donderdag, oktober 19, 2006

Taking shots at NL400

Yestday after a long grinding session at NL100, where I fought my way back from -$500 to +$500 I decided to take a shot at NL400. And as always when moving up it is very hard to adjust to the new betting sizes.

For example, when you re-raise a limper and a raiser with AK, you make a bet of like $12 at NL100 or $25 at NL200, but yesterday I was playing at NL400 and there were 2 limpers and one raise to $24.....so I found AK in the SB and decided to make it $66 to make it look a little bit more scary. But the raiser called and the pot was like $140 to start with (oops). Compare this to $35 on NL100 and it looks a lot better.
Flop comes QJ4 (rainbow). Ok so I have a gutshot...and make a 'standard' c-bet of $100. He pushes all-in and I have to fold....nice lesson learned.
So my shot at NL400 ended in losing $400 in like 80 hands or so.

I'm now planning to take a real shot at NL400 when my bankroll is at $20,000. I will set a stop-loss at 5 buy-ins ($2000) and will play 2 tables of NL400 and 2 tables of NL200.

I'm also still playing on Party as I found out that there are still a lot of bad players at NL100 and NL200. I also don't like the overlap that I have when I 4-table at Full tilt. At Party its very easy to 6 table with the resizable screens.
But I'm planning on playing more at Full tilt (screen name: maurice1979) as I have a bonus outstanding and some rakeback which should compensate for the better(?) players and less tables I will be playing.

Hands played in october ~26,500
Won in cash games ~$2390
Amount lost in tourney ~$75
Bonus received: $1,020
BR beginning of september: $15,040
Current BR : ~$18,410
Pending Full Tilt bonus $460

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