August Grind: Another Day, Another Disappointment

Ok

So finished another small 25 game session, and have learnt a few things.....

1) Im shit at Volume
2) Variance is a killer atm.
3) There are some river spots that i seem to spew like this one......

Seat 1: s4ooter (1453 in chips)
Seat 2: Zeroberto84 (1547 in chips)
Zeroberto84: posts small blind 25
s4ooter: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to s4ooter [3s 3h]
Zeroberto84: raises 50 to 100
s4ooter: raises 150 to 250
Zeroberto84: calls 150
*** FLOP *** [6d Ah 9h]
s4ooter: checks
Zeroberto84: checks
*** TURN *** [6d Ah 9h] [Qd]
s4ooter: checks
Zeroberto84: checks
*** RIVER *** [6d Ah 9h Qd] [3d]
s4ooter: bets 395
Zeroberto84: raises 902 to 1297 and is all-in
s4ooter: calls 808 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (94) returned to Zeroberto84
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Zeroberto84: shows [4d Kd] (a flush, King high)
s4ooter: shows [3s 3h] (three of a kind, Threes)
Zeroberto84 collected 2906 from pot
s4ooter finished the tournament in 2nd place
Zeroberto84 wins the tournament and receives $13.42 - congratulations!
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2906 | Rake 0
Board [6d Ah 9h Qd 3d]
Seat 1: s4ooter (big blind) showed [3s 3h] and lost with three of a kind, Threes
Seat 2: Zeroberto84 (button) (small blind) showed [4d Kd] and won (2906) with a flush, King high

I suppose when he sets me all in on the river i should fold, but at teh $15's they do that with bottom 2 pair!!

Im cashing exactly 50% so only down in rake for the first 100 games, so hopefully winning a flip occasionally ( i lost something crazy like 12/13 on the trot at beginning of session today) Profitsville will be in sight.

Also stumbled across this thread on 2+2 which is now my bible: All the HUSNG Knowledge you could ever want. As well as using all of this resource (i may print it and make a bible!) i have also downloaded some ush fold charts, so i can tighten (or loosen up ) my ENDGAME, as i feel i am missing some +EV spots when the blinds get big, that over 1k games a month could kill my ROI

Have decided to up my BR limits, and play more $7's for the time being and hopefully shall increase my profit


Also looked into PCUK as a new place to play these.....i mean Stars is great, and FPPs are fun but a Euro site, with 30% Rakeback, and 3x weekly tourneys with good prizes to use the PCUK FPPs in, seem like super added value for a HU Grinder......the rake is higher on these tho, the €5 games have .25c rake (but i would only need to play 400 games to earn €30 rb + additional benefits)


Stats for the month:


Played : 50

ROI: -4.1%
Winnings: -$27.94

VPPs Earnt - 155.57

FPPs Earnt - 233.36

Total FPP's - 2834.28

Also am Over half way to GoldStar and ~300-350 games will give me Platinum (depending on the stakes i stay at)

Naughty

Have fun sports fans

Dann