Since I forgot yesterday.



So that last day was basically from between 14323 and 14974 on...yeah. That last big drop was the aces hand I posted. Feck!

Yesterday again the tables turned unbelievably tight, and I made almost no headway. Well, I say that, except that I lost 3 more buyins, so really I made reverse headway. I got 3bet an unreal amount of the time, at least 25%, and it was tilting as hell. Tightened up, still got 3bet, still didn't connect with any flops, and most attempts to play back and make a stand were met with pushes. Doh. One of those days where it feels like you forgot how to play poker and you're just poking around in the dark hoping for something good to happen. My stats look awful at the moment, and it's very disheartening even though it's only 18.5k hands. Not going to sweat it too much, but things did become rather boring at the supertight tables yesterday, so I'm debating...

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We are certainly running excellent. PT has me at 2bb/100, which hey, is still a profit, but meh. Had a real shitter of a day two days ago, ending the month on a real crappy note, down over 5BI that day alone. A tad bit spewy, but really the big hands I lost were three sets vs straights, and one monster 3BI pot where my aces lost to a set. More or less summed up the day save maybe a buyin either way of picking off pots.

We were both way deep and there was a 50BB stack in the pot as well, so tons of money out there and I had a hard time getting away from it. Was SB, 50BB raised, villain called, I 3bet too small in retrospect, but with how deep we were he's got odds to set mine unless I raise huge and blow him out of the water, which I also don't want to do. Flop was like 456 with two hearts I think. Certainly not a flop you love with aces, but given there's a 3bet preflop, I'd say 44 55 and 66 are all I really need to worry about, so I lead for 2/3 or so, shorty calls, and when...

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Getting my stack in the middle lots, sometimes goot, sometimes not so goot, but big pots are better as long as you've got a big hand. Got a little fancy a few times check/pushing with weak top pair and a turned frush draw or something like that and ran into sets, but thems the breaks. Few suckouts as well against me, but that hasn't happened yet so I'm alright with it. Was quite a swongy day but was not even down 2 buyins by the end. I need to stop playing 98s, I'm down 3 buyins with that hand alone. So sad, it's one of my favorites it's so pretty, but I'm a sucker for nice suited connectors and one gappers and on occasion, two gappers. 63s is my fifth most profitable hand. Nyuk nyuk nyuk.

Still gradually getting a feel for the flow of the game and understanding my image more in relation to the table. Back in the day I'd be confused as to why some person made what I had thought was a ballsy calldown, but now I see on one particular table I could be running a 35VPIP with 20% PFR...

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Getting to 1500 hands a day is proving to be fairly easy, especially when broken into three smaller 500ish hands a session. Makes it easier on the brain, though a few times I've done two larger sessions and it's worked out fine either way. I guess I'm just that good. Yesterday was spectacularly good, similar to beginning of the week last week, so now I'll probably hover at where I am for the rest of the week. Oh well. It was fun. I got my stack in a heck of a lot more yesterday than I have in a single session in a long time, which was awesome, because in the end, it's not about winning pots, it's about winning stacks. Does it make it a little more swingy? Sure. But as long as you aren't a knob sticking it in against a 10/8 after he's checkraised your fat turn bet, you should be good for the most part. Being properly rolled is always a good thing too, which techinally I am for NL100, but I cheated with the 600 I put in for the reload bonus. Plan is to clear the bonus at 50 then...

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A very solid week, I'm happy to report. No major blowups, steady grinding, clear head. And I won. Sweet. Winning stuff is nice. Way better than losing.

Took Saturday off of "work" as it were to play some golf and have a few beers and watch the Red Sox game, so I didn't reach 10k hands. 9369 is the final tally, with 26.73 total hours at the tables. Good hour-age. Graph time, since I'm a visual learner.



Spiking up, while nice to start, sort of left something to be desired by week's end since I never actually got back above where I was after day 2. However, that's completely unrealistic as I was like 20+ptbb/100, heh. I still likes it. It's above that line at the bottom, and in the end that's what's important. Time to repeat for week 2.

Nothing really jumping out at me yet as far as leaks. I know I played like a dick a few days ago and tried to do waaaaaaaaaaay too much, and I suspect I'm...

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