I´ve become a lazy guy.
September ended with unexpected profit. After a while my image pays out. I´m running now constantly somewhere around 14-17/10-12. Looking through pt i´ve found my stats to be way more aggro than other 100/200NL regulars at IPN. Since most of the solid winners play standard 12/6ish I´ve had long discussions with two friends, if I´m leaking chips when I´m raising wide oop and do raise marginal holdings IP with loads of limpers and if I shouldnt be tightening up, b/c other guys crushing the game do so. the last 15k hands were the best example, why raising wide is so important:

-denying setfarmers their implied odds, they cant expect me to stack off often enough to justify preflop calls, but they call anyway and fold best hands frequently on flop/turn

-Passives still adjust towards playing more passive. Once they get annoyed by being raised off their limping blind they wait for premium and slowplay. Stacking off against my sets and allowing me to draw profitable postflop.


iPoker loyalty
I dont know, if my readers play on IPN (do I have readers?), but iPoker changed their loyalty politic. Classic rb-deals via affiliates are no longer avaiable, therefore certain skins are offering cashback/sponsorship deals and play out rake-races. All the deals are based on the player points u earn and not on the rake a player contributes. I know 3 skins, which pay a certain amount per 100k points, another is running a rake race that is a point-race in fact. These circumstances produce players, with a weird understanding of the game: earn as many points as possible, playing poker becomes secondary. I´ve seen ppl 18-tabling 100/200NL 100BB deep. The majority of the fpp-farmers shortstack multiple tables (10+) in an ultra nitty way, which makes the games on working days quite dry.
This politic is pretty smart, b/c it gives the risk-avers players, who prefer a "save" payout, say 1k per 100k points, and gives them a feeling, that they dont have to put money at risk. I´ve talked to one of the shortstackers, who said he´s -0.07BB/100, but is making good money from cashback. My next quest is, how to exploit those guys in the most profitable way.


Playing live
Last week I went to Holland and played live in a casino for the first time in my life. Holland Casino offers 2-2NL, 400EUR max buy in. I shortstacked 125 short, since I wanted to get a feeling for playing live first and ended about 100EUR up. I didnt want to believe it first, but 2-2 live equals 50NL online and worse, even on working days.


Finally, my september graph. My first month since april, that shows solid profit.