The Slow March (Happy New Year)

Well, continuous progress is good! I moved up to $50NL this weekend with a relatively good start IMO. Played 2 sessions for about 1K hands and $171 profit (16ptBB/100!) I played pretty tight at first while getting used to the bigger blinds, but Saturday night, I was feeling more comfortable already, and was able to keep the "red-line" in the positive for the whole session. More good things to come, my game is feeling pretty solid at the moment. plz no doomswitch k thx bai.

Best and worst hands of the week

Typical Set-under-set. I just lost a small chunk in the previous hand, and hadn't reloaded. Kinda glad I did! Villian was 15/5 over 100 hands or so, but I'm not laying this down for < 100BB without more of a read than that.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (6 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

saw flop | saw showdown

SB ($23.70)
BB ($94.05)
UTG ($59.50)
Hero (MP) ($39.85)
CO ($65.20)
Button ($90.05)

Preflop: Hero is MP with 3http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...miles/club.gif, 3http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...es/diamond.gif
1 fold, Hero raises to $2, CO calls $2, 3 folds

Flop: ($4.75) 7http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/heart.gif, 3http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/heart.gif, 8http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...miles/club.gif (2 players)
Hero bets $4, CO raises to $13, Hero raises to $37.85 (All-In), CO calls $24.85

Turn: ($80.45) Khttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...miles/club.gif (2 players, 1 all-in)

River: ($80.45) 7http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...es/diamond.gif (2 players, 1 all-in)

Total pot: $80.45 | Rake: $3

Results:
Hero had 3http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...miles/club.gif, 3http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...es/diamond.gif (full house, threes over sevens).
CO had 8http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...es/diamond.gif, 8http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/spade.gif (full house, eights over sevens).
Outcome: CO won $77.45

Villian running 36/10, and was quite aggressive. I figured by the time I actually had a hand against him, I'd run into the top of his range... luckily not...

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, $0.50 BB (6 handed) - Poker-Stars Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

saw flop | saw showdown

UTG ($54.05)
Hero (MP) ($61.45)
CO ($47.25)
Button ($80.95)
SB ($122.10)
BB ($48.15)

Preflop: Hero is MP with Qhttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/spade.gif, Khttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/heart.gif
1 fold, Hero raises to $2, CO calls $2, 1 fold, SB calls $1.75, 1 fold

Flop: ($6.50) Jhttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/spade.gif, Khttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...es/diamond.gif, 5http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...miles/club.gif (3 players)
SB bets $3, Hero calls $3, 1 fold

Turn: ($12.50) Qhttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...miles/club.gif (2 players)
SB bets $4, Hero raises to $18, SB raises to $117.10 (All-In), Hero calls $38.45 (All-In)

River: ($125.40) 4http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/spade.gif (2 players, 2 all-in)

Total pot: $125.40 | Rake: $3

Results:
SB had 10http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...miles/club.gif, Khttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/spade.gif (one pair, Kings).
Hero had Qhttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/spade.gif, Khttp://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...iles/heart.gif (two pair, Kings and Queens).
Outcome: Hero won $122.40

It's thanksgiving week, so hopefully I'll get in a session or two before heading out up to the hunting camp on Thursday for a couple days away from everything. Beer and Guns are in my future...

BR: $1563

Looking good Chris, keep up the good work... keep the line in the red too!

Enjoy turkey day and hunting... remember... aiming at orange shirts bad.

Poker? That's that thing with the cards, and the money right?

I'm not going into details on a Poker site, but my life has been filled with drama for over the last month. Took out $1K at one point just to make sure I didn't go in the red over christmas. And at this point, I don't think I'll be able to put it back... so BR back down around $500. I'll stick with $25NL unless my BR drops under $350. Meh. Due to all this drama my play has been erratic to say the least. Here's lot's of pretty pictures. November was great, and I had made a nice move up to $50NL...

November:
http://www.bastonfamily.com/images/p...r2008Stats.jpg
http://www.bastonfamily.com/images/p...itionStats.jpg
http://www.bastonfamily.com/images/p...r2008Graph.jpg
Back down to $25NL for most of December:
http://www.bastonfamily.com/images/p...r2008Stats.jpg
http://www.bastonfamily.com/images/p...itionStats.jpg
http://www.bastonfamily.com/images/p...r2008Graph.jpg
And here is all of 2008 (not including the Tourney score ofc):
http://www.bastonfamily.com/images/poker/2008Graph.jpg

If I'm able to keep playing poker in this next year, my goal is to get up to $100NL. I would already be there if life hadn't gotten in the way, but, that's life...

That's enough for now.

BR: $526

Chris, keep up the good work. You'll be back up before you know it. Life is the ultimate tilt. I know the feeling. Just keep plugging and you'll move up. I hope to join you there some day.