|
|
 |
Best session yet |
 |
1
 |
lazymej Canada. Jul 08 2008 12:23. Posts 2897 | | |
Hi guys,
Well I really did have the best session I ever had yesterday (Monday the 7th July 2008  ). By best I don't mean a bit better than the others, or a lot better than the others. I mean A HELLUVA lot better than any other session I've had (in terms of money won anyway and the way I played anyway). The past few days I've been playing like 4.5k hands a day, and breaking even, or maybe winning half a BI or losing a BI. Sad, I know. But then I met PplusAD and after some time chatting with him, my approach to poker changed a lot. He taught me an important concept for my level - To not get into hairy situations when you don't have to with a marginal hand and to not try fancy things.
The reason why I was breaking even after those monster sessions was that after playing tight in the beginning and winning a lot, I would loosen up and try to outplay other players with bluffs, etc. Of course as most of you know well, this doesn't work too good on microstakes because people just love to call all day long with bottom pair lol. Me trying this on 8+ tables just made me spew like a joke. My lifetime graph will prove this:
ok so from 0-11k hands I was running pretty good. 11BB/100 average during that period following Grot's guide basically. Then from 11k-30k hands I had the driest streak EVAR. I just could not win for the life of me. My BR was always hovering in the range of 70-105~ dollars and it would never get above that. I reached NL5 twice, and had to move back down to NL2 twice. It was so frustrating and definitely discouraging. Then after 30k, I started winning again (finally!). I got my roll back to $90 then started playing NL5 again slightly under-rolled (if you consider 20BI standard for each level). Finally I began to crush NL5!!! Seriously I was so excited, so amped that I had started winning again. It felt amazing. I was getting my FPPs, and I eventually unlocked my $50 first deposit bonus. That helped me a lot too. Finally, two days and a few thousand hands later, I was past NL5. It was the best feeling to finally reach NL10 (I had been doubting I would ever reach it). Then NL10 I was having trouble winning again, mostly because of me spewing the money each time I won it. Oh right I was posting that graph to prove the spew, not tell me life story . Ya as you can see there are so many huge spikes in the 33k-50k hand range. And that is exactly what I'm talking about. Win a lot, graph goes up huge, then spew it all back, and graph goes back down huge.
Right at the end there, at 50k-51k hands, you can see that doesn't happen. I owe it to PplusAD for that not happening. No fancy stuff, just keeping it tight even after I won. And that 50k-51k hands was one of the best sessions I ever played. Definitely is in terms of money won and I only did it in 1.5k hands (my normal sessions were like 3k hands. sessions as in one go, without a break in between). The 1.5K hands I played yesterday were in 3 sessions, 2 hours in the morning, 2 hours in the afternoon and a bit in the evening). I played only 4 tables yesterday. So anyways I was hugely proud and I really need to stop blabbering because this is already a huge essay and I'm sure no one is gonna read this so on to the stuff that matters :D
P.S. Also a big shoutout to Andre, Madis, Jonathan, Eric and Oddeye :D
For yesterday:
|
|
| 1
| 1 | |
:-D
you're my hero! and i'm your princesss!
good job !!  |
|
| | Last edit: 08/07/2008 13:30 |
|
| 1
 |
Booyaka Estonia. Jul 08 2008 15:48. Posts 197 | | | |
|
| Welcome to value city. Population: YOU! | |
|
| |
|
|
 Poker Streams | |
|
Contact Users: 919 Active, 0 Logged in - Time: 17:08
