Sept Review

Well $411 ish dollars and somewhere around 90,000 hands later and the month of September run is over. I accomplished a lot this month. And as a result feel pretty good about everything. I made my $875 mark I was hoping to hit even though I had not planned on getting there till sometime in the middle of next month. Even though I have now reached my goal for bankroll management I set. I think now after getting ready to move to .05-.10. I am once again going to change my bankroll requirements. I think my new change will just be moving my required buy in amount to 100 full buy In's. And if at any time I drop down to 75 full buy In's I will move back down to the previous level until I make it to 100 buy In's again. This should change my bankroll requirements to something more like this. Which means I should be ready to move to .05-.10 by the end of next week the way things are going.

.05-.10

$10 buy in: 100 buy In's= $1,000

2.5/100: over 100,000 = $250

bankroll after 100k hands = $1250

.10-.25

$25 buy in: 100 buy In's=$2500

2.5/100: over 100,000 = $625

bankroll after 100k hands = $3125

.25-.50

$50 buy in: 100 buy In's= $5000

2.5/100: over 100,000 = $1250

bankroll after 100k hands = $6250

.50-1

$100 buy in: 100 buy In's= $10,000

2.5/100: over 100,000 = $$2500

bankroll after 100k hands = $12,500

Overall.

I cashed in on my first cash back bonus. I busted out a shitload of hands. I was running at least triple the amount of bb/100 I was supposed to, to be winning at this level. And I picked up a second monitor. I purchased Hold em Manager (big ++++) I feel through the month I was able to bring in more hands with raises and push my aggression factor up. I didn't get stuck in tilt mode much this month from what I remember. I still made a few errors and look forward to pushing them out of my system more and more.

Even though I am probably still costing myself money by not moving up. I need to start and stick with a bankroll plan. And now is as good a time as any. Besides who knows being deep stacked for me might be more lucrative than playing only 100 bb's deep. I might find it better to move back down to .02-.05. Even though for me to feel success full I would really want 100k hands at .05-.10. Just to have record that I am beating that level and didn't just skip it. I feel its probably important to play each level so I do not miss something. Whether its the game changing or just the experience itself playing more and more hands.

Sept week 4 review

23,000 hands/ $186 profit/ 869 FPP's/ 16/100
Monthly avg. 8/100 over 90,100 hands


This week was a pretty good week. Managed to burn out a couple of 600-800 big blind sessions. Was able to reach my first cash back bonus and then hit the required amount to cash it in. I did however break rank for one session on Saturday where I moved to .10-.25. I did this as I still needed a little over 200 Fpp's to continue being silver star. The session went OK. I was up $50 early and then reached my 350 vpp's to cash in on my cash back. I still hadn't reached the amount needed to retain my silver star status. So I continued playing and proceeded to lose $25 for the session. I hit my mark though and was still including my cash back bonus up $25. Even though had I quit while being ahead $50 I would be even farther ahead now. And probably would have still cleared my silver star status within the next two days. This is where the big spike in the graph came from near the end of the session.


This week had some pretty good wins despite a lot of big losing hands where I got stacked. I am still trying to increase the aggression. This in turn increases the variance a little more as I feel I am confronted with more and more tougher decisions. Where people are probably getting tired of me raising and re raising them every time I am in the hand. I am still looking to pick up more raising to try and hit the preferred numbers. But basically I would have to be raising any pocket pair any two face cards and any two suited connectors. Also a lot of these numbers I have been trying to bring my game to match is more for 6-max. So obviously I am a little off kilter here. But regardless I think it will help my game a lot in the long run.


Also a big thing this week was for me picking up a second monitor. This is already cutting down on the amount of errors I was having trying to play 15 games on one screen. Also this will increase my winnings by being able to play more tables. I was only able to play 4 sessions since picking up my new monitor on Friday. But it almost forces me to be a little more solid. By playing another three to six games it causes me to play a little more solid leaving less chances for me to play marginal hands without solid implied odds. Also the amount of hands I have should jump another 10,000 per week and should easily put me over 100,000 a month. What does this mean? Hopefully more hands leading to more profit leading to variance working itself out faster. Anyways this in turn leads to me playing more tables than 18. I think I will be sticking it out with 18 for a while until I am more comfortable. Or until I try out the auto hot key software people are using on 2+2 forums. This should cut down on time it takes for me to scroll or tap the scroll to reach the desired bet amount. Verses a button programed to preset amounts such as 1/2, pot 3/4, pot, or all in by the touch of one button. I am just a little leery about downloading another program onto my computer that could mess something up. "If it ain't broke don't fix it"


I didn't reach my $875 bankroll mark this month. Unless I catch two $25 plus winning sessions in the next two day of month before it ends. I did take one shot at .05-.10 and will have to be a little cautious at first. As it is a different jump only having 100 bb's in the stack verses 200. I have almost been tempted to remain at .02-.05 until I have 100 full buy-in's. But I think as of this point in this month even having one week being break even. I am destroying this level at 8/100 over 90k hands. And I am probably just costing myself money not having moved up already. But the winning is consistent and the variance seems less having a deeper stack. Unless I have a couple big losing sessions which is totally possible considering my results so far I should be able to move up sometime next week. I am not sure how much I will allow myself to lose before I drop back down. Was almost thinking of waiting like I said to 100 buy-in's and then drop back down when I reach 75 full buy-in's. But we will see. Also what will be interesting is how the fpp amount will change to being a few cents higher. Don't know if I will make another cash back bonus or not this next month or not. But if I do well at .05-.10 maybe I will.

Rocking the Dual 22"s

OH YEAH!

Finally broke down and took the compooter to visit two geeks computers Friday night after having them guarantee that I would have my computer back the next day Saturday.

I was under the impression that I was going to have to have them install another video card. And would have to have the computer for a day or two to install. Finally after several phone calls they assured me I could have it back the next day. So upon arriving the tech informed me that I already had the video card i needed. I am not to puter savvy mind you. I had at the time purchased the super duper gaming computer which has already had what I needed installed. I felt pretty silly and then out of silliness I binged and bought a second monitor. I am glad I got this setup, playing 18+ tables has never been easier. I was experiencing a small amount of error playing 15 games on my one screen. Now the only problem I have experienced it the occasional time out where my time runs out on a screen while playing.

The big advantage is just the larger number of hands I will be seeing. I managed one three hour session today. But was having problems as the tables kept breaking and scattering. So through out the session I wasn't completely running 18 tables. Probably only like %95 of the time. I did manage to run down a rough 3,200 hands. This translates to upping my hands per week by an extra 10,000. Or another 40,000 hands a month.

Friday night instead of playing I went over and dealt at Ken's cash game for a couple hours. Was cool getting to be back at Ken's game. Seeing familiar faces and new ones. Also just getting to see the same old play but having since gotten to take a break from it. Allowing me to see everything in a different shade of light. I know when I return to play there or play live my game will have evolved quite a bit after playing so many hands this time around. The donkeys won't know what hit them.

mid week sept

FUCK THE BOOK!

Picked up on a little bit of a heat so far this week. Even despite running into set over set situations. At least two times each session. I will have to put on record that for only the THIRD TIME! in two months I had a set over set situation. Where I had the higher set and it held!!!. So I think I am running somewhere in the vicinity of three for 20 in the last two months or something stupid like that. Running up a quick $94 in the first three days has been a relief after last weeks long break even grind. Although I am expecting a serious cooler in the up coming days to level me out near the end of the week. On Tuesday I set my second highest win in the terms of bb/100. And with this new software is the biggest recorded at 800 bb's over 2,200 hand session.

It doesn't look like I will retain my silver star status or clear my first cash back bonus that I initiated this last Tuesday. Unless I jump ranks and play at a higher level for a session. I might take another shot at .10-.25 this weekend, if I don't reach silver star status. Although I have already cleared %26 of my cash back bonus in the last two day. This is just probably due to the big wins I have been booking.

I figure things will turn south a bit so I will need to brace for a couple multiple runner runner, set over set, (breaking my 3 in a session record), two outer extravaganza.

Sept week 3 review

19,600 hands/ $0 profit/ 496 FPP's/ 0/100

Monthly to date/ 7/100 over 55,100 hands

Well fuck me in the Goat Ass!. This week was pretty lame. Every hand I was in I got raped. Whenever the money was in when I was ahead I seemed destined to lose. Or at best get counterfeited for a chop. Still have not managed to break my three set over set situations yet per session. Even though I tied it two times this week. My aces couldn't seem, all in pre-flop to beat any of the following hands K6o, JTo, TT, QT in just the last session alone. The rest of my sessions this week seemed to follow suit. Although this week was break even. I am still killing this level or the 55,100 hands I've put in so far. And that makes it easier to step back and see that I am running way above average. To the point that I should expect a week like this or even a loss for the week. Which was pretty close to happening here. I could probably still break even for the next week or two weeks and be ahead of the game. This isn't something I look forward to. But my success so far has been way above the norm. And just waiting for a visit from variance to make an appearance. And I think I am starting to catch a glimpse.

I tried 15 tabling for the first part of this week. Found that the screens just overlap a little to much. Which actually caused me some small profit but nothing major. I don't see 15 or more tables a problem but I think I will stick with 12 until I purchase another 22" monitor. This way I can play two screens of nine tables. This should allow for full view of each table. The downfall to this is I will have to drop off my computer at 2 Geeks for a day or two. To allow them to install something to be able to hook up both screens to. I might be able to get the "Go to guy" to do this for me. He is very knowledgeable in this area. But I haven't been able to corner him yet so we will see.

I also had some Internet connection problems this week. This actually is an easy way to cause me to get tilted. Especially when in the middle of an important hand or seven!

It looks like I will be able to take advantage of my first cash bonus this month. As I should break the 5,000 FPP's needed. And I am roughly averaging 400 fpp's + a week. So by the end of the week I should hit my first bonus. After this week I think I am going to need this. As there is definitely no way I am making the $875 mark I need to start playing .05-.10. I might break rank one night this next week maybe after picking up the bonus. And jump up to .10-.25 level. I know this is bad but just enough to secure my silver star status for next month if it comes to that. At least that way the fpp's will still be coming a little faster as I will be starting off fresh for a new cash back bonus.

As far as play goes. I need to tighten up a little more when it comes to big pots. I think I will still try to refrain from bluffing a lot. I pull off a bluff or two every now and then. But the majority of the time it backfires and costs me money. I am doing a little better on raising more. I still need to turn up the heat still more. I noticed at least towards the end of the week that people were trying to steal the button like crazy. Even when not first to bring it in. Almost every time the button raisers cards were shown. It ended up being like 95o or some other garbage. By Sunday this was almost getting to the point of constant three betting from me in the small blind. I also tried something different this week. Which shouldn't have been that big of a result change. Instead of 3/4 pot + betting on every street. I bet 3/4 on flop then just a few bb's more on turn then just a few more on the river. I noticed I was getting called down by a lot weaker hands and was getting more money by the river. And when I was beat by controlling the bets on the turn and river I lost less. Before with my bigger bets the weaker hands were folding on the turn and pretty much only the hands that were beating me or drawing to beat me were left. And with the bigger bets on the turn and river. When the traps were sprung sometimes the bet that was left to call was less than 20 bb's. I think this was a step in the right direction even though now I cannot get frustrated over when the draws hit as much. As usually I am pricing them in.

On to next week:

More raising, more three betting, less calling a three bet and more four betting pre-flop. I need to tighten up more on the river to big all-In's. More aggression, less calling more raising post-flop.

Sept week two review

12,500 hands/ $123 profit/ 434 FPP's/ 19/100
Monthly avg. 10/100 over 35,500 Hands

I had a short week this week as far as how many hands I got in. But regardless of playing half the amount of hands that I played last week. My profit was almost doubled. I struggled during my first day or two and then stormed back near the end of the week and then into the weekend.

I took another look at my stats which are still way to fishy. I am still playing way to many hands that I am not bringing in with a raise. Or re raising a raiser in position to get the pot heads up. And or take initiative during the hand. Also I am still calling to much post flop. Not raising or re raising enough to charge my opponents there draws. And or getting my opponents to fold weaker hands that still could draw out. Also just playing to many hands in general that I am limping in with.

This last week I took AKo and AQo off the raising standard for being under the gun. Also not calling a raise out of the blinds with AQo. Considering the amount of times that these hands miss the flop and cost me money due to the bad players getting lucky. Having a pair that is ahead when I miss. And or the floater that has either picked up on my nitty playing style. Or just being super aggressive that could push me off the best hand.

I have been running fairly well this last week. This is putting a little distortion on my results. But as the ball is rolling I will not break into the .02-.05 level until sometime at least halfway through next month. Obviously this is not taken into account any major fluctuations. Also I probably won't be cashing in on my first cash back bonus that I was looking forward to. And unless I take a shot at .10-.25 or log in a solid week at .05-.10. I will most likely lose my Silver Star status. So I might jump bankroll management just to help keep stacking up the FPP's.

On another note most of my success during my sessions tended to happen during the first 1,000 hands or less. After this 1,000 hand mark. My profit seemed to run out of steam a little. I don't have sufficient results to prove that my cards were changing. Or by that point my ability to control my tilt was getting less and less. And would cause me to make poorer decisions that would reflect my winnings. If these results continue I might consider doing a 1,000 hand session. Followed by a break of doing something else then return for another 1,000 hand session. Just a thought....

And finally Sunday's session was the deal clincher putting me well over $100 profit for the week. I am basically destroying at 10/100 over some 35,000 hands. I can only hope next week or the cooler that should be coming up soon isn't any where near as drastic as this run. I did break the 400 bb win stop rule a little today. I was up 600 bb's and rather than stop I let my winnings drop 100 bb's until I pulled out.

Next week I will continue focusing on raising more to get my PR stat up a little more. As well as my 3-Bet and my aggression factor. Still trying to push more raises or bets rather than calling. This is still a major leak in my game. This at least today could have cost me a 100 bb's.

Onward and upward

Sept Progress

Here is my progress during the month of September so far

9/01/08 $446-$466 *4000 10/100- 12 tables 6 hours
9/02/08 $466-$486 *3200 12/100- 12 tables 4 1/2 hours
9/03/08 $486-$510 *2700 17/100- 12 tables 3:45
9/04/08 $510-$510 *2000 00/100- 12 tables 3:50
9/05/08 $510-$530 *2000 20/100- 12 tables 2:45
9/06/08 $530-$527 *2000 -3/100- 12 tables 2:30
9/06/08 $527-$510 *3000 -11/100- 12 tables 4:00
9/07/08 $510-$517 *2000 7/100- 12 tables 3:11

Week 1

9/08/08 $517-$504 *2100 -13/100- 12 tables 2:40
9/09/08 $504-$530 *2000- 26/100- 12 tables 3:00
9/10/08 $530-$560 *1100- 60/100- 12 tables 1:30
9/11/08 $560-$570 *1000- 20/100- 12 tables 1:30
9/12/08 $570-$566 *1700- 5/100- 12 tables 2:45
9/12/08 $566-$563 *3300- -1/100- 12 tables 4:30
9/13/08 $563-$593 *1000- 60/100- 12 tables 1:30
9/14/08 $593-$615 *1000- 44/100- 12 tables 1:30
9/14/08 $615-$640 *2500- 20/100- 15 tables 3:00

Week 2

9/16/08 $640-$671 *1000- 62/100- 15 tables 1:00
9/17/08 $671-$658 *2800- -9/100- 15 tables 3:00
9/17/08 $658-$640 *1000- -18/100- 12 tables 1:00/ .05-.10
9/18/08 $640-$641 *2500- 1/100- 15 tables 3:00
9/19/08 $641-$657 *1300- 24/100- 12 tables 2:30
9/19/08 $657-$644 *3700- -7/100- 15 tables 3:00+
9/20/08 $644-$660 *2500- +12/100- 12 tables 3:15
9/20/08 $660-$645 *3000- -10/100- 12 tables 4:00
9/21/08 $645-$640 *1800- -5/100- 12 tables 2:30

Week 3

9/22/08 $640-$661 *2500- +16/100- 12 tables 3:30
9/23/08 $661-$700 *2200- +35/100- 12 tables 3:00
9/24/08 $700-$734 *2300- +29/100- 15 tables 2:45
9/25/08 $734-$735 *3300- +1/100- 15 tables 3:30
9/26/08 $735-$703 *1500- -42/100- 12 tables 2:00
9/27/08 $703-$728 *2500- +20/100- 18 tables 3:00
9/27/08 $728-$764 *3200- +22/100- 18 tables 3:00
9/27/08 $764-$786 *2000- -05/100- 18 tables 2:00- .10-.25 +$50 cash back bonus
9/28/08 $786-$826 *3200- 25/100- 18 tables 3:00

Week 4

9/29/08 $826-
9/30/08

Run off days

Heater?

This is what a 60/100 heater over 1,000 hands looks like. It doesn't look like much unless you view it up against 40 or 50 thousand hand graph. I had to quit in only 1,000 hands to keep my rule of 400 big blind win stopping point. I should have quit a 100 or 200 hands earlier as I would have been up another 100 bb's. Everything seemed to be going my way other than one stupid hand.

I'm not really sure why whenever I try to trap someone in position heads up with aces they aways have a set or better after the flop???. It just baffles me. I don't know if I am not really ready to continue playing aces that way. That little voice in the back of my head when I am raised chimes in. "But there is no way he can put you on aces here your probably still ahead". Rather than common sense leading the way. This seems to put me on insta tilt as well for some reason. Its frustrating that I lose with aces heads up in position %90 of the time I try and trap someone. I need to just take one step forward towards the common sense direction versus the retard insta tilt way.

Anyways I am well over the 100,000 hand mark since I began multi tabling. And very close to the 80,000 mark at the .02-.05 level. I am well above killing this level. Even in despite of letting myself go on full on donkey Kong tilt a few times. I am probably costing myself by not moving up to .05.10. But I am going to stay on a little more at this level. At the very least until the Hold em Manager I picked up this last week has a full 100k hands stored in its database at this level. When I installed it I was able to find a small part of my database but it was very minimal. At this point it only has 38,000 hands logged in record at the .02-.05 level. But even at the rate I am running at by the time I reach 100,00. I still won't be at the $875 mark. I will probably be $100 short so I will most likely be grinding it out halfway into next month before I make the move up.
This of course isn't including in Tilt, Heaters, or other life obstacles that could speed up or slow down progress.

Sept week one review

22,000 Hands/ $55 profit/ 426 FPP's/ 5/100

Well this week looked to be going great until yesterday's sessions. I was at $75 profit for the week and was looking to make it a cool $100. My first session broke my newly previous rule of stopping when ahead. I hadn't made any set point yet but I think for now on it will be 400 bb's. Which would be $20 at this level. In my first session I was at 600 bb's going into the first 400 hands and decided I couldn't quit that early.....

Well anyways the rest of the session was a little extra brutal than normal. I lost an all in flopped straight vs two pair. I flopped two boats one I got drawn out on after the money went in and I lost with the other. I got set over set ted twice and folded two other sets when a possible straight and flush was on board. I finished the session $3 down which wasn't bad short of the big wins followed by a barely break even run.

The second session wasn't any better and proceeded to lose another $17. This was done with a lot of emphasis put on cold deck bad luck and low on gas.

I chose to take a break and play some live poker at a friends. I took second in the tournament with the help of a lot of bad play by some other players. Booked a $40 profit from the tournament and then lost $12 of it in the cash game afterwards. I got a couple big draws that I was priced in on. But from about Wednesday on this week I couldn't hit the side of a barn with a rocket launcher even being inside of the dam thing. Basically If you had a two outer. Chances were you were getting there before my open ended straight flush draw with over cards would every time.

Sunday was a little better though even at playing 12 tables. The cards seemed a little slow coming. C-Bet a lot less but got less respect from my bets in general. I think only %20 or less of my C-Bets worked today. I made one bad call based on curiosity that set me back a good 80 bb's. My brain still isn't adjusted right to these smaller stakes. I called down a shove on the flop with pocket jacks. The shove looked like one of those AK shoves the tourney players who don't play a lot of cash or the better cash game players do. I basically wanted to see as it fell into one of those type of lines. I was wrong. Also, I made one two many calls against a player which cost ed me a few extra bb's. I finished the one session I played today $6 up. Wish it could have been a little better. But it's better than loosing. At least my roll is still headed in the right direction overall. And thanks to bankroll management this is a lot easier to see. It also helped after encountering some frustration not jumping stakes and blowing a lot of hard work.

I think I am still playing a little two loose. I am not sure how much more successful I would be raising all my hands that I bring in. Or at least re raising for isolation. I am running very fishy in the area of 21/5. I could see raising or folding a little more but this would have to be done paying a lot more attention to position. Other than being worried about a little bigger variance by raising alot more hands is the only thing holding me back. It's hard to proceed raising more hands when I see how many times my C-Bet's fail with the AK, AQ and KQs. Still I see the other multi table players who are successful are running more around the area of 17/12 ish. I think this is a little better than the Lagtards that are running at like 30/25. I don't know which is better but I don't see those looser players around a lot. Maybe it's difficult with all the advice and coaching video's based off 6 max. People tend to get there game play a little out of wack. All though they still say the better full ring players will be good 6 max players. This is obviously something I will have to look into after running up a few more stakes. And are a winning player in general.

So weekly review I think I need to stop playing by limping in with the ace x suited's. The suited connectors and the suited on gappers. Also not brining in cards with raises like KQ suiteds and other hands rather than limping in. Obviously there will be a need to pull a little caution when my flop bets get called with top pair as I could easily be dominated.

Also a little more focus playing pocket pairs to a reraise. Paying more attention to the 20x rule from Harrington.

Still setting up my betting a little better to not lose so much money when I am beat. And keeping myself from becoming pot committed. I was previously betting a little less than pot to keep the draws from being priced in. Most people on draws don't fold at these stakes. And the times your beat your just putting in a lot of money that will make it harder for you to fold when they shove. I have noticed the better players really control there bet sizing alot more that keeps there losses down. This is something I need to streamline a little more.

Also this week I noticed for the first time I made some missclicks that probably costed me around a 100 bb's or more. This hasn't been a problem before until this last week. Most of the time it comes from when my screens are overlapped. A new screen becomes activated and I hit call or fold instead of.

Holdem Manager 10,000 hands $100 profit

Well after some frustration. Which has been going on for at least a year or more. I finally broke down after Poker Tracker broke down again! I couldn't take it any more and went out and purchased Hold em Manager. All I can say is wow. There is so much stuff you can do with this software. So far despite the Hud crashes which are not bad. It just decimates poker tracker. There is so much more tweak able information you can gather on your opponents. It will take some time exploring all the extra info that is offered. At least anyway I have access of profit graphs. The only problem was upon buying Hold em Manager I could not download all my other previous hands. I was able to find a 20,000 ish hand block located from somewhere on my computer that doesn't correlate with the latest data.

Anyways so far as of Friday night this week has been good. I have stormed back to a $85 run since Monday. Hopes are high as I go into this weekend to see if I can finish it an even $100 for the week. I have been averaging $20 profit a session which is roughly 2000 hands. If I can keep this up I might reach my bankroll requirements for .05-.10 before the end of this month. I think this idea is a little far fetched. So I wont be disappointed when it is not reached.

August Review

"I'm a lead farmer Motherfucka!"


Well the first month is over for my multi-tabling tour DE micro stakes. And although it has so far been positive there was definitely some things I could and would have changed. A lot of things became a lot clearer. And several bad habits shown there ugly head enough times to help me stop doing them. I rolled in somewhere around 50K-70K hands with an unknown amount I tallied during the first week of the month playing .01-.02 stakes. I managed to keep my silver star status. Not that it was a goal for me at this time. I also revamped my bankroll requirements which at this time I think will be a good idea for me to stay at .02-.05 until my roll reaches the $875 mark. I am not sure if this mark will be reached by the end of Sept or not. All I can hope is that I have the patience not to jump bankroll and dig a hole for myself as I did this month. Also my poker tracker is working again FINALLY!. This is a big relief for to as I have been severely missing the option to go back and review my big hand losses during my sessions to hopefully plug some leaks in my game.
I haven't managed to hit any open ended straight flush draws yet and am somewhere around 0 for 8. These have cause some of the bigger session losses. Probably being second to me getting set over set ted more times than a hot hooker getting action at the Golden Nugget. I still think and during %75 of the time I was set over set ted that I should be able to fold here. I still get the feeling or when the villain hits there over card giving them a higher set. That they just got there, and I mainly call due to the books saying that's just the way it goes. I think the books are wrong here. Maybe the percentage of times my opponents will be floating me or betting missed draws will go up as I move up stakes but at the moment it appears to be running %95 of the time they have it.
My main problems at this level were betting to much with top kicker. When the board was say 5c7c9h. I would bet and I don't think there was a time that a draw didn't hit and I had to fold anyway. It was ridiculous to say the least. Also the amount of times I tried to slow play a straight or boat seemed to get me in trouble. Trying to slow play top set got me in trouble a couple times where I ended up having to fold or pay off a higher set. Moral of the story as I already know is never slow play. Also just paying off when a flush hit after a check call was pretty much retarded. It appeared that no matter what the bet if they were on a flush draw they were not folding. Also vary rarely would anyone else be semi bluffing with flushes and straight draws. I think the instances were very small and a lot of my big pots won with flush draws were ones that I semi bluffed into. Rather than the more obvious check calling then betting into or check raising.
I took a few shots at .05-.10 and did OK and I got bored and lost some money at .10-.25 during two sessions. I think I could play at .05-.10 and do OK but I would like to see and sustain a solid winning session over 100K hands. Also this would give me some extra time to pad my bankroll into the 75 full buy in area for that next level plus winnings from this level. Also one of the big cardinal rules that is a basic rule that is easier to say than follow. RAISE! RAISE! RAISE!, Fuck that calling shit. This next month I will continue to try and eradicate that weakness from my play. It's OK to raise or re raise only to fold to a push. Just the whole calling thing with what should be the winning hand only to find that the turn or river two paired them or caused the pot to be chopped when you would have won. Whatever STOP CALLING!
I think I should be able to extract my first cash bonus this month. I don't think I will see that benefit of this any time soon or at least until I'm running at the 200nl level and 12+ tabling.

So basically while only running 61,675 hands not including the .01-.02 level hands. And with a bankroll starting at $75 and now ending at $461. I feel this month has been a big success. Not only for my playing, my bankroll but also my confidence. By multi-tabling I have been able to see so many more hands and watch the variance roll out a lot quicker. I think this has been the biggest help to my game. Allowing me to fold more waiting for better opportunities to pick spots. Giving me more patience which has reinforced my own ability to be able to fold hands rather than pay off the villain when my big hands get cracked. With the whole point of full ring becoming clearer that its OK to wait regardless of how silly sometimes it seems to fold. Obviously there is a lot of opportunity being missed on bad folds but the winning is consistent. And that is nice finally for a change. So onward toward next month.