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.