Lately

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What are we now, almost 1/3 of the year gone? This month has for the most part been another titanic struggle, but I'm finishing strongly as I'll describe here:

After being $5k up early on, I went on the worst 400nl run of my life, and sank all the way down to -$9k for the month. I was running bad, and playing much much worse than that.

So then I dropped to 200nl, changed a ton of stuff, re-wrote how I played poker from the bottom up, and went on a mega run of winning $8.7k in 11k hands.

So today, I woke up only $300 from even. Fuck 200nl I thought- 400nl all the way from now.

I insta dropped 4 BIs obv, so now I'm 2.2k away again from my ultimate goal (yep, how did it ever come to this) of being even on the month.

So, current goal is to make another $2.2k at 200nl, hopefully in the next few days so I cant start May with momentum and hit the ground running at 400nl.

A sorry hand from today, and it's no consolation that I'd have done this with TT, woulda been sweet though.

***** Hand History for Game 2022863498 ***** (Absolute)
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, April 29, 02:33:18 ET 2010
Table NORFOLK HWY (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Seat 4: GROGHEADFLOW ( $818.00 USD )
Seat 5: STAINLESS9 ( $1022.00 USD )
GROGHEADFLOW posts ante of [$1.00 USD].
STAINLESS9 posts ante of [$1.00 USD].
GROGHEADFLOW posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
STAINLESS9 posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to GROGHEADFLOW [ 6s 9h ]
GROGHEADFLOW raises [$10.00 USD]
STAINLESS9 calls [$8.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 4d, 4s, 8s ]
STAINLESS9 checks
GROGHEADFLOW bets [$18.00 USD]
STAINLESS9 calls [$18.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qh ]
STAINLESS9 checks
GROGHEADFLOW bets [$48.00 USD]
STAINLESS9 calls [$48.00 USD]
** Dealing River ** [ Qc ]
STAINLESS9 checks
GROGHEADFLOW bets [$307.00 USD]
STAINLESS9 calls [$307.00 USD]
GROGHEADFLOW shows [6s, 9h ]
STAINLESS9 shows [5c, 5h ]
STAINLESS9 wins $771.25 USD from main pot

And some revenge. One of those funny turn spots where there aren't many value hands I beat, but I kinda have to shove for the times he has decent equity.

***** Hand History for Game 2022869670 ***** (Absolute)
$400.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, April 29, 02:43:09 ET 2010
Table DURHAM (Real Money)
Seat 5 is the button
Seat 5: GROGHEADFLOW ( $1220.65 USD )
Seat 6: STAINLESS9 ( $869.65 USD )
Seat 1: WHEEL_IT ( $917.58 USD )
Seat 4: CHUKSCHUKS ( $797.25 USD )
WHEEL_IT posts ante of [$1.00 USD].
CHUKSCHUKS posts ante of [$1.00 USD].
GROGHEADFLOW posts ante of [$1.00 USD].
STAINLESS9 posts ante of [$1.00 USD].
STAINLESS9 posts small blind [$2.00 USD].
WHEEL_IT posts big blind [$4.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to GROGHEADFLOW [ As Jd ]
CHUKSCHUKS folds
GROGHEADFLOW raises [$12.00 USD]
STAINLESS9 raises [$48.00 USD]
WHEEL_IT folds
GROGHEADFLOW calls [$38.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 5d, Js, 3d ]
STAINLESS9 bets [$75.00 USD]
GROGHEADFLOW calls [$75.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3s ]
STAINLESS9 bets [$180.00 USD]
GROGHEADFLOW raises [$1094.65 USD]
STAINLESS9 calls [$563.65 USD]
GROGHEADFLOW wins $351.00 USD
** Dealing River ** [ Ac ]
GROGHEADFLOW shows [As, Jd ]
STAINLESS9 shows [Jh, Ks ]
GROGHEADFLOW wins $1742.80 USD from main pot

I've been playing 35-40 minute sessions during my comeback, and reviewing in a private blog. I've found this really helps, but I'm going to start reviewing in this blog again.

First session coming up.......

dan