February started out a little slow. My Windows XP died brutally, and since I was gonna get a new computer anyway I decided to go with Ubuntu on the old one instead of reinstalling XP. This meant that I only had my laptop to play on until my new computer arrived, and thus I barely put in any hands until last weekend.
But no worries, I've ran shit hot since then, at 9 ptBB/100 while 8 tabling. I've played well, had good cards and gotten them paid off well. I did play pretty lousy in one session, but managed to recognize this and walk away for the day without tilting. I've only played 7k hands so far this month though, so I'm not going to even come close to my goal of 40k hands in february. Still, it looks like I'm going to be (over? )rolled for 600NL in time for my target date march 15th. BR is now 28k, I'm planning to move up at 30k/50 buy-ins after withdrawing 2k. Hopefully I don't jinx myself with this post and go on a massive downswing.
Enough with the brags, on to something interesting. I feel like I can beat pretty much any 400NL table at Party right now (lol a poorly hidden brag), but it should be obvious that sitting with the biggest fish will be more profitable. So I'm going to get better at table selection, possibly across several sites. I used to just open up the tables with the biggest avg pot, but now I use PAHUD to scout out the tables before sitting down. I'm looking into programs like SixthSense and SpadeEye to help me with this, so if anyone has experience with those or similar let me know.
In poker strategy, after reading the FTR Book club discussion on preflop raise sizing I've begun opening to 3xBB to be able to cope with reraises, and also to have more manueverability (sp? ) post-flop. Small sample size but I think I like it. I also started reading Phil Gordons Little Green Book today (got it from the FTP store). I've only read a little bit of it, but I'm liking it so far. It seems to deal with general thought process related issues in a very decent way.
Thanks for reading this long post, now head over to my comment thread with comments, questions and the like!
But no worries, I've ran shit hot since then, at 9 ptBB/100 while 8 tabling. I've played well, had good cards and gotten them paid off well. I did play pretty lousy in one session, but managed to recognize this and walk away for the day without tilting. I've only played 7k hands so far this month though, so I'm not going to even come close to my goal of 40k hands in february. Still, it looks like I'm going to be (over? )rolled for 600NL in time for my target date march 15th. BR is now 28k, I'm planning to move up at 30k/50 buy-ins after withdrawing 2k. Hopefully I don't jinx myself with this post and go on a massive downswing.
Enough with the brags, on to something interesting. I feel like I can beat pretty much any 400NL table at Party right now (lol a poorly hidden brag), but it should be obvious that sitting with the biggest fish will be more profitable. So I'm going to get better at table selection, possibly across several sites. I used to just open up the tables with the biggest avg pot, but now I use PAHUD to scout out the tables before sitting down. I'm looking into programs like SixthSense and SpadeEye to help me with this, so if anyone has experience with those or similar let me know.
In poker strategy, after reading the FTR Book club discussion on preflop raise sizing I've begun opening to 3xBB to be able to cope with reraises, and also to have more manueverability (sp? ) post-flop. Small sample size but I think I like it. I also started reading Phil Gordons Little Green Book today (got it from the FTP store). I've only read a little bit of it, but I'm liking it so far. It seems to deal with general thought process related issues in a very decent way.
Thanks for reading this long post, now head over to my comment thread with comments, questions and the like!
