That was tonights session. Last night's session is basically the same but without the big upswing at the start. I'm playing pretty good I feel and have looked over a bunch of hands and seem to be doing nothing glaringly wrong. Just short term variance. I ran QQ into KK twice tonight, got set under setted and has people out-flop me left right and center. The best hand was yesterday though, I 5bet shove with AQs and get called by AQs and lose. )(W*R)U(UAWIJQWFDLKASJFlkAFS. I'm feeling pretty good though as by the end of the session I was like "surely I'm down like 3k here" so to find out I was even was almost as if I'd won a whole lot.
Hard2tel and I have a prop bet going whereby we each have to play 40 hours of online cash games a week. The first person not to play 40 hours in a week owes the other $5,000. The terms are that the stakes have to be 1/2 NL or higher and a minimum of 3 tables must be played for the session to be on the clock. If by the end of March neither of us failed then it is a draw. Same goes for if we both don't make it in the same week. It started today and each week ends at midnight on Sunday.
I'm planning on playing 6-7 hours each day to do this. If I feel like it I'll put in longer hours some days and relax on others. Hopefully if I start running at expectation I might be able to make a whole bunch of money in the next few months.
My goal for this month is $30k. So far I'm up about $9k if you include online and live poker. Still got a ways to go but I'm optimistic.
I've also begun creating an excel spreadsheet to track not online my poker winnings/losses but where I'm spending my money each month and tracking how much I can save, where I can save more money, etc. Hopefully this will lead to fewer "WTF WHERE DID ALL MY MONEY GO?" moments.
I've been reading the book "The Monk who sold his Ferrari" and there are some pretty interesting concepts in it. The basic idea behind the book (as I can gather with as far as I've gotten) is to try and teach us how to train and control our mind, rather than having it control us. I'm usually not one to buy into all this new-age stuff but a lot of it makes sense practically and scientifically and seems to be able to help improve your quality of life. I'm going to try to apply some of the concepts it speaks about to my life and track the effects over the next month or so.
