Playing
I continued with my usual 3 sessions per week, but I’ve been playing longer sessions this month, these being 12-14 hours long, starting late-morning and finishing around 12pm-2am. In previous months this has been more like 8-10 hour days, so there was a big increase in volume for me this month.
In addition to the longer hours put in on the tables, I also added ACR to the schedule for added selection of games but mostly to get used to the Client for when a series runs and I’ll likely add more games as I hopefully climb in stakes.
I’ve produced a schedule of games across the 3 sites I play so I have a clear structure of games that I will be playing, it needs some refinement, but it does the job at the moment.
I’ve added a screenshot below of results for the month, not really that important but good for reflection. Decent month in terms of $ won. I dropped a few of the outlier higher buyins like the 44s/55s this month so ABI dropped a little to $15.
Studying
I rejoined the Mammoth team at the start of the month and watched all but two of the seminars for July. I’ve come to terms with the fact that it’s just not feasible for me and my schedule to attend all 5 seminars live so as long as I consume the content at a later date and am focused when I do, I think this is ok.
In addition to the seminar topics, I also done quite a lot of self-study following my database review, I’ve decided to go back to pre-flop and build back up from there plugging holes. It’s pretty easy (I now know) to take for granted something you studied a year ago and think you are still implementing it correctly, so a lot of recapping on pre-flop and flop concepts.
I’ve been tagging hands and going over them, trying to avoid simply line checking my hand and spending enough time on a spot to get some good take aways but it’s a balance I need to work on in the coming months.
Looking Ahead to August
What I want to achieve:
- Play 3 focused sessions per week
- Watch every seminar and when possible, attend live
- Complete a 30-minute study warm-up/re-cap prior to every session
- 1 hour of productive self-study per week day
I want to start selling pieces on GG for some higher games to improve bank roll stability, mainly $33-$77 buy in range to start.