Finally in profitz and fpp sattelites, a good week

Hey, well i've decided to do a weekly update from now on, this will happen generally every saturday morning i'm thinking, but any time over the weekend is more likely.

So... after my disaster start to 5nl where i dropped to $81 i have finally righted the good ship peel and am now sailing off into the sunset towards 10nl haha :) Seriously though over the last few days my cash game has seen some big improvements, i've increased to 4 tables for a start which has definetly tightened me up, where last sunday i played my first session at 29/9 on 1 table i put in a session yesterday where i played at 14/9 over 4 tables, which may even be a bit too tight now lol 

Below are some highlights and low points of the week since tuesday for your viewing pleasure

If you read my first post after my first session you might remember a hand where i was dealt AK in the blinds, played it quite passively and ended up losing a big pot, well with that still fresh in my mind and thanks to some good advice in the comments i am now playing AK a lot more aggresively when i am out of position and i think this hand proves that

This hand was the first hand that i had played at a table, now normally i will wait for the big blind before playing but if i sit in and the button passes me straight away i will sometimes post the blind in the CO because at least i'm in a good position, thank god i did here anyways, seeing as the guy that had put in the raise had a fair sized stack i figured that i might be getting some good implied odds for my 65 suited so just flat called to see what the flop brought, it couldnt have hit me harder if it tried and was a VERY good start to a new table lol what followed was a whole load of donk, idiot etc comments but i dont care i dont think its that bad a call given the guy had a huge stack.

I havent seemed to be hitting very many sets this week, been calling peoples raises when they have a big enough stack, just havent been hitting any, except here where a queen thankfully came on the river and my set mining paid off for once.

Now the low part, In the past tilt had been a bit of a problem for me, especially playin cash games, mainly because i was no-where near rolled for the ones i was playing in and i was playing for money that actually meant something to me, below are 2 hands of tilty peel in action, i think it was caused by my aces losing to Q9 or something like that, luckily though i am a bit better at recognising tilt now and nipped it in the butt quite quickly.

Something else i discovered last night was the 210fpp sattelites to the sunday 200k on stars, since i've had an acount on stars for a while i'd managed to build myself up to 920fpps without even realising, my original plans were to save for a porsche but with that being a bit too much of a long term goal i thought i'd save for a hoodie instead, until i found these little beauties :D 

They were brought to my attention through the micro stakes thread on cardschat and after watching icemonkey's video on them i thought i'd give them a try, the basic strategy is just to play incredibly tight and when you get a decent hand, and i mean 1010+ or AQ+, just push... and thats it, you'll generally be called down with some shocking hands and hopefully double or triple up, at which point you could, if your lucky, fold to the money. 

The first one i played i got pocket tens in mp, pushed, was called by QQ and KJ, the queens held up and i was out :( i played 3 more last night and out of the 4 i played in i placed (6/20 get paid) twice which is a good ROI for these, hopefully i can keep that up lol basically the top 6 get a seat in the 200k worth 11 tournament $ if you unregister, you then google for a site that will trade you T$ for cash and voila your BR just went up $10.27. Some of the play in these is comical to say the least, people with huge stacks pushing it in the middle with ace rag or something on the bubble when they are easily in a position to get paid if they could just fold their hands, obviously on the bubble if your on a healthy sized stack and theres say 3 or 4 people that are a few thou below you , you fold aces if it comes to it (unless of course a shortie pushes, then you can be the hero and pop the bubble) because your pretty much gaurenteed a seat anyways. It's a really fun way to up the roll and requires very little skill, except in the last one i played in where i had to fire up the hud and find who i could steal from as i was getting a bit short myself!

Sorry for the long post, a bit of an up n down week really, i think because i have only really ever played sng's and tournaments regularly its been a bit hard to move over to cash games, theres obviously still leaks in my game but i'm a lot more focused and determined to improve on them now i have an aim (to get to 10nl and beyond) so a brief summary of the week so far....

Starting roll - $100

Played hands - 2345

Profit at the 5nl tables - $9.15 ($29 if you consider i dropped to $81 after the first session lol)

Profit from 210fpp sat's  - $20.60 approx

Current Roll - $130.85

So a good week in the end, i've increased my tables to 4 and this has helped me tighten up, i'm stealing more, isolating fish more, and c-betting with a lot more effectiveness, i think my games improved so much from just this week, and a lot of its down to cardschat, all the guys at the microstakes thread and the guys who've replied on the hands i've put up for analysis, so thank you all, good luck at the tables and i'll post again this time next week, where hopefully my roll will have carried on movin on up towards $250

A few graphs and stats