Adam Winter

Well, I took a shot at some $87.72 hyper turbos and ran $1100 under expected value. So I lost a lot of my winnings due to bad luck. I’m not sure that hold em manager computes EV correctly, however I haven’t been able to get this program called SNG Luck Analyzer to work yet because the hand history conversion doesn’t work.

It was also turbo night on pokerstars and I went deep in just about every tournament but couldn’t seem to get any hands to hold up late in tournaments. I made some poor plays as well which contributed to the awful day. I’m going to have to rebuild by playing $12 45 and 180mans over the next few weeks. Then I’m going to play more $10 freeze out tourneys since I have historically done very well in them.

My confidence certainly took a hit and I felt a little depressed yesterday. However, today I have gotten a few things done and I’m going to take a short break from poker and refocus on my website and other things I’ve been meaning to get accomplished. Poker can wait until I have the time and can get in the zone. I definitely wasn’t playing my A game yesterday which coupled with bad luck is never a good situation. I probably tilt called or spite called (for no reason) in a few spots that cost me money yesterday. I realize this now but at the time I just thought I was unlucky. I’m going to have to go back and reread “the poker mindset”.

The past few days have gone well on pokerstars. I finished 2nd in 180man for $396 – heads up I lost KQ to Q7 for all the chips. Then sucked out A8 > KK. Then lost A4 to A3 for 80% of the chips… so needless to say I wasn’t happy missing out on the extra $200 for 1st.

I have also started dabbling in the hyper turbos again. I played a bunch of $22.44’s and $44.88’s with good success. I ran bad at the $22.44’s as usual, but did well enough in the $44.88’s to get my bankroll up over $3,000 now.

I only had a chance to play for a few hours this weekend because of the Halloween festivities so hopefully this month I will be able to get in at least 30 hours of play each week.

For smart poker training, there have been a few sales lately and some more interest in making videos from coaches. I think it will still be a few more months until the site really takes off though. I’m happy with the progress since it launched in August.