Breakeven at NL10

Mostly a break even night, maybe down $2-$3. It started off strong, getting good value from overpairs and sets, and only really lost it's wheels in all in pots against short stacks. I was behind once, and flipping 4 times for 1 win, so as you can tell losing 4 from 5 allin preflops won't help a nights profits. Add to that the night before, where I lost 3 coin flips in a row, and maybe I'm due a little luck.

All up I played 500 hands, and I really didn't play too badly. I've been concentrating a lot at the tables, and find myself hand reading very well. I kept myself from losing a bit last night by double barrell bluffing in good spots. At this level, the cbet works OK, but the double barrell is pretty much always good. Of course you'll run into top pair hands that won't fold, but more often than not, people put you on at least an overpair or TPTK when you fire again. It also helps that I'm picking my spots to cbet, as getting your cbet called on a bad board isn't worth double barrelling. So it's a bit obvious, but I'd cbet when the board is dry, especially with a high card, like Q62r or K44, occasionally against a weaker player on other boards, or when I've hit and need to extract value. When called, reload and fire again. Works a treat and saved me in more than a few spots last night, when I was either OOP or facing what looked like someone holding a better hand than me.

The verneer video talks about keeping yourself out of tough situations, and that's exactly how I'm playing now. By playing mostly in position and with strong hands, you really find the post flop situations and very simple. I could probably stand to raise a little more, but at this level especially, raising more hands can be like throwing money away, as people call a lot. It still shocks me how often people limp in early position, and then they just fold when you raise. I remember those days I guess :)

Anyway, it's going to be a long grind obivously. Hopefully after I've reached 10K hands (I'm a little over 1K) I will have had a couple of good runs and be pushing over $100 profit by then. Also I made 60 FTP's yesterday, so there is still hope of making bronze Iron Man this month to keep things ticking along. That will at least give me another month of CR membership as it will clear the medals needed to buy 5000 FTP points. Not sure of the amount of rakeback I'll be getting, but I'm sure it's just enough to pad the bankroll rather than increase it much.