Eureka!

At the end of this month, I am emptying my online poker accounts and starting all over again. (Aside from Poker Stars, where I will leave enough for my local pokay league)

I'm scrubbing the slate clean . . . I'm very, VERY excited about this.

Why? Well because I can.

1. I don't get rakeback on any site at the moment. This never was an issue to me. Although daft, I signed up for alot of sites in the early days and missed a veritable gravy train. So I am leaving these sites and joining sites through a Rake back site (The best I'm lead to believe is Rake the Rake?) I don't have a Betfair account and there are also some good RB deals through Raise the River forum to so they will be my first port of call. I am going to explore these options and pick the best initial fit and probs bonus whore for the forseable future.

2. I was never to fussed about rake back because I was predominantly playing STT's and MTT's. I now plan on really giving cash ago. This big shift has come from being alot more limited in the length of time I seem to be able to play. Cash I can log in and log off as and when simples.

3. I need more structure to play my best. I set up an STT challenge not so long ago 100 $10 STT's on Stars = + $400 plus change. Not bad at all. BUT I got so bored and I just wanted to finish it for finishings sake. Also 100 standard STT's two tarbing equates to 75 hours of my life give or take = $5.30 per hour. Since then I have just pished about MTT's STT's if time was short etc, and my silly underolled shots at $1/$2, $2/$4 and $3/$6 cash. These actually resulted in a profit, but reduced me to playing like a scared hopeful fish. So I pulled back following my first significant loss and just went back to STT's and MTT's. Breaking even and losing the will to play as I ran/played badly.

3. As I plan on playing cash Rakeback becomes a must, it can turn a losing session into a break even one etc.

4. Following watching the 2M2MM it made me realise that the vast majority of online pro's that sustain, are playing cash. The show itself is ok and entertaining, although, being a poker show you'd expect to have some tid bits to help your game. Erm not here you don't. So . . .

. . . CASH, I decided to try my hand at, I have a proper approach for once! So I'm doing 20 sessions @ $10NL SIX MAX (Buying in for $6 auto reload) to get a feel for it, without costing me if it falls flat on it's face. I am going to see how I'm doing, have I still got the energy and am I still enjoying it. Most importantly am I winning1?

My current situ is, I play on Poker Stars until the afforementioned new account search, I have set aside $180, as a realistic cash roll of 30 $6 buy in's, I'm 8 sessions in:

Session 1 and 2: four tabled, first one took a bit of messing as I tried tiled and cascade, finding cascading suits me best.

Sessions 3 onward: 5 and 6 tarbed and prefer it as, I don't tilt (as yet) because if I take a beat I'm holding up elsewhere to cover the loss etc. It really does iron variance out. Also if you get a bad beat the fish involved doesn't generally take to long to donate it back. If they don't leave instantly!!

Session.
1.(1.5hr)+ $3.5
2.(2hr) + $17
3.(1hr) + $27.5
4.(3hr) + $68
5.(.5hr) - $4.5
6.(2hr) + $52
7.(2.5hr)+ $33.5.
8.(.45 hr) - $19

profit/loss 1-8 = + $178
profit/loss total= + $178
$ per hour = $11

This is obv a good start and I'm sure it's not sustainable, but I am very suprised at how much I have made at 5c/10c basically micro stakes! Some of the play is LOL. BUT there are some good multi tarbing regs there to who are obv using HUD's and tracking etc and adjust well to my play and others. My last losing sesh was this morning whilst having a bath before going to work and tbh it was a string of bad beats(AK called by AJo AIP, QQ v K8o AIP), me playing a bit to aggro and apart from one shocking call I made which cost me $11, I felt it was just a standard losing session. Which I was kinda happy about. Because I just seemed to be sitting down and winning with little effort!! So this has proved alls well with the world and I need to keep ontop of my game. I'll expand more on my plans in future, but generally I'll use the blog to keep a record for myself and to monitor adjustments and air my thoughts on this relatively exciting adjustment in my pokeplaying.

BANK ROLL.

Current online (Various Aquariums) = $1183.98

Current live poker acc = £4581.


Total profit/loss 2009 = + £3932.20 (+ £4417.81)*

Online = + £2701 (£3161) (-£70)

Live (Casino/Pub/Home) = + £1231.20 (1256.80) (even)

*Brackets denote best and worst for 2009.


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