Last few days, I have played long sessions and played many hands. My biggest day was last saturday were I played more than 10K hands! Thats crazy. I've also had very huge swings. I'm at nl100 for 4-5 days now but I cant win with consistancy. I mean I crush the limit, its a joke, but variance is what it is and at the moment I'm pretty unlucky. At least I dont lose and can continue at nl100 and eventually I'll be able to have a constant winrate.

Just today, in my first 2 sessions, usually I play little less than 2 hours sessions, I lost $400. In my last session though, I played like 1K hands and won $750 at nl100 and nl200. Its pretty much like that since I moved up in limit. Yesterday I lost $550. The day before I lost $300 for the entire day and went to bed early. I couldn't sleep so I opened up my laptop and played some nl200 and won $800 pretty quickly.

Since I played many hands at ssnl, I'm curently 14th in the second part of the rake race on NoiQ poker. First 20 players who accumulate the most FPP, are garanteed 1K in bonus money.
http://www.noiqpoker.com/docs/noiqracenovember.html

There is one hand at the end of my session that I played pretty badly and would like to share.










I dont have the HH because I played that hand on another computer but thats the NoiQ HH witout the stack size though. Well we were both full stack at $100. IAINTGAY made a raise in position and I called with suited connectors no gap in the blinds. I flopped the nut str8 and my mistake was to just bet a small amount to try to represent a weak hand. He raised my bet on the flop and I just called and on turn I check-raise him the minimum which usually represent a lot of strength.

Anyway in this hand the best was to either get it all-in on the flop or the turn. He made a huge mistake by calling the turn and obvsiouly he got lucky but the point is next time I need to be sure that his stack is commited by the turn.

Thats pretty much it for now and I will be playing more online poker for the rest of the month.

Last night, I've slept for more than 12 hours straight! so havent played much poker. I moved up to nl100 and I played 2K hands for little over 100$ profit. The game is still really good at this level. And up to nl400, my opponents should not give me much headaches.

Yesterday I told myself to cut on coffee and liquor drinks because I believe I can be in a better shape and more focus to concentrate on the game. Today is a good start, I only drank water and juice..lol. A 5-10 minutes walk outside between poker session, is also a good food for the body and the brain. It's so easy to become lazy and stay lazy as a poker player because all you have to do is sit and play a game. The players who have the most success, obviously are in great shape.

Chad

I played some online poker today. As usual I play on Noiq poker, still at nl50. Here is my stats for the entire day:

profit: 7.87$ ..lol
hands: 4220
FPP: 6382.5

I started my day with a 1 and half hour session where I lost 2 buy-ins. I won it back plus more during the afternoon and I managed to break-even to end the day. I have to expect a lot of swings since I play many tables. I usually start my session by opening 16 tables.

I felt very good today, and that is an important factor to have success in this game; the mental part. Its almost everything in poker. I was really not disciplined before and usually played under bad condition. I often played while:

1- I was tired
2- I was drinking alcohol
3- I was angry
4- I was losing and played bad and loose to recover my losses (I need to accept the fact that I may play good cards and not win with them)

It's important to play better after losing money rather than bad.

I went broke quickly and hopefully I'll will not play under these conditions again.

I feel very confident about my game so if I can catch a break here and there, and keep being disciplined, nothing can stop me.

Chad

Presentation

I'm a 26 year old guy, who lives in Montreal and play poker for a living, mostly internet poker. I have no education and dont want to make 12$/hour for the rest of my life, so I decided to become a poker pro. I've always been a gambler since my teenage years so when the poker boom happened in 2003, I started watching it on TV and from that point, I basically concentrate on just that form of gambling. I started playing pro in early 2006 with no much great success since then.

In late 2005, I deposit 50$ on everest poker and began playing No-Limit holdem since it was the big thing and after, I played limit holdem to chase deposit bonus from site to site. In early february 2007, I've switch back to No-limit. I made and lost lot of money during this year. During the summer I had a 5 digit bankroll but I managed to lose it all.

So right now, i'm a nl5o player and I only play on Noiq poker. My nickname is "IPUSHUFOLD". I've been playing on that site for more than 6 months now specially for there 600$ bonus . Also Noiq is on the iPoker network which is easily in the top5 for the biggest online poker network, so whenever I decide to play, there is always players to play against. If you want a good bonus with them, they offer 100% up to 600$ for the first time you deposit. Enter the bonus code "FREEMONEYNOIQ" when you decide to create an account. Add me on messenger and ill answer any question you might have: je.je.je88@hotmail.com

I hope to update this blog 2-3 times a week to tell you what is my progression in my poker career, how much I've won or lost during a certain period of time, what did I learn new about the game, my concern, my brags and beats and other stuff. Hopefully at least 1 person can find something interesting or learn a thing or 2 as they are experiencing the same thing as me.

Chad