FINAL post of the year!

Just a quick update on the month as I've managed to put in another 50k hands since my last post. 

Had a horrible stretch of around 15k hands where I was on the wrong end of every cooler and ran JJ+ into overpairs too many times to count. So dropped 30BI's during that stretch but managed to grind the majority of that back today thankfully! Going out to celebrate NYE tomorow so today was officially my last session of 2012. Hopefully this time next year I'll be looking over a very different looking graph $$$$$$$$! Finished the month at 1.06bb/100 and with around 1k in rakeback to add to it. Feeling on top of my game and looking forward to my nl100 shot.

Some interesting hands from today.......

Poker Stars $0.25/$0.50 No Limit Hold'em - 6 players - View hand 2048559
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erwi68 (MP): $14.63
TEKEN 12 (CO): $28.37
Hero (BTN): $25.00
FoxxDan (SB): $12.59
eLPe21 (BB): $10.00
NIKE'87 (UTG): $29.05

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BTN with K 9
3 folds, Hero raises to $1, 1 fold, eLPe21 calls $0.50

Flop: ($2.25) 8 9 Q (2 players)
eLPe21 checks, Hero checks

Turn: ($2.25) 3 (2 players)
eLPe21 bets $1.93, Hero calls $1.93

River: ($6.11) J (2 players)
eLPe21 checks, Hero bets $7.07, eLPe21 calls $7.07 all in

 This hand was against a reg. When he bets the turn I put him on air/a 9 as I have history with the player and my check on the flop would induce this kind of bet a lot of the time. When the river hits and he checks to me I figure he's either given up on his bluff or he has weak showdown value (A 9 or a Q). Id never expect him to bet the turn like that with a flush draw and I'd never expect him to check a flush to me on the river. So with that in mind I figured any hands I'm losing to (A9, Q2+) would fold to a shove as I often shove for value on the river (A reg should notice this where the fish don't and still call me light).and I could pick up the pot with a slight overbet a very high percentage of the time (especially as a pair and a ten or a flush draw is well within my range when i flat the turn). When he snapped me on the river I was very surprised but I'm happy to see it as 90% of the time I will actually have it when I shove in this spot.

Actually looking over the rest of my hands from my last session they're all quite standard. Nothing too interesting with the regs. Lots of standard spots vs whales where theyre donating me their whole stack with little or no outs but none worthy to analyse. Hopefully when I start nl100 and nl200 I'll have more interesting hands to share.

Merry Crimbo! New monthly update and 2013 goals!

Hope you've all had a good year and have a good year to come! Basically wanted to briefly sum up the month and set my yearly goals! 

This month unfortunately I haven't been able to put in the volume I'd have liked but I have managed almost 85k hands in the last 2 weeks and with a decent 1.09bb/100 EV. Not as nice a graph/results as last month but at nl50 I'll happily take money towards my next shot at nl100 and eventually nl200!

Obviously ran good but its the EV thats all I care about. With rakeback my graph looks like this!...

1500 dollars profit for 2 weeks at nl50 is not to be sniffed at and hopefully next month will be a lot better! After recently moving up to 16 tables I'm comfortably playing 10k hands a day so rakeback is a real boost as long as I can grind out a profit as well! If I can grind out a solid 200k hands next month then rb will be a real bankroll booster. Sooooooo goals.........

January goals
[ ] 200K hands with +EV
[ ] Move up to nl100
[ ] Make improvements on game and put in sufficient study/revision hours

Yearly goals
[ ] Beat nl200
[ ] Hit Supernova
[ ] Make further steps towards playing full time after uni

Got 2 days grinding left before new years just so I can cash in 250 dollars of bonuses then start work on my January Goals! Wishing you all a successful and  fruitful year (as long as you're not making your money from me)!!!

Back to the grind......

Finally after months of slacking off it's time to update my blog! Safe to say things are going A LOT better for me after I put some serious study into my chart package and my own game. After hours of looking over charts and looking at regs betting patterns and styles etc I've successfully built a playstyle that beats NL50 CAP. THANK FUCK FOR THAT! Last month I managed to put in a couple of weeks of really heavy volume (8k+ hands a day) and managed to grind out 3bb/100 over a large sample but unfortunately my HEM broke on me and my hands corrupted somehow. After this happened uni work reared its ugly head again and meant I had to go a few weeks without playing. 

Thankfully Ive been able to start playing again this week and after an initial 40k hands of break even (which was a little worrying for sure) I managed this peach of a day today that almost makes up for it.....

Obviously not every day is gonna be this good (9bb/100 EV) but was nice to see I havent lost it in my short break off! So with the arrival of a brand new flashy laptop on the horizon and the very likely scenario that I have FINALLY beat CAP I should be updating my blog a lot more regularly and possibly making a shot at NL100 in the not too distant future! 

No hand histories to share for the time being but once I've got my new laptop and HEM2 running I will be posting any interesting hands open for discussion.