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So March isn't being nice to me, i've lost 600 bbs at NL25 for 1000 hands already.

I'm cashing out my ftp/stars roll and leaving it at $500 on both sites and gonna grind NL10 til I hit $750 then go to NL25 again.

Ever since my downswing in NL50, I've lost $1000~ in cash games and a little bit more from tilting and trying out Omaha or w/e and donked off a little bit more money there.

Set over set, underpairs sucking out pf, runner runner boat w/ tp vs my set, running bad at its finest. See you other micro stakers there.

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so I did make the move to FTP since last month and when the Stars reload bonus came, I couldn't resist and put in $1000 there. I got bored of grinding SNGs towards the midway point of the month and went back to 6 max. I did take shots at NL50 on both sites since I was rolled near 20 buy-ins and it came out pretty bad. I then moved down to NL25 and I feel like I'm running pretty terrible here too. I managed to get breakeven for the last 10k hands, better than a more downwards trend I suppose.

I also did donk around some money on some PLO and FLO/8 games, and HORSE at the 1/2 stakes.

Here's cash games graph:


And for the past couple days I sat down and watched pr1nnyraiding and played a couple HU SNGs.
I took played a couple $10.50s on FTP and I'm doing very well here.
Here's my FTP SNGs results, the 500+ games mark is where I estimated I started playing the HU.


So I realized I pretty much hate PokerStars. Their software is very good but it tilts me for some reason. I think it just looks too boring. I used to hate FTP but I love it now.
So I'm gonna really try and focus on FTP since it doesn't tilt me for whatever reason (except their lack of game filters) and play on Stars solely to get the bonus unlocked. I do need 3500 base FPPs more to earn the $250 bonus.

On another note I did achieve one of my Feb goals which is to hit one of the Iron Man levels for FTP.
I put in the time and hit their Gold level, so once I have enough medals saved up I do plan on taking advantage of it and buying the cash bonuses. It needs 3000 medals for $600, I think I'm getting 140 medals this month. It was pretty easy to get so next month I will definitely try and hit the Iron level by grinding out NL25. Need to earn $200 gross rake per day for 25 days of the month I believe, or just 200 FTPs (I think it's the same though, maybe not?).

So I realized I hate taking 20 buy-in shots cause I feel like I'm underrolled once I lose around 3 buy-ins and it affects me. I'm going to take 30 bi shots at NL50 once I get it, and move down once I lose 10 and regrind it. This should allow me to take a much longer shot at newer levels without letting short term variance get in the way and make me feel like I suck.

Also I'm starting to get the hang of heads up, I'm definitely going to be playing a lot more in March. Just the SNGs for now since I'm not rolled for NL50 hu. I'm going to keep playing at the $10.50 level til I feel really confident and know it's just not a heater, although I'm winning like 75% of the games right now (small sample though I think I've maybe played like 10-20).

Here are my March goals in a nutshell:
-hit Iron Man on FTP
-grind NL25 and hit $1500 then take a shot at NL50.
-maybe take a shot at NL50 hu as well
-play around w/ HU SNGs a little more
-PUT IN MORE TIME
-watch more DC videos
-don't fail another test

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taking degen shots at NL50 HU cause I watched pr1nnyraiding.

it's like i'm really good at heads up!!!

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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B28C73QJ

So here I am playing 4 tables and the video is about 90 minutes long, I always forget to keep track of time. It's a bad habit. I do talk about everything 4kingell commented on from the last video and I do get into a couple more interesting situations. There are a couple spots where I wasn't sure what to do, and just folded instead.

Anyone who takes their time to watch and comment is greatly appreciated

Next video I will just play Stars to show you how bad I run there.

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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZTIYIH0K
(if you're trying to dl it right after I post this, I think the link isn't actually available til a couple minutes-hours later)

I uploaded a video on my play on NL25.
I two table and I think it's about 72 minutes, but I compressed the file so it's like 100 mb smaller.

If anyone would like to watch it and post some advice or leak fixes or just random comments, just post it.
Or maybe you're from a lower stake and you just want to see what NL25 is like or want to see how another player thinks.

I think Night did this and after some advice it seemed like he's just on a mega boom switch so maybe it'll help me? I'm life time 3.57bb/100 on NL25 and I always seem to get soul crushed at NL50 and I've been on small downswing on 25 for the month.

Also just recorded it to show some friends how I play who are still on micros, and watch my play in retrospect and maybe catch something like "Oh, what a terrible play, what was I thinking?"

But yeah whatever I don't remember any hands in particular since I finished my hand like a couple hours ago and I've been watching The Office, but I guess I can update tomorrow or whenever I watch my own session.

edit: 6max
I might do a 4 table video later on but I wanted to do only 2 on my first video to get used to everything and see if the pace is okay. I think I can do 4.

edit 2: I watched over the video and there weren't many big decisions, tough spots, or interesting situations. I'll make a 4 table session soon and hopefully they'll come up.

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$1000 month
Try and get roughly 1000 SNG games at $11+1 turbos (assuming I'll stick to those this month, might get bored and go back to cash). If I hit $2000 I will try $20+2s. I know I have very nitty br management for SNGs
Qualify for Iron Man on FTP. Shouldn't be very hard, I'm aiming for silver minimum, but would ideally like to reach gold or iron.

Hit level 80 on my new Death Knight in WoW, currently 76.95 I believe.
Then I'll have something to go to when poker is tilting me

Get good grades for school. Also actually attend class this semester and take notes, instead of cramming one hour before every exam. It really stressed the fuck out of me last semester.

Start getting a little fitter, I plan on going to the college club tennis practice once a week now and maybe playing with friends on the weekend. I've gotten really fat. Maybe I'll join a gym or try running a couple mornings a week, although I'm really lazy and joining a gym and jogging in the morning will probably not happen. I like to stay up late and wake up late.

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took down two of them for $49.50 each :D
gonna continue the $11+1s next month, on a small poker break right now and trying out a death knight on WOW.
will play my DK exclusively for the next two days, then will hit up the grind.

SNGs are pretty fun, gonna stick with them and gonna try and hit Iron Man in Feb.

need 29 games a day for 25 days, seems doable. only 15 games during happy hour.

only worried about all my exams though, since two of my classes hold 6 exams a semester.






so like 20% roi over around 130 games, I'm liking it :D

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well it isn't so great, but here's my results:



not all of them are STTs, some of them are from when I first started playing, I don't know how to filter the graph from sharkscope to only this month, but the most recent games are the STTs probably from game 27 and onward. 13% ROI over all these games so far.

much more exciting than cash games I think, the need to keep putting pressure and stealing blinds is very exciting. gonna try these a bit more before going back to the cash, unless I really love it then I'll stick with SNGs.

been watching the deucescracked "last man standing" series to help me out, I don't quite understand how to calculate ICM but I do get the general idea of it.

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hands 2580 to 17k~ is my shot at nl50. nice mountain eh?
after 17k is just nl25 rebuilding more of my roll.

so I hit gold star yesterday, I will play in the gold freerolls this month and next month and also try and do the 20k weeklies for silvers, which I have not played in yet. Today was a friend's birthday, so I opted to not play.

In other news, my Cake Poker check cleared at the bank so I have some spending money
My Stars eChecks cash out request was denied for some reason and they told me to try again so I did.

I deposited $600 (the limit) for my FTP account and played about 65 hands just to mess with the HUD on one table. I like the bet pot button but dislike the fact there are no cash game filters that are as nice as Star's. I'll deposit $400 more for $1000 total when I get the chance and grind NL25 for 10 buy-ins and then take a shot at NL50.

Feel kinda sick still so not gonna put in a session tonight, but I will see about tomorrow.

p.s. Anyone know how to data mine on FTP? leave a message or send a PM

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I got rakeback on FTP now so I am taking out my Stars $1000 and putting it on FTP.
I will probably grind about 10 buy-ins at NL25 and then move to NL50 there.
Shame I don't get the deposit bonus, I wasted it really early when I was into poker on a $50 deposit, but oh well...

anyone know a nice skin for FTP?

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