Hi! I want a place to post my thoughts about my game and hopefully try to update regularly. I am pretty busy irl and my poker game seems to have deteriorated.

[edited 23/04/2017]

After many failed nl25 shots I finally got up there in early 2014 and was starting to hold my own, breaking even until the end of 2015, with pretty horrible volume in that time. I took a year off because I started studying full time for a PhD in March 2016, but towards the end of 2016 my interest came back and I started playing again. My bankroll took a pretty bad hit so I moved down, and then it took another hit on nl16 so I moved down to nl10 where it continued to nosedive and now my bankroll is the smallest it has been in a long time. This was a wakeup call for me and I decided I have to really sort this out.

As of March 2017 I have changed my approach to the game and have really started trying to put in valuable study, not just passive watching videos and taking notes that I never read. I'm sticking to a schedule and I'm working on organising my time well, and I have put together a skypegroup where we are working together at improving and it is really helpful. I'm generally getting around 30 hours per week of poker with a variable study:play ratio, which I think works quite well so far. The main problem is balancing my studies with poker, which is an ongoing struggle. Of course the PhD is priority but sometimes poker is just much more engaging :p Good thing I love the game for what it is and not for the money - here is my shameful graph so far this year:

I hope I can figure out wtf is wrong with my game and move up. I sacrificed the naiive dream of playing highstakes and right now I would settle for just being a winner on nl50. I want to try and make that happen, and if I can do that then I will re-evaluate my poker goals.