Weekend Update

I'm continuing the current trend. I'm playing nothing but cash games right now. I have been building my bankroll pretty steadily and am just about done clearing my mid-year bonus. It's only $100, but that's better than nothing. Now if I could only get rakeback going on my account, that would really help to boost the bankroll. If I had rakeback, I would be playing 2/4 by the end of summer, at the rate I'm going right now. So things have been going well, a little slow, but a small win is better than a big loss.

So I've dropped a couple buy-ins here and there, but have had winning days 6 out the last 7 days. The problem is that I'm just not putting in the volume I should. I'm 4 tabling, and have had one session of 6 tabling, but have only put in about an hour or two for each session. I usually play two sessions a day, but I really need to amp it up and put in some serious hours. I need to find 4-6 tables, and just grind the hell out of them. So far this month, I have only put in about 4700 hands. I've read blogs of people putting in that kind of volume in one day. SO I am going to get it going.

The competition at the current level is extremely soft, for the most part. I've run into some good regs and some tricky players. But for the most part, most of the competition has been extremely loose, very passive, and overall just bad players. I've had players make moves at me with some really strange hands. I had a guy call a raise out of position with J9 suited, when I had AK. I flop a king, he turns a flush draw and moves with it. Of course he got there, but I'll take being a big favorite any day of the week. I just find it funny that if you don't bet the pot, everybody thinks you're bluffing.

Here's a funny hand as well. I have 63 suited in late position. Nobody comes in the pot, so I raise with only one player behind and the blinds. The game has been really passive and they telegraph their hand on the flop. If they make a donk bet, they have top pair with a weak kicker, if they check-raise they have a monster. Most of the time they just fold to a c-bet. So the button and the big blind both call. The flop comes GIN. 6-6-3. Part of me wants to slowplay to the river, then spring a trap. However, I have been playing so aggressive up to this point, because the table was so passive, that I knew nobody would believe me if I bet the flop. SO I made a pretty small bet, compared to my standard bets. Sure enough, the button raise 2.5X's. He only has about 3X's left. Again, part of me is saying "Just call, then push the turn". But another part of me said just put him in now. SO I did, and he folded, I should have listened to the first voice.

SO overall this week, I'm up about 6 buy-ins and just need to put a lot more volume in. If my win rate continues I should make a hell of a lot more than grinding sit and go's. This will then allow me to play whatever tournies I want. So I just need to get my ass in gear. My goal is to be playing the next level by the end of the month. I want to have 50 buy-ins, so I need to get my bankroll up to $5000. I can't guarantee anything, but we'll see how it goes. I might have to take some money out for expenses, but hopefully I can go on a sick heater and get there.