About me, and my first (bad) session

Hi, i've been playing poker for about 2 years now, mostly small stakes SnG's and MTT's online, mainly due to boredom but with a bit of success, i started taking the game a bit more seriously when i started playing a regular live game at venlo casino in holland, near where i was based in the army, for larger stakes, and i cashed for 4 figures there a few times. Eventually i want to be playing poker for a nice side income, possibly even full time, and i know that to do this as a SnG player you really need to be doing some crazy multi-tabling and it seems like a quite robotic way to make a living, and a boring way really. So...... it is with great apprehension that i am going to stop playing the SnG's and start on what i imagine is going to be a very long and painful road in cash games. 

I've decided to start a blog for 2 reasons really, to try and focus my game a bit more and to improve my after session personal analysis, something i probably don't do a lot of at all. Hopefully as well i'll get a few regular readers from the CardsChat forum, and the Micro stakes grinding focus group on there, and they can pass on their advice about hands i put up on here, instead of me filling, and probably boring, that particular thread with my long lists of hand histories.

Anyways, thats the intro done, now onto my first session as a micro stakes grinder.

I've deposited $100 (hopefully my last deposit) into my stars account and i'm going to start playing the .02/.05 Full Ring NL, playing 2 tables initially and buying in for $5 a time, this isn't the max for the table but it seems like the average buyin for this level is around the $5 mark anyways so i don't see it as a short stack, also this means i have a nice cushion of 20 buyin's which i think will be enough, but only time will tell lol

So.... the first session is done with, i 2-tabled for just over an hour and finished off..... $12 down :( apparently i have a lot of work to do!

I think this was a mixture of, bad luck, bad cards and a few hands of bad play on my part, below arethe hands that i think i could have played better.

The first one is a classic example of how not to play tptk

Preflop i flat called in the bb, and this was probably my first mistake, maybe i could've raised there, i just don't like putting a raise in with AK when i'm going to be oop for the rest of the hand,at the end of the day though AK is a good hand and i can't be scared to bet it incase it misses the flop, later on though when villain re-raises to 2.30 i should know i'm beat and it was a stupid push, very embarresing.

The next one came near the end of the session and i think i just got a bit too excited at having a good hand in a good position.

This was a fault of not paying attention to the stats i had on him, its worth noting that the villian was on both of my tables for the whole session and played at vp-12 pfr-6, when he re-raises me i should have been able to put him on a range of about 2 hands, namely aces and kings lol this is a hand that i'm quite dissapointed with on my part because i went crazy preflop when a tight player was showing a lot of strength, i suppose i was unlucky to run into aces but it could just as easily been kings and i stilled stacked off.

I think i just generally played badly tonight, my stats for the session were vp-29 pfr-9.92, which isn't good, i think because i've came from playing 6max sng's it might take me a bit of effort to tighten up for FR, i'm dissapointed with myself for dropping 2.5BI's in the first session, especially when the 2 big hands i lost were ones i really could have gotten away from.

So quite a bad first night, i've obviously got a LOT of work to do as i move over from my regular 6 max SnG's, mainly not getting too excited about tptk, which everyone says is a big difference from tournament play but something i always seem to forget or not pay attention to at all the wrong times. I think stacking off tonight might have finally drilled that lesson into my thick skull, and it's one of the reasons i started this blog, now if i make stupid mistakes like these again they're out in public and everyone can get to see how much i suck, nothing like a bit of humiliation to hammer a message home.

Tomorrows another day though, just gotta remember the mistakes i made and remedy them, its gonna be a loooooooong road me thinks :(