3 MTTs
1.10 Satellite 11.00 coupon 1 buyin
1.10 500 GTD 3 buyins + 1 addon
50 Freeroll HORSE 0.00

-5.40

BR: 184.00

Cash Session .02/.04 NLHE 6 Tabling

Time: 2:00 Hours

+16.00

BR: 200.00

Games are still full of Super Tight Regs. Still calling off chips in spots I should know I'm beat.

Damn I cant help it sometimes, really gotta stop playing when I dont have much time, donked off about 10 bucks in buy-ins plus my 11.00 coupon so that sucked...

BR: 190.00

I need time for a good grinding session!

Assuming it has been almost two months since my last entry;And a ton of things have taken place since then! For a while i have been mentally holding myself back from shipping a mtt, that was tracked by the pocketfives database. In an attempt to become more self motivated, i decided to create a thread called "ship something 2013". The thread was inspired by a fellow pocketfives member; Who pretty much turned into a beast as he turned his game around 10 fold for the most part. Honestly i really didn't get the overall effect i wanted, when i actually made the thread. And i guess a lot of this can be credited to the fact; That online poker players in general have made 100's of these post in the past. I guess after a while they all sound like old bad beat stories. I look at blogging in the same way i guess,"As people get tired of reading the same shit" day in and day out! In the past two months or so, my main focus has just been to really apply myself and honestly devote myself to reaching my goals.

Now enter the contest "SmallerHoTrunner", which imo is one of the best ideas i have ever come up with to improve my game and my play. After the first contest that i totally got my ass handed to me in; I decided that a Hotrunner2 was in order! The thing about the contest as a whole, was not the fact i was not winning. But moreso the fact was that it allowed me to get close to some real players of the poker world. I was able to see just how consistant winning poker players were with day to day volume ect. I actually had no real idea how consistant these players were until the smaller hot runner contest were running. One of my biggest inspirations was the killer instant and winning ways of players like; 4to1dog/Wesss/NewberryKA/Donkiman/Keystone who is also from Illinois like me originally. And a ton of the greats in the regular hotrunner events for players who run on pokerstars.

When i write entries into my blog i really try to aviod writing a total novel; And since i have plenty to write about atm. I think i will just talk about a few goals that i have reached so far. First and foremost i was to dedicate myself to improve my poker game for the year 2013! With work and a lot of the real life shit going on; I have still managed to do this, and all of my hard work is starting to slowly show it's face!

I wanted to win my first online MTT tracked by Pocket fives!

http://www.pocketfives.com/tournament/1607595/
http://www.pocketfives.com/tournament/1463978/ So since the last time of my blog i have shipped a total of 3 mtt's but only two count in the rankings

I now have a total of (8) 2ND Place finished and (11) 3RD Place finishes in tracked tournments as well.

http://www.pocketfives.com/sortable-rankings/ currently #24 in the Illinois poker community; which is a great tool for motivation; When you are the type like myself that becomes bored very quickly. Using these ranking ect for tools to improve and get better has helped my game a ton.

Improve my ROI% Monthly and Overall under my current screen name!

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Current Month of June
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The most important thing for me here is not the fact that my game is improving; But it's more of the fact that it's so amazing how much you can progress from month to month with a little study time involved. If you have been following this blog to any extent, you will notice that since i started playing again. That my roi on a month to month basis was getting better each month; And although the numbers here are not baller or even stellar to say the least. It still gives me a base line of the here and now of my game since Black Friday!

SmallerHotrunner JUNE
http://www.pocketfives.com/contests/...june-2013-low/ low bracket where i am currently 3rd and have PROMISED MYSELF THAT I WOULD WIN THIS MONTH!!!! And with my new work schedule after being so busy at Exxon Mobile; I really expect to see a HUGE differnce in my play and results for the rest of the month. One thing a lot of people don't realize is that i work 7 days a week most of the year. And tbh i really wish i had more free time aside from the work grind to play poker. It's very demanding to work from 6am-5pm and play from 6pm to 2:00am some nights; Especially if i go deep in the 5R on Merge which i shipped about a week ago. And even as i write this entry i am a bit scared by my 2nd place finsh last night in the 1.5K $3 rebuy where i lost hu to Nastycanasta who is a solid low-limit reg on Merge.

Well more to come and see you at the tables!!!!!!

To be contined "BINK ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR SUNDAY 6/16/2013"