Blog updates

I haven't posted much updates lately, for various reasons. Biggest reason being that I'm was on a break-even / marginal profitable / downswing period and therefore didn't felt like posting. I was also (and still am) working on clearing a bonus, so each time I had some time I started playing, went down and didn't want to do anything with poker anymore the rest of the evening (so no blogging). I played a lot of hands on my laptop and didn't sync with my normal database, so making stats is not so easy - still have to find a way to do that. Obviously I didn't felt like looking at red numbers anyway. Finally I made a calculation error (counted money on a site double) which made my bankroll a lot smaller and I didn't want to admit it here :).

Things are going better now; I talked about downswings and poker in general with Tim and got some more confidence in my game. Having somebody who is playing at roughly the same limits and has the same attribute to the game (based on math or based on 'feeling') is certainly very helpful.

Inspired by the many people who were inspired by the CTS plan of raising each hand on the button when folded / fullstacked limped to you I also tried this, with great succes. I also had some luck doing this, but I enjoyed the game a lot more. It's also really funny to see how everybody just keeps on folding to your raises and waits for "that big hand" to get you. Obviously they are not getting payed off and I sometimes still outflop their monster. Table stats vary between 30/28, 28/23 and 20/17 depending on the rest of the table, which I also like as an improvement to my game. I also have not much experience with 3bet pots, 4betting (light, small, etc) but I think many players and regulars are even worse and will have huge leaks when adjusting to a good, thinking 25/23 player.

The only remnant of my downswing is that I'm keeping on to my winnings; I just played a short session of ~300 hands and didn't want to continue playing when I have a BB/100 in the double green digits :). I basically have to ask myself: `are you still playing your A-game, are the tables good?' and if the answers are yes/yes, I have to force myself to keep playing. It worked out the other day, where I clicked my unclicked 'post blinds' buttons a few times and went on playing (and successful, luckily :)).

Ah well, I'll post some graphs/stats/etc later, when I find a good way to sync the databases.