          25NL        £3,000 - £200 BR, £200 Mortgage
£2,000.00 - £500.00          25NL        £3,250 - £250 BR, £250 Mortgage
£2,000.00 - £500.00          25NL        £3,500 - £250 BR, £250 Mortgage
£2,000.00 - £500.00          25NL        £3,750 - £250 BR, £250 Mortgage
£2,000.00 - £500.00          25NL        £4,000 - £250 BR, £250 Mortgage
£2,000.00 - £500.00          25NL        £4,250 - £250 BR, £250 Mortgage
£2,000.00 - £500.00          25NL        £4,500 - £250 BR, £250 Mortgage
£2,000.00 - £500.00          50NL        £4,750 - £250 BR, £250 Mortgage
£2,000.00 - £500.00          50NL        £5,000 - £250 BR, £250 Mortgage
£2,000.00 - £500.00          50NL        £5,250 - £250 BR, £250 Mortgage
£2,100.00 - £500.00          50NL        £5,500 - £250 BR, £250 Mortgage
£2,200.00 - £600.00          50NL        £5,800 - £300 BR, £300 Mortgage
£2,300.00 - £600.00          50NL        £6,100 - £300 BR, £300 Mortgage
£2,400.00 - £600.00          50NL        £6,400 - £300 BR, £300 Mortgage
£2,500.00 - £600.00          50NL        £6,700 - £300 BR, £300 Mortgage
£2,600.00 - £700.00          50NL        £7,000 - £300 BR, £400 Mortgage
£2,700.00 - £700.00          50NL        £7,300 - £300 BR, £400 Mortgage
£2,800.00 - £700.00          50NL        £7,700 - £300 BR, £400 Mortgage
£3,000.00 - £700.00          50NL        £8,000 - £300 BR, £400 Mortgage
£3,100.00 - £800.00          50NL        £8,400 - £400 BR, £400 Mortgage
£3,200.00 - £800.00          50NL        £8,800 - £400 BR, £400 Mortgage
£3,300.00 - £800.00          50NL        £9,200 - £400 BR, £400 Mortgage
£3,400.00 - £800.00          50NL        £9,600 - £400 BR, £400 Mortgage
£3,500.00 - £800.00          100NL      £10,000 - £800 Mortgage
£3,600.00 - £800.00          100NL      £10,000 - £800 Mortgage
£3,700.00 - £800.00          100NL      £10,000 - £800 Mortgage
£3,800.00 - £800.00          100NL      £10,000 - £800 Mortgage
£3,900.00 - £800.00          100NL      £10,000 - £800 Mortgage
£4,000.00 - £1,000.00       100NL      £10,000 - £1000 Mortgage
£4,000.00 - £1,000.00       100NL      £10,000 - £1000 Mortgage
£4,000.00 - £1,000.00       100NL      £10,000 - £1000 Mortgage

When you set all of your goals out in a table like the above, it all looks soooo simple, just play pokes take money out, rinse repeat lol. If only it would really work like that. As you can see the max I am setting to play is 100NL. In an ideal world, each of the above steps would only take a month to reach, this would be my ultimate aim, if I could acheive that, my goals of paying off my full mortgage by 2020 could easily be reached.

So thats the plan for now, but for those of you who read this blog regularly, you know how often the plan changes. Also the relaunch of Full Tilt may scupper the plan as the player pools may end up getting split between Zoom and Rush, although if I can get the standard rakeback on my old Gothman account on Full Tilt, it may be worth moving back to there as until I get to Supernova on Stars, I would prob be better off on Full Tilt, I guess I wil just have to crunch the numbers when it comes back online and we know what is going to happen on there.

Goth