Variance

Hi imaginairy readers here is an update.
The bad:
My bankroll is only 100$
The good:
Lost 300$ but I really played my best and just didnt have the necessary luck with coinflip situations. Ive reached about...4 final tables in small tournaments with 3 places paid and huge overlays, but didnt reach them.
If I count my coinflips I remember 2x QQ against AK wich I lost and one TT against AK which I also lost, the last one was AQs against TT and I LOST!
So you see sometimes luck just isnt on your side.

On other things:
Im officially broke this aint due to poker, but because I havent received my wage and this pisses me off.
School is starting up again soon and this semester is my last so I really have to pull some weight to get any kind of result at the end.
I now have 100$ on pokerchamps so Im actually 50$+, but its hard to enjoy when I had over ½k$.

Just another post

Nice day all in all.
Finished with a total off 400$ and this is my entire bankroll.
With two final tables and a total off about 260$ its a good day.
One thing that annoyes me is the lack of tourneys at poker.com, but the resistance at cash games is relatively easy and I have a 4k tourney entry today and this weekend entry to a 20k so its good times.

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"I am the Jack Nicklaus of poker, the Tiger Woods of poker, the Mozart of poker."
Phil Hellmuth


This summer has been really great and I really have had a good time, also with poker.
I deposited 50$ at pokerchamps and have built my bankroll to 400$
I started of with a 1250$ guranteed mtt with about 40+ players and won 325$ and then I placed 3rd and won 200$ in a 1500$ guranteed.
At a point I had 600$, really mutch and I almost blew it.
My senses told me to take a break but I ignored this and blew 500$ in a single night on cash game at 0,50/1 and 1/2 levels.
I managed to transfer 100$ to my neteller account before I tilted my last bucks away.
Then I started again after attending the faroese music festival, visit the website at
www.gfestival.com
Pokerchamps decided to deny access to american player and the site totaly froze for more than 8 hours and then the site removed their tournements and sngs and forced me to play some cash game and I won 80$ and was up at 287$.
I choose to cash 200$ and made a 100$ deposit at poker.com.
I really think that this proves my point, that my game has improved, because I finished 4th in a 2000 guaranteed and made 200$.
Now I have aproximately 200$ at neteller, 200 at poker.com and 130$ at pokerchamps a total of 530$

The areas that Im improved in are:

Confidence
Reads
Patience
Bluffing

Confidence:
Dont know why, maybe because I worked all summer and Im not as broke as usual, so Im prepared to loose some hands and this really opened my game.

Reads:
Read many articles and some books and been watching poker on tv and such and my ability to read preflop raises and other moves.

Patience:
When to make a move and not to really is the key if you are to be a winning player.
I usually fold all hands exept premium hands and any pocket pair.
Pocket pairs really are good, especially early on in tournaments, trips are great and incredible hard to read and usually doubles your chip stack.

Bluffing:
Learned a new technique which works really
well.
Its to cold call a player preflop and flop and then making a raise or re-raise on turn, this works best if your table image is TAG (tight aggressive)

Some good links:
Two plus Two forum
Any pokerplayer with any kind of ambition reads posts on this forum, Greg Raymer (The fossil man) and Chris Moneymaker are amongst the posters.

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