Last October I started an operation, 7k5.

The amount was somewhat arbitary, mainly it was Irisheye's original 75k thread that inspired it. This was of course before the great operation explosion.

My op ended badly.

Over the course of almost 80k hands of SH-NL I lost 3.5k. Which kinda makes a mockery of the whole target.
I a lost a fair amount on SH-LHE and a little at FR-LHE, so the whole picture is pretty poor.

Now playing the operation has spurred me on to play more poker than I would have otherwise; but on the other hand it's added a degree of pressure (and probably contributed more to results-focus) that right now, with a BR of around $2k I think continuing the operation will just be counter-productive.

I don't really want to launch back into a new op straight away. I want to go back to playing to primarily improve my game. I wanted to be doing this at $200NL, but instead I'm going to be doing it at $50NL and $100NL.

I want to get back to $200NL, which I was enjoying much more. I certainly want to at least cement myself in at low-stakes and leave micro behind me

I do also enjoy limit and NL tournies and 5cd and given time I may have another shot at those games.

But right now the focus is on improving as a player. That means I intend to use this blog thread as a running commentary on my thoughts as I try to improve in several key areas:

1) Emotional control: I'm much more sensitive to results than I ought to be. I want to eliminate unnecessary emotions.

2) Opponent reading: I've often had rather vague reads that let me pull off some good hands. I want to improve that part of my game. Maybe decreasing to 1-2 tables.

3) Try to remove those huge errors where I know it's wrong and yet do it anyway.

So I expect this thread to be updated very frequently with low-content stuff about how I feel, what I've improved in and what I'm struggling with.

If a miracle happens and I make it to $7500 before October 1st I won't complain... but it's not exactly on the cards