didn't get to play this week until last night where i put in a nice little 1200 hand session. i ended up down a buy-in but think i played pretty well. for the first time ever, i'm actually confident playing a nl cash game no matter 6-max. i think i've turned a corner from playing a guessing game when thinking out a hand to becoming a lot more in tune with ranges and how certain style players would play certain hand types.
something about it just seems a bit clearer for some reason. i had an excellent coaching session last night that brought to light a major leak i have and that apparently is pretty common, especially in a player that is coming from a limit holdem background. also, some of the hands i've misplayed over the last week, i've analysed after the session and come up with the correct decisions that should have been made.
so this weekend i should have quite a bit of time to play. i'm going to set a goal of 5k hands but won't force on myself if i feel im not playing at the top of my game. i might also get a chance to play some live saturday night which i've absolutely been itching for. i'm so pumped right now that i'm actually dying to move up to 100nl from 50nl. i think since i started playing 50nl in late jan i've played maybe 11k hands and am up around 6 buy-ins.
we'll see, it wouldn't really be taking a shot per se since i have the bankroll for it but in the beginning i did say i wanted to play 50nl for the month of feb so maybe i'll just stick with that.
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so when i haven't been playing this week, i've been researching another site to put $ on. i love everything about full tilt and would never fully leave the site but i would like to take a few shots on other sites to try find the softest competition possible. i've researched pretty much every site on the net and have come to two sites that i'll probably try out. party poker and pacific poker seem like the most logical. for one, party is supposedly still pretty soft and if i can back door a rakeback deal there i think i'd like to try and play a couple thousand hands so i can make my own judgement. pacific has recenlty added rakeback so i would have a rakeback deal there plus they supposedly have the softest games online still. the software seems a little clunky but manageable. for now im going to stay on ftp but maybe once im back from vegas in march i will re-invest some of that roll into a diff site.
ftops is running currently but i haven't had the urge to play anything. i might try to sat into the sunday 6pm event but other than that i will probably play a few regular mtts during the course of the weekend.
hopefully my next update will include a couple hands with thoughts.
tg
Friday, February 8, 2008
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
bunch of nl cash
so i've mainly been playing 50nl 6-max of late. i feel i have a lot better mindset for tackling these games now than i did back last summer. i managed to play about 6k hands of 50nl at the end of january finishing down a little over two buy-ins. i was up as much as 7 early and then had a horrid session losing close to 9 buy-ins over a stretch of 1800 hands.
i had a coaching session last week which went well and re-affirmed a few things i was doing well and addressed a few areas where i could be leaking money. since the beginning of february i've played about 3.1k hands and am up 9 buy-ins i believe. definilty running hotter than expectation but i think im starting to get a better grasp at the games as well. one thing for sure, the 50nl games on full tilt probably play like 10/20 nl live. it's unbelievable, i spend so much time hopping tables since there are plenty more tags than there are fish in the games. still, i think i'm playing the tags well and even though most have good pt stats, i find they are still making some fairly big mistakes against me.
so far i think im playing pretty close to 20/17 with an af > 3. the af should come down some as the sample size gets bigger. i'm hoping to start reviewing hands in the blog but for now i don't have pokertracker holdem on this computer which makes it hard.
i think i've only had a chance to play two tournies since my last post, one i busted early i believe and the other, surprise surprise, i finshed 31st out of 1198 people for another close but no cigar finish.
i withdrew 4k from ftp yesterday for my vegas trip and a few expenses that have come up. i think i'll end up having around 3k to play with in vegas + a few extra bucks for the odd time i'll actually eat. i guess i've pretty much passed off the idea of playing in any events at the wynn while im there. if they have satellites and i have time i might hop in one of them but i'm not going to plunking down 1.5k on one tournament. i still have time to hit a decent score in a tourny online but variance makes it unlikely. for the next month i will probably only playing mtt's on tuesday nights and even then i'll probably only play the 7pm $75 and the 8pm $26 on ftp. upon coming back from vegas i might stick some money on another site since i think there have to be softer spots online than full tilt right now. the problem is finding a site that i can get rakeback on, supports pokertracker and pahud and has the soft traffic im looking for.
not sure how long i'll play 50nl for but will probably just move up based on feel and what my winrate is over a more significant sample.
til next time.
tg
i had a coaching session last week which went well and re-affirmed a few things i was doing well and addressed a few areas where i could be leaking money. since the beginning of february i've played about 3.1k hands and am up 9 buy-ins i believe. definilty running hotter than expectation but i think im starting to get a better grasp at the games as well. one thing for sure, the 50nl games on full tilt probably play like 10/20 nl live. it's unbelievable, i spend so much time hopping tables since there are plenty more tags than there are fish in the games. still, i think i'm playing the tags well and even though most have good pt stats, i find they are still making some fairly big mistakes against me.
so far i think im playing pretty close to 20/17 with an af > 3. the af should come down some as the sample size gets bigger. i'm hoping to start reviewing hands in the blog but for now i don't have pokertracker holdem on this computer which makes it hard.
i think i've only had a chance to play two tournies since my last post, one i busted early i believe and the other, surprise surprise, i finshed 31st out of 1198 people for another close but no cigar finish.
i withdrew 4k from ftp yesterday for my vegas trip and a few expenses that have come up. i think i'll end up having around 3k to play with in vegas + a few extra bucks for the odd time i'll actually eat. i guess i've pretty much passed off the idea of playing in any events at the wynn while im there. if they have satellites and i have time i might hop in one of them but i'm not going to plunking down 1.5k on one tournament. i still have time to hit a decent score in a tourny online but variance makes it unlikely. for the next month i will probably only playing mtt's on tuesday nights and even then i'll probably only play the 7pm $75 and the 8pm $26 on ftp. upon coming back from vegas i might stick some money on another site since i think there have to be softer spots online than full tilt right now. the problem is finding a site that i can get rakeback on, supports pokertracker and pahud and has the soft traffic im looking for.
not sure how long i'll play 50nl for but will probably just move up based on feel and what my winrate is over a more significant sample.
til next time.
tg
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