BK,

If I find myself in tble full of TAGs with only one donator i standup. I dont datamine. I sit in loose tables with high avg. pot. If the table conditions are not favorable, I stand up. Even when I feel i am losing itto some lagtard or amaniac that will make me play AK postflop badly for a stack. I stand up.Not that ithappens often, but I think I am always in the best overall tables. I dont know if for some rreason those BEST tables dont favormy style. I am making corrections in my style.

PZ, I dont think that is the problem because $50NLhas been my home for almost 2 years. I rarely move down there. I played a lot of hands in $100NL and I actually did very well there. I moved down because I once hit a downswing and when I had 6-8 BIs down I decidedtomove to NL$50. After that(in late september 2006) I havent moved up because a)mywinrate at the $50s is mediocre, and b) I decidedto "fuck it" I'll have a good time and have spent like 7K USD from the roll just vacationing through USA since last september.

It is good to listen to new perspectives because I personally have run out of them. TY, PZ.

MK, NIHAN, man, this wasnt tl;dr.

March stats.

I am too lazy to post detailed stats. I made 1500 last month and half of it came from bonuswhoring. I ran at 5ptbb/100 in about 25k hands mostly in nl$25. My goals for this month (April 2007) is to make some money and play at least 30K hands now that I am just 4tabling 6max. It shouldnt be that hard.

April started wonderfully. I just stood up from my first session of tha day.

It was like this:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?960485

http://www.pokerhand.org/?960493 I prolly didnt have to raise there but i thought a 9 was likely. Meh.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?960500 This guy was really tight. Something like 11/2 and he was giving m action. I wanted to see that when he bets like that TPTK is shit. I am a donk.

I lost also a big hand with AA vs. 66 all in preflop in Bodog. The flop was 8 - 6 - 8.

I couldnt get anything going in 1200 hands. I remember flopping two sets in raised pots and you saw one of them. MEH.

Down 200 in April. It'll get better.

Everytime BK or ice say solid TAGs shouldnt have 5+ BIs downswings so often i laugh and convince myself that I just take more than most people.

I sat down after the torture that was the forst session of the day and I am now, while i type this almost another three buy ins down more for a total -7.5BIs downswing in barely 1300 hands.

I raised AJ in LP. Got three callers. Flop JJx with two diamonds. Checked to me and i lead full pot. One calls and another guy raises 2.5x my bet. This guy had a 160 stack and is now sitting with 55. He has been pushing people off and a couole guys payed back at him with an overpair and tptk and beat him with a silly hand. There was already one playerore in the pot and I had the for the backdoor FD, so I pushed. Other guy folded and he called with xx and stacked me.

The other hand I had QQ and got it all in on the flop vs. another donk. He called my all in with mid pair and hit the turn. I also misplayed another overpair when another donk called my flop full pot bet and then hit trips with his bottom pair on turn and minraised my bet. I pushed and didnt hit my two outer.

I recently moved up to NL$50 and once again I cant beat it. There is nothing I couldve done in most of those hands, i think. Awful cold deck.

I have made some back. My total inability to beat NL$50 is really frustrating. I felt i was running too damned cold and started taking notes on pockets pairs and sets. After i started the notes I had 45 pocket pairs and flopped 5 sets, 1 in 9, i was ok there. I had to admit that i flopped 3 of those in the last 8 or 9attemps so i was running cold at the beginning. I also took a ouple full buy ins with two of those sets and didnt lose any big pot with them.

I played 1800 hands and lost $22. I was up more than 85 after 1500 hands and was about to stand up and then started losing every single hand. Comes to my attention a hand I played against a solid regular in the cryptos when i flopped top two pairs with KQ on a KQ9 rainbow flop and I led and villain raised my bet strongly. I was going to 3bet but then thought that this guy was paying me a lot of respect and also only shows very big hands at showdown. I thought his range was KQ, JT,99 and had me crushed. I called down because he bet $10 on turn and then $1 on river. We both had about $90 and i lost $42 on that one.

I also lost two stacks with overpairs.One of them I would gladly lose it 100 times more because it was against a huge donk and i know i am ahead more than not. He called a raise and reraise with JT and flopped top two. NIHAN. The second stack was against a regular NIT on the cryptos, who has found in me the bitch of his life. I had been in set over set situations TWO TIMES against him and he had been checkraising every single CB i made. Now I had KK and i thought the Q high flop was a good time to play back. I suck.

14/8!!!? HOLY SHIT! OK. I'll do that now but first prolly need to get away from the cryptos because I dont think I can beat them. I mean, I have played so many damned hands there with the same bad results.

14% is basically all a pairs Ak/AT 9in position) and KQ, right? I play KJ in the CO and button and I am losing overall. I was checking and there were a few cold decks with it. I think i can show a pofit in the long run with them, but prolly i cant.