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 : )