Back on Track

I've made a ton of adjustments to my game lately. I've used HEM and PTR to try and figure out where I have some basic leaks, and how to plug them. So ya, my style has changed a bunch and its made for much less stressful sessions. Most of my decisions are easy. I'm still doin some dumb crap every now and then, but with time hopefully I can stamp those moments out. I've also decided that going for Supernova is prolly worth it. I'll just continue to play like usual until finals end, the first week of December, and then make a big push to get there. Here's my graph since I took a little break and made some big adjustments.

Switching My Primary Site

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If you're under platinum and playing on stars, without table ninja especially, you're getting screwed. If you're borderline, I'd make the argument that FT is still better. Ex: Say a fish deposits $100, and starts playing. Winning players are now at war with the poker site to see who can get their money first. On Stars, they get more of the players money that are Bronze, Silver Star, and Gold Star before we do. On Full Tilt some of the fish get rakeback, so they get some money back to donate to the regs, instead of the poker site getting it, and if they lose slower they are more likely to redeposit IMO. So ya, if you're going to reach supernova go for it! If you're under (like most of us) then Full Tilt is a better deal. GL

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I've sworn against tourneys, but I've never played a rush tourney and was talkin to someone on skype and decided it sounded worthwhile. I fired up 3 $4.40 rush 135 man SNG's. Finished the first in 40th for $0 the second in 35th for $0, then pulled out a 2nd place in the third for $97 and change, not bad for a $4 tourney. Maybe I'll play one every now and then. Would have been sick if I'd nutted up and bought into one that was the right size for my roll.

I'm also pulling out of my downswing and playing a lot more showdown based game. I've begun to learn when to apply the brakes, and it has saved me a ton of money and probably even more by me not getting frustrated all the time. I'm really close to buying another $650 bonus, and getting another $100 milestone bonus on Stars, plus I've released $60 of a $400 bonus on Full Tilt, so hopefully I can clear a good portion of that. I think I'll grind it out at 50nl for about 2 more weeks, then I should release about 250 of my FT bonus in that time, and get 750 in bonuses from stars. If I can manage to just break even over this stretch I should be sitting on a 5k roll, which will be more than enough to take another shot at 100nl!!!! Its really frustrating to take a shot at 100nl win a decent bit, and have to move down because I blew it at 50nl. UGH!!! Back on the climb soon.

cheers,

Chad

Back to the Grind (not the fun kind, the school kind ugh)

Welp, school is fully underway, FML. I've had to seriously cut back on my poker time so I don't fail all my classes, so yeah that sucks. I've kind of went through a transition phase, that hasn't really happened in a while, where I take a downswing at the game I'm playing and decide some other game is the best thing around and I'm gonna get rich quick at it. Unfortunately, this time I lost money at my primary game, FR, decided my style was better for 6-max, lost more money there, decided HU is where the fish are, and lost more money there. So ya, the good news is I'm back to what I know and doing well and improving, but it cost me a decent bit to come full circle.

In the end I think HU and 6 max taught me a lot. I initially thought the opposite, but I now believe both are more showdown based games at small stakes, which is basically my biggest leak right now. So contrary to my initial belief FR is probably the best fit for my current style because people have to learn to fold when hand ranges are often stronger, and HU when nobody ever has anything people just call down a lot. So yeah!

I also moved some money to Full Tilt. They had a 400 bonus waiting for me, I decided I'd fail school trying to get to Supernova, and I've got rakeback and all there, so seemed like a little better deal. I've only played there a couple days, but my initial evaluation is that it is a little softer than stars at 50nl FR, I feel like the regs are better on Stars and there's more fish on FT too. The only drawback is that TableNinja blows donkey balls there, its real spazzy, so I'm only playing 10 tables max. Once I get adjusted to the software and all I think it'll be smoother and I'll add a couple more, but for now the volume is gonna go down, but should be made up by bonuses, and the fact that nobody has hands on me, and I've bought a bunch of hands on all of them.

cheers and gl at the tables!

Chad