I don't really worry about it too much :P Should be fairly easy for me to hit platinum next month if I play about 110-120k hands or something which should be fairly easy, the rake is depressing though
My rake at 10nl was only 6bb/100 this month and 25nl was virtually identical at 6bb/100 also. It's just a much larger $$$ obviously :P
SN will just happen if I continue to put volume in, obviously if I'm at like 170k in december I'd make a mad push for the 200k bonus as it's worth a ton but other than that it's just extra $$$ to pad my bottomline ^^
So after taking the weekend off for the first time in a while to go out, I got up this morning enthused after reading both blackkmans/youfail threads about really putting in some volume and moving up (Don't want to be stuck at each level any longer than I need to). So still to get the juices flowing I booted up 24 25nl tables and proceeded to run worse than god himself.... Ended ok in the end though
Hands - 2212
Time - 2.1
Profit - $3.96
Well it was about time I guess. to run like crap started out by Losing an 80/20 and then a 90/10 and then a 50/50 to drop 3 BI (Y) Then won a few huge pots to recover it. Gonna take a break to tidy up my room and then back on it! hopefully won't be about 2 and a half BIs under EV again next session
Villain is 16/3 over 90 hands with 0 aggro Check back the turn as I would with AK when I've given up expecting him to bet his overpairs but nope lol... Ahwell I'd set it up so that either street I could get it in with a reasonable 60% bet and he makes the hero call with QQ? JJ? maybe TT? nope lol.... Worse nit ever.
Poker Stars, $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 8 Players Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.
BB: $21.80 (87.2 bb)
UTG+2: $32.18 (128.7 bb)
MP1: $10 (40 bb)
MP2: $18.17 (72.7 bb)
MP3: $28.53 (114.1 bb)
CO: $25 (100 bb) BTN: $26.30 (105.2 bb) Hero (SB): $25 (100 bb)
Preflop: Hero is SB with A A
UTG+2 calls $0.25, MP1 folds, MP2 calls $0.25, MP3 folds, CO raises to $1.25, BTN calls $1.25, Hero raises to $4.75, 4 folds, BTN calls $3.50
This is just about the only hand I've slowed played this year... Villain here is a 15/11 standard badish reg who plays SUPER tight out of the SB, 5/5 tight so when he calls and then check/raises in a multiway pot he has one of two hands so no need to let him think he has anything to worry about
Poker Stars, $0.10/$0.25 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 9 Players Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite.
BTN: $25 (100 bb)
SB: $27.27 (109.1 bb) BB: $52.92 (211.7 bb)
UTG+1: $25 (100 bb) Hero (UTG+2): $32.04 (128.2 bb)
MP1: $25.40 (101.6 bb)
MP2: $25 (100 bb)
MP3: $42.02 (168.1 bb)
CO: $10 (40 bb)
Preflop: Hero is UTG+2 with J J
UTG+1 folds, Hero raises to $0.85, 4 folds, BTN calls $0.85, SB folds, BB calls $0.60
Thoughts on turning AQs into a bluff? 6th time this reg has been 3bet, he's folded twice and this is the FOURTH time he's 4bet.... and since I can't call AQs OOP vs a 4bet I decide to spaz
Preflop: Hero is SB with A Q
2 folds, MP2 raises to $0.63, 3 folds, Hero raises to $2.14, BB folds, MP2 raises to $4.25, Hero raises to $8.25, MP2 folds
Spoiler:
Results: $8.75 pot
Hero mucked A Q and won $8.75 ($4.50 net)