Friday, May 30, 2008

My game?

Finally for the first time in a while I can boast of an encouraging graph over a nontrivial sample:



18k hands is hardly earthshattering - some people have been known to play more than that in a single day - but that graph as a whole is reassuring as hell. It's my NL100 results spanning April and May, and representative of 19 days of play. I've been playing NL100 almost exclusively for the past week or so now, having tried to jumpstart my month by playing NL200 and not doing particularly well at it. Pretty amazingly I've only had a single losing session in that span, out of six, and honestly I think I've run pretty poorly in this sample. More than a couple of those $50-$100 downspikes should be spikes in the other direction :)

I haven't done much to adjust my play, though I've mixed up my postflop routine some and vowed to be much less anxious to stack off with one pair hands. I've also opened up my game a bit preflop, drifting from my normal 13/10 to more like 14.5/9.5. My W$WSF has been 39% over this timeframe (a very good number) and my w$SD has been 58%, an artifact of my general lack of willingness to see a showdown unless I have a pretty good idea I'm best. That makes me bluffable, but I have shown a pretty decent knack for picking them off.

These past few months have been pretty rough but I'm feeling rejuvenated. Hopefully I can finish the month strong with a good Friday night and stick with my best game as June rolls around.

Oh yeah, and I made another $150 tonight in 1k hands of play. I didn't really feel like I was on top of my game and I made a couple of bonehead plays, but had people tossing me money anyway.

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