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MX's NL Journey - 2008-05-29

Date: Thu, May 29, 2008 Internet

A little bit late, but here none the less. Been a fairly descent week and I've been bumping up on the 50NL again. I had a good run at 25nl and decided to take a small shot at 100nl. On the very first hand, I had A3o in the bb. The SB limped and I bumped it up to $4. He called. Flop comes 245r! Gin flop for me. He bets out $6 and I feel there is no way he has 37, so I bump it up to $17 and he instacalls. Hmmm, what does he have..... Turn comes a 6 and he instashoves $68. I call for him to show me 77 for an oesd and overpair. River was a blank and I pull down my biggest NL pot to date of $182.

Also starting on a new 180 quest now that Stars has the $10/180's back. I've got all my shares locked up, just not sure who is getting how many yet. Should get started on that today.

Bankroll to date: $938.47

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MX's NL Journey - 2008-05-20

Date: Tue, May 20, 2008 Internet

What a wacky game this can be in the short term. I was able to cross over the $1k mark in the past week but ultimate went on a nasty run at 50nl again to drop back down to $25nl. I did, however, manage to mark a milestone. I was playing 25nl at stars when I was able to build up a ~$275 stack :) Pretty amazing site and received lots of comments every time someone sat down. Worked up about 5k fpp's last week, so not too much further to go on the docking station. One thing that I noticed is that I don't think it is the one I actually want. Bose makes 2 different docking stations and one of them is portable. That is the one that i want and I think that the one they have is a stationary one that needs to be plugged in :( Well, that pretty much wraps up the interesting stuff for the past week.

Bankroll: $851.96

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MX's NL Journey - 2008-05-13

Date: Tue, May 13, 2008 Internet

Well, time for my weekly update. I've gone ahead and moved $250 over to pokerstars this week to finish off my FPP's that I need for the speaker system. I had around 11k points there and need ~20k total for it, and I've added on about 1300 or so in the last 2 days. Shouldn't take too long for that. I've also been fairing pretty well on the tables too. My rakeback did hit on Tilt for ~$250 which is a big help. I've also settled back down into $25NL and since then it appears that my agression has increased quite a bit due to the smaller pots compared to 50nl and I think I was just not used to playing pots of that size. Current bankroll now sits at $899.66. Here's hoping we can get to $1k soon and comfortably move up to $50NL.

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MX's NL Journey - 2008-05-06

Date: Tue, May 6, 2008 Internet

Well, so far the month of May has continued to be a rollercoaster. I'm up almost 2 buyins so far, but that is after running Kings into Aces 4 times yesterday, so overall I'm happy with where I am. Something else came to mind to me while reviewing stuff in pokertracker. A 5ptBB/100 winrate is only $2.50 per 100 hands. Not sure why I am thinking that that is not acceptable while Im playing, but it sure is possible. One full stackage gives enough for 1k hands! Really helps me to be a bit more patient overall. Currently sitting at $393.33. Hoping that my rakeback will hit soon. I'm also considering moving some money over to Stars and building up some points there to get my bose portable speaker system for my ipod. Should be able to rack up enough points there pretty quickly to finish that off.

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April in full

Date: Thu, May 1, 2008 Internet

Well, the month of April has now past and I need to get this in so here it goes. The overall month was basically breakeven for me. I had a horrible 10 buyin downswing where I lost 7 of 8 flopped sets and that led to a little bit of tilt and some bad calls. I'm happy that I was able to turn it around and at least get back to even. I should pull in about $230 in rakeback this month so that is a big positive and picks up almost 10 buyins. My current bankroll at Tilt stands at $359.23 as we start off the month of May. I've been playing from a couple different computers so I'm going to post up the overall monthly stats for each of them from now on. It's too difficult to try and combine into one.


I've also been spending a lot more time watching vids at CR. I've come to really like the Brystmar vids and have stumbled upon a couple leakfinder vids where people have uploaded their vids to have some of the pro's review their play and point out mistakes and strong points in their game. I wish there were more of those as it really articulates what needs to be fixed in one's game. I'm also beginning to watch Fruitypro's vids, but I have to admit I am having a difficult time with the thick accent, but I think there is a lot of good stuff to learn here. I'm really hoping to get my stats up to around 5ptBB/100 at 25NL for the month of May and think that it is very possible to improve even beyond that. Possibly up to 10ptBB for this level from what people are telling me. I'm also scaling back to no more than 4 tables until I can feel confident in my game.
Here's to a good month of May!
Oh yea, today I celebrate my 16th anniversary to the best woman in the world. Happy anniversary sweetie!

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Took the plunge...

Date: Mon, Apr 21, 2008 Internet

Well, after a lot of debate, I decided it was time to get serious about my study of the game and I joined Cardrunners. I think the money spent will be well worth it in the long run and hopefully get me up the ranks much quicker than just grinding. The past few sessions have not been that great as I've been 2 and 3 outered numerous times. Overall I'm down about 3.5 buyins since my last update and currently I am sitting at $413.93. I'm also playing less tables and focussing on making better decisions to maximize every winning hand and minimize my losses.

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Shortstacking

Date: Tue, Apr 15, 2008 Internet

Well, as one that wanted to experiment a little with 50nl, decided to try some shortstacking out. Buying in for the minimum and playing only premium hands preflop and looking to get my stack in most of the time. Was able to get in ~1200 hands or so and was quite pleased with the results. I don't think that I could continue with this for a long period of time, but who knows????


Overall, this month has not been that great. Between both computers, I think I am up about $200 overall. I think it was a mistake for not including my starting bankroll in my first post so going to put it in here for a benchmark. As I write, my bankroll on Tilt is $496.53. This will help me keep the overalls better since I play on multiple computers. I'm also not going to be posting each session as that just seems to be really boring.
After I finished my shortstacking session, played some 25nl and had some pretty descent results. Had a good run of cards and had my opponents with strong 2nd best hands. Example of this was me raising KQo first in and the sb called. Flop comes QKQ. I bet out, he smooth called. Turn was a T putting straights, flushdraws and all kinds of scary stuff out there to let catch up so I decided to check. River was a blank and SB led out and I pushed. He called with AJ :) Stackage!
I then was able to get a set of 4's all in vs AA and K8 on a K48 flop and I held for a nice 4 buyin pot. Anyhow, on to the next session.

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A bad day on the tables......

Date: Wed, Apr 9, 2008 Internet

Let's just put this out here quickly as I don't want to dwell too much and move past this.


Now, I feel that I played ok, but not great. I made a few tilty plays when the donkeys hit hard against me. Ran Kings into Aces twice and my Aces lost to kings twice. The best one was when a table had gotten real short and was playing heads up. Picked up Kings and obviously raised. Flop comes out as 4s Kh 6s. We get all in on the flop which was wonderful. My opponent had 57s of spades and hit his flush on the turn. I'll be going over my hands today to look for obvious spews and I'm sure there were a couple, but overall was just a bad day where I had strong hands that just didn't hold up.

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Steppin back up to 25nl

Date: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 Internet

well, decided to go ahead and move on up to 25nl knowing that I currently do not have the bankroll for it but will as soon as my rakeback hits for last month. Had a fairly good session and also ran into Soultwister from ITH while playing. Was quite surprised to find him playing at my level as he normally plays 200nl. Said he had gone on a huge downswing and was $3.5k -ev in his h/u all-in's over a short period of time. That kinda hurts.


With that said, wanted to be true to myself and log my session for this afternoon:


I also posted a semi-article on Pokertrikz regarding rakeback at the micro stakes. You can read about it here:
http://www.pokertrikz.com/forums/micro-stakes/238-importance-rakeback-micros.html
I'm not normall an "article" type person, but thought it would prove helpful to someone.

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Weekend update

Date: Mon, Apr 7, 2008 Internet


I'm going to try and keep track of sessions here so there will be quite a few updates with not much "content". This is more for accountability to myself and think it helps me to stay focused. I also will be playing on a couple different computers and this will help me keep up with the overalls between PT merges. Anyhow, played a little bit over the weekend but not much time available.


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First entries are always awkward

Date: Fri, Apr 4, 2008 Internet



Well, here we are and I am now going to try and start keeping track of my play through the use of a blog and really try and learn NL properly with study and lots of playing. I really started playing NL at the end of February and was doing quite well through the month of March and had graduated from 25NL up to 50NL until Easter Sunday. Without getting into many details, I ended up being angry, drunk and in my bankroll which really does not go well and lost all of my month's winnings plus some. Roughly 30k hands of play/profit were wiped out in a short time period. So, I'm restarting at $10nl with what I have left and should be able to get back to 25NL fairly quickly once my rakeback at Full Tilt hits my account.

Here is a graph of what occured last month:















Anyhow, starting fresh this month and looking forward to the journey up the ranks. I've been watching a lot of Video's at http://www.pokertrikz.com/ and really appreciate what Trikkur is doing here. I'm also spening a lot more time analyzing hands on ITH.

So, with that said, here is the month of April so far at 10NL:



Onward and upward we go!

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