Thursday, August 21, 2008

Upward Trends and Optimistic Thoughts


When things turned bad at the end of July, I lost 7 out of 8 days, for a total loss of $782 :X. After that, since 8/8, I've won 7/12 days (not spectacular, but not horrible), for a win of $307, woo! In the second stretch I played at 22/17/3, compared to 24/18/2.75 during the losing stretch. Hrm...maybe that's not all that different. But my vpip is down some, my vpip/pfr is up some, and my agg and 3betting is up some(6 to 6.8), and let's pretend that makes a diff.

More generally, I've been watching the videos and if nothing else getting my head right. I'm picking my spots a little better, reading hands a bit better, and I've tempered my agg in situations where it looks like my fold equity is minimal and I face aggression. Shit looking for hands. I'm gonna get better at marking hands for posting. Starting...now.

I took some nasty beats today, but now I'll post some happy hands.

In this first, I got my stack back from a donkey that got it in with tpnk v my Aces and rivered trips. mmmm...so sweet.


In the next I turn set over set, which proves there is a God. Nice slowplay, sir.


In this hand, I feel like I got an extra $10 or so with a river check-raise.


In this hand...yeah I cold decked him. And it was fun.


One final note...I think I'm gonna make 20k hands rather easily, in my dreams I come close to the 5ptbb/100 goal I set for the month. I'm at 13k hands and 0 ptbb/100 for now.

Also, I figured out that if I play ONLY 50nl for the remainder of the month I can squeak out gold status again. So...I'm going for it. I'm actually at .75/100 for 50nl, so I don't think this is a stretch or much of a risk.

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