Crossposted from my main blog @ http://newff.wordpress.com/

I haven’t posted in a while..in my last post I mentioned I was planning to play the 5k HU event in Calgary…well I decided to go to Newfoundland (my home province) and try to get a mortgage for a house that my aunt was selling. I went there and had a good trip, didn’t play much poker but when I did things were not going so good and then I came home very drunk one night and decided to play some $100′s against some regs and I never play drunk..especially at my normal stakes…well I lost 5 games in a row trying to pull off some stupid and obvious drunken bluffs   I did have a good time while I was home though and have some pictures that I will post in my next entry..I’m going to try and update a little more now that I’m done with travelling and trying to get some volume in.

So once I was back I had to work for 7 days..played some games after work when I was tired and lost some money, and then I had 7 days off. I ran horrible but also felt my game was getting weaker so I decided it was time to really look at my game and find some leaks so I first wanted think about where I thought I was going wrong. The first thing I decided was that my preflop game needs work and especially with shallower stacks so that called for some coaching from Mersenneary. I made a video of me playing some Super Turbos because they are good endgame practice and a good way for him to see the mistakes. His detailed written report of my endgame play which I highly reccommend for anyone needing help with their endgame play found a few leaks, and I’m sure if the video had more interesting spots he would have found a lot more..so I’ll be getting some more sessions from him soon. The biggest leaks he saw were that I was not shoving enough when shortstacked so now I need to learn nash better, I was shoving my good hands at around the 12BB area and losing value instead of minraising them to induce a shove from a weaker hand of my opponent, and some other things..so I’ve been concentrating on a lot of those spots and since then I feel my play has been a lot better..still runing bad at the monent though. I also have found some other leaks on my own like calling 3bets too light and not adjusting as well as I used to.

I am down about 2k since my last blog entry but a lot of that has been due to the $500 I lost when drunk, playing very tired after work, running under EV, and of course I wasn’t playing the best while going through this. So now that I have identified some leaks and have fixed some of them I have to do a few things which are; not play drunk at all (I never do anyway besides this time), don’t play after work unless I feel really alert, and review my game more. I also need to get back to putting in more volume because these bad stretches really suck when your putting in low volume.

Anyway, for now I’m going to move back to the $50′s for a few weeks..adjust my game and hopefully win some money..then I will try the $100′s for the 3rd time and this time I think things will be different and go much better. I have 10 months left until I want to start playing for a living and move back to Newfoundland..obviously this will only happen if things work out..I won’t be trying to grind my ass off for a living if I am not good enough but I am hoping I’ll improve a lot by then and my results will be good. Hopefully on Tuesday I’ll find out that the house I’m wanting to buy is now mine..I’ll be renting it out so the house will pay for itself in about 3-4 years and then once the mortgage is payed off I am profiting whatever the house is worth + rent money from tenants..so it”s a really good investment for me. Anyway thanks for reading, I’ve been getting some PM’s on 2+2, messages on Skype from people wanting me to update so now that I’m bored at work I figured it would be good time. I have 3 days of work left and then it's grind time and hopefully my next blog post will have some good results.