Nothing but an update, just to keep my hand in. My upswing finally ended on Friday night - nearly 1,000 hands (which is a lot for me) and -£42 by the end of it. Which was a triumph of sorts as I was £160 down at one point.
So, here's my last 10k hands, for interest.
I'm still playing £50 as my Primary game, despite a couple of stabs at $100 going pretty well. Too well, in fact (30PTBB/100 or so), so I know they're not representative. I just can't get excited about moving up to a level that's significantly tougher and barely any more financially rewarding. And so far my stabs at £100NL have NOT been worth writing home about (also, that's practically $200NL! Do you think I'm made of, uh, leet poker skeelz
However, my game is still developing. Current areas of interest: how to control pot sizes better; reducing my post-flop aggression factor (was over 4 for a bit, and millions of worse hands were folding quicker than they should have); taking stack sizes more in to account when figuring out what bets to make. So the idea is to tweak my game to make it less of a blunt object and to earn more value on my made hands.
I am also taking more notes. On a relatively small site like CryptoLogic-Network.php>CryptoLogic-Network.php>Crypto (though I did notice more active players than I think I've ever seen on Friday night, something like 5,800), there are quite a few regulars at £50NL and, unsurprisingly, they tend to be pretty decent. So my notes are going beyond "likes to re-raise dry flops", though I could still improve. I should really have the discipline to make notes every time I see someone show down, but even only 3/4 tabling it can be really annoying.
And now, a message from our sponsors: any laptop poker player who doesn't have a wireless mouse - get one, dude! It makes everything SO much easier.
*as ever, please comment - especially on the game development stuff - on my blog thread: http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/forum/poker-44273.htm
So, here's my last 10k hands, for interest.
I'm still playing £50 as my Primary game, despite a couple of stabs at $100 going pretty well. Too well, in fact (30PTBB/100 or so), so I know they're not representative. I just can't get excited about moving up to a level that's significantly tougher and barely any more financially rewarding. And so far my stabs at £100NL have NOT been worth writing home about (also, that's practically $200NL! Do you think I'm made of, uh, leet poker skeelz
However, my game is still developing. Current areas of interest: how to control pot sizes better; reducing my post-flop aggression factor (was over 4 for a bit, and millions of worse hands were folding quicker than they should have); taking stack sizes more in to account when figuring out what bets to make. So the idea is to tweak my game to make it less of a blunt object and to earn more value on my made hands.
I am also taking more notes. On a relatively small site like CryptoLogic-Network.php>CryptoLogic-Network.php>Crypto (though I did notice more active players than I think I've ever seen on Friday night, something like 5,800), there are quite a few regulars at £50NL and, unsurprisingly, they tend to be pretty decent. So my notes are going beyond "likes to re-raise dry flops", though I could still improve. I should really have the discipline to make notes every time I see someone show down, but even only 3/4 tabling it can be really annoying.
And now, a message from our sponsors: any laptop poker player who doesn't have a wireless mouse - get one, dude! It makes everything SO much easier.
*as ever, please comment - especially on the game development stuff - on my blog thread: http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/forum/poker-44273.htm
