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.