Ok, decided to open a journal, mainly so I could track down a little bit those crazy ups and downs and maybe also get some advice from the BTP experts.


Some background :
I'm 24 years old, Israeli by origin, finished my mandatory army service last year and since then been living by my own in Paris, France. Doing my B.A of Psychology. I have a girlfriend and two plants that I irrigate every week (the plants, not the girlfriend). I used to be a computer geek (programming and stuff) but thanks god I've seen the light and uninstalled the C++ compiler a few years ago.

Poker-wise:

I'm new to Poker (started in August 2006, so been playing for 3 months now), I've been playing alot of hours, at least compared to experts like Xaston - about 6-7 hours a day. Only NLHE.

For the first month or so I played everything from 0.05-0.010 to 200NL mostly online but also live, learning on the fly and trying to throw away as much $$$ as possible.

Second month I bought Phil Gordon's litte green book and HoH (accidently ordered the second one - endgame so I've read it before the first) and read them, as well as the FTR and BTP forums.

In the end of this 3rd month of my poker adventure I'm down about $2K but it's ok, first - it's money I could afford to throw away, and second -I discovered that I kinda suck at cash games, and should improve that without losing anymore in anything higher than 20NL, the good news are that I rock at tournaments (deleted this part, and posted later exact statistics for the month)

Since I started playing tourneys I'm winning, and learning alot so it's quite fun.


I didn't keep a good track on my games, but will publish my PT stats later from Prima and Tribeca where I mainly play.

Next post - objectives for the month and the 6 months to come.

1. Order Theory of Poker from amazon
2. Re-read the Zones part of HoH, I find it very important to my MTT game and should master it.
3. Start winning instead of losing in cash-games: 0.50-1 4 tabling 6-max at Prima (losing 1.81 PTBB/100 after 3.3K hands, but that includes about 1.5K hands when I just started and played worse than the average donk)
4. Win at least one big tourney (more than 1K win) - This is the most ambitious objective for this month, but I'm pretty confident that I can do it. Was very close in the 65K guarantee this week when I pushed 10 8 offsuit with M=5 , the exact case apperas in HoH 2 and Harrington explains why to push, so I guess I was right to do so (lost anyways ofcourse).



How can I see results over time in PT? I want to check only my last month's stats. Should I start a new DB since I'm playing an entirely different game now?

OK before you guys start screaming "not enough hands!" "small sample size" etc. I would just say that the only reason I'm posting this is to keep track of each month.

So far for November:

Cash game:

Hands: 841
Hours played: 9.02
Won: $415.84
BB/Hr: 23.06
BB/100 : 24.72

MTTs:

Expenses: $547
Won: $1686.16
Net: $1139.16

SnGs:

Expenses: $258.5
Won: $205
Net: $80.5


BR: $1295.99

(The money missing is due to different levels of cash-games in which I lost first day of the month, but since I'm only playing 0.5-1 NL now, I won't be adding those to the stats)

So to conclude my first day of 4-tabling 100NL at Prima:

Played 1,248 Hands
Won: $151.81
PTBB/100: 6.08


VP$IP: 26.04
PFR: 10.10%
AF: 2.38
WSD: 27.70%
W$SD: 48.42%


The day started great with a nice but short (15 minutes) winning session, interrupted by the teacher (I'm playing some tables while listening to courses in the university... f*ing smart I know). I finished it up more than a buy-in ($110.22) .

Second session was 7 hands long and finished with an astonishing one dollar and fifty five cents win. WOW.

Third session I won $247.34 and played for about 30 minutes.

Fourth session was very sweat, lost a nice ($450.05) in about 2 hours.

Fifth and last session at my place already lasted 40 minutes and I won $208.28.

(and I have no clue what I did wrong but the when I add all up it doesn't result the same numbers.. weird..oh well)

from your journal title i assumed u were under-aged and I would have had to inform you that I was the resident underage player.

but seeing tht your 24, carry on


except move to 50NL because your under rolled for 100NL

LOUSY 4-tabling 6-max NL50 session at Prima:

Duration: 45 minutes
Played 278 hands
Lost: $136.35
PTBB/100: (49.05)


VP$IP: 28.42
PFR: 10.79%
AF: 2.26
WSD: 29.21%
W$SD: 50.00%


I just played bad. no excuses. Prefered to quit before losing anymore, I'll rest some time, maybe find a nice tournament, and hit another session later on.

When it goes bad, it's all the way.. I lost a lot 4-tabling NL50, than I moved to NL100 to return to my winning game, lost there also, then moved to 200NL to close the gap, and guess what - tilted some stacks away as well......

I'm down 879.40 for the day and feeling like shooting myself.


Question: should I move back to NL50 for good now, and try to rebuild BR slowly? I guess the obvious answer is yes.....