A good nights work.

That was the result of last nights session from 11pm - 3am, +$100 profit.  4 buy-ins at NL$25 that i was playing.
Its funny when your back is against the wall and you are down for the month you seem to spend alot more time working on your game (well you should be anyway).

I have really been putting the effort in this week, watching a few videos, watching some higher stakes games, going through some hand histories of higher stakes players on PTR and generally thinking about how to play certain spots.

When i was 24 tabling over the last few months i hadnt been using a HUD.

For non-poker players a  Heads Up Display uses stats from all the hands recorded in your poker data-base and displays them (in a user determined layout) on the poker table next to your opponents in real-time whilst your playing a game, so you can see how various players PLAY.

The reason i hadnt been using it is that my computer is now over 4 years old and with that many tables up (stacked) it makes my computer LAG which makes playing impossible.
However i have messed about and found it can handle 14 tables fine, so i created a basic hud layout and have been using that on 14 tables.  Also playing less tables has allowed me to spend more time thinking moves through.
To be honest NOT using a HUD in this day and age is probably a bit daft especially as i am a bit of a stat geek and have spent countless hours over the last few years getting to know Pokertracker and Holdem Manager (poker databases) like the back of my hand.

Some of the hand histories i have been studying belong to 22 year old poker pro  Frosty012, who is a sound guy from Canada who over the last year or so i have had loads of banter with over the internet, tbh mostly regarding his drinking/sh*gging exploits rather than poker.  But on his blog the other day i asked him a poker related question (for once!) and he took the time to answer in depth which was pretty good of him. Here it is below and it has helped me this week with the work i have put in on my own game.

ROSSI said...

just reading back over yr blog mate, yr very first post you say you lost $4k over the summer of 2009 then made 2 changes to yr game and then you won ever since. What were those two changes mate?? 

March 15, 2011 8:38 AM  

frosty012 said...

Yeah, I'll try and touch on this more when I get around to writing up the 3rd post about my poker story but basically I was doing 2 things wrong: 1) I was playing everything as a "system." I would only open XX from early position/late position and always fold specific hands to 3bets, play pocket pairs the same way etc. Just a terrible way to play obviously but I thought it would be profitable since I was playing so many tables-nope. 2) Made some key changes in my bet sizing: When I first started playing I would make it 4x from every position everytime...I changed it to making it 4x from every position except the cutoff/button/sb, in which case I would make it 3x. Today, the raises have gotten smaller on the whole and I tend to make it 3x until I get to the CO and that's when I start min-raising. People are raising smaller than they used to because everyone is figuring out that people are folding at a similar frequency anyways so you can steal for less, maintain pot control etc. My advice would be to play some fkn micro MTT's and try and get good at them. Seriously, like I said a couple of posts ago, I played the $8 2R1A for fun and won it in my sleep. The fields are so soft and the payoff is great...use your FPPs to play some satellites to the Sunday 250K then unregister for the T$ and play a bunch of micros that don't have huge fields (like 150-500 people is good). I don't think cash is the way to go until you get like a $2K bankroll and can take advantage of earning a decent amount of VPP's...but either way, you should be able to crush the mircos and build a roll pretty.

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- Last week Frosty was intervied by Pokerlistings.com and they did five minute video interview whereby Frosty talks about his quick rise to "fame" in online poker and how much money he makes.  If you are reading this post via facebook you can watch the video on youtube by clicking on this link    Tyler "frosty012" Frost. .  Pretty awesome and shows what can be achieved if you are discplined and work hard. He has actually now been signed up by Pokerstars as a "team online pro"  which is further evidence of his skill and composure     - -   -  - - - There is still a fortnight left of this month so i am hopefull with continued good play i will be able to rescue the month and finish off on top. I am working over the weekend, just been off a week but then am off for another week and a half. I will leave you with this hand from last night, i run sooo good.  (facebook link)      =    - -