15/8
Hey guys. I suck at updating, I know. Well here's some stuff atleast..
Poker in july
was pretty good. I'm brimming with confidence. I also shipped tons of rakerace and rb and first deposit bonus money so july was easily my biggest month moneywise. And I'm fairly sure I didn't even run very well, although I can't be certain.
What's even better is the feeling I get from playing. I've never been in better mindset shape, very clear thought processes and not afraid to act on them even when I come to highly unusual conclusions. I'm also feeling extra well about this because I've had stuff going on outside of poker that very well couldve affected my mindset in a negative way.
PokerHeaven are SLOW
So why do I only have 40k hands since july.. (btw, not 100% sure this is entirely correct cause Ive been moving the database around and stuff.. but the result is pretty much the same anyway). Well, after july, I wanted to move away from PH where I was playing before, cause the rake race would get f'd up with this TV promo thingy, and cause there wasnt enough NL400 action.
I got elite VIP there in july so I talked to their VIP-guy about withdrawing. I wanted to change my MB adress, cause it was linked to my USD MB and I wanted it changed to my euro MB.
This was apparently SUUUPER hard, and it took about 10 days for this to happen. After a while they also reminded me that I needed to send in documents to withdraw over 2k€. I sent in the same documents I used to verify moneybookers earlier this summer. That wasn't okay apparently, because proof of adress document needed to be a "full a4 page". I had to go find a way to scan it.
Of course most of this shouldnt have taken a long time, but it did cause they were so super slow at answering everything that I didnt get my money away from there until after about 10 days. I don't want to think how they'd treat non-VIP customers.
Now..
Right now I'm 100% comitted to playing NL400, I won't play a hand below that. I've moved to Microgaming, which has a surprisingly good software and decent traffic, but unfortunately most of it is on "anonymous" tables which I'm not sure I like. Oh well, it's treated me decently well so far 
I look forward to the mindset challenge of working my way through my first 10-20 stack downswing at 400. Nah, I'm not being negative, just realistic - I had two of those at 200 last month in ~35k hands and I still won big. They are a reality.
Recent poker philosophising (is philosophising a word?)
A lot of people ask me in my coachings and on skype questions like "how big is a normal downswing at nl2?". They then follow up with describing how they played 10k hands and they aren't sure if they're breaking even cause of variance or because of something else, and how does one know if its variance or something else?
I always answer this in the only way I think possible, but it's in a way that most people - beginners - probably find frustrating.
You can't know. All you can do is make sure you..
1. Play the best that you can play while you're at the tables
2. Make sure you always work on and improve your game
Both of these points sound short and obvious, but there's so much behind them. You could talk for ages about the best way of working on your game, staying disciplined, focused, etc. I believe that anyone who truly understands these two things and strive to improve on them will both become very good players, and play a lot more pain-free poker.
I promise you also very soon a blog post about RL stuff (but who cares? :P). I just didnt want to make a MASSIVELY long post trying to cover everything, but to start with poker.
Cya 
no fish for me
Maybe some fun stories will come out of it, who knows?
but I think I'll manage to do everything I want to do.
but for some reason I'm not all that worried. I kinda should be... hm. Oh well, too much poker mindset training does this to you I guess 
when you are studying. Standard line I took previous 2 years 