So Much Better Than Yesterday

Today turned out to be a good day. I didn't start by digging myself a 10-20 BB hole to try and climb out of. I managed to start good, and stay good. It didn't hurt that there was a maniac at one of my tables that I had 22 hands at the table with and he raised/reraised 20 out of the 22 hands. He managed to end up down $2+ in 22 hands.

Today I managed to play a measly 822 hands, and posting a $2+ profit, to get back most of what I had lost yesterday. Glad to see that it was only a one day losing streak. I would hate to see a bigger losing streak this early since I am just beginning to get the bankroll started. I do think that I might have played a little too tight today. I only have a VPIP% of 21% playing on 6-max tables.

I am up to almost 6000 hands since starting on Wednesday, and have a bankroll of $8.85. That is pretty much on key to my 3-4BB/100 hand goal to get to $25 around hand 15-16000. If this keeps up, I should be able to get to 15k hands by Sunday or so, and possibly move up to .05/.10 limit. For the most part now I have been 3 and 4 tabling the tables now, and think that I might start to add one .05/.10 table in the mix once I get to about $20, and by $30 playing exclusive .05/.10.

It is amazing how much rake is taken out of these microstakes games. In the 6k hands I have played that show a profit of $9+, I have had $7+ taken out in rake. That is just amazing to think about when you are talking pennies at a time.

I have also been doing some thinking recently, and realize that I need to do more to help my game. One thing that I have not been doing that is at my disposal and can definitely help is reviewing sessions. I am going to start to reviewing sessions, and hopefully if there are any other micro limit holdem players that would like to exchange reviews, I would like to start doing that. Anything to start helping more now while "lessons" don't cost me as much as they will during higher levels.

I have also been doing some reading of Small Stakes Holdem since it is a limit based book. I am doing anything I can to help along they way, even though I have been playing cards for a few years now.

Starting Bankroll: $6.48
Ending Bankroll: $8.85
Profit/Loss: $2.37