Not bad, considering that I was down over 4/5 of a buy-in before I started today.
I was *not* happy with this play, my 2nd hand of the game:
This is normally an easy call, but I watched several hands before I posted the BB and Player 2 was pretty tight/scared from what I saw. I figured he had K/K, A/A, or A/K but I made the call anyway. I guess J/J was in the picture, but really I had no business being in the hand with him out of position. I was chasing a flush or a hard-to-hit straight (because the Ace is a dead end and because he probably held some of those outs) or two pair when he probably wouldn't have called me down had I hit.
Here's another play I screwed up:
It was an observant player. I put him on something like A/T, maybe A/Q. When the J hit I stepped away from smaller bets I was making and I think he noticed. He went into the tank and folded after a long pause. I think he had me on two pair. I was hoping that he had two pair.
Betting a little less would have got me paid off. But making a bigger bet after the J hit scared him. I think he'd have called $5.
Once again I play it bad:
I attempted a steal against two limpers, flopped sex, and made some piss-poor value bets.
Plus the river scared him off.
I soooo didn't deserve to win that.
I like this one:
I had no idea I was beat, but I'd have check/folded if he bet me on the river.... you know... if I didn't hit the straight.
I've been doing well lately. Here are my last 22 games. The stats at the bottom are the averages. The reason why I'm only showing 22 games instead of 25 should be obvious (I had some ugly stats).
Oh man... I just noticed that there are some $25NL stats in there. I thought I was just looking at $50NL.
OK, here's my last 17 (not as nice as 22) $50NL games:
So anyway, with my big losses early, and this run, I am up just over $14 in $50NL.
I think I have the game figured out now and while it's harder than $25NL I think it'll be more profitable on a per hand basis. I'm still not comfortable 4 tableing $50NL, but when I'm pretty sure I'll start to make more hourly than at $25NL as well. (Yes, I'm handicapping myself for hot streak I'm on)
And since I'm in a stats spew mode, here's something I created for my online poker buddy yesterday:
The asterisks mean you should ignore those stats as I have less than 1,000 hands at that level. In the lower micros I pretty much only played 6-max until I got to $0.25 NL, so many of the full ring games are games I played to be sociable, with friends and CardsChat.com acquaintances. I don't play to win in those games, and make a lot of fancy plays.
For example, I have exactly *one* session at $0.10 NL and 200 hands at $0.05 NL.
The $0.25 6-max stats surprise me. I was murdering that level at first. But then I had a cold spell for the better part of a month, followed by a barely-break even spell. It started out as terrible cards, then it was burn-out. I just wasn't mentally ready to play.
Oddly enough, despite some personal crap, I think I'm starting to get my head back in the game for the first time in two months. Due to said personal crap, I know this can change at any time, but right now I'm dangerous. Dangerous in a good way.
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