Decent few days

Withdrew a chunk of my money on friday and deposited a fresh 80. Played NL5 till $150 then hit NL10. Been playing well and the results have followed.



I guess the plan at the moment is to just keep grinding and try make enough to cover all my current expenses. I figure if can win about another $300 i should be ok so thats the plan for this week.

Small change for the moment.

Ipoker started acting a bit funny last week. I tried to deposit some rakeback and they claimed to not be allowing moneybooker deposits. After all the shit that has happened with Eurolinx etc i really wasn't in the mood to be stiffed $600 so i withdrew my money for the time being until things smooth over. Really don't seem to be able to trust anyone but pokerstars these days. Anyway on that note i decided to deposit $100 on stars just to keep my game fresh and try rediscover why its so easy to make money at the nano stakes vs 50nl. Obviously the standard is much higher at 50nl but i just can't seem to be able to hold my shit there lately. Anyway on my first day i managed to pull in a nice 15 buy ins lol whlst running $15 under ev.



Following that i was rolled for NL10. Naturally i start off woefully getting KK vs AA 5 times across the next 3k hands. (Winning one though). Seriously ran so bad. EV shows a small amount of this but not nearly enough of the gross coolers and people who turn ridiculous gutshots on me etc. Anyway enough whinging.



Overall im pretty happy with the volume i've logged recently. 12 tabling (with dashes of 15 tabling when the mood strikes me) really does help increase the number of hands u can play! Going to try get the roll to $300 by the end of August. It currently stands at $232.

Swings

Haven't played too much NL50 recently but what i have played has been swingy. Had a solid day yesterday winning $300 in about 1k hands but from the 150 hands i played thing morning i was on the receiving end of probably the worst beat ive had in a while. Flopped straight with 67 vs a donk slowplaying QQ, all in on the flop only for him to turn the set and river quads. FML!

Feel like im playing better though and am looking forward to actually logging some decent volume this week, especially this weekend. Time to make this shit count!

<3 rakeback.

Stakeaments

Started my stake about 5 days ago and its been a fairly swongy start. Have run quite bad overall. Having had AA 27 times im down $15 which is pretty disgusting. After rakeback im about $75 in the green so its not all bad. Hopefully this week is a bit better.

Back to cash for the moment

I decided to give sng's & mtt's a break for now and return to cash. Might give them a try when im rolled for higher stakes. Anyway im back to NL10 (with a dash of NL25 yesterday) and things are going ok. Trying a new more lag style which might be a bit more swongy but its getting involved in more post flop play which is good.



Got some people who may be interested in staking me for full ring NL50 so i may be going back in that direction. Anyway the goal for the short term at the moment is getting rolled for nl25.

July round up/August goals

Started late july and ended +$270 from sng's. The goals for August are

• To be rolled for $6 sng/mtt's (need around 100 buy ins)
• Win $500

Fairly modest goals i think but difficult enough to keep me on the ball. Regarding my previous week plan: Apart from the first 2 days of the "week plan" i basically haven't played at all. I went out on wednesday, friday and saturday nights and couldn't really find good times to play. 3/4's of my tourneys were played on monday and wednesday, but i managed to recover a bit from the downswing on wednesday to get back to +$55. Total games played in this 9 day period is only 178 which is pretty pathetic.



Anyhow im back at uni now so there should be less partying and more grinding. The goal is once again to play 300 games in the next 7 days. Here's the overall picture.