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.