Starting up again

The summer meant I wasn't able to concentrate or play during peak times, because I was busy. I ended July at 2.1K after bonuses, and it was easily my worst month to date. -$300 from playing 21K hands of NL50, and that's all it took me to realize that I shouldn't be 18-tabling, I should be working on improving. It didn't help that my schedule was 30-60 minutes sessions of 18 tabling so that I could eek out 21K hands in the smallest amount of time. No groove = no reads = B/E poker.

Of course I made $225 from the ironman mid-year bonus, $200+ from rakeback, and a little more from PLO (ridiculously small sample ldo), so I still finished the month up. I swear with the bonuses and rakeback they hand out, it's pretty damn difficult to lose playing poker.

Of course the -$300 is relative. I was down $400 - $500 in all-in equity over the month; if I had neutral luck, I would have ended the month up $150 instead of down $300, but that's poker. I also suffered more from coolers than I gained, KK vs AA and AA vs KK had me down, set over set and set under set hand me down, and that contributed to another couple hundred in losses.

After July I decided to take August off to enjoy my summer (Good bye consecutive ironman bonus :(). So august has wrapped up, I'm moving into my new apartment soon, and we'll see how September treats me. Hopefully I can run $500 above expectation, and have my first + 1K month! Who knows...

LOL Swongs

Had the worse run of my life Wednesday night... -4BI / 200 hands !!! I lost:
* 1 BI to standard failed CB/ c/c for value on the river plays.
* 1 BI KK vs AA
* 1 BI 666 vs KKK
* 1 BI AQs vs KK

AQs was probably a little tilty, but the player was a reg w/ ATS=30-40%, and he had restolen from the blinds last orbit. This orbit he restole me from the button, and I 4bet. Standard move with AKs or AKo, but AQs it's on the meh side. Of course I 4bet shoved (practically) maximize FE and he snap shoved over for a few more BB. Call, miss the Ace, -$200.

Either way I had hit a nice upswong before hand, so I was sitting on 2K at one point. A few minorly losing sessions and then this put me back down to 1.7K. Still a positive month so far and getting some more experience at NL50. This was definitely the tiltiest I've felt in a while though... After dropping $200 in 20 mins I went for a nice hour long jog :)

Maybe I'll start to update this, probably not though.

~$1600 in my account right now, and -$250 at NL50 overall. Went on a downswong when I first started at NL50, so dropped to rebuild, and am now back entirely. Because of that I'm not quite where I would want to be, but I'm getting back on track.

-$200 something in April, and +$200 something in May, so I bounced back. In June I've moved to NL50 fully, and finally making some of it back.

Taking a Break

Hey all, I think I'm going to take a break from this blog for a while, but certainly not from poker! :). I currently consider myself a winning player who still has a long way to go (Bankroll aside) before making the jump the NL50.

So instead of posting HH in a blog very few/no one read, which I use mainly for stat keeping, I will spend my time posting my HH entirely on 2p2. This is what I have been doing anyway for the past month. That said I wish the best of luck to anyone reading this, and keep studying!

Remind me to play on Sunday Nights

Just a public service announcement: If you're reading this, STOP! I'm not really writing this to be good entertainment, it's kindof just turned into record keeping for me. So don't waste your time reading this, instead come over to the 2p2 uNL forums!

And I run bad against donks, (AA loses to JT, 444 loses to AJJ), but when there are enough of them, it doesn't matter! :)

Session: +$52 -- 622 Hands
Overall: $1093.20-- +$688.50 -- 28,511 hands

Remember this heater when I run bad

- Started datamining NL50 for march
- KK>AA :)
- Am playing at midnight-2am tonight to make ironman gold this month, because I'm busy all day Friday

Session: +$55 -- 627 Hands
Overall: $1082.25-- +$677.30 -- 27,416 hands

Hit the 1K mark!

Lets hope I never drop below it!

Session: +$79 -- 713 Hands
Overall: $1027.50-- +$622.55 -- 26,788 hands