Half year reflection

2008 is half way so a nice time to do some reflections.
So far things are going really well. June was by far my best month ever and for 2008 I'm right on schedule with my winnings still between 40 en 50 cent per hand.

At the moment I'm still playing NL400 and NL600 most of the time and I probably will be doing this the coming period, because I'm quite sure that my hourly rate is slighty higher on NL400/600 then on NL1000 and with the lower variance added on NL400, I see no reason yet to play NL1000 only.

Some facts for this first half year:

Top10 most profitable hands (not really exciting...):

1. AA
2. KK
3. QQ
4. JJ
5. AKo
6. TT
7. AJs
8. KQs
9. 99
10. AQs

I also looked into my worst hands and the funny thing is that the worst hands are those which I never play (VPIP 0%), so this basically means I'm playing all my hands at least +EV at the moment (I would lose more if I would them all the time).

Most dealt PP: AA: 1435 times (1400 expected)....running hot
Less dealt PP: 88: 1323 times

To finish this update, here are the 2 biggest pots for June:

Biggest win:

***** Hand History for Game 3372670346 *****
$600.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, June 16, 10:53:03 2008
Table Satpara2 (Real Money)
Seat 6 is the button
Seat 3: Purreltoch ( $985.63 )
Seat 4: firstmaster ( $727.37 )
Seat 5: BldZwtTrn ( $657.00 )
Seat 6: tobestar11 ( $713.00 )
Purreltoch posts the small blind [$3.00].
firstmaster posts the big blind [$6.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Qc Tc ]
** Dealing down cards **
BldZwtTrn raises [$21.00]
tobestar11 calls [$21.00]
Purreltoch folds
firstmaster calls [$15.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ts, Qs, 7c ]
firstmaster checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$50.00]
tobestar11 calls [$50.00]
firstmaster raises [$706.37]
BldZwtTrn calls [$586.00]
tobestar11 calls [$642.00]
firstmaster wins $14.37
firstmaster shows [Ad Qd ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Qc Tc ]
tobestar11 shows [9h 8h ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 2c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 7d ]
BldZwtTrn wins $1974.00 from main pot
firstmaster wins $110.00 from main pot"

Biggest loss:

***** Hand History for Game 3376848283 *****
$1000.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, June 18, 01:42:21 2008
Table Kainji0 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ( $1486.00 )
Seat 2: -anomaly- ( $1911.52 )
BldZwtTrn posts the small blind [$5.00].
-anomaly- posts the big blind [$10.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ 9s Kc ]
** Dealing down cards **
BldZwtTrn raises [$25.00]
-anomaly- raises [$90.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$230.00]
-anomaly- calls [$160.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 6d, 9h, Kd ]
-anomaly- checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$370.00]
-anomaly- raises [$777.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$856.00]
-anomaly- raises [$874.52]
-anomaly- wins $425.52
-anomaly- shows [Ad Ah ]
BldZwtTrn shows [9s Kc ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6c ]
** Dealing River ** [ 3c ]
-anomaly- wins $2971.00 from main pot

I will not play much in July and August due to some trips/summer, so probably not much updates coming weeks.

1988 - 2008.....

Not much poker this weekend, but euro2008 is great so far.
Against the Italians the Dutch team probably played their best game since at least 8 years (quarter final Euro2000 against Yugoslavia).
Winning with 7-1 againt the best 2 teams in the world is just amazing...still enjoying it....

Best month and week ever

Just a short update for now. Just finished a nice sunday night session to end my best week ever. Played a lot the past week (18K hands) and I won close to 1$ per hand.
As May was my best month ever, I expect June to be even better.
Games are really good lately and Im also playing better then ever. Also had some very sweet HU opponents, here are some examples of hands against them...

***** Hand History for Game 3342066237 *****
$600.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Monday, June 09, 02:34:57 2008
Table Nakuru6 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ( $1780.80 )
Seat 2: Niky007 ( $806.90 )
BldZwtTrn posts the small blind [$3.00].
Niky007 posts the big blind [$6.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ 4s 8s ]
** Dealing down cards **
BldZwtTrn raises [$15.00]
Niky007 raises [$24.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$12.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 8c, 8d, Jd ]
Niky007 checks
BldZwtTrn bets [$44.00]
Niky007 raises [$88.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$44.00]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 3s ]
Niky007 bets [$236.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$236.00]
** Dealing River ** [ 9s ]
Niky007 bets [$452.90]
BldZwtTrn calls [$452.90]
Niky007 shows [Js Th ]
BldZwtTrn shows [4s 8s ]
BldZwtTrn wins $1612.80 from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 3328735457 *****
$600.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, June 05, 07:39:13 2008
Table Nakuru2 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ( $947.00 )
Seat 2: supernics ( $530.60 )
supernics posts the small blind [$3.00].
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind [$6.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ah 8c ]
** Dealing down cards **
supernics raises [$15.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$12.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Td, 8s, Ts ]
BldZwtTrn checks
supernics bets [$36.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$36.00]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6h ]
BldZwtTrn checks
supernics bets [$108.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$108.00]
** Dealing River ** [ 2c ]
BldZwtTrn checks
supernics bets [$324.00]
BldZwtTrn calls [$324.00]
supernics shows [Jd 9s ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Ah 8c ]
BldZwtTrn wins $971.00 from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 3328770191 *****
$600.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, June 05, 07:46:20 2008
Table Nakuru2 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ( $1348.00 )
Seat 2: supernics ( $675.40 )
supernics posts the small blind [$3.00].
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind [$6.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ Ad Qc ]
** Dealing down cards **
supernics raises [$15.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$52.00]
supernics calls [$40.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ah, 4s, Jh ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$77.00]
supernics calls [$77.00]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kh ]
BldZwtTrn checks
supernics checks
** Dealing River ** [ 3s ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$213.00]
supernics raises [$540.40]
BldZwtTrn calls [$327.40]
supernics shows [Js Qs ]
BldZwtTrn shows [Ad Qc ]
BldZwtTrn wins $1349.80 from main pot

***** Hand History for Game 3328843858 *****
$600.00 NL Texas Hold'em - Thursday, June 05, 08:01:24 2008
Table Nakuru2 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 1: BldZwtTrn ( $2147.80 )
Seat 2: supernics ( $962.80 )
supernics posts the small blind [$3.00].
BldZwtTrn posts the big blind [$6.00].
Dealt to BldZwtTrn [ 7c 7h ]
** Dealing down cards **
supernics raises [$15.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$50.00]
supernics calls [$38.00]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7s, 9d, Qh ]
BldZwtTrn bets [$80.00]
supernics raises [$160.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$160.00]
supernics raises [$672.00]
BldZwtTrn raises [$1851.80]
supernics calls [$74.80]
BldZwtTrn wins $1185.00
BldZwtTrn shows [7c 7h ]
supernics shows [Tc 2s ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ 6h ]
** Dealing River ** [ Qc ]
BldZwtTrn wins $1924.60 from main pot

Graph since May 1st: