hohum......

Well, after a bit of craziness, I've settled down a bit but not after taking a pretty severe hit on the bankroll. I went on a bad run at 100nl, then continued my downward spiral at 50nl then decided to just massively play 25nl and started off well for my first 10k hands but then went on a massive downswing dropping roughly 16 buyins at 25nl and tilted and decided to play some 5/10 limit and continued to throw my money away. I luckily was able to get my head straight and turn my pc off to keep myself from going broke. I'm going to take a bit of a break from my normal game and just go do something for total fun. I got an email the other day from AP claiming that I had $1.40 in an old account. I'm going to try and grind this up a little bit and see how far I can progress. I'll be moving up quickly as I grow but I stand to go bust by a large %. Away we go!

Current bankroll for Stars and Tilt: $426.23

Spring Forward?

Spring may have sprung forward, but I fell backwards over the weekend. I seem to keep running into the proverbial calling stations and not hitting anything and trying to push too hard and they don't fold. That seemed to be the mantra for the last couple of nights and i ended up dropping a few buyins overall and I am now in need of dropping back to 50nl. I don't hesitate in dropping back, but I am feeling a bit frustrated to not be able to make the complete jump to 100nl and stay there. Oh well. So onward and upward from here.

FT: $1185.05
Stars: $245.58

Total: $1430.90

Couple new things

Well, as you can see, I have listed a new video for review. The nice thing about this is that you can now stream the video instead of waiting an hour to download from megaupload. I'm hoping that this will make it a lot easier and pleasing to those of you following along. Secondly, I have been following someone that is doing a prop bet on 2+2 that is doing an amazing amount of sng's to the tune of about 600 per day. This pushed me to play some of the $6 18 man turbos on stars and I have had a fair bit of success there. I've also been dabbling at 100nl some although I have been a bit underrolled for it. I'm also happy to say that my rakeback has already hit for this month and it was a bit more than I had anticipated which is always nice. So, here is where we stand:

Full Tilt: $1669.50
Stars: $289.08

Total: $1958.58

So not too shabby after being down to around $300 at the beginning of Feb :)

Good Day

I'm likely jinxing myself now by posting this, but I have to put out a rave. I had my most profitable day playing NL cash yesterday as well as my biggest pot won to date. Although not using the best bankroll management, I decided to play some 100nl throughout the day and night and finished up almost $500 overall for the day. Had some great draws that hit playing suited connectors and one gappers cheaply preflop and then was able to stack my opponents with them. This was even after having KK run into AA and AKs on the button run into KK in BB.

Bankroll:
Tilt: $1446.10 ~$225 in rakeback coming
Stars: $135.88

Total: $1581.98

Here is the wonderful pot. Villain was super super hyper aggro so the call was an insta-call :)

$0.5/$1 No Limit Holdem
6 players
Converted at weaktight.com


Stacks:

UTG	rivichico	($314.90)
UTG+1	boogenfunk	($65.05)
CO	TheKwangsta	($132.80)
BTN	eastern motors	($100.00)
SB	Hero	($219.85)
BB	temple7	($100.00)

Pre-flop: ($1.50, 6 players) Hero is SB

2 folds, TheKwangsta raises to $3.50, eastern motors calls $3.50, Hero raises to $17, 1 fold, TheKwangsta goes all-in $132.80, eastern motors folds, Hero calls $115.80

Flop: ($270.10, 2 players)

Turn: ($270.10, 2 players)

River: ($270.10, 2 players)

Final Pot: $270.10
TheKwangsta shows:
Hero shows:

Hero wins $267.10 ( won +$134.30 )
TheKwangsta lost -$132.80
eastern motors lost -$3.50

Beginning of a new month

Ok, February is now in the books and it was a descent month overall since I had pretty much crushed my bankroll from the cashout that I did. I started the month of February with a $307 bankroll and I begin March with $1030.64 before getting my rakeback. I really could use some of the funds but I'm going to try and not cashout right now. I'm looking at roughly $225 in rakeback which should hit around the 11th of March. I'm hoping to move through 50nl this month and get up to 100nl by the end of the month (wishful thinking) to really start to drive some monthly income from this.

Here are my totals for the month of February......

Steadily moving

Well, it's been a couple weeks since the last update and the incredible run has sort of normalized. I was able to move up to 50nl when counting the rakeback I am earning and continued on a great run then the walls collapsed. I think I got overconfident and started pushing a bit too hard. I've been bouncing on the border of 25 and 50nl for the last week and feel my play has greatly improved overall. 25nl has been going wonderful and after ~15k hands, I'm running at 8.26 ptbb/100 with a total of 24 buyins up so far this month. I have close to 7k hands at 50nl and I'm down a little over 2 buyins there due to some stupid play and some suckouts. I'm very pleased to have the bankroll back up to the $1k mark so quickly when I started with ~$300 at the beginning of the month.

Totals:

Tilt: $947.11
Stars: $79.28

Total: $1026.39
Rakeback tally: ~$180

Run good?

Well, I thought that my 6 buyin run "can't get better than that" comment was really true, but fortunately, it is false because it did get better. I'm on probably the biggest heater I have ever been on and just wish it had happened at 100nl but just overall greatful to have had it happen. I posted the other day about the great run so far this month and being up 6 buyins over ~1k hands. Well, I now have ~4k hands in and I'm up almost 20 buyins! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Everything is just hitting properly and hands are holding a bit better than normal. Great example is me with TT vs T7 on a 7 high flop where he shoved (total fish, insta call). I'm in great shape until the turn when a 7 hits. Of course, being the awesomest most fantabulistic player that exists, I hit my 1 outer T on the river and scoop another one. I then get AA in bb after lots of action pf and actually flat after utg raises, utg+1 reraises, button 4 bets to give the others a chance to shove. UTG folds, utg+1 shoves, button reshoves :) They both have KK and are drawing to a flush where I have 2 of them covered or a split pot and I stack both for a 3.5 buyin pot. I have to post it because it feels really good to actually post good stuff from time to time. Here is the graph for the month so far: