Something Like Poker

The trials an tribulations of an aspiring poker professional.

Well, as I mentioned earlier today, I achieved the milestone of 300+ BB’s in my Full Tilt account for $1/2 LHE. After getting home from the new Harold & Kumar and relaxing for a bit, I decided to put some more time in at the tables for the day. This time, however, I 4-tabled 1/2 instead of .5/1 as I’ve been doing for the past several days.

After playing for about an hour, I’m up another $94 on the day. Over 323 hands, I ran at a very nice 14.55 BB/100 hands. This brings my profit for the day up to $150.15, with my winrate a nice 8.62 BB/100 hands over 1197 hands played. Although I was running considerably hot, I was also playing very well for the majority of this session. I made good call-downs and thin value bets & raises when I really felt like I had the best hand.

Below is my final graph for the day. (Hand 875 is where I switch from 0.5/1 LHE to 1/2 LHE.)

One thing that has helped me a great deal is the quality and excessive use of note-taking on players that I’ve been using since depositing. In the past, I hadn’t used the note-taking feature, and when I did, I had too many notes like “this guy’s a jerkoff”. Obviously that’s not going to help me play better!

Lately, I’ve been wording my player details very well such that I can later recall if there is anything noticeably significant in their play. For example, my comments help remind me as to whether they are passive or aggressive, if they are constant bluffers, how what kinds of hands they call down, how they act in or out of position, how they play as the pre-flop raiser or against another pre-flop raiser, and how they play in blind vs. blind situations. These notes have probably doubled my winrate at the very least. My play has been significantly impacted by being able to check out how people play, and I’ve made some great plays during hands that I otherwise would have folded.