I’ve just bought a licence for PokerTracker on my laptop, so I’ve now sorted out my real ‘All Time’ history. I was also able to alias my Full Tilt account with my Titan account, so it all appears to be one player.

Sadly, it doesn’t look so good;

Up until 5000 hands I definitely didn’t have a clue. This was 10NL at Full Tilt, and I was single tabling. I had been reading TwoPlusTwo for a bit, but it wasn’t sinking in much.

At the 5000 hand mark I forced myself to use a starting hand chart. I also did the 3bb+1bb/limper opening preflop, and even realised that some hands should be 3bet preflop too. It seemed like a revelation, and it looked like I’d found the solution! I even tried the odd shot at 25NL, although not with much big success (well, one major success where I stacked two people in one hand and then lost it straight away! That’s that little spike at 5,900 hands).

Then it stopped going up and turned round and started falling I’m not totally sure what went wrong, but I suspect I was just on a lucky heater rather than skillful play. Certainly some of the hands from that period were lucky suck-outs going my way.

At the 9000 hands mark I think I’d got myself back on track a little, and realised that I was letting myself go to showdown too easily. I was holding on to hope a little too often. It then took that little upwards shoot about 11k hands, and that was the start of this blog!

And then I screwed up again! It was partly due to moving to three and four tabling, and also just being an idiot. If you’ve been following my posts you’ll know that at point I switched to 2NL to see if I can really squeeze out those leaks while not spewing too many $$$.

What’s crazy is if we look at the same plot in BB instead of $.

That downturn is made of two parts – the first step (10,200 – 10,900 hands) was a crazy moment when I just tried 3 tabling for the first time at 10NL while also having just read a load of advice where shoving seemed to come into it a lot. So I went on a mad shoving spewfest, and lost a ton. The rest is all at 2NL. Somehow I’ve actually got worse than ever. How on earth is this happening?

So what’s my plan?   I think I’ve got to carry on a little longer at 2NL just to start appreciating board texture a bit. I’m still cbetting into boards that are too wet to be healthy. The money’s not a big deal – I know that as soon as I can get this into an upward climb then recouping all these losses should be reasonably possible.