Mid Feb Update

PT stats:
7877 hands
Won: $1378.80
18.39 PTBB/100
16.13 hrs played
$85.46/hr

Rakeback: $95.83
Fulltilt bonus: $75

Total profit: $1549.63

Volume of hands aren't outstanding but results are pretty good. Will be busy for the next few weeks or so, so no more poker I guess. Will be a miracle if I can break 10k hands this month.

Sustainable?

Other than the money won, I'm more than happy with my stats, having higher Won when saw flop which means I'm picking up pots more than I deserve. As well as my att to steal, which indicates my opening up of my play. Not to mention, I'm running really good aganist the fishes, my sets and weaker made hands holding up. Year of the rat has been nice to me so far.

I guess one of the outcomes of my coaching lessons was to reinforce the things that I've been doing right, giving me more confidence to make plays that are +EV. I'm also spotting good +EV spots better (like squeezing and 3betting) and am doing it at better spots compared to previously, when I'm just spewing around. Reinforcing my confidence reflects on results. Poker is very much a confidence game and you will realise you'd do better when you are feeling good about your game, and vice versa.

Feb update

PT stats:
4099 hands
Won: $589.65
14.39 PTBB/100
6.98 hrs played
$84.44/hr

Rakeback: $50.26
Fulltilt bonus: $75

Total profit: $714.91


Super table selection + playing at donk hour + coaching = robusto! Last month loss is quickly negated in just 4k hands, just goes to show the swings of cash game poker. Though at such stakes, it should not be that swingy if you have the discipline to table select well everytime you play. Nonetheless 20k-50k hands breakeven stretches are pretty common. Just gotta stomach such stretches and continue to play well.

Anyway poker has taken a backseat and I will be moving to hostel in a weeks time. Right now I'm thinking of poker related projects to do with my spare time, one of them is writing a compilation of articles conceptualizing my style of play and my understanding of poker.

Thats all for Feb! Have a great CNY!

Jan Summary

PT stats: (for new database)
14954 hands
Won: -$1124.50
-4.06 PTBB/100
28.25 hrs played
-$39.81/hr

Rakeback: $209.78
Year End Bonus: $206.04

Total profit: -$708.18


Jan was pretty sucky, after my good run in december, kinda expect results to normalize but not in such a manner. There were sessions where I dropped a couple of buyins in a few straight hands, standard coolers of big pairs vs big pairs, AK vs AA KK etc etc pretty standard stuff. I didn't think i played particular well after my poor initial start of the month. At the same time I was working in concepts learnt over coaching into my game, being a little too spewy for my own good haha!

One takeaway for this is that since the start of school, I've not been that focused on poker. Poker has dropped in priority since schoolwork has been piling up. (thats why the low number of hands logged) Also, even when I'm playing, I'm not playing at the better times when donks fill up sites, as well as not table selecting well enough. Well i guess the results do highlight the result of this two elements very clearly.

Poker is swingy alright, short updates on feb coming up