Heater

After running bad for what feels like the last few months, its nice to come across a bit of a heater.

It started on Tuesday, after the normal slow start to the session failing to cash in the first 8 games (although the very first was a bubble), I made a final table with a decent stack. I messed it up tho by not playing aggressively enough with tens in the big blind verses a big stack's min-raise. He ended up rivering a straight with 8 10 suited and I was gone in 7th.

Furious at myself, I grabbed some dinner and cooled down. Thankfully I knew what I had done wrong and vowed not to make the same mistake again. I came back after dinner and final-tabled all 4 of the games I played, with no worse finish than 4th. I was on 3 final tables at once which was a nice change from failing to cash and bubbling. My best finish was a 2nd but I didn't feel too bad since the guy I was playing against was a very good player. I sucked out on him once or twice when I was well behind on the flop but couldn't do it one more time when I shoved with ace 5 and he had 7's in the big blind.

The hot streak continued when I played a short session on Friday night, cashing 4 out of 6 games (and one of the misses was a 10th), again my best finish being a 2nd place. So with the two sessions combined I went on a streak of cashing 9 out of 11 games, which was extremely satisfying. Not to mention good for the bankroll as I went from around $1150 back up to $1370. I'm probably going to play again tomorrow night so hopefully this current heater continues for a bit longer.

September results

Period Full Tracking Last 120 days Year 2010 Year 2009 Year 2008 Year 2007 ? <> 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2009 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2008 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2007 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2006 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 May 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January with estimated RA expenses (and bounties in FTP Knockouts) without estimated RA expenses (and bounties in FTP Knockouts) View by Game Game Size All Holdem NL Holdem L/PL Omaha Omaha HiLo Other Games

ITM Finishes 1st 1 1st ties 0 2nd 1 3rd 2 4-10th 14

MTT Avg. Finish% Early 2% (10%) EM 11% (20%) Mid. 55% (40%) ML 29% (20%) Late 4% (10%)

HU/STT/MTT * Prizes Profit ROI ABI AFS R/A ITM ITM Heads-Up 2 player $0 $0 0% $0 0 0% 0/0 0% Single Table 3-10 $0 $0 0% $0 0 0% 0/0 0% Multi Table 11-45 $375 <$0 -36% $4.88 45 0% 18/120 15% Multi Table 46-180 $0 $0 0% $0 0 0% 0/0 0% Multi Table 181- $0 <$0 -100% $1.23 690 0% 0/2 0% $375 <$0 -36% $4.82 56 0% 18/122 15%

The above numbers basically speak for themselves, September wasn't pretty. I didn't play that much as I was working on a few other things, my month got off to a bad start and I couldn't dig my way out of it. It finished as badly as it started last Tuesday when I went 17 games (all 45's) with not one single cash. And that didn't even tell the whole story as I didn't even look like cashing with my best finish a 12th and after that a few 18th's.

The good news to come out of that terrible display was that I had a think about the way I was playing and realised I was trying to mix it up to early on in tournaments without premium hands. I thought I needed to loosen up my game a bit but I was doing it at the wrong time, instead I need to open up within the final two tables. Since Tuesday, the changes have been going well and I've had a few winning sessions and October is off to a solid start so far.

Back to the numbers above tho. Not enough games played and not enough late finishes both lead to a bad result. The late finishes % is way down because I basically only played 45's and therefore to finish late you need to finish top 4.