August Plan

Add new venues in the form of 6 Max and Heads-Up to Full Ring Games. This will expose additional fish available each time I play. Once proficient at the new ones, profitability should increase.

With full ring, the name of the game is cherry pick and only play the very best hands. Thus, our VPIP needs to decrease from 15 plus to 12 or 13.

Start to rank opponents at each venue in terms of BB/100 and maintain a spreadsheet list. Add additional venues of 4 to 5 players and 3 players. Also continue to maintain buddy list for auto rated fish, money bags, and elephants, all loose passive opponents.

Study Heads Up Strategy and begin each session with a few hands of heads up including studying opponents played against strategy. That is start each session at tables with 0/6. Then move onto 6 Max and Full Ring devoting about a half hour to each venue.

Study profitability of each position including hands played.

Improve HUD by changing earnings to BB/100 and changing hands to –K for hands.

The Purge

We're quite happy with the memory upgrade of the Kingston SSD Now 128 GB drive. We have half of the SSD drive memory still available and the old hard drive memory as external storage.

We need to structure SPR ratio understanding. First we'll read excerpts from the Professional No Limit Hold'em book and consider an immediate purchase.

Our playing style needs some definition. The 101 basic style with slightly increased aggression from the CO and the BU is appropriate thru 20K hands.

We'll implement the HUD from Crushthegame.com. However, we now think we'll need to develop our own. We should have the 101 style as a distinct player type. We'll start work on that now.

Next on the priority list is to study use of Poker Stove. See the excellent video tutorial at www.splitsuit.com.

We're liking the info on that site and expect to use it in the near future.

We've started purging our hand histories from PT3. There's no need to keep Tilt, Stars, Absolute and Bodog histories since we've decided to change to the Merge Network. The elapsed time on the purge is 15.5 with an estimated time of 69.5 so we won't be able to play for about 3 days. There's a lot of planning til then.

We're now defining immediate goals.

Delay an Upmove

After considerable thought, we choose to delay for at least two weeks our move to a higher level.

Our graph of results could look much better.

Currently, we are showing loses that might be a divergence from stated 101 principles.

It would be good to show some recovery like two or three buy in winning streak.

There are some instances in which we pushed QQ and AK too aggressively where a fold would have shown far less variance.

We made notes on all six lectures from the 101 series and noted instances on the forum where a less aggressive stance might be preferable.

The Forum is a tool we haven't used enough. We need to read others posts and post our own hands.

Sunk Costs

We have been working the Video 101 series from Crush Online Hold'em, for a month and have high expectations for future results. We have just invested in Kingston's SSD Now hard disk at an excellent price of $199 from B&H Photography in NY. Attempted Installation though was brutal. Finally Comp USA explained that the cover to my computer couldn't be removed by me and they will install plus do the data conversion and there might be problems with the drivers. They seemed very knowledgeable. Another $180. To that add $17 for 1,000,000 hands at the next level of $10NL plus $10 a month for daily hand feeds. Recovering these costs may have been a huge gamble in light of the Black Friday events. We made $80 in May. Our goal for June is $200. This could be quite possible since the next level will have betting twice as high.


While my Acer is in the shop, I've been taking copious notes and will be loaded for bear in a few days.

A Little Deception

The graph on our previous post showed out results after 1.5K hands. Today we've doubled that to 3.1K hands. Our BB/100 have decreased slightly to 20 from 24 but we're very happy with the results. Our VP$IP is 19 and our PFR is 8. This is where we want to add a little deception. Previously we've been raising with 99 and up. We'd now like to raise with 77 and up. On the flop we will CBet less often with these medium pairs. Also we'll refrain from calling raises with 22 and 33. We'd like to see results of PFR increased and VP$IP decreased slightly.

Sunny Monday

It's a new day in online poker we hope. The biggest surprise to me is that even though the competition is tougher at the new game of $5NL at Bodog Poker, we are still winning. We hope that isn't just positive variance, we think not. Going to start off this new month with a more clear graph.

Energized

Really got enthused over NLHE recently...discovered a website with video instruction that is free...I'm once againg winning but have only played less than 1K hands with the new system.  Started April 5th averaging 160 hand/day.  Should be able to bump this up considerably...more to come about this venture.

Found a device to increase mutitabling...its called Kensington multidisplay adapter...cost $70 from Amazon.  Hooked up an old monitor and it is sweet...Expect to at least increase by 50% hands/day.

Also found a table finding site that is also free.

Now we're planning for a Vegas trip in June.  Not sure if the WSOP is the right idea...less competition would be better.