6 months into this year and I’ve been doing ok I guess.
In recent weeks I have lost a little over $200. A bad run? Perhaps but it’s also poor play.
I always tend to think of my downswings as a product of my bad/poor decisions at the tables.
Sure, I’ve encountered a sprinkle of bad luck but that’s not an excuse because during my good runs, I’ve also experienced some bad luck so that’s not the reason.
The reason is my poor decisions. Lately, I’ve been trying to make some hero calls and bluffs that just hasn’t worked out. I always seem to forget the poker adage of trying to bluff out bad players, they just don’t fold. And because they don’t fold they will catch their crappy 4 outers on me. That’s on me. I’m not controlling the pot or betting the proper amounts to get them to fold. Other times I am the one who isn’t folding when I know I’m beat. I try and make hero calls or try and call a huge bet hoping to catch against the villain who I know has hit their flush, two pair or straight. Sometimes my poker radar is just off, other times the poker gods aren’t taking me off the hook when I make a marginal call against pot odds etc.
Oh well, that’s poker and It’s up to me to exercise better judgement when I play against a certain player, which should improve my long term winnings…hopefully.
The end result is that my BR has suffered a lot.
My $250 loss to my bankroll this month is just brutal so I take it out on Stars by cashing out $300 and leaving $50 in my roll.
$50 ain’t a lot of cheddar but I strongly feel that I can build this up.
And that’s my next challenge. To build my $50 into $500 by the end of the year. Is that doable? Probably not but I’m going to try.
My plan is simple, play a bunch of super micro KO SNGs @ $1.40 to start. I get .25 per knockout and that should help me build my BR bit by bit until I reach $150 in profits, which will allow me to play at the next buy-in level.
The reason why I chose the KO SNGs is that the variance is small compared to cash games and that is the best strategy for my BR. I’ll also sprinkle in some MTTs when I get a chance also depending on my time limits etc.
