Hi guys,

So I'm trying to review my play a bit and I would appreciate any feedback.

When I got staked at Party I switched from playing micro SNGs to $5nl ring games.
It's been a little over 2 weeks since I started and I've only played 2500ish hands, so it's all fairly new.

In general it feels like it's going well. BR is up from $50 to $130 (includes $25 bonus).
I'm playing a little loose, but the tables seem to warrant it, imho. My VPIP is 36.4% but is still a lot lower than the others at this level.

I'm playing from the BB (includes the blind when you come to the table) about 35%, (27% if you don't count hands I'd play from UTG) and have a $20 from this position.
SB is 43% (34%) and have a small $8 profit from there.

So, while I think I'm playing too many weak hands in the blinds (check with A8o and hit an ace on the flop...) I'm not holding on to them so much that it hurts (or variance is looking after me just now ).

My most profitable hands (avg profit) are finally starting to look reasonable (KK, KA, JJ, (44!), QQ, AT, AQ) and the worst (66,33,88,22,KT,KJ) are mostly pps that have never hit their trip for me (yet) or in the case of 66 have done so and then I lost to something bigger.

I've been 2-tabling a fair amount if I'm doing some work or something and 4-tabling when I'm just playing. 4-Tabling has been tricky at times, but for the most part it's been okay (just as long as I don't get a playable hand at the same time as a tricky one).

One thing I have noticed is that my late-night sessions have been bad. I've been losing most of my money at sort of 1.AM local time, which is also when the servers are most packed. On the other side when I play early morning here it's been quite easy.
So am I running into better players when the server is packed, or is it just that I'm foggy late at night? Anyone got any experience of this at Party's $5nl?

I have a spreadsheet with my buy-ins and profits etc. I've got a nice colour-code and the majority of them are either not-coloured (more or less break-even) or green (>+25% of buy in).

Other than one or two occasions when I've come away with nearly 3 buy-ins I've just come away with an extra dollar or two. But that's okay right? I mean that's steady winning? It's just all the guys around here tend to start their stories "So I'm up a couple of buy-ins when..." and I've never been up a COUPLE of buy ins...

Okay, so there's a quick run down of what I've been looking at.
My main thoughts are:
1) Look at my play from the blinds.
2) Start to look at whether I'm overbetting (and so not winning as much as I could).
3) Look for any evidence that late-night poker debacles are to do with my tiredness.

Anything else I should be looking at from here? I'm going to post my worst five losses, any comments are apprecaited.
Any statistics I should be trying to add to my analysis? (For example post-flop aggression? Not sure how to work that out).

Okay: my losses (some of this makes me cringe already)

Hand History Ring
Table: Not Set: Hand: 3911938985
10 players

Stack Sizes
UTG+1: 4.88
MP1: 4.48
MP2: 6.7
Hero: 10.24
MP4: 4.67
CO: 24.84
BTN: 6.61
SB: 6.25
BB: 2.11
UTG: 6.65

Hero is MP3 with: A A

Blinds
SB posts blind 0.02
BB posts blind 0.04
Pre-Flop
2 folded, MP1 raises 0.12, 1 called, Hero raises 0.60, 1 called, 4 folded, MP1 raises 0.96, 1 folded, Hero raises 2.40, 1 called, MP1 calls all-in 3.4, Hero called, 1 called

Flop T 2 7 (Pot:15.58 3 players)
Hero bets 0.60, MP4 calls all-in 0.1

Turn J (Pot:16.28 3 players)
River 7 (Pot:16.28 3 players)
Results in White
MP1 shows Jc, Jd
MP1 wins 12.97
Hero wins 0.74
MP4 shows Ks, Ts

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Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ BB (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

BB ($5)
Hero ($5)
UTG+1 ($2.44)
MP1 ($5.02)
MP2 ($5.24)
MP3 ($11.62)
CO ($9.79)
Button ($6.62)
SB ($5.23)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with T, T. SB posts a blind of $0.02.
Hero raises to $0.25, UTG+1 calls $0.25, MP1 calls $0.25, 2 folds, CO calls $0.25, 3 folds.

Flop: ($1.06) 8, 7, 9 (4 players)
Hero bets $1, UTG+1 folds, MP1 folds, CO raises to $4.74, Hero calls $3.74.

Turn: ($10.54) K (2 players)
Hero checks, CO checks.

River: ($10.54) A (2 players)
CO calls $0.01.

Final Pot: $10.55

Results in white below:
Hero has Tc Th (one pair, tens).
CO has 9h 9s (three of a kind, nines).
Outcome: CO wins $10.55.


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CO ($4.93)
Button ($3)
Hero ($4.52)
BB ($4.66)
UTG ($12.83)
UTG+1 ($2.81)
MP1 ($6.65)
MP2 ($1.09)
MP3 ($4.92)

Preflop: Hero is SB with A, A. Hero posts a blind of $0.02.
UTG calls $0.04, UTG+1 calls $0.04, MP1 calls $0.04, MP2 calls $0.04, MP3 calls $0.04, 2 folds, Hero (poster) raises to $0.23, BB calls $0.21, UTG folds, UTG+1 calls $0.21, MP1 folds, MP3 folds, Hero raises to $1.91, BB calls $1.68, UTG+1 folds.

Flop: ($4.27) 5, 2, J (3 players)
BB calls $2.59.

Turn: ($6.86) T (3 players)

River: ($6.86) 6 (3 players)

Final Pot: $6.86

Results in white below:
Hero has Ad As (one pair, aces).
BB has Ts Tc (three of a kind, tens).
MP2 has Qd 5d (one pair, fives).
Outcome: BB wins $6.86.


Hand History Ring
Table: Not Set: Hand: 3854194171
10 players

Stack Sizes
CO: 10.37
BTN: 5.24
SB: 4.92
BB: 5.01
UTG: 6.63
UTG+1: 6.19
MP1: 5.48
MP2: 3.76
MP3: 7.6
Hero: 4.18

Hero is MP4 with: Q Q

Blinds
SB posts blind 0.02
BB posts blind 0.04
Pre-Flop
2 called, 2 folded, 1 called, Hero raises 0.20, 1 folded, BTN raises 0.36, 5 folded, Hero called

Flop 4 8 8 (Pot:1.38 2 players)
Hero bets 1, BTN raises 2, Hero called

Turn 8 (Pot:7.38 2 players)
Hero checked, BTN raises all-in 2.8, Hero raises all-in 1.8

River 3 (Pot:11.98 2 players)
Results in White
BTN shows Ad, Ah
BTN wins 9.2

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Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ BB (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

MP2 ($6.30)
MP3 ($4.68)
CO ($6.15)
Button ($5.50)
Hero ($4.17)
BB ($6.76)
UTG ($2.77)
UTG+1 ($3.38)
MP1 ($10.21)

Preflop: Hero is SB with K, T. MP2 posts a blind of $0.06. Hero posts a blind of $0.02.
UTG calls $0.04, 2 folds, MP2 (poster) checks, 3 folds, Hero (poster) completes, BB checks.

Flop: ($0.18) T, A, K (4 players)
Hero bets $0.1, BB calls $0.10, UTG calls $0.10, MP2 calls $0.10.

Turn: ($0.58) 4 (4 players)
Hero bets $0.5, BB calls $0.50, UTG folds, MP2 raises to $4, Hero calls $3.50, BB folds.

River: ($9.08) 3 (2 players)

Final Pot: $9.08

Results in white below:
Hero has Kc Th (two pair, kings and tens).
MP2 has Jd Qh (straight, ace high).
Outcome: MP2 wins $9.08.


Hand History Ring
Table: Not Set: Hand: 3912253566
10 players

Stack Sizes
MP1: 6.58
Hero: 6.48
MP3: 7.55
MP4: 4.96
CO: 3.67
BTN: 4.56
SB: 4.68
BB: 4.65
UTG: 9.67
UTG+1: 2.16

Hero is MP2 with: 6 6

Blinds
SB posts blind 0.02
BB posts blind 0.04
Pre-Flop
UTG raises 0.08, 1 folded, 1 called, Hero called, 4 folded, 2 called

Flop 7 9 K (Pot:0.60 5 players)
4 checked, Hero checked

Turn 6 (Pot:0.60 5 players)
SB bets 0.29, 2 folded, 1 called, Hero raises 1, SB raises 1.42, 1 folded, Hero called

River 4 (Pot:6.31 2 players)
1 checked, Hero bets 2, 1 called

Results in White
SB shows Kd, Ks
SB wins 7.71

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Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em, $ BB (9 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

MP1 ($8.38)
MP2 ($4.28)
MP3 ($4.52)
Hero ($4.50)
Button ($5.62)
SB ($6.31)
BB ($8.76)
UTG ($4.92)
UTG+1 ($5.82)

Preflop: Hero is CO with A, A. SB posts a blind of $0.02.
UTG calls $0.04, 3 folds, MP3 calls $0.04, Hero raises to $0.2, Button calls $0.20, 2 folds, UTG calls $0.16, MP3 calls $0.16.

Flop: ($0.86) 6, 9, T (4 players)
UTG checks, MP3 checks, Hero bets $1, Button folds, UTG calls $1, MP3 folds.

Turn: ($2.86) 8 (2 players)
UTG bets $1.92, Hero calls $1.92.

River: ($6.70) 8 (2 players)
UTG bets $0.64, Hero calls $0.64.

Final Pot: $7.98

Results in white below:
UTG has Qs Jd (straight, queen high).
Hero has Ac Ah (two pair, aces and eights).
Outcome: UTG wins $7.98.