End of a Long Month

Tough month. Feel like I ran bad for a LOT of it, but everyone says that when they're not kickin' ass. It contained my epic-est breakeven stretch of my 'career' to date. Obviously because I was struggling, I played the most hands I ever did in a month. 5k hands of 2/4, where I made exactly nothing and ran $1k below EV....standard for me at 2/4 :( 1/2 wasn't great either where I won at 3.3 ptbb over 16.7k hands and the same rate at .50/1 over 3k hands.


Stats look good all the same at 20/15/2.8 with 44% W$WSF, which is a record for me.WSD is at 27% and W$SD is at 56% which are both solid too I think..and yet I'm on my worst stretch in ages...conventional wisdom is wrong. Still 3-betting virtually never which is probably bad, but the way I naturally seem to play...I'm happy to take regulars on under my terms in single raised pots where I think I play better. I should try and do it a little more, but they pay me off on my big hands anyway so why bother! Twice this month aggro guys have gotten in A7 pre-flop against me (both won against my JJ and AK of course).


Bankroll currently stands in the mid 19's. Need to get motoring if I wanna hit my year end goal of 30k. It should be doable, I don't think $3-4k a month is beyond me.


With any luck I'll win the IPO in October and that'll do the trick ;-) I'll write a trip report of it anyway, which should make for more interesting reading than these mundane updates I normally make. It should be funny. I've barely played a hand of live poker in my life, so I hope people don't get too annoyed at my inevitable stream of mistakes.

Winnings for the month: $2450

Bonuses/Tourneys: $1300

Net profit: $3750

Pretty Sick

Sick in more ways than one. I've been off work the past couple of days with a cold/flu type of thing. Great, I can get some hands in! No. $1700 down in 2k hands, $1200 in all-in EV. That leaves me up an awesome $1150 through play in 18.3k hands for the month. Not really in line with the $4-5k/month I thought I could knock out. I'm not really that bothered.
As I said before, I would like to get together enough to put together a deposit for a house through poker as I'm far too bad at saving to do it in real life, then I'd probably consider the whole venture a success. I suppose that about $40k or so would get the job done. We're gonna rent a place for a year when I get home to Ireland in November so that gives me a bit over a year to get it together (though I'll be taking bit for a holiday next Summer too), so $4-5k a month gets me there, which I think I can manage at $1/$2 if I carry on playing 20k+ a month.

My motivation to move up is pretty low. From $2/$4 up its mostly regs at the tables, and I just don't have the interest in eeking out a slight edge over them getting in 3/4/5 bet wars and dealing with the increased variance. I've worked pretty damn hard to get from $10nl to here in less than a year and I feel like I'm getting to the point now where the extra effort to get better is greater than the reward for gettin there. Most people say 3-4ptbb/100 is very good at 400nl. But if I can beat 200nl for 5 or 6ptbb, play more tables, way over-rolled and have less stress and variance then why not?!
That reminds me, Everest is starting to get annoying. The utterly retarded speed of the software (80hph max) and the top-up feature along with the growing number of decent aggressive regulars makes me wanna move some money elsewhere. I was going to put some on Stars, but a) I dont know if it'd be any better, and b) gettin a large sum of money on there is painful to the max.

Meh.

Wake Me Up When September Ends

So it goes on. Got off to a slow start this month down $1k after 3k hands, but I''ve been on a bit of a heater since and I'm up $1.3k now and Everest gave me an extra bonus which I've cleared about $250 of, then I won $350 in some Betdaq free tourney so that's a total of just shy of $2k for the month, and the bankroll stands at $18k or maybe a shade under.

I'm a joke though. I'm still not happy at $400nl playing nitty coz I'm not happy losing that much at once. That's just ridiculous really...45 buyins and still affected! I suppose I'll get comfortable eventually. As it happens, it doesn't really matter as MSNL on Everest appears to have dried up completely, so I'm left playing $200nl most of the time, which is fine as it lets me keep working on things and ramping up the aggression and exploring new lines vs regulars I have good reads on and the money is pretty good there too.

If I were to set a goal for the month it would be to be over $20k, but goals are silly.