April Stats (a little early)

Decent month I guess. Didn't get many hands in, but at least I won about 15 buyins. Rakeback will be another 130 or so. I got this program that analyzes hands to determine how you faired compared to your equity. Over just the last month I have won $195 less than what I should have. Well I'm winning 5.5PTbb/100 anyway playing 8 tables so I guess I shouldn't complain.

Flying V of Variance

Wow that pretty much sucked for about 45 minutes. Haven't ran that bad that quickly in awhile. I got stacked once by bad play, but the other big pots I lost were either big suckouts or pretty bad coolers.

A few hands:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1034115
I floated this guy with a gutterball. Was planning on taking the pot away on the turn, but then I hit. This is one of the worst suckouts I've had in a 300bb pot. He gets it all in the middle with middle pair and draw to a split pot and the board trips up. Man that hurt pretty bad.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1034119
By far the worst hand I played of the session. This hand was probably within 5 minutes of the previous hand so I was definitely tilted. Absolutely horrible. I raise with almost no fold equity where I'm only getting called by a hand that beats me. J9 was my nemesis this session. On 3 separate occassions I flopped TPGK when J9 flopped top 2 pair.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1034126
Full house over full house. If the board doesn't pair on the river I honestly think I can fold this. Pretty bad play by him to not get my whole stack.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1034130
Top pair and OESFD, come on baby come on baby... nope

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1034134
One thing that I've been thinking about is value betting thinner. I think this is a really good example of getting maximum value out of top pair. In the past I might've check/called this river, and if he checks behind I am missing value because obviously he is calling river bets with weaker hands.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1034138
Value bet with trips, top kicker gone horribly wrong. I really hate the way this guy played his hand, so many cards can kill his action. Literally the only card hit that could cost me my stack.

Session started off terrible with that 5.5 buyin downswing in like 45 minutes, but I stayed composed (other than the KJo hand) and grinded it all back and then some.

Profit: $59.25
VPIP: 19.96
PFR%: 13.7
AF: 1.88 <---- IMO too low, even at 50nl
Hands: 3,738
ptBB/100: 1.59 <--- win rate killer

Solid First Session Back

Been awhile. Haven't played too much poker recently with school finishing up. Getting back into it over the past few days has been nice. Just playing solid poker for the most part 8 tabling 50nl on FTP right now. I'm gonna put UB on hold because the game selection isn't there for 100nl which I hope to be moving up to soon. I have the BR for it spread across the sites, I just like to have the BR for it on each site. I've been trying to withdraw money for the past 3 weeks and it has been a struggle with no positive results yet. I should be getting my tax return soon which will be a lifesaver.
I've pretty much only played 2 days of poker recently. The first day was I think 2 days ago and it went really well.

A few hands from the session:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1034091
Pretty standard call of a min 3-bet. I really like my full pot value bet on the river.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1034097
The games are getting pretty damn good again. They were super fishy on this day.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1034101
Did I already say the games were fishy? Sometimes it just doesn't go your way though.

Overall I played really nitty. The game was so easy I didn't have to put too much pressure on people.

Profit: $111.75
VPIP: 17.37
PFR%: 12.02
AF: 2.51
Hands: 990
ptBB/100: 11.29