On route for my first losing month...

This month has been an absolute journey for me. I decided not to go to Vegas to save some $$ this year and focus hard on my online game. I've been trying to beak into $2/$4 and put in a ton of volume. My game has been improving, I've been watching loads of blue-fire videos and working extremely hard on improving my overall game. I've been battling away at $2/$4 and it just hasn't gone well for me. I seem to pick up KK and run it into AA or AA into KK only to see a king pop up on the flop, thanks for having me. I'm not dealing with these beats well enough and find myself making bad decisions in pots after this which has been destroying any kind of win rate I'm trying to achieve. So it's mid month and i'm down about 10 buy ins at $2/$4. I've also put some money on another euro site. Things started OK and I was playing 0.50/1 euros, I moved up to 1/2 euros after seeing some good profit but had a massive blow up one night and ended up losing a load. After this I took a little break covered my balance and played lot's of volume back at 0.50/1. I managed to run a bit better and and started to do really well. I'm hoping to continue my good run on that site now and steadily move up through the limits. I won't be rushing anything as that seems to be the route of my tilt/blow up problems! So plan for now is drop back to $1/$2 on my regular site and grind some, build the confidence again and carry on whilst building my new roll on the new site. I don't know if I will be able to turn it round and have a winning month, we'll see. I'm off on holiday for a week on Sunday so there's only one working week of the month left to grind. I can't stress the importance of good bankroll management enough to anyone that wants to take poker seriously in anyway. The fact i'm very strict with my bankroll means I can afford bad days, weeks and months without ever having to worry about going broke. I might be annoyed to lose money one evening but the next day I can wake up and get back to it.

I have started to love poker again this month which is a great thing for me. Since I have had to do it to provide an income I have fallen out of love with poker. Over the last few weeks since I have been working hard at it I have started to find myself enjoying the game more again and just wanting to get better, hope I can see some good results from it.

Let's hope to see some run good and get back to profit again. Thank you very much let's have a coffee!