getting in the groove

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