Straight Flush
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: soaking up ethanol, moving on up
Posts: 5,804
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Originally Posted by daven
but for now, it's to 50nl and some study -
Time to find and plug those leaks! and end a $3k downswing
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did some study and spent a few days at 50nl playing with some more sanity! I'm playing only 11-12 tables now, time to really take notes and use reads properly... This seems to be my optimum number of tables for now - it means less rakeback and rakerace results, but another 1BB/100 will more than compensate. Also, I started playing better... trivial 50nl sample size of 5k hands at 5ptBB/100 felt good - noticed that FR 50nl seems to play a lot softer than 100nl on FT, but that may just be a result of playing less tables
Anyway, i then took a four day break heading away on a climbing, camping, beer drinking, lake swimming trip with a bunch of friends. Also happened to be my girlfriend's last weekend in NZ for quite a while. Dropped her at the airport early this morning and instead of more sleep I decided poker was in order. And it felt time to move back up. Well, i'm pretty happy about that call - 4k hands of 100nl so far today and running a nice +ve variance 5ptBB/100.
What does this mean? well, it was looking like being a losing month. Now I'm up for March, not a lot, but in the black. That means I still haven't had a losing month (after rakeback and bonuses) since I started posting on FTR - pretty happy about that, especially given that I still suck, have a less than optimum pre-flop game and am often completely lost post-flop. Add a page long list of leaks/weaknesses and I'm looking forward to giving poker full focus for a while
It feels good to know that I have the discipline to move down in stakes to plug leaks, and then to come back and somehow haul back up to breakeven and more after a 30buyin downswing. An interesting journey this poker game is turning out to be....
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