January Results

Decent start to the year:

Shooting

2 buyins down over first 4 sessions of latest 400nl shot.

Initial thoughts are that games are insanely aggressive and I need to run better when moving up:

Moving on up

Am running very nicely this month and my graph for the last 20,000 hands is looking pretty damn sweet at over 8PTBB/100 :)

I have just started to mix in 2/4 again and this time I have put aside 20 buyins for my shot. This means I am fully prepared, financially at least, for when the varaince train gets a little bumpy.

Hopefully the boomswitch will stay activated!

Royalments

This blog has been running pretty quiet lately which usually means the boomswitch is in operation :)

Think it might have peaked today though!

$1/$2 No Limit Holdem • 6 Players

Generated by weaktight.com.

Hero	$200
UTG+1	$200
CO	$260.40
BTN	$128.80
SB	$67.75
BB	$248.70

• Pre-Flop ($3, 6 players)Hero is UTG
• 

Hero raises to $6, 2 folds, BTN raises to $10, SB calls $9, 1 fold, Hero calls $4

• Flop ($32, 3 players)
• 

SB checks, Hero checks, BTN bets $12, SB folds, Hero raises to $38, BTN calls $26

• Turn ($108, 2 players)
• 

Hero checks, BTN bets $20, Hero calls $20

• River ($148, 2 players)
• 

Hero bets $64, BTN goes all-in $60.80

• Final Pot: $272.80

• BTN shows a pair of Aces
• 

• Hero shows a Royal Flush
• 

• Hero wins $269.80 (net +$137.80)
• BTN lost $128.80
• SB lost $10

Indifference

I just played a non scheduled session in an effort to get ahead of the game volume wise.

Before I started Helen questioned 'Are you sure you want to play? Even if you lose you will be happy with your decision to play?'.

'Yes of course' I replied and off I went to hit the tables.

Ten hands in and I have made a bad 3 street call down for half a buyin having called a min 3bet on btn with JTo vs an unknown. Soon after this:



Sometimes this would tilt me and I would already be questioning my decision to play.

This time though I felt only indifference to the AK hand and it was such an awesome feeling. I carried on the session knowing that tables were fantastic (over 300,000 people playing at stars wtf!) and that I was totally on my A game.

2 hours and a mini heater later I am up $700 for the session and very pleased with myself.

This hand is to remind me folding KK preflop is unecessary:

Treat your poker like a business

One week into the new year and am grinding away nicely @ almost 11,000 hands.

Haven't checked my stats once during game time and am using a very simple session checklist to keep this going. I am also writing a brief summary on each session immediately afterwards. This is lastest summary:

"Bottled out of 3rd barrel in 3betpot and got beat by T high. Pull the god damn trigger! Other than that felt very focused and composed during session, even when losing 2 big pots. One cooler QQ vs AA 150bb's deep blind vs blind and one when shoving over leverage raise with a read. Had made double decision and this really helped with any tilt issues because I was happy with the plan before I got called and saw his cards."

Have also just finished 'Treat Your Poker Like a Business', an e-book by leatherass, which is also available as a actual book.

I found a few bits useful but man I wish that book was written a year ago when I was just turning semi-pro!

If you are thinking about going pro anytime soon it is a must read imo, although please be aware that there is very little strategy in it.