November a little slow...

So I have been lucky enough to get another HH review on PVT... one was a while ago with the Don tournaments and I played like crap in both the tournaments PokerDerk reviewed... total shiat, but I did learn a great deal about my play.

I am a visual learner and a complete tool with computers so this gives me a great opportunity to learn better about myself and my play while getting GREAT advice from a pro/trainer on PVT.
In the past I was in a few with Nick Rainey doing the commentary and providing advice and he was great in a lot of ways, but some of the things he would advise were not quite with me and I couldn't wrap my mind around some of the plays, I am a tool and couldn't get it... yet it did improve my game at the time.
I think for me to become better I need to take a little bit from many different pros and adjust my game to what feels comfortable, but to what also can make me a winning player consistently.
So PokerDerk is doing a 25 part review on a Sng I played in with 9 other PVT members, I got 2nd so I know there will be a lot of review on my play and will get a great amount of insight into fixing some leaks and improving my game. Part 1-7 came out this week, the rest to come in the following 2 weeks. I can honestly say that the new additions in pros/trainers at PVT have been great on the forums, awesome with putting out new video content and really helping to improve my game.

There is also another large 12 week contest for big prizes and I expect to at least make the finals and end up ITM in a bunch of the tournaments, as long as I don't shove 55 into AA each week. As well Derk is running a monthly SNG contest that pays cash to the top 4 and an extra HH review for the winner of which I am currently in 3rd with only 6 games played and can get an extra 280 points if I win the last 2 as you can only count 8 games played a month. I got put out early this week with QQ losing to an all in PF vs AKo. The scoreboard of the top 4 looks like this:
morrent 680 8
Torgo1575 620 7
falenangel 550 6
jujube 540 5

NOW, November so far kinda SUCKS, but it's poker and I couldn't expect to keep holding up all the time like in October. I was also playing a little overconfident lately and probably resorting back to some of the things I was doing when I was not so much a winning player but more of a break even player. So I am down a couple hundred or about 13 buy ins at my current play level. Which isn't so bad and I know it's only a short term thing... heck 4 weeks ago my BR was $1500 less than it is right now so over the long haul I am kicking some butt.

Today was fun too... some member got together on PS and played a 9 man and 6 man cash game. I got in on both and made $30 at the .10/.25NL tables which isn't to bad. Especially considering I didn't have any real strong hands. I never hit any sets, I didn't get any flushes or straights, my highest starting PP ever was only JJ and I hardly went to show down. I used some real good timing tells to realize if I could 3 barrel to make some players fold and if I should just give up on the river since they were calling me anyway. I also got away from some hands PF when I was 3bet with super quick timing tell raises. I think when the HH is reviewed by Jon Ettinger, Soccermom5 on FT, and another pro/trainer at PVT it will show that I played really smart. I won a lot of small pots and slowly grinded my way up to the $30 profit over a total of about 150 hands played. Now Jon might say I was spew crazy or he might say good plays but it's okay either way since I hardly play cash and mostly consider myself to be a SNG and MTT player.

In total now that should make about 8 times I have been in different PVT member videos and gotten advice by 3 different pros/trainers and as I go back and watch the videos again and again I can see how my play has changed and which aspects I have totally improved on as well as which leaks I still posses and hopefully change them so I can increase my win rate and cash rate. In turn increasing my ROI.

All in all the month so far has been "blah" but the great thing about it is it's only November 5th so who really cares yet. It's only 13 buy ins on one site, and 10 or so buy ins on another, so just under $250 which is a small dent in the 5K on the 2 sites combined. I look forward to the rest of the month and hopefully being as successful as last month. Mansion even sent me some extra tokens since it's my birthday month and set me up with another bonus for $50 I can play out, which is kinda cool, heck it's for free so I am not complaining.

Cheers and see you at the tables!