6/22 to 6/30

It was a good start to the week. Thursday night I knocked out almost 300 hands again and saw a profit of just over $90. I then saw a post on pokeranalysis.com that __O__ and Deviljoe were playing some low limit NL and I decided to join. Zfoley was there also so we had 4 total from PA. I think all turned a profit with __O__ raking in the most. It was a good time also. I did manage 1 $20 Heads Up SNG and took that one down easily so a nice profit of about $115 on Stars helped offset a loss of about $40 on FullTilt. Hopefully this is a good start to a good week. After a successful Thursday 4 tabling I thought I would spend at least an hour per day doing this on Stars. I have a decent monitor and can play all 4 with only a little overlap. I can’t wait till the have resizable tables like Party Poker. I did do about 400 hands playing 5 tables for a bit and did win but didn’t like the overlap that was there. It seems like I saw you could get 9 tables on a 19" monitor without any or only minimal overlap so I am thinking 6 will be a good number when they get those out of beta. That would allow me to play well over 400 hands per hour which at 4 BB per 100 at 2/4 would be over $60 per hour and at 3/6 would be almost $100. I may have to invest in PokerTracker to keep up with that for me. I’m scared as to what it would say about my play. It’s liable to tell me I’m way too aggressive and I should quit. Anyone that would ever like to see what a few hundred hands of limit poker look like PM me on PokerAnalyis and I will see if I can round up some HH’s. I like to think I am a successful limit cash game player and it is really a very nice way to see your bankroll increasing at a nice steady rate without some of the swings on NL cash games. Anyways, enough of the cash game rambling. I spent time every day this weekend playing multiple 2/4 tables. I decided that while doing this I would stick to the 2/4 that way if I notice a drop off it wouldn’t be as costly as 3/6. I knocked out about 5 hours of play over Friday, Saturday and Sunday and managed to play close to 1500 hands. Add in Thursday and I managed about 1800 hands total so far this week. I turned a decent profit but nothing to write home about probably in the neighborhood of $250. That would be a little over $40 per hour or about 3.5 BB per 100 hands. I know it is a small sample size but I don’t see that as being on the high side for me at all if anything I felt like I took more than my share of bad beats. I really didn’t play much as far as tournaments go this weekend. I had good luck in the heads up matches I played only losing 1 out of 10 or more so those add up pretty fast at $20 a pop. No cashes in any MTT’s but overall it was a good weekend. So much for good playing. Monday I had every type of cooler and bad beat possible. I got set over setted more times than I care to think about. I ran KK into AA and QQ into KK probably 4 times. Somehow I managed to only lose about $25 on the night. I was a bit tilted and jumped into a 2/4 NL game. I told myself to sit tight as a rock and hope to get paid off. It wasn’t looking good as I had KK in the BB and it folded around to me. Then next blind I had AK suited and it folded around to me again. I did call a raise from the button with 1010 and hit top set and won a decent pot there so I played out the round and did a quick hit-n-run for about $75 to get me to only $25 down. Tuesday night was even worse. A good example was a hand I held JJ from the SB. It is raised when it gets to me and I make it 3 bets. The original raiser caps it and we see a 10 high flop. I bet he raises I call. The turn in a low card I bet he calls. The river is a K. I check he bets I call and he turns over KQ os. No hand no draw capping with KQ. That was my night. I dropped a little over $100 and was done. Just 3 days left in the month to turn it into a good month. July is going to be an amazing month. I have a good feeling about it. A trip to Vegas to play in the biggest buyin I have played to date. Previous high was the $530 1M on Stars. If I can make it to day two that should give me my largest cash ever also. I could easily be wrong but I am starting to feel it. Wednesday night was a very good night at the cash tables. I ended up about $60 in only 120 hands of 2/4. I did however play 2 tournaments and got nowhere. I got it allin on a flop of 245 with JJ and 22 took me out. And then 2/3 of the way through one on FullTilt I ran AQ into AK. I still ended up slightly on the day, about $35, but the cash tables turned so that was great. My game is going good overall so I just need to fine tune my tourney play. Two more days to go in the month. Thursday night was a horrible night I got killed playing some 3/6 and dropped $95 playing that before I started my MTT’s for the night. I hate to give up on the cash games but need to get back into the feel for the MTT’s. I played 3 on the night not even sniffing the money in any but getting into the top 3rd in all. Add the $95 in buyins to the $95 I dropped and it was turning ugly fast. I then decided to try my hand at the NL tables again and sat in on a 2/4 table. I played about 150 hands and turned a profit of about $165. I wish I could save my stats as I only had 1 showdown that I won which was a nice pot of about $ 300 when I cracked AA with my 85os. The guy thought limping in with AA was the way to go when I was in the BB. It had to be a nightmare when 5 of us saw the flop. A nine high straight later I am definitely sure he wished he had raised preflop. As far as the rest I pretty much played ABC poker raising my strong hands and not getting too tricky postflop. Overall on the night I dropped $25. I feel very fortunate that was all I lost. Friday night involved a couple of tournaments and quite a few hands at the cash tables. On the night I ended up $30. It sure wasn’t much profit for the hands I played. That ends the month. I’ll have the monthly review up shortly. Good luck next week.