May Goals / Life comes at you fast!!!!!

The month of May has come upon us and I need to set some poker goals for myself to shoot for so it is a successful one.

I need to put in more volume, this has always been a problem with me. I eventually want to be able to play 100 games a day. So my goal this month is to play 50-75 games a day. I feel my confidence is there and I am playing well so if I can do 50-75 games a day I should make a decent buck this May. The month of May wont really start for me until the 11th. This coming week I will be at my parents house helping out around the house so I will only be able to play a minimal number of games. Then on Wedsnday I go to AC to play in the Harrahs Poker open. Once I get back I will start to grind my ass off and make some good money.

I would like to make $2k profit this month. This is more then doable and I feel like it is achiveable. Im hoping that after this month if I work really hard and make a decent profit I will be moved up to play$12 level. This is key in me making a good amount of money at this. I feel my game is getting there and that I am finally coming around even though I might have been a bit slower then some of the guys turning into true grinders I feel I am getting there.

Most of this MAY is going to consit of me trying to keep my volume up and making a decent profit. If I can do all of this and keep myself focused it wil be a succesful month for me. I want to finish Kill Everyone as I got half way through it and kinda have slowed down on it a bit, Hopefully I can get some good reading done in AC I will be by myself and should have some time away from poker as well.

As far as non related poker goals, I want to continue going to the gym. This has been a huge thing for me going to the gym everyday, as much as I dont want to go sometimes when I do go I feel so much better about myself. Right now I weigh 225lbs, Come this September I get married and need to look good in my tux and need to look good on that tropical island I am going to. This is a big deal for me and I cant seem to take it serious. If anyone has any secrets to keeping yourself motivated for something in which seems impossible to you let me know. My eating habits have to change or I will never lose the wieght I want to lose.

I think focusing on weight loss will be a big enough challenge for this month so that is my only non poker realated goal.

As far as real life happenings. We got our wedding bands and she seems to be super excited about it. The wedding is coming fast and she just seems to be stressing so hard over it. I try my hardest to calm her down and do things for her so she dosent feel stressed, I hope some of what I am doing is helping. The wedding is going to be here before I know it and I feel pretty excited about it, gonna be one hell of a party LOL JK ect ect.....

Anyway I always feel lke I ramble on when I blog. I never feel like I have a well thought out plan when it comes to writing these things, I hope you guys dont mind. Thats all I got for now.

Good luck at the tables and Ill be sure to let you know how AC went, I feel a 6 figure score coming.


Jon

18 mans for a bit. Feeling in the mood!!!!

Just for the next few sessions I will play some 18 mans, Im really in the mood to play a few of these and they really can be fun. So gonna switch it up for a few and if you see me playing them I dont owe you $50 LOL.

That is all will post my MAY goals in my next post when I have more time.


Jon

April's Almost Over but feeling good!!!!

With April coming to a close there are some things to reflect back upon this month. I did not put in the volume I wanted. This was partly due to the fact that I took a mini Vacation mid April and the fact that my fiance was home for most of this month. She had a few weeks break before she starts up her next internship. This is her last one and she will be done working full time in a month or so.

All though the volume wasnt there I ran pretty well towards the end of the month. +$800. Ill take it after getting out that down swing and paying make up off.

Ive been playing mostly $6.50 45 mans and $7.70 180 mans, the only problem with the $7.70's is they fill like once every 30 minutes. This is so slow, so I fill it in with the $2.20's, hopefully I can move up to the $12 45's and 180's in the coming weeks. I am feel extremly confident in my game and am playing well because of the confidence.

May 6th I go to AC again for a few days. I am playing the Harrahs Poker Open. I will pla the first event which is a $230 2 day event. the structure is insanely good, and I will try to satty into the ME which is a $1100 3 day event with an even more sick structure. so wish me luck during the series. I have a BAP up for it and you can buy some of my action if you like. http://forum.parttimepoker.com/showthread.php?t=530742

If you are not a memeber I will just put the shares in my name.

On to graphs pretty exciting graph to post.

The months still not over and Im hopeing to break $1k profit for the month.

Anyway see you at the tables and gl in MAY.

Jon

Back from AC & kinda burnt!!!!

I spent three days in Atlantic city with my fiance. It was supposed to be a really relaxing trip and we were just suppose to hang out. It was all of that and more it seemed. I didnt get much relaxing done but had a ton of fun and made a good bit of money. We ate at some of our favorite restaraunts and lived it up. This place called Budakhan its on the Ceasars peir. It is so fucking good I can beleive it. I ordered the Pad Thai with chicken and shrimp. This dish was so good. Anyway its our new favorite place to go. Cant wait to get back there.

Poker went really well. I didnt have a loosing session the whole time I was there. It just seems that people want to give me there money. The first session I got angled on in one spot and I went on a bit of tilt but managed to keep it together.

I was dealt TT UTG and raised it to $12. It fold around to a guy who held what I thought was like $60. He puts in all of his red chips and the dealer declares him all in. Fold back around to me and I call. The guy then drops $50 in green chips from his hand and says Im not all in. The dealer takes his side I call the floor and hes allowed to play the $50. Flop comes A97 or something like that. I check and he shoves I have to call now as there is to much in the pot really and a fold would be stupid. He turns over AK. It just pissed me off a bit If knew he had that much behind I might have been able to find a fold. The fact that the dealer declared him all in and I acted on the dealers actions. IDK just tilted me a bit. I wound up like $70 on the session and walked away happy to not lose any money.

The next session went really well and I made a quick $200 like it was going out of style. I dont think there were any huge hands but I got people to lay down big hands when I had marginal ones by pushing them off there hands. It seemed like they were scared of me for some reason.

My third and final session was the sickest of them all. I bought in for $200 as I normaly do. It was fairly early in the morning like around 9am. A bunch of drunks were still hanging around and had some pretty monster stacks in from of them. I manged to double through a drunk guy calling off with 88 in the BB When I held AA and floped my A. It was all uphill from there, the deck hit me in the face so many times I cant remember it all. I wound up $1300 for the session and it was time to leave for home.

All in all it was a great long weekend trip and me and my fiance had a great time. I just felt really tired after getting back am just now recovering enough to feel like playing online.

Online has been going well. Not much volume but that will pick up in the coming days. I have decided I have to start wheening off the $3 games and play mostly $6. I will be loading up $3 and $6 to start but them just transition into $6 games as my session goes on. I need to start in creasing how much money Im making and see If I really have what it takes to make a living out of this. My coaches are all there to help me and I need to take a few more risks instead of playing it safe. They understand that I might owe make up from time to time. Hopefully I can bang out a few hundred at the $6 level and move up to the $12 where I can make some decent money.

ANyway sorry for ramblin on here had a alot to say and I suck at writing.

Ill post some graphs in my next post and let you how im doing with my transition.



Jon

Out from this down swing WOOT!!!!!!!!!!!

So I havent posted in awhile. Ive been working really hard on my Poker game as of late. I went on a pretty big downswing for the stakes I play, and today I can say I have broken out of the down swing and am back into profit. This feels really good considering the last time I was in profit was when I still had a Job. As soon as I quit my job I went on this big downer. I like to think I was being tested to see if I could hold it together. I was stressing pretty hard and feeling pretty shitty about my game. I worked out some of my leaks with my coaches and I feel like the only place to go is up from here.





I need to start putting in some solid volume like I have been doing this past week. I have been slacking slightly the past few becuase I wasnt feeling much like playing when I was loosing. I need to work even harder and try to play as much as possible, the sooner I can get moved up in stakes the better. I need to try and move up to the $12 level ASAP. More money to be made being the reason.





Some things going on in my personal life that are pretty exciting. As you all know I am getting married in September. Its coming pretty damn fast. Anyway we bought our wedding bands and thats pretty cool but it cost $1k. I have money saved up and put away for the wedding but it jst puts a bit of pressure on me knowing I am spending alot of money and not making much. Hopefully that all changes soon. I feel more motivated then ever.





Anyway on to some stats and graphs-

oh yeah I almost forgot I am going to Atlantic city this weekend. I have a free room for a few nights and am going to make some money at the Cash games at Ceasars. Like priting money LOL!!!!

Good luck at he tables and see ya around.

-Jon

Fresh Start!!!! New Mind Set!!!!

With the week coming to a close I feel kinda good about it. I learned alot and gaind a hell of alot of experience. With such a swongy week it was very soul crushing. I had a good start and it was all down hill from there.





I played 206 games -3% roi -$121.

I set a couple goals for myself. This has given me a fresh mindset. I am going to make the transition to 45's and 180's fully. This means I will no longer be playing 18 mans. Heres the deal. If any of you catch me playing an 18 man I will pay you $50.

I also set a volume goal for the week. I would like to play 350 games this is gonna be tough but its doable. I now found a way to comfortably 12 table, so the volume should go up. I am very excited about increasing the volume and seeing what the next level is for me.

Sorry for a short post and just rambling but thats all Igot for now.

Good luck at the tables this week.

-Jon

Frustration!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Extremely frustrated right now. I am playing great at least I think I am. I cant win a hand when it matters. I had a good morning then just tanked in the afternoon session. every 50/50 went the wrng way and when I was favorite they would hit there mircale card. FML. Down about $125. It sux to have had a good start to the week then to be in the hole half way through the week. I really wasn tilting but now I am. I hate to loose and feel like I should be crushing these stakes and Im not.

Mabey I need a coaching session reset my mindframe. Ill see if I can get one tomorrow. Im done playing for the night and its probably for the best. Ill go to the gym and sweat off the frustration.

I joined a gym on Monday with my fiance. I need to get back in shape and look good for my wedding. Excited about working out it helps clear my mind after a long session. Esp. with how I have been running.

Anyway thats all I got for now Ill post a graph later on.


-Jon

Back To It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tomorrow will be the first full week of grinding with no interuptions. Nothing to much happening on the poker front. Last week finished up about $75 or around there. Next week will be much better. I have been investing alot more lately, begining to take it more serious. I am going to be starting a project with investing where I take 1K as a starting roll and going to build it slowly but shorely and safely through nothing but investing. I got my spreadsheet up and going and will be keeping detailed updates on this project.

I ordered Kill Everyone and hopefully that comes soon so I can get reading that. Should be a good read.

Without going into to much detail I think I found an alternitive to my parttime job situation. My whole life I grew up playing soccer. I was goalkeeper, was pretty darn good at it. Played through Highschool and eventualy played for a division 1 school, West Virginia University. I was a goalkeeper trainer for alot of highschool. I decided I will be offering Private goalkeeper training sessions at night. I can charge upto $25/hr and make a good amount of money doing this. It will also be fun and keep me in shape/ get me back in shape. Will keep you updated on this as well.

Thats all i got for now. Good luck this week at the tables.


-Jon

Just Cant get away!!!!!

As hard as I try to leave my Job they seem to be making it very difficult. I was supposed to come in for 2 days this week and train the new guy replacing me. It turns out that he wanted to give his old job 2 weeks. I said ok thats fine but I can still only work 2 days this week. My boss gives me a load of crap asking me to stay for the whole week. They gave me a full two weeks pay to stay 1 more week. Pretty sweet deal considering I am not doing much here at work and just kinda getting things organized. I still wish I was at home getting some volume in and getting settled in poker.

I need to grind these low levle sng's real hard to start. I need to dominate them, the sooner I can move up the better. I need to increase my hourly as much as I can.

Ive come to the realization that the set up I have been using, (my 19" laptop with a 22" monitor, tileing across both) is not working out. The head and eye movment is killing me. I need something easier on the eye. Im going to try stacking and cascadeing and find something that will work for me. I need to get the number of tables that I am playing up to at least 12, I am hoping to eventually be able to play 20+.

I dont have a graph to post but I am up like $40 on the week which sucks but I have only played like 75 sng's.

Mabey Ill try to play alittle tonight. Its tough though my fiance Jen wants to spend time with me and she likes when we hang out and play with our dog. Going into this whole endevour was I would grind Sng's all day and have time at night for her. Playing at night wont be a problem as long as I only do it ocassionaly.

Anyway sorry for rambiling on just figured I would give an update and try and get refocused on the big picture. The big picture is tomorrow really is my final day and I can wait to get moving on this. This weekend we go register for our wedding. Im excited to pick out a huge fucking tv and I really do like to cook so picking out all the kitchen supplies will be cool.

Until next time good luck.


-Jon

First day Let the grind begin!!!! Mehh!!!!

Today was my first day of Grinding SNG's full time. I managed to play 50 of them. I normaly would play more but I recently dropped the number of tables I was playing to 8 so I could focus on making proper decisions. I am play 180 man & 45 man SNG's.





The day started great and I was up about $70 my first session. It was all down hill from there. I had a rough run loosing all of my flips and not winning one 60/40. Oh well tomorrow will be better. I felt great and was in a good mind set. I did not tilt at all and was confident in every play I made just need to get in the grove again. One day dosent mean shit and only time will tell.

I went and followed up on an application I filed with a new restaruant oppening up in April. They said they were still accepting applications and wont be doing call backs until anohter 2 weeks so Ill have to wait and see how that pans out.

Heres to running better tomorrow!!!!


-Jon

The End is Near!!!!!

So I sit in my office at 7:45am writing this. The past few days have been extremely boring here at work. There hasnt been much work for me to do. I have been getting organized and prepared to leave, which is tomorrow. I need to move my tool box back into my truck.(I didnt ever want to take it out in the first place, I knew this was gonna happen and my tools weigh like 600lbs+)FML.

I havent played any poker this week. It has been like that for the past few weeks. I have been so stressed by work and trying to find time to keep my sanity, I just havent had the motivation to play. This is all going to change because come friday I am a free man and no longer work traditional hours. I am so excited to be able to grind poker full time. Im talking 6-7+ hours day. I have never been able to play that many hours a day. Im so excited to see the learning curve that is going to happen. Right now I would rate my self as a knowledgable player that is a winning player but just hasnt had the time to break through. When I start grinding full time I fully expect my winrate and profit to shoot through the roof. Only time will tell.

Anyway gonna go grab some breakfast and read the forums.


Jon

A new Chapter???

This is my first post. I would like to use this blog to try to keep me motivated and keep me focused on my goals. This blog will mostly be about my new Poker carrear and how things are going. I will use this to post updates and spew out my own thoughts on poker and life.

This is my last week of real work. I could no longer put up with the 9-5 bull shit and the misery of working my Full time job as an Electronics supervisor repairing and installing Video, sound systems and GPS systems in Tour buses. I gave my Two weeks last week and this friday will be my last.

I have a few part time jobs lined up and they all seem promising. I will most likely end up working as a bartender or server a few nights a week. This does not seem to bad to me, the tips will be good and I really like interacting with people. This will be my steady income I have a fairly small monthly nut to obtain living at home with my fiance. I only have a car payment and insurance to pay for. Here is where things get interesting though, I am getting married in September and we have to pay for most of it our selves. I have about 9k of it payed off already and the whole thing is going to cost us about 25k. This includes the honeymoon which we are going to Sandals St Lucia. I cant wait!!!!

Anyway just gonna lay it out there this way mabey you guys can relate to me more. I have about 5k saved up in personel checking and about another 20k saved in stocks and CD's. My monthly nut is roughly $900 a month which should be covered by my part time job.

Heres to running good and getting to grinding this coming week. I cant wait to put in the effort and studying that it is going to take to make me a great Sng grinder and make a full living out of this. With the help of SNG mentors and my coaches I fully beleive if I put in the effort I will not fail, I will succeed beyond my wildest dreams.

-Jon