Well school is back, and I'll take this time to look at my poker from the day of the last exam from last school year to the first day of school this year.
Cash games:
SNGs:
I got tilted from cash games and decided to try them out, I don't think they are a bad option for me at all
Was a wonderful summer for me I think in terms of poker.
From my initial $600 redeposit and NL25 grind, I jumped up to NL50 by June. I failed at it the last time I took a shot, but this time went on a crazy heater and got to NL100 by July. Then after a while of breaking even... I took a shot at some SNGs and the profit there and my starting to win at NL100 I found myself rolled for NL200 in August. Took a shot there and didn't do well, I find myself back to NL100 now.
I don't think I'm ready for NL200, the regs seem to be out playing me a lot and I'm not adjusting right. I'll take a time off from moving up and stay at NL100 for a while, til I feel I am ready to give NL200 another shot.
Cash games (with rb+bonus): $3171.95
SNGs: $2134.32
Time played: 189.64 (Cash) + 75.2 (SNGs) = 264.84 hours
Profit: $5306.27
Not bad, I'm starting to get the hang of this poker thing I think!
Would've been nice without the NL200 downswing, but I'll be ready next time.
deepest bb wise i've sat ever.
all off one opponent, $50 at a time.
also notice we both folded to less than 10% cbets and raised cbets nearly half the time.
Hey LP I got off to a terrific start this month and really burned things up at NL50. I got enough FPPs to buy $184 in their June bonus credits and cleared a $250 reload from a while ago to get my roll to around $2000 and decided to take a shot at NL100.
I was break even for the first stretch of hands and then lost like $200-300 and decided to play NL50 the rest of the month. I also played in some HU cash games for fun and I played very well I thought, as seen here:
Towards the latter half of the month in NL50 6-max, I got off to a small down swing as you'll see below. I got over flushed and over setted a couple times by fish and I think I played badly only in very little spots.
I played 62.18 hours this month and put in 28170 hands. I feel pretty good about this, and I have made $1200~ this month including from bonuses.
I just hit Platinum Star today which is pretty cool, and thought that I should take a break for the rest of the month from cash games. I will play in the Turbo Takedown tomorrow though, and hopefully score something decent. I got $40 in the last one (I think?) which isn't the best, but definitely not that bad.
Next month, I will be taking shots at NL100 again. I also have an announcement that I will be going for Supernova. Even though it is somewhat of a late start for me, I only need 84287 VPPs more and it is definitely doable. I need about 216121 hands for the rest of the year at NL100, and only about 36000 hands a month. I will be sticking to this goal as long as I stay at NL100. I am very excited to be attempting this, and hopefully clearing it. Good luck to any other players that is still late in the race to hit Supernova.
mmm did pretty well. Feel confident in my game, spewing less, tilting less, playing better, adjusting better, game selecting better.
Got my friend to ship me his NL50 6max database so I'll have notes and stats on the regs and know who to avoid and who's a fish.
Placed 8300th~ in the Turbo Takedown for $40, not bad. Looking forward to continue NL50 and then if I run really hot I'll hit up NL100. Also looking to hit Platinum Star this month (currently Silver), if not then at least Gold which I should easily hit.
PokerStars June Bonuses are already out, so remember to buy them! They also added $2400 for 150,000 FPPs I believe.
Also got a job working as a waiter at a Chinese buffet my mom owns, so I don't have to see poker as "OMG I need to win!" where now its just "I want to play to the best of my ability" and the burden of feeling like I needed to win for some small amount of income is gone.
I lost a lot of money and well over half my bankroll before and I really hated poker so I took a break.
It felt like I had to play rather than I wanted to play. Poker was fun when I first started and had no idea what I was doing, and back a couple months ago it felt like a really bad grind when it really didn't have to be. I find myself starting to like poker now. I'm going to only play when I want to play, not when I feel like I'm forced to get x number of hands in every day/week/month or whatever.
I've been playing WoW for three months as a substitute and finished my first year of college.
Need to try and find a roommate and an apartment for next year though since my family is moving further away from campus.
Back to poker.
I've lowered myself to 4 tables to start focusing on my game and trying to get more reads on other players, so far it has been working great. I used to mass table and just click buttons without thinking but there are still many spots that happen too often that I was unsure about, and I'm going to work on my play a lot more.
I've deposited a roll good enough for NL25 and onto Pokerstars (took all my money off FTP, seeing too many people from 2p2 getting hacked or w/e) and going to try and stop cashing out so much. Cashing out parts or all of my roll from time to time has really hindered my progress as a player. I don't care about the money anymore, I only see it as a tool to advance my game and not for spending.
Here's a list of leaks that I realized my game had and to serve as a mental note to anyone else reading this around my level as for what to look out for and fix...
Barreling too much without
Going against reads
Playing too fit/fold when not the pre-flop raiser
Not fighting against cbets enough
Being distracted by the allures of the marvelous internet
Not thinking enough
Not enjoying it enough
Forcing the action too much
I thank my friend Allen for helping me go through some hands and just talking about poker. He's helped me a lot in my thinking, and he'll probably see and read this blog. Thanks a lot, without you I'd probably have quit. He's helped me table select a lot better and I definitely feel it is another BIG improvement in my game.
Some side notes:
Played live SNG with some friends today. It is very nice to be able to play for a small amount of money and to be able to play poker for fun and not have it feel so serious.
I've signed up for this month's Turbo Takedown since it is only 2000 FPPs, I haven't played in it before so I hope I do well enough just to stay awake for however long I'm going to be in it. Hope I catch a good run of cards and tables there and taking back from it a couple hundred dollars I'd be pretty happy. Good luck to everyone else playing in it, and try to have a good time while playing poker. It'll make it a lot easier.
mid march report (not really halfway through yet!)
vlseph, Mar 11 2009
running pretty good, what a change of pace.
I'm mostly playing on FTP and with rakeback I am at the month $155.
I've been 9/12 tabling but I think I prefer 9 tabling at the moment to put in lots of hands per hour and I feel my game is solid enough for NL10 that I do not have very much room to improve.
I've been learning to lay down over pairs, although not happy with it! Same goes for one pair hands. I think a previous leak of mine was not folding enough hands like TPTK vs a super passive fish who c/rai me.
I've also stopped trying to be cool and bluffing the fish or w/e and stopped double barreling where I rep nothing or have no equity at all. +EV when you don't make moves even though it gets boring.
I am starting to cbet less, and it looks like my cbet success has gone up as I'm picking better board textures or villains to cbet against.
Spring break is next week.
Hope to put in a little bit more volume during that week and need to study for a mid term the week following. GL through March LP.
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