Damn Ringer's Poker Blog

so this month isn’t actually completely terrible. I have strung together several good session and am now down only a little this month. I have looked at my breakdown of losses in different games and i’m running 3bb/100 at 1/2nl still! However in cap 2/4, 3/6 and 5/10, i’m down about $2500 over about 2k hands (woof that sucks to say out loud).

Alright, so I am doing what i normally do when i have a losing month. Playing incredibly ADD has never been my thing. If i stick to a plan, I do very well, but if I start to go onto random games that I don’t know the dynamic about, I dump cash. Not to mention those cap games are 6-max games, however I felt like I beat those games, I just didn’t like handling the swings. I need to just stick to 1/2 and 2/4 FR, and keep in the back of my brain not to waste my 5/10 shots on games other than FR. Speaking on that front, I have my bankroll spread across 2 sites so I really shouldn’t be taking shots 5/10 as I only have 20 buyins for 5/10 for each on each site. I like to keep both my bankroll separated mentally as well as physically, but sometimes its tough. I just think ‘oh I have 40 buyins for 5/10 spread out, don’t be a pussy’. But when I finally get on the table, I only see my 20 buyins and play scared. Anyways, I need to stick to full ring cause i’m not done mastering this game yet.

On the vegas house front, I am getting pretty excited about finally getting all this into place. My house master (vizer02) has kinda hit the brakes on looking for places tho, so I don’t know exactly when we will have a place finalized for May. I do however already have a ton of visitors confirmed so I suppose the place we get better live up to how balla I described the place. I really want the place to be a sweatshop for making great poker professionals during the week though. I feel like surrounding myself with poker talent, I will naturally rise to the challenge of getting better. I also have a hunch there will be some degenerate prop betting going on for the 3 months we are there and some seriously awesome sweat sessions.

Anyways, I’m not down about my down month this month. I kinda screwed myself by playing games I’m not good at, at stakes that I don’t normally play. I’m still winning at 1/2 and 2/4 FR and that’s really all that is important. I am starting to reconsider my plans to move over to stars, but I did get a name of a player that would do the transfer for me at a reasonable price. I will consider the pros and cons of each option and hopefully make a decision soon.

On a completely different note, I have been getting mobbed with poker coaching inquiries recently. That’s a great thing, but I am going to have to start turning people away or quit my day job if this keeps up as it is currently (not sure which one i wanna do yet). It prolly has alot to do with finally taking on microstakes players and lowering their rate to $50/hr over more than 4 sessions. I usually felt bad about coaching microstakes for more than a buyin, but the players seem to really not mind as they are really improving. I have a pretty wide variety of current students actually. I am coaching one student who plays a 60bb style. Its actually has some rather interesting pre- and post-flop implications that I hadn’t thought about. It really opens up your creative playbook as you don’t need to get value on all streets, just 2. So you have an entire street to come up with a creative way to attack your villain. I have been trying to come up with ways to help my student out that he hasn’t thought of. I think i might be playing some 60bb stacks at 50nl on stars with my tiny roll there, and see what stuff I do that I have missed on explaining to him. I actually might do that tonight. So if you see me on FTP or stars doing 60bb stacks, I’m not busto. I’m studying.

I was thinking about changing my cake name to something clever, but can’t think of anything too clever. Anyone got a 12 character or less name, that would be fun to temporarily use? Let me know, I’ll let you guys decide my next one.

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