Ok, really havn't managed to come up with any great insights, but I'm away for the weekend so want to try to do a review of my month and 200nl especially before I go.

Graph first, 200nl starts around the 5k hands mark, so a bit over 7k hands of 200nl.



As mentioned, add in $833 genius promotion and I'm fairly sure $300 worth of welcome bonus cleared and I made over $1k in poker and over $2k total profit. Intellectually I know I should be happy about that, but I'm just not that excited. I ran at 4bb/100 (2ptbb/100) over my 7.7k hands of 200nl. Just making profit at my first shot should make me happy, but I really hoped to do better. Maybe my expectations were a bit high after crushing 50nl and 100nl for the last few months. As graph shows I ran a bit swingy. 8 buyin downswing from around 6.8 - 10k hands, then almost 10 buyins up from there to 12k then dropped almost 6 buyins like a rock before small recovery.

I dont feel like there was much spew or monkey tilt in there. Not much felt like my C game, but I think there was way too much B game. Didnt seem like I was playing terrible, but it did feel like anything other than my best resulted in losing too much. Like I really need to be at my best to beat the game. Spent the last day or two trying to point the finger at exactly whats wrong with my game, but tbh havnt had any success. My best guess is that its a few small things that add up together.

I really need to work on my aggression. My best session was one I recorded (never published) where I ran 23/18 with almost 10% 3bet and I just felt like I played great, but on average at 200nl I ran 19/14 with 4.3% 3bet and kept avoiding pulling the trigger in spots. More raising IP, more 3betting, more cbetting and barrelling. Just more aggression over all. Not monkey laggy, but my 'B' game seems to be based around finding excuses not to be aggressive, and my 'A' game seems to be when I avoid making excuses and just play that way. Problem is I find it really hard to turn it around if that's how I'm playing.

I have a few balance (and non-balance) things I need to work on. I still tend to have 'standard' spots which I stick to even if specific circumstances should dictate alternate plays. I'm getting to them.

Overall it just feels like my game is close, but not quite there yet, however until I get it there I wont beat it. Really hoping my 2hr sweat with Renton (hopefully next week, didnt manage to catch up this week) will help me sort some stuff out watching him play in similar games.

I guess for now I just hope I do well enough to stick around at 200nl until it does all come together.