Cashed out, starting at $300, busto to robusto

Went on a 200 dollar downswing and cashed out most of my roll ($720).  Left 300 in and the downswing continued, but I'm grinding my way back.  I am still on pace to hit black card, although I will need to move up to 25NL during december to keep pace I think.  Took most of last week off.   Got pretty tilted there for a little bit so needed a break to get my head straight.  Things are going ok since the last downswing, I am still -$35, but ev wise I am break even which is fine.  Just gotta stop making dumb mistakes.

Moved to FTP Rush 5nl-10nl

I know FTP changed their rake structure, and it kind of sucks for nits, but I decided to move off the reg-heavy 24 tabling bore fest that is PokerStars and decided to move my roll over to Ftp.  Not to mention, I suffered a stupid crazy monkey tilt downswing at pokerstars where I lost about 1/3 of my roll on there.

But, the great thing is, I don't really need as big of a roll at FTP to play since you can only open up 4 tables (at minimum only need 20 bucks).  Of course I have much more than that, but I am very comfortable playing with 10-15 buyins whereas on stars I needed to keep at least 60 buyins just to open up 24 tables of 5nl (12.50 per table).  I am also trying out 2 tabling rush 10nl and it's much easier to stay focused since I can skip the boring hands that I'm not playing in.  So far I have been fairly break even (I think I'm up like 10 bucks w/ rakeback), but I'm not really worried about that right now, just trying to get better.  The other side effect of moving to ftp is that I signed up under deuces cracked so I get the free video subscription when I get to $50MGR and free download subscription when I hit $500MGR.  Only takes a few hours to hit $50 and a couple weeks to hit $500MGR so this will be pretty nice to work on my game more.

I am losing a bit to the rake, but it's not my concern right now.  No more of this 24 tabling 5nl bore fest.  I am going to try to get better now.

I think for someone that is moving up, rush is actually a very great game to 1-2 table.  You do miss out on some reads, but so does everyone else so it is a very even playing field.  As I move up I will take more notes after sessions on the players I start accumulating history on.

Abused some poor guy

So last night was pretty interesting.  Took a short stint at 10nl and of course, the poker gods frowned upon me again.  Here's one of the hands I lost, I knew he didn't have an A, but didn't expect him to have what he did so turned up as a surprise unfortunately.

Yea, kind of crappy. The other hand I got coolered on was AQ vs AK where we were all in at the turn for 50bbs against some silly fish. So there was this other player, G, that I absolutely abused last night.  I saw him at 10nl and after losing a buyin I dropped down to my usual limits, 5nl where I saw him again.  The abuse continued.  Guy is terrible, I had a few hands with him before last night where he got it all in against me KK vs AT and he sucked out on me.  Here's hand #1 at 10NL:

thought process "I HAZ GUTSHOT N OVERZLOL".

I drop down and the abuse continues at 5nl, won a pot for $2 w/ KQ vs his K7. Win another multiway where I check raise T67 rainbow w/ him on the button calling a .70 bet that I raise to 2.70 and both players folded.  By now this guy thinks I'm just some aggro monkey.  Then this gem of a hand pops up shortly after:

lol.  Guy is just bad. A little later in the night, AGAIN:

"OVERBET IS TEH BLUFFZ!!!1"

So yea, this guy must've broken his keyboard I am suspecting. Slaughtered him.  Getting a bit frustrating w/ the terrible luck at 10nl, but finished the night up $24.91, 3099 hands.  Let's see how tonight goes if I have a chance to get on.  I'm about to clear another $50 and also I'm only about 500 vpp from gold star for the first time ever, which will be pretty nice boost in fpp rate (1.5x to 2.0x).

Coolers

Here's one of the examples of a cooler I took when I moved up to 10NL.

Guy was playing 26/19 2.9af so pretty aggro post, so I didn't feel a need to raise the flop and just let him hang himself.  It was semi wet but i didn't see a need to make him scared of betting out.  I figured he might have something like AK, AQ, AJ here a lot of the time, but of course he showed up with the single hand that crushed me that he likely could have here.  I don't really see how I could've laid this down other than him telling me exactly what he had.

Here's another gem, yea I probably overplayed my TPTK, but wth, this fish is playing everyhand.

Villain was playing 75/4 1.9af 38% ag frequency. That may not seem too aggro, but when you're playing every hand that's pretty spewy. wtsd was 49% w$sd 44% so this guy wasn't afraid to be an idiot. Again, vs the villain just not real sure how I could lay this down, basically the nuts. Lol at his flat call oop with AA though, just tons of idiots at these stakes.

Here's a really funny hand. This was vs. a TAG who at the time I had a note that didn't bluff.. guess that's thrown out the window, I guess he felt I might have been abusing my position on him so it was time to make a move. He was running 17/14 11.0AF, 42%ag freq. 20% wtsd, 75%w$sd. So just an aggro monkey post, but he showed up with the goods against me previously so I had to give him some credit. Bad timing for him on this triple barrel.