Played a bit more of 400nl this past week, but I think I was playing too many tables at once or playing too long of sessions or something, because I just felt like I was on autopilot mode all the time. My autopilot game isn’t anywhere near my A-game, so this resulted in a little bit of losing.
So the first thing I’m deciding to do is decrease the amount of tables that I’m playing to somewhere between 4-6 at a time. I feel that I’m usually playing my A-game with this amount of tables, and I’m somewhere close to maximizing my hourly rate. Thinking about this also brought up another point I’d like to add, and that’s that my 100k-hand goal, while a good idea on the surface, isn’t the best idea as far as volume goals are concerned. It makes me want to play when I’m not necessarily playing my A-game, and it makes me want to play a bit more tables than I should, and sometimes I get carried away. For future months, I think a goal like “play 200 hours this month” would be better (I’ve played ~150 hours and a bit over ~70k hands, so this is a pretty realistic and solid goal).
The second thing I’ve decided to do is drop back down to 200nl, and this is being done for a few reasons. First of all, I feel infinitely more comfortable at the moment playing 200nl, and this is probably the most important reason I’ve moved down. Secondly, I want to start withdrawing money weekly from FTP into my bank account so that I’ll have a healthy 5/10 live roll by the time Oct. 15th rolls around (about when I’ll be leaving for the WSOP Circuit event in Hammond). Playing 200nl will also allow me to get back lots of confidence, which will be good for when I decide it’s time to move back to 400nl. That said, I just withdrew all but $7k from my FTP account (i had just shy of $10k before the withdrawal), leaving 35 BIs for my current level, which I feel extremely comfortable with. This time next week, I should be able to withdraw about the same amount (I have ~$750 coming on Friday from rake back), and then by the time I withdraw for a third time the week after that, I should have about $10k in my bank to play 5/10 and enter some of the circuit events with. While I’m in Evanston (I’ll be staying with a college buddy of mine near NU’s campus and renting a car to take to the Horseshoe each day), I can still put in a lot of hours playing online. I should have $10k or more on FTP at that point, and will be able to play 400nl if I deem it reasonable (which is a function primarily of how my live cash sessions go).
Enough with the boring shit. Here was an awesome fucking hand at 600nl I played this past week (I sold 50% of my action to a friend; this table was so amazing I had to play).
3 FUCKING YELLOW CHIPS! Felt so good (we ended up all-in on the flop for a 500 BB pot, to give you an idea of how good the game was). I actually lost a little bit playing 600nl that day (I was 2-tabling with the fish I was hunting), which seems sad, but I got in a lot of shitty spots deep post flop and it didn’t work out as well as I wanted. Taking shots against fish doesn’t always work out, and I’ve learned that the hard way, unfortunately.
So apparently I’m only up money at 200nl and the little bit of 100nl I’ve played this month; this had nothing to do with my decision to move back down to 200nl, I swear. I’m up about $11.7k from gameplay (only $10.1k is mine because of the stake earlier in the month), and about $2.4k from rake back, so I’m up a bit over $13k for the month, which is ehh nice. Actually I guess I’ve won a bit less than that, because I spent about $550 staking friends in liveaments, but meh.
Hopefully I can keep up this momentum for the rest of the month and hit $20k, but if not, it’s not a big deal. I’ve got a lot to look forward to regardless of how this month ends.
