Saturday, March 27, 2010

Up Up Up...Then Down

So this month started out great. I was killing it. In fact, out of my first 35 sessions of the month, only 3 of them were losing sessions. I was up about 12 buy-ins for 5NL and things were going great. I was just about to hit the $200 mark in my account at FullTilt and then... boom 3 buy-in losing session. No big deal though, I have had a bad sessions here and there many times before that I have come back the next day and got it all back. I took a rest that night and came back fresh the next day. My first session of the day was good, I ended that up almost a full buy-in, so I was thinking that I'm back to normal. Later on that day, lost another 2.5 buy-ins. My AA lost to KK 3 times in those two sessions. My sets got rivered out by straights and flushes. Basically, none of my great hands were holding up and I can't figure out what is going on. So far on the month I am still up 3 buy-ins for 5NL, but I am about to the mark where I might want to move back down to 2NL for a little bit. I will know after my next session. I'm not sure when that's going to be though because I have taken a little bit of a break from Full Tilt because I felt like I was just getting tilted playing there because none of it was working out for me. That and I had played every day of the month on there to try to get into the One-A-Day freeroll for IronMan, but I found out that the day that runs I am going to be in St. Louis for a wedding, so I will be unable to play in that anyway, so it wasn't worth blowing my money away on points for something I won't even be able to play.

Here's the graph of FullTilt:













So my play for the last 5 days has been moved to UltimateBet because I have a big enough roll over there that I can play what I want. I started out at 2NL because I haven't played UB for cash games in quite a while, so I wanted to become more comfortable with it again. So far I have only logged 700 hands, but I'm up almost 2 buy-ins, so it's working over there a little better for me so far. I have been having a problem with them giving me my UltimatePoints though so we will see how long I will be over there.

My next move if things stay rough for me might be to move over to PokerStars. They have a ton of players so I know there will always be a game going and they have a great VIP program. Not that FullTilt's is bad, I would just like more of the bonus's and cash than gear or a custom avatar. Also, they have the SCOOP Poker Tournament which is comparable to FTOPS but bigger, so there is something else to think about, even though most of the events are way too high for me right now, even though I'm going to be a balla rolling in the dough by next year ;). The only thing is that I'm not a huge fan of the layout of PokerStars layout. I know it's easy to get new skins and such for the tables, but it's the whole window...I don't know, it's something I'm going to have to get used to.

Anyways, I'm going to get going. I'm playing in the CardsChat tournament on Tilt right now and it isn't going well and then I have the OFC Tournament on Bodog later that I will hopefully make a deep run in, but as of right now there are 1600 players in it and Bodog's payout structure is very narrow paying 135, so only like 8.5%. We'll see how it goes anyway. Good luck all!

Friday, March 5, 2010

"March"ing Forward

So it's only the 5th day in March and it's been good so far. I have been playing a lot of 2NL after deciding to move back down because I wanted to have a little more of a cushion for bumping up and just yesterday I hit that cushion point, so today I was up to 5NL again. So far this month I am up 8.75 buy-ins, or $17.52, for 2NL(I'm using 2NL because that is what the majority of the hands were), which I would say is pretty good(especially for me)for it only being the 5th day and that is over the course of about 1800 hands. When I was first playing 5NL, it started off a little rocky, and I think that was just because of the mindset of how long it takes to win in 2NL the .20c that would be a 4xBB raise in 5NL. So I was pushing hands a little harder than I should have. Also, I got caught by a couple hands that were set over set, me having the lower set of course, which just kills. Last month I qualified for IronMan status on FullTilt, so this month I am going to try to make the entire month and see where that gets me. Also as a side note I cashed in the CardsChat tourney on UB the other day for $4, so that was nice, it has been a while since I've cashed in one.

Here is my graph of the month's progress so far: