Hi guys, I've never made a blog before, but I figured it'd be fun to keep one for poker. Plus, it seems that lots of people respond to blogs but rarely answer any questions I post in my hand histories.
About me: I'm a 26 year old lawyer in San Jose, CA. I'm not a poor college student looking to make a living off poker; I just want a game that's fun and makes me money instead of costing money. I found LP through TL because I'm a huge Starcraft fan. Wrath of the Lich King stole all my Starcraft buddies away so I turned to poker as something to play until SC2 testing begins. Despite not being 100% into poker, I'm a competitive gamer and don't like to half-ass things. I don't get a lot of time to play, but I watch videos, read books, review hand histories, etc. on top of the time I do play. Despite having the disposable income to easily play medium stakes, I've been working my way up to minimize risk and get comfortable losing money.
I started 2 months ago at NL10 and moved to NL25 this month with the intention of getting silver star in Feb. 1188/1500 now, so far so good with that goal. I deposited $1000 for the 25 billion bash and I'm at 569/5000 in clearing the $250 bonus.
I've been practicing very conservative BR management, but I recently read another post here that suggested taking shots at higher stakes earlier on. After all, why waste time learning how to play NL25 if I can already be a winner at NL50 or NL100? To that end, I tried NL50 yesterday and lost all my NL25 February winnings in 90 minutes.  I played like a total donk post-flop and lost 3 buy-ins fast. Oops.
So today I started my session with the intention of at least making my $150 back by the end of the month. No pressure to get it all back in one day. Well, I'll let the picture speak for itself:
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I table select pretty heavily at stars, but it has never paid off as well as today. Unlike what usually happens, the fish were stacking everyone else and then donating their money to me. Usually when I bet-bet-shove a fish and they call, I cry. Today, they were calling incredibly light and paying off my sets, pairs, and TPTK hands. I sucked out on one guy QQ v AA (he called me a moron for calling his 5bet shove) and coolered another guy set over top 2 pair on an AJ8 flop. Got sucked out on a few times, but only once in a big pot. Didn't hit a single flush or straight in 674 hands, but that's standard for me anyway. KK 7 times all won, AA 3 times all won too.
So now my NL25 6max stats look like this:
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Pretty standard 20/15 TAG stats I suppose. It looks like I float a lot of flops, but that's just because so many people at NL25 will bet 1/10th of the pot or so and give me odds to call with just about anything I was willing to see a flop with.
Graph of NL25, first 2000 hands or so were FR before I gave up on it. I alternated between FR and 6max at NL10, but I've since given up on nitring.
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And my yearly graph with the hilarious NL50 shot + today's session:
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So I'll probably stick with NL25 for the rest of the month and move to NL50 next month with the intention of getting gold star status. I'm just playing 4-6 tables for now while working on my game. No need to mass grind for money.
Trying for a third time to get this to actually post... Maybe having a single quote in the title messed with the DB? Yep, I think that was it.
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