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

February 2009 Goals

Here are my goals for February 2009 (which may be amended as I plan on speaking to my coach about goal-setting):

[ ] play 60,000 hands
[ ] ptBB/100 for the month 3+
[ ] have a total steal % of over 40% by increasing steals from CO
[ ] work on getting more value on the turn/river by taking less c/c or c-behind lines
[ ] reach Platinum Star on Pokerstars
[ ] play enough on FTP to maintain Ironman (200 FTP points per day)

January Results

Overall, January was a tough month. Started out good, the middle totally sucked, and towards the end things shaped up a bit. My 6M experiment failed. It was fun to play, but I ran poorly and played poorly. I am much better at FR. I will still play some 6M here and there, but the vast majority of my hand volume will be at FR.

Ok, here are the results:

Comparison to January Goals:
[X] Play 60,000 hands. I played 78K hands
[X] Watch at least 4 videos. I watched way more than that.
[ ] Have a ptBB/100 of 3.00ptBB/100 or higher. Nope.
[ ] Steal more from HJ, CO, and Button (total steal percentage of 40%). Nope. 35%. But, this is a huge improvement over what I have been which was only 24%. My steal from button was good at 49%, but cutoff was only at 23.9%.


Overall:
Hands: 78,379
Profit/Loss: +1419 (including rakeback and the $600 year-end Ironman bonus at FTP)
$/hour: $6.42 (I think I'm ready to go professional)
All-in Equity: - $896.00 (meaning that I would have won $896 more had my hands held up after going all-in). OUCH!

Fullring:
50NL
Hands: 32,111
Profit/Loss: +$715.40
ptBB/100: +2.23*

*3.80 for last 21,674 hands.

100NL
Hands: 18,575
Profit/Loss: - $277.35
ptBB/100: -0.75

25NL*
Hands: 3,164
Profit/Loss: +$109.95
ptBB/100: 6.95

* played some 25NL on Pokerstars because I was not quite rolled for NL50 at first.

6max
50NL
Hands: 13,958
Profit/Loss: +161.70
ptBB/100: 1.16

100NL
Hands: 4,346
Profit/Loss: -$569.90 (OUCH!!)
ptBB/100: -6.56 (OUCH!!)

25NL:
Hands: 1,003
Profit/Loss: +35.70
ptBB/100: 7.12

Going for Nova

After talking it over with my coach, Splitsuit, I've decided that I'm going to try and reach Supernova at Pokerstars this year. If I get there, it will be more than my 27% rakeback I earn at FTP. That said, I'm going to try and maintain ironman at FTP to get the semi-annual $600 bonus. At 50NL, I will have to play about 700 hands to get 200 points per day. I think I can do both. We'll see.

Overall, I think the change will be good because I've been running like crap at FTP.

Also, I'm going to use my Ironman points to buy FTP points so that I can get my 37" LCD TV. Its not the most value for the points, but I don't care. I want the TV.

No more looking at results

In order to keep myself from tilting from all the bad beats and coolers I've been hit with lately, I've decided I'm not going to look at my bankroll or HEM until Thursday morning when I have to get ready for my next session with Splitsuit. Seeing my results has been frustrating. This way I won't know how bad/good I'm actually running, hopefully making it easier to forget the bad beats and coolers. Hopefully this works out.