Allright. Time to get my act together. If I'm ever going to be able to play for a living I need to get better. Much better. I make huge basic mistakes all the time. I've been way too sloppy in the past when it comes to analyzing my sessions. From now on I will look through all the biggest pots I've played after finishing a session. If I feel lost in a medium sized pot I will take note of the hand number and look it up. I will post more hand histories (or rather, I will start posting hand histories again). I've realized once again that the reason I'm a winning player isn't that I'm good but that many opponents are horrible (salsa4ever's thread in the Beginner's Digest comes to mind). Now that I am at a level where most players have a semi-decent grasp on the game, I need to work harder to stay ahead of the pack. I will not let my ego get in the way of my progress.
With that confession out of the way, here's an update of my poker playing lately:
I haven't played all that much after starting my move up to 600NL. I've been travelling a bit, visiting some buddies and generally taking it easy. In total I've played 10k hands of 600NL and I'm down 3500$ or ~6 buyins. With my 400NL winnings I ended up around 1oo0$ plus rb in february. I'm not running well card-wise, and I haven't played well either. Hopefully both of these will turn around soon.
I'm going to stop being a bankroll nit. I don't need to cash out of my roll for living expenses at least until june so I'm going to use the bankroll for what it's supposed to be used for; moving up in stakes. I've got 38 buyins for 600NL, so I'm going to stay up here for now. If I get down to 25 buyins I will move down to 400NL and rebuild.I'm planning to take a shot at 1000NL when I hit 30 buyins and move back down if I drop 5 buyins. I'll probably play multiple levels, though. I hear that the 1000NL game is a very big increase in skill level, so for me to beat it will require good table selection. When there aren't enough good tables I'm going to play lower stakes.
Observation of the day: Outplaying weak opponents from OOP isn't easy. Outplaying strong opponents from OOP is damn near impossible.
With that confession out of the way, here's an update of my poker playing lately:
I haven't played all that much after starting my move up to 600NL. I've been travelling a bit, visiting some buddies and generally taking it easy. In total I've played 10k hands of 600NL and I'm down 3500$ or ~6 buyins. With my 400NL winnings I ended up around 1oo0$ plus rb in february. I'm not running well card-wise, and I haven't played well either. Hopefully both of these will turn around soon.
I'm going to stop being a bankroll nit. I don't need to cash out of my roll for living expenses at least until june so I'm going to use the bankroll for what it's supposed to be used for; moving up in stakes. I've got 38 buyins for 600NL, so I'm going to stay up here for now. If I get down to 25 buyins I will move down to 400NL and rebuild.I'm planning to take a shot at 1000NL when I hit 30 buyins and move back down if I drop 5 buyins. I'll probably play multiple levels, though. I hear that the 1000NL game is a very big increase in skill level, so for me to beat it will require good table selection. When there aren't enough good tables I'm going to play lower stakes.
Observation of the day: Outplaying weak opponents from OOP isn't easy. Outplaying strong opponents from OOP is damn near impossible.
