August Has It All

I got through about 900 dons this month, the most I've ever played in a month (considering i was @ 600 half way through the month and my aim is 300 per week it still is not the best). The graph is a record of my pokerstars play but i also played a few games on partypoker (signed up through my mate 'Ashton').

I experimented a lot this month with different ways to apply sitngo wizard ICMs and found myself playing to tight looking for positive expected value spots. I think my game is improving as a result but my profit showed that i was not on the money all the time (and was probably playing badly in some regards/ especially when my internet was crashing).

There's always a reason you (I) cant grind enough. On the 26th i turned 25 and had pretty much a week of celebration (in my experience alcohol and poker do not combine well) also our home game got running which took another day of grinding away from me. If things keep going well in these departments i will be able to cut my star city work down even further.

I've been dedicating a fair chunk of time to ju-jitsu and my fitness (trying to put on 3kg muscle). I think it is necessary at least 3 times a week to get far far away from poker

As for the team Rhys, Ryan, Jesse and James have been crushing the live cash scene which is pretty awesome (especially Rhys). Jesse and Ashton have been grinding up a storm in the sitngo world. Tim is beating other Asians at starcraft...

Augusto

As usual its been a while between updates. I spent the month of July being frustrated at not being able to get real Internet (Telstra and current Australian infrastructure is a joke). Thankfully that issue has been resolved, 4g mobile network for the win.

As a result i played a limited amount of poker, instead i did some study into 6 max and deep cash game poker. While i do not currently intend to go full steam ahead in these games i like to be constantly assessing and studying. It is necessary to do this for many reasons which include; avoiding boredom (with poker); improving; broadening perspectives so you can be opportunistic as possible; and fun!.

The first Harbour game ran and ran well, we were in doubt a game would work after an initial lack of interest. Hopefully it will be a fruitful investment for all concerned parties.

I'm back in the grind mode, half way through August and i have 600 $50 don games under my belt (been a bit of a roller coaster ride thus far). Ive just begun to use SitNGo Wizard to help me do ICM calculations as it seems both quick and good (We had done a fairly extensive general look into this while we were all grinding dons but i think this program will prove to be invaluable).I certainly have found a few weak points in my game which is great because it means i can and should be able to profit more in the future.

Jesse, Ash and me are all needing to do a lot of work to reach supernova by the end of the year but all have a good work ethic and will push each other. Basically i need to play 300 tournaments + per week for the rest of the year to achieve this.