Monthly Report - June 2009

I've been setting goals each month since I started so hopefully I'll stay diligent enough to post my progress up here on how each month went. Here are the goals I set at the beginning of the month.

June goals

1. Try to play 3k hands.
2. If HEM actually releases the next beta, buy the small stakes version.
3. Try to play a few tournaments on some of the older sites I have money on just to break up the cash grind.
4. Mix in some NL10 tables. Mandatory this month.
   

Results!
1. Over 4k this month. :)
2. Yep! The HUD is awesome for FT which again I need to write up a post about because it's so cool. Definitely worth the price.
3. Yep! I mincashed a Cellsino rebuy with huge layover. I lost a coinflip for either being chipleader or busto right after the bubble so I had a good shot at going really deep. I have to keep an eye out on Cellsino and Bodog and poach those tourneys.
4. Yep! I will admit I got hung up on building a roll on FullTilt trying out my new HUD playing NL5 but I did play NL10 for a good chunk of my hands this month and turned a small profit.

Summary - For the fourth month straight now I slowly won some more money with low volume. It's frustrating to not be able to put in 10-20k hands like some of the other guys I talk to online but I'm trying to stay patient. I was surprised at the difference between NL4 at Cake and NL5 at FT though. It really seems like the folks at FT are more willing to toss their stacks in. I'm fine with that and I was still playing well but the variance made my end of my month SO swingy. I had my biggest winning session and biggest losing session back to back to end the month so it's been a little crazy with ups and downs.

Regardless, I'll hopefully have bankrolls sufficient for NL10 on both Cake (already do) and FT (halfway there) soon and can stick to NL10 permanently after that. I was happy with myself that I hit all my goals again. I've been successful with that for the most part each month and I'd like to keep it that way.

July Goals

1. Tough with a few vacations this month but try to hit 3k hands again.
2. Try to get back to basics. I think I FPS'd* myself a bit this month.
3. Find out what the hell I'm doing wrong with suited connectors. I
   think I fear higher flushes WAY too much.

*FPS means "fancy play syndrome" where you out-think yourself against a really bad player when you don't need to.

On an odd note - I think Kristen may be some sort of lucky charm....or curse....not sure which yet. She sat and watched me for about 10 minutes last night. During the first 20 hands she saw, I had pocket aces 3 times, pocket queens once, AK once and I hit a set with a small pocket pair.

I've never gone on a heater of that magnitude before. All those things point to her being a lucky charm.....

.....but I didn't win anything more that a few small pots with those hands and when she left, I went completely card dead and ended up punting off two buyins with a bad string of luck.

Charm or curse? Maybe figuring that out should be another goal for me this month. :)