September Results

Juicy Stakes Poker, August 2017
56 tournaments played:
14 net win tournaments:   +$67.98
41 net loss tournaments:    -$77.15
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                                                -$9.17


Americas Cardroom, September 2017
6 tournaments played:
2 net win tournaments:   +$0.64
4 net loss tournaments:   -$0.44
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                                          +$0.20




Combined results for September 2017:  -$8.97



I lost a few dollars last month and I should be upset, or at least disappointed.  I'm not, for two reasons:

1. A month is as good a benchmark as any, at least for most things.  However, in the big picture, my new record of playing 61 tournaments in one month is nothing.  Some pros play that many in one day. It's not a large enough sample size to prove anything.  That's OK because I didn't expect to be a big winner this year.  I'm setting up my bankrolls this year so that I have enough money to play with next year. I've done that with very disciplined bankroll management.  If you think that's easy, try playing nothing but $1 or $2 tournaments for a while if you're good enough to play much higher.

2. Using Bluffs: How to Intelligently Apply Aggression to Increase Your Profits from Poker, by Jonathan Little and Albert Hart as my guide, I've already read and studied it three times and I've barely touched the surface.  Memorizing and internalizing the concepts is daunting it itself.  Then I have to make it work in the real world.

At the same time I'm working on building ranges and understanding Game Therory Optimal (GTO)  play (see previous post) and that has been very hard to get through.  I have a lot of questions and I've already sent some of them to Jonathan Little.  I hope to get some answers in his 10/11 webinar.  If I do, I'll post it in this blog.

I can definitely say that everything continues to slowly but surely fall into place.  I'm much more comfortable with GTO play than I was a month ago, but as with bluffing, I have a lot of things yet to learn
Given all that, I'm very happy that I could take that on and still wind up close to even at the end of the month.  In fact, September played out a lot like August, with some good cashes at the end saving what was going to be a bad month.  A 9/28 deep run after 4.5 hours of play on Americas Cardroom, 19th of 574 players, got me positive for the month.  A Juicy Stakes Poker win in a $2.20 tournament on 9/27 (1st out of 57, $25 cash) once again saved me from a bad month.

Considering all of the new concepts that I'm trying to learn, I'm very happy with my September results.