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Well it looks like I'm on my way to falling short of my goals for April which were:

1)150k hands - only around 18k so far
2)15k vpp - this really goes hand in hand with my volume so bleh
3)$2k profit - this part is actually somewhat promising as I'm up $421 with so little volume put in.

I need to step it up a lot if I want to achieve this, or come close to it. I'm still comtemplating take the $650 bonus when I hit 50k fpp's(currently have 48k so in the next day or so hopefully), but if I can make my goals without it, and move up to NL50 without it and take advantage of the $1500 at 100k or better yet just hold out for 250k which would be sweet especially if I can stay at nl50 and not have to drop back down to NL25.

Overall I'm happy with my play so far this month despite some pretty donktastic mistakes and unbelievable 5 outers.

My table selection has really been taken to the next level. I've been waitlisting the usual juicy 9 player tables and then joining a bunch of shorthanded tables, as well as starting a few pot limit tables. Over a pretty small sample pot limit seems to be where a good chunk of my winnings are coming from. I think that the loose passive fish flock there because of some sort of fear that the no limit players will push all-in and not allow them to draw.

The shortstack tags dont seem to bother with pot limit which is good for me because I make money off of fish. My guess is that its because they cannot push their whole stack in over a pot sized open, which means they will have to play a flop after 3betting, granted they're basically committed but the whole reason behind playing shortstacked is to minimize the amount of mistakes you make, and playing flops in 3bet pots is not really something these guys are comfortable with, at least these horrible shorties at NL25.

Not sure why more regulars don't play PL25 but its fine by me. I barely saw any regs at the PL tables today which just means more fish.

I cant wait until NL50 when I can start opening a bunch of 50bbmin tables. I really wish that stars would get these goin for all levels.

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This hand was vs a 90/75 megatard so ship ship shipppit riiite?

Submitted by : TheBowlBoy

PokerStars Game #26684521623: Holdem No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2009/04/03 15:32:10 ET
Table Pongola II 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: TheBowlBoy ($26.45 in chips)
Seat 3: Bjassi Reyss ($9.40 in chips)
Seat 4: naits_2910 ($29.40 in chips)
Seat 5: King Tubbys ($28.75 in chips)
Seat 9: KlauSeN1604 ($4.90 in chips)
TheBowlBoy: posts small blind $0.10
Bjassi Reyss: posts big blind $0.25

Holecards(Odds)
Dealt to TheBowlBoy
naits_2910: raises $4.75 to $5
King Tubbys: folds
KlauSeN1604: folds
kkooo19 joins the table at seat #2
TheBowlBoy: raises $10.10 to $15.10
Bjassi Reyss: folds
naits_2910: calls $10.10

Flop(Odds) (Pot : $30.45)

   
TheBowlBoy: bets $11.35 and is all-in
ChaoPrao joins the table at seat #6
naits_2910: calls $11.35

Turn(Odds) (Pot : $53.15)

   

River (Pot : $53.15)

   

Showdown
TheBowlBoy: shows (a pair of Jacks)
naits_2910: shows (two pair, Threes and Deuces)
naits_2910 collected $51.15 from pot

Summary
Total pot $53.15 | Rake $2
Board  
Seat 1: TheBowlBoy (small blind) showed and lost with a pair of Jacks
Seat 3: Bjassi Reyss (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: naits_2910 showed and won ($51.15) with two pair, Threes and Deuces
Seat 5: King Tubbys folded before Flop (didnt bet)
Seat 9: KlauSeN1604 (button) folded before Flop (didnt bet)

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Cashing out living expenses, and not grinding enough every month is making this really difficult. I'm trying to live off of $2k a month in cashouts though I didnt have close to that for March, and ended up more less living off of my credit cards, but I just got back on track in the last week, and got my bankroll back up to $2k which is where I feel comfortable with cashing out $1k, so a cheque is on its way.

What I really need is a good combination of grinding like a mofo all April and run godly, while never tilting. Hit a nice break even stretch in March mostly due to suckouts but compounded by tilty plays and just stacking off lighter in the middle of bad sessions. After reviewing my sessions, I realized that a lot of the losing ones could have easily been winning ones of +4buyins or so.

25NL is just such an easy limit to beat and I'm capable of making a really nice hourly rate there that I should be able to get a bit of a bankroll surplus in April. I really dont want to have to cash in any FPP's to do this as I am chasing supernova this year and am hoping to hold out for a bigger score. Right now I have about 50k in fpps. Clearly, cashing in FPP's for the greatest return possible is +EV but if cashing out now and taking a $650 bonus helps facilitate a succesful move up to NL50 this month, then perhaps that is the way I should go because I'm pretty sure I can beat NL50 so long as I am able to handle the swings and the move would certainly speed up my chase for supernova.

I was beating NL50 back in January for about 2ptbb/100 but decided the variance probably caused mostly by tilt wasnt worth it because I was beating NL25 for 5ptbb/100. Might have been a bad choice. Who knows I might have been owning NL100 by now, but perhaps not.

Whatever the case, I have worked on my game a lot, and plugged some leaks by going through my DB in PT3 and running a lot of reports to find out what situations I'm losing money in.

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