That sure is a purdy red line ya got there! 
Nice Job Paul - it goes to show that hard work can pay off!
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My goals for April
Play 900 games/get gold star [206 so far, pretty much on schedule]
Fix some of my ICM spot leaks. []
Work hard on my heads up game. []
Find a couple of new people to coach (currently I'm actively coaching 2 people with a couple of others more on weekends, I'd like to have 3-4 guys I can do coaching with twice a week). []
Get cardrunners EV and make a video []
I've been forgetting to update the past week or two so here's what I've been up to.
I spent a bunch of time on my heads up game and fixed most of my big leaks. I'm really comfortable min raising all the way down to 12bb now if I choose to and I'm more comfortable with my 3bet/4bet shoving ranges v regs.
I've been working very hard on post flop, in particular oop on the flop. My next area to study in depth is how turn cards effect my equity on different flops with/against different ranges. Should be all the excuse I need to buy card runners EV.
Due to my increasing comfort playing post flop I'm continuing to widen up preflop and target different opponents more dynamically. It's the direction I've always wanted my game to go in and I'm glad it's finally happening.
I'm slowly building up mental muscle and managed to get from 30 game sessions to 40 game sessions, today I played my first 50 game session.
So yeah in general everything is going well. I'm having the most fun I've ever had playing poker and feel I'm playing the strongest I've ever played.
I was thinking about how far I've come in 4 months and it surprised me a bit. I've never really stopped to think about how I only started playing poker again mid december and I was just grinding at the $1/$2.25s on full tilt. My goal was to hit the $7s by July and I managed to hit that in March. I know that the amount of money you play for isn't the important thing and that a few bad downswings could put me back to lower stakes. I'm much more proud of my development skill wise, I feel like I can compete at the $7s and I was never sure if I'd get this far.
Originally posted by pauln
Came 6th in Battle of Planets $5-$15 high orbit for $100. Very pleased
Nice !! well done sir
Originally posted by pauln
I'm slowly building up mental muscle and managed to get from 30 game sessions to 40 game sessions, today I played my first 50 game session.
I read the above this morning and it was just the motivation I needed to start my grind today - 61 games in so far today... ♦
Congrats on High Orbit Bonus!
Treated myself to cardrunners EV with the money from bop.
On track to hit Goldstar in a couple of days time
Very nice Paul!
I remember December when we started that group and did some session.
You have grow a lot! I'm still playing the same but playing few games per day (when I play).
Nice work man, keep going!
Cheers
PS and you can coach me =]
You had acquired a new subscriber! ♠_grin:
I am too lazy to read all others pages ♦ But from now on I will follow your blog! GL mate!
Another decent month, got a lot done and improved a lot too.
Goals for April:
My goals for April
Play 900 games/get gold star [Done, got Goldstar in 891 games]
Fix some of my ICM spot leaks. [Bubble definitely improved by 5-6 handed needs work]
Work hard on my heads up game. [Achieved, much more comfortable 15bb+ HU]
Find a couple of new people to coach (currently I'm actively coaching 2 people with a couple of others more on weekends, I'd like to have 3-4 guys I can do coaching with twice a week). [Partially achieved, I need to be quite selective with the people I offer this to.]
Get cardrunners EV and make a video [Got cardrunners EV but am still exploring it]
3% ROI EV 
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Goals for May:
Play 1000 games
Target my 5-6 handed game for improvement.
Learn more about card runners EV and make a video.
Study the effects of turn cards on hand v range equity.
Originally posted by pauln
Goals for May:
No updates in May, and now 2/3 of the way through June... give us something, anything... even if it's just about this thing you all seem so excited about... what is it called... the Global Chalice? the Holy Grail? the Drunken Tankard?... oh yeah... the World Cup... ♦
Hi guys
I've been spending some time working on my web design business, helping to formulate my girlfriends' business, releasing music/working on new stuff and watching the world cup.
I'm trying to get everything to fit together and at the moment my motivation for poker isn't quite there. I've seen a couple people around me go through really prolonged downswings. I hadn't experienced anything like that recently but frankly it's not something I would have been mentally prepared to deal with the past month or so hence the lack of play.
At the moment my plans for this year are to start bringing in more money from web design, launch my girlfriends' jewelry business, get back into poker (with a big emphasis on coaching), take or be about to take the FA level 1 football coaching course, get my next music release done and create an internet music label for promoting other artists' music.
So yeah that's whats been going on with me!
Awesome Paul
All positive stuff. When your minds busy with other things the poker drug loses it's potency!
Great update, I look forward to hearing how it all goes buddy.
Originally posted by zachrina
Awesome PaulAll positive stuff. When your minds busy with other things the poker drug loses it's potency!
Great update, I look forward to hearing how it all goes buddy.
What he said. 
If you put half the effort into those things as what I saw you put into poker - I'm sure you will achieve all your outcomes! Good to hear form you.
Hi mate I have HM 2 but my graph looks different from how yours looks in the post above. I have Tournament winnings graph showing Green line winnings and Red line All in EV, but it is on a white background. I suspect that I have the default layout, could you tell me how to change it to look the same as yours
Cheers
Steve