/ Matthew Pitt / 14 February 2011 / 1 Comments 
Not only is today Valentine's Day it is also the midpoint of February and I think that today is as good as any to review my Hold'em Manager database and update on my poker progress. As most of you will know I moved up stakes during the last week of January and I have been trying my arm at NL50 instead of the micro-stakes games that I used to frequent.
I am please to report that it I a case of so far so good with my quest to become a regular at NL50 and then progress to the dizzy heights of NL100. I have been extremely disciplined in the number of tables I have been playing, opting to never play more than two at once right now and the results have been pretty good so far. During February I have played 23.23 hours, logged 4,390 and won €202.44 (my account is in Euros, long story) and if I factor in bonuses and the like I am actually in profit to the tune of €281.23, which is pretty good in my book.
My actual profits would have been substantially higher but I played a God-awful session last weekend, which I admit was made worse by the fact I may have been more than tipsy on premium, oak-aged cider! During the session in question I play 339 hands and dropped a total of €123.85, which is only 2.5BI but still sounds like a lot of money. Something I have always struggled with is thinking of wins and losses in terms of BI or BB but I am getting better at this and it is one aspect of poker I need to work on. I went through my hand histories the following day, as I couldn't really remember playing, and found that I could have prevented around half of the losses so I was quite disappointed with myself, but instead of beating myself up about it I put it to the back of my mind as I knew I could and would beat this level in the long run.
I not only began to beat it but I was completely killing it, having seven winning sessions out of my next 11 and scooping €324.27 profit from 2,525 hands, including my best-ever day at the tables which saw me net €203.01, all this whilst running under expectation by around a full stack. Last night I had planned to play around 500 hands but those plans were dashed when the Poker Gods (amen) decided to kick me in the nuts again! I did manage to play 207 hands, during which time I was stacked four times, though I did claw back almost half of those losses to finish €113.96 down. It still sounds like a lot of money but it is only 2BI so it is nothing really. They are chips Matthew not money!
Some of the hands last night were coolers, one saw me get it all in with aces against a total fish on a baord reading 7d-9s-7s-4d only to find he was sat there with 8c7c and then I managed to get some 'tard to four-bet shove all in preflop with jacks into my kings and the board ran out 2d-3s-7c-Ts-Jh, yeah cheers river, much appreciated. The straw that broke the camel's back and caused me to log off was when I raised first in on the button with pocket tens and the small blind, who always protected his blinds and had a three-bet percentage well into double figures re-pops me quite big. I take this as an invitation to shove and discover that the lunatic also gets dealt kings from time to time too! Despite picking up an open-ended straight draw on the turn I failed to suck out and at that point I sat out of my games as I wasn't in the right frame of mind to play.
I tangled with a regular on a couple of occasions and came off worse but as he sat out he asked me for my Skype address (yorksh1repudding if you want it) so we could talk strategy and the like. He paid me a great complement when he said "at last, a decent regular" so I must be doing something right. We chatted, or rather typed, on Skype for a good hour and he seems like a decent bloke and I look forward to bouncing some hands off him and vice versa.
Plans for the second half of the money mainly revolved around volume though I will not be sacrificing quality for it just yet, instead logging more hours rather than more tables. I'm going to try and play a total of 37 hours, which would take me to 60 hours for the month and on the right track. I'm also aiming to continue to be disciplined in when I leave tables and when I actually play as this is often half of the battle IMO.
So I will leave it there for now, until next time thanks for reading and best of luck at the tables!
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