August Results

So August was officially my first month of seriously focusing on NLHE for online poker. I posted quite a bit in the micro full ring NLHE forums on 2+2 and reread through Ed Miller's No limit Holdem-Theory & Practice. I started off the month rather well, and then hit some terrible coolers in my last 500 hands. At one point, I lost trip 9s to a flush on the river which in itself, is no real cooler other than the fact that the villain in the hand check raised the flop with a Queen high flush draw and shoved the non-flush turn for more than 1/2 his stack. The very next hand, I flopped a set of 8s and got a player to shove all-in on the turn once again, but he had 2 pair and a nut flush draw. He missed his flush, but hit an Ace on the river to make a better full house. That combined with pocket Kings running in to sets made the end of August quite disappointing. The following graph doesn't include about 1,000 hands at the beginning of the month due to some hand history problems, but I was up almost 3 buy-ins at that point.

  My plan for September is to not look at any results purposefully and just focus on making good decisions. I find myself thinking about my session results which skews my decisions making when up against a player with a large stack of chips in a big pot. I played my first September session last night and still am making mistakes. I hope to be much better by the time I fly to Vegas near the end of October. Thanks for reading and have fun.