Perhaps should have done this from the beginning, it’s not like I’ve ever followed proper BR management before. After finally recouping my 5NL losses and getting back to the original $30, I thought why bother sticking $5 on a 2NL table when I can put it on a 10NL table (well the reason’s obvious, but I refused to listen myself). So, had a session back at 10NL;

Cautious at first, when you lose below your initial buy-in and it reloads automatically it’s quite easy not to know how much you’re down by (results orientated, but then playing outside your BR I can’t see how you can’t be). I also realised I joined some bad tables, so I moved a few times. Then it started paying off nicely.

One thing though – playing first thing in the morning pre-coffee can be -EV, as this hand shows;

I’m expecting the collusion accusations from PS any day now…

Update: Doubled my BR – not many times you get to say that;

That tiny little drop at the end is actually a whole $10 buy-in. My QQ hit its set on the flop, but unfortunately the villain’s KK also hit his set!
Beside the obvious cash profit I’m really pleased with this – no suckouts (by me), nice +ve redline – couldn’t be more textbook!

ok, I reckon I’m confident enough at 2NL now not to lose. Having said that the HUGE drop at the end of this session shows that there are elements of tilt still in my game;

In this case tilt was in the form of boredom, plus a little bit of contempt for the pennies we were playing with;

The SB had 3bet defended my ‘steal’ several times in the last 40 hands or so, so when this hand was folded to me I was pretty much willing him to 3bet me (ok, not exactly folded to me, but the CO limping barely counts). However when the BB followed I knew that continuing was a bad idea – at 10NL I would have folded without too much grief. However, I’d been playing for about an hour, was doing well & feeling fairly bulletproof, and continued just for kicks. When the SB shoved and BB folded, it was unlikely the SB was bluffing but the possibility existed – whatever though, the mistake was preflop…

I’m within a few dollars of getting back to the $30 I started with (so impressive!), and I’m getting a bit bored of 2NL. I’m finding that I’m only playing my cards, and trying anything else isn’t really worth it since everyone calls. So no cbetting, no stealing, no fancy check raising. Well, almost none, but certainly 10NL was a lot more fun than this. Even worse, this tedium tends to make me want to gamble, and that’s not good. Fortunately today I was probably more lucky than unlucky (I definitely remember hitting my flush on the river after being heavily bet into on the flop & turn, very fortunate that one).

Anyway, here’s the chart;

Not sure what happened at the start – I was messing around trying to upgrade PT at the same time, so probably not paying enough attention…

blah blah blah, more 2NL thrills & spills;

That big drop right at the end is due to this train wreck of a hand;