November Report

I've decided to start a new database monthly on Tracker...considering the number of hands I've played this month, I think it wise, otherwise the sample size just makes the data nonsense eventually. So tomorrow...or technically today I'll start a new, shiny exciting one!

Overall a very good month. Up just under $400. $320 from cash and the rest from various 180 man micro tourneys. I've been pottering along at 25nl reasonably, but not making money as fast as I'd like to. My red line carried on dipping, getting as low as -$400, so I read a few things on 2+2 about being more aggressive...which I wouldn't have thought I needed...and a couple of days ago I changed my game dramatically to reflect this....As the graph below shows (you'll know which bit!) I went a little overboard...The last 1500 hands are today's hands, where I took what I'd learnt and applied it, but without being a nutcase. The results seem to be good.

The first 9000 or so hands are at 10nl...the big dip is where I started being hyper agressive...This is from Nov 1 to 30th....yes I've played a lot of poker.




I've been running like supreme African death aids for the past few days which hasn't helped and I imagine over half my losses are from that, but a substantial part are from me being a dick...so hopefully I've cut that part out now. I was up to $1200, but the last few days have knocked me down under $1000. Not to worrk! I shall return! I'm aiming to beat 25nl at over 6bb/100 (PT) soon, so that I can make a decent constant profit...but the sample size is making it hard for me to measure what I'm actually doing now...another good reason for a new database.

I should probably start posting interesting hands here...had a few nice hands where I've triple barrelled and won big pots with good reads, but I always forget to save them....and a few others where I have doubts about how I played...but again I've forgotten to save them, so hopefully next time I'll have some actual hands here!

1 good thing comes of a large sample size though...I have 7k hands to know that Kes runs at 12/8...so must play only AA or better...So a raise from him in any position is a fold from KK downwards...

Not posted for ages, but this warrants a blogpost! After my last one I'm fairly sure I ran like aids and lost most of that...I've never played well at 25nl before.

As anyone who reads this will know, I'm currently in France...which is a shit country and where I am there's NOTHING to do at all, so I'm playing a lot of poker. I cashed in at the end of October for $200 and started playing 10nl...I've done this loads. Cashed in for $200, made $100-$300, then cashed out because I needed the money. Hopefully I won't have to do that this time...

Anyway I made $100 fairly quickly...I can utterly crush 10nl now...running consistently at about 15 PT BB/100. I've only played 25nl a couple of times before...because I'm a fish, so I thought I'd have another go. Cashed in $200 more to put my roll up to $500 I started playing. I was a bit sporadic at first, but I think I've got it now. I was playing various $2.20 180 mans too...and lost about 900 in a row, which slowed down my profit. As soon as I changed to the $4.40 non-turbo I cashed for $144 (2nd) which was nice! Made a bit more money at cash and yesterday came 3rd in the $3.30 rebuy 180 man for $200. This put me up to about $960. The highest I've ever been! Today I finally broke the 1k mark for the first time in my poker career! :-D Very happy.

Because everyone knows I'm a fish I'm going to post a picture to prove it! Haha! According to PT I've made $378 from cash...so that makes $122 from tournaments (I spent a lot in the crappy turbo one!). Anyway - here's a pretty picture of a 4 figure roll! Woooooooooooooo! 50nl here I come!


As a final note - I'm accruing quite a few FPPs...can anyone suggest what I should spend these on? As I want to get hte best value for money from them and the bonuses don't seem that brilliant...I'm SilverStar atm and can get Gold by end of the month...What does anyone who plays on Stars spend them on?