Month 4: Week 2 Completion - Moved to 100NL again

Back At 100NL

7,218 Hands Played
Profit +$480.05
BB/100 3.33
V$PIP 19%
PFR 13%
Post Flop Aggro 2.12
Showdowns Won 51%
Rakeback $207.00

Total Proft/Loss +$687.05

This was a remarkable turnaround. The first day i started playing back at 100nl i felt really confident but it turned out to the be the worst session ive ever put in, after 1 day and 1300 hands i was down just short of 9 buyins, i was stumped, and never came across so many difficult sessions in one day. I still taught i played well but the cards i got dealt were horrible, i think i had 3 or 4 $20 pots and after that i just picked up loose change, it truly was terible but i didnt tilt much and still managed to make some good laydowns with overcards and one with a straight on a flush board, really was sick.

What happened after that was i decided to play 100nl the next day with my confidence completed dashed and against my better judgement but i decided if i lost 2 buyins id drop. This graph depicts what happened better than i could.



So im not getting carried away but things are starting to look up, My coaching has got delayed and im away on Holidays soon so it may well be after my holidays that they start. Im definetely playing much more confident, some is due to the theory coaching i got, some is due to the watching of videos on cardrunners and alot is probably due to good variance so hopefull this coaching can improve me before my good variance runs out.

Month 4: Week 1 Completion

5,191 Hands Played 50NL
Profit +$442.07
BB/100 9.23
V$PIP 21%
PFR 15%
Post Flop Aggro 3.56
Showdowns Won 48%
Rakeback $89.14

Total Proft/Loss +$531.21

Solid week, i have some coaching coming up in the following week which im looking forward to and i think im going to take another stab at 100nl as i feel very confident. The coaching ive had up to this was just theory via msn really so i hope this one which will be sweating while i play should be beneficial.

Month 3: Week 4 Completion - Moved Down Levels to 50NL

6,289 Hands Played
Loss -$275.13
BB/100 -2.06
V$PIP 24%
PFR 16%
Post Flop Aggro 2.48
Showdowns Won 50%
Rakeback $214.00

Total Profit/Loss -$61.13

I played around 4k hands at 100NL and 2k hands at 50NL. I was $400 up at one stage early in the week and i just lost the plot and had a serious look at my game and took a few days off watch loads of cardrunners videos and i got myself a coach, i just really wasnt up to it but im determined to become a better and winning player and im currently not, i also spewed $200 shortstacking at $1/$2 so i knew things were going to get out of control and i stopped. I played about 2k hands at 50nl near the end of the week, im not going to even say i think ive improved yet because i feel like ive said it a million times, ive only had 2 coaching lessons and ill probably fit in about 3-4 more and then take a shot at 100nl again but for the time being im back down at 50nl. Hopefully in a few weeks i can look back and laugh at how i struggled through the past few months as after 3 months im a losing player, but next week is a fresh month so fingers crossed.

Some of the things ive decided to do is only play as many hands as i feel comfortable playing which means my rakeback is less but i hope to make up for it in BB/100. Too many times i was just playing to make up the numbers and id be thinking God 2 more hours of play to get in yet, under these circumstances i just dont concentrate and it cant be good for my game, now i try to keep my sessions shorter to maybe 1-2 hrs and i take a break and come back when i feel fresh. Alot of the time the latter part of a session would be very downhill and id throw away the few buyins i had made, not always but enough to make me want to change. Im also going to take breaks if im running bad something i never done before.

Month 3: Week 3 Completion

Felt i had a solid week and was happy with my poker, had a few bad variance sessions and just felt i couldnt get paid of on my bigger hands but nonetheless its a steady improvement from last weeks catastrophy. Ive just started to get big into datamining and table selections and so i hope this can pay off next week so heres lasts week:

8,112 Hands Played 100NL
Profit +$110.98
BB/100 0.68
V$PIP 24%
PFR 16%
Post Flop Aggro 3.24
Showdowns Won 49%
Rakeback $250

Total Profit $360.98

Its still not great im basically just playing a breakeven game at best and living off rakeback but i truly think im better than this and im slowly inproving my game. As ive said to move from an above average player to a good player ill need some coaching id imagine but for now i just want to increase my bankroll and continue to play good poker.

Month 3: Week 2 Meltdown - Moved to 100nl

Catastrophic comes to mind. I let my V$pip widen to around 27% and started double barrelling alot and soon got into alot of trouble so i done the sensible thing MOVE UP LEVELS to recover losses and this quickly turned into a downward spiral so i took a couple of days off reviewed where i was going wrong, watched alot of 100nl game and decided to stay at 100nl. In truth its not the best decision because i dont have the proper bankroll so i committed myself to adding $1k if i need it and its pretty much a case of if i run ok for a week ill be bankrolled and if i run bad for a week ill have to drop down and add 1k. I know this is a bit of a mistake but i just dont have the patients to grind it out at 50nl at the moment due to financial commitments etc so im going to take the risk. The latter part of the week went ok but it couldnt put much of dent in what was a terrible week. The cast majority, about 8k of the hands here are at 100nl.

This really is a kick in the nuts but i guess i just need to pull up my socks and show im good enough to play 100nl, i imagine anyone looking on will be saying "You muppet drop levels and there probably right"

Played 9276 Hands (8K hands at 100nl rest at 50nl)
Profit +$-1,221.76
BB/100 -7.47
V$PIP 23.5%
PFR 16%
Post Flop Aggro 2.32
Showdowns Won 46%
Rakeback $311

Total Loss $910.76