Habit's Poker Blog

July began painfully! Very painful! My knee started to hurt. Apparently 
I had an inflamed Corpus adiposum infrapatellare without having noticed
any external forces. 
This basiclly means I won't be able to perform heavy squats or 
deadlifts anymore which really saddens me, but I guess I have to deal 
with it.

For poker, this was somewhat helpful. I had to stay home from work for 
3 full weeks. Plenty of time to spend on improving and grinding!

As already mentioned in my June Recap my focus is on tournaments now.
I even drifted more and more away from the 180s towards bigger field MTTs.

It is balancing out pretty well on it's own, because the tournaments on
Partypoker get between 50-200 participants, while the tournaments on
Pokerstars in gernal get a way bigger playerfield.

Late in July I also started to incorperate tournaments from 888Poker.
Those 3 sites work well together so I will keep it that way for now.
I tried to add iPoker aswell but it made everything freeze and lag.

I am very happy where my tournament-game is at now. I am constantly
improving and slowly but steady climbing up the ladder.

There might be a few tracking mistakes during July.

To explain that matter further:
 
When playing a Progressive Bounty Tournament Pokertracker 4 will only 
count the innitial amount of a Bounty when you knock-out someone, even 
tho the "price of his head" might be way higher. At the beginning of 
the month I did not know about that tracking mistake yet so there might
be some smallish mistakes. When I finally noticed the problem, I started 
to edit the  tournament so the correct result will be tracked.

Those tracking-mistakes aren't a big deal and will balance out with my
Event-Bankroll.


Here are my graphs for July:

 

 

 

 

Stats for July

 

Winnings:                                254.64$
Hands total:                             70,873
Tournaments total:                       632
Avg. Buy-In:                             1.01$ (wow that suprised me)
ITM:                                     20.6%
Tournaments won:                         8
Top 3 finishes:                          18
Bankroll:                                392.66$

I am super happy with this result! I did not win a big field tournament
yet, only small ones with maximum 200 entrants. What really suprised
me myself is the very low average Buy-In of just 1.01$. 
I made adjustments to cut loose the 0.22$ Tournaments on Partypoker 
and also played a few 5.50$ Micro-Millions Tournaments and even the 
Main-Event with a big ass 22$ Buyin (Sold 45% and mincashed, all 
adjusted in PT4 for sure)

Event Bankroll: 195,68$ (+47,12$)

 

The Deal, Snap, Zoom, Cardmatch, Wheel of Ra, Tracking mistakes: +47,12$

This includes aprox. 40k hands of Snap-Poker, 22k hands of Zoom-Poker,
multiple small 888 Freeroll cashes and usual every 12 hour "The Deal"
abuse (as explained in my June recap).

 

Highlight of the Month:

 

Caribean Poker Party Feeder

During July (and still running) Partypoker gave away one 2.20$ Ticket
every single day. That ticket only could be used for specific 
Caribean Qualifiers.

Here is the way you need to take to qualify (for free) The Caribean
Poker Party

I managed to get the 1050$ Ticket with 1.4 times Average stack at
the start of the Sunday final. I've been nervous for days already
and could not help my thoughts. I already saw myself sitting
at the pokertable, playing a 5300$ Buy-In tournament.

I always tried to think of something else, but this was so important 
to me. It is such a big dream to play such an offline event.

I was worried how I would feel when I would miss this chance
(because in my eyes this was such a big chance).

Only get top 10 of 130 men... I know it sounds still very very hard,
but when did you get that close already before?

When the tournament started I got a huge headache immediately.
I was close before throwing up simply because it was that much
pressure on me. 

I ran horrible and didn't catch a single hand.

I finished the tournament in 34th place and did not qualify.

Beforehand I thought it would destroy me and maybe even
take away all my passion for the game.

But I managed to deal way better with it than expected.
It was a nice experience playing at such high stakes 
(I mean it was a 1050$ Buy-In Satelite!)

And despite the worry that it might kill my passion for
the game, it just let me even more on fire!

Sure this was a huge opportunity and I might not get
that big of a chance ever again, but I still feel like it 
was worth it. I'm walking away stronger and better prepared 
than before.

Just always give it your best, right? And I feel like I've done that!

Goals achieved that were set for July

• play at least 250 Tournaments (done)
• play at least 5000 hands in ICM Trainer (done 7000)
• watch 15 Training Videos  (done)
• lose 2 kg bodyfat (failed, I blame my knee, won’t start a diet before October)
• win 1 Tournaments (done, I guess that goal was set a little low)
• make 10 Final tables (done, even top 3)
• finish 1 book (failed, I usually read them at work (druing breaks for sure!))

 

August Goals and Approach

Approach:

I will still heavily focus on MTTs and will try to up my avg. Buy-In
to at least 1.50$-2.00$. I will play everything in the range of 
1.00$ - 3.30$ Buy-In and take some shots at 5.50$ tournaments.

I'll be on vacation in the end of August so I won't set my goals
too high. Also expect August Recap to be delayed some days.

 

Goals for August

• play 350 Tournaments
• play 5000 hands in ICM Trainer
• watch 15 Training Videos
• win 3 Tournaments
• make 8 top 3 finishes
• finish 1 book