March 2009 Results

Here are my goals for March 2009 compared to my results:

• [X] play 60,000 hands. Played 68,810 hands of NL50FR and NL25FR. Plus some PLFR in both.
  
• [-] have a relatively flat redline by being more aggressive and taking more b/f lines than c/f or c/c lines. Kinda/sorta. I had a nice flat redline for a spot in the middle but it fell off at the end. I still need to work on this. I sometimes still float the flop with no plan for taking it away on later streets.
  
• [X] look for spots to steal from the hijack and cutoff spots. I stole from the CO 27% of the time this month. Up a few % from my normal, but would still like to work on upping this next month.
  
• [X] put more thought into each decision and always have a plan. Especially towards the end. Now I have to actually follow through with my plan. If I'm planning to C/F, then I should C/F, even if I'm getting the odds to call.
  
• [X ] reach Platinum again at Stars. Reached Platinum for the 2nd month in a row (thanks Stars for lowering the requirement!)

Other results stuff:
Overall, it wasn't a bad month. I finished up $1,025.85 for the month at NL25 and NL50 with an overall ptBB/100 of 2.22.

25NLFR:
Hands: 24,022
P&L: +$500.35
BB/100: 4.17
ATS: 35.3%

50NLFR:*
Hands: 44,796
P&L: +$525.50
BB/100: 1.17
ATS: 37.4%

* last 20K hands I my ptBB/100 was 4.00. Hopefully this means I'm doing some more right things than I have in the past and this is not a heater (time will tell).

March 09 Goals

Here are my goals for March 2009:

• [ ] play 60,000 hands
• [ ] have a relatively flat redline by being more aggressive and taking more b/f lines than c/f or c/c lines
• [ ] look for spots to steal from the hijack and cutoff spots
• [ ] put more thought into each decision and always have a plan
• [ ] reach Platinum again at Stars
  

February 09 Results

February was another tough month. Its months like this that I really miss the rakeback. That said, I continue to run like carp at Full Tilt Poker and I don't plan on playing there much. I do like the Pokerstars software and I love Pokerninja.

Let's look at how I did compared to my goals:

• [X] play 60,000 hands. I played 71,662 hands.
• [ ] have a total steal % of over 40% by increasing steals from CO. Close - 36.9%. But I didn't steal enough from the CO -- only 23.6%. I need to start treating the CO more like the button.
  
• [X] work on getting more value on the turn/river by taking less c/c or c-behind lines. I think I did better at this, particularly towards the end where my redline managed to flatten.
  
• [X] reach Platinum Star on Pokerstars. Yep - did it with 4 days to spare.
  
• [ ] play enough on FTP to maintain Ironman (200 FTP points per day). No, and I don't care.

Let's look at my results in more detail:
50NL/PL FR
Hands: 52,837
ptBB/100: - .082
Profit/Loss: - $431.75
VPIP/PFR/ATS: 12.7/10.5/31.9

25NL/PL FR
Hands: 18,825
ptBB/100: +2.11
Profit/Loss: + 198.71
VPIP/PFR/ATS: 14.9/11.6/33.7

I like my 25NL VPIP/PFR/ATS stats better. I was playing a lot more aggressive/open from the last 3 positions. I plan to adopt that for my 50NL play in March.

Overall, I ended up (are you ready for this?) a whopping thirteen dollars and 13 cents for the month! I earned $0.07 per hour!

Here is my garph for February 2009. You can see that my last 12K hands or so I got my redline to stay fairly flat. Unfortunately, it coincided with my showdown winnings being flat, too.


2009 YTD Profit/Loss: + $1,431