Gotta love a 14BI first 6max week!

Hey, this is going to be quite a short update b/c i was a tad drunk last night and i'm paying for it today, really dont have the energy to do much, even typing is a pain atm lol!

This week i switched over to 6max from full ring, I was saying in the last update how i think that my edge over the bad players there is a lot bigger than at FR and this week has kinda confirmed it for me and reassured me that the switch over was the right choice, I have been running quite hot but i still feel like good play has had a lot to do with this weeks results as well as a bit of luck and a good run of cards :)

There hasn't been many standout hands for me to go over here like i normally do, so no replays this week, the play from most of the villains at 5nl 6max is terrible to say the least, theres been a few times where i've been truly baffled at what the vill thought he was beating or what he thought i was trying to pull off, but thankful for the chips all the same lol

Of course there's still a lot to improve with my own game but i feel like i'm adjusting fairly well so far, to make sure i'm fully adjusted to 6max before i move up though i've decided to not move to 10nl before either 10k hands @ 5nl or $300, whichever comes first, this is just to ensure i'm comfortably rolled for 10nl and well experienced when i move up.

So, stats for this week then, its been a good week for me, i know i've ran a tad hot but i've got my confidence back after it being crushed when 10nl FR kicked my ass, really glad i made the switch over and here's to a bright future between me and 6max cash games :D

Starting roll: $200.62 (as at FRI 20/3)

Hands Played: 4,057

Profit from cash games: $58.57

Profit from Fpp satt: $10.67

Current Roll: $269.86

Below is a graph from my 5nl 6max play so far :)

Laters

10nl kicks my ass and I move to 6max : )

Well, first off, sorry the updates late this week, i've just been really busy over the weekend with mothers day, my sisters b'day and a nice 8 hour drive up to edinburgh, there was just too much life going on to fit in an update : )

Last week i had built up my roll to $250 and was just dipping my toes into 10nl, i was quite happy about moving up and was already picturing silverstar and wondering how long it would take me to grind up the $500 i needed to move up to 25nl, well, the poker gods put paid to all those dreams quite quickly lol.

Not going to go into huge amounts of detail b/c it was basically just a lot of run of the mill bad beats and coolers but i lost $42 this week and moved back down to 5nl at $208, i've never seen so many rivered set over sets in my life and the shortstackers just seemed to be hitting anything they needed to beat me in all in's preflop, must have lost at least $12 to pesky 20bb shortstackers doubling up through me! Anyways, when i moved down i thought it was maybe the best time to move over to 6max cash games instead, i was already finding multi-tabling FR quite robotic and REALLY frustating at times so i'd been thinking of playing some 6 max on the side, this week i thought that after i ran so badly at 10nl there was no time like the present to make the  move to 6max, i'm really glad i did so far, i have more fun playing 6max and i feel like i have a much bigger edge over the bad players at 5nl.

Next weeks update will go over my first week as a 5nl 6max player, I'm thinking of building the roll to $300 before moving up though, just so i can get a bit more experience of play at a 6max cash table before i move to 10nl, thats not 100% yet, still mulling it over really.

I've read a shedload of HA threads on 6max and i'm also reading ryanfee's guide, which is awesome, another thing thats bound to help my game is that dsvw56 got in touch with me on cc and offered to give me a bit of help, we've already gone over 1 session with him picking out about 20 hands where he thought i could have done things a bit, or a LOT, differently : ) He's gave me 900 hands worth of his session as well for me to look over and see how he plays, i've already been putting into practice some of the things he's picked me up on, I have a feeling he is really going to bring my game on and i appreciate it very much.

Anyways, til next time when i will be making my "First week of 6max" update, the graph from this week is below, although it's not really much to shout about, laters.

My best week yet, but could have been sooo much better

Guess who's a 10nl player?? :D:D

Well this week I finally made the move up to 10nl, which was awesome, and i've managed to get in 2.4k (very swingy) hands there all ready. It's not been the best of introductions to a new limit but i'm still up, just, and some of the hands i've lost there so far have been real coolers. First impressions are that the play is definetly no different from the standards at 5nl, only thing is that the fish have more money behind them and the beats hurt more. 

One of the hardest things i've found so far is adjusting to the amounts of money i'm playing with, it's took a bit of effort to get into my head that when i do lose in a session at this level it could be about 20 or 30 bucks i'm losing, at 5nl if i dropped $20 in a session it would be a disaster, at 10nl it's only 2 buyins.

So... After winning $30 in my first hour of 10nl i've proceeded to lose most of it in the last 2 days, I think this has a bit to do with some beats and cooler hands but after looking back at my sessions i have to take the blame for some of it as well, I havent exactly played my best poker since moving up and i've made 2 or 3 bad decisions that have cost me a bit of cash, but below are a few hands where i wasn't to blame. 

This first 2 hands, the villain here was the worst player ive ever had the luck to sit at a table with, the whole table was just raking in the profits from this guys spewy play, his stats where 72/48/9 over 50 hands, the AA vs KK, trust me to run into him when he's actually got the goods, the QQ vs A4 just shows how bad this guy was, luckily i stayed at the table and made most of this back but when ur moving up to a new limit this isn't what you need.

In the next one you could say i played it badly by paying him off on the end but really, calling down to the river with 4 outs, whats this guy doing???

This has been the general theme of my move up so far, none of my AK-AQ's are hitting the flop and the majority of my cbets are being called/raised, when i've got a biggish pair like JJ or TT i raise pf and get 2 or 3 overs on the flop! It's been quite hard to take but i remembered when i first started at 5nl i was down 4 BI's after my first 2 days, been playing 10nl for 2 days and i'm up $6, as long as i don't get anywhere near $210 in the the roll i'm doing better than when i started cash lol

So if it wasn't for a few beats i'd be up and the tone of this update would be a lot better, but this is poker and variance is a bitch, I know from the absolutely toss play i've seen so far that i'll beat this level eventually, just gotta keep plugging away and keep my chin up when the deck's smacking the fish in the face, I'm glad i'm learning these lessons now when i'm at the micros because so far they've been the hardest to learn!

So, stats for this week then, as i said, it has been my most profitable week so far so i can't complain too much i guess, but at one point the roll was at $298 so it could have been a lot better.

Starting Roll: $207.40

Hands Played: 5943

Profit: $42.00

Profit from 210fpp Sattelites: $10.67

Current Roll: $256.62

Below is the regular weekly graph, plus my total stats for 5nl, incase anybodies interested :) 

Peace out, hopefully next weeks update will be slightly cheerier lol

My first full week 6-tabling and above $200!!!

So, as the title suggests, this was my first week 6-tabling 5nl... and it's went well, i got to over $200 near the start of the week and i was bobbing around the $198-$202 mark all week but i'm now comfortably above $200 in the roll :D

Near the end of last month when i was looking back over sessions i was noticing that i'd started to make some dumb moves, and was maybe trying too be a bit too fancy, which isn't needed at 5nl, i was still making a profit but it could have been much more had i not raised A10o UTG and called a LP 3bet etc etc.

So... I had a play around with the stars layout manager thingy and decided that if i condensed my HUD i could fit 6 tables cascaded with a slight overlap on my laptop screen quite easily, i decided to try this out for 1 week, and planned so that if i was posting a big loss i'd cut back down to 4, quite a pessimistic view but.... i'm glad i'm a pessimist because i'm always surpising myself :D

I'm so glad i've made the jump up to 6 tables, it took a bit of getting used to at first but its now just as easy as 4 was, the bonuses of playing 2 more tables are starting to show through already, the picture at the bottom of the post shows my progress in feburary compared to march, which is only 1 week long so far! The best and most important thing is that i've upped the tables and total hands for the week but i'm still beating the level at 4.85bb/100 which is infact a better winrate than for the whole of feburary, at this rate i will easily make 10nl by the end of the month, so avoiding any major downswings, custo better watch his back :D hehe

Anyways, I'm still amazed by some of the unbelievable play at 5nl, the hand below shows exactly why hands like KQ,KJ,QJ are called trouble hands, because they get you into trouble, like this hapless villain who really should have know he was beat when i 3bet him on the flop.

The next hand it's worth noting that the villain had stats of 59/18/13, under no other circumstances would i call the push on the flop but this guy had been playing like an idiot and i just couldn't fold here, i was about 80% sure he was either drawing or, best case, had total air, turns out he was drawing.

So overall it's been a good week, i'm making good steady progress towards my No1 goal at the minute of getting to $250 and 10nl. I think my play is improving as well, my postion stats are looking good with a nice increase in vpip as i get towards the button, all this time spent at 5nl is not going to waste, also, i completed a survey for stars this week as well which i'm going to be recieving 300fpp's for, so with the fpp's in the bank i'm going to be able to play another 2 210fpp sattelites in the near future which will hopefully bring me at least another $10.67 in sold T$

So figures for the week are:

Starting roll: $184.79

Hands Played: 4664

Profit: $22.61

Current Roll: $207.40

Below are a comparison of this week to last month, notice the bb/100 is a respectable 4.85 this week so theres been no hot streak to make my figures look better, and a graph for the week.

Til next time readers : )