Capping off a great month

Just finished my session for the night, which also finished off the month for me. Played 947 hands of very card dead poker. Only won 1 good pot that I can remember when I had aces. 3way to the flop... guy flat call my flop 855, then led out 35$(pot size bet) on the turn HU, I shoved, and he folded with 50$ behind. Just couldn't imagine he led out that big with trips or better. I've seen a few people who will do it, but they are very very rare. doubled up a short stack JJ v T8o, when we had an 8 high flop. Pretty uneventful session overall where I ended up down $47. There was one hand that was almost interesting... I don't remember making the preflop call, clearly it was a misclick but just funny to me when the screen popped up and I saw myself with the nuts, and couldn't figure out why the pot was so big.


Full Tilt Poker Game #10896333816: Table Charitable - $0.50/$1 - No Limit Hold'em - 21:48:54 ET - 2009/02/28
Seat 1: Sick_Rick06 ($240.15)
Seat 2: checkingNuts ($21)
Seat 3: shaq1337 ($100)
Seat 4: annuity6401 ($14.85)
Seat 5: BoooomBaby7 ($109.95)
Seat 6: Blue Horseshew ($135.50)
Seat 7: bignamba10 ($327.45)
Seat 8: 72Monkey ($113.05)
Seat 9: Blindhunter7 ($124.15)
checkingNuts posts the small blind of $0.50
shaq1337 posts the big blind of $1
The button is in seat #1
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to BoooomBaby7 [2c 5c]
annuity6401 raises to $3.50
bignamba10: wow..
BoooomBaby7 calls $3.50
Blue Horseshew folds
bignamba10 folds
72Monkey folds
Blindhunter7 folds
bignamba10: i was freakin afraid of JJ there
Sick_Rick06 folds
checkingNuts folds
shaq1337 adds $1
shaq1337 folds
*** FLOP *** [4h 3c Ad]
bignamba10: nice move though
annuity6401 bets $1
bignamba10: dont think i would have called with anything less
BoooomBaby7 calls $1
*** TURN *** [4h 3c Ad] [6d]
annuity6401 bets $1
bignamba10: really looked like a VB
BoooomBaby7 raises to $5
annuity6401 folds
Uncalled bet of $4 returned to BoooomBaby7
BoooomBaby7 mucks
BoooomBaby7 wins the pot ($11.90)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot $12.50 Rake $0.60
Board: [4h 3c Ad 6d]
Seat 1: Sick_Rick06 (button) didn't bet (folded)
Seat 2: checkingNuts (small blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 3: shaq1337 (big blind) folded before the Flop
Seat 4: annuity6401 folded on the Turn
Seat 5: BoooomBaby7 collected ($11.90), mucked
Seat 6: Blue Horseshew didn't bet (folded)
Seat 7: bignamba10 didn't bet (folded)
Seat 8: 72Monkey didn't bet (folded)
Seat 9: Blindhunter7 didn't bet (folded)


Jimmy must have somehow used mind control to get me to call preflop with 52.
Needless to say this was an outstanding month for me poker-wise. Started with $1250, and just hoping to win about 1k grinding NL50. The big tournament win for $3500, and then running very hot grinding NL100. I can't peg exactly how much I am up on the month. But roughly I have won just under 2k from NL100, $250 from NL50, $3500 from the big tourny cash, and throw in a little rakeback and it's about a 6k month. Pretty insane.
I have cooled off on the NL100 grinding since I started off stupidly hot. But over 14k hands I am averaging just over 13BBs/100hands. This was up over 20 for a while, but I have been running much more "normal" the last week as my graph shows...

I qualified for the top Iron Man level with my play today. I look forward to playing in the 30k freeroll in a few weeks. Time to set some goals for next month...

I know I won't continue to average $100/hr grinding these cash tables. But I want to continue to play 1-2 hours a day 12tabling and by the end of the month get a decent approximation of how much I can expect to make per hour. I am going to keep a bankroll of 4k online which is more than enough for NL100, and probably withdrawal money whenever I get up to the 5k level. I would like to start examining my play and see what I can learn from my stats on holdem manager to tweak my game to be better.

I am going to keep playing in tournaments when I can. It is tough to make goals for tournaments, it would be nice to say "I hope I win another tournament next month", but there is so much that goes in to winning a tournament that that's not a very good goal. I just want to continue to read the books that I haven't finished and see how I can implement those strategies. This next month there are a few live tournaments with good structure that I am hoping to be able to play in. Regardless of whether or not I get any big cashes I want to look back at the end of the month and know I have made some strides in my tournament game.

That's all for now, let's hope that tomorrow I can start of March hot.

-Boooom