Nl10 results.

February 3rd week 09

No one is going to give you anything. Success in poker isn't something just given, its earned. Its fought for.. Every ounce, every penny, every pot, every buy in. Is scraped from the walls of the game. There is nothing given, every pot is fought for. Dragging them in, tooth and nail, kicking and screaming. Its is a war of attrition. Through randomness in which the slightest edge. Which is pushed and pulled over the reigns of aggression. To squeeze the slightest bit of equity out of the opposition. Is fought for over. Every pot won is another inch up the mountain. While every loss is a massive stumble backwards. Every mistake made is tenfold to every mistake not made. In the words of Roy Cooke "The recurring sum of volume times the net edge equals expectation". If you ever get a free bee be grateful. When some poor soul decides to ship you his stack of chips. Take them and be grateful.
Focus, patience, multi level thinking, mathematical understanding of poker related instances, range, equity. Being able to start fresh in a hand and yet at the same time letting the flow of the match add info that correlates to the current hand through process of elimination. "The metagame", These are all important subjects that are needed for one to be able to understand and be able to win at poker.
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Just finished 100k hands at nl10 but I have not achieved the winrate I think I need to prove I am a solid winning player vs just a winning player. I am not sure what my leak is in my game but I am only running at +2/100 in standard bb's over 100k. This translates to $200 profit not including cash back reward bonuses playing at nl10. This particular week I was almost to $200 profit when I started playing stupid. Took a shot at a limit over my head and then burned off the rest of profit for the week 8 tabling nl100. Either way I am still a ways off from the mark I wanted to hit before I take another shot at nl25. But maybe I need to spend some more time at nl10 trying to figure out what the heck I am doing wrong.
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Depending on when the baby gets here I will probably have in the vicinity of $300 plus in cash back bonuses and deposit bonus by the end of the week after next. I am kinda liking the tune of spending another 100K hands at nl10 just to see if I can figure out WTF! On a positive note I don't really spend much time looking at my balance anymore on a regular basis. Instead I have adopted refreshing my graph on HM.

Happy Valentines

30,037 Hands/ $82 profit/ 2,394

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Don't know how I managed to get so many hands in this week compared to the last month or two. Sunday has been a long session trying to hit some of the bonus milestone hands. This month with the help of a little Tilt assistance I managed a cooler slash -12 buy in streak. Even at the end of the week I was still running about 10 buy in's down. I caught some bad beats this weekend. I lost at least six or seven time alone when something I hadn't seen very often happened. For some reason this weekend people were shoving with small pocket pairs into me. It wouldn't have mattered much other than the fact that every time they were at least a 4-1 dog. But magically hit a set, ever time? Like what the fuck right. Nobody does stupid shit like that. Not only that but in half the situations I pushed all in and was CALLED. I mean to push all in making a move is ok. To call someones all in for 80 big blinds more with pocket sixes or fours. Come the fuck on!

sTOP PUnISHing Me StARS!

Only 9+ buy in's below All In EV in last two days. Stars decides to punish me for taking advantage of there deposit bonus. Sometimes I think stars has it out for me personally.

Still more F.U. Pokerstars

Why haven't I updated my blog in a while? Well other than the above reason I have been working a couple more hours. I have also been going to some kind of baby class. As the days of having a mini me around are potentially numbered in the single digits. And my progress graph looks like its stuck to the front of the Titanic as it plummeted to the ocean floor. I decided to play at Nl10 for a while until I get my roll to 3k. That way I have a 20 buy in shot at Nl25 before I get to the 100 buy in mark. Other than maybe I was having a little tougher time making the transition from 200 bb's to 100 bb's, I suck, or I could have been playing a little off due to the fact that I didn't want to drop below 100 buy in's last shot. I think this was effecting my play a little as well as the standard line. Bad beat, F.U Stars, whine whine whine.

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Also I think I might take whats left of my live roll and deposit it all on my stars account to try and take advantage of there $250 bonus. They have a couple of sucker promos going on right now for there 25 billion hand thingy. In order to get this bonus I need to burn off around 5,000 vpp points. Since the start of this year ive racked up around 9,000ish so this shouldn't be a problem. The only bad thing is I will not have a roll to be playing live with. This probably won't be a problem considering the baby will be here any day. And who knows how much I will get to play period. In the last couple weeks I have been only averaging 12-20 thousand hands a week.

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Some good news is I finally got a hold of the guy I was buying material and parts for my newest poker table. Here is a picture of what the felt will look like. Everything should be here by the end of next week so maybe I will have it put together and have a picture taken of the setup.