March update

It's that time again for a monthly update (in future I will try to do weekly updates) as I will not be playing again this month. As you can see I actually won money this month - pretty suprising! In fact I have won about $565 but lost some of the hands and couldn't import them into the graph. I'm especially pleased because I have only played for about 13 hours this month which is a lot less than usual, and hopefully when I have time to play more I can continue to run at over 5ptbb/100 - fingers crossed!

Biggest pot of the month (new feature)

- I make it $2.50 UTG with AJ and get a caller in the cut-off.

- The flop comes Q-10-8 and we both check.

- The turn is a 6, I bet $4 and he min-raises. It's worth a call.

- The river is a beautiful K. I check, he bets $7.50 and I push for $54. He calls with 9-7.

- I win $63.70

Targets for April

- I have an exam on the 14th, but after that I should be able to play some more hands. I would hope for about 14,000.

- Keep SilverStar status on Stars.

- Keep playing well and making good decisions.

- Hopefully win.

As for the collecting of FPPs, I only have about 6500 now so an iPod by May looks optimistic, so we'll push that back til June, unless I manage to move up to $100NL soon. I plan to move up when the bankroll hits $4200.

Current bankroll ~ $3300

February update

So the graph doesn't look great... Overall I lost $16 and ran at 0.3 BB/100. I started the month carrying on at Party, but I moved up to $50NL and it stopped being so good to me. I lost about 6 buy-ins and decided to try my hand at PokerStars.

At PokerStars I think I have been playing really well, if slightly too tight. But think have not gone my way at all! I haven't been unlucky, and have suffered no memorable bad beats, but I have just had no good situations. I think I got AA or KK about 15 times in a row without winning or losing a pot over 10BBs, and then I got KK all in against AA. Also, there were four occassions when I flopped a set, three times with only one other opponent seeing the flop, and all four times I was behind, got all my money in and didn't hit. But as you can see from the graph this partially corrected itself in the last session and I managed to stack 2 people with sets and got all-in with QQ v JJ. Friday night fun.

Anyway I think I have been playing really well at Stars, despite the small win, and so I will stick there and attempt to build up a nice healthy stack of FPPs. My taget is to be able to buy an ipod with FPPs by the end of May.

As well as this I have tried to do a little spinning this month. I got a free $50 on Mansion after completing a crappy quiz and managed to withdraw $140 before losing the rest, and Titan gave me $5 free and I managed to withdraw $80.

So overall I think I will stick to $50NL at Stars and see how that goes. I'm feeling optimistic!