First of all, let me say that I lost another £61 to my nemesis from the post below. I overplayed TPGK, believing I had a read, and he flipped over a set of aces after I'd pushed over his massive turn bet. Man, I need to calm down and analyse this a bit better - I may have watched him play a session where he hit (and bet) EVERYTHING, but his stats are 31/11/1.8 so he's hardly a maniactard.

-£61 was in fact my end result, and although it sucks (it always sucks that much harder when a losing session follows a losing session), I played better poker than I have done in I don't know how long. The reason is straightforward; I wasn't feeling up to grinding away at £50, so I loaded a single $10NL 6max table with the aim of being as laggy as I possibly could - it's an area of my game that is completely missing and I wanted to practise in gentle surroundings.

So I get going, and all goes well - no enormous pots, backwards and forwards, I am a little bit up after 50 hands and, to my delight, find I'm playing 58/40. The something Primal kicks in, and my looseness imperceptibly falls - when I quit after 140 hands I've recorded 38/29/5. Which in itself is fine, but is it really the best I can do?

A positive side effect, however, is to make me play more aggressively in the two £50 games I also have running. Apart from the above disaster, and a big bluff gone wrong, I do pretty well, and manage to record 27/20 stats, well up from my 24/14 long-term figures. And I am winning lots of hands, and LOTS of blinds, while playing good poker.

So perhaps this could give me a new operation which I can detail on FTR - maybe set myself a target of 30/20 over the next 10k hands? I'll give it some though.

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