Well, overall I did ok. I ended up $1,322.81 for the month. The majority of that though was rakeback. Hey - I'll take it. My BR at Full Tilt is $2038 and my BR at Stars is $326. And that includes the $1,000 I took out. If I hadn't withdrew over the course of last year, I'd be rolled for NL200. Its probably good that I withdrew a lot because rolled or not, I'm not ready for NL200.
Total for year: +$2,301. Well behind my goal of making $12,000 this year in poker (I should be at $4,000).
Here are my results at the various levels I played:
25 NL/PL (I put some money at PokerStars to take advantage of bonus offers):
Hands: 10,514
P/L: +472.50
ptBB/100: +8.99
That's a pretty nice win rate. Maybe I should stay at this level...
50 NL/PL FR
Hands: 24,699
P/L: - $10.65
ptBB/100: - 0.03
* I was +4.09 ptBB/100 playing PL50 and - 1.99 ptBB/100 playing NL50
100NL/PL FR
Hands: 1,110
P/L: +383.95
ptBB/100: +17.10
Can you say, short term variance? I can. BUT - I'm going to play more NL100 in May.
I also played 12K hands of 6Max at various levels and was a -$270.20.
I'm not going to play much 6 max for a while.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Running Crazy Hot
I told my wife yesterday that I needed to quit poker. And it wasn't because I'm doing so bad. Its the exact opposite. I'm winning. A lot (for me). I'm up $758 through November 12 (which, if I played no more poker this month, would be the 4th best month I've had in the 32 months I've been recording my results). I'm up over $800 in just the last 4 days!
I'd like to attribute this to my crazy awesome skillz. While at least some of it has to involve some ability, I've been on a crazy sick run of cards lately. You know how you tend to remember your bad beats and not the times you've sucked out one someone else? Well, I've been getting so lucky in some situations that that is all that I remember.
For example, I've had AA suckout on 2 pair on a HUGE pot. I've pushed/called with an underset and quaded on river. I've hit so many sets its unbelievable. I'm not a lucky person by nature so I fully expect the downswing to come. Of course, with my incredibly nitty PF style, I should be able to keep the downswings to a minimum - provided that I don't turn into a calling station post-flop and remember that at the levels I play, when I get played back at I am more than likely facing a good hand vs. a bluff.
November results so far
Hands Played: 23,139
Results: $750.90
Approximate rakeback: $270
I'd like to attribute this to my crazy awesome skillz. While at least some of it has to involve some ability, I've been on a crazy sick run of cards lately. You know how you tend to remember your bad beats and not the times you've sucked out one someone else? Well, I've been getting so lucky in some situations that that is all that I remember.
For example, I've had AA suckout on 2 pair on a HUGE pot. I've pushed/called with an underset and quaded on river. I've hit so many sets its unbelievable. I'm not a lucky person by nature so I fully expect the downswing to come. Of course, with my incredibly nitty PF style, I should be able to keep the downswings to a minimum - provided that I don't turn into a calling station post-flop and remember that at the levels I play, when I get played back at I am more than likely facing a good hand vs. a bluff.
November results so far
Hands Played: 23,139
Results: $750.90
Approximate rakeback: $270
October Results; Failed 6-max experiment
I ended up $706 for the month plus rake back for a total of $871. After about the first week in October I started reading the full ring threads on the 2plus2 forums. I decided that I wanted to give it a try. It worked out well as I was up $933 over 30,000 hands at 50NL FR. I'm now pretty sure that my nitty style just does not work well at 6-max. I doubt I'll do much 6-max in the future and I'm going to stick with full ring for awhile. Spending time at 6-max did help me to become more aggressive from late position and I feel a lot more comfortable opening up my starting hand requirements from LP and then raising vs. limping.
Thursday, October 11, 2007
10/11/07 - Test blog
This is the first entry into by blog. I'm just testing to see how this works. Later, I will give my background and history of my travels of being an "ok" poker player. By "ok", I mean that I am pretty much a break-even player over the last 2 years of playing micro-stakes poker.
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