The weekend didn’t start off pretty. I was rusty. I made a lot of bad plays. I usually take a break from playing after I lose 4 buy-ins in a session, but somehow I was down nearly 6 before I even looked at how I was doing. I hadn’t been playing long and knew I had to shake off the rust, so I decided that if I went below 8 buy-ins; I was down $78.60 at one point, but I never $80. Eventually I worked my way back to “only” down $50 to the penny. Discouraged I re-read some classic 2+2 posts, as well as looking at some newly posted hands. Things made a little more sense than they did before, I think. I played for another two of three hours that night and did slightly better, but still lost somewhere between $7-8 before closing off Full Tilt. Then I logged on to Deuces Cracked and started watching the “Unlimited Texas Hold Them” by WiltOnTilt; there is so much useful information there. Some stuff that would have went over my head a year ago is really smacking me in the face now. Specifically I’m paying much more attention to both where the raises are coming from and I do in response to them. This is something that I thought I understood... but now I really do.
Saturday I started off by watching another video before going through all of my big hands from the night before in Hold’em Manager. After that it was time for a quick 2-hour session. I played noticeably better than the night before and made about $8.50 before taking a break. Some food, hand review of the session, and a WiltOnTilt video later and I was off to the tables again. This time I managed to win $10 in about 90 minutes before getting tired. I was only down $38 and some change at this point.
This morning (afternoon) started out great. I started off by stacking a donk almost instantly. From there I continued to run well; I utilized my fold equity and hit my combo draws when I was called for the most part. I in general played very well (amazingly well compared to Friday), in addition to running bad. Looking at the graph, I think I was only stacked twice over a total of three hours of play, compared to me stacking 5 opponents. One of the times I got stacked was for 150 big blinds near the end of the session when I raised AQo in position, and my opponent called with 55 from the blinds. The flop was Q5x, the turn was irrelevant, and the river was a Q, giving me trips and him a full house. I bet three streets of what I thought was value against a calling station only to find out I valuetowned myself. Of course he left the table within seconds of this happening. Oh well, overall, I’m up a little under 6 buy-ins for the day. Ship it!
And of course, the graph:
My stats over the weekend were 19.2/17/3.28 winning 2.22ptbb/100. Ignoring Friday, I’ve been playing 18.7/16.7/3.46 running 16ptbb/100 (running hot, obviously). That’s around $11.60/hour before rakeback – ship ship.
But my goal is a modest win rate of 5/100 ptbb/100 (10 big blinds/100 hands). That equates to $3.25/hour assuming 325 hands/hour (it’s probably more than that, but you want to be conservative with estimates). Add in about $2/hour from rakeback. If I meet this goal, and play ~20 hours a week until school starts, I should be able to get to 25NL before school starts.
Poker Goals
10K hands by new year’s day
5/100 ptbb/100 (10 big blinds/100 hands)
Finish DeucesCracked: Unlimited Texas Hold Them Season 1 + 2
$70 in Rake Back for January
Stop looking at the session stats/graph every 5 minutes while playing
Non-Poker Goals
Finish Get Smart Season 1
Finish cleaning up and cleaning out bedroom in Hillsborough
Read or listen to one book
Wish me luck, all!
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