Monthly Report - July 2009

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.

Results
1. Failed, but I was close. Lot's of vacation this month made it tough to play enough but I had about 2.5k hands.
2. I did get back to basics, but the tough thing is that when you play at levels where people will call you with ANYTHING, your winnings are highly dependent on your cards. I didn't hit very many big hands this month so I didn't get paid off.
3. I looked into this a bit more and I haven't hit many flushes or straights the last couple months. I'll have an open ended straight draw with a flush draw, get the right odds to chase and then completely whiff. So it's tough to win money with suited connectors when you don't hit any hands. :) Hopefully that will change next month but I'm not as worried about it anymore.

Summary - Quite the swingy graph

As you can see, frustrating for most of the month ending with the best session I've ever had. So I can't complain, but it was nerve racking for a bit there. And as I mentioned in my last post, my few big hands for the first half of the month seemed to be second best a lot. Still, I can't complain with a hobby that pays, no matter how little, and I knew going into this it would be slow going. This brings me up to five months straight with a small profit. That's the exact thing I wanted to see and I hope to keep grinding it up. Nothing much else to say about this month!

July Goals
August
1. 3k all the way.
2. Activate my recently acquired bonus from FullTilt and get back on that horse. NL5 can't be THAT different from what it was on Cake....right?
3. Put more effort into playing hands.

This month is dedicated to just getting back to playing a solid amount and shrugging off the craziness of last month. I think I was plotting out how much I had to play at a minimum to hit my goal for number of hands last month and it felt like a job instead of a game. It's supposed to be fun and I should be wanting to play more instead of fearfully holding on to winnings. I've more than shown I can beat these tiny levels so I need to just keep at it.

Here's to a better start to this month!