GaF Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 I read this on Virgin blogs about a fortnight ago.... Get a graph! 15/03/2007 Hopefully the soulful words of my last blog entry as still ringing in your ears (or at least sluggishly squelching round your addled brain jam). If there were just two things I hope you took away from that last entry, they were: "Only the decisions you make are relevant" and "You only ever play one game of poker, and it lasts your entire life".<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> With that last statement in mind particularly, I have to urge you to do something immediately if you aren't already doing so, and that's to chart your life. Now that might sound overly-a<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />mbitious, but the good news is I'm only talking about the bits of your life that involve poker. If you do this I promise it'll keep you sane - not to mention honest! I had a loosing session on the Omaha tables today and - you know what - I also had a loosing session yesterday. Oh, and the day before that I also lost a stack of virtual chips. However, the good news is, because I DO believe that this is just one game that lasts a lifetime, I can stand back, look at my OVERALL achievements as a player since I first kept records and judge myself based upon THAT performance rather than just a handful of hours in one specific week. As long as the graph is ultimately going in the right direction (and the good news is, the more data in your chart, the further back you can stand to gauge your overall trend) there's no reason to panic when you do have one of those inevitable bad spells. Oh, and if you're REALLY worried, you can even squint and turn your head to one side while looking at your graph. How's that sound? This activity is SO important that I just can't urge you enough to stop thinking it'll be a drag and get it started today. In the same way that long-term survival in poker is about boring bankroll management rather than the far more exciting matter of making the most of trip aces, remaining sane in poker is about believing in your own skills rather than letting a couple of bad sessions decimate your confidence. Sitting down at that table after a week of loses is a lot easier when you have your pretty little graph smiling at your from the side of the screen; offering an undeniable, unarguable, FACTUAL reminder that you're exactly as good (or bad - the graph does go down as well you know) as you think you are. Ever better - it's a breeze to do. Get your bum over to Cardplayer.com, go to TOOLS AND TIPS in the menu bar, and sign yourself up for the (totally free) POKER ANALYST. Spend five minutes telling it all your favourite games, limits and places to play (something you'll only ever need to do once), and from then on, after every STT, MTT and cash session, you simply drop down some menus and let it know how you're doing. Then, once a few sessions are in there, it'll start telling YOU how you're doing. If you want to 'slightly' cheat, I'll also allow you to do what I do and scribble down a general note after each session ($40 up, $20 down, $10 up, etc) and then, after a couple of days just enter it as a single tally. You won't be able to later interrogate the data in detail, but you will still at least be able to enjoy the rise and fall of your own poker life. Now you just have to make one worth remembering. Happy hunting. How you doin'? So I popped over to cardplayer poker analyst and decided to get a graph of my own :-) 11 days down the line and I'm overjoyed with the results so far!!!! Have had a number of other very nice wins in 2007 too which don't fall in the period of this graph!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msaban Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Re: Got a graph? Yeah got one, although not as smooth and as nice as yours, this is the profit/loss for every session I've played in this year.A few ups and downs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masterplan Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Re: Got a graph? this is my profit graph for cash tables (though i'm up several hundred on tournies also) since the beginning of the year. i started this year with a fresh $200 bankroll after having to exhaust everything i had last year on food. and have done quite well so far. playing $0.50/$1 stakes atm with an active bankroll of $730. (having withdrawn $800 to pay for bills, $400 last month, $400 this month) i've cleared $200 in bonuses and $190 in rakeback ($95 pending) which dont show on this chart. i realise that this is not a theoretically sustainable amount, i'm confident in my results over the 26000 hands shown in the graph below however to justify this. this represents a total of 128 hours played over 3 months, $7 per hour. at my current stakes i've played 2560 hands over 15 hours, a win rate of $25.72 per hour. not exactly quantifiable yet. but good results :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaF Posted March 27, 2007 Author Share Posted March 27, 2007 Re: Got a graph? Nice hourly rate mate :ok Is that per hour or per hour per table? Something has come very good for you towards the end of the graph!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masterplan Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Re: Got a graph? Nice hourly rate mate :ok Is that per hour or per hour per table? Something has come very good for you towards the end of the graph!!! thats my REAL hourly rate so includes multitabling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voiceofjoe Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Re: Got a graph? since the beginning of the year. i started this year with a fresh $200 bankroll after having to exhaust everything i had last year on food. :rollin :rollin Excellent reason !! Do you have an eating disorder MP ?? - or did you starve yourself for the whole of december in the hope of a good win ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masterplan Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Re: Got a graph? :rollin :rollin Excellent reason !! Do you have an eating disorder MP ?? - or did you starve yourself for the whole of december in the hope of a good win ?? no joe, just no money whatsoever. at one stage i was only eating 2 or three days a week because it was all i could afford. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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