nice sessions, xas. i can't believe they let you talk them into playing that mixed game... very +ev for you.

when did you start playing lo8? are you playing sh?

This month has continued to be the epitome of a grind. I take a big loss then slowly chip away at it with small winning sessions, then erase most of them with another loss. As it stands right now I'm up $610.29 for the month. Take into account my wildly overpriced health insurance (which I just purchased so I had to pay for 2 months this month), my laptop I just bought, and upcoming taxes, and I'm feeling a little bleh.

The $10/$20 (6 max) tables are still juicy, I guess I was just on a little earlier or there was a 2 or 3 day blip where they were unusually tough/tight. I really wanted to work on becoming a more well rounded player this year by playing some other games, but since I'm off to a shitty start I feel like I don't really have the financial freedom to really do that right now.

My pokertracker database has about 55,000 hands of $10/$20 (6 max) right now. I hate feeling the financial pressure of losing at poker so I want to continue to have a nice healthy bankroll, yet at the same time I want to start beating $30/$60 and even bigger. Better safe then sorry. It's not like my $10/$20 winrate is something I'd really hate to continue making, so I guess for now I will have to keep plugging away at it. My competetive nature however really wants to play bigger and bigger so I hope I can build up this bankroll some more. I'm gonna try and play about another 120,000 hands at $10/$20 (6 max) before worrying about moving up. That should net me around $60,000. At that point I'd feel pretty comfortable playing predominantly $30/$60 (although I very much want to be a player driven by EV not ego. If I will make more in the $20/$40 games than the $30/$60 games at a given time, I hope I can make myself play the $20/$40 and not play $30/$60 just because "that's my game") and mixing in some $1000 NL and PLO and such. Now let's see how long this should take me.

If I'm always tri-tabling (probably about average, there isn't always 4 good ones, sometimes I'm on 2 good ones and on waiting lists for others etc.) then I'm getting in about 300 hands per hour. That's 400 hours. I think I should realistically be able to do that in about the next 4 months. So as it stands my goal is to play 120,000 hands of $10/$20 (6 max) by the end of May, and hopefully be beating the game at a rate of around 2.5 BB/100 hands in the process. Then I can start worrying about $30/$60+.

That's an awful lot of hands without making any money

I am running like that also.

I simply cant have a decent 10 days or 5K hands of solid wins. For me, it´s been like that for more than 15K hands and I play NL.

Sometimes I just think I suck but then remember about all the beats I took in just a couple hours and say to myself that it is impossible to win running like that...

Better luck for BTPers!!!!

yea Xaston, why dont you tap that?

Nope. Kara is my ex from fucking waaay back. Like sophomore year in high school. We are still friends though. KaYLA is the one whom we had the big discussion about her christmas present. Xbiggio7x is a friend of Kara and I's with a real immature sense of humor.

good month. great post.