Nov-09 Performance Update



Hands 1 – 5k: Tail-end of my first 20+ Buy-In drop (busted my cherry), -23 BI to be exact
Hands 5k-11k: Finally pulled out of the nose dive, a Long-awaited Heater!
Hands 11k – 13k: Bleh, some good play + some bad play + couple coolers (TP w/back door flush < back door Nut Flush 125BB deep) and couple 70/30 AI losers on PF/Flop

Good news, cleared total of $545 of the FTP $600 bonus over last 3 months, so some nice bankroll padding and almost done (wow, what a grind, freedom!).

So, after almost 50k hands at 25NL (along with short failed 50NL attempt), thinking I may be here for a while. I crush the bad players at this level and get crushed by the really good players (for this level at least).

While results-oriented performance has not been improving, I feel like my Game is definitely improving. Which leads me to believe that 25NL #1 (+30BI) may have very well just been a heater rather than actual good play.

I continue to identify more leaks (which is good) but have many leaks to patch and the good players really know how to take advantage of my issues. This first became readily apparent at 50NL but I can now see it at 25NL also. While I find that with time & analysis, I can usually come up with the right answers still really having trouble with reacting PROPERLY to the TOUGH hands properly in the short amount of time we are allotted (I only play 2-4 tables at a time).

Thank goodness for the awful players donating funds to subsidize my learning process!

Plan for December: Continue studying (as always), complete the FTP Bonus and then go back to a combination of SNG(45+ppl)/MTT and 25NL, may even dabble a bit at 10NL 6-max. I have been away from SNG/MTT for several months now to improve the post-flop game. It will be interesting to see how/whether my win-rate will do in those games with a much improved deep stack ability, especially in SNG/MTT where the average post-flop game is pretty horrid (at least at the micros).