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My original aim in poker was to win a Sit N Go Jackpot on the ipoker network. By 2015, after ten years playing, I had generated a solid $26,000 in poker profit, but without Jackpot success. Seven years on I am back on Pokerstars playing and blogging about no limit Texas holdem. The original jackpot sit n gos and most of my previous regular opponents are long gone. However, my above average poker ability, apparently, is not. Now, at fifty-three years old, I am ready for a new poker challenge!
Saturday, 31 December 2011
December Result: +$162, Overall: +$3315 - Challenge Failed!
Wednesday, 28 December 2011
Plans for next year
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Thursday, 22 December 2011
Ten days to go
With ten days to go of my Maui Challenge 2011 I am in need of my own Christmas miracle! Progress in December has been slow and uncomfortable akin to Mary's donkey ride to Bethlehem all those years ago. I am only around $40 dollars ahead so far this month. My main aim now is to have a solid last week or so and end the year with a Sharkscope top twenty ranking. This is looking touch and go at the moment as I am clinging on to twentieth spot as of today.
Merry Christmas.
Sunday, 11 December 2011
Failure is an option!
With three weeks to go in my Maui challenge, my form patchy at best, the strong probability is that I will not hit my $4000 target. A shame, but it genuinely was a tough figure for me to hit playing three thousand $5 sit n gos (especially with the $1 rake). A true challenge. In the last few weeks I think I have let the growing realisation of my impending 'failure' affect my game. So I am trying here to inject some needed logic in my thinking here to help me focus on a positive end to my poker year. The aim for the year (see above) was in effect five fold:
1. To play 3000 Maui games. Nearly there. I have showed some real strong discipline to play this number of games and these alone for a year.
2. To have fun. An easy one really as I love playing poker.
3. Make $4000. OK I will probably not make it but if I only hit $3200 I have completed 80% of the total. I still maintain my failure will be down to the lack of consolation bonus success. I came so close again at the start of December with a sequence of 12123. I won't whinge too much about the details of the third but suffice to say the last few hands were pretty cruel from my point of view. It would have been a great start to December.
4. Achieve a top twenty Sharkscope leader board ranking. I am currently 18th in year winnings at the $5 level and have a good shot at staying there. A poor run in the next three weeks could cost me here.
5. Record my progress on this blog. I am happy with the job I have done in this respect posting monthly progress and lots more around once a week. I hope it has been some use or interest to others.
So yes failure is an option because in failing I will have achieved a great deal that is positive.
So get over it Jason and start playing your best poker again!
Please note this is not a concession of defeat............................My challenge continues.
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
Golden advice from Phil Gordon?
Around five years ago I read what was probably the most influencial poker book on my early game development. It was Phil Gordon's Little Green Book. It helped me with some key fundamentals of poker I was able to use as firm foundation to build on and improve my game. Two lessons that come to mind are protecting a good hand with solid post flop bets and going to war with strong drawing hands. Five years later following a lacklustre Blue Book he is back with a Gold Book and I am giving it a try. It is marketed as a follow up to his original green teachings but updated for the modern game. Where his teachings of green and gold conflict now follow gold. I will try. I started it last night and looks of interest.
I am need of this new material following a steady at best month or two. The last poker book I read about the mental game of poker helped me achieve a three month hot streak. Rather foolishly I abandoned my poker reading to enjoy a thriller about a kidnapping. Not a bad book (see Simon Kernick's Deadline) but it was my A game that seems to have been kidnapped so it is back to poker reading for me!
Interestingly there is a large section on Pot Limit Omaha which I may take up next year. He may well establish my fundamentals for this game as well.
Cheers Phil
Thursday, 1 December 2011
November Result: +$117, Overall: +$3153
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