Coaching

So, the coaching session was definately a bonus in my mind!! I thought that the session went extremely well and it has opened my brain to alot more insight. I will let you know that my coach goes by the sn Jennifear and has an exceptional teaching ability. She came highly regarded by Chris "Fox" Wallace and now I can see why. I also learned that she has a plethora of published articles at PocketFives and is also being published elsewhere. Being relatively new to the "poker" world, I have to say I had no idea just how good this young lady is at the game or just how involved she is at teaching the game. Absolutely exceptional on both counts and I would reccomend her to anyone who has a want for improvement in thier game. I believe she has armed me with new weapons for my current game and taught me ways to make sure that I evaluate what I'm doing to improve even faster. Definately looking forward to another session when the BR can handle it!! Thanks a million Jen!!!!

So, on to current numbers and events. My results over the weekend were far less than fair. As a matter of fact, as far as the sngs went, I sucked!! I've thrown a new trick into the arsenal that has both helped and hurt. I'm using Sharkscope to color code my opponents as to how they have played historically. I am amazed at how much money some of these people are willing to part with in the name of a pasttime. Of course this leads to a new form of confidence in my own play but also leads to a way of feeling really stupid when you get pummeled by the same losing players. As I played, I watched almost every winning player get pounded by people playing hands like 92o from mid position coming in with a raise. Having AA cracked by QJo when all the chips went in preflop. Even my wife(who likes to play the pretty cards, bless her heart), was commenting on how bad the play was without me saying anything about it. So my ROI for Friday and Saturday was -16.36 and -61.67 respectively. Rather than getting upset, I actually marvelled at some of the play. Since I was struggling so much in the sngs, I decided to play in a $7,500 guarantee MTT saturday afternoon. A 24th place finish took some of the sting out of my loses but not much. Then Saturday night, the local bar has a "free" tournament that the locals play and I took that down for a nice bar tab some night in the future. It's always nice to play with actual people every once in a while, even if there isn't much at stake. Refreshing!!

Here is how all the numbers stand as of today:

Site Limit #Games ITM ROI
Cake $4.60+.40 226 46.43% 23.46%
$9.20+.80 256 43.41% 3.24%
$18.40+1.60 9 55.56% 40.56%
FTP $2.00+.25 47 42.55% 15.74%
PS $3.00+.40 7 28.57% -11.76%

I've played in 5 MTT events and profited $37.33

BR/site
Cake $700.13
FTP $59.41
PS $0.26

Current Total= $759.80 add to that the $200 for coaching and you get $959.80.

Basically, the project has had a 300% increase since inception and is doing as good as can be expected at this point. I'm not by any means disheartened by these results but I do think there is room for improvement. I was going over all of the results by days and have noticed a familiar streak. I'm actually having my worst days on the weekends, normally both friday and sunday have been killers to the ROI. On two of the days that I would think that I'd be showing the most profit, I'm actually losing the most money!! HMMM!!! Here is some food for thought.

What did I take most from my coaching session? The NASH EQUILIBRIUM and how it applies to sng play. Absolutely fascinating stuff!! I'd seen "Sheets" go over some of this in a couple videos but didn't really understand how to apply it because I'm just not a huge math guy. I'm still not ,but Jen showed me how to apply it and use it for reviewing my play at the end of a session. I honestly do believe that this is going to do wonders for my game. The other aspect that I think is going to help out the most is reviewing my winning sessions as well as my losing games. We did go over one full game that I happened to win and found where my play was actually wrong for the situation. By doing this, I'll be able to fix problems that can cause huge negative effects when I'm ready to move up levels down the road. Which reminds me, I had started playing at the $20 level before my coaching session. Now that my BR is back below the 45 buy-in requirement, I'll keep playing at the $10 level and rebuild. I also want to see what kind of an effect the coaching session will have on that level ROI. With any luck, I'm hoping to bring it up above 15% over my next 100 games or so. Sort of ran out of things to say, so I'll bring this to a close. Good luck at the tables everyone!!!