Sng and Tournament Update

November has been a good month overall for me. I have had 2 more sng coaching sessions and have another one scheduled for next week. I have learned a lot and it is reflected in my games. I am particularly more confident with my high blind and heads up game.

I think the sng coaching is also helping with my MTT game. I am having my best month since June.

There is still half the month to go - but I am happy so far.

I need to work some time in my schedule for watching videos - I paid for a year's membership at Stoxpoker and need to make sure I get my money's worth there.

I did an interview with Collin Moshman for Cardschat. It was fun to do and turned out well. He is very nice and the forum members have enjoyed it.

http://www.cardschat.com/f13/collin-moshman-interview-164121/

Poker in November

I have high hopes for November - I hope I don't let myself down lol. I should have a lot more time to play now. I finished Collin's book and it was very good. I need to get his HU book now. I am going to interview him for Cardschat within the next couple of days and that should be good.

I have another sng coaching session scheduled this week.

We just got back from San Francisco and it was fantastic!

Las Vegas again!

I arrived in Las Vegas last night. Flight was nice and I was able to read quite a bit of Collin Moshman's "Sit "n Go Strategy." (More on that next week!)

I was very tired last night so decided it was not a good time for poker. I played slot machines and Caribbean Stud a bit before heading to bed.

I played a little bit of poker this morning. I was totally card dead - only played 3 hands the whole time lol. I limped in with 22 in one hand and there was a large re-raise so I folded. Next hand I played was ages later when I got ATos and limped in with several others. Flop came AT2 and I bet and was called by a couple. Turn was an 8 and I bet - got 1 caller. River was something I don't even remember bet again and the guy re-raised all in. It was only $22 more dollars to call into a pot somewhere over $200 so I called. He had 22. Then right before I left I got QQ and won a small pot.

Will try again later!

SNG Coaching

I had my first sng coaching last night. It went very well and I am very optimistic about improving my game. I plan on doing more sessions. My coach was very thorough and I feel certain it will be money very well spent.

We had a sweat session and I played 4 $6.50 turbos. He gave me some great feedback. We installed SngWizard after that and he showed me some basics - I love it.

Hopefully I will have another session next week. For now I need to go workout and then shower so I can play some poker today!!

Video training

I finally joined Stoxpoker and I think it was a very good decision. I paid for a month and will probably go ahead and buy a year when the month runs out.

I watched a Matt Matros video on early MTT play and it was very good. Yesterday I watched one he made on 45 person sng's. I then played one of those and a 27 man sng - and finished 2nd in the 27 person one. I was pleased with some of the plays I picked up from him. I was short-stacked with about 600 chips and came back to take 2nd place. He ia an aggressive player. Tomorrow I am going to watch the 45 person sng video by Coling Moshman who is a tighter player. It should be interesting.

Poker Confusion

Poker has not been nice to me lately. I am not sure what to do. Next week when I get back from Kansas City I will get serious about the video training. I am at a loss for what to play. I hate ring games and feel I could never compete with the guys who play those regularly at 25NL and above. Lower than that I do not enjoy. Tournaments are where my heart is - but not having a good win since early June is painful. I like sng's but everyone says they suck. Limit supposedly involves more math so rule that out. I don't know what I should play. I just know that I love to play and want to play.

Tournament Training

So I have been debating whether or not to attend a WSOP Academy, a WPT boot camp or seek some other type of training. After some discussion with some friends at Cardschat I have decided to try some online training first. I signed up at Stoxpoker and watched my first video. I will tell you more tomorrow!

I think I am going to like this..