Week 8: Half Way Up

This was my first 'full' week at $100nl. In fact I played a fair bit of $50nl aswell when the $100nl games were crappy which is good from a discipline point of view. Though 10 tabling just because I have a shiny new monitor wasn't a good idea and cost me a buyin. I played very tight at $100nl which I suppose is not unusual for someone who has just moved up. I found that a lot of the TAGs still paid me off regardless. I'll stick with that style for another week anyway and try to open it up gradually from there. I'm getting used to $100nl now. This week included KK vs AK aipf and KK vs AA, so my week could easily have been a lot better. I'm not that worried that I should be able to get the hang of things and work my way towards $200nl. (Hope I don't look back on this and cry when I'm playing $20nl in 2 months :-)....) Not much else to say...Rakeback is keeping me afloat


Weekly Stats for Week 8:

Hands: 4593 (incl 1322 at $50nl)
VP$IP: 15.22%
PFR: 11.5% (I know, I know....)
AF: 2.63 (4.00/1.77/1.0)
Att. To Steal: 22%
W$WSF: 38.65% <----Me like!

Total Won/Lost: -$65.29 (-1.08 ptbb/100)

Cashback and Bonus: Approx $130

Net Profit/Loss: $64.71 (Rich I tells ya)

Week 7: $100nl and the River Boat

Got off to another good start at $50nl this week making $200 over 2k hands so I decided to have a shot at $100nl. I only managed 1300 hands before the end of the week, but found that it was very tight. The tables I was at ended up having a players-saw-flop of 21% total, which it pretty brutal. I normally play a lot on weekend mornings so maybe thats just a bad time at these stakes. I played OK. For the first days play I was just about to quit up around $30 when I got it in with 66 on a 6J5J board vs. AJ naturally the river was an A for a higher full house and a $237 pot was pushed to him; not what I needed! So I played on and ended up finishing down around $120. Second session was breakeven. I think its beatable, just have to get better at beating the regulars which there seems to be a lot of. I'll stay up for another 3 or 4 buyins, and I'll mix in some $50nl when the games are $100nl are quiet.




Weekly Stats for Week 7:
Hands: 3385 (incl 1308 at $100nl)
VP$IP: 16.4% <----too tight!
PFR: 12.6%
AF: 2.45 (4.21/1.71/0.66) <----River still bad
Att. To Steal: 23.3%
W$WSF: 38.38%

Total Won/Lost: $81.28 (4.17 ptbb/100)
Cashback and Bonus: Approx $88


Net Profit/Loss: $169.28

Week 6: Boomswitch

This week was crazy brilliant. Definitely the best week of my short poker life. I ran bloody brilliant at $50nl. It was really a bad week to analyse my play because I was running so hot that I didn't get in many tough spots at all. Also, for whatever reason I had really low motivation to play when running so well, though this could be due to me flat out not being in the humour for poker this week. So, I only managed a fairly lazy 2.5k hands. I played a session at $20nl where I really loosened (28/23) up just to see how I can deal with the tough spots that playing laggy brings, and I enjoyed it though to some extent my looseness overcame me and I started making some horrible calls post-flop. Its something I intend to do maybe once a week or once a fortnight to try and improve my overall play.
Then came today, where for some reason I decided to play a $7.70+R EPT Copenhagen Sat to the $800 Super-Sat. I played well and managed to take one of the 3 seats which I was over the moon with and I didn't rebuy once! I was the shortstack with 4 left, but not so much that the other guys could wait for me to blind down, so 2 of them got it in with 66 vs. AK and tbh I dunno who won, but it was to my benefit. Obviously I didn't play in the Super-Sat given that $800 is about 1/3 of my bankroll, so I'll just add it to the roll and I'm now rolled for $100nl, but I don't think I'm quite ready, so I'm gonna go on as normal at $50nl for the rest of February and then make the move to $100nl. So, for one week at least....YAY POKER!

Weekly Stats for Week 6:

Hands: 2632 (incl 443 at $20nl)
VP$IP: 18.4%
PFR: 13.9%
AF: 2.7 (4.13/1.83/0.79) <----River still a problem

Att. To Steal: 27.4%

W$WSF: 43.11% <----Me like!

Total Won/Lost: $311.73 (11.39 ptbb/100)

Cashback and Bonus: Approx $80
Donkament score: $740 (after selling W$ and playing in one or two others)

Net Profit/Loss: $1131.73

Febru-worry?

Another week in the books, and at that, not a very good one again. Started off well and then hit a 5 buyin downswing as February started with some nice coolers and bad beats, but in truth I should be doing well enough elsewhere to overcome them. Won without showdown is still godawful at -9 ptbb/100 for the week...so bad. Also this week, I lost money from the button, so I really need to up the aggression and use position a lot better when I have pretty sucky hands which is moreso the case on the button than in any other seat obviously. I realised this week that I haven't actually been playing poker up to now but instead playing 'show down the best hand' ala fgators. I really dont want to play 1.5 million breakeven hands! So now I've taken to such crazy things as betting the turn when I don't have 2 pair+, if I think the villain is drawing, and raising c-bets from villains whose range is unlikely to have hit the board where mine is (though I've been 3-bet a few times when I've tried it), shoving with 'pair+primary draw' hands. Plenty of things to think about. It's really nice having the cashback as it means while I'm still actually only breaking even in terms of play (*sigh*) my bankroll is making slow progress towards $100nl. I hope in the next 6 weeks or so I can continue to improve a lot and maybe be ready for $100nl by then. One can but work hard and fight on!
A couple of mini-goals for this week are to play 20/15 as the only way I'll improve is to play more hands out of my nitty comfort zone. Also, won w/o showdown to -5ptbb/100 for starters, and W$WSF over 40%. I know people say you shouldn't play to have a certain set of stats, but I think these stats really do reflect good play.


Weekly Stats for Week 5:

Hands: 3758
VP$IP: 16.3%
PFR: 11.8%
AF: 2.87 (3.7/2.28/1.46) <----Better. Hopefully its well placed aggression Att. To Steal: 21.3% W$WSF: 39.28% <----Also better, but not reflected in my Won w/o showdown. Total Won/Lost: -$80.84

Cashback and Bonus: Approx $60

Net Profit/Loss: -20.84$