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So I played pretty badly for a stretch of 10 days in April, not to mention running bad too. I just find i play soooo bad when I run bad, its annoying, i need to work on it. Here is what April 20-30th looked like:





My response to this was to get pissed off and play where I know I can make the money, so here is May so far, 15k hands in 3 days:





I think I will just continue to play 100 nl until I get out of school and then when i start playing every day in the summer i will try to see how i feel about moving up. Still don't know what i really want from poker, if it is just small amounts of money i should just stay at 100 nl for life... if its a lot i should consider climbing the limits this summmer.

Alright well have a good one and, hey, be safe with yourself.

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So I played 200 nl again today....



Things have been going really well so far there. I think I should probably just stay there. The thing is I know I am running extremely hot. I also know I haven't hit a cold streak. No KK vs AA, AK vs KK/AA... I won AK vs TT all in preflop today....I just don't know how I will react when I do hit a cold streak. I'll probably be posting one deep in the red soon enough, so we'll see how it goes.

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So I decided I wanted to major grind this month and play the most hands I have ever played in a month all at 100 nl and try to achieve a high winrate doing so. But, for some reason I opened up the 200 nl tables and thought they looked soft so I gave it a go.



I ran good to say the least... http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/169011 (lucky overpair vs cosmo... i'm pretty sure he was tilted tho) But I think I am playing better also. I know I am playing different because I have started to do a few things

1. Fold or sometimes (rarely) reraise small pp's from the blinds OOP
2. Widen my reraise range vastly, but not like loose or anything
3. Fold more often when i have no good read in the hand, or raise.

So i lost 3k in one session at 200 nl with some major coolers and major beats 5 weeks ago, then the last 6 BI was purely tilt. After these great sessions lately I dont know what to do.... I have 50 BI's for 200 nl but i'm still too pussy to go there full time. I have tilt problems when the money seems like a lot, but almost no tilt problems when the money seems like nothing. I am pretty sure I can keep up AT LEAST 4 ptbb at 100 nl, so whats the rush?

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So this month was the least amount of poker I have played since I started playing seriously... I played around 25k hands total most at 100nl 6 max and made around $3000 total (about 1k was playing HU against donks at 200nl one night when i was bored, it was pretty damn profitable). I usually play around 50k hands a month but I just feel satisfied with the money I have made... and too be honest I am probably hanging out with the gf too much haha.

I do feel like I need a goal. Playing for like 30 hours overall in March and making 3k was nice... but I need to look at the big picture... I need to strive to get to 400 nl. For April I want to have my most hands ever logged in a month, I want to play maybe 100k hands and just go crazy at 100 nl 6 max.

I feel like I can at least make 2.5 ptbb/100 10 tabling, hopefully I can achieve at least 3 ptbb/100 for the month. So 100k hands at 3 ptbb would be 6k, that would be great... that would put my BR at 16k. I am still a god damn pussy about moving up to 200 nl... I am just having a lot of fun at 100 nl now that I feel I grasp the game better and can win almost every night I play. I think that I should just go nuts at 100 nl 6 max right now and then once this semester ends move up to 200 nl. Ok, comments would be cool thanks.

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I don't know how much I will update this and such, but I just wanted to create this to share my experience so far and listen to what other players have to say in response to my experience or if they want to tell me what they think my weaknesses and leaks are so I can get better.

My poker experience thus far:

I put in $50 in pokerstars about 1 year ago but didn't start playing seriously until I found lp.net in July. Since July I have made 17.5k playing up to 200nl. I have cashed out about 8k of that money so far.

Where I am now

I am now currently playing 100 nl 6 max. Why would I not be playing 200 nl if I have made 17.5k? Well, two weeks ago I lost 3k in one night at 200 nl. I realized a few things, more than a marginal amount of 200 nl regs were much better than me, and on top of that just a few $600 bad beats makes me tilt.

What I want in the future

Making 17.5k so far makes me feel very good about myself, I mean I can buy a lot of things most my friends can't. But I also just want to be a pretty good poker player. I dont want to be an amazing poker player, I just dont think I have that instinct. I feel like maybe I want to be a 400 nl reg that can make thousands of dollars in a year without playing much, just efficiently.

Things I want comments on

In addition to everything above... I want to know what people think about stuff.

1. I am going to use a 100 buyin rule so i never tilt and never look back when I jump a level and ensure everything is 100% about the poker, and also just more fun and less stressful.
2. I have been playing around 20/15 TAG style that works well for me, but when I get in an aggro game I sometimes just fall apart, can my normal 20/15 style work and I am just tilting cause my opponents are more L and AG than me?
3. My PT bb/100 at 100 nl over a huge sample size of maybe 100k hands is around 3, do you guys think that this should be around 5 to move up to prove I am more efficient?
4. While waiting to get 100 buyins for 200 nl I think I want took get coached and take lessons maybe a couple times a month, I feel as though maybe I only have a small (but major) hump to get over in my game and a coach can help that so I am ready for 200 nl and beyond.

Sorry so long but I have lots to say and I just wanna become what you would say a 'good solid player'.

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