Overdue Update...

Sorry about the lack of updates, I went home for a weekend again and didn't play any poker, and I didnt really play any for about 4 days. I moved $600 over to Full Tilt just to see how I liked the software, turns out I love it and think Im going to be moving all my money over there soon. UB is so annoying to run 6-8 tables with poker tracker and HUD running, it was really starting to get to me. Also I seem to tilt a lot easier on UB for some reason, so I hope this will be a good move for me. Im going to start playing a lot more and try to finish out April really strong, also I have a coaching session with fruitypro on CR Friday which Im excited about, hopefully he will be able to look over some of my stats and find some leaks in my game. Ive heard great things about him and everyone has said the money is well worth it.

Ok, Im at school right now and got class in 5 minutes, so thats all for now, look for some updates in the next 2-3 days.

April 17th Stats- Im awful

Basically same shit as yesterday but... 2x worse and I tilted off a buy in.

Sigh....

Starting BR: $2020.80
Hands Played: 1,249
Profits: -$232.30

Ending BR: $1788.5

Im not going to put my bonuses anymore until end of month I'll add it all up. Wow... this is going horribly so far, I got so unlucky all day, I had the same guy stack me twice in 3 hands, first time I had top two vs his set, 2nd time I opened AK he calls, and BB 3 bets to $9, we both call. Flop A 6 4, BB checks, I check, guy leads $15 I think. He would definitely do this with nothing trying to steal the pot, BB and my check both seemed weak. So I push, and he has 44 for another set. Fuck set mining, it only works against me it seems.

Oh and so far today Im -$45 after 400 hands, woohoo. Fuck! I shouldn't be running this bad for this long, Im really convinced that UB is bad for me for two reasons. 1) seems like every goddamn table has 3-4 regular CR style players, 2) you get dealt so many hands so fast, it becomes easy to tilt and also I'm not given enough time to think. One more negative thing till I goto the gym, Im not playing anywhere near enough hands per day to reach my goals, this is mainly because Im playing like shit and running horrible that I just want to cut my losses for the day, not going to get 2k UB pts this week for $150, sigh.

Cliff Notes for those who dont want to read... FUCK, IM BAD AT POKER.

April 16th Stats

Ugh, another losing day... Im horrible!!!

Starting BR: $2125.55

Hands Played: 1,351

Profits: -$125.00

Bonuses: $20.25
Ending BR: $2020.80

I had a ton of small coolers, and none of my c bets were getting respect, which lead me to double/triple barreling and that got me stacked twice. I was down about $190 but did a little damage control towards the end of the day. Overall not to upset, I'm coming out strong tomorrow!

April 15th Stats

Sick day... good rebound from yesterday!

Starting BR: $1875

Hands Played: 994

Profits: +$234.55

Bonuses: $16

Ending BR: $2125.55

Everything held up nicely and I was playing very well, overall great day, though I again didn't play enough hands, I need to pick a day this week and dedicate it strictly to poker.

April 14th Stats

Ouch... had a rough day, I only managed to get 1k hands in because I was getting sick beats and wasn't playing my A game, so I stopped myself, I don't want to force myself to play 1.6k hands a day if it means I'll just lose more money playing bad. If Im having a good day, I'll try to play more hands.

Starting BR: $1952.45
Hands Played: 1,049
Profits: -$130.40
Bonuses: $52.95 (from last 2 days)
Ending BR: $1875

Few hands from my sessions...

Tough spot, I 3 bet light here because quinlan was playing very aggro. Standard C bet on the flop and the slow call scared me, but the turn brought another club so I figured I was commited and had to continue.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1001936

I know Im a favorite here against this player 90% of the time. Usually I have him dominated but probably a coinflip, I need to get myself to stop making these marginally EV plays, I think I should start just trying to see some flops and then acting accordingly.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1001955

April 13th Stats

First day... In the green, but not very much.

Starting BR: $1930

Hands Played: 1,577

Profits: $22.45

Ending BR: $1952.45

I had so many coolers today... was very frustrating, Im happy to have made $20 even.

Heres a sick cooler, I really wanted to just call but I couldn't for some reason, probably should have, his bet really looks like the nuts.

Hand #40567796-73764 at Albuquerque (No Limit Hold'em)Started at 14/Apr/07 00:42:43
korndog123 is at seat 0 with $12.45.MoreCabbage is at seat 1 with $47.50.Reggdog44 is at seat 2 with $69.30.Bscott52 is at seat 3 with $74.35.TheBay15 is at seat 4 with $66.70.parsnipper is at seat 5 with $49.30.The button is at seat 1.
Reggdog44 posts the small blind of $.25.Bscott52 posts the big blind of $.50.
korndog123: -- --MoreCabbage: Kh QhReggdog44: -- --Bscott52: -- --TheBay15: -- --parsnipper: -- --
Pre-flop:
TheBay15 folds. parsnipper folds. korndog123 folds.MoreCabbage raises to $1.75. Reggdog44 folds.Bscott52 calls.
Flop (board: 6h 5h Kd):
Bscott52 checks. MoreCabbage bets $3. Bscott52calls.
Turn (board: 6h 5h Kd 2h):
Bscott52 checks. MoreCabbage checks.
River (board: 6h 5h Kd 2h 4d):
Bscott52 bets $15. MoreCabbage goes all-in for$42.75. Bscott52 calls.

Showdown:
MoreCabbage shows Kh Qh.MoreCabbage has Kh Qh 6h 5h 2h: flush, king high.Bscott52 shows Ah 9h.Bscott52 has Ah 9h 6h 5h 2h: flush, ace high.
Hand #40567796-73764 Summary:
$3 is raked from a pot of $95.25.Bscott52 wins $92.25 with flush, ace high.----------------------------------------------------------------

Money moved to UB, ready to go tomorrow!

Alright well I've been antsy all week to get my money moved to UB and finally I got it all on there today! I put $500 on a few days ago, and I couldn't stand not playing so I played about 2k hands of 25NL... I did well and ran at 6.5BB/100 over 2k hands and made $65. Also I saw this guy who I knew was terrible sitting at a 50NL HU table, took his 100BB stack and that put me at $115 profits. So that was definitely a good start for me and Im happy about that. Anyway, finally today I got another $1,300 moved to UB putting my total at $1938.92.

I was originally planning to get around 2.5k on my account and start playing 50NL, but I know 2k (more or less) is plenty. So this means that tomorrow I start playing again full time. I will be playing 50NL and probably 6-8 tabling, I think I'll play a few thousand hands at 6 tables to start and get some confidence, then maybe move up to 8 tables and maximize my profits.

I have been messing around with the idea of a new poker goal a lot the past few days, and I want to do something that will not be to stressful, but also still challenge me. There's 18 days left in April and I approximate that I can easily play 1.5k-2k hands a day... so I could get 30k hands in this month still if I average 1,666 hands per day...which leads me to my new goal in April!

Goal for April:

-Play 30k+ hands of 50NL 6 max

-Run at 4.5BB/100+ (also equals $4.50/100, so $4.50x300= $1,350 profit)

*Note that all these numbers and calculations are very approximate, and will not be disappointed to fall short or go over slightly.

Bonuses:

Ok now the reason I moved to UB is for the rakeback and all the reload/point redeeming bonuses they offer. So just messing around with some numbers I came up with a close approximate of money I can make off bonuses in April.

-Signup Bonus: $500

-Two weeks of Redeeming points: $150x2= $300. (I will easily clear 2k UPs a week for atleast $150 a week)

-Rakeback: Avg of $40.5 per day; 40.5x18= $730 (However, take off 25% of $500 cause of the signup bonus. Meaning $730-$125=$605)

-Total Bonuses: $500+$300+$605= $1,405

Estimated Total Profit: $1,405+$1,350= (drum rolllllll.....DING $2,755)

Haha, so theres my goal for April, and please note that I do not have my hopes up for making $2,700 in 18 days, I know it seems almost impossible but really with all the bonuses it isn't all that unrealistic. It would be absolutely sick if I could acheive this and would definitely boost my confidence after my little run of tilt. Ok well its late here, Im going to get a good nights rest and hopefully get off to a good start tomorrow! Wish me luck, I will try my best to blog my daily stats and my progress towards my goal.

G'night peoples.

New blog, new goals.

I'm not sure how many people even looked at my blog before, but I guess I'll explain what happened real fast.

Basically I started this blog shortly after starting to play cash games, I put a month goal up on here and was doing very well until the last week where I blew up and had my first tilt marathon at cash games. I lost about 2k of a 3k bankroll and I really was careless. In my defense I have been a SitNGo/Tourny player for 2 years before cash games, and was not yet used to the variance you can experience at cash games. So I think what happened was a good lesson, and considering I plan on moving up through the limits, I'm glad it happened now for a small amount of money. It could have been much worse if I did not experience this kind of variance until 1/2 and lost 3-4x as much as I did.

Anyways, I've reloaded my account from some of my recent cash outs and am going to get a fresh start on my cash game! I will be starting with I think a 2.3k bankroll and probably put it all on a new UB account I made. I decided to move back to UB because I felt like I was being cheated at Stars because of the lack of bonuses and rakeback. My money should all be on UB in the next few days and then I will get started playing again, until then I'm going to really think about a good goal for me to try and acheive.

More updates to come!