Beats and Coolers

This will be a very boring post but it's helped me in the past to post my bad beats/coolers so that I don't dwell on them. This last week has been horrible, I lost about $200 which made me tilt. This tilt made me lose about another $200. I then ran bad and lost another $200. I took a few days off and today I tried to win some back. I lost another $200. That's $800 I have lost in about a week. If I lose much more I will have to drop down levels to recoup some money.



I was tilting but today I think I played really well and got horrible unlucky. These fun hands are all from today...



Fun hand #1

Fun hand #2

Fun hand #3

Fun hand #4

Fun hand #5

Fun hand #6

Fun hand #7

So... I probably won't feel like playing again for a while but we'll see what happens.

Profit = -$400

Tough month

So far this month is going pretty slowly. I had today mostly free and wanted to put in a good few thousand hands, which I managed. I started on Full Tilt and managed to lose about $100. I don't know why I can't win there. I know it's psychological - I tilt so easily when I'm on Full Tilt - but I can't seem to stop it. So I moved to Stars and dropped another $50 before winning most of it back, ending up $23 down. There were some pretty crazy hands, and I played a lot of them very badly, basically giving money away.

- Figured there was value in pushing here - turned out I didn't even need to hit that river!

- Giving it all back - against the same person, thought it was the same move, of course it wasn't - i'm an idiot!

- Nice river! - I get lucky and set-up on the river! Ah, not so lucky...

- Nice River! #2 - I probably stack off even without hitting my queen against this opponent, but still a nasty river

- What's the move on the river? - It's against the same opponent, I think I was tilting because I really don't like pushing the river, I was very lucky that he had a hand that I can beat and that will call my push. Usually I think he only calls when I'm beat.

- 9h10h - never loses!

- Set v Set - Evens out my other 3's earlier

- Standard 1-outer - I get very lucky to win back some money for today.

So that was all fun. From now on I will continue on Stars, I just can't handle full tilt. I had said that I would give my rakeback for this month to help a school in Ecuador that I worked at last year, and I will work out how much rakeback I would've earnt on Full Tilt and donate the equivalent. I'm still trying to play looser, but I don't think I will be able to get over 20 VP$IP. Oh well, over 19 is still a big improvement from under 15.

VP$IP - 19.22
PFR - 15.58
Profit - $135

Back on Full Tilt

I decided that I wanted to get some rakeback again and thought that maybe I could finally overcome my inability to win at Full Tilt. I haven't played for a nearly a week because I was busy and went to Holland over the weekend, but I was up about $130 before today. I had a bit of time today and I managed to play 2 sessions, and was hoping to get this month going. In the first session I won about $180, and in the second I lost it all. Pretty disappointing. Here are some hands...

First session
- Nice flop for me - Can't go too far wrong with that flop.

- I'm a lucky bugger - should I be folding this? I find it very hard to fold an overpair when someone bets in to me, but I guess he has a set most times here.

- Standard - didn't expect him to turn up with this hand, but felt good.

- cant beat 67s - actually you can - but how can he call with that???

Second session
- Too aggressive? - I have a OESD and overcards but my raise is so big I'm only getting called by a big hand - bad play?

- very standard - but still pretty nasty

- even nastier - what more can I do?

So after all that I'm pretty annoyed, but I will stick to FT this whole month and then I should be able to judge if I'm better off there with rakeback or at Stars where I can win.

VP$IP: 19.43
PFR: 16.09
Profit: $166

"I need to loosen up, loosen up

I need a little juicin up

I´ve been hangin from the noose

Baby won´t you cut me loose

Come on everybody loosen up"

Loosen Up, Winger

It's been a big month for me. I had my biggest losing day ever, my biggest winning day ever from cash games and I moved up a level. As the graph shows, it's been a pretty good month. I have lost about $50 on MTTs and hands that haven't imported properly, so overall I won about $780 and ran at 6.43 BB/100. I'm very pleased with this. Since the last update I continued to play at $100NL and won a bit, but so far I have ran at 3.7 BB/100 at $100NL, not great.

Biggest pot of the month

June

I have set myself a target for June - I have to have a VP$IP of atleast 20% and my PFR% has to be atleast 3/4 of my VP$IP. I am just way too tight and need to loosen up. I think at the lower levels you can get away with playing as tight as you like as people generally don't understand or aren't paying attention. But as I move up I am going to have to stop being so predictable, especially as my instinct is to tighten up as I go up levels. Normally at $50NL I have played with stats of about 15/12, but at $100NL they dropped too 13/10. This could still be profitable, but it won't be for much longer. So, unless I run really well, I will drop back down to $50NL and try to play a lot looser, and hopefully even more profitably.

A hug.

Bankroll ~ $4.8k

Update - This is going to be harder than I thought! I just played my first session and thought I was a loosey-goosey but my stats were only 18/14!