Progress (4/13/2011)

Finished online this week up +$360 in just under 29 hours.  I guess 7 buy-ins in 29 hours is not a lot, but at least I didn't lose.  And there were signs of improvement.  Based on the way things went I'm not sure how I even ended with any sort of profit.  I ran KK into AA over 4 times.  I stacked off 3 of those times.  Every one of those times the opponent had AA and held.  Probably laid it down once or twice.  It has come to a point where I have to be losing money with KK.  This is insane, but I now need a solid read before shipping KK all in preflop playing 50NL on Pokerstars.  The environment is actually that nitty and stupid.  If the villian hasn't shown they are capable of getting all in preflop with anything but AA over a decent sample size I will fucking throw away KK, it just has to be done sometimes.  I laid it once or twice this week.  I didn't get dealt AA over anyone's KK in a somewhat deep situation either, funny how it never balances out.  Probably for the better, they would just spike the king anyway.

There were also two very deep buy-ins lost set over set against regulars.  And they weren't small sets either.  It was a frusterating week at times, but I hung in there.

I've been keeping it around 10-12 tables.  There are now extended periods where I do feel in the zone and very comfortable.  Tuesday I ended up playing 11.5 hours.  The final session was 1:30 a.m to 6:30 a.m.  I didn't plan for it to go that long, I just got in a groove and kept playing.  Fuck it, I really don't care about my schedule anymore at this point.  As long as I'm eating healthy and working out a few times per week who cares.  Also I'm drinking less than I ever have in my life so that's good.

I'm starting to clear decent VPPs and FPPs again.  I'm currently around 130k FPPs.  I'm going to wait until 250k so I can take the highest $4,000 bonus.  During the last 5 hour session I cleared 5k FPPs.  I want to clear a minimum of 25k FPPs per week online.  If I stay around that pace I can expect to clear that bonus after about 5 weeks of playing 25 hours per week.  If I can play at least break even until mid-May that bonus would almost double my online bankroll from 5k to 9k.  Sure focusing on improving and win-rate are my top priorities.  But the pending bonus is massive so a secondary goal will be at least 25k fpps per week.

In my first 85k hands of full-ring I'm up a little over FOUR BUY-INS BABY!!  +$208.  That came out to $1.19 per hour!  Ok I am trying to look at the bright side.  With bonuses I'm actually making a lot more than $1.19 per hour.  Furthermore, I have really improved as a player.  I'm playing on another level when compared to where I was a few months ago.  If I didn't quit corporate it may have taken me years to get to this level of skill.  I have a LONG way to go, but progress has been made.  Also, this has been my FIRST strech of full buy-in online.  First I wasted a half a year+ messing around with an unsuccessful short-stacking strategy.  Then it was a period of playing 50BB half buy-ins on the 20-50 tables.  So if I can finish the first 100k hands with any sort of profit (ignorning bonuses) that would honestly be great.  One more thing, all of these hands were logged during the worst part of the week.  Since I play live on the weekends, online has been getting the bad traffic days of Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday.

I was going to hire a coach to help me review my database after the 100k hands, but I might hold off some.  Reason being?  I feel my last 30k hands were nothing like the first 55k hands of full buy in.  Therefore, only the last 30k are applicable to my play right now.  I think a good time to get a coach involved is when there are no signs of improvement after a long stretch.  So if I bomb during the next 20k hands I will probably hire him and get it started.  If I think I'm improving at a level that is acceptable on my own I will hold off on it.

I'm taking off tonight.  I've played 7 nights straight live/online so I'm forcing a break.  Tomorrow it's back to live.  Hoping to build on 3 consecutive winning live weeks.  As always I have a very humble attitude going in, you never know what is going to happen during a sample size as small as a weekend live.

-bag

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